Five-Minute Film Festival: 8 Interactive Video Tools for Engaging Learners It's no secret that I am a passionate advocate for using video in the classroom. When used well, videos can help students make connections to people and ideas beyond their usual frame of reference. That's why I've been really excited to see a wave of new (and mostly free or low-cost!) Video Playlist: Tools to Enhance Videos for Learning You may notice my playlist below looks a little different this time; I'm embedding using a great tool called Huzzaz, reviewed below. Zaption - Interactive Video for Learning (01:37) With Zaption, transform your students from passive watchers to active learners by adding links, multiple-choice questions, polls, discussions, and more to any video to create a "tour" -- or group a few together for a more complex lesson. More Resources on Using Video in the Classroom Reviews and Guides for Interactive Video Tools Sources and Ideas for Using Videos in the Classroom
15 Content Marketing Bookmarklets Life is about to get a little better. You just found a list of 15 ways to make some of the most useful and common marketing actions available to you in one click. This is really just a round up of tools but we’ve made each easy to use by turning them into “bookmarklets.” A bookmarklet is a tiny piece of Javascript that looks and acts just like a bookmark. You save them to your bookmarks folder or toolbar and use them with one click. Unlike a bookmark, it doesn’t take you to a page. Share the pageProvide more information about the page These little one-click wonders are more ‘lightweight’ than a browser plug-in, so they won’t slow down your computer. image credit: Moz Social Sharing Bookmarklets If you’re still copying and pasting links into social networks, stop. Quickly share the page on Twitter. Quickly share the page on Facebook. Quickly share the page on LinkedIn. Quickly share the page on Google+. Content Marketing Research See stored versions of the site or page from months or years ago.
Schepp/CSS-Filters-Polyfill Is Responsive Design the Right Choice for Enterprise E-Commerce Retailers? Many enterprise website owners are currently evaluating responsive web design as a way to consolidate their multi-screen web strategy. For these businesses, going responsive makes a lot of sense. By reducing the complexity of the site into a single code base, companies can lower the total cost of ownership of web initiatives and future-proof the site for new devices. However, many e-commerce companies are still skeptical of responsive design as a solution to the multi-screen problem. They are concerned with how responsive design will affect the customer experience and overall website metrics. To help answer the question of whether responsive design is a good choice for enterprise e-commerce companies, this post includes a high-level overview of: 1. The promise of responsive design is that it dynamically adapts websites to different screen sizes (across desktop, tablet, phablet and smartphones), using one set of code. For many companies, this is an immensely valuable benefit. 2. 3.
Pow: Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X Toolkit: So Many Tools, So Much Time by Joe Ganci “Here’s a list of the 77 tools I’ve gathered—these are the ones included in the survey. Some of these are free and some are expensive. Remember that a free tool that is weak and takes a long time to use may prove expensive over time. An expensive tool may pay for itself if it fits your needs very well.” In my never-ending research in the eLearning tools market, I make it a point to ask a lot of questions of tool vendors. That’s okay—sometimes the non-answers tell me more than the by-the-sales-book pat responses. What about the less well-known eLearning tools? I’ve written about several tools, most of which are well known, over the last four or so years, usually focusing on one tool each month. The best reason for this dedication is this: The users perceive that these products fit a need. Another reason for user dedication is a lack of awareness of other tools that may fit a need even better. Which tool do you want to learn more about? Do you use any of these tools?
12 things you should do before going to print The main difference between going to print and designing websites is that once your design is on paper, there is no way to correct anything. You can obviously throw everything and reprint, but it costs quite a lot. In this article I want to take a look at some basic tips to make sure the printing experience goes as smooth as possible. 1. This is the kind of preparation you can do to try to lower the differences between what you see on your screen and what is printed. Lihefacker has a simple guide to monitor calibration. Image via Lifehacker. 2. Trapping is the process of compensating color to avoir ugly little white gaps when printing. 3. Some printing techniques like inkjet large format printers will require you to work in RGB, but for common printed material such as brochures, business cards,… the way to go is usually offset printing and a CMYK workflow. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Because two pairs of eyes are more efficient than one. 10. 11. 12.
HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills · Modernizr/Modernizr Wiki The No-Nonsense Guide to HTML5 Fallbacks So here we're collecting all the shims, fallbacks, and polyfills in order to implant HTML5 functionality in browsers that don't natively support them. The general idea is that: We, as developers, should be able to develop with the HTML5 APIs, and scripts can create the methods and objects that should exist. Developing in this future-proof way means as users upgrade, your code doesn't have to change but users will move to the better, native experience cleanly. Looking to conditionally load these scripts (client-side), based on feature detects? See Modernizr.Looking for a guide to write your own polyfills? svgweb by Brad Neuberg & others Fallback via FlashSnap.SVG from scratch by the author of Raphaël (Dmitry Baranovskiy) Abstracted API. FakeSmile by David Leunen Canvas Web Storage (LocalStorage and SessionStorage) Non HTML5 API Solutions Sectioning Elements Video VTT: Video Timed Track (subtitles) Audio Audio Data API IndexedDB Web SQL Database Web Forms Beacon
How Nesting 3D Transformed Elements Works Ana Tudor is one of those people whose CodePen profiles you check out and go "holy shit." She's that good. She creates incredible visual effects with CSS, on of my favorites being this infinitely unpacked prism. Below she shares her expertise detailing how to create beautiful, nested 3D transforms! CSS 3D transforms do not work at all in IE9 and older or in Opera 12 and older (Presto). CSS animations are incredibly popular right now, and I don't just mean animating a simple color or dimension property, I mean 3D transformations as well; CSS flips and rotating cubes being prime examples. Let's say we have a door in a frame: The HTML is simply: In order to open this door, we add a class of door--open: Now we apply a 3D transform on it (with transform-origin anywhere on its left side): The only prefix you probably need for 3D transforms is the -webkit- prefix. This results in: It doesn't look very realistic. So we're going to add a frame--realistic class to our door frame: Result:
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