These are my Jumptags for February 26th through February 28th: Small Pieces Loosely Joined for Kids – “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” tries to explain what is truly important about the Web. This kids versions is usedul for grades 6, 7 or 8. RSS Feed for Printables for Kids – Free word search puzzles, coloring pages, and other activities Printables4Kids – [...]
In honor of the month of March, Smashing Magazine has released new desktop wallpapers. There are some pretty cool ones this month— 45 free wallpapers to choose from with themes from baseball, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and Spring.
Beginning tonight, I will be helping to lead our church youth through a 30-hour famine. This is sponsored by World Vision in an effort to emphasize to youth and adults the poignancy of poverty and famine around the globe. Norwalk, CT, and Here in Franklin offer two other descriptions of youth participating in the famine. In particular, tomorrow afternoon I will be leading over 70 youth and adults in a game called TRIBE. As I worked through the games — rather a series of games, challenges and reflections — I began to think about both the instructional design of the game and the message design of the leader’s guide.
by Anna Clifford
Napkins and individual packages of cheese and crackers were handed out to the group of preservice teachers. The professor asked them to couple with a partner and make a Cheesy-Crackette! One partner watched and took notes, while the other made the masterpiece, as instructed. However, there seemed to be some congestion with one group that gained the attention of the entire class.
These are my Jumptags for February 24th through February 25th: Google AdWords: Keyword Tool – Use the keyword tools to determine search hits for specific keywords and their synonyms. How to Connect with Digital Photography School – Example of educating readers about ways to connect with the blog. Produle – Produle is a web service for creating interactive flash based [...]
by Robert M. Branch
Visual literacy deserves a syntax and grammar distinct from the parameters that define verbal literacy, such as syntax and grammar. Ergo, a paradox occurs when we use verbal language to define visual literacy.
These are my Jumptags for February 20th through February 23rd: 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design – Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface [...]
by Paul Ayers
Let’s consider for a moment a formal definition put forth by Alan J. Cann for Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). A PLE is: a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals, manage their learning, manage both content and process, and communicate with others in the process of learning.
Have you heard about Force Trainer?
These are my Jumptags for February 20th ClickHeat – ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. Requires Javascript on the client to track clicks, PHP and GD on the server to log clicks and generate the heatmap. 5 Heat Map Tracking Tools to Watch What Your Visitors Do – Supplement [...]
