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Category Archives: UsefulLinks

Komen Can Kiss My Mammagram

Friday, February 3, 2012

Photo by Tim Waclawski via Flickr As anyone who pays attention to the social blogosphere and the network news knows, the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to stop funding Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening and mammogram program. I’m a woman and a liberal. It doesn’t take much more information that that for you to know [...]

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Useful Links: Microformats are Hot, Accessibility Infographics, Nerd Words, Structure and Presentation

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Web Data Commons Launches has data showing that about 89% of all structured data on the web is in the form of microformats. 5 Infographics on Web Accessibility for Designers is a nice compilation. 6 Made up Nerd Words that Made it to Common Usage, and 8 that Should. The Separation of structure, presentation and [...]

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Useful Links: CSS3 Cursors, Learn to Code, HTML5 in WordPress, ARIA

Monday, January 16, 2012

Introducing the New CSS3 Cursor Styles is at Sitepoint. Learn to Code is an new site that aspires to become a brilliant educational tool by teaching users to code using interactive and social tools. Congratulations to this new venture and wishes for much success in teaching learners to code. The Rise of HTML5 in WordPress [...]

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Useful Links: Video Games and girls, WordPress for Android, iPad bloggers

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Are video games good for girls? The things she points out probably also apply to boys, but this is an interesting report. I’m jealous of WordPress 2.0 for Android. I don’t blog from my iPhone, but I do use the WordPress app for iOS to check comments when I’m away from my computer. Look at [...]

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Useful Links: CSS Layouts, Sliders, 2011

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Future of CSS Layouts. It’s coming and it’s gonna be good. Check out this exciting post by Peter Gasston at .net. What you need to know about the HTML5 Slider Element. There is no slider element in HTML5, the post is talking about the new input type ‘range’ combined with the JQuery function called [...]

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Useful links: Adaptive Design, nested figures, Susan Kare

Monday, November 28, 2011

Nice article on Opera Dev by Chris Mills about Adaptive Design with media queries. Nested Figure Elements on Paciello Blog. The Sketchbook of Susan Kare: The Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face. Did you know about Susan Kare? I’d never heard of her before. I certainly think a mention of her contribution to the [...]

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QR codes resources

Friday, November 25, 2011

The Daring Librarian has a lot of material about QR codes on Flickr and her CC license allows for use with attribution. Check it out.

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Useful links: ARIA Resources, Mobile Apps

Monday, November 21, 2011

Here’s a well-developed resource for ARIA information from MDN. Mobile Apps headed for the dustbin of history at DevBeat is must reading for anyone interested in where the Internet is going.

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Useful links: Responsive images, WordPress gallery

Friday, November 11, 2011

Responsible Responsive Images brings out some points worth pondering. WordPress has added image gallery support. Here’s how to make it work. Can’t wait to find a reason to try it out.

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Useful Links: Flipped Classroom, Digital Talent, #mencallmethings, Treehouse, gamification

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Progress report on my flipped classroom. Here’s what Suze is taking about: The flipped classroom turns this model on its head; lecture materials are provided via video and other multimedia, and assigned as homework. Students complete the video lessons on their own time, at their own pace. Then, classroom time is devoted to assignments and [...]

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