Skip to content

Category Archives: News-Politics

Guest Post: 4 Web Design Trends in 2011

Monday, August 1, 2011

With the unavoidable presence of mobile devices and social networking, 2011 saw some major changes in the way websites are designed. In order to have any presence in the new online experience, web designers have embraced a number of changes, but here are four trends that won’t be going away any time soon. Image Credit: [...]

Filed in GuestPost, mobiles, News-Politics, SearchEngines, SocialMedia | Comments (1)

Apps Against Abuse

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The White House has challenged developers to develop apps that help prevent abuse. The announcement at Challenge.gov is called Apps Against Abuse. The challenge:  Vice President Biden and Secretary Sebelius are honored to announce a challenge that encourages the development of applications that provide college students and young adults with the tools to help prevent [...]

Filed in News-Politics, Web Apps, women | Comments (3)

Useful Links: Google Fonts, Scientific wow, Teach with Twitter, Rap

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Google Web Fonts, V2. Now out. I tried out one the of fantasy fonts called Swanky on vdebolt.com. Scientific American has 60 new blogs under its umbrella. 28 Creative Ways Teachers are Using Twitter. Some of them are indeed creative. Hat tip to Spydergrrl for finding this climate change rap.

Filed in blogging, general-education, News-Politics, Twitter, Typography | Comments (0)

Interactive Map of Global Warming Effects

Monday, July 4, 2011

The Union of Concerned Scientists published the results of much research and data collection in an interactive map. Clicking on the various hot spots around the world map leads you to several things. You see local results of climate change, a link to an action item and a link to a solution item. In this [...]

Filed in HTML5, News-Politics | Comments (1)

Redbox now renting games

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Redbox has testing the idea of video game rentals for several months and concluded that it’s a go. Soon almost all the Redbox kiosks will include popular video games for rental. The price for a video game will be $2 per day. There should be between 22 and 28 video game titles to choose from [...]

Filed in BlogHer, Internet, News-Politics | Comments (2)

Useful links: two from danah, WordPress + InDesign, Pride

Monday, June 20, 2011

Two new posts from danah boyd are worth reading. “Teen Sexting and Its Impact on the Tech Industry” (my RWW talk) and “Networked Privacy” (my PDF talk). The Bangor Daily News is now running on WordPress with integrated InDesign. Interesting. Wonder if they’ve written up how they are doing it – I’ll bet a lot [...]

Filed in News-Politics, privacy, SocialMedia, WebDesign | Comments (0)

Useful links, Pseudo Elements, h1 in HTML5, Being Geeky, social media

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

A whole bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements can Do is from CSS Tricks. On using h1 for all heading levels in HTML5 from 446 Berea Street. This worries me, too. Happy to see Roger doing some testing on it. Is There Still a Social Stigma for Geek Girls? What do you think? The GOP [...]

Filed in CSS, HTML5, News-Politics, women | Comments (0)

Useful Links: obsolete elements, iCloud, newspaper map, gaming, Open Study

Thursday, June 9, 2011

About Obsolete Features in HTML5. Will they validate? The Pros and Cons of Apple’s iCloud. Taking a closer look. Access all the World Newspapers from a Single Page. Wow. That’s a good site to know about. Here’s the actual site. New round of gaming statistics. These will surprise you. Open Study Wants to Turn the [...]

Filed in cloud, general-education, HTML5, News-Politics | Comments (0)

Useful links: Twitter for .edu, public learning

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Is Your School Missing Opportunities to Leverage Twitter? Examples and links to a white paper that describes what top schools are doing. What is the scaffolding for learning in public? contains a ‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’ for public learning and wealth of resource links. Pew Report: Search Still Drives News Traffic But Sharing is Important. Are you [...]

Filed in general-education, News-Politics, Twitter | Comments (0)

Useful links: tech podcasts, rem, Whitney Hess, memes

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Open Culture is a great resource for all kinds of educational podcasts and videos. Check out the technology podcasts list. Some terrific programs there that you will enjoy. Have you heard of rem? It means “root em” and is a new feature in CSS 3 that you can learn about from Jonathan Snook in Font-sizing [...]

Filed in CSS, News-Politics, UsefulLinks, women | Comments (0)