Posts Tagged “self-taught”
Stephanie • 12th Nov 2009 • personal • about, communication, interesting, metablogging, self-taught
Short answer: it’s my thinking style :)
It means I enjoy theory, logic, precision and abstract thought and that I learn best through lecture, independent research, and following procedures. This means I love web design but makes my blog very, very boring.
It’s one of four learning styles as categorized by Dr. Anthony F. Gregorc. (I totally just Googled that). I first heard about my style from my teacher and friend Cheryl Atwater. The thinking styles are actually very useful for figuring out how to deal with people. For example, if you’re discussing something with me you’re more likely to persuade me with logic than heartfelt pleas ;)
The other three styles are: abstract random, concrete random, and concrete sequential. The fun stuff starts once you know which you are or which one that person at work who drives you up the wall is. Floating Neutrinos has a great information page summarizing each style’s learning preferences, strengths, and weaknesses.
You may be able to figure out which one is you just by reading the descriptions, but here’s a good old fashioned pen and paper quiz to help you figure it out.
Stephanie • 30th Mar 2007 • personal, webdesign • accomplishment, bcit, big picture, career, code, HOPE, microformats, podcasts, self-taught, sociology
I just finished my first micoformatted page! When I was writing the information page for HOPE’s spring dinners I coded all the dinners as events and the organizers as hcards :) I did work with Brandon to re-do the BCIT Contacts application to use microformats but he did most of the coding on that project. This is the first time I’ve done it myself.
I didn’t actually tell anyone at HOPE that I’d done it that way since it doesn’t effect the way the page looks and I figure they’ll discover it for themselves if it’s useful to them. However, my friend thinks I should tell them so they recognize just how good a job I’m doing for them.
I don’t really feel like I did anything other than my job. Isn’t it my job to do a good job?
In the last two weeks of February, CBC’s IDEAS aired a couple programs on the ideas of Richard Sennett, a sociologist and author who has studied the organization of work. Among other things he suggests the Western world is obsessed not with the idea of craftsmanship but with productivity. In other words: it doesn’t matter how well you do you job – just how quickly.
The speaker at my graduation ceremony spoke at length encouraging us to “strive for excellence
” in everything we do. Not just in the work we do but also in our interactions as part of our daily lives. From answering a client’s e-mail to cooking dinner, he urged us to do our best.
Is doing a good job something society has to be told to do now?
Stephanie • 25th Mar 2007 • Uncategorized • code, html, learning, oops, self-taught
So apparently we’re supposed to be encoding ampersands when we write them in the href part of anchor tags.
<a href="http://stephaniehobson.ca/file.php »
?fire=hot&beer=foamy">link</a>
Stephanie • 6th Mar 2007 • webdesign • code, css, handy, html, learning, self-taught, WDN
I am, for the most part, self taught when it comes to HTML and CSS. I’ve take a few courses to get a piece of paper that says I can do what I say I can do but learned very little from them.
I spotted this little CSS tidbit in a presenter’s code at the Web Directions North conference a few weeks ago and now I’m wondering if this is the sort of thing I missed out on by being self taught:
table
{
border-collapse: collapse;
}
There are quite a few tables I’ve designed where this would have been very useful.
