Bookmarks for April 20th through May 17th

These are my Jumptags for April 20th through May 17th:

• The Wall Street Journal Coupon Codes – We have free coupons and deals for The Wall Street Journal online shop that can instantly save you.
• Airplane with 43 on board crashes in Afghanistan – Yahoo! News – A local Pamir Airways plane with 38 passengers and five crew on board, including six foreigners, crashed in Afghanistan on Monday in the inaccessible mountainous Hindu Kush region near Kabul, officials said.
• Food Insurance Coupon Codes and Discounts – Food Insurance Coupon Codes, great deals and promotional discounts on your online purchases at foodinsurance.com online store. We have free coupons and deals for Food Insurance online shop that can instantly save you.
• Teaching with the iPad | This Lamp – I suppose I should mark April 19, 2010 on a calendar somewhere. Last night was the first time I've taught a college class exclusively from my iPad. I'll write
• How to Calibrate Color for the Web | Webdesigner Depot – When is orange more like red? Web designers, even picky ones, sometimes ignore color shift across monitors. How is a web designer to manage color when the
• PLoS ONE: Do Pressures to Publish Increase Scientists’ Bias? An Empirical Support from US States Data – PLoS ONE: an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE. Reports of well-performed scientific studies from all disciplines freely available to the whole world.
• Portfolio of grahic design student Julian Hansen – So you need a typeface is an alternative way on how to choose fonts (or just be inspired) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook. The list is (very loosely) based on the top 50 of the Top100 Best Schrieften by Font…

I’ve jumped ship. Goodbye Jumptags. Hello Diigo.

Okay, I finally did it. I jumped ship and have decided to leave Jumptags. Why? Well, I wasn’t happy about it.  The choice was hard, but in the end, there really wasn’t a choice.

Jumptags was great.

I really like My Jumptags.  I particularly like that you can create bookmarks for different types of media, include images/photos, code, and videos.  I also like that you can create sort of hidden tags, too.  But the death-nail for me was that the Jumptags tool bar wasn’t working for me in Firefox on my Mac.  Even the bookmarklet was giving me issues.  For a few weeks, I thought maybe something was up.  Then about a week ago, I took a long hard look at everything, and I determined that the toolbar was not working … and not working consistently.  So, I made the decision to move my bookmarks.  I can’t work this hard to get a bookmark into Jumptags.  It has to be seamless and unobtrusive.  Now, it is neither for me.

Moving to Diigo

I took a look around at the possible options for bookmarking services, including diigo, delicious, among others.  Delicious certainly is robust and functional, but it doesn’t have a lot of integration features with APIs and other services. (It’s still not the prettiest thing to look at either — even after Yahoo! got ‘em.)  Diigo on the other hand is extensive.  It does offer a lot of service, but it’s also a little overkill for many things.  I don’t necessarily need to use the annotations right now, but I was willing to consider diigo and its smorgasbord of services even if I wasn’t going to use them all.

I also decided to give diigo a try because of how easily it was to import my bookmarks from Jumptags.  Unfortunately, diigo does not like two-word tags.  Jumptags did allow spaces inside of tags. (Tags were delimited by commas — not spaces.) Diigo instead opts for hyphenated tags.  So, I definitely have some cleaning up to do.

Join in … again.

I also went ahead and created a group for my Viral-Notebook site.  You can see the group and join the group at http://groups.diigo.com/group/viral-notebook. With diigo you can set your email options to send to you any group bookmark updates.  So, be sure to set this up. If you do join the group, then you will be able to contribute to the Viral Notebook bookmarks as well.  So, I encourage you to do so.

Plus, I have decided to go ahead and allow diigo to publish the bookmarks into my Viral-Notebook blog as well.  I am considering adding a couple of lists (which are a little new to me and a little confusing to me) for specific courses for my students.  So, I’ll let you know when that happens.

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 March 17th through April 13th

These are my Jumptags for March 17th through April 13th:

• Problems with ADDIE –
• Moving Your WordPress Site and Database « Weblog Tools Collection – here comes a time you may have to leave one web host for another. No matter the reason the idea of relocating an entire website – especially one that has been online for sometime – can seem very daunting. With a WordPress based site – I found it easi…
• You Are Not a Gadget: The Continuing Case Against Web 2.0 – Jaron Lanier was a pioneer of "virtual reality" in the early 1980s and in his book, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, he makes the case for …
• Horizontal Attention Leans Left (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) – Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. A conventional layout is thus more likely to make sites profitable.
• Teach Science and Math – Estimates are about 80 percent of Math Education at the K-12 level is strictly focused on solving math problems without any real-world context (Computational Thinking and Math Maturity: Improving Math Education in K-8 Schools, Dave Moursund, 2007). S…
• Space Station Close Encounters With Space Junk: Project Based Learning Activity that Involves an Inquiry Approach – The space station's near misses with debris are a continual issue, which provides excellent resources for scientific project and problem based learning in science.
• The Periodic Table of Periodic Tables / – The web has hundreds of periodic tables and dozens of collections of periodic tables — but it never had a periodic table of periodic tables. Until now. Researched in profound and excruciating detail over the course of a couple nights on Google, we p…
• Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps | Carsonified – In February 2010 Fred Wilson, a New York based tech investor, spoke at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference. His talk, clocking in at just under
• Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE – Although central to the business of higher education, the LMS has also become a symbol of the status quo that supports administrative functions more effectively than teaching and learning activities.
• Write Better CSS With Best Practices | Pro Blog Design – Everyone has a slightly different approach to CSS. That's part of the reason it can be a nightmare to edit someone else's code. But there are a few good practices you can use in your CSS to make your stylesheets easier for you to read, and easier for…
• Techniques for Squeezing Images for All They’re Worth | Webdesigner Depot – An image’s dimensions on screen are measured in pixels: width and height. An image's quality is determined by less tangible factors: composition, mood,
• What Students Expect from Instructors, Other Students – Some years back The Teaching Professor featured an article highlighting Mano Singham’s wonderful piece describing how he moved away from a very authoritarian, rule-centered syllabus (reference below). It’s one of my very favorite articles—I reference…
• Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way – Smashing Magazine – So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or…
• Free Stuff – Educational Technology – ICT in Education – The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book lists over 100 projects with objectives, defined grade level or age range, links to additional information (including how-to's) about the project, and tips for teachers planning to use the project.

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 31st through February 9th

These are my Jumptags for January 31st through February 9th:

• 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.
• Intel Teach Elements: Project-Based Approaches – Free, online teacher professional development on 21st century learning concepts: Project-Based Approaches from Intel Teach.
• The Principle of Proximity in Web Design – Recently I picked up an old design book that I hadn't touched in a while, and it reminded me of a design principle that many of us put into practice probably
• 10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets – Print style sheets have been somewhat forgotten, and yet they remain important all the same. Many people print out articles to read while traveling or when they
• 50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files – Smashing Magazine – Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers:
• Why E-Learning is So Effective » The Rapid eLearning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann offers up reasons why elearning is popular and effective.
• Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge – A lecture on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for students in EDUC6751.

Bookmarks for January 24th through January 27th

These are my Jumptags for January 24th through January 27th:

• Software Project Management Resources — Columbia University – Project management resources: templates, samples, articles, software, lecture notes on software & general PM. Updated January 6, 2009. John Musser.
• Custom E-Learning Training & LMS Solutions Kineo – Tip 35: A Shot of Theory – Elaboration Theory – A synopsis of elaboration theory from the folks at Kineo.
• Forty_three_Interesting_Ways_to_use_Wordle_in – 43 Interesting ways and tips to use Wordle in the classroom.

Bookmarks for January 21st through January 22nd

These are my Jumptags for January 21st through January 22nd:

• Lesson planning tool: Learning Score – Learning Score is an amazing multimedia lesson-planning and delivery tool that uses a music score metaphor to show the range of planned activities for a lesson as a graphical time line.
• Mockingbird | Wireframes on the fly – Mockingbird is a free-for-now app for creating wireframes.
• Mocking Up with Mockingbird – Mockingbird is a free-for-now app for creating wireframes. This article discusses its strengths and weaknesses.
• 17+ Free Online File Conversion Services – Here is a collection of online conversion tools for you to keep handy for all of your file conversion needs.

Bookmarks for January 20th through January 21st

These are my Jumptags for January 20th through January 21st:

• The Simplicity of Helvetica | Webdesigner Depot – Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces in the world. Technically speaking, it's a sans serif Grotesque typeface, inspired by and based on the
• Reset user folder permissions? – Perfect fix for resetting all folder permissions in a Home folder.
• Free Project Based Learning Resources That Will Place Students At The Center Of Learning « 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning – A post with a lot of project based learning resources.

Bookmarks for January 12th through January 19th

These are my Jumptags for January 12th through January 19th:

• Here’s a Quick Way to Create Your Next E-Learning Template in PowerPoint » The Rapid eLearning Blog – Follow Tom Kuhlmann's tutorial on how to create an elearning template in Powerpoint quickly and using the built in graphics.
• Podcasting 101 Flowchart – From Wesley Fryer, a quick flowchart for creating podcasts with the applications included.
• Hot Gloo – The Online Wireframe App – Create web site wireframes and receive reviewers comments and feedback on the design.