class: middle # Projects in Digital Composition: # Communicating with Data
### Skills Acquisition, Our Skills Assignment, HTML Continued
Matthew J. Lavin Clinical Assistant Professor of English and Director of Digital Media Lab University of Pittsburgh Spring 2019 --- class: middle # Topics to Cover
### 1. Kaufman's Principles ### 2. Skills Assignment ### 3. HTML Continued ### 4. HTML Practice --- class: middle # Background on Kaufman
- #### Heavily influenced by Anders Ericsson (of 10,000-hour rule fame) - #### We'll read Ericsson for next Monday, but Kaufman is easier to understand - #### Kaufman wanted to turn Ericsson's research into a self-instruction system - #### Focuses on the first 20 hours because it's "the steep part of the learning curve" (5) --- class: middle # Kaufman's Ten Principles of Rapid Skill Acquisition
### 1. Choose a Lovable Project ### 2. One Skill at a Time ### 3. Define a Target Performance Level ### 4. Deconstruct Skills into Subskills ### 5. Obtain Critical Tools --- class: middle # Kaufman's Ten Principles of Rapid Skill Acquisition
### 6. Eliminate Barriers to Practice ### 7. Make Dedicated Time for Practice ### 8. Create Fast Feedback Loops ### 9. Practice by the Clock in Short Bursts ### 10. Emphasize Quantity and Speed --- class: middle # Why Choose a Lovable Project?
Image courtesy of CollegeHumor --- class: middle # One Skill at a Time vs. Subskills:
# How Can we Do Both? --- class: middle # Finding Critical Tools # and Removing Barriers
Image courtesy of Jami Grissom, Pinterest.com --- class: middle # Target Performance Level # and Creating Fast Feedback Loops
Image courtesy of xkcd.com --- class: middle # Making Dedicated Time # and Practicing by the Clock
Image courtesy of SignMission, Amazon.com --- class: middle # Skills Assignment
#### Read the assignment description at https://pdc-spring-2019.matthew-lavin.com/assignments/skills and be prepared to discuss the following aspects of the assignment: 1. #### How You Will Choose a Topic 2. #### What Your First Blog Post Will Include 3. #### What Goes in Your Initial Curriculum 4. #### What Your Second Blog Post Will Include 5. #### How to Complete 20 Hours of Deliberate Practice 6. #### How to Fill Out Your Learning Log 7. #### What Your Third Blog Post Will Include 8. #### How to Turn Everything In --- class: middle # HTML Subskills
- #### Structuring Content - #### Links - #### Lists --- class: middle # Structuring Content
https://www.lynda.com/HTML-tutorials/value-structure/170427/196152-4.html --- class: middle # Semantic Elements
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