Phrenology is interesting stuff.  Though phrenologists had nearly everything wrong, modern neuroimaging has demonstrated that one  important part of their core idea was right: many psychological functions really are highly localized in the brain.  And they made a lot of really cool infographics.  Actually, maybe this is pseudoscience in general; palmistry and astrology also make silly data into some neat-looking infovis.  This same exercise would be fun with made-up star charts and palm diagrams.

Hooray! I recently got a new job as an instructional designer at UF’s Center for Instructional Teaching and Technology.  It looks like most of my work is going to be focused on a big grant to put around twenty undergraduate courses online this year. Hopefully this experience will bolster my resume when I apply to ed tech PhD programs in the fall.

I’ve been a bit remiss in updating, since I’ve been pretty busy trying to learn the ropes, but I think that should change as I gradually get acclimated.  My ed experience to date has been as a classroom teacher, and I’m excited about being able learn and share stuff from this new perspective.