More transparency as I learn what I’m sure to many of you is basic, using Ian Lloyd’s book from Sitepoint Press. (And I wonder if I’m going to kick myself for doing this, rather than putting this energy into simply learning Dreamweaver, which was installed on my new MacBook yesterday. It doesn’t hurt to know [...]

My last post had images of my websites-in-evolution from the middle of Chapter 3 of Lloyd’s excellent book. I just finished working through the last 22 pages of that chapter (to page 111), and this is how two of the pages look now (again, clicking on the pictures will open larger images in a new [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m learning XHTML and CSS with the help of a lovely, fat, easy to read book. For the heck of it, I’m going to throw screenshots of the websites I’m creating as I learn. It will serve as an archive of the steps along the way. (The book’s [...]

In case any of you out there are edtech geeks with a hankering to learn XHTML and CSS to build your own (or modify other) websites, I’m working through Ian Lloyd’s Build Your Own Website the Right Way – Using HTML and CSS (Sitepoint Press). I highly recommend it. It’s easy, it’s got a great [...]

I’m falling more and more in love with Ning. When you embed videos posted on a public Ning, the Ning Media Player links back to your Ning (unfortunately, the Ning I set up for the “Year of Global Cooling” project is private, so I can’t embed anything from it–feel free to join if you think [...]

I’m making some screencast tutorials on Screencast-o-matic.com to walk our high school students through the set-up process for their new MacBooks when our school begins it’s first year as a 1:1 Apple Laptop school (*grins*). It’s originally 800 X 600, but one cool feature of Screencast-o-matic is that it allows embed codes for smaller sizes. [...]

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Flexibility of the Mind, Endurance of the Heart Very interesting article about educational games promoting socially conscious learning. - post by cburell

Contributing to the next wave for this new version of Karl Fisch‘s original product. By the way, if you don’t subscribe to Xplanazine, they’re an awesome resource for “presentation and collaboration 2.0″ tools and tips. They’re in my NEW blogroll, way down on the right sidebar. Call me crazy, but I kind of liked Karl’s [...]

Ning Blog – 8 Steps to Creating a Great Social Network Ning is starting to grow on me….  Thieir blog is fantastic, as this page shows. - post by cburell

Student Press Initiative at Teachers College: About Annotated Thanks to Suzie Boss of Reinventing Project-Based Learning (listen to our podcast here) for the tip. – post by cburell About SPI The Student Press Initiative is designed to develop, foster, and promote writing across the curriculum through student publication. SPI is built upon the premise that [...]