Super Tech Talk: Kidblog tutorials Kidblog has switched over to a new platform as of May 1. You can read more about their announcement and watch a demo on their blog. I love the new look and functionality. They claim that it is easier to use and more student centered. I have to agree - there is much to like about the new layout and features. Student Centered My favorite new feature is the student centered approach to blogging. Draft saves a post as a work in progress that students can come back to another day. Publishing can bring up another new feature - an authentic audience. Privacy My other favorite feature is the simplification of the privacy settings. For example, turning off Public in this screen means students will not be able to publish their posts for the public to see - it will be limited to only the other types of audiences. With each audience, the teacher can still require approval and moderate the posts before they appear on the blog. Tutorials
HTML And CSS - CSS Theory Simplified Tutorials [Contents] [Next] Before you can actually put CSS to use, you need to know some important things about the language and how to use it effectively. I'll try to make this quick and painless because I know you want to get down to it. CSS Rules CSS rules are made up of a selector and at least one declaration. A selector is the code that selects the HTML to which you want to apply the style rule. The H1 is the selector for your h1 headers, and the declaration is made up of the color property with a value of red. Applying CSS Six types of style sheets exist: Browser style This is the default style sheet within a browser. You'll see examples of these style sheets as we progress throughout the tutorial. The Cascade People often wonder where the term cascading comes from. What if I've got an inline style, an embedded style sheet, and a linked style sheet? The cascade also refers to the manner in which multiple style sheets are applied. Inheritance <body><h1>My header</h1><p>Subsequent Text</p></body>
Educreations Tutorial Welcome! Welcome to the Educreations tutorial! There are a couple of things you need to prepare for before we get started. You will need your iPad You will need to download "Educreations" from the app store. Let's get started! Part 1: What is Educreations? Educreations, a free app and online tool, that turns your iPad into a mini whiteboard! Teachers and students can design presentations with images, videos, and narrations. Source: Apple Apps Store. Part 4: Your Turn to Create a Lesson! 1. No longer than 5 minutes long (you want to keep your student's attention) at least 2 slides in your presentation include at least one picture in your presentation must include an audio recording 2. Want to explore more? Go to www.educreations.com and log in with your new account.
50 Best Free Tools To Create Perfect Color Combinations | Free and Useful... A good color combination has the tendency to communicate with the users and let them perceive the design in the correct way. That is the basic reason why you need to pick the right color for your design. So, here we are bringing 50 varieties of useful and valuable color tools that would help you choosing the right color palettes for your designs. You are welcome to share more color tools and resources which our readers/viewers may like. Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer is a brand new interface, as well as the engine, all rewritten from the scratch. The Color Wizard The Color Wizard is a color matching application for anyone who wants to create designs with great looking colors. Contrast-A: Find Accessible Color Combinations The application allows users to experiment with color combinations, examine them under the aspect of accessibility guidelines and to create custom color palettes. Kuler The web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. Kolur
Purpose Psdtuts+ | Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced Super Storytelling with Storybird:Five-Minute Film Festival: Learn to Use Web 2.0 Tools While many of you may be heading for the beach this week, it won't be long before you're ready to start exploring some new tools to help your students be better creators and collaborators when you go back to school in the fall. This week we published a new video on Nicole Dalesio, a fifth-grade teacher who uses all kinds of free technology tools in her class to keep her kids engaged, and it inspired me to go hunt down the best tutorials for all these great, free Web 2.0 tools. Did I mention most of them are free? While screen-cast tutorials may not be the most edge-of-your-seat viewing, once you've got the basics, you can start digging in to the tool itself. And the best part is, learning to use these tools is as fun for you as it is for your students. What are you waiting for? Video Playlist: Web 2.0 Tools Tutorials for Teachers Keep watching the player below to see the entire playlist, or view this playlist on YouTube. More on Free Web 2.0 Tools Guides for Web 2.0 Tools
Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques - Smashing Magazine Advertisement In Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential Characteristics, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typographically rich. Now that you know what characterizes a modern CSS web site, how do you build one? Here are dozens of essential techniques and tools to learn and use to achieve the characteristics of today’s most successful CSS-based web pages. Just as in the previous article, we’re not going to be talking about design trends and styles; these styles are always changing. You can jump straight to: CSS3, the newest version of CSS that is now being partially supported by most browsers, is the primary thing you need to know in order to create modern CSS web sites, of course. There are too many CSS3 techniques to cover in a single article, let alone an article that isn’t just about CSS3! CSS3 Visual Effects Semi-transparent ColorAids in: progressive enhancement, efficiency
W3Fools – A W3Schools Intervention Why Personal Websites Matter Why Personal Websites Matter I learned HTML back in 1997 to put up a webpage for students of an introductory programming course. Apart from that webpage it never occurred to me that a personal website can be useful. The big question always has been, why waste the time. Sure, I could put a few personal pictures and other stuff but what good is that? The crucial insight came only after I started this website. PaulGraham.Com and Stallman.Org are websites of two well-known individuals in the computing industry. A valid question at this point is that what would one gain by making such information public? Money can be made from a personal webpage but almost always indirectly. My friend Amaan Akram created his website WarpedSpace.org, some years back. A resume can contain false information. Creating a good website requires time and effort. If a person is consistently able to come up with good content s/he will be recognized for that. Good content always find an audience on the web. Links:
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