Bookmarks for April 19th through April 20th

These are my Jumptags for April 19th through April 20th:

• Making Web 2.0 Work for Project Management – There’s much discussion around Web 2.0 technologies and using them for business purposes. Will these technologies actu
• Project Learning: Teachers Discuss the Daily Challenges | Edutopia – A team of eighth-grade teachers compare notes on the trials and rewards of working together on project-based "expeditionary" learning
• Common Challenges of a Virtual Team – I work virtually; it’s a primary part of my business model. This arrangement suits my work process (and personality) perfectly.
• 35 High-Quality Free Vector Packs – DesignM.ag – Web and graphic designers have a lot of free resources at their disposal. Thanks to an active design community, finding quality free resources is possible. In this post we'll feature some of the best free vector packs that are available for download….
• Eight 3D Modeling & Graphics Applications Available For Free – If you’re interested in getting started with three dimensional (3D) graphics, there are a large number of applications available, and
• PHP: What You Need To Know To Play With The Web – Smashing Magazine – In this article, I'll introduce you to the fundamentals of PHP. We'll focus on using PHP to access Web services and on turning static HTML pages into dynamic ones by…
• 10 Ways to Make a Virtual Team Feel Like You’re Face-to-Face – Yesterday, I shared some of the biggest challenges of virtual teams. And there were plenty! Today, based on my virtual
• Teach Science and Math – his free technology provides students with a bird’s eye view of a natural disaster area with remarkable high resolution. Students and teachers have access to this technology and they can investigate the cause and effect of any natural disaster in the…

Bookmarks for February 9th through March 17th

These are my Jumptags for February 9th through March 17th:

• Free and legal music downloads – Jamendo – Download and listen to over 20,000 albums, legally. Use BitTorrent or download directly to discover and share new artists. All content is Creative Commons or "Art Libre" licensed.
• Philip Hutchison Talks SCORM and E-Learning — Campus Technology – In this candid and eye-opening interview, Philip Hutchison, a household name in SCORM and the man behind Pipwerks, gives his thoughts about the current state of SCORM and e-learning in general, touching on subjects such as how he became one of the go…
• BBC News – The web: vital statistics – As part of the BBC's SuperPower season, exploring the power of the internet, BBC News explores how the web works.
• The Role of Disruptive Technology in the Future of Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE – # Truly disruptive tools will force new thinking and new approaches to ensuring student learning in higher education.
  # Technology enables online learning, which potentially qualifies as a disruptive innovation in education.
• Free HTML/CSS Template for Download – DesignM.ag – A few weeks ago we published a tutorial How to Design a Blue Marketing Company Layout in Photoshop. Our friends at SnobbySlice have taken that design, coded it, and made it available for free download. The template includes the homepage design that w…
• 55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design | Inspiration | instantShift – As you already seen in our previous posts about slideshow presentation designs that representing the key information in slideshow presentation is a hot trend , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• Flickr: The Library of Congress’ Photostream – Images from the Library of Congress' photostream in Flickr.
• Two Ways To Remove A Color Cast From A Photo With Photoshop – Removing color casts in Photoshop. Easy techniques.
• Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes – Smashing Magazine – In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is
• UsabilityPost – Does Your Website Suffer From These 7 Usability Mistakes? – Tips and insights into good design and usability
• Project Cartoon: How Projects Really Work (version 1.5) – How Projects Really Work (version 1.5) How Projects Really Work (version 1.5)
• Malcontent Blogger | bLaugh – Source: ReviewMe Domain: MalcontentBlogger.com
  <img class="comic" title="Malcontent Blogger" alt="Malcontent Blogger" …
• The Whole Internet Truth | bLaugh – Source: Wikipedia Domain: WikisGoneWild.com
  <img class="comic" title="Where is the Secret of Life?" alt="Where is…
• Applying Mathematics To Web Design – Smashing Magazine – “Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe…
• Here’s How to Add Personality to Your E-Learning Courses » The Rapid eLearning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann offers up advice on how to integrate script fonts into your elearning courses for personality.

Bookmarks for January 6th through January 7th

These are my Jumptags for January 6th through January 7th:

• Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: The Reflective Teacher: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part III) – Considering teacher and trainer reflection within the framework of Bloom's taxonomy.
• Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas: The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection (Part II) – Considering student reflection within the framework of Bloom's taxonomy.
• Soungle.com – Royalty Free Sound Effects (FX) Library for Download – A database of sounds and sound effects that are royalty free.
• Open Content Definition – David Wiley offers up the definition of open content with relationship to the 3 Rs.

Bookmarks for December 16th

These are my Jumptags for December 16th

• The Rules | Brain Rules | – Brain Rules by John J. Medina is a multimedia project explaining how the brain works. It includes a book, a feature-length documentary film, and a series of interactive tutorials.
• How To Design Custom PowerPoint Templates for E-Learning (Plus 8 Free Templates) » The Rapid eLearning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann offers up more Powerpoint templates and a how to for using a Web site for inspiration.
• 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design – Smashing Magazine – Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying list -style of some of our…

Bookmarks for December 9th through December 10th

These are my Jumptags for December 9th through December 10th:

• How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong – Smashing Magazine – GIFs of spinning s on the Contact us page. Common usability mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load….
• How to Deal with Feature Creep | Webdesigner Depot – If any assumption is safe, it’s that six months after launching a website (or sooner?), its owners will have a list of things they want to change, from minor
• Project Timeline (Marine Theme) – Google Docs Templates – This is a template for Google Docs for project schedule tracking.
• Cover it Live – TBR08 – Michael Grant – Barry Dahl covered my keynote live and I didn't even know it.
• 6 Hilarious Social Media Motivational Posters – These posters are not the usual motivational posters you see hanging around offices. In fact, the little quotes we see on them aren’t exactly motivating and might even be insulting to social media users. Any offense is obviously intentional, but it’s…
• Sketchy Web Icons: 30 Hand Drawn Icon Pack | Tutorial9 – This Icon Pack includes 30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons. This is the perfect set for adding that handmade feel to your own creations online.
• Secrets to a Faster and Attractive Web Site Design Revealed | Web Design | instantShift – A web designer has many challenges to tackle. The creation of an attractive web site is as important as sending the message across effectively. After all, a web , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• Evaluation Wiki – Mlawiki – This wiki is an ongoing project initiated by the MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) as a way for the academic community to develop, gather, and share materials about the evaluation of work in digital media for purposes of tenure and promot…
• How Getting An F On Your School Paper Makes You A Better Blogger – This guest post was written by Rob Sutton from Ramped Reviews. Image by kharied. This comes to be a surprise …
• HOW TO: Manage Successful Social Media Promotions – Retailers are getting more traffic and sales from social media sites. Here are some great tips for turning social media buzz into social shopping buy.
• Easy front-end framework – Easy front-end framework is all in one front-end solution. It includes CSS, HTML and JavaScript predefined code that you can easily use and reuse on your projects.
• 50 High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design – Designers love to have a lot of quality fonts available to them, and fortunately there are some very good free fonts out there. In this post we'll feature some of the best free fonts that can be used in your commercial designs. If you're looking for …
• 22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks | Tutorials | instantShift – WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• From Blank Screen To Web Design In 5 Easy Steps – Learn a simple, five-step web design process to make sure you include the basic elements every website needs while freeing your mind to be more creative.
• New Branding Revealed For Winter Olympics 2014 – The official logo for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics was revealed last week. This is the first winter games to be held in Russia and it is the first Olympic logo to include an internet URL.

Bookmarks for November 4th through November 5th

These are my Jumptags for November 4th through November 5th:

• 20 Merry Icon Sets For Christmas – Icon sets for Christmas and holidays.
• Elements of Design: Type – Type is a fundamental part of any design it appears in. It can be used as text to read, as a shape and as a visual element where the choice of typeface conveys an emotion or mood. Type, when used well doesn’t need a photograph or illustration to back…
• Showcase of Big, Bold Typography – Big, bold typography can be very powerful for conveying a message or just for achieving a desired look. In this post we'll showcase more than 25 items that feature big, bold typography. To see more work from a particular artist/designer, click on the…
• 4 Principles of Good Design for Websites – One of the areas of focus that I’ve taken into all my designs are the four major design principles. They include: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.
• 6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great – In a previous article I went into detail about the important roles that contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity play in webdesign. This article will piggy back on those principles as I examine 6 ways you can take your webdesign from good to gre…

Bookmarks for October 26th through November 2nd

These are my Jumptags for October 26th through November 2nd:

• Spooktacular Pumpkin Vector Pack (100 Free Vectors) – Here's an unexpected Halloween Treat for the Tutorial9 Community! This is a HUGE set of 100 Free Spooky Pumpkin Vectors on Halloween Eve!
• Free Vintage & Serpent Go Media Vectors | Tutorial9 – Our Pals over at Go Media are releasing a massive new set of Premium Vector Art. Why's this matter to you? You get a taste of it For Free.
• Project Project Planning & Management for ISD and HPT Efforts – Project Planning & Management presentation at ISPI Spring Conference 2009 by Guy W Wallace, CPT

Bookmarks for October 21st

These are my Jumptags for October 21st

• Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie – Use Xtranormal to create movies quickly. Drag and drop actors onto scenes. Add text and the software syncs the actors mouths with the text. Windows only.
• Storybird – Collaborative storytelling – Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print.
• Uncovering Steve Jobs’ Presentation Secrets – BusinessWeek – For his new book, communications coach Carmine Gallo watched hours of Jobs' keynotes. Here he identifies the five elements of every presentation by the Apple CEO.
• ImageChef – Word Mosaic – In the flavor of Wordle, write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols.

Bookmarks for October 13th through October 15th

These are my Jumptags for October 13th through October 15th:

• Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog – Weebly has now added an education section. Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects.
• Free Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial | CSS Tutorial for Creating Layouts in Dreamweaver | Layers Magazine – This tutorial covers the process of building a CSS-based layout from scratch using Dreamweaver. Great beginner tutorial.
• Free Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial | CSS Tutorial – Basics of Working with Cascading Style Sheets | Layers Magazine – This tutorial covers the basics of creating CSS in Dreamweaver using the CSS Rule dialog. Great intro.
• Adobe Flash Tutorial | Creating an interactive story in Adobe Flash part 2 – A simple tutorial for moving around Flash CS3. Part 2.
• Adobe Flash Tutorial | Creating an interactive story in Adobe Flash – A simple tutorial in two parts for moving around Flash CS3.
• Flash CS4 |Timeline Animation | Motion Editor | Layers Magazine – With Flash CS4 now has auto-keyframing, a full-featured motion editor, and—most importantly—the ability to animate each property of an object separately from one another.
• Open Access Educational Technology journals – George Veletsianos – One of the resources developed for my students is a listing of open access journals (name, url, and RSS feed) that publish papers on the nexus between technology and education (educational technology, instructional design, e-learning, online distance…
• Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok – Time management – Lifehacker – Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite time-tracking applications and then we rounded them up for your review.
• The speed of information – The speed of information between neurons.
• 33 Websites For Vector Images Download | Pro Blog Design – Here is a list of free vector images for download, if you're designer and look for vector images for your design project, you can simply download this…
• 3 Ways To Find The Best Website Color Scheme – Learn how to pick a website color scheme that keeps visitors engaged. Includes a list of questions to ask clients and a color psychology cheat sheet.
• Using John Keller’s ARCS model to motivate online learners « Onlignment – ARCS provides a good summary of the issues to be considered when designing a learning intervention. In particular it makes sense to me when putting together a live online learning event.
• Live Online Learning – a facilitators guide « Onlignment – To download your free copy of “Live Online Learning – a facilitator’s guide” just sign up for the free newsletter.
• Healthcare Napkins wins World’s Best Presentation Contest 2009 | SlideShare Blog – Thousands of presentations are uploaded to SlideShare everyday. But some catch your eye from the moment they get uploaded. Tha's the case with the winning
• 5 Steps to Slide Design for Non-Designers by Ellen Finkelstein | SlideShare Blog – I’ve come up with 5 steps that you can take to create a presentation that will work, even if you’re not a designer.

Icons I love. Fur and feathers.

I told you I would share some icon sets that I really love.  As a quick reminder, I only do free.  So all of these are free downloads.  Today, we’re starting with animals.  Lots of fur and feathers.  Here’s a few sets that I think are super well done and are super easy to use.  These will work in Word, Powerpoint, or on the Web.  Two of these come with the original files, so you can edit them into what you need.  Go on and download.  Nobody’s watching.

Cute Critters

These adorable animals are “painfully cute” as described on the release.  A little heavy on the anime, all of these guys have caricatured features.  So something’s a little larger than everything else.  They are indeed cute, and they well done.  The set comes with two versions of each critter—one with the graduated single color background and one with a transparent background. They can be used in commercial and personal project without attribution, but that’s just not nice.  So go ahead and tell everybody where you got them from.

Available from Tutorial9.com

Birds 1

These cute little birds are one set of friends that could be used with Twitter or stand alone.  They are really friendly and round, so they would be great with K-12 kids, teachers, or even with newsletters.  There are a total of 8 images, even though only 5 are in the image at the right.  With these icons, you’re going to get the vector Illustrator (.ai) file for editing, along with EPS files.  So, these certainly have the potential to be used with print materials.  You also get the PNG files in three sizes (128, 256, & 512).  So they could be used as dominate images on slides or a web page.

Available from Mirkku

Birds 2

I used a screen capture of these Twitter birds in my last post on icons.  But I thought I would go ahead and given you a heads up on the full set.  There are 5 different birds with this set, and they each have fun names, like Roger, Nola, and Squidge.  For each character, you’re going to get your money’s worth, though.  You’ll get a Twitter badge, like the one to the right  You’ll get icons (PNGs) at a couple of different sizes.  You’ll be getting larger images, just silhouettes, and Photoshop (.psd) files for each character.  There’s 40 images in all.  So, this is well worth the download.  Because these birds are all whimsical, these are fun to use with less-than-serious topics, and they have really nice unity among the images to be used across design project.  The colors are a little muted, and there is a range of different colors.  So, lots of possibilities and play in the color schemes that could be used.  Plus, the licensing on these is pretty wide open, too.  A link back is appreciated but not required.

Available from Function Web Design

That’s it for today.  Three fun, cute, and furry or feather sets of icons for you to download and put to good —or no good— use.  Do you have some icons that you like?  Let me know what you like and where to get ‘em down in the comments.