The Future will be Captioned at the YouTube blog explains their new auto-captioning function, which works only for English videos at this point.
I saw a presentation from the social media team at Central New Mexico Community College last week. They talked about how they interact with the college’s 25,000 students on Facebook. The rule they [...]
InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design has reached the stage in the publishing cycle where you can preorder the book.
You can order on Amazon.com or from Amazon.co.uk. At some point in the near future, it will also be available from Peachpit and other booksellers like Barnes and Nobel.
A new site at [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The New York Times has a story on Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally.
Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks, which will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks and customize them for their individual classes.
I’ve had many a textbook that I modified [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Why the iPad (and kin) is Unlikely to Yield Consumer Savings at Wired Pen puts pen and paper to the math involved in digital distribution of news by media companies trying to transition from print.
Group Interview: Expert Advice for Students and Young Web Designers at Smashing Magazine was eye opening. And annoying. For one thing, [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Common Accessibility Mistakes at Visual Twenty-Eight is a good checklist of things to make sure you aren’t doing.
WAVE Dreamweaver Extension is just out from WebAIM. It’s in beta, and there are some limitations at the moment. Now you can get a WAVE report on your page right in Dreamweaver. Super!
Gartner forecast
The road to 2013: [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
ATMac tells about Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks and Styluses with some tips for how a user with limited mobility can work the device. It’s useful to also read ATMac’s post Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions.
In the category of “stuff I didn’t know you could do but it sounds really great and I want to [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Up Late with CSS3, and Loving It! is an interview by Miraz Jordan with Andy Clarke, John Allsopp and Dan Cederholm. There are many insights in the article, but here’s my fav from John Allsopp.
Jordan: Do you see a broad acceptance of web standards among professionals who create websites, or is it still an uphill [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The search for information was explored from two ends of the age spectrum in “Helping Children Find What they Need on the Internet” at The New York Times and “Where’s my Googlebox?!” – adventures in search for silver surfers at iheni :: making the web worldwide.
The Google research reported on in the NYT focused on [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Jeff Brown, a high school teacher in Maryland and a member of the WaSP InterAct Curriculum group has done something amazing for his students.
With Skype and various video and podcast technologies, he’s put together a series of interviews and lectures for his students on web education topics. The interviews and videos are with big [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
I happily spent a couple of hours watching and listening to a lecture given at The University of Georgia by Molly Holzschlag. The lecture is part of the WaSP InterAct Curriclum web education program. Molly’s talk takes two hours, divided into 4 videos of about 30 minutes. Here’s the first of the 4 videos. Go [...]
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