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Category Archives: InterAct

Review: Create Stunning HTML Email that Just Works

product A review by Web Teacher of Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works (rating: 5 stars) Create Stunning HTML Email That Just Works by Mathew Patterson is from Sitepoint (2010). I have opted in to quite a few corporate emails. They all come to my inbox in HTML. Some are more effective than others. [...]

InterACT Summit video now available

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 [...]

Useful Links: SVG, BAM, InterACT

Doug Shepers from the W3C put together a slideshow in SVG, HTML, CSS and JavaScript that is worth your time. It’s an SVG demo. Play with it. View it in the latest Firefox. BAM or Blog Accessibility Mastermind is a six lesson course offered by Glenda Watson Hyatt of Do It Myself Blog. I haven’t [...]

The InterACT Summit

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 [...]

Now Available! InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design

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 [...]

Yes, you can! Teach web standards with InterACT

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 [...]

Useful links: liquid layouts, new InterACT courses, InterACT contributors,

Have you discovered zomigi’s blog? There are wonderful things there, like this collection of 70+ essential resources for liquid and elastic layouts. Six new courses added to the WaSP InterACT curriculum. They are: Writing for the Web, author: Erin Kissane Usability 1, authors: Dara Solomon and Dana Wortman Prototyping, authors: Todd Zaki Warfel and Aarron [...]

Useful Links: Captions, your college on Facebook, Web Education Rocks at SXSW

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 [...]

InterAct scores a big w00t with new book and site

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 [...]

Web Education Rocks

Something significant for web education is happening in Chattanooga from August 5-8. The event is dubbed the Web Education Rocks Summit. The event is a meeting of the newly formed Open Web Education Alliance. Members are meeting to create a structure for OWEA that will aid companies, schools, and organizations involved in shaping the education [...]