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WordPress 2.5 Widgets: Taking the Load Off Your Mind

April 24, 2008

WordPress, the free and open-source software that runs this site, has recently been the victim of a major upgrade. We can draw on educational psychology to help us understand where the redesign fails, and how we might do better.

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Shelved with: Science & Technology|| The Reading Life|| RCB|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: WordPress, Widgets, Usability, Psychology, HTML, Digital Literacy, Analogy, 2.5
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Blog Gone Naked!

April 9, 2008

All day today, April 9th, this blog will be naked. Normally, you see, it is wrapped in a sheet–a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), to be precise, which takes the basic building blocks of Reading Circle Books, the words, paragraphs, pictures, and widgets that make up the content of this site, surrounds them with padding, backgrounds, […]

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Shelved with: Science & Technology
Tagged With: HTML, Holidays, Digital Literacy, CSS
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What Are Blogs? Not Monologues but Conversations

January 20, 2008

Here at the beginning of the 21st Century, the internet connects us (however imperfectly) across barriers of geography, race, class, age, ability, family situation, income, education, religion, culture, and even language. The monologue of the powerful few, for good or ill, is overcome by connections among the many. With those connections come power — ordinary people like you and me are given the power (and therefore the responsibility) of participation in each others’ lives.

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Shelved with: RCB|| Science & Technology|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Timothy Tyson, Sandra Steingraber, Reading Circles, RCB, Education, Digital Literacy, Community
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