Thanks to the generosity of family and friends, my daughter and I attended the Kansas State versus Colorado men’s basketball game last weekend in Manhattan, Kansas, and the Kansas State versus Oklahoma men’s basketball game in Norman, Oklahoma, today. I used the $3 iPhone application Pano to capture a panorama inside each fieldhouse. Each of [...]

We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. We have [...]

I want to take time out to wish everyone a happy holiday, no matter where you may be. Thank you all for helping Blog Tipz grow throughout the past year, and I also want to wish you success in the New Year.
Spend some time with your family and off your computer/the Internet this holiday season.
I’ll [...]

The “Dove Campaign for Real Beauty” is a marketing campaign for Dove soaps, but also an effort to address widespread, destructive advertising which creates false perceptions of beauty among girls, boys, women and men worldwide every day. The following video, “Evolution,” is an advertisement for Dove soap but also makes a powerful statement in 75 [...]

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From the carnivorous cat family to majestic killers like sharks and whales that dominates the sea, wildlife animals are in fact more important rather than just being part of the ecosystem. They greatly inspire almost every industry. One of the closest examples would be Apple’s cat-naming convention for their operating systems.
Let’s get our desktop wild, [...]

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Beautiful and free icon sets always come in handy. Used properly and moderately, icons can be helpful to provide users with memorable metaphors and illustrations that would provide a visual support for otherwise unspectacular text blocks. For instance, in web-applications memorable icons can be very helpful as they can make it easier for users to [...]

This week, the honor of being her preschool class snack leader falls again to my five year old daughter, Rachel. Inspired by her enthusiasm and excitement for the honor and responsibilities of being the class snack leader, this podcast features some dramatic narration from her dad, a little John Williams music reminding us of closing [...]

I figured out a mystery which had troubled me for some time: Why can I readily post embedded videos to my personal blog (this one) using MarsEdit, but when my children try to do the same thing to our family learning blog (Learning Signs) the video embed code gets stripped out?
The answer, it turns out, [...]

I highly commend Jim Klein’s post “When Do Laptops Become School Supplies?” to you. Jim writes:
So knowing this, how do we create an environment with technology as simple, affordable, and reliable as the cell phone, yet with the power to bring truly transformative change to the classroom? I believe through the fusion of three powerful [...]