Education

Now This is How You Teach TCP/IP Headers

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Use legos.

Yes, this person figured out a way to use legos to represent header files and make them easier to understand.  If you don’t know what a header file is . . . well then you probably don’t care.  If you do care, this is a great instructional tool to explain IT issues to people . . .

Thanks to Boing Boing.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Take A Look At The Digital Human Library

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Some time ago I discussed the idea of the Human Library and how it is something geeks should join and duplicate.  Little did I know someone had had a similar idea – only taking it digital.

That’s when I found the Digital Human Library.  It’s not affiliated with the Human Library, but it’s just as awesome.

Founded in Canada, the Digital Human library is an education tool (currently for k-12 teachers and students).  The idea is to have people easily available to chat digitally in video conference, Skype, and other technology.  Think of it as a kind of virtual field trip or easy way to get a speaker no matter the distance.

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Open Education And Opportunities

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When I was at a Zero1 event, I heard about the efforts to use Open Source for education in Malaysia.  This was among many, many things discussed (some of which will find their way into the blog here).  But this got me thinking.

I’ve discussed before the role of “backlog” in media – we have so much made and recorded in various forms, this ever-growing amount of sheer media, that it has made me question how it affects the development of new media.  Novelty, however, is very important in maintaining media interest.

Not as much in education.

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