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Useful links: female game characters, 3D transforms, Yahoo email

I was impressed by this headline, People Want Female Warrior Gaming Miniatures So Much That They Funded This Kickstarter Campaign In 30 Seconds. After I read the amazing story I went to the actual Kickstarter page for Raging Heroes to see what the total raised was. Then I was really amazed. Game makers, if you think there’s no support for women in gaming, you’re either in denial or throwing away a ton of profit.

Understanding 3D Transforms is from Opera Dev.

Do you have a Yahoo email address? I do. I have it set to forward to my regular email, however, so I almost never sign in to Yahoo to look at it. If you haven’t signed in to your Yahoo email within the last 12 months, you will lose your account. Log In to Your Yahoo! Mail Address or Lose it On July 15th. When signing in to Yahoo to let Yahoo know I want to maintain that account, I noticed they are using two-step verification now.

How soon should flexbox replace float in the web education curriculum?

Is anyone teaching flexbox for layout as a regular part of the web design curriculum? I’m thinking probably not a lot of classes are doing it now because it isn’t supported in all browsers yet.

I’m telling students about CSS layouts using floats. But I’m starting to mention flexbox to them as something they need to watch because it’s going to change everything.

When do we switch from teaching one layout method to another? When browser compliance is complete? Before that? After that? What are you doing? Do we teach both side by side?

I’m just wondering what everyone is doing and what I should be recommending to my institution about when to update the curriculum.

Useful links: CS Edu, Flexbox, Digital Learners

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science comes this video for educators: A Forty Minute Tour of CS Education With Mark Guzdial.

Here’s a good flexbox tutorial from Stian Karlsen. Look at the tutorial with a compliant browser, Chrome, for example.

Tomorrow.org published a study on the new digital learners of 2013, and about the way schools are helping or hindering education with technology. The study is published as a PDF: The Emergence of the K-12 Digital Learner.

5 Great Web Teacher Tips

If you read Web Teacher posts via an RSS feed, you may forget that there is a page on the blog where I track a list of most of the posts I categorize as Web Teacher Tips. Here are 5 of the best ones brought back to your attention.

Playing catch up with HTML and CSS? Here are some recommended books.

Carolyn Wood asked this question on Twitter yesterday.

I used plain old HTML and CSS yrs ago. Now so much to catch up with. If I only read 1 or 2 books to COMPLETELY catch up, what shd they be?

— Carolyn Wood (@carywood) June 9, 2013

I responded with two suggestions that are current favorites of mine. I’ve reviewed them both here. If you’d like to know more about what I recommend as the two best books for catching up, here are my reviews:

I often see people in my classes who learned HTML and basic CSS back in the day and who need to bring themselves up to date. These two books will be a big help if all you want to deal with is two books.

Useful Links: Clown Car, Screen Choice, Teens Online

Estelle Weyl explains Clown Car Technique: Solving Adaptive Images In Responsive Web Design in this article at Smashing Magazine. This is the full story from the originator of the idea and is worth attention.

Tech Crunch says As TV Falls Apart, Tumblr And Twitter Aim To Pick Up The Pieces. The thing this article does not mention is that we choose which screen to pay attention to based on the quality of what we’re getting from the screen in question. The quality on TV is failing, not the medium of TV itself.

McAfee Digital Deception Study 2013: Exploring the Online Disconnect between Parents & Pre-teens, Teens and Young Adults shows that parents don’t really know what their kids are doing. Teachers and parents should take a look at this study.