October 14, 2004
MarkBernstein.org
 

What Learning Curve?

Anders Fagerjord showed Tinderbox to students in his creative web communciation course, thinking that, while crafting HTML export templates might be too hard, they could use Tinderbox for brainstorming.

The students surprised him.

One thing I didn't expect: I showed Tinderbox to the students the first week, pointing to the basic logic and Web export features, thinking they might use it for brainstorming and IA work before moving to Dreamweaver and Flash. Well, two of the four groups are using Tinderbox to create the whole thing. It caught on.

Interesting stuff, from hurricane theory to Darfur.