http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/223 Where Conversation Fuels Learning Environment Design Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/223#comment-25 Thu, 04 May 2006 19:26:56 +0000 http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/223#comment-25 Speaking from the designer side, I can understand the apprehension those in political positons feel about the free-for-all of instant feedback. School systems often have strict hierarchy of decision making. Folks get used to that and it becomes very uncomfortable when the comments of a single teacher may carry the same weght as those of the superintendent. We designers share the blame for ineffective communication if our solutions don't encompass the comments of both the hierarchy, and the individual teacher. Our clients, our end users, are students. To do our best, we must take in all the information we can from every source. If blogging be the future of desigh feedback,.....so be it! Speaking from the designer side, I can understand the apprehension those in political positons feel about the free-for-all of instant feedback. School systems often have strict hierarchy of decision making. Folks get used to that and it becomes very uncomfortable when the comments of a single teacher may carry the same weght as those of the superintendent.
We designers share the blame for ineffective communication if our solutions don’t encompass the comments of both the hierarchy, and the individual teacher. Our clients, our end users, are students. To do our best, we must take in all the information we can from every source. If blogging be the future of desigh feedback,…..so be it!

]]> http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/223#comment-24 Thu, 04 May 2006 19:24:41 +0000 http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/223#comment-24 Speaking from the designer side, I can understand the apprehension those in political positons feel about the free-for-all of instant feedback. School systems often have strict higherarchy of decision making. Folks get used to that and it becomes very uncomfortable when the comments of a single teacher may carry the same weght as those of the superintendent. We designers share the blame for ineffective communication if our solutions don't encompass the comments of both the hierarchy, and the individual teacher. Our clients, our end users, are students. To do our best, we must take in all the information we can from every source. If blogging be the future of desigh feedback,.....so be it! Speaking from the designer side, I can understand the apprehension those in political positons feel about the free-for-all of instant feedback. School systems often have strict higherarchy of decision making. Folks get used to that and it becomes very uncomfortable when the comments of a single teacher may carry the same weght as those of the superintendent.
We designers share the blame for ineffective communication if our solutions don’t encompass the comments of both the hierarchy, and the individual teacher. Our clients, our end users, are students. To do our best, we must take in all the information we can from every source. If blogging be the future of desigh feedback,…..so be it!

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