A reading day.
A recent report on developmental education in MN that has a bit of data on poverty.
Also, these videos that address interventions faculty use to help first-generation students at Heritage University in Washington.
And I'm bouncing around an ancient site, Communication Across Barriers, that has wonderful information hidden behind a 10-year old site design and slow server.
Just starting to think about the info from these sources, but right now I'm contemplating website design and poverty. To the extent that people take web design as a proxy for intelligence, seriousness, credibility, or resource abundance (of the organization) to what degree do old or ill-designed website shape the reception of the information contained in them? Communication Across Barriers is a great example: smart people posting valuable resources, but the site looks largely as it may have in 2007 when it was copyrighted.
(Oh, I just used the waybackmachine of the Internet Archive: I was right, exact same site design).
A silly and petty thing to notice, really, but I've been thinking about how design and data visualizations shapes our reception of information and perception of its importance.
Safe home.
