50+ Free Open Courseware Classes for Web Designers Perfecting Their Craft | Distance Learning Net
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More than 50 top notch courses that will help you become a better web designer.

Have you ever had a friend or family member who you know would love using Google Reader? Have you ever had trouble explaining to that same friend or family member just how using Reader could make their lives easier (and more fun)? We sure have, so if you're anything like us then we have some useful tools in store for you.

Learn how to use Google Reader for keeping track of and reading articles from your favorite websites.

Have you ever had a friend or family member who you know would love using Google Reader? Have you ever had trouble explaining to that same friend or family member just how using Reader could make their lives easier (and more fun)? We sure have, so if you're anything like us then we have some useful tools in store for you.

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Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program that will help you build professional development skills. Join Ramp Up (it's free!) and help advance your career - click on a track now to start!

Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program that will help you build professional development skills

Nuevos horizontes para la educación web

"The Web Standards Project have begun trying to tackle the education issue. Industry experts and veteran educators on the WaSP Education Task Force are currently working to develop the WaSP Curriculum Framework (WCF), a modular curriculum that can be used to improve existing curricula or serve as the foundation for emerging programs. (Disclosure: I’m a member of The Web Standards Project, an educator, and the project lead of the WaSP Curriculum Framework.) The WCF will be released in March of 2009 as a living curriculum that will adapt to changes in the industry so that schools using it can ensure their students are learning the concepts that are relevant to their field of study. The WCF’s first release will contain approximately 14 courses divided into six learning tracks: * Foundations * Front-end Development * Design * Server-side Development * User Science * Professional Practice "

"Building a real relationship between industry and education requires that we answer this question for both parties: 'What’s in it for me?' Whether you’re a practitioner or educator, the answer is the same: graduates who are ready for a career in the web."

Schools that teach web design struggle to keep pace with our industry, and those just starting their curricula often set off in the wrong direction because the breadth and depth of our medium can be daunting.

Brighter Horizons for Web Education by Aarron Walter

A comprehensive list of podcasts (mostly .Net specific)

12 Surprising And Productive Brain Exercises - The Huffington Post

12 interesting exercises from writer/editor Dorothea Brande, who also wrote a book called "Wake Up and Live."

Fake stockmarket to learn how it works

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virtual stocks

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Article about exercise and Bruce Lee.

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10 sencillos ejercicios para cuando no tengas tiempo para ir al gym

Cloudera's Basic Hadoop Training is available online, free of charge. If you have questions about the content, please feel free to direct them to community support. Note: The activities and tutorials suggest downloading our virtual machine (VM). They all use the same VM, so if you download it once, there is no need to do so again.

While there are many great lectures here, this is still the lecture format (i.e., sage on the stage), which is not a model of teaching/learning but a mode of performance.

Some promising recommendations here.

http://delicious.com/popular/education

Great teachers know that learning doesn’t stop as soon as you graduate from college. Teachers learn from their experience, from their colleagues, from their students, and any number of other resources. If you are a teacher looking for ways to expand your knowledge base, here are 100 free lectures you can watch to help facilitate some of that learning.

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Sailors are given 30 seconds to answer or they're kicked out of the program. If they say they want to keep going, they're given another 30 seconds to recover and then they're thrown back into the pool. It may sound sadistic, but the Navy is simply trying to identify who will survive the most dangerous missions and who won't. Through this grueling test, it finds soldiers and sailors who refuse to give up, who can suppress the need to breathe, who trust that they'll be rescued if something goes wrong and who are prepared to lose consciousness—or even die—following orders.

13 Photoshop CS4 Video Tutorials for Learning New Features | Web Design Ledger - http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/13-photoshop-cs4-video-tutorials-for-learning-new-features

If you’re like me, sometimes you are so busy with projects that you fail to take time to familiarize yourself with the new features of upgraded software. Since Photoshop is the design tool of choice for many web designers, and since CS4 hasn’t been out very long, I’ve decided to round up some useful video tutorials that demonstrate some of it’s new features.

There are only three kinds of classic meetings: 1. Information. This is a meeting where attendees are informed about what is happening (with or without their blessing). While there may be a facade of conversation, it's primarily designed to inform. 2. Discussion. This is a meeting where the leader actually wants feedback or direction or connections. You can use this meeting to come up with an action plan, or develop a new idea, for example. 3. Permission. This is a meeting where the other side is supposed to say yes but has the power to say no.

Meetings are marketing in real time with real people. (A conference is not a meeting. A conference is a chance for a circle of people to interact). There are only three kinds of classic meetings: Information. This is a meeting...

"# Information. This is a meeting where attendees are informed about what is happening (with or without their blessing). While there may be a facade of conversation, it's primarily designed to inform. # Discussion. This is a meeting where the leader actually wants feedback or direction or connections. You can use this meeting to come up with an action plan, or develop a new idea, for example. # Permission. This is a meeting where the other side is supposed to say yes but has the power to say no."

もうすぐ薄着の季節！！となると、気になるのがボディライン。お腹周りが気になる方も多いのではないでしょうか。そこで、器具なしで自宅でも出来る腹筋のトレーニング方法を御紹介致します。

今年も気がつけばもう夏といういつものパターンに・・・で、もう少しすると「来年こそは」という状態になる。

The following list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question 'What Indispensible ICT tools do you use in education' was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way.

Клавиатурный тренажер Все10. Обучение слепому методу печати на клавиатурном тренажере онлайн. Научиться быстро печатать – легко. Все10 – набирай быстрее всех!

Effictiveness of sprint workouts, especially in swimming. "There’s a catch, though. Those six minutes, if they’re to be effective, must hurt. “We describe it as an ‘all-out’ effort,” Gibala says. You’ll be straying “well out of your comfort zone.” That level of discomfort makes some activities better-suited to intense training than others. “We haven’t studied runners,” Gibala says. The pounding involved in repeated sprinting could lead to injuries, depending on a runner’s experience and stride mechanics. But cycling and swimming work well."

Taleb was right ahead of the curve, again...Maybe there's something to the caveman diet, too...

I'm skeptical, but it sure would be nice

Thought you might find this useful for cross country or PE.

With two videos. Don't forget: deep breaths are good, not only when running.

weightlifting program

Faleev’s secret of success is so simple, it is easy to ignore: practice nothing but the powerlifts and compete regularly.

The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start

I have plenty of people contacting me to ask to refer to some SEO basics tutorials and guides. So I ...

Training resources for various PD

Training resurces

Training resources for teachers using new technologies

Technology Centre for Professional Training and information.

Joint venture between DET and Mac Uni. Professional learning courses, PD wikis

Joint venture between DEt and Mac Uni professional learning courses,PD Wikis

main site for MACICT learning centre

This is the joint centre with Macquarie univerity and DET where you can go for professional learning.

This is the joint venture between Macquarie University and the DET where you can go for professional learning. I did a course here.

This is from the course I attended at Macquarie Uni on Web 2 stuff.

everything and anything ICT

Education at the crossroads

here are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make. MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost of this is pretty close to zero, so it's easy for them to share. Abundant education is easy to access and offers motivated individuals a chance to learn. Scarcity comes from things like accreditation, admissions policies or small classrooms. Should this be free or expensive? Should this be about school or about learning? If I were going to wager, I'd say that the free, abundant learning combination is the one that's going to change the world.

Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.

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resource for teachers who use smartboards

Ben Hazzard recommendation

In order to get the highest possible score on the test you’d have to perform 20 pull-ups, do 100 crunches in 2 minutes, and run 3 miles in 18:00 minutes.

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Today we're going to give ourselves a gut check by taking a physical fitness test. 200906253026

Much has been written about how Twitter is making its way into the halls of higher education. Go beyond the usual tips and strategies of using Twitter with these 25 projects that can be done in a college classroom. Part of the allure of Twitter is that it lends itself well to online classes, so many of these projects can be done without needing a physical classroom at all

these ideas could also be used in a plurk classroom

Part of the allure of Twitter is that it lends itself well to online classes, so many of these projects can be done without needing a physical classroom at all.

Metasploit Bible (free)

Track and plan your active life! From rock climbing, running, cycling, hiking, and camping to yoga and gym fitness.

Compiled by multimedia instructor Mindy McAdams

NEW SITE: Notes and observations from a longtime teacher of online journalism.

PDF from the Teaching Online Journalism website - looks very interesting

15 posts on multimedia gathered in a pdf with techniques, notes and how to's on visual journalism

15 posts on multimedia and visual journalism and howto techniques and notes.

Reporters guide to multimedia proficiency

Sosyal medyanın işlerimizde de kullanılması

Social Media Explorer explores social media, public relations and marketing through commentary and analysis.

ways to convince colleagues to sign up to social media stuff

to be used for social media focal points at Eurocontrol

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good site with video shows

video tutorial tutorials final cut express videos

Contains popular paid series of videos on topics ranging from NHibernate to DDD.

This is one hardcore piece of Twitter for Business 101. Great way to put a training guide online!

Twitter guide

How a 40,000+ Employee Company Trains its Employees on Social Media

The 40,000 person company makes social media training mandatory for its employees and formalized a policy of “3Rs” – responsibility, respect and representation. Taking things a step further, today the company is trying something about as transparent as it gets – publishing their entire social media training guide online, so that anyone can check it out, learn and critique.

The Australian telecom Telstra recently released to the web the social media guide they designed for their employees. It's an animated graphic novel! I think they score points for both attributes (using visuals effectively and releasing it publicly).

Telstra - Austrian telecom - published social media guide for their employees

Telstras multimediale Schiene ... sehr gute Lösung!

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Touch Typing Training

results are characters per minute

<img src="http://zenhabits.net/fotos/20100113fitnessblogs.jpg" /> <small>Let yourself become inspired to fitness.</small>

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Weight loss advice and links to various fitness websites.

# oint to never eat carbs without some fat or protein. # The Amount of Meals Per Day Doesn’t Matter. I think people should stick to what feels natural as far as how often they eat. Some people do better with 6 small meals and some do better with 2-3 meals. It really is the total calories that matter as far as weight loss goes. The idea that you metabol

twitter in education "Jane Hart, a social media and learning consultant, classifies Twitter and other micro-blogs as tools for personal and informal learning. “The point of social media is to turn learning into a more participatory activity,” she says. Learners use social media tools to ask and answer each other’s questions, and as Hart maintains, “Micro-blogs can support collaboration and understanding.”

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about Twitter and other micro-blogging techniques for informal learning in the enterprise

Make a folder of links that is specific to your talk. I made one and numbered each link in the order I was going to use them. That includes links to folders, files, browsers, batch files, reset scripts, whatever.

but it works. You'll see that I repeat myself four or five times to make sure important points get hit and pounded in. Thi

mos, drop and recreate your database, clear caches, prime caches or whatever administ

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“Reading proficiency is just half of the literacy picture, we have to widen the literacy forum to include writing.” – Writing Next Writing Your Way to Wisdom Macomb Intermediate School District Pen&InkWell The need for improved writing proficiency among high school students is significant. Writing well is not just an option for students---it is a necessity. Along with reading comprehension, writing skill is a predictor of academic success and a basic requirement for participation in any higher education endeavor and/ or in civic life. Teachers who attend this training will receive a best practice approach to assist students with “Writing to Learn” and “Learning to Write.” This user friendly approach will be easily transferred into practice by Middle and High School Teachers. Urgency: 21st Century Literacy "Literacy in the 21st century will mean the ability to find information, decode it, critically evaluate it, organize it into personal digital libraries and find meaningful way

Swift training

Strategic Writing Instruction

MISD writing inservice

MISD Writing Instruction

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strategic writing

No Japanese, boo. :(

Lyrics Training is a simple and fun method to improve your foreign languages skills like English, through listening to the music and typing the lyric of the songs.

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Gettin' hit by traffic...not cars. Information on internet marketing tools, search marketing news. Commentary, tips and tutorials on pay-per-click, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, and recent industry events with a little bit of humor and sarcasm.

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Link development is tough. Not everyone can create amazing linkbait, as easy as the experts make it sound. It’s not an easy proposition to get people to link to your website if you’re a local realtor, mortgage broker, or holistic doctor for that matter. It is POSSIBLE though with the right approach to actually solicit and develop links that will help your search engine rankings. From LOTS of trial and error, here’s the process I’ve developed for training link developers to become true link ninjas that will hunt and pursue links that actually make a site rank high for targeted terms.

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Lemov himself pushed for data-driven programs that would diagnose individual students’ strengths and weaknesses. But as he went from school to school that winter, he was getting the sinking feeling that there was something deeper he wasn’t reaching. On that particular day, he made a depressing visit to a school in Syracuse, N.Y., that was like so many he’d seen before: “a dispiriting exercise in good people failing,” as he described it to me recently. Sometimes Lemov could diagnose problems as soon as he walked in the door. But not here. Student test scores had dipped so low that administrators worried the state might close down the school. But the teachers seemed to care about their students.

There are more than three million teachers in the United States, and Doug Lemov is trying to prove that he can teach them to be better.

Web 2.0 opetusvideoita opettajille

sosiaalisen median ym videoita

Ohjeita opettajille eri verkkotyökalujen käyttöön (Moodlesta Twitteriin, Second Lifeen jne.).

Hyviä ohjeistuksia eri työkalujen käyttöön opettajille.

The project-based introductory and advanced curriculums for Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 are designed to teach experienced web developers how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using ColdFusion 8 software. Introduction to ColdFusion 8 This course covers the basics of ColdFusion and focuses on best practices and design, while stressing the importance of usability, optimization, and performance. Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development This course is designed to teach you how to take full advantage of ColdFusion 8 while building web applications. The course focuses on best practices and design, stressing the importance of usability, code reuse, performance, and scalability. Adobe ColdFusion 8 for Education free licensing Adobe ColdFusion 8 for Education is available free to educational customers to use for learning purposes only and not for production purposes. This includes all qualified students, faculty, and staff of eligible education institutions. Learn more

The Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices, described in the book Teach Like a Champion, is a collection of instructional techniques gleaned from years of observations of outstanding teachers in some of the highest-performing urban classrooms in the country. Developed by Uncommon Schools Managing Director Doug Lemov and Uncommon teachers, this set of specific and concrete actions, paired with a library of over 700 video clips of highly-effective teachers in action, has provided teachers nationwide with actionable tools to drive greater student achievement and a shared language to discuss and support teacher effectiveness.

Older people are better at solving problems, because they have more mental information to draw upon than younger people do. That's why those in their 50s and 60s are sage. They're the ones we turn to for the best advice, the ones we want to run our companies and our country.

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There are many DIY websites that offer free video tutorials. And then there are those that impart online computer lessons via video instructions. The one apparent improvement that video instructions have over the text and graphic tutorials is that you have a view of what's actually been done on the screen. With text, it's easy to get lost in the language. So, if you like to learn about computers or if you just love an obscure geeky tip 'n trick, check out these twelve free video tutorial sites. It could be an education.

"12 Great Free Video Tutorial Sites To Brush Up Your Tech Skills"

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Oferece-nos uma variedade de vídeos sobre diferentes ferramentas e tem por objectivo simplificar a tecnologia, tornando-a acessível a todos.

Welcome to Tech Training Wheels, the one-stop place to train you in a variety of technology needs. We offer clear and concise tutorial videos about many different applications. Our goal is to simplify technology using step-by-step videos and screencasts to guide users of all levels. From the most advanced user to the beginner, we have trainings for everyone.

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Improve your coding skills by playing with challenging exercises ('code katas') in Java, Groovy or Scala.

It provides automatic setups of interesting, unique exercises and immediate, build-in validation - so you can focus on programming.

3 Things They Should Have Taught In My Computer Science Degree

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When I first heard about barefoot running, several years ago, I was skeptical — don’t we need cushion to protect us from injuries, and why would I want to run barefoot, anyway? But several months ago, I read a few influential articles (stemming from the popularity of Christopher McDougall’s book, Born to Run) and decided to give barefoot running a try. Why not?

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Ambitious journalists don’t have to worry about affording extra education when free open courses are available for anyone to take online. Spend some time studying and exploring the various aspects of journalism with these classes before forging your own future as a journalist. These courses will help you learn about writing, reporting, photojournalism, multimedia, and more.

--These courses will help you learn about writing, reporting, photojournalism, multimedia, and more.

Announcing jQuery Fundamentals: An Open-Source jQuery Training Curriculum | blog.rebeccamurphey.com http://bit.ly/9uYj71

Rebecca Murphey (@rmurphey) Announces the initial release of her open-source #jQuery training material http://bit.ly/ds1PWt – jQuery (jquery) http://twitter.com/jquery/statuses/16404456111

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A brand new online training service that delivers amazing, cutting-edge video right to your desktop every day.

Centenas de cursos de formação de vídeo

RT @joacim_boive: Google Code University: Web Application Exploits and Defenses http://bit.ly/hacking_web

Welcome to the Google Apps Education Training Center. This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.

"Google Apps Centro de Educación, Capacitación Bienvenido al Centro de Capacitación de Google Apps Education. Se trata de un aprendizaje en línea dedicada a los educadores y los estudiantes a aprender cómo utilizar con eficacia de Google Apps en el contexto educativo . El acceso a una cuenta de Google Apps para educación es muy recomendable para que usted pueda experimentar y aplicar lo que aprenden."

RT @infernaldepart: Taking a look at the Google Apps Edu training centre. http://bit.ly/94dCLS Some good stuff for staff CPD!

an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.

the instructional appliance

Сервис для создания пошаговых инструкций

interface design and information architecture

In this article we look at five fields that you should aim to learn more about in order to rock at interface design. These fields include Experience Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, User-Centered Design, and Graphic User Interface (GUI) Design.

interface design and information architecture

Teacher resources for using Google Apps.

Tutoriais sobre as aplicações da Google