http://liveandletlearn.net Living and learning for life Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:57:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just noticed that teachingopensource.org is having it's first meeting at 15:00 UTC tomorrow (24th March 09) on IRC (#teachingopensource on freenode)! Looking forward to joining the discussion there... At the same time, Andrew Oliver is drafting some grass-roots educational initiatives over at the Open Source Initiative (currently just email discussions). http://liveandletlearn.net/osi-education-project-and-teaching-open-source/ Today marks one whole year since Franzie, the kids and I left Australia and flew to Berlin for a planned 7 year stint. It's probably been the craziest year of our lives, so I hope the next 6 years here in Germany will be much more settled! In overview: Three weeks ... http://liveandletlearn.net/one-year-in-german/ Just attended the keynote at RailsConf Europe to hear David Heinemeier Hansson talking about Legacy code - code that you or someone else wrote a while back that isn't, well, isn't quite up to the standards you'd now expect to see - and how to avoid frustration working with legacy ... http://liveandletlearn.net/legacy-code-is-for-learning/ Last Sunday evening we arrived in Berlin after 34 hours of airports and airplanes... here's what I learned: Just because you've got five tickets and can take five pieces of hand luggage doesn't mean you should use them all. But, the flip-side of this is that you'll definitely have your hand ... http://liveandletlearn.net/five-tips-for-flying-with-kids/ It's hard for me to believe that in less than four days now I'll be walking the streets of Berlin with Franzie and the kids. And not just for a holiday but - God willing - to live for the next seven-or-so years. Already the past two months of preparation have ... http://liveandletlearn.net/living-and-learning-in-berlin/ Last week A List Apart released the results of the Web Design Survey (that some of my class actually took part in): The attached report shares everything we learned. We offer it freely to this community that has given us so much. For the curious, we also provide an “anonymized” version ... http://liveandletlearn.net/working-and-learning-in-web-development/ As of today I am on the road to being redundant. At the start of every semester I give a spiel to new learners in our class about how one of my main aims is to make myself redundant (as a source of web design and development knowledge). Today a few ... http://liveandletlearn.net/i-am-redundant/ Since the 1990's Agile software development has been evolving as an alternative method of project management for motivating and empowering teams of developers to develop and release great software for customers. But are "agile methodologies" applicable to learning and education? Could they help us learn? The more I learn about ... http://liveandletlearn.net/agile-learning-an-alternative-learning-model/ A few days ago, Russ posted a list of 5 things that all clients want to know. Things like: Can you deliver what we want, on time and within the budget? Can you explain a simple, logical process for delivering the website to the client? Can you explain how problems can be ... http://liveandletlearn.net/five-things-all-clients-want-to-know/ In our particular Web Design course, we have lots of learners who attend full-time, a handful who attend two-days per week (depending on their availability), a mum of two who can only attend one day per week and others whose attendance is unpredictable for health and/or family reasons. Some learners ... http://liveandletlearn.net/tip-5-gradually-hand-over-control-of-learning/