Integrating 21st Century Skills into your Curriculum
Overview This course is designed to help educators assure that all students are learning critical 21st Century skills. Participants in this course will examine the skills that business and industry tell us are important for students to learn in order to be successful participants in a 21st Century global economy. They will evaluate the importance of integrating 21st Century skills into their curriculum. During this course they will analyze their curriculum and instructional strategies to determine which 21st Century skills they currently teach, and which additional skills they can integrate into their curriculum.
Blog Design 101
When you have a blog, you can either hire a blog designer or tweak your design yourself. Either way, you’re potentially dealing with a lot of uncertainty. I mean, do you know how to code from scratch? Or worse, do you know how to evaluate a blog designer before you hire them? Probably not.
5 Really Useful Twitter Apps
By Umar Anjum on November 26, 2010 The 5 Really Useful Twitter Apps You Should Know About Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster.
Protovis
Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction. Protovis is free and open-source, provided under the BSD License. It uses JavaScript and SVG for web-native visualizations; no plugin required (though you will need a modern web browser)! Although programming experience is helpful, Protovis is mostly declarative and designed to be learned by example. Protovis is no longer under active development.The final release of Protovis was v3.3.1 (4.7 MB).
Events on Datavisualization.ch
Reflections about the Open Knowledge Conference 2013 23 Sep 2013 Events, Opinions Conference, Reflection, Review I'd like to share with you a few key insights I took with me from the OKCon 2013 regarding contextualization of data, the future of social interaction, data privacy and our role in reshaping society. Read more OKCon 2013
5 Brilliant Music Videos Created By Students
Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-10-28 Bringing classical music to students is not always easy. Except when you incorporate the hottest pop artists into it.
Top WordPress themes on Google riddled with spamlinks and obfuscated code
Siobhan Ambrose went looking for a WordPress theme; of the top ten free WordPress theme sites listed on Google, eight had hidden, obfuscated, or encrypted code buried in them that rendered spammy keyword links that were part of a deceptive search engine optimization scheme; in some cases, Siobhan couldn't figure out what the offending code did and speculates that it might contain malware. Of the remaining two, one hosted themes that didn't validate. The remaining site, WordPress.org, is the only site in the first ten Google results for "free wordpress theme" whose themes don't contain deceptive backlinks, obfuscated code, or non-validating themes. Exploit scanner came up with 17 severe warnings for this theme.
Life Resource Center
Get the support you need to navigate life’s challenges At University of Phoenix, you’re not alone. We’re committed to your well-being, and we strive to support you in everything you do. That’s why our Life Resource Center provides services to help you manage your student obligations and find balance between work, school and life.
CS294-10 Visualization - CS294-10 Visualization Sp11
From CS294-10 Visualization Sp11 Visual media are increasingly generated, manipulated, and transmitted by computers. When well designed, such displays capitalize on human facilities for processing visual information and thereby improve comprehension, memory, inference, and decision making. Yet the digital tools for transforming data into visualizations still require low-level interaction by skilled human designers. As a result, producing effective visualizations can take hours or days and consume considerable human effort.
