🧠Tech Tools for Creative Education
Introduction
This is my exploration of diverse tools to help explain things better. I will look at :
- Idyll Language: https://idyll-lang.org
- Observable JavaScript: https://beta.observablehq.com/
- Kinetic Graphs: https://kineticgraphs.org/
- Apparatus: http://aprt.us/
- Joy.js: http://ncase.me/joy/
- Tangle: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
- g9: http://omrelli.ug/g9/gallery/
- Loopy: http://ncase.me/loopy/
- All Explorable Tools: https://explorabl.es/tools/
Abstract and Course Contents
The intent of this course is to provide a brief quick introduction to several different tools that help to create interactive diagrams, web pages, scrollies to explain ideas and concepts better.
Hopefully each module will also contain a simple but complete process on tools and how to install, integrate, and use them in a non-intimidating way.
Since I am used to R + RStudio + Hugo/Quarto + Github + Netlify workflow, I will try my best to see if I can use any of these tools in that workflow. The best case would be:
- simply invoke the specific tool in an RMarkdown or Quarto document. Today Observable is easily doable; Idyll also seems to be possible.
- pass data and variables seamlessly between multiple modules
- They must not clash, these tools and give me hell like with htmlwidgets in R which was a miserable experience up to now.
References
- https://michaelnielsen.org/reinventing_explanation/
- https://distill.pub/
- Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/
- Naval Ravikant. Good Explanations are Acts of Creativity. https://nav.al/explanations