Christen Bouffard

Christen Bouffard

Christen in an instructional designer, Google Certified Apps for Education Trainer, and has worked at eCampus for 15 years. She values inquiry and ingenuity as tools for remaining an effective lifelong learner, and is most excited when engaged in discovering novel answers to unique problems.

12 Principles of Animation

Simple animation has been on my mind for a number of months as I’ve been thinking about animated GIFs. One of the rabbit trails I’ve followed while exploring the GIF topic has been these 12 Principles of Animation. These principles…

Norman Bel Geddes: Making the Future

Norman Bel Geddes

Norman Bel Geddes was one of the early industrial designers, a theater designer, an architect, urban planner, and huge visionary of his time. Most famous for his epic work on the General Motors Futurama Exhibit for the 1939-40 World’s Fair,…

Pitch: Lift Conference Geneva 2013

As part of the last reading group activity I reviewed the Lift Conference that occurred earlier this year in February. The conference agenda listed many talks on various topics, all quite interesting. The talks themselves were streamed live during the…

Frank Lloyd Write on Education

Scanning through my Twitter feed today I noticed a tweet from @SkillShare linking a recent article on BrainPickings.org. The article collects 10 quotes from Frank Lloyd Write, captured in a new book. One of the quotes is particularly provocative and…