Preparing CMS Web Graphics and Layouts Using Open Source Tools
with: Jen Kramer
In Preparing CMS Web Graphics and Layouts Using Open-Source Tools, Jen Kramer shows how developers and graphic designers can collaborate to create a great site design that integrates with a content management system (CMS) like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla!, all using open-source software. This workflow is based [...]
by Wendy Owen, The Oregonian
Thursday August 06, 2009, 6:35 PM
Abby Metty/The OregonianHillsboro teen Savannah Outen has fans as far away as Kuwait and Australia but doesn’t yet have a record label. She plays a song she wrote during a visit to Coyote’s Bar & Grill in Hillsboro. HILLSBORO — Savannah Outen is looking for her big break. The thing is, the 16-year-old singer is already famous.
Outen has more than 38 million hits on her collection of 40 YouTube music videos. If that were a CD, she would have the Recording Industry Association of America’s diamond album hanging on her wall, just like Celine Dion or ZZ Top. Continue reading Portland Area YouTube Sensation
Reprinted from eschoolnews (in its entirety as the article is not visible for class without registering).
Educational videos are getting thousands of hits on YouTube.
When University of Central Florida junior Nicole Nissim got stumped in trigonometry, she checked out what was showing on YouTube.
Nissim typically scours the video-sharing Web site for clips of bands and comedy skits. But this time she wasn’t there to procrastinate on her homework. It turned out YouTube was also full of math videos. After watching a couple, the psychology major says, she finally understood trig equations and how to make graphs.
“I was able to watch them at my own pace and if I didn’t get a concept, I could easily rewind it,” Nissim says. “It was a lot clearer once I watched the video.”
Continue reading Need help with class? YouTube videos await
