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Category Archives: web-education

CSS Selectors 101

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

I’m preparing some handouts for an 8 hour continuing ed class in Cascading Style Sheets I’ll be teaching at UNM. The class doesn’t get a book so I have to write everything up myself. I thought I’d share some of the handouts here. The first installment: CSS Selectors. CSS uses rules to apply styles to [...]

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Move the Web Forward

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Yesterday on Blue Beanie Day, Stephanie Sullivan Rewis announced a new web project on the blog at web standards project. Her post was called Beyond the Blue Beanie. Today I’m happy to announce a new project, put together by a group of very passionate web folks, that can enable your entry into the process of [...]

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Supporting Web Standards Today?

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

It’s Blue Beanie Day, the day on which we all show our support for web standards by wearing a blue beanie. Jeffrey Zeldman started this event several years ago. It’s been successful in getting all sorts of people to add blue beanies to their various avatars and standing up for web standards on a particular [...]

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Useful links: Adaptive Design, nested figures, Susan Kare

Monday, November 28, 2011

Nice article on Opera Dev by Chris Mills about Adaptive Design with media queries. Nested Figure Elements on Paciello Blog. The Sketchbook of Susan Kare: The Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face. Did you know about Susan Kare? I’d never heard of her before. I certainly think a mention of her contribution to the [...]

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Infographic: What Makes Someone Leave a Website?

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Source: What Makes Someone Leave A Website? ++ Click Image to See Original or Enlarge ++

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Guest Post: Meta Descriptions

Friday, November 18, 2011

What search engines and sites like Facebook actually do with meta description information.

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Useful links: top 25 books, edu conferences, blue beanie day, semantics, Think Up

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The top 25 books for web developers and designers from .net is a good list to check to see if you’re keeping up with the latest. I noticed that several of the 25 are from A Book Apart. That led me to tweet this: Is there some sort of brain implant that would directly feed [...]

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Useful Links: Flipped Classroom, Digital Talent, #mencallmethings, Treehouse, gamification

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Progress report on my flipped classroom. Here’s what Suze is taking about: The flipped classroom turns this model on its head; lecture materials are provided via video and other multimedia, and assigned as homework. Students complete the video lessons on their own time, at their own pace. Then, classroom time is devoted to assignments and [...]

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Review: Designing for Emotion

Monday, October 31, 2011

  product Designing for Emotion, written by Aarron Walter, is another of the brief but valuable books from A Book Apart. If you’ve read other books from A Book Apart you know they are high quality work from knowledgeable writers. This one is no exception. With only 7 chapters and less than 100 pages to [...]

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Curation in an Age of Information Overload

Monday, October 24, 2011

Information. There’s so much of it. What’s a teacher to do to help filter out the debris and collect the gems? One solution is Twitter lists. Set up a list of people on Twitter who say things you want your students to notice. Then go to paper.li and create an account. Set it up to [...]

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