Category: general-education

Useful links: Captioning, Knowbility gets grant, fair use, responsive design

Thanks to this post at Meryl.net, I found these two excellent captioning resources from Bill Creswell: Caption Resources and How to Start Adding Captions/Subtitles to Online Videos.

Congratulations to Knowbility for being on the receiving end of a big grant from Readability.com. And congratulations to Readability for recognizing the importance of Knowbility to web accessibility.

How do you know when something counts as fair use? Should be of interest to educators.

Notes to Agencies Starting Their First Responsive Site is a good checklist to discuss with students learning responsive design.

Useful links: WebAIM Survey, Ladies Learning Code

WebAIM conducted a large study of screen reader users, its 4th such survey, and published the results. They surveyed everything, including mobile screen readers. Go. Read. Learn.

Common Look examined just the survey results about headings, and wrote Headings Matter to Users of Assistive Technology.

Ladies Learning Code Team Aims to Fix Programmer Education – One City at a Time

Where are we heading?

One of my grandchildren is learning to drive. I keep telling her you have to look where you’re going. Think about where you’re headed. The same thing applies to technology and education.

Technology changes rapidly. That’s why it’s so hard to keep up in education, in site building, in technique, in execution, in delivery.

One way to attempt to keep an eye on where we are heading is by studying trends and research results. Today’s post is a summary of a few recent headlines about trends, research, and what’s happening on the ground even as we use and teach yesterday’s technology.

For your consideration:

Those are but a few of the current trends. What do you think is the most significant change coming our way?

Useful links: Accessible Apps, Mommy Bloggers, Google+ Hangouts on Air

Designing Accessible Apps  is from Moms With Apps.

Mashable has a huge infographic about Mommy Bloggers. If you have scoffed at the importance of mommy bloggers, this will be an education for you.

Educators will no doubt be eager to take advantage of the newly announced Google+ Hangouts on Air. Here’s a post telling you how to get started using it from ReadWriteWeb. And a bit more about how it works from Mashable.

Useful links: website cost, Big Web Show, Ed TED

How much should a website cost? Excellent post spelling out how much different types of websites cost and why. Helpful to both web designers running a business or to students just learning the business.

The Big Web Show moves to an audio only format.

TED gives teachers keys to a flipped classroom. It’s all at a new site ed.ted.com.

Useful links: YouTube Clips, iPads in Edu, CS6 is coming

Teachers will love this post that tells you how to find the exact part of a YouTube video you want to show and create a link to just that section. Finding the right moment (and many more YouTube tricks).

How the iPad is Changing Education. From ReadWriteWeb.

I’m seeing a few rumors about what’s coming in Dreamweaver in Adobe CS6. Looks like more support for HTML5 and mobile design, including integrated PhoneGap. Adobe has a new HTML site at html.adobe.com.

Useful Links: Web Education, CISPA, rule of thirds

I saw this tweet from Pamela Fox about a source for online teaching materials. You might want to check it out.

If you’re interested in joining in with a week of action against CISPA, Mashable has the info.

Nice explanation of the rule of thirds, which applies to web design as well as to photography. Here’s a source of the same info, related specifically to web design: