Stimulus, Resource: User Interface Principles in Web Design

This is a great article regarding how web design should be approached. I like to fact that it’s focus is on the intention of the site, not just the art/design side of making things look cool. This will be useful with higher secondary level students as a stimulus piece.  

Twouble with Twitters

I just had this a link to this Twitter based cartoon clip. It made me think about where the “untamed twitter” account or the “Wild Tweeter” may end up. Enjoy the clip

Inspiring Educational Research: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com

“TED Talks Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how [...]

Online Resource: drop.io

This is a great online place to upload documents for sharing and collaborative work.

Flash AS2 Tutorial – Loading External SWF files

Loading external pages into MovieClip symbols also Loading external SWF’s into blankMC’s from a navigation/menu SWF Let’s start this one by opening the Top SWF created in the last tutorial. As you will remember I made three buttons whose _visible property was switched on and off according to what was rolled over. I am going [...]

Flash AS2 Tutorial – Making Roll-Over (drop-down) buttons

Making roll over (drop-down) buttons in Adobe Flash CS3 using ActionScript 2.0. Start a new Flash AS2 file and give the stage the size that fits where you wish it to go on the controller page eg. Make the layers on the timeline that you may need eg. Create yourself some buttons and place them [...]

Flash AS2 Tutorial – Creating a Container page

Making a container page – The page that is the root of all your pages! This tutorial is a basic overview of how to make an Adobe Flash movie that uses ActionScript 2.0 to load and contain external SWF files. This page is similar to the Index page of a Frame Based HTML site. Start [...]

1.5 million Facebook ID’s sold by Hacker

I also came across this interesting article in my travels. Via Thoughts of a Technocrat and  ComputerWorld.com – Russian Hacker Selling 1.5 Million Facebook IDs A hacker named Kirllos has a rare deal for anyone who wants to spam, steal or scam on Facebook: an unprecedented number of user accounts offered at rock-bottom prices. Researchers at [...]

Facebook Database Schema (Class Diagram)

I found this when looking for information about the Facebook database. Will make interesting discussion with my students.

Values Exchange – A place for ethical discourse

Late last year I was introduced to the potential of this great online resource. Values Exchange (VX) has been created as an online tool for the discussion of issues that explore ethics and personal value sets. When I first saw this I recognised great potential for use in the classroom, as a pastoral care tool [...]