Both iPad Institute Sessions are closed out but we will be offering another session on Thursday which is being hosted at the Middlesex ETTC in East Brunswick, NJ and there are still some seats left.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Exciting Week Coming Up! iPad Summer Institute
After a great deal of planning it is hard to believe that the iPad Summer Institute is happening this week-on Tuesday and Wednesday.During the conference Christine and I will share our insights on how we have been using the iPad as a both a learning and communication tool for students with speecial needs. We have a lot of ground to cover and trust that our attendees are as excited as us about all of the possibilities and the potential the iPad can offer. Once you start using the iPad you begin to realize that the options are endless and the ease of use and user interface is ideal for the students we work with. During the day we will talk about various apps, management issues,peripherals, and how to best use the iPad in the classroom.
Both iPad Institute Sessions are closed out but we will be offering another session on Thursday which is being hosted at the Middlesex ETTC in East Brunswick, NJ and there are still some seats left.
Both iPad Institute Sessions are closed out but we will be offering another session on Thursday which is being hosted at the Middlesex ETTC in East Brunswick, NJ and there are still some seats left.
Easy Steps to Improve Your PC's Performance
This article is from AOL and does recommend some AOL products; however, the majority of the content is informative - and easily overlooked!
The iPhone Revolution?
The iPhone, released to the public last Friday, is one of the most hyped devices in memory. But is all the excitement justified?
John McCormick of Baseline suggests that the iPhone could blow the market for handheld rich Internet applications wide open, even though the iPhone was designed for the consumer rather than the enterprise market. Om Malik concurs, noting the significance of the built-in Safari browser that brings the full Web experience to mobile phones for the first time. Smart Mobs opines that mobile phones (not just the iPhone) represent a mass medium unto themselves that are revolutionizing the fundamental ways in which we communicate.
UPDATE: Read a contrarian view...
John McCormick of Baseline suggests that the iPhone could blow the market for handheld rich Internet applications wide open, even though the iPhone was designed for the consumer rather than the enterprise market. Om Malik concurs, noting the significance of the built-in Safari browser that brings the full Web experience to mobile phones for the first time. Smart Mobs opines that mobile phones (not just the iPhone) represent a mass medium unto themselves that are revolutionizing the fundamental ways in which we communicate.
UPDATE: Read a contrarian view...
The End of "Cheap Food"?
From the end of World War II until now, most nations have enjoyed plentiful and relatively inexpensive food supplies. But now, according to the well-known futurist think tank Global Business Network, that era may be ending.
GBN cites the near doubling of corn prices on the world market in the past year as evidence that this trend has already begun. Factors that are driving up prices include increased demand by the growing world population, as well as the growth of Asian economies. The latter is significant because, as economies prosper, meat consumption increases... and with it, the need for livestock feed. Increasing consumption of bio-fuels will stress grain supplies even further. Throw global warming into the mix (crop yields can fall by up to 5% for every 0.9 degree F rise in temperature) , and the stage is set for possibly much higher food prices worldwide, shortages, and ultimately, mass starvation in the poorest countries.
Writes GBN's Gwynne Dyer, PhD, "In the early stages of this process, higher food prices will help millions of farmers who have been scraping along on very poor returns for their effort because political power lies in the cities, but later it gets uglier. The price of food relative to average income is heading for levels that have not been seen since the early 19th century, and it will not come down again in our lifetimes." [Emphasis added]
Source: Arlington Institute
GBN cites the near doubling of corn prices on the world market in the past year as evidence that this trend has already begun. Factors that are driving up prices include increased demand by the growing world population, as well as the growth of Asian economies. The latter is significant because, as economies prosper, meat consumption increases... and with it, the need for livestock feed. Increasing consumption of bio-fuels will stress grain supplies even further. Throw global warming into the mix (crop yields can fall by up to 5% for every 0.9 degree F rise in temperature) , and the stage is set for possibly much higher food prices worldwide, shortages, and ultimately, mass starvation in the poorest countries.
Writes GBN's Gwynne Dyer, PhD, "In the early stages of this process, higher food prices will help millions of farmers who have been scraping along on very poor returns for their effort because political power lies in the cities, but later it gets uglier. The price of food relative to average income is heading for levels that have not been seen since the early 19th century, and it will not come down again in our lifetimes." [Emphasis added]
Source: Arlington Institute
5 sliders content for jQuery
Sliders are powerful tools to highlight content on a website. This article gives you five options jQuery plugins to implement this functionality.
The strong Nivo Slider is a clean HTML for the initial structure of the slider. Only a div element with pictures and links is necessary. The main focus of this slider are images, but the HTML caption feature just enabling the display of any content.
Among the options offered are the speed and direction of the transition and callbakcs to perform actions after the start and loading of the slides. The plugin still has no more and no less than 16 choices of transition from one slide to another. Its compressed version has 15kb.
This plugin has emerged based on the application site Slider Coda . Each element of the slide should be a div element with class "panel".
Coda Slider leaves something to be desired flexibility, offering few options but to display different types of content is most appropriate plugin.
Orbit - Demo
Originally developed to be a slider images, Orbit also incorporating HTML content just as long as the content div element contains a background set.
Its compressed version is very light, and another differential 3.2kb cool Orbit is the application of a loader marking the transition time between slides.
As the name suggests, the AnythingSlider accepts all and any type of content. In the words of the author, "the plugin is an attempt to gather all of the features found in other plugins of this type."
It is the most adptável plugin and integrates better with the rest of your application oferencendo own hashtags for each slide and the possibility of creating a direct link to a slide.
Moodular - Demo
The neat thing is Moodular, as well as the name suggests, is modular, core, control and effects. So if you need a simple slider is not necessary to load the control module, for example.
The effects of Moodular module includes the popular "reflection" (the one from Apple) and the control has built in support for touchscreen applications, and keyboard navigation.
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