Design Blocks | Froala
Over 170 responsive design blocks ready to be used in your web or mobile apps. All blocks are based on the Bootstrap Library, and they are the building blocks for beautiful websites.
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Regex Tutorial—From Regex 101 to Advanced Regex
Rex eats regular expressions for breakfast. And so can you! This regex tutorial, one of the most detailed on the web, takes you all the way to mastery.
DIY Media @ UBC
Do It Yourself (DIY) Media, the concept, is the process of producing your own media, be it a podcast, stop-motion video, or screencast, regardless of your level of experience. DIY Media, the website, is a site with content generated by the UBC community, designed to bring together resources to help you plan, create, and publish your own media project.
Ideas and Strategies for Using Video in the Classroom
The use of videos in your course can be an effective way to enrich students’ learning experiences. Videos can be used to spark discussions, supplement key concepts, provide real-life examples, demonstrate problem solving or bring in the views of outside experts. You can use video to add flexibility to your course, increasing class time for interactive activities and allowing for personalized learning around online video material. See how your colleagues are using them, below.
Immigration Collab
Join us in IMOX (ee-moh-sh), a 360 immersive experience as we embody a water droplet through its migration journey while it crosses the desert and encounters hostility at an unnatural border. Leaning on the memory of our origins as rivers and oceans, we call upon our histories to help us defy man-made forces of adversity that disrupts our journey.
Art, Bots and Empathy – Glitch – Medium
I’ve been fascinated to see how people are using the same tool to create a breadth of interesting and useful creations. Whether it’s to scratch an itch and create a tool that’s useful for you, expressing yourself by creating art, or helping others overcome anxiety or learn something new.
Primitive for macOS
Recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives.
Decent Security
This is how you can strike back at criminals sending phishing spam - by getting their webpages on blacklists. Blocking their sites helps protect other people and helps researchers trying to stop this. Sites can be blocked within 15 minutes of your report, but you may not immediately see it
Canada's Residential School Story Launches on Google Earth Voyager
Residential schools for First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were first established in 1831 and ran for 165 years until 1996. This system had one goal: to forcibly assimilate Canada's Indigenous Peoples into the non-Indigenous population. Canadian Geographic Education (Can Geo Education), the first Canadian organization to produce Google Earth Voyager content, has worked closely with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) of the University of Manitoba to create an educational tool that will help students learn about this dark chapter in Canadian history.
Sounding Like Yourself - Transom
At first, I used to stand up when I narrated HowSound. I had this set-up in my office where I hung a blanket in the door frame of a closet, placed a mic on a mic stand in front of the blanket, and stood while I read from the script in my hand. After quite a few episodes, I decided I sounded too energetic; I didn’t need to sound like I was talking to a room full of a few dozen people, I thought. So, I sat down. Kept the same set-up, but plopped myself in a chair and read. That seemed to bring my energy down a notch or two. In a good way. I don’t know if listeners noticed, but I did. So, I’ve been sitting ever since. Then, I started sitting at a table. I no longer held my printed script in my hand, I read off my computer. That helped, too. But, then, maybe ten episodes or so ago I thought, “Hmmm. I’m still too energetic and I still sound like I’m reading.” I think my reads have gotten better with each new position, but, to my ears, I still sound like I’m projecting too much. That’s when I stumbled on a new way to sit. Now, I lean my elbows on the table. Somehow, that relaxes me, and I hope I sound more like I’m talking to a handful of people, not reading to a few dozen.
dariusk/corpora: A collection of small corpuses of interesting data for the creation of bots and similar stuff.
This project is a collection of static corpora (plural of "corpus") that are potentially useful in the creation of weird internet stuff. I've found that, as a creator, sometimes I am making something that needs access to a lot of adjectives, but not necessarily every adjective in the English language. So for the last year I've been copy/pasting an adjs.json file from project to project. This is kind of awful, so I'm hoping that this project will at least help me keep everything in one place. I would like this to help with rapid prototyping of projects. For example: you might use nouns.json to start with, just to see if an idea you had was any good. Once you've built the project quickly around the nouns collection, you can then rip it out and replace it with a more complex or exhaustive data source. I'm also hoping that this can be used as a teaching tool: maybe someone has three hours to teach how to make Twitter bots. That doesn't give the student much time to find/scrape/clean/parse interesting data. My hope is that students can be pointed to this project and they can pick and choose different interesting data sources to meld together for the creation of prototypes.
Using your iPhone to diagnose your car's check engine light
All the do-it-yourself mechanics out there love being able to troubleshoot their own check engine light (CEL) to see what’s going on under the hood of their own cars. Typically, doing so requires an expensive OBD II scanner tool that plugs into the OBD II port underneath the dash. But, with an app on your iPhone and a tiny accessory that plugs into the OBD II port, you could save some money and you’ll still have access to a lot of the information the scan tool would give you. In fact, because of how advanced your iPhone is, you may even get more information than a lot of the scan tools will offer. In this review, we’ll be taking a look at the LELink Bluetooth Low Energy OBD II car diagnostic tool, which can be had for about $35 on Amazon, as well as the $9.99 OBD Fusion app, which can be had from the iOS App Store.
No one makes a living on Patreon
Who is really benefiting from the crowdfunding site for artists?
Pixel Privacy - Learn How to Protect Your Online Privacy The Easy Way!
Design Thinking is Kind of Like Syphilis — It’s Contagious and Rots Your Brains – Medium
What is Design Thinking, this thing you’d want to put all your hard-earned bread towards? That’s a good question. Its Wikipedia page, which was clearly written by enthusiasts, defines the term in this way: “Design Thinking refers to creative strategies designers use during the process of designing. Design Thinking is also an approach that can be used to consider issues, with a means to help resolve these issues, more broadly than within professional design practice and has been applied in business as with as social issues.” If you’re confused, don’t worry. You’re not alone. That confusion is a common reaction to a “movement” that’s little more than floating balloons of jargon, full of hot air. The deeper you dig into Design Thing, the vaguer it becomes. None of this would matter, though, if Design Thinking was just another fad taking hold with the gullible. The problem is that certain individuals and interests have recently been pushing Design Thinking as a way to reform higher education and other fundamental social institutions.
Get writing: routine, re-mix, rebel & read! – The Supervision Whisperers
In Helen Sword’s latest book^, she destroys the myth that there is ONLY one way to write – that writing regularly, for 1-2 hrs every day, is the best or only way to write well as an academic. Instead, in facing the reality of busy life as a busy academic and thesis students, she argues we can create more time to write if we try four strategies… that I have labelled the ‘4 Rs’: Routine, Remix, Rebel, Read.
Taking a Fence Down
I remember reading somewhere that John F. Kennedy quoted Chesterton as saying something about not taking a fence down until you know the reason why it was put it up. I think the idea was if someone says they don’t understand why something is the way it is and wants to destroy or change it, don’t let them. Any help?
Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
Since 2007, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives has been collecting stories from the public about their experiences learning to read, write, and compose with different media types. Containing over 6000 individual narratives in text, video, audio, and other forms, the DALN is a resource not only for scholars and teachers, but the public at large. Tell us your story
The Wiki Game - 'Wikipedia Game' - Explore and race through Wikipedia!
EXPLORE & RACE THROUGH WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES
God Tier: Facebook moms run the meme game – The Message – Medium
The advice meme as we knew it (original characters captioned in Impact) is dead. But while the internet cultural vanguard moved on, a newer class of internet user, the well-connected mainstreamer, reinvented it. We live in the age of the post-meme.
Neil Young Archives
A complete archive of his music, in highest quality audio possible, all accessible via clever methods like a timeline and nd old file cabinet metaphor. If anyone's archive expresses the tone and attitude of the person, it's Neil's
Font ID
Need to identify a typeface? Post an image. Get answers from humans. That’s it. Font ID.
The Interactive Fiction Database - IF and Text Adventures
The Interactive Fiction Database is an IF game catalog and recommendation engine. IFDB is a Wiki-style community project: members can add new game listings, write reviews, exchange game recommendations, and more.
Pulp Magazines Project
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access archive and digital research initiative for the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential print culture forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information and resources on publishing history, multiple search and discovery platforms, and an expanding library of high-quality, cover-to-cover digital facsimiles.
Royal Museum of BC - Learning Portal
The Learning Portal is the place for learners of all ages to explore British Columbia’s natural and human history through the Royal BC Museum collections. The Learning Portal has four main gateways: Pathways (Choose a subject) Playlists (Discover a new perspective) Our Stories (Peek behind the scenes) Timeline (Explore through time) Map (Explore through geography)
We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs | Teen Vogue
In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.” Adore or despise them, GIFs are integral to the social experience of the Internet. Thanks to a range of buttons, apps, and keyboards, saying “it me” without words is easier than ever. But even a casual observer of GIFing would notice that, as with much of online culture, black people appear at the center of it all. Or images of black people, at least. The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Oprah, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, NBA players, Tiffany Pollard, Kid Fury, and many, many other known and anonymous black likenesses dominate day-to-day feeds, even outside online black communities. Similar to the idea that “Black Vine is simply Vine,” as Jeff Ihaza determined in The Awl, black reaction GIFs have become so widespread that they’ve practically become synonymous with just reaction GIFs.
The Meme as Meme - Issue 5: Fame - Nautilus
According to website Know Your Meme, which documents viral Internet phenomena, a meme is “a piece of content or an idea that’s passed from person to person, changing and evolving along the way.” Ridiculously Photogenic Guy is a kind of Internet meme represented by LOL cats: that is, a photograph, video, or cartoon, often overlaid with a snarky message, perfect for incubating in the bored, fertile minds of cubicle workers and college students. In an age where politicians campaign through social media and viral marketers ponder the appeal of sneezing baby pandas, memes are more important than ever—however trivial they may seem. But trawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, seemed bent on disowning the Internet variety, calling it a “hijacking” of the original term. The peer-reviewed Journal of Memetics folded in 2005. “The term has moved away from its theoretical beginnings, and a lot of people don’t know or care about its theoretical use,” philosopher and meme theorist Daniel Dennett told me. What has happened to the idea of the meme, and what does that evolution reveal about its usefulness as a concept?
OER Accessibility Toolkit | Open UBC
The focus of many open education projects is to provide access to education. But what does access mean? If the materials are not accessible for each and every student, do they fulfill the mandate to deliver fully open education? The open education movement has helped people in different parts of the world access content that they would otherwise not be able to view or interact with. Open education resources reduce costs for students and allow for greater flexibility for instructors. Accessibility can help push the movement even further forward. The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources needed to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students.
Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIFSocial Media + Society - Kate M. Miltner, Tim Highfield, 2017
The animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a digital file format with a long history within internet cultures and digital content. Emblematic of the early Web, the GIF fell from favor in the late 1990s before experiencing a resurgence that has seen the format become ubiquitous within digital communication. While the GIF has certain technical affordances that make it highly versatile, this is not the sole reason for its ubiquity. Instead, GIFs have become a key communication tool in contemporary digital cultures thanks to a combination of their features, constraints, and affordances. GIFs are polysemic, largely because they are isolated snippets of larger texts. This, combined with their endless, looping repetition, allows them to relay multiple levels of meaning in a single GIF. This symbolic complexity makes them an ideal tool for enhancing two core aspects of digital communication: the performance of affect and the demonstration of cultural knowledge. The combined impact of these capabilities imbues the GIF with resistant potential, but it has also made it ripe for commodification. In this article, we outline and articulate the GIF’s features and affordances, investigate their implications, and discuss their broader significance for digital culture and communication.
Interactive presentation software - Mentimeter
Mentimeter is an easy-to-use presentation software used by more than 8 million people. With Mentimeter you can create fun and interactive presentations. We help you make your events, presentations, lectures, and workshops innovative and memorable.