Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
The slide deck, which is mostly a list of resources, can be found on Slideshare.
I prepared some info for my part of the panel, which I put at vdebolt.com/swconf. This was just a small part of what we discussed, but since I was going to talk about alt text, I thought I needed some visuals. Other panel members did not need to do this.
It’s Ada Lovelace Day! This day is for all of us to honor, mention, and share the names of the women in STEM that we admire. Who’s my choice for 2011? Emily Lewis!
Emily is a web designer running her own business at Emily Lewis Design. She has a blog at A Blog Not Limited. She’s written a book about microformats and part of a book about HTML5. She writes guest columns for Script Junkie and other techie places.
Emily does podcasts about Expression Engine and about the tech scene in Albuquerque, where she lives. She performs a great community service to the Albuquerque web tech community by co-managing a group called Webuquerque that hosts educational/social events for webheads. She speaks on panels for tech events such as SXSW, MIX, and others where she shares her knowledge and expertise with competent professionalism.
To summarize Emily, she’s an outstanding creative professional who makes important contributions to her chosen field of web design. Three cheers for Emily!
Past Ada Lovelace honorees:
I’ve been a bit distracted this week, getting organized to present a panel at the Southwest Conference on Disability. This is an ongoing conference that had never focused on web accessibility until last year when Sharron Rush from Knowbility, Inc. gave a keynote. She realized the folks there needed to add more about web accessibility to the mix. (Did you click on the conference site link?)
This year Sharron offered a full day workshop on accessibility as part of the conference, which happened yesterday. And Sharron recruited me, Emily Lewis, and Jason Nakai to be on a panel talking about web acessibility. That happens tomorrow.
We will have something to share with you after it’s over. Our slide deck is mostly a list of resources, but we’re filming the panel, so that may be available in a few days. Stay tuned.
Motion 2011: motion is known for bringing together the brightest and most creative minds in the motion graphics, visual effects {VFX}, and animation industries. This year is no exception.
Environments for Humans has some great conferences scheduled. You get top experts and you don’t have to leave home to attend.
Style Twitter posts on your site with CSS3. Nice tutorial at .net magazine.
Understanding HTML5 Semantics is at Adobe Dev. Helpful connection linking sectioning elements to the document outline. For example,
Remember, when an element is being used simply for styling purposes or as a convenience for scripting, a div should still be used. The section element is not that generic. It is defining a portion of your page that should create a new section of the outline of the page.
Can you help with a few bucks for this kickstarter program to bring Sight.Sound.Soul. with Henry Butler to the Southwest Conference on Disability in October in Albuquerque. The Southwest Conference on Disability is,
one of the largest disability conferences in the country, will include hundreds of people with disabilities – just the audience who will most appreciate the full accessibility of this rich sensory experience.
The kickstarter goal is $8100 and you can donate as little as $1 to help out.
FYI, Sharron Rush, Emily Lewis, Jason Nakai and I are going to do a panel presentation at this event about web accessibility. You’ll be hearing more about it.
Education and Technology folks are gathered in Phildelphia this week for the 2011 conference of the ISTE. The conference is still in progress. Early blog posts about it have been very enthusiastic. ISTE is about advancing education through innovative use of technology.
Image Credit: kjarrett.
Can you say “excited?” EduTechGeek is excited.
All I can say so far is – DANG! ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia is just packed with great energy, ideas and educators from all over the world. I’ve attended a couple of sessions on Project Based Learning and TPCK and it’s just 9AM on Monday.
Vicky Sedgewick at Teaching Technology was unable to attend, yet managed to keep an eye on the conference and put together a great summary of events based on Twitter, Plurk, the ISTE blog and live streamed video. She has some interesting video on her blog already and is a fountain of resources for keeping up from afar.
Lots of activity on the twitter stream today with the kickoff to ISTE 2011. I started my day by watching the ISTE Music Video below and checking out some of the resources posted on Live Binders by Nedra Isenberg and Scoop.it by Bonnie Feather.
Advocacy & Consulting for Education was excited about assistive technology.
It’s also exciting because so many schools are moving more toward figuring out how to incorporate technology into their classrooms every day, not to mention the use that technology has in terms of assistive devices. Many people may associate “assistive device” with a voice output device, but IDEA actually defines it much more broadly. The definitions section says that “the term ‘assistive technology device’ means any item, equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability.”
Audrey Watters from ReadWriteWeb is there. She wrote How Consumer Technology & User-Generated Content are Changing Ed-Tech. She highlights some new apps and startups that are focused on technology for education.
The Kids and Technology blog provides a link to a beginning programming language app called Alice found at the conference.
More reports:
See also: Seeing Gaming in a New Light: Games for Change Festival 2011
Were you there? What was the most exciting education technology discovery you made? (Did you write about it? Leave a link, if you did.) If you have ideas about where education is heading in our technological world, please share them.
Cross-posted at BlogHer.
Find out about the Games for Change event this June.
Getting the jetBlues. Derek Featherstone explains why Jet Blue is being sued for having an inaccessible web site.
A basic HTML5 Template shows you the skeleton of an HTML5 page.
Re the Urban Outfitters copying designs and the power of social media: