Bookmarks for November 24th through December 7th

These are my Jumptags for November 24th through December 7th:

• Instructional Design and Development Blog » Blog Archive » Teaching Frustrations: Why Don’t Students Follow My (Clearly-Labeled, Logically Organized, and Bold/Highlighted/Flashing) Instructions? – Instructors who teach in online environments often devote extensive time and energy into designing a Web space that is inviting and useful to students. But frustration inevitably ensues when, despite the careful consideration given to the most logica…
• MIT Uses Social Networking to Win High-Tech Scavenger Hunt – Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a social-networking scavenger hunt over the weekend, locating 10 red weather balloons tethered across the country in less than nine hours, The New York Times reports. And all it took was …
• 108 Mono Icons: Huge Set of Minimal Icons | Tutorial9 – This icon pack comes with 108 gray icons, but feel free to customize the color. In Photoshop, use layer styles and apply Color Overlay to customize. In Fireworks, simply apply Filters → Adjust Color → Color Fill and choose your color!
• The_Personal_Learning_Environment: A report on the JISC CETIS PLE project – This report details the findings of the investigation into Personal Learning Environments conducted by CETIS between March 2005 and July 2006 and commissioned by JISC. In our work we considered the phenomenon of the PLE from a number of different asp…