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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:27:17 -0800

A summary of Roberts Rules of Order

Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:54:31 -0700

Interesting look at a business and a man that fit no common descriptions

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro * Combining files into a PDF Portfolio

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:31:34 -0700

From the page: "Combining files into a PDF Portfolio" (from "Using Acrobat 9 Pro) on adobe web site.

Customizing PDF Portfolio Layouts Part 1: The "Hello World" Example

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:18:24 -0700

Discusses the use of Adobe tooks to create PDF portfolios.

Adobe Acrobat and MSWord Plugins for bookmarks, hyperlinks, TOCs, headers &footers: OmnieFile Toolkit

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:18:17 -0700

From the page: "OmnieFile Toolkit integrates feature rich tools to automatically create and manage bookmarks and hyperlinks, headers and footers, and Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF tables of contents."

Image Solutions, Inc. | ISIToolBox Professional Edition

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:08:52 -0700

From the page: "Turn your flat PDFs into easily navigable documents with the Keyword Linker tool. Simply supply a list of keywords and their destinations and the words will be hyperlinked wherever they appear. And to give you even more flexibility, you can save your keyword lists, edit them in another application (e.g. Excel), and reuse them later. "

Information Architecture for the Web: Enhancements

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:21:03 -0700

Contains tutorials on how to enhance web sites. Clear, well-referenced, up to date!

Critical literacy

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:24:36 -0700

From the page: "Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. For the purposes of critical literacy, text is defined as a �oevehicle through which individuals communicate with one another using the codes and conventions of society”.1 Accordingly, songs, novels, conversations, pictures, movies, etc. are all considered texts.

The development of critical literacy skills enables people to interpret messages in the modern world through a critical lens and challenge the power relations within those messages. Teachers who facilitate the development of critical literacy encourage students to interrogate societal issues and institutions like family, poverty, education, equity, and equality in order to critique the structures that serve as norms as well as to demonstrate how these norms are not experienced by all members of society. "

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: "Geeking Out" For Democracy (Part Two)

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:54:07 -0700

From the page: "What has all of this to do with schools? Alas, frequently, very little.

Let's imagine a learning ecology in which the youth acquires new information through all available channels and through every social encounter. The child learns through schools and after school programs; the child learns on their own through the home and family and through their social interactions with their peers. They learn through face to face encounters and through online communities. They learn through work and they learn through play. The skills they acquire through one space helps them master core content in another. Through the New Media Literacy project, we have been developing resources which can be deployed in the classroom, in afterschool programs, and in the home for self-learning, seeking a more integrated perspective on what it means to learn in a networked society. Yet, right now, most of our schools are closing their gates to those cultural practices and forms of informal learning that young people value outside the classroom and in the process, they may be abdicating their historic roles in fostering civic engagement."

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: "Geeking Out" For Democracy (Part One)

Wed, 06 May 2009 06:15:45 -0700

From the page: "But what does civic engagement look like in the age of Facebook, YouTube, and World of Warcraft? All of these new platforms are reconnecting home-based media with larger communities, bridging between our public and private lives. All offer us a way to move from media consumption towards cultural participation."