The hashtag to follow the Penn State web conference ongoing today and tomorrow is #psuweb10. The conference site is the place to watch for other reports from the conference. The third in a series of PHP posts by Lorna Jane Mitchell is up at Think Vitamin. Each has a slightly different focus on PHP, with [...]
Apple announced a new HTML5 demo site. The site features all sorts of HTML5 demo projects, with the video demo coming right at the top of the list. There are demos on transitions, typography and more. Viewable in Safari, naturally. (Insert snark here.) At the bottom of the page, there’s a subtly placed link to [...]
Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology at Beth’s Blog. Beth talked about a conference which revealed a side of Microsoft I’ve never heard about before. I had an opportunity to attend Microsoft’s “Accelerator Summit,” a day of conversation with Microsoft employees, partners, academics, journalists, and bloggers about their corporate citizenship program. Their [...]
Web Directions North has a new web site and an announced lineup for the Atlanta, GA, conference September 21–25. This group includes a lot of people interested in web education, InterACT, and OWEA. You don’t see it on the agenda, but there will be plenty of people there who want to engage in conversation about [...]
InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning [...]
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Creating Accessible Links in PDFs from PWS gives “techniques for tagging links correctly to ensure that they are both keyboard operable and usable with a screen reader. It also looks at, amongst other things, how to make URLs more intelligible for screen reader users.” Dreamweaver CS5 Features Part 1: The All New CSS Starter Pages [...]
With typical hyperbole, the news of late has been filled with headlines like “Flash is dying” and “Apple kills Adobe Flash.” Well, here’s a headline that shows that Adobe hasn’t been asleep at the wheel in quite the manner all the iPad prognosticators thought: Flash CS5 with export to HTML5 Canvas. While we’re talking about [...]
What do educators find in the InterACT courses? Competencies. Assignments. Resources. You’ll find assignments with rubrics related to each competency. Some courses also include learning modules that can be used either online or in the classroom. Most courses include book, article, and/or web site recommendations that you may find useful either as required or supplemental [...]
New Game Designed to EVOKE a Better World tells about several projects involving game playing that Jane McGonigal is leading. These virtual reality games are designed to solve difficult real life problem and make real life changes. This excellent article by Kim Pearson also contains video of a recent TED Talk by McGonigal, which is [...]
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