Accessible Web Development Resources

Accessible Web Development Resources
Lots of links here to various resource for web accessibility, making text legible, scripting accessibility, accessibile multimedia, etc. Definitely a resource you should check out.

WebsiteTips.com

WebsiteTips.com : "WebsiteTips.com is an educational Web site design and development resource especially for Web site owners, Web designers, Web professionals, webmasters, teachers and educators, and students."

This site is jam packed with articles, tutorials, tips, links, book recommendations, and more. I found it from a link to a link to a link...

Podcasting!

How to use podcasts at your school from Will Richardson.

Read about my next project! From what I have been reading, all that you need is your computer, a microphone, and some free software. I hear it is quite addicting and people wind up buying better equipment and software. I have lots of ideas for podcasts for our site. Now, to enlist the folks to make them...

The cost of spam

Did you know that spam’s going to cost us $198 billion next year?

* That’s a laptop computer, xBox 360, the yet to be released PlayStation 3, a PSP, broadband Internet for a year, and cell phone and PDA — for every public school child in the United States. (Video Game Consoles Reviews)
* It’s almost four million more teachers. (Digest of Education Statistics)
* Six Category five withstanding levees and floodgates around New Orleans. (All Things Considered)
* That’s four times would it would cost to end chronic hunger in the world (Allen).

We need to make clear to children that spam, virus, and hacking are not a game, that they cost us all a lot.
From: davidwarlick.com/2cents

Improving the Accessibility of Your Web Site

Excellent, easy-to-read articles from the W3C on The Web Accesibility Initiative. This is the WAI home site.

iPod in the Classroom - Lesson Plans

Apple - Education - iPod in the Classroom - Lesson Plans: Some great FREE lesson plans for using an iPod in your classroom

Web Standards Link Bonanza

Web Standards Link Bonanza
This is a phenomenal list of web standards: close to 400 links, I believe. It will keep you busy reading for quite a while.

EduLounge.com

EduLounge.com: "

What: A couple of new things going on. This is his first podcast. The production values are low but that is okay. He also created a new site for teachers called EduLounge.com.

Key Objectives

• To provide a place for everyday teachers to work collaboratively on the use of technology in the classroom.
• To provide a place for teachers to find out about technology and how it can be used in their classes.
• To meet other teachers and engage them through technology.

Great Blog!

Notes from the Superintendent
This blog is maintanied by the Superintendent of Schools in a Virginia District. If only more could find the time to do this....

TimesDispatch.com | Reading, writing and blogging

TimesDispatch.com

When Chelsea Pleasants wants to know what her daughter is doing in school, she heads to the Internet.

With a few clicks of a mouse, Pleasants can navigate the Web site for Goochland County's Byrd Elementary School and access the Web log kept by her daughter's third-grade teacher, Ellen Robinson.

As all Goochland teachers have been required to do this year, Robinson keeps a school district-sponsored Web log, or blog -- a kind of diary of her class's activities.

Check them out:

Elementary School www.glnd.k12.va.us/gateway/go/bes/teachers/

Goochland Elementary School and the Specialty and Gifted Center www.glnd.k12.va.us/gateway/go/ges/teachers/

Randolph Elementary School www.glnd.k12.va.us/gateway/go/res/teachers

Goochland Middle School www.glnd.k12.va.us/gateway/go/gms/teachers/

Goochland High School www.glnd.k12.va.us/gateway/go/ghs/teachers/

Superintendent Frank Morgan's blog www.glnd.k12.va.us/weblog/fmorgan

Transferring songs from your iPod

"How do I get songs off my iPod?"

When you get a new computer, you can't transfer your iPod music. AskDave has an article (and found a program) for you to do just this!

Learning about nature through photography

TrekNature

The underlying theme of TrekNature is learning more about the world through nature photography. TrekNature fosters this by allowing photographers to display their work grouped by regions in a supportive and orderly environment.

Tech-Recipes.com - Computer help Windows Solaris Linux Cisco MySQL Programming

Tech-Recipes.com - Lots of tech tutorials here (over a thousand) and forums where you can ask for help. Very interesting "stuff"!

The World's Billionaires - Forbes.com

The World's Billionaires - Forbes.com

Martha didn't make it this year...

After Acquiring Macromedia, What's Next for Adobe? Ask Bruce Chizen - Knowledge@Wharton

After Acquiring Macromedia, What's Next for Adobe?

Interview with CEO Bruce Chizen of Adobe will answer questions we all have...

Pandora

Like music? I always like to have it playing but to avoid disrupting others in my office, I wear a headset. I like the SONY ones the best.

Pandora is a fantastic site where you can create up to 100 of your own radio stations...FREE! Make sure you read how it works and what you have to do to create your stations. Yes, you have to register. No, you don't get any junk mail from them.

Freebies

Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group Blog

Listings of some interesting free software, nicely categorized.

Freebies

Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group Blog

Listings of some interesting free software, nicely categorized.

WiredSafety

WiredSafety is the world's largest online safety and help group

This is a site parents and teachers should thoroughly investigate. There are some fantastic articles here about Internet Safety. Parry Aftab has done a fantastic job with her choice of articles and topics. This is one to bookmark.

Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace

Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace

Very interesting take on MySpace.com