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WebCHECK Professional, designed for educators and Web designers to use for (1) assessing the quality of Web sites used for assignments and learning activities and (2) determining how to improve the quality of locally-designed personal, classroom, library and/or school Websites. · WebCHECK Senior, designed for high school students (grades 9-12) · WebCHECK Middle, designed for middle school students (grade 5-8) · WebCHECK Junior, designed for elementary school students (grades 2-4) · WebCHECK for Facilitors, designed for K-12 educators, administrators and higher education faculty to use when assigning a single Web site to be evaluated by groups or classes of students or by educators in an in-service or professional development workshop. What makes WebCHECK unique: · based on a foundation of instructional design and motivation theory. · available online, fully automated, and free. · both fun and easy-to-use. · a powerful instructional and learning tool. · generates a full evaluation report to share results with teachers, administrators, students, parents, etc. · uses graphs for visual representation of scores and text for details and interpretations. · On the WebCHECK Web site, you will find all of the instruments, as well as more than 30 lesson plans, designed by school librarians nationwide, that incorporate WebCHECK at various levels and subject areas.

This study sought to collect data from teens and librarians about their preferences and recommendations for the effective design of physical library spaces for teens. Librarians and teens at twenty-two U.S. public libraries filmed narrated video tours of their young adult (YA) public library spaces. The researchers used qualitative content analysis techniques to analyze the video data and to develop a framework for guiding the design of effective YA public library spaces. In addition to providing specific recommendations for user-centered YA library space design, this study highlights the need for continued user input into the design and maintenance of YA public library spaces as teens' needs evolve and vary across time and from community to community.

I’m grateful to have attended today’s Test Kitchen with Emily Pilloton and Christina Jenkins of Project H Design! Emily and Christina have launched (and are still prototyping) a series …

I’m grateful to have attended today’s Test Kitchen with Emily Pilloton and Christina Jenkins of Project H Design! Emily and Christina have launched (and are still prototyping) a series …

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Fascinating article from the blog for the Canva Design School

Microsoft Surface Studio is the company's first desktop PC. It is easily the most attention-grabbing new PC design of the year, even if most of its individual ideas like - external control knobs, tabletop PCs - have been seen before in different contexts. The new Studio and Surface Dial provided a stark, inventive contrast, especially for graphic designers, artists and video editors who scooped up new Macs without question in years past.

two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking, aimed at school ages 8 to 10, or kids between the ages of 13 and 15, but also designed to resonate with grown-ups. Inspired by the animation style of the 1950s, most recognizably Saul Bass, the films are designed to promote a set of educational resources on critical thinking by TechNYou, an emerging technologies public information project funded by the Australian government.

Library design ideas.

First of all I would like to thank you for purchasing this book. The book "Coloring Book (Fruits Coloring Book For Children)" is designed by "Hilda Flowers", especially for kids/children of age group 0-9 years. I(Hilda Flowers) love drawing and sketching, and so I planned to create books for kids, with which they can not only learn something, but also enjoy it. So, I am now going to create coloring books for children. In this your child will learn about various fruits and can fill appropriate color in the fruits images given in the book. I have designed other Coloring books as well for kids, you can find them online by searching for "Coloring Book By Hilda Flowers". I am sure your kid will enjoy these books.

Some tips on designing a school library space.

Potential new design tool. Have to wait for beta trial.

FoldiMate, a home robot designed to fold your clean clothes all by itself with professional skill and quality results. About the size of a standard domestic washer or dryer, the appliance will apparently grab garments within its reach, pull them inside its innards for processing, then spit out piles of smartly stacked and crisply folded clothing.

Drone specialist DJI releases the ultimate tool for the next gen. YouTube stars. The DJI Osmo offers a whole new way of shooting video handheld. The design is simple but effective and the video quality is really good too. It's perfect for one-person videography.

The CARS Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support) is designed for ease of learning and use

Which colors look good together? How many should I use? How do I create a color palette? It's helpful for TLs to know some of the basics in design in creating brochures and other guides to effectively market services and communicate information.

This is one component of the webpage Thinkering Space the focuses on library observations that will inform design criteria for Thinkering Space

via Stephen's Lighthouse - good principles for webpage design, too! Get your "customers'" attention!

"...an entire century's worth of war casualties -- 38 million deaths over 25 conflicts ... festoon a cute kitchen with liters and liters of blood: one liter for every million deaths, to be exact. "