Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Wilderness Downtown is a fascinating interactive film built in HTML5 for Chrome by some Google folks. It only works in Chrome, but it’s worth downloading and installing Chrome if you don’t already have it, just to see what is possible with the technology. There are other Chrome experiments, also. Dive into the Modern Web [...]
Where are the women in IT Consulting by Chip Camden is from Tech Republic. Maybe you saw this weekend’s rant over at TechCrunch saying that it’s not men’s fault that we can’t find any women in tech. My response is to offer some kudos to Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin at The Big Web Show, [...]
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Think Vitamin has a set of video tutorials that can be viewed free. Some look suitable for classroom use. Content Strategy Roles and You has some great ideas for organizing your workforce to fill content strategy roles. Be sure to check out the great infographic on approaches to web content strategy. Speaking of content strategy, [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Word got to me that University of New Mexico Continuing Ed needed someone to teach some Dreamweaver classes. Well, I can do that. I talked to the good folks at UNMCE and agreed to take on some of them. I haven’t been in a classroom in a while. I figure it will be good for [...]
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language takes on the issue of leveling the playing field in CS classes with an interesting suggestion. What do you think of this idea? In case of Emergency, Update your Facebook status talks about what is happening the the world of social media and how it’s changing [...]
10 Common Accessibility Problems from Dingo Access is a well explained list of common failures. For each problem, the solution is provided. The list is derived from WCAG 2.0 recommendations. Bill Gates: In Five Years the Best Education Will Come from the Web. What do you think about this? I haven’t had a bit of [...]
Jeffrey Brown’s presentation at the WE Rock Tour event in Chattanooga. How to rock web education in your classroom. Wish I could embed the video here but there’s no option for that. Educators will be interested in watching it. Web Education Rocks!
Cross-browser CSS box-shadows at Opera Dev shows you how to make it work. Demand for HTML5 Skills on the Rise, Report Says at Web Worker Daily quotes a study showing a 474 percent increase in demand for HTML5 developers at online job posting sites. Are educators working HTML5 into the curriculum? When do you think [...]
Reason is an open source CMS that several colleges have used with success. How Luther College is Using Reason, is a thorough review of its pluses and minuses. Border-radius. Put a number in one of the corner boxes and there you go. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Beth Kanter reviews Clay [...]
You know Copyblogger, right? Copyblogger is Brian Clark, the genius writer with a kajillion followers who gives good advice to bloggers about how to get traffic and keep readers coming back. I was playing a game in my head with some of the Copyblogger headlines, thinking that if people who wrote about HTML and CSS [...]
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