Webinar: Edutopia's Exclusive Members-Only Benefit ^ Press Play to begin. February 12, 2009: "A New Day for Learning: How to Cultivate Full-Time Learners" Host: Milton Chen, executive director, The George Lucas Educational Foundation Web 2.0 Design Kit Web 2.0 is a term coined by O’Reilly describing the new trends in design and development appearing across a flood of innovative websites. This tutorial will show you how to create some of the more popular “Web 2.0″ design effects using Photoshop. Gradients
Blogs, Wikis & Web 2.0 in the Classroom Web 2.0 & Why we should change The basic difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that 2.0 is more collaborative and content is produced by users. Time magazine named each of us as person of the year because we "made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software."
30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes Advertisement Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. However, to convey the message of presented data effectively, it’s important to offer it in an attractive and intuitive way. Furthermore, the presentation itself can make images more valuable and simplify the browsing through hundreds of slides.
7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking "7 Things You Should Know About... Social Bookmarking" addresses a community—or social—approach to identifying and organizing information on the Web. Social bookmarking involves saving bookmarks one would normally make in a Web browser to a public Web site and "tagging" them with keywords.
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CSS-P 3 Column Layout 3 columns fluid layout This article on A List Apart has been a great source of inspiration for me. After taking this solution for a "test drive", I decided to implement negative margins the "other way around". I think the major advantage of this technique is that it uses fewer non-semantic elements and one less "float". It also seems to cure small issues not listed in the original ALA's demo: 18 Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction The Web 18 Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction Experts offer up their top picks of web 2.0 apps that are having a big impact on teaching and learning in higher education. By Meg Lloyd04/28/10 The long list of web 2.0 and social software tools—a confusing array of cute and unspellable names—seems to grow daily: Web 2.0 directory Go2Web20.net, for instance, includes more than 3,000 entries. Yet many educators have managed to keep up with the proliferation and leverage these clever apps to better teach and communicate with their students.
words and works of Alan Jackson » Blog Archive » jQuery fading a Mar4th2008•• The idea was raised by a collegue how to go about recreating something similar to The New York Times The Little Rock Nine: 50 Years Later flash feature without using flash. In my “infinite wisdom” I said something along the lines of,“no problem, jQuery and CSS can do all that”. Good going Alan. After a few days on and off fiddling with it, I may have come across a decent substitute. My idea began trying to combine the article on jQuery “slicker show and hide” and Apple™ style slider gallery.
7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers The possibilities for social media tools in the classroom are vast. In the hands of the right teacher, they can be used to engage students in creative ways, encourage collaboration and inspire discussion among even soft-spoken students. But we've already made our case for why teachers should consider using social media in their classrooms. What about the how? Even when people say they want to incorporate social media, they don't always know the best ways to do so.
Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop This post was originally published in 2008 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Taking a closer look into the world of web design this tutorial will cover the process of designing a vibrant and colourful modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop. Beginning with a blank canvas we’ll go through the process of creating the entire structure and effects from scratch. This particular design is one I'm currently producing as a WordPress theme for Springy Developments, in the future we'll take a look at the coding process and see how the site is pulled together into the final product.
Unleashing the Wind, part one « The Technorate Teacher After following the UPS tracking system all day yesterday and today, my new computer arrived at my doorstep around 1:00 pm this afternoon. I ordered the MSI Wind U100 for two major reasons: 1) It has a nice 10″ screen but similar size to many of the smaller netbooks