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 [...]
You can support the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA) in its efforts to get funding from Mozilla. Show your support for the project at Drumbeat. Thanks for your votes and your support.
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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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Glenda Sims is a whirlwind of accomplishment in information technology, web education, museum accessibility, web accessibility and web standards. She’s someone who makes things change and gets things done, and the worthy honoree of attention on Ada Lovelance Day. Ada Lovelace Dayis an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.) to draw attention [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Oh, I know The Bloggess isn’t for everyone. She’s profane and outrageous. She’s offensive in so many ways. She’s also funnier than Robin Williams and extremely successful at blogging. One of the hints you get when you read tips for being a better blogger is to summarize your posts in a weekly roundup. Another tip [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Industry body forming to address IT graduate skills is an interview at Computerworld with OWEA co-chair John Allsopp. The Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA), which is due to be launched early 2010, will be dedicated to promoting the best ways in which Web professionals and IT graduates can gear themselves up for the workforce. OWEA [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
The President of the United States released a whitepaper called A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving Towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs (PDF). The plan has three parts. At the base you see a section called building blocks which includes a statement about 21st Century education. The paragraph describing the education building block is: Educate [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
I found this wonderful video among PBS’s Digital Nation videos. Charlotte Ashurst McDaniel explains how digital tools have changed her life for the better. I suspect that many of us have stories about how digital tools have changed our lives. This blog changed my life. In the late 1990s and early in the current century, [...]
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 [...]
Introducing the Open Web Education Alliance at WaSP’s Buzz page. See also The Big Reveal for a link to the public mailing list for this group. Follow news on the group on Twitter @waspinteract. html5doctor is a new group blog working to bring information about the proposed specs for HTML 5 to the masses. They [...]
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