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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Why the iPad (and kin) is Unlikely to Yield Consumer Savings at Wired Pen puts pen and paper to the math involved in digital distribution of news by media companies trying to transition from print. Group Interview: Expert Advice for Students and Young Web Designers at Smashing Magazine was eye opening. And annoying. For one [...]
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 [...]
The WaSP Interact Curriculum group of volunteer workers are working on a book, to be published by New Riders. Among the many folks working on this book are Chris Mills, from Opera, and myself. Chris has put a few chapters up on the publishers FTP site where we all turn in our chapters. I’ve been [...]
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Jeff Brown, a high school teacher in Maryland and a member of the WaSP InterAct Curriculum group has done something amazing for his students. With Skype and various video and podcast technologies, he’s put together a series of interviews and lectures for his students on web education topics. The interviews and videos are with big [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
I happily spent a couple of hours watching and listening to a lecture given at The University of Georgia by Molly Holzschlag. The lecture is part of the WaSP InterAct Curriclum web education program. Molly’s talk takes two hours, divided into 4 videos of about 30 minutes. Here’s the first of the 4 videos. Go [...]
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, [...]
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