User:Lindyklein

=My Profile=

Pages of interest
Warning - these links will probably change pretty frequently!

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DEhub/Example_to_think_about

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About Me
Other info about me can be found here: Me, Myself and I

Learning Resources in Production
The following are learning resources I am working on developing...

Test for sub pages - Inkscape resource

A learning module on Zotero, in development, hopefully will be moved into DE Hub area on completion

Tips and Tricks
Useful things I have been shown or found:

Getting the contents box to appear on your page: Although well documented in both the cheat sheet and the documentation for wikipedia, I managed to overlook this when first trying to get the index/contents box on a page! It is a hidden template, which your average user can't play with, and comes into play as soon as there are four or more headings and/or subheadings on a page.

Getting an image to point to a link: Many thanks to my project manager Nathan Wise for pointing this out! As far as I understand, piped links won't work for this yet, but to get an image to link to a page address try this format:

http://www.wikieducator.or/myimage.png

Professional Background
I have been working as a web programmer for the last 18 months, with the last three months at the DE Hub (Innovation in Distance Education) project. I am passionate about accessibility in web technology, and the effective use of technology in both education and building relationships across barriers such as distance and time constraints.

Education
I am nearing completion of a Bachelor of Arts, and am a self taught programmer in PHP, MySQL, Java, Javascript and of course, HTML and CSS.

My Interests
I enjoy graphic design, although it forms only a small part of my web based work. Although quite at ease with Adobe products, my favourite little program has to be Inkscape! It produces scalable vector graphics, but can save to multiple formats readily without expert knowledge. This [[media:inkscape.pdf|PDF]] was created in Inkscape, and is soon to be replaced with one demonstrating the program's capabilities with better examples of slick graphics!

I am also interested in the idea of accessibility. What is accessible to one person is not necessarily so to another. For example, I have just noticed much of our tutorials are in a written format, with potentially one sound file, such as a welcome message at the start, and a movie file in the middle. For me, this is quite accessible - I learn better from reading and writing. For a friend of mine however, this would be quite inaccessible - their learning style relies heavily on verbal exchange. I feel accessibility is highly related to learning styles, and to create truly open learning resources, we have quite a task ahead of us. Freedom of use and adjustment is really just the beginning - to have truly open learning resources, we need to constantly assess how we have addressed accessibility, and what we can do so that our materials can be accessed as much as possible!

Professional
I am currently interested in the Fluid project.

My Colleagues
Co-learners in an open learning world! Cherry Stewart

My Projects
I am working on the development of an online presence for the DE Hub project, with my current focus on the development and staging of the revamped DE Hub site. I have created a few DE Hub pages here and I need to learn how to redirect them all to a central location - essentially this is a name claiming thing, as we want to make sure DE Hub is not confused with another project in the wikieducator space... staking a claim so to speak!

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My Sandbox
/My sandbox/

My Reflection
I am enjoying the advent of the technology age, but sincerely hope we remember the humans behind it!

Feedback & Notes from my WikiNeighbours
Reply from Lindy - Many thanks - forgot I had not done this!! Shall attend to appropriate image sizing, and thank you for the snippet, its really helpful!

... tried to resize the main image and it won't take... will investigate resizing the original...

Reply from Lindy - Wahoo! Thank you for the certification Patricia, and I'm glad you could find me! I am struggling to keep up with the workshop due to external pressures, but figure I'll keep chuggin' and do what I can. If I don't get through this time, I'll sign up for the next one and learn some more! Looking forward to learning!