At First the Classroom: Then the World, there are some suggestions for how to use Animoto in education. This includes kids as young as elementary.
It’s silly, but also on the mark. What Fonts Would Sound Like if they Had Voices.
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Useful Links: lawsuits, math apps
UX and the Lawsuit is from Whitney Hess reflecting on the lawsuit between Apple and Samsung.
ReadWriteWeb chimes in with The Number that Shows Why Apple is Suing Every Android Manufacturer in Sight.
Want your little ones to learn to love math? Here are a few suggestions for math apps.
Useful links: HigherEdSolo, Pseudo-classes, AIR
If you’re in higher ed, you might want to check out what HigherEdSolo is all about.
Getting to Know CSS3, Part 1: Structural Pseudo Classes is at script junkie.
CSS3 introduces a number of new pseudo-classes, including structural pseudo-classes that target elements according to their position in the document tree and relation to other elements.
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@knowbility‘s Open AIR competition: building an#accessible website. Juicy details: knowbility.org/v/open-air/
— STC AccessAbilitySIG (@stcaccess) August 7, 2012
Useful Links: Online Education, HTML5 forms, hidden menus
Here’s an opposing viewpoint to the one expressed by Daphne Koller here. The opposing view is Online Education: Is it All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
30 HTML5 and CSS form exercises has some good tutorials listed.
Very nice fold-in hidden menu for mobile devices and available for download onGithub.
Useful links: Prism, Lea Verou, multimedia troubleshooting, $5
Lea Verou has released her syntax highlighters prism.js and prism.css as a free download.
A side note about Lea, she has just joined the W3C as a member of the the W3C developer relations and web education teams. If you are working in web education, perhaps you should find out a little about her if you don’t already know who she is.
HTML5 Doctor has an article to help you with Multimedia Troubleshooting.
An expose from .eduGuru about potential problems in the EDU world: Are You Being Used?
Useful links: 5 second test, game design, WHATWG & W3C split
five second test is an interesting new that helps with wireframing and optimizing a site. As questions about your design or mockup and they are answered by real testers.
Computer game design: what I know now. Here’s a dose of reality for the folks who think it’s easy to design a game.
HTML5 Work Splits into Living and Snapshot Standards. The WHATWG and W3C are ‘splitting.’ You can read several more stories about this at HTML5 News.
Useful Links: Brodigan, 7 Tips, Self-Hosted WordPress (Infographic),
Chrissie Brodigan’s Blog is about UX and excellent. Take a look.
Feel in need of a good giggle? Check out Laura Scott’s inspired post 7 Essential Elements to Create Amazing Top 7 Lists.
Nice infographic about WordPress, with a bit a advertising for the source – Copyblogger – thrown in. The Copyblogger steps aren’t essential to the process, helpful as that website can be to a blogger.
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