Websites & Web Development
Over the past three weeks, we’ve had an opportunity to take a look at how new web technologies are impacting libraries, teaching and marketing in higher education. It’s been very imformative, and I hope that you’ve taken away as many good ideas and brainstorms as I have.
For this week of HigherEd BlogCon, we’ll take a closer look at the technology powering these new tools and examine the development and implementation process for bringing institutions into the 2.0 era. It’s a diverse set of topics, ranging from the nuts and bolts of podcasts to a session covering one of the hottest development tools, Ruby on Rails.
I’d like to take a moment to thank this week’s presenters. They have created some veryinteresting content and presentations. I’d also like to thank Karine Joly and Rob Pongsajapan for their help in coming up with a plan and theme for this week.
-Mike Richwalsky, Section Chair
>> Monday, April 24, 2006
Legal Education Podcasting Project
John Mayer
Executive Director
Elmer Masters
Director of Internet DevelopmentCenter for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction/CALI
>> Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Student To-Do List RSS Feed: Combining Audience and Task Navigation
Matthew Winkel
The College of New Jersey
>> Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Using Web Traffic with a Kaizen Methodology
Tiffany Vincent
Academic Web Services
>> Thursday, April 27, 2006
Know Enough to be Dangerous: Tools for Taking Control of HTML and CSS
Steve Lawson
Colorado College
Bringing Audio to a Visual Medium: Podcasting News and Events
CASE Online Speaker Series
2:00-3:30 ET (Paid registration required.)
>> Friday, April 28, 2006
The Fast Track to Agile Web Apps: Best Practices for Higher Ed Web Development on Rails
Jason Garber
Eastern Mennonite University
April 24th, 2006 at 7:32 am
Over this semester, I have learned a ton about websites and web development. In one of my classes, Style and Design, we have a project due a week from today that involves all the new technology that we have learned. This includes making an online resume and portfolio. The software that we will be using to complete this project is Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, SnagIt, Flash, and BrowserBob. We also have to create a podcast, a flash version of our resume, a tutorial on Skype using SnagIt and a newsletter and brochure using InDesign. All though this project is very time consuming and quite difficult, in the long run I know that it will give me a chance to put me above others that I will be competing with in the “real world”, making it all worth it.
I believe that with people being more internet savvy, especially my generation, having the knowledge of these and other software is very important. Basically, thank you for the advice, it really is beneficial and appreciated.
April 27th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
I attended the CASE speaker event on podcasting. There is a bit about it on my blog.