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Carpeta Pedagógica: Plataforma educativa de recursos digitales Himachal Tour Packages From Delhi – Your Complete Travel Guide Free Infographic Maker Designing Effective Content-Heavy Websites - Constructive It’s official—our attention span is now shorter than that of a goldfish. As far back as 1971…wait, what was I about to say? Anyway, though the goldfish statistic does oversimplify things, there’s no denying that sustaining online engagement has gotten more difficult in the last 5-7 years. For some, this change has been a very good thing (I’m looking at you, Buzzfeed). But it’s not all doom and gloom if you’re into thoughtful discourse! When it comes to creating more engaging, effective websites for the content-heavy crowd, we just need designed solutions that, in the words of Herbert Simon, turn this not-so-great situation into one that’s preferred. A Closer Look at Audience Engagement During research for a website redesign, it’s common to dig into a site’s Google Analytics to get a better look at how it’s performing—specifically, its engagement metrics, one of the strongest indicators of website health. Designing Better Experiences 3 Key Principles for Designing Content-Heavy Websites 1.

7 Free Online Tools To Create Digital Publications (Flipbooks, Portfolios, Albums, etc.) « TechBoyZzz | Blog Sanskar | san@techboyzzz.com So, starting off while I was just surfing the web and reading some articles, I came to Amit Aggarwal’s article which was about – ‘Creating flipbook style magazines’. It focussed on only one way of that. Please note that I won’t include tools like Scribd and Docstoc for the very reason of both not offering any tools for content creation. If you don’t want to read the whole lengthy blog about the apps you can just go on to the bottom of each section and read the Key Points (in bullets) and the conclusion. Issuu is one of the first that I am going to talk about. Issuu Viewer When signing up, the user is given access to the free Issuu account. Key Features: Upload new items to the Issuu libraryEmbed an item from Issuu on your website or blogShare items through social networksChoose between a free or paid membershipSearch the site or explore the categories to find items ConclusionIssuu is a helpful resource for anyone who enjoys reading publications. Lulu Homepage

Explore Uttarakhand with Musafir Go India – Best Tour Packages for Uttarakhand Star Wars Origins - Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey In 1949 Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) made a big splash in the field of mythology with his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. This book built on the pioneering work of German anthropologist Adolph Bastian (1826-1905), who first proposed the idea that myths from all over the world seem to be built from the same "elementary ideas." Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) named these elementary ideas "archetypes," which he believed to be the building blocks not only of the unconscious mind, but of a collective unconscious. Jung developed his idea of archetypes mostly as a way of finding meaning within the dreams and visions of the mentally ill: if a person believes they are being followed by a giant apple pie, it's difficult to make sense of how to help them. Campbell's contribution was to take this idea of archetypes and use it to map out the common underlying structure behind religion and myth. Searching For The Hero

If American Jews and Israel Are Drifting Apart, What’s the Reason? Everyone knows that American Jews and Israel are drifting apart—and everyone is confident of the reasons why. Israel, it is said, has become increasingly nationalistic and right-wing; “the occupation” violates liberal values; and the American Jewish “establishment,” with its old familiar defense organizations and their old familiar apologetics, has lost touch with young American Jews who are put off by outdated Zionist slogans and hoary appeals for communal solidarity. In brief, the fundamental problem resides in the nature of the Israeli polity and the policies of the Israeli government, which together account for the growing misfit between Israelis and their American Jewish cousins. This, at least, is the new conventional wisdom. It is wrong—but the precise ways in which it is wrong, and by means of which it mistakes and overlooks deeper realities, are worth examining. Of the two books, Barnett’s offers the more careful analysis. I. How so, and how new is this problem? II. III. IV.

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