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A Remote Learning Lesson from My Great Aunt Doris
A few months ago, I found an old box of papers from my grandfather’s sister. A career stenographer for most of the 20th century, my mom’s Aunt Doris regular dashed off messages…
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The Remembering Pool
On New Year’s Eve 2002, after living and working next to Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan for 16 months, I moved out of my hard-won, one-bedroom apartment in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn and…
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It’s Time for Author-Centered Design
When I started teaching media creation to Web designers, the first text everyone handed me was Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. It’s a fun, quick read. Krug explains that a…
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Online, No One Knows Your Age
My grandmother used to say she never felt any older than eighteen. I’ve heard many variations on this sentiment, but only decades after I connected the thought with her. She died when…
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Hiding in the Movie Theater
In the film Almost Famous, the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman plays legendary rock and roll critic Leslie “Lester” Conway Bangs. Hoffman as Bangs has one of the great movie lines of all…
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