These are my Jumptags for July 26th logo-large.png (PNG Image, 376×153 pixels) – Logo for Iconfinder at http://www.iconfinder.net Beautiful Web Typography: 7 tips on de-sucking the web – Great tips for optimizing type on the Web. Beautiful Web Typography (#5) – A nice presentation that explains the current state of affairs for typography on the Web. Iconfinder | Icon search [...]

These are my Jumptags for July 22nd Pew Internet & American Life Project – Links and search for various results on Internet use. Blog Research and References – A bibliography of blog research and scholarship, dated to about 2005. Teaching Doc Students about Lit Reviews & Research Design – Doctoral students often declare that the choice of a qualitative design [...]

Something’s been bugging me a lot lately:  I’ve been thinking about “indirect objects,” retweets, and reposts.  Huh? Indirect objects?  You know, indirect objects from 10th grade English grammar class.  They are the “to whom or for who the action is being done.”  They usually come at the end of a sentence.  It’s usually how you can tell whether you’re supposed [...]

These are my Jumptags for July 15th through July 22nd: Our Objection to Learning Objectives – Kineo offers a perspective on who objectives are for and how to make learning more relevant to the learner. Why Do We Forget Things | Parade.com – We may be wired to forget. Improve Your Memory | Parade.com – Research shows that simple exercises [...]

These are my Jumptags for July 7th FRONTLINE/WORLD . India – Hole in the Wall – Mitra decided to place a high-speed computer in the wall, connect it to the Internet, and watch who, if anyone, might use it. To his delight, curious children were immediately attracted to the strange new machine. "When they said, 'Can we touch … Sugata [...]

About a year ago, I found the following slideshow, creating a post about it on a previous —now somewhat defunct — blog. So, I’m reposting it here. It will be able to get archived and found easier. Plus, maybe it will resonate with you.

These are my Jumptags for July 1st through July 3rd: 30 WordPress Development Tutorials – A directory of very good tutorials for development in WordPress. Infinite Thinking Machine – A list of great new search strategies for teachers from Google. Use Wikis for Business Projects – One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration [...]

If you’re ready for some serious professional development with developing database-driven web sites, then this is an excellent opportunity.  In preview of their new upcoming book release Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL, 4th Edition, SitePoint is releasing four chapters and a snippet of another chapter next week.  Check their site for a lot more [...]

These are my Jumptags for July 1st E-Learning Top Tips – A list of tips and suggestions for improving elearning from Kimeo. Tip 12: Have I got your attention? – irst impressions in so many e-learning courses are so often dismal. Designers have a responsibility to make every moment engaging. What can you do in the first few seconds to [...]

One of my daughters’ favorite books is Pinkalicious (as well as the sequel Purplelicious and the newly published Goldalicious). Well, in the flavor of Pinkalicious, I am here to offer you Chocolicious, which I am sure is just a month or two down the road from being published.

A few weeks ago, the Mars Chocolate company, makers of all things fine and chocolate and warm and comforting started a compaign for economic relief with free chocolate called Real Chocolate Relief Act.  Many of you know that there are two things I appreciate most: free and chocolate.  Many of you also know that I can be bribed with a bag of M & Ms.  So, this is no joke.  When it comes to chocolate, I’m as serious as a heart attack…