Comments on: The 101 http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6486 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Frank Chimero http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6486/comment-page-1#comment-18332 Frank Chimero Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:42:24 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6486#comment-18332 I love tinkering with format, I love planning, and I love storytelling and pacing and structure, and I love how a good syllabi captures all of that at once. I feel like the tightest syllabi I've developed or been through have been so tightly packed and well-paced it almost seemed like a great training montage in a boxing or kung fu flick. You can watch yourself developing and understanding more and more core concepts until you leave the class feeling ready for the world. And yes! This is a step above curation, because it requires not just taste, but expertise and experience. I think typically on the web curation has been used to define what is interesting in an unlimited scope, in which case just taste works fine. In these "survey" instances though, I'd say it's making decisions about what is important, which requires expertise, using that to determine a suitable scope for teaching, which requires experience, and then going through another round of curation, which requires taste, to make choices about material as to what is important for that particular application. Curation on top of curation. Yum. I love tinkering with format, I love planning, and I love storytelling and pacing and structure, and I love how a good syllabi captures all of that at once. I feel like the tightest syllabi I’ve developed or been through have been so tightly packed and well-paced it almost seemed like a great training montage in a boxing or kung fu flick. You can watch yourself developing and understanding more and more core concepts until you leave the class feeling ready for the world.

And yes! This is a step above curation, because it requires not just taste, but expertise and experience. I think typically on the web curation has been used to define what is interesting in an unlimited scope, in which case just taste works fine. In these “survey” instances though, I’d say it’s making decisions about what is important, which requires expertise, using that to determine a suitable scope for teaching, which requires experience, and then going through another round of curation, which requires taste, to make choices about material as to what is important for that particular application.

Curation on top of curation. Yum.

]]> By: Michael Sippey http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6486/comment-page-1#comment-18252 Michael Sippey Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:38:51 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6486#comment-18252 I'm just thankful that this post wasn't about highway 101, which somehow even in Northern California has earned the definite article. Though a 101 on The 101 (Northern California edition) would, in my humble opinion, include just two stretches that you need to travel to be a novice no more: the soulless patch heading south from Burlingame to Palo Alto (punctuated only by the 92 interchange), and the bit heading north right past Hospital Curve where even when there's deathly traffic and you still have to make your way across the Bay Bridge the view of The City catches your breath. I’m just thankful that this post wasn’t about highway 101, which somehow even in Northern California has earned the definite article.

Though a 101 on The 101 (Northern California edition) would, in my humble opinion, include just two stretches that you need to travel to be a novice no more: the soulless patch heading south from Burlingame to Palo Alto (punctuated only by the 92 interchange), and the bit heading north right past Hospital Curve where even when there’s deathly traffic and you still have to make your way across the Bay Bridge the view of The City catches your breath.

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