Badly needed web ed update!

Hello all, hope you are doing well.

I must first say sorry for not being in touch for so long. The last couple of months has been a nightmare of preparing for conferences, speaking at conferences, visiting the Opera head office for a team meetup, getting home and being ill for a week, trying to finish writing my book, and trying to make sense of my day to day office work after being away for so long.

Blah blah blah.

But more has happened than just nothing.

I know that many of you have been working away on various articles, and that is much appreciated.

Suzette Keith has been working on Accessibility - looking at the existing W3C (WAI/EOWG/etc) material, and the existing Opera WSC material, and working out how best to integrate it.

Alexander Futekov has been writing some new articles for us, covering CSS transformations and transitions.

I am still trying to find time to write a prototype set of teaching materials for one of our curriculum structures. I should have time over the next couple of weeks, so watch this space.

The international groups have been getting some great work done. I'm seeing lots of new Japanese, Spanish and Turkish pages popping up, for example. As a reminder, when you create a new translation, could you link to it from somewhere, so it is easy to find? For example, the new turkish translations are linked to from http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Turkish_international_project

Alexander Dawson let me know about an interesting development in the UK - http://www.nextgenskills.com/. This is a campaign group that looks to be aiming to fill the current void in the UK left by the government getting rid of the old ICT curriculum. They want to create a new, kick ass, wide ranging ICT curriculum. the web should obviously be a part of that, so I have contacted them to offer our services.

If I have missed any activity out, please add it to the thread!

Chris Mills
Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
Co-chair, web education community group, W3C

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Received on Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:31:46 UTC