Author: Rebecca Mushtare

We’ve been getting a few questions as to why we’re asking for so many permissions when you click the link above using GitHub Classroom.

https://education.github.community/t/open-source-lesson-plans/1591

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3jLJU7DT5E

So you’ve given an assignment to your students in GitHub Classroom, either individually or in groups. But have you given a thought to how your students will work in a way that you can give them useful and instructive feedback?

https://github.blog/2018-05-29-pull-requests-in-the-classroom/

GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub. Distribute assignments with starter code. Students work on assignments individually or in groups using public or private GitHub repositories.

https://classroom.github.com/

⚠️ Notice: As a showcase of variable fonts, this site requires a web browser that supports OpenType font variation technology. It looks like your browser doesn’t, so please consider upgrading to one that does (the latest versions of Chrome work well, even on older operating systems).

https://v-fonts.com/

School of Visual Arts presents Look Both Ways: The Illicit Liaison Between Image and Information, a new exhibition curated by Debbie Millman, chair of the MPS Branding program at SVA.

http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/look-both-ways

“Look Both Ways” looks to illuminate how bold typographic expression has become the cultural currency of communication and the centerpiece of connection. Countless objects and experiences all around us now bear an inscription or a point of view.

http://www.sva.edu/features/the-write-stuff-debbie-millman-s-upcoming-exhibition-on-typographic-art

A card is a block of meta data about a page on the site. It has an image/media and metadata — it’s a media object. It’s shown in a group of objects. That group is always typed (there’s no view where there are search results and news articles and classes are all mixed up).

https://css-tricks.com/telling-the-story-of-graphic-design/

32 min read Performance Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Earn your master’s degree online Explore Their Image Library Data can be prohibitively expensive, especially in developing countries.

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/07/web-on-50mb-budget/

Introduction The Guardian website is made up of a series of fronts and articles. Introduction Fronts are made up of containers — these allow stories to be grouped in a logical manner, by theme or subject matter. Introduction Containers are composed of modular story cards.

https://design.theguardian.com/

Welcome to Teaching, a free weekly newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education. For many students the term “general education” evokes visions of drudgery: mandated coursework on subjects that can feel remote.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Want-Students-to-Care-About/246906/

Kimberly D. Acquaviva has spent her career studying end-of-life issues. When her spouse got terminal cancer, they agreed to document her decline on social media.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Death-Is-This-Professor-s/246904/

Every freelancer has had to tackle the ever-dreaded “professional summary.” Now, we’re not talking about the “About Me” page on your website, nor are we referring to your LinkedIn bio.

https://99u.adobe.com/articles/64151/how-to-write-a-better-bio-professional-summary

Sign in to GitHub to continue to GitHub Classroom Username or email address Password Forgot password?

https://classroom.github.com/classrooms/5034298-f19-art-317/assignments/exercise-1?query=%20&sort_assignment_repos_by=Student%20identifier

You can make an existing repository a template, so you and others can generate new repositories with the same directory structure and files. Anyone with admin permissions to a repository can make the repository a template.

https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-template-repository

Rally Rules 1.1 The Accessibility Internet Rally (the “Rally”) involves designers (“Entrants”) and not-for-profit organizations (“NPOs”) creating a website (“an Entry”) for each NPO that is accessible to people with disabilities. 1.

https://air-rallies.org/about-2/rules/

The SUNY Oswego website serves many functions and users. To provide the most consistent experience possible, the Office of Communications and Marketing created components that can be used on Oswego.edu Drupal sites.

https://www.oswego.edu/sites/all/themes/oswego/styleguide/

Our series on accessible email continues. In my last post, I explored ways to create subject lines that are more user-friendly to people who are blind or low vision. In this post, I’ll describe ways to make images in email accessible.

https://knowbility.org/blog/2019/accessible-emails-part-2/

Skip to content A List Apart For people who make websites Quick! Think of the word “developer” or “coder” — what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe a whiteish male in his twenties living in a busy metropolis, wearing a nerdy t-shirt and hoodie? Someone a bit like Mark Zuckerberg

https://alistapart.com/article/getting-to-the-heart-of-digital-accessibility/

The Magic Kingdom will be transformed into a winter wonderland for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Snow will magically fall on Main Street, Mickey and friends will be garbed in seasonal apparel, and Cinderella Castle will once again shimmer in ice with the indescribable Castle Dream Lights.

http://www.themouseforless.com/walt-disney-world/planning/events/mickeys-very-merry-christmas-party/

At the Center for Civic Design, we believe that democracy is a design problem. That using — and teaching — design practices and processes to understand problem spaces is what will make every interaction between the public and government efficient, effective, and pleasant.

https://civicdesign.org/about/principles/

In 1941, the US Navy commissioned the husband-and-wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames to design a lightweight splint for wounded soldiers to get them out of the field more safely.

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/all-technology-is-assistive/

User Experience Design calls for us to write words on buttons all the time – but how do we know whether we’re choosing the right ones? Linguistics may provide a clue.

https://www.uxbooth.com/articles/the-grammar-of-interactivity/

Mary Dash, Chief of the Congressional Correspondence and Quality Review Branch of the Internal Revenue Service, wrote these excellent writing tips.

https://plainlanguage.gov/resources/articles/dash-writing-tips/

Our special issue of Visible Language journal, “Critical Making: Design and the Digital Humanities” (vol. 49, no. 3) locates where, how, and why critical making is emerging and the scholarly forms it takes.

https://designincubation.com/publications/abstracts/critical-making-design-and-the-digital-humanities/

Ann Arbor is near the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, so there are many affordable and hassle-free options for transportation between Ann Arbor and DTW, such as car rentals and airport shuttles. If you’re planning a trip from a nearby city, you don’t necessarily need a car of your own.

https://www.annarbor.org/plan/getting-here-getting-around/

From Novak v. City of Parma, decided today by the Sixth Circuit (opinion by Judge Amul Thapar, joined by Judges Gilbert Merritt and Chad Readler): Apple pie, baseball, and the right to ridicule the government. Each holds an important place in American history and tradition.

https://reason.com/2019/07/29/the-first-amendment-and-a-parody-of-a-police-department-web-page/

Overlapping information categories and confusing labels are two of the most pervasive problems in website design. Fortunately, there are fast and effective techniques you can use to create categories and labels that will make sense to your audience.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/tree-testing/

A few months ago, I made the agonizing decision to leave my job of eleven years with my local school district, where I worked with preschoolers with special needs.

https://tidbits.com/2013/06/18/with-markdown-even-the-blind-can-write/

Transcription of study materials into accessible formats is a challenging but necessary task. The sources of study materials vary from images to multimedia files, which often have to be transcribed…

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_85

Have you tried to read a web page and you had to squint your eyes because the font size was too small? The combination of resolutions and screen sizes can result in wild pairings that make the text on the web pages hard to read.

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/make-text-bigger-chrome-other-browsers

A character is the smallest component of written language that has semantic value. It is an abstract concept rather than a particular way of drawing the thing. (That’s probably a close paraphrase of the Unicode definition, but from memory.)

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-a-character-a-glyph-and-a-grapheme

Search result for ‘ ‘ returned results. Did you want to Search all of TKI? This information was downloaded/printed from the Ministry of Education’s website “Inclusive Education”. Except where otherwise noted it is Crown Copyright 2018.

https://www.inclusive.tki.org.nz/guides/universal-design-for-learning/

Critical thinking skills truly matter in learning. Why? Because they are life skills we use every day of our lives. Everything from our work to our recreational pursuits, and all that’s in between, employs these unique and valuable abilities.

https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/critical-thinking-skills-cheatsheet-infographic

There are divergent things happening in the product and interaction design community. On one hand, we have some amazing pieces of writing from the likes of Ryan Singer and Julie Zhuo, moving our craft forward.

https://medium.com/intercom-inside/the-dribbblisation-of-design-406422ccb026

Empathy seems like a good quality in human beings. Pure and simple. It allows us to consider the perspective of others — to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine their experiences. From that empathetic vantage point, only good things can come, right?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/12/712682406/does-empathy-have-a-dark-side

When it comes to anti-oppression work, I have a problem with empathy. Or rather, I have problem with the ways in which people with privilege and power enact so-called empathy.

https://aprilhathcock.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/my-trauma-is-not-your-thought-experiment-on-oppressive-empathy/

Note: this is cross-posted on OF/BY/FOR ALL, where you can find more tools and stories for building more inclusive organizations. If you want to involve new people at your organization, you need to know who is coming – and who isn’t.

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2019/06/whos-coming-new-free-toolkit-for.html

Notre Dame, Ind. Susan D. Blum has been teaching college students for 30 years. For much of that time, she was a conventional grader. But finals week at the University of Notre Dame this past spring found Blum, a professor of anthropology, wrapping up her courses in an unconventional way.

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190719_ungrading

This assessment focuses on the museum’s awareness and understanding of, and relationship with, its various communities and audiences; and their perception of, and experience with, the museum. It looks at what roles the museum plays in its community and vice versa.

https://www.aam-us.org/programs/accreditation-excellence-programs/community-engagement-assessment/

If I ever find myself with a few hours to spare, there’s no place I’d rather be than a museum. Visiting a new exhibit fills me with exhilaration, perspective, and knowledge. But in North America today, there are a large number of people who do not gravitate to museums with the same zeal I do.

https://www.aam-us.org/2019/06/24/attracting-visitors-with-user-generated-content/

Search Monotype:

http://www.monotype.com/search/

The limited, four-part Diversity & Inclusion webcast series is re-launching this summer. The second episode of this series, “Building a culture of inclusion: Meet the Diversity & Inclusion task force” airs Thursday June 29 at 12:00 p.m. EST.

http://www.aiga.org/aiga/content/tools-and-resources/diversity-and-inclusion/diversity-and-inclusion-webcast-series/

“Design Journeys” is a collection of stories about the professional lives, contributions, and portfolios of designers—contemporary and historical—from traditionally under-represented groups or backgrounds.

http://www.aiga.org/aiga/content/inspiration/design-journeys/design-journeys/

The Hello World project is a time-honored tradition in computer programming. It is a simple exercise that gets you started when learning something new. Let’s get started with GitHub! GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration.

https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/