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2010 NACADA Technology Seminars

Last year I participated in the NACADA Technology Seminar. This year, the NACADA Technology Seminar will be offered in conjunction with 3 NACADA Regional Conferences. I’ll be leading the technology seminar at the Region 8 conference in Seattle. Laura Pasquini, University of North Texas and Clay Schwenn, University of Washington, will also be facilitating […]

Welcome to the NACADA Tech Seminar!

Hello NACADA Tech Participants,
Welcome to the NACADA Technology Seminar!
Along with the other seminar faculty - Laura, George & Karen - I am looking forward to meeting & working with all of you this week in Clearwater, FL. We have been adding information to the NACADA Tech website, and will continue to […]

Cyber Communities - Emerging Issues Summit

PaperClip Communications is sponsoring a technology summit on Cyber Communities at the University of Tampa in January. I’ll be presenting two sessions on student development theory and the positive aspects of online communities/social networking sites. I’m charged with bringing a positive spin to the summit. I have two hours to educate participants that sites […]

Hardware-o-rama

Digital
Camera Buying Guide at Cnet.com
Digital Camera
Guide from Steve’s DigiCams
USB Flash
Drive review from Ars Technica
Digital Audio Player Reviews
- A great source for information about the latest, greatest MP3
Players/Accessories.
How to burn a
CD-R in Windows XP - Instructions by Sean Pease
CD-R FAQ - All you ever wanted to know
about CD-R’s and “burning”

Google-mania 2005!

Advanced Google
Search

Google
Suggest - Google suggests possible search terms while you type!

Google Scholar - search scholarly
literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints,
abstracts and technical reports. Find articles from a wide variety of academic
publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as
well […]

QuestionPro - Web Survey Tool

Questionpro.com is a terrific online survey tool. The free trial version allows for full functionality. It lets you do skip logic and a whole lot more!
https://www.questionpro.com/

Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word links

Daily Outlook Tips Archive - Over 250 tips to making Outlook work for you.
Outlook Tips, Tricks and Secrets
Outlook tips from PC Magazine
Allan Wyat’s Microsoft Word tips
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 tips and tutorials
Multimedia in PowerPoint - The Myers Multimedia FAQ by Austin Myers (PowerPoint MVP)
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer — look at PowerPoints without owning or installing the […]

Accessibility/Usability Validators — Readings

MIT’s Usability Guidelines
Accessibility / Usability Information from Anitra Pavka
Cynthia Says - web page accessibility checker
Accessify - Online Accessibility Resources
Web XACT - 508 / WAI 1,2,3 Analysis Tool
A great interview with Joe Clark, web accessibility master/guru/expert/etc.
W3C HTML Validator
W3C Link Checker (it will tell you if you have any “bad” links)
Color blind simulator
Frequent web page […]

Web design books:

Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
More Eric Meyer on CSS
250 HTML and Web Design Secrets

Random Image Rotation Techniques:

Dan Benjamin’s random image via php: http://automaticlabs.com/products/rotator/
Random image rotation via JavaScript: http://www.dyn-web.com/javascript/rotate-img/rotate-rand.html