By Gwen Solomon

Internet 2.0 has arrived--find out the way it can remodel educating and learning!

What is net 2.0? as soon as upon a time, sites have been remoted details 'silos'--all content material and no performance. at the present time, the following new release of websites supplies energy to the end-user, supplying viewers with a brand new point of customization, interplay, and participation. Many sites now permit clients to add, categorize, and percentage content material simply. Weblogs and podcasts permit somebody to put up or broadcast on any subject. Wikis offer info that's continuously up to date through the end-user. Open-source software program is unfastened and customizable. those new applied sciences are altering our dating to the Internet.

What can net 2.0 instruments supply educators? internet 2.0: New instruments, New colleges offers a complete assessment of the rising net 2.0 applied sciences and their use within the school room and in specialist improvement. subject matters contain running a blog as a normal device for writing guideline, wikis and their position in venture collaboration, podcasting as an invaluable technique of providing details and ideas, and the way to exploit internet 2.0 instruments for pro improvement. additionally incorporated are a dialogue of internet 2.0 security and safety matters and a glance towards the way forward for the internet 2.0 circulation. internet 2.0: New instruments, New faculties is key studying for academics, directors, know-how coordinators, and instructor educators.

Topics include:

-online collaboration instruments
-technology literacy
-technology integration
-teacher training
-curriculum design
-open source
-blogs
-wikis
-podcasts
-professional improvement

Also available:

Database Magic: utilizing Databases to coach Curriculum in Grades 4-12 - ISBN 1564842452
What Works in K-12 on-line studying - ISBN 1564842363
Toys to instruments: Connecting pupil mobile phones to schooling - ISBN 1564842479

The foreign Society for expertise in schooling (ISTE) is the relied on resource for pro improvement, wisdom iteration, advocacy and management for innovation. ISTE is the most suitable club organization for educators and schooling leaders engaged in bettering educating and studying by way of advancing the potent use of expertise in PK-12 and instructor schooling. domestic of the nationwide academic know-how criteria (NETS), the heart for utilized study in academic expertise (CARET), and ISTE's annual convention (formerly referred to as the nationwide academic Computing convention, or NECC), ISTE represents greater than 100,000 pros around the globe. We help our individuals with details, networking possibilities, and counsel as they face the problem of reworking schooling.

the various components within which we put up are:
-Web. 2.0 within the classroom-RSS, podcasts, and more
-National academic know-how criteria (NETS)
-Professional improvement for educators and administrators
-Integrating expertise into the study room and curriculum
-Safe practices for the net and technology
-Educational expertise for fogeys

By Dan Rahmel

As a huge strength on this planet of cheap, complicated site deployment, Joomla! has develop into an important noncommercial content material administration method (CMS) on this planet. The variety of Joomla! downloads and accessories maintains to develop at lightning velocity, spurring the necessity for a source that explores the varied wishes Joomla! builders. This booklet fills that void by way of masking the 2 major components of the Joomla! field--development and deployment--with a spotlight at the new Joomla! model 1.5 and the entire good points it provides.
Seasoned writer Dan Rahmel walks you thru the method of making all 3 varieties of Joomla! extensions (modules, parts, and plug-ins), explains how top to exploit Ajax expertise, and exhibits you the way to undertake layout styles and contain resource code keep watch over. you are going to learn the underlying applied sciences (PHP, Apache, etc.) that may be tuned to provide the simplest procedure functionality, and you can discover interfacing with outdoor content material, light-weight listing entry Protocol (LDAP) setup, and masses extra. you are going to even delve into the inner constitution of the Joomla! framework, and acquire a distinct behind-the-scenes schooling for you to regulate and expand Joomla! to satisfy the wishes of you and your customers.
What you'll research from this book
* How each one server of a Joomla! approach will be put in and configured for optimum performance
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The technique of making a module from scratch
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Ways to exploit Ajax so as to add dynamic information retrieval to Joomla!
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Techniques for utilizing layout styles to resolve universal programming problems
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How to create and hold a digital community
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Procedures for tuning a Joomla! website for either search engine optimisation (SEO) and seek Engine administration (SEM)
Who this ebook is for
This booklet is for internet builders, hobbyists, net designers, bloggers, company content material creators, and help experts who're seeking to construct an improved website. uncomplicated talents within the region of personal home page programming are necessary.
Wrox specialist courses are deliberate and written by way of operating programmers to fulfill the real-world wishes of programmers, builders, and IT execs. concentrated and appropriate, they handle the problems expertise pros face each day. they supply examples, useful options, and specialist schooling in new applied sciences, all designed to assist programmers do a greater task.

By Jed Hallam

The Social Media Manifesto  is a instruction manual to allow leaders around the company to appreciate how social know-how could be integrated into their corporation. together with case reports from Google, IBM, Spotify, Unilever, and Coca-Cola, it presents perception and useful recommendation for managers to enforce their very own social company plans.

By Geoff Webber-Cross

A brief, quick and concentrated consultant to augment your home windows eight purposes by way of leveraging the facility of home windows Azure cellular Services

About This Book

• Dive deep into Azure cellular prone with a pragmatic XAML-based case research game
• Enhance your functions with Push Notifications and Notifications Hub
• Follow step by step directions for result-oriented examples

Who This e-book Is For

If you're a developer who needs to construct home windows eight and contact eight purposes and combine them with home windows Azure cellular prone, this e-book is for you. simple C# and JavaScript talents are helpful, in addition to a few wisdom of establishing home windows eight or home windows mobilephone eight applications.

What you are going to Learn

• Configure a home windows Azure cellular Service
• Modify desk APIs with scripts and create customized APIs
• Call HTTP prone from scripts
• Implement NPM programs in scripts
• Manage scripts with Git model control
• Configure home windows eight and home windows mobile eight purposes to enforce Push Notifications
• Use Notifications Hub to regulate notifications extra simply and efficiently
• Prepare your software for submission to the Store

In Detail

Windows Azure is the main opted for cloud expertise, and is recuperating every day. With the expanding variety of clients of home windows mobilephone and home windows eight, the need for a great powerful cloud carrier to help the apps is expanding. home windows Azure cellular companies is a suite of home windows Azure hosted prone which are designed to speedy construct, install, and deal with a cellular web-connected app.

Using this concise and to-the-point consultant, it is possible for you to to make use of home windows Azure cellular providers together with your home windows apps and know the way most sensible to combine them with the backend functions that Azure provides.

We commence with constructing the portal, identifying a subscription, and taking the 1st steps into integrating prone into our functions. From right here, we discover safety, scripts, and push notifications and end with the necessities for shop submission and the way to enhance person experience.

The booklet discusses diverse provider permission recommendations and demonstrates tips to use an authentication supplier in our functions. Scripts are tested during the e-book with examples of enhancing desk equipment, developing customized APIs, and making push notification requests. We additionally discover how one can expand scripts with NPM programs and deal with them with Git model keep an eye on. Push notifications is a huge function of cellular companies so this topic is punctiliously tested with examples utilizing the local PNS libraries and scaling up notifications with Notifications Hub.

Learning home windows Azure cellular companies for home windows eight and home windows mobile eight is a brilliant better half for an individual who's development or contemplating development an program that wishes centralized information garage or push notifications.

By Smashing Magazine

Website design is not only a few flamboyant or just appealing site visual appeal. This publication is set small — yet an important — information, in a forte that's all approximately info. even if you are drawn to deciding on the perfect paragraph structure or typographic info, gazing the right kind typographic etiquette or making the opposite small judgements that might dramatically effect how your web site is perceived, many solutions will current themselves during this number of articles.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The ideal Paragraph
Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette
Why sophisticated Typographic offerings Make all of the Difference
A nearer examine Font Rendering
The artistic method to Maximize layout principles With Type
Applying Macrotypography For A extra Readable net Page
Avoiding fake Weights And types With Google internet Fonts

By MD Harlan R. Weinberg

The net could be a enormous, intimidating position when you are trying to find sincere, informative clinical details. certain, you could lookup hundreds of thousands of web sites on Google on the click on of a mouse, yet how have you learnt if the recommendation on a specific web site is nice, or, if undefined, may truly aggravate your ?

Now, Harlan Weinberg, a revered severe care physician, has taken at the problem to supply up to date, precious info for sufferers and their households concerning the assets to be had on the web, exhaustively getting to know the net to supply a listing of the easiest scientific web content. equipped through affliction or , and protecting approximately 100 afflictions from AIDS/HIV medication to wound care, he bargains an annotated checklist of web sites which are either trustworthy and simple to appreciate. With Dr. Weinberg's aid, you could navigate the net with self belief and get the fitting recommendation on the correct time.

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By Arnie Kuenn

If you happen to personal an internet site, you are a writer. Interruption advertising is a specific thing of the prior. we will be able to now not merely check with our viewers. We needs to sign up for the dialog that is already occurring. the realm of promoting has been extensively altering within the final couple of years to a brand new type of advertising. companies which have been spending their advertising and marketing budgets on print, television, banner advertisements, or even pay per click are figuring out that there's a greater manner. a greater technique to allure leads, to nurture these leads, to reduce your rate according to sale and to hurry up the deciding to buy procedure. That approach is content material advertising. the corporations which are succeeding instantly are those developing content material that engages their consumers and brings within the company. that is the place this booklet is available in. Many advertising and marketing books current themselves just like the advisor who is available in and says, "Here's the method you wish, yet i do not enforce. i do not truly do it. that is so you might determine out." but when you are going to be triumphant, you must know the way to create and advertise compelling content material that brings within the buyers - not only it is advisable. speed up! presents the reader with a entire realizing of what it takes to execute a winning content material business plan, irrespective of how enormous or small your company is. anyone of the chapters during this booklet can be books unto themselves, yet instead of write a multi-volume encyclopedia at the topic, Arnie has created a transportable box advisor in your business plan. speed up! will: consultant you thru the eight steps to a winning content material advertising and marketing plan from constructing a technique to measuring effects provide sixteen examples of content material you could create on your company assessment actual case reports from either small and big companies which are doing it correct spotlight the simplest and such a lot used instruments within the undefined, such a lot of that are loose! show off contributions from thirteen different specialists together with; Jay Baer, Rand Fishkin and Joe Pulizzi. "Content advertising and marketing is ready offering details of worth to the client. The company that gives that details will win." start with speed up! at the present time. From the again hide "Content advertising is not unavoidably not easy, however it might be complex. and that is why this publication is so critical. arrange to be amazed." - Jay Baer, Co-Author of The NOW Revolution. "Kuenn's leading edge and sound innovations for content material advertising and marketing and improvement shine brightly in Accelerate!, a great and punctiliously attention-grabbing instance of latest most sensible practices for construction a profitable on-line business." - Brett Tabke, CEO, WebmasterWorld Inc. "In an period the place each person may have a voice, in the event that they decide to, Kuenn presents a pragmatic consultant on how you can leverage your voice to its complete virtue. it is a needs to for agents who've to profit tips to rework themselves into manufacturers of worthwhile and appropriate content." - Gord Hotchkiss, Senior vp, Mediative "I came upon speed up! a breath of unpolluted air within the whirlwind of affiliate internet marketing books that experience pop out lately. speed up! offers sturdy strong common sense and assists the reader in realizing the magic behind the scenes of net marketing." - Lon Safko, writer of The Social Media Bible

By Laura B. Madsen

"This publication might be built as a guidebook for healthcare companies which are trying BI/DW. it's going to deal with the first services of a company intelligence strength and the way BI can ease the expanding regulatory reporting pressures on all healthcare agencies. additionally incorporated can be tables, checklists and some varieties. Tenative bankruptcy contents: bankruptcy 1: what's Healthcare BI? bankruptcy 2: The Five Disciplines of industrial Intelligence bankruptcy three: the significance of ETL bankruptcy four: beginning with facts Governance bankruptcy five: making a BI workforce bankruptcy 6: information Modeling for Healthcare bankruptcy 7: Gaining aid in your BI software bankruptcy eight: making sure sturdy consumer Adoption bankruptcy nine: advertising Your BI software bankruptcy 10: preserving Your BI Program"-- �Read more...

By Chris Brogan

Every week, hundreds of thousands extra humans subscribe to Google+: without notice, it’s today’s most well-liked new social community. Google+ for company unearths why Google+ deals company possibilities on hand nowhere else--and is helping you seize these possibilities now, earlier than your rivals do. best social media specialist speaker and enterprise consultant Chris Brogan indicates the way to get nice effects speedy, with out losing time--and with out losing a dime. Brogan courses you thru utilizing Google+ for advertising, customer support, neighborhood development, referrals, collaboration, and an entire lot extra. You won’t simply grasp leading edge new instruments like Circles and Hangouts: You’ll use them to generate extra clients and extra cash!

• Make the suitable first strikes after you’ve signed up for Google+
• Take good thing about hyperlinks among Google+ and Google search
• Define the easiest Google+ approach and strategies to your business
• Create a enterprise web page that draws new paying customers
• Integrate Google+ into your present online/digital strategies
• Learn how your buyers are utilizing Google+--and supply them what they’re having a look for
• Use Circles to prepare your contacts and interactions extra effectively
• Create Google+ posts that draw consciousness and spark conversations
• Master hot promoting on Google+
• Build an easy, inexpensive content material procedure round Google+
• Grow your viewers and proportion others’ invaluable content
• Discover new how one can derive much more worth from Google+

By Niel M. Bornstein

Written for builders already utilizing .NET and acquainted with C#, this ebook introduces the XML criteria and the .NET meeting that implements the expertise, explains whilst it really is applicable to exploit every one know-how, and offers examples that illustrate easy methods to use the assemblies. The final 3rd of the publication is an API reference that describes each one namespace, its kinds, and their contributors. subject matters comprise XmlReader, XmlWriter, the rfile item version, XPath, XSLT, cleaning soap, ADO.NET, and internet companies.