Some exercises to do for later or next time:
Concepts:
Authentic voice of blogging.
Innocence of blogging
Two ideas:
PL2T Mic Boom
$79
Behringer Eurorack UB802 Mixer
$49.99
MXL MXL990 Condenser Mic with Shockmount
usually $199.99 sale $49.99
Proco Mastermike Microphone Cable 25 Feet
list $42, sale $29.95
Sony MDR-CD280 CD Series Headphones with Self-Adjusting Headband
not availble
The Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) announces a competitive course development pilot grant program open to eligible faculty and staff from all ICI member institutions. This grant is made possible by the Instructional Technologies Excelerator Grant awarded to ICI by the SBC Foundation. The goal of this program is to help faculty and staff improve the overall student classroom experience and improve course quality and student learning through the use of technology. The grant program also aims to contribute positively to the overall program offerings at the annual ICI Instructional Technologies Summit. This pilot grant program will help determine the feasibility of an annual ICI instructional technology grant program.
All full-time faculty and staff from any ICI member institution are invited to submit a proposal that fits within one of two primary objectives:
Grants will be awarded in an open competition among proposals submitted by individual (or teams of) faculty or staff employed by ICI member institutions. Proposals will be reviewed by a three person panel of ICI’s selection.
Full-time faculty or staff employed by any member of the Independent Colleges of Indiana may apply for a development grant. Inter-institutional projects are welcomed, in which case only one of the cooperating institutions should submit the proposal. Proposals from a team of faculty and staff may include part-time faculty or staff, provided the principal applicant has a full-time appointment.
As many as 3 individual grants will be awarded, not to exceed $1,500 each. Decisions of the selection committee are final.
Grant recipients may only use grant funds for the purchase of hardware, software, or specialized training as described within the grant proposal. Funds may not be used for travel expenses, release time, or summer salary. In addition, grant recipients are strongly encouraged to present their work to their peers at the annual ICI Instructional Technologies Summit, traditionally held in August. All grant recipients will be asked to submit a final report on the outcomes of their grant work.
Proposals must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document (maximum of 5 pages) and must briefly address the following aspects (where applicable):
1) Evidence that the course enhancement or module is needed, and difficult to develop without funding
2) College or departmental support (a statement or letter of support from a department chair or supervisor, for example)
3) Evidence of institutional capacity to support the proposed work
4) A project timeline
5) Project evaluation plan
6) Budget narrative
7) Identification of key campus personnel who will be assisting or providing support for the project
Proposals must be submitted electronically to the address below no later than 5:00 PM on Friday, November 11, 2005. Please direct all questions and grant proposals to:
Patrick Alles
Independent Colleges of Indiana
101 W. Ohio Street
Suite 440
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Great series of podcasts and presentations from WE conference. Includes:
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From webdesign-l mailing list (http://webdesign-l.com/mailman/listinfo/list ) list Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2, 10/3/2005
Gene Falck wrote:
>> FWIW, I have been faithfully typing the following
>> (without the extra space after the < and the extra
>> space before the > I inserted to prevent its being
>> interpreted as a tag):
>>
>> < html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"" xml:lang="en" lang="en" >
If your document is XHTML this is required - so well done for faithfully typing it, although I rather hope you actually use copy and paste to save the effort each time. ;)
If it is plain old HTML4 you don’t need it.
You shouldn’t ever claim a document as XHTML without using this namespace; in the (admittedly very unlikely unless you specifically make it happen) event that a browser actually treats it as XHTML/XML, you’ll require that namespace for it to work.
To give an example < a href="whatever" > in the XHTML namespace is a link. < a href="whatever" > without a namespace is no more meaningful than < froogleblarg sprong="whatever" > as far as the browser is concerned, and will/should be treated the same. The namespace is what really tells the browser how it should treat content.
(This is how you can have things like SVG inside XHTML files and the browser knows to treat it as SVG, rather than going ‘==< rectangle >?== but this is an xhtml file, there aren’t any rectangles in xhtml, I’ll ignore that’. The SVG tags are given a different namespace.)
If you want a more concrete demonstration, take the following source:
< html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
< head>
< title>hey< /title>
< /head>
< body>
< p>hey< /p>
< /body>
< /html>Save it as something.xhtml and try to view it in Firefox. You’ll see the following:
hey
And with ‘hey’ in the title bar. As expected, in short. Now, remove the namespace attribute and reload. You’ll see in the browser:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
? <html>
? <head>
<title>hey</title>
</head>
? <body>
<p>hey</p>
</body>
</html>Probably not what was intended. :)
So, just to be clear - in practice it won’t make any difference as long as you serve your document as HTML and not as XHTML. But if you’re claiming that your document is XHTML then you probably should live up to that claim by making sure there’s some chance it actually works as XHTML. If you don’t want to do that, use the HTML 4.01 doctype instead, there’s no shame in that. [See my previous rant on the subject :)]
—sam