I found this while I was working on my Winn Dixie article. I’m just going to leave this here: If anyone needs an example of alt text when faced with what looks like an impossible picture to even begin to describe, here you go! lol https://t.co/x2xx4jmX2h — @krisnelson (@krisnelson) May 16, 2022 Sadly, the ALT…
Read More A really good use of ALT textI’m one of those instructors who like to have students complete reading journals during the course of the semester. I tried it during the pandemic, but it didn’t work out nearly as well as I had hoped. Although if we’re being honest, very few things worked out as well during that first semester of COVID-19…
Read More Journals 3.0: Helping to keep the reading going (Moving from Moodle to D2L, part 2)There are so many reasons, but I’ll leave one here today: because our educational system is terribly affected by natural disasters. I’ll leave this here from the Washington Post: https://wapo.st/37koYaf
Read More Why is disaster rhetoric an important class?I’m mentioning two different pages that helped me solve a lot of problems when converting InDesign files that had been converted to PDF. PAC2021[1]It should be noted that the new version requires registration, although I’m not quite sure why. The old PAC 3 version does not. (the PDF accessibility checker, currently Windows only) highlights many…
Read More How to reduce many InDesign PDF errors in just a few steps.Yes, my previous post about Penn Holderness has inspired me to write this post about the old ICTM math contests. Let’s also be honest… this also serves as a reminder to do a “brain dump” and write down things I remember, as well as to give myself a reminder to find my old ICTM contest…
Read More A love letter about the ICTM Math ContestYup. Click-baity headline. I admit it. 🙂 Fun fact: Penn Holderness and I have something in common. We were both mathletes in high school. The Illinois Math competition was lots of fun. I competed in everything except calculator team. More details about that in another post… I’ll just say here that I’m happy to see…
Read More Knowing Math = $1,000,000Here’s some information from Microsoft about making emails accessible in the Outlook client: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-your-outlook-email-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-71ce71f4-7b15-4b7a-a2e3-cf91721bbacb There is a lot of common sense stuff in that article, but one thing I didn’t realize: in dark mode, you’ll want to go and double check the accessibility checker pane, because errors don’t automatically show up. There’s also a way…
Read More Outlook accessibility tip(Or why HoudahSpot is so awesome) When I moved from Minnesota to Georgia, I realized that I couldn’t take with me all of my old paper versions of my journals – there simply wasn’t space in my new office, and 26 years of being an academic with at least 10 journal issues per year =…
Read More Going into the Depths of MacOS metadata…Let’s face it – we’re blessed to have quite a variety of tech devices available to us. And now, given that I have a 12.9” iPad Pro and a 13” MacBook Pro that have close to the same screen real estate available, It’s fair to raise the questions: “What’s the best use of each device?”…
Read More Using the iPad vs. the MacBook ProI never thought I’d be that person to write rants on my site, but Outlook for iOS may be the exception that proves the rule. Allow me just two brief examples for today – and the first may help my Georgia College colleagues who are trying to report phishing attempts. The user interface for Outlook…
Read More What’s wrong with Outlook for iOS?