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eXtensible Markup Language

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C standard for text document markup.

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assimilating information
The Art of Complex Problem Solving

Visual modeling offers a means to build a systematic understanding of complex problems. Via Idiagram.

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locating information and resources
Four Modes of Seeking Information

Given all what we don’t know, it is rather distressing that a web site’s information design can offer only four search modes: known-items, exploratory, don’t know what you need to know, and re-finding.

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reconceptualizing understandings
Beyond Knowledge and Competence

This proposed framework of reflecting, enquiring and creating bridges two dichotomies found in professional development: between learning and practice, and between work and learning.

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engaging with online learning
Survey of Canadian Attitudes toward Learning

The No. 1 reason Canadians report taking work-related training as adults is to perform more effectively in their current jobs, far ahead of earning more money or getting a better job.

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networking
The Miniature Earth

Happy Thanksgiving. It is a good time to be reminded that the earth is miniature and only some of us have much for which to be thankful.

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Field Notes

Stories from Beechwood Cemetery

Ottawa’s Beechwood cemetery is beautiful at all times of the year, and especially so on crisp Fall days when its winding roads through wooded groves feel very 19th century.

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Archives, Archiving
Half Notes

Archives, Archiving

Archives are evidence of action.

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Half Notes

Information Architecture

Information architecture looks at the digital structures of information and software that lay beneath the ubiquitous communication technologies of the internet.

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Book Notes

The Non-Designer’s Design Book

Design for Nondesigners: Design and Typographic Principles for the Novice by Robin Williams delivers the goods for those of us who have no professional graphic design experience but still need to create simple web sites, brochures or business cards.

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