This week, tech news websites have been raising the alarm about Heartbleed (a massive Internet security scare), and the mainstream media are slowly catching up. With this media exposure, a lot of non-technical people are uncertain of the risks, and consequently have a lot of …
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Heartbleed: What You Need To Do
Anatomy Of A Blog
This visual, which I created a few years ago, is useful for helping students learn some of the technical vocabulary that goes along with building websites, blogs and portfolios.
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Firefox: Essential Plugins 2012
Right from the start of its life as a browser, Firefox aimed to ship with a small set of functionality which could be extended using Addons. If there is something you need to do, and Firefox does not do it out of the box, …
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Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube Thinks About Copyright
http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_stewart_how_youtube…
Copyright is an area of immense interest for me: I cannot say exactly why, but I think it is to do with the interplay of creativity, reward and culture. I mostly think of copyright as being a battle between the content creators and content …
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One of the first news reports about this thing called “Internet”
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/04/17/news…
This extremely dated video clip introduces video to a new craze sweeping the world: Internet. When you need something to remind students that there was life before the Net, this is the resource to use. It also provides a view of the Internet as …
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WordPress
http://www.wordpress.org
Originally designed as a blogging platform, WordPress has evolved into a fantastic system for publishing all manner of content. Whilst it is not quite as flexible as Drupal, it is far easier to use, and has a great variety of high quality themes, …
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Advanced HTML/CSS Example
The aim of this collection of files is to provide a relatively simple illustration of how HTML, CSS and image files combine to make websites in the real world. In terms of educational use, this is pitched at students in their last two years of …
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CSS Remix
http://cssremix.com/
This is one of the best web design showcase sites. A perfect source for inspiring designers to improve their own work.…
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Sha Tin College ICT Certification For Teachers
As part of a previous position I held at the Sha Tin College (part of the English School’s Foundation in Hong Kong) I developed and delivered a year-long CPD course to help teachers develop their ICT skills. The aim was to produce a challenging course …
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Library Thing
For all the book lovers our there (of which I am one), I have recently been playing with a great online tool. It is called Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com) and it can be used to catalog the books you own, have read and want …
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