Web Links
Drupal Videos
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Tag it drupal and videos.
| Title | Teaser | Web Link Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Views Filter Blocks In Drupal 6 |
An embedded YouTube video that shows how to put filters exposed by views into a block. Very worthwhile. |
blocks, drupal, drupal-6, exposed-filters, filters, videos, view-2, views |
| Drupal Therapy |
You'll find many, many excite Drupal video tutorials on this website. |
drupal, drupal-therapy, videos |
| Do It With Drupal |
The Do It With Drupal Seminar has come and gone; however, you can now get access to both the 2009 and 2008 archive of content from the event. |
drupal, lullabot, videos |
| Drupal Videocasts by Lullabot |
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drupal, lullabot, videocast, videos |
| HOWTO: Views 2 Relationships |
From the introduction to the video: After getting sick of closing issues in various module's issue queues that boiled down to people not knowing how to use Views 2's relationship feature I decided to make a screencast explaining it. |
drupal, relationships, screencast, videocast, videos, views |
| How To: Using Views' Relationships |
From the introduction to the video: Using View's Relationships is quite simply a matter of knowing how "one piece of content relates to another". If you can wrap your head around this simple concept, then all your complex Drupal views will be realized quickly. |
drupal, relationships, videos, views |
| Building Views with Fivestar and VotingAPI |
From the webpage: This videocast covers three modules, wrapped together to provide a flexible solution for displaying information about content ratings in a list. |
drupal, fivestar, lullabot, screencast, videocast, videos, views, votingapi |
Drupal Pages
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Tag it drupal.
| Title | Teaser | Web Link Tags |
|---|---|---|
| How to log in once you have turned your site off-line for maintenance |
Learn how to log in to a Drupal site in maintenance mode. |
administration, drupal, help, login, maintence, troubleshooting |
| Creating an Alpha Pager with Views 2 and Drupal 6 |
A recipe for creating an Alpha Pager, or glossary view, with Views 2 and Drupal 6. |
alpha-pager, drupal, views |
| Learn by the Drop Episodes Archive |
This link will take you to the Learn By The Drop video archive. Lots of videos. And lots to learn ... by the drop. |
archive, drupal, learn-by-the-drop |
| Creating Tabbed Views in Drupal 6 |
This webpage tells how to "create a view with tabs that lead to more specific lists of data. |
drupal, menu, tabbed-menu, views |
| User Points Contributed modules |
From the webpage: a collection of modules that make use of User Points module API. |
drupal, user-points |
| Drupal handbooks |
From the webpage: These handbooks offer a comprehensive guide to every aspect of installing, using and extending Drupal. |
drupal, handbooks |
| Understanding RSS On Your Drupal Site |
From the blog post: |
drupal, learn-by-the-drop, rss |
| Wiki module |
From the webpage: A wiki activity is a collection of collaboratively authored web documents. Basically, a wiki page is a web page everyone in your class can create together, right in the browser, without needing to know HTML. A wiki starts with one front page. Each author can add other pages to the wiki by simply creating a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. |
drupal, moodle, wiki |
| A Hack for Teaching Drupal |
Nick Lewis, keeper of this blog, makes a very interesting point when he writes that teachers of Drupal should "never interact with the drupal site in any way during a lesson." Read the rest of Lewis's blog entry and then decide if the rest of entry makes this same kind of good sense. |
drupal, teacher, teaching |
The Web Link Stream
All the places we've been ... and want to remember.
Moodle Pages
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Tag it moodle.
| Title | Teaser | Web Link Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop Tool in Moodle |
From the webpage: Moodle Workshops are a great tool for students to view, grade and assess their own and other course members' work as a group. There are many options that can make this educational tool vary in complexity and create peer reviewed projects. |
moodle, workshop |
| Category:Lesson |
From the webpage: An index of documentation pages about the Lesson module. |
category, documentation, lesson, moodle |
| Adding a branch table |
From the webpage: A Branch Table is one of two content page types in a Lesson. Sometimes they are referred to as a Branch page. A branch is a series of pages. |
branch, branch-table, lesson, moodle |
| Lesson question types |
From the webpage: This page is about Lesson questions. Quiz and Question bank questions also use questions but their purpose and features are different. Question bank questions can be exported and then imported into a Lesson. |
lesson, moodle, question-types, questions |
| Jumps |
Jumps are like links and determine what happens after a student makes a choice in a lesson. |
jumps, lesson, moodle |
| Lesson pages |
From the webpage: The intent of this page is to give a slightly different context for teachers concerning lesson pages. |
lesson, lesson-pages, moodle, pages |
| Branch structure |
From the webpage: Branch structures are series of Lesson activity pages that are often called "branches". Simple branches are used all the time by the average Moodle teacher. Perhaps the most common are those series of pages that are in effect defined by a table of content. The more complex we are calling classic branches. |
branch, branch-structures, lesson, moodle |
| Notes |
From the webpage: From Moodle 1.9 onwards, teachers may add notes about their students. |
moodle, notes |
| Grades |
From the webpage: This page, together with the pages listed in the block on the right, describe the gradebook in Moodle 1.9 onwards. |
grades, moodle |
| Administrator documentation |
From the webpage: The purpose of this page is to list useful links by general topics for administrators of a Moodle site.
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administration-documentation, moodle |
Web Style
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Tag it web-style.
| Title | Teaser | Web Link Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Web Style Guide Online |
The Web Style Guide site houses an unabridged, online version of the third edition of Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. |
web-style, web-writing, yale |
| Writing for the Web |
This page contains a collection of links to Jacob Neilsen's "research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages." You should bookmark and keep an eye on this page. |
neilsen, style, web-style, web-writing |
| Writing Style for Print vs. Web |
Jacob Nielsen describes the difference between print style and web style in this way: "Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless pursuit of actionable content. Anecdotal examples vs. comprehensive data. Sentences vs. fragments." The rest of the targeted webpage lends support to these findings.
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neilsen, style, web-style, web-writing |
| Excess Voice |
Site information taken from the home and about pages. Excess Voice is "published by Nick Usborne" and serves up "articles, tips and resources for online copywriters and web site content writers." If you like the site, "you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link at the very end of each issue."
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copy-writing, usborne, web-style, web-writing |
| Writing for the Web |
You can double the usability of your web site by following these guidelines: for two sample sites studied in Sun's Science Office, we improved measured usability by 159% and 124% by rewriting the content according to the guidelines. |
neilsen, sun-microsystems, web-style, web-writing |
| Make clear what the user will get from the link |
Jonathan and Lisa Price point out that web writers can "Help people skip clicking" by composing links that "provide enough information about the target content so a casual user can get the gist of the idea, without going to the page." |
hypertext, price, sentences, style, web-style, web-writing |
| Make a positive statement |
Jonathan and Lisa Price point out that "Negative constructions take longer to verify than positive constructions" because readers "must translate the negative form of the statement into its positive form to figure out what is meant." |
price, sentences, style, web-style, web-writing |
| Surface the agent and action ... so users don't have to guess who does what |
Jonathan and Lisa Price demonstrate how web writers can turn their unclear noun-verb combinations into more clear character-action constructions. |
price, sentences, style, web-style, web-writing |
| Watch out for ambiguous phrases a reader must debate |
Jonathan and Lisa Price provide their readers with ways to compose unambiguous web writing. |
price, sentences, style, web-style, web-writing |
| Blow up nominalizations and noun trains |
Jonathan and Lisa Price argue that you can improve the quality of your web-writing by shying away from nominalizations and noun-trains. |
price, sentences, style, web-style, web-writing |
Jobs for English Majors
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Tag it jobs.
| Title | Teaser | Web Link Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Monster College |
Description taken from the What is MonsterCollege™? webpage: |
career, college-graduate, entry-level, jobs |
| careerbuilder.com |
From the "About Us" webpage:
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career, jobs, work, writing |
| computerjobs.com |
From the "Corporate Fact Sheet" webpage:
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career, computers, jobs, technology, work, writing |
| Dice.com |
From the "About Us" page: |
career, jobs, technology, work, writing |
| Monster.com |
From the "who-we-are" page: |
career, jobs, work, writing |
| HigherEd Experts |
Listed is a web link that lists higher education job ads. |
beaudoin, career, editor, higer ed, jobs, web content, web developer, writer |
