Elshtain sketches a captivating bustle of activity: "If you were a resident, it would not be at all unusual to move over the course of a day from reading George Eliot, to debating Karl Marx, to washing newborns, to readying the dead for burial, to nursing the sick, to minding the children".
The captivating experience will include on-site activities, workshops, and interactive multimedia art.
"But beyond that there was something about the activities that captivated all the children intensely and motivated them to carry on.
In particular, formulating activities that captivate students' interest and engage them with the material, while also promoting development of disciplinary skills, takes thought and creativity, as does aligning courses with the broader educational mission of the institution and with the recommendations of educational reform efforts.
A rice paddy in the middle of Ginza captivated Tokyo residents this year by bringing a cherished cultural activity into the heart of the city.
The same database schema can also be used to accommodate viewing activity data if a different technology is used (e.g., Flowplayer, Adobe Captivate).
As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape".
Vocabulary: kinetic, pertinent, captivating, ambitious, murky, taut, exasperation, aerial, palatable, evoke, gimmick, eccentric, ranconteur, mesmerizing, ambiguous, franchise, middling Extension Activities: 1. Write a pitch for your own crime show that you think might be popular today.
I really like Rubin's quote and IBM's marketing activities around Watson because they illustrate a really important lesson about what it takes to create a captivating technological experience - a lesson that most technologists and tech entrepreneurs easily forget.
