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Group Blogs

Posted in 845 learning bit on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ll soon see how the ITEC 845 Spring 2009 course did on their group blog assignments.
Web 2.0 Aggregators (Briano/Munson)
Merrie Monarch Festival (Chi/Sullivan)
Blogs 2 Books (Davila/Green)
Packing for the Carry-On Traveler (Rutherford/Sena)
Anatomy of a Twitter Post (Devlin-Clancy/Tuccori)
Wetpaint Guide for College Students (Cordeiro/Esteban)

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CSS Background Images and Accessibility – Be Careful

Posted in 845 learning bit, tagged , on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Someone asked in class about how to add an Alt Tag to images that are generated as CSS background images.  The bottom-line is that while this is an oft-used technique for presenting images, there is no way to add an Alt Tag to this kind of image. Any work-arounds do not support accessibility needs. Semantically, [...]

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Personal Learning Environments (PLE) and EduBloggin

Posted in 845 learning bit, tagged on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

D’Arcy Norman muses about Personal Learning Environments. This post illustrates a few things:

The concept of a Personal Learning Environment as melded against various Web 2.0 applications we’ve discussed in class and will experiment with.
Somebody for whom blogging and use of other web-based services is integrated into their daily activities, an expert in using these. [...]

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