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 [...]
I’ve mentioned Web Directions USA before, but I want to devote an entire post to urging everyone involved in web education to make an effort to get there this year. It’s happening in Atlanta, September 21–25 and events are shaping up to make it a great experience for educators. There is more involved that what [...]
Tech tips, geeky how-tos, thoughtful analysis of issues, news about the latest gadgets, ideas for improving your blog—you’ll find it all in these 10 terrific tech and science blogs. They just happen to be written by women. I. Hacker Chick The Hacker Chick Blog is a beautiful starting point. I say beautiful because the graphics [...]
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The InterACT summit can now be viewed online by all, thanks to the fantastic efforts of Environments for Humans (e4h). The event was a book launch celebration for InterACT with Web Standards and featured top notch presentations about Learning More Effectively on the Web – Denise Jacobs Content Strategy – Glenda Sims HTML5 – Chris [...]
Environments for Humans is putting together the 2nd online CSS Summit for July 28. If you are teaching CSS and want to get an intensive (and interactive) training session on CSS3 right at your own desk, I suggest you check this out. I just attended an Environments for Humans (e4h) summit and can testify 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 [...]
The Stylemaster folks at WestCiv have some online CSS tools that are useful. Make gradients, transforms, shadows and stroke text with these tools. Small icons on each tool show you which browsers currently support these CSS3 techniques. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for 2010 is themed “Collaborating Across Boundaries.” It’s set in [...]
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 [...]
The InterACT Summit: Virtual Book Launch and Conference, June 11, 2010. Along with members of the Web Standards Project, we are proud to announce the launch of InterACT With Web Standards, a book that brings all aspects of web design together for teachers and students. To celebrate the release of the book, several of the [...]