These are my Jumptags for November 23rd 10-Second Website Usability Testing – Learn a simple method of website usability testing that takes just a few seconds to complete and offers a good measure of a website's user-friendliness. 5 Useful Habits To Avoid The Most Common Mistakes In Web Design – Learn how to avoid the most common web design mistakes [...]

These are my Jumptags for November 19th through November 20th: The Wired Campus – ‘The Last.fm for Research Papers’ Tops 100,000 Users – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Mendeley, a Web service that lets users organize and share research papers, recently announced that it has surpassed 100,000 users, and that its database now includes some 8 million works. Principles [...]

Because you all know just how much I love a good icon set, I’m sending along a new list of icons to get you ready for the holidays. I received all of these either through an email subscription or an RSS feed that I read. So, thanks to Tutorial 9 and SitePoint for making this elf happy. As always, read the licensing and read me files to determine just how you can use these guys.

These are my Jumptags for November 18th Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List – Here is the final list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, compiled from the contributions of 278 learning professionals – from education and workplace learning – worldwide. Thanks to all who contributed their Top 10 [...]

These are my Jumptags for November 16th LEGO Digital Designer : Virtual Building Software – Lego Digital Designer allows you to build legos with the software and do cool stuff, too. A revolutionary platform for virtual building. The software is free to download for Mac and PC. PowerPC Macs must download a special version. Branching surveys and self-grading quizzes in [...]

Brandi Leonard, a doctoral student of mine just finished up her research project about student perceptions of traditional and electronic journaling. It’s a qualitative study that used interviews and artifact analysis to consider how students value each time of journaling. What we didn’t try to do was make one better than the other. The abstract is below and you can download the report of research, too, if you like.

These are my Jumptags for November 13th ITC Benguiat – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Image of Benguiat font. ITC Benguiat – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Benguiat is a decorative serif typeface designed by Ed Benguiat and released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in 1978. The face is loosely based upon typefaces of the Art Nouveau period but [...]

These are my Jumptags for November 12th Home – iStoryboards is an app for the iPod Touch and iPhone for creating simple storyboards for film makers. Google Tutor: Tutorials and Tips for Google Users – Your how-to guide for Google with Google tutorials, tips for using Google and advice. The Sesame Street Complete Series: Google Celebrates In Style! | Penn [...]

I recently had a facebook friend post a celebratory post about reaching 400 friends. Of course, comments of congratulations followed this. However, I could not help but wonder how many of the people he would recognize or speak to if he met them on the street?

I’m so excited to go back to Union University today. Dr. Anna Clifford and her students invite me from time to time to come and spend some time with them talking about Google and Web 2.0. We always have so much fun. (Anna always remembers that M&Ms are my favorite treats, too.) Today, I have the pleasure of Joanne G. coming with me to share her expertise as well. She’s a former middle school teacher with Memphis City Schools and has a wealth of real-world knowledge that can be sure with Anna’s preservice teachers. I don’t know if we’ll get everything that we want to talk about in or not, though.