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Category Archives: Education
Students Sans (Social) Media – UPDATED
According to a new ICMPA study, most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world. Source: A Day Without Media | http://withoutmedia.wordpress.com. Knowing this, should we, as programmers, promote this behavior by writing applications that enable easy-to-publish, multi-modal content? Currently, I’m under pressure to (or let [...]
Why do you tweet?
I saw a tweet from @Robin2go which had a hashtag, #psutlt. I looked up the hashtag, trying to find what she was talking about, and I found another tweet by @jeffswain talking about “Why do you tweet?” with the same hashtag. Jeff also has a blog, five-4-six,where he posted the same video. Here is my response. [...]
Budget cuts for Texas’ universities
In 2009 I said the recession isn’t over. I guess it needs to be said again – for future reference: history repeats itself! This is the third time I’ve gone through a recession or slow-down or bubble-burst in the 15 years that I’ve lived in Texas. In the public sector, especially higher education, I think the [...]
HighEdWeb 2009 Wrap Up
UPDATE: Links from the conference http://www.flickr.com/photos/highedweb/ http://highedweb2009.ning.com/ http://2009.highedweb.org/ http://twitter.com/HighEdWeb After conference links The Great Keynote Meltdown How Speakers Should Integrate Social Into Their Presentation Valuable Web Content Presentation: from receive through react to interact Takeaways from the Great Keynote Revolt of 2009 Keynote ruckus at HighEdWeb There and Back Again, a geek girls tale of [...]
WordPress University
Stephanie Leary Website Administrator, Texas A&M University October 7 WordPress as a CMS View more presentations from Stephanie Leary. CMS Capabilities posts and pages scheduled publishing basic workflow easy media embedding excellent seo ubiquitous feeds Killer Feature is the User Interface. (made by happycog) Post vs. Page Posts have… included in feeds categories tags excerpts [...]
Cross-site Scripting: What Is It, and How Can You Protect Your Site from Becoming a Victim?
Paul Gilzow Programmer/Analyst-Expert, University of Missouri twitter: gilzow October 7 (This was Winner of Best of Track TPR) Presentation http://2009.highedweb.org/presentations/TPR5.zip or local copy Cross-site Scripting: What Is It, and How Can You Protect Your Site from Becoming a Victim? Same Origin policy: 1 page in 1 tab can’t interact with other page in another tab. [...]
Maybe the Purpose of Our Redesign is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others
(Winner of Best of Track MMP) Anthony Dunn WCMS Coordinator, CSU, Chico October 7 Presentation http://2009.highedweb.org/presentations/mmp11.pdf or local copy Maybe the Purpose of Our Redesign is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others Background Info: In 2007 Chico had a web committee (formed 1996) that governed the internet. It was/is political environment. Current site [...]
Show Me the Data: Usability-driven Web Design
Jason Alley Instructional Technologist, Lafayette College @jasonalley Kenneth Newquist Web Applications Specialist, Lafayette College @knewquist October 6, 2009 Problem: Time to redesign site Everyone has opinons about what works, but they don’t have data Replace opinion with fact http://its.lafayette.edu/ Use software called ScreenFlow Tests aren’t about the user it is about the website. Survey: 10 [...]
Augmented Reality – Merging the Virtual World into Ours
Daniel Frommelt @Frommelt University Web Coordinator, University of Wisconsin – Platteville October 6 Presentation at www.uwplatt.edu/web/presentations AR is adding, modifying reality. They exist now. It’s not a hologram. It starts with a marker that is asymmetric. More complex = smaller margin of error. Use Blender: flash base AR. It triggers a Flash with ActionScript when [...]
Social Media In the Classroom [UPDATE]