Schools Out For Summer!

My first year as a faculty member has come to a conclusion. To my students, have a great summer! To those graduating, I wish  you luck and hope you keep in touch – If you need help with interviews/resumes/etc please feel free to send me an email.

My plans for summer? Not quite sure this year. Lots of time surfing – thats a must. Lots of time writing – hoping to get out 1-2 papers.

Bevel and Drop Shadow

This video shows you how to use the bevel and drop shadow tools in photoshop:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ5Bdr4fmvk]

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Attached is a paper that describes blooms taxonomy. Although Blooms taxonomy is highly regarded as a way to break down levels of learning, I feel that its not a very practical guide to develop training. I personally like the levels: fact, concepts, rules/procedures, and problem solving knowledge objectives. However, in research I like to specifically see factual/recall and problem solving/transfer knowledge measured. Additionally, I question studies that use these measures but have not taken the appropriate steps to establish the tests validity and reliability. Thus I feel there is a need in education research to put together a book that has instruction and tests that have been validated so that researchers can use appropriate materials in their studies.

Blooms Taxonomy

Adobe scraps iphone support

apple not supporting adobe but google is. Could this be the end of apples popularity? not likely but it will give people reason to convert to droid. Apple should have never done this IMO:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003006-264.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

php: Contact Page

for those of you interested in creating a contact page with a form (fields and submit button) that goes directly to your email, check this out. You simply need to copy and paste this code into the body of your html. You also need to put your email address in the part that says ‘YourEmailAddressHere’ and need to save the page as something like: contact.php, not something like contact.html. And thats it. Very easy to do.

<form name=”form1″ id=”form1″ method=”post” action=”<?=$PHP_SELF?>”>
<p>Name:
<input type=”text” name=”name” />
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Email:
<input type=”text” name=”email” />
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Subject:
<input type=”text” name=”subject” />
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Message:
<textarea name=”comments” cols=”40″></textarea>
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<input name=”submitentry” type=”submit” value=”SUBMIT” />
<input type=”reset” name=”Submit2″ value=”Reset” />
</p>
</form>
<p>
<?php
if ($submitentry == “SUBMIT”){
$sql = “‘$name’, ‘$email’, ‘$comments'”;
$em = “‘$subject'”;
mail(‘YourEmailAddressHere’, $em, $sql);
echo(“<p>Your message has been sent!” . “</p>”);
}
?></p>

Adobe Photoshop: Filters

This video shows you how to use filters in photoshop and explains some of my favorites (blur and sharpen):

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiu6B5OyOKQ]

Movie Clips in flash

this video shows you how to create a flash movie using movie clips and buttons for navigation

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6y1dn73Q_8]

sorry this isnt HD quality but it the file was too big so youtube had to compress it in a worse resolution

Adobe Flash: Creating a Button

This video shows you how to create a button in flash. The video also shows you how to put an action on a button using AS2.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCjqKstf9sk]