Focus: Web

WordPress

WordPress

Now-a-days I’m spending a fair amount of time developing web sites and materials with WordPress. I’ve written plugin “helpers”, authored themes, modified plenty more themes (such as this one) and taught a large number of people about the benefits of …

 

Creating Online Portfolios for Boston Public Schools

Creating Online Portfolios for Boston Public Schools

In 2009 I worked with other members of the EdTech Center, and Northeastern’s Department of Art+Design to teach a week long course, to BPS faculty, that focused on using free web 2.0 tools to create a digital portfolio.

The idea …

 

Flash Based Learning Unit

Flash Based Learning Unit

This particular teaching aid has been updated many times over the years, but linked to an exceptionally higher number of courses, workshops, demos, and talks I’ve given over the years. it keeps serving its purpose so well, I have to …

 

EdTech Center Web Site

EdTech Center Web Site

From the time I was hired at the Multimedia Development Studio (the precursor to the EdTech Center) until 2 iterations ago, I was the designer and “web-master” of the EdTech web site. Initially this meant I did the design, development, …

 

Jim Frederick Studios

Jim Frederick Studios

Jim is a Dallas based artist, and very good friend of mine.

After about 2005 I rarely worked on “freelance” web sites as a whole (instead focusing on other types of media and design) but when he asked I took …

 

Flased Based Online Portfolio Builder

Flased Based Online Portfolio Builder

I created a flash based portfolio tool that could would allow students to (relatively quickly and easily) create a flash based portfolio. The idea was that students could “toggle” the tool into a development mode, and then, once the flipped …

 

Get Rich Slow

Get Rich Slow

EdTech collaborated with a Retirement Center at Boston College to create a flash based educational game. The goal of the game was to produce questions for a presenter to then be able to talk about during a face to face …