http://www.jasonrhode.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:48:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From time to time I'm asked what books I recommend for someone interested in learning more about Web design. For those interested in a bit more step-by-step guidance with the basics of Web design, here are two books that I have in my personal library and I highly recommend.Learning Web ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/recommended-books-on-web-design.html I recently noticed how filthy my laptop screen has become and found this great how to video showing steps to safely clean a glossy display. No more excuses for having smudges and dust on your laptop screen! http://www.jasonrhode.com/how-to-safely-clean-a-glossy-display.html Google has unveiled a new experiment called "Social Search" that adds results from members of one's public "social graph" to search results. This video explains how this new, experimental feature works: Sound intriguing? Take a look at this demo video: I've created my Google profile and have joined the Google ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/google-social-search.html Blogs have become common tools for communicating and collaborating online. While setting up a blog takes only a matter of minutes, effectively incorporating blogs into online teaching requires purposeful planning and structuring of activities to leverage the power that blogging brings to the learning environment. This presentation I gave at ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/teaching-with-blogs-best-practices.html "An April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that 56% of adult Americans have accessed the Internet by wireless means, such as using a laptop, mobile device, game console, or MP3 player. The most prevalent way people get online using a wireless network ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/mobile-internet-use-increasing-rapidly.html While RSS is nearly ubiquitous across the Web today, many people unfortunately are still unfamiliar with how feed readers can save time and be used to stay updated on news from favorite sites. For those who aren't ready to use a feed reader, they can still reap the benefits of ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/feed-my-inbox-rss-to-email.html Google Docs includes a very easy-to-use forms tool that can be used for simple online surveys or other basic data collection activities. Here's a quick introduction to using forms in Google Docs: How might use of the data collection features of the Forms tool in Google Docs be helpful in an ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/using-forms-in-google-docs.html One of the foremost concerns of online instructors is that teaching online requires more time than the traditional face-to-face classroom setting. The Strategies for Managing the Online Workload (SMOW) video podcast offers a collection of short descriptions, tips, techniques, and methods developed and used by experienced online educators to manage ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/strategies-for-managing-the-online-workload.html As Allen and Seamen (2008) note, online education has continued to experience steady and sustained growth and shows no signs of slowing anytime soon. I’ve personally found through my own experience that in these particularly challenging times for higher education, institutions are increasingly looking to online education as one way ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/growth-of-online-learning-in-higher-ed.html I'm leading the following hands-on workshops at the 2009 Faculty Summer Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Follow @fsi and #fsi09 on Twitter. Rhode, J. F. (2009, May 19). Getting started creating web pages with Google Sites. Presented at Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching Technologies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ... http://www.jasonrhode.com/fsi-2009-presentations.html