background preloader

Making a blog

Facebook Twitter

Sparky Teaching - creative teaching ideas, thinking skills resources & motivational classroom tools. University School of Art: About This Site. Conscious Entities. “Our Favorite Books” by Ms. Moore’s 2012-2013 3rd Graders » eBooks Sandbox. Teacher Academy Chicago 2013 Application. Growcase. Romero's Collection. Cover Letter I based my resource collection around technology.

Romero's Collection

Today’s students are immersed in technology. They text, tweet, email, webcam, Facebook, blog, play video games, etc and often times History can be a very dry subject. In creating this resource collection I made it a point to find the most interactive, fun, thought provoking resources the internet has to provide. What startup homepages are most simple, clear, and effective, and what makes them so. Styleboost. Brett L Williams. Designmoo - A community for discovering and sharing free PSDs, vectors, textures, patterns, fonts, and more.

[holy crap, i live on a boat!!] The minimalist blogging platform. Hello, this is Postagon! 25 Great Blogger Widgets. Many people think that Blogger lacks in all of the extra goodies you can add to other platforms like WordPress, but it simply isn't true.

25 Great Blogger Widgets

By using widgets you can customize your blog as much as you like by just adding little snippets of code to the sidebars. Allow users to talk to you via IM, see what your most popular posts are, or even read news from sites such as Mashable. With these 25 widgets, you can create an even more powerful way of communicating with your visitors, just make sure you don't overload them with too many! What are some of your favorite widgets for use on Blogger?

Communications Widgets Google Talk - Give visitors the ability to talk to you via Google Talk directly from your blog sidebar. Icon Search Engine. 5 Minute Guide: Graphic Design Principles for Information Visualization. 65 Best Wordpress Plugins – Want Unfair Advantage? With literally thousands of plugins available, finding the best WordPress plugins for your website can be hard and time-consuming!

65 Best Wordpress Plugins – Want Unfair Advantage?

This comprehensive collection of high quality WordPress plugins will make your life easier and help you build a professional online presence. WordPress is certainly one of the most feature rich and user-friendly publishing platforms available today. UserTesting.com - Low Cost Usability Testing. Ed Tech Tools. Draw on any webpage. Share thoughts. Move ideas. - Markup. Blogging. Blog Platforms. Pathwright Launches Platform To Let Anyone Create, Sell Branded Online Courses. How To Curate Learning Paths and Engage Students: Curatr.

I’m seeing more Scoopit links in my Twitter stream and I’m not crazy about it.

How To Curate Learning Paths and Engage Students: Curatr

Sure it’s quick and easy to share with Scoopit. But it not quick and easy to consume. For me it's all about the econ... Marty Note (here is comment I wrote on Dr. V's blog) Education. Using PBworks in your academic environments.

Education

PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers. Educators ranging from major universities like DePaul, school districts like Baltimore County Public Schools and individual teachers trust PBworks as their collaborative learning environment. In your Classroom, Library, District or University Encourage student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents.

Build a Complete Website. On an iPad. Let's take a look at how (or indeed if) it's possible to design and build a website entirely on an iPad.

Build a Complete Website. On an iPad.

We'll use a variety of apps to conceive, wireframe, design, code and deploy a simple HTML web page. Ever since tablets breached into mainstream usage, we've taken a quick stance on working out the best way to support these new devices for consumption of web content. I've written numerous articles across our blogs about this topic, as have many of my fellow writers. Books have been published. Learn Web Design, Web Development, and More. Learn Web Development with Ruby on Rails Tutorial & Example app.

Meet the Bento Family. Online Programming Courses, Learn Programming Online. Invitation : Indexhibit. My 2003 Receipts. Digital Storytelling - We jam econo. Digital Creativity Guidebook. Moving at the Speed of Creativity.

Five Steps to Starting a Class Blog. Digital Filing Cabinet/Secondary School History - IAE-Pedia. Several of the Information Age Education Wiki pages are about Digital Filing Cabinets.

Digital Filing Cabinet/Secondary School History - IAE-Pedia

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. " (George Santayana; 1863–1952.) Very Brief Summary History teachers and their students can benefit by building personal Digital Filing Cabinets—in essence, personal digital libraries—of material they find useful in the teaching, learning, and "doing" of history. An open creative network. - By Haley Moore for Culture Hacker (March 16th, 2012) Welcome to Transmedia Talk, a podcast covering all things Story.

an open creative network

Transmedia Talk is co-hosted by Nick Braccia, Dee Cook, and Haley Moore and looks to shed light on the topic of transmedia storytelling with commentary, interviews and tips on how storytelling is moving into the 21st century. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download | Subscribe with RSS |Subscribe with iTunes Michael Andersen of ARGNet returns to the podcast discuss transmedia in the second half of 2011. Course-builder - Course Builder. Creating. Website Builders. Video. Front end standards. Responsive Web Design Patterns. Responsive Patterns A collection of patterns and modules for responsive designs.

Responsive Web Design Patterns

Submit a pattern Layout Reflowing Layouts. Palmquist, Bedford Researcher 4e Student Center. Laws of Simplicity. Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

Laws of Simplicity

The home is usually the first battleground that comes to mind when facing the daily challenge of managing complexity. Stuff just seems to multiply. There are three consistent strategies for achieving simplicity in the living realm: 1) buy a bigger house, 2) put everything you don’t really need into storage, or 3) organize your existing assets in a systematic fashion. These typical solutions have mixed results.