Thursday, December 17, 2009
product A review by Web Teacher of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (rating: 4 stars) The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever by Cliff Atkinson is from New Riders (2010). Cliff Atkinson is telling stories. He takes real people, [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
With the upcoming release of IE8, which will support CSS display:table and other table related display properties, I’m expecting changes in the way web pages are laid out. I just finished an intensive experience with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and the built-in CSS layouts that come prepackaged with the product. Naturally, my mind veered in the [...]
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Teaching Tips is a resource site with a blog. Explore both the main site resources and the blog articles. Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum added 18 new articles. Only a couple of weeks remain before Blog Action Day. I’m planning a post. I hope a whole lot of other bloggers are, too. Upgrade WordPress Using cPanel [...]
Dealing with Speculative Work at WebWorkerDaily has some good advice for the designer who’s asked to submit work on spec. This might make a good discussion springboard with students who will be eager to land clients as they head out on their own. And it might keep one of them from getting burned. I wrote [...]
Opera announced their Web Standards Curriculum is now available. This is a big deal to many of us working on web standards and education. Here’s their intro: Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background [...]
Last year at this time I was getting ready to go to Greece. My favorite part of the trip was the stay on the island Naxos, where this rock formation tantalizes a few yards away from the shore near Naxos Town. Here’s how I spent April this year, at least the eHow writing for April. [...]
Jim Thatcher has revised and updated his tutorial on how to comply with Section 508. It’s a ten section course in accessibility. JimThatcher.com Project Seven has a free tutorial on Q Tabs, or navigation tabs with scalable graphics. The tutorial includes downloadable files and graphics. PVII Q Tabs The New York Times (NYT) has embraced [...]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
A new interactive z-index learning experience is at TJK Design. A good lesson with hands-on work with z-index.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I presented this at HighEdWebDev 2007 today. It was presented as a powerpoint presentation. My narrative explained that this presentation was mainly about what sort of student learning outcomes I would expect to see in an institution where web standards were part of the curriculum. I did touch on a couple of important overall considerations [...]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I heard from teacher Bob Minott about a blog he started as a way to continue teaching while he’s away for two weeks on an expedition. He said, Teachers that are terrified at creating blogs are welcome to view my first attempt at a multi-media blog. There’s an Earthwatch landing page that serves several teachers. [...]
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