I’m encouraging faculty in Dairy and Animal Science to experiment with educational podcasting. It is an effective way to share all kinds of information with students - lectures, lessons, readings, demonstrations, practice questions for tests and quizzes, and so on.
It is also extremely easy.
I’m of the mind that those of us who are Web professionals should be tested as part of qualifying for our jobs. Just as writers and others are.
The days are over (in truth, they never really started) when it worked to equip the inexperienced with WYSIWYG editors and turn them loose on the Web.
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Before I worked in IT, I was a writer.
Getting a writing job is not trivial. You interview. You submit a portfolio. And, you should expect take a writing test. Read the rest of this entry »
If you are in any way responsible for a Web site, you should have some understanding of the principles of Extreme Programming. Cultivated as a discipline of software development, it is a combination of ensuring that designs remain uncomplicated, centering changes around user requirements, and employing the concept of the “Whole Team.” The result is that small changes are released as they are needed - and endorsed - by the client. Read the rest of this entry »
Consider the dashboard of your automobile.
Aside from a number of extras that have crept in over the decades, it’s essentially configured the same as the dash of the car you drove as a kid.
In fact, the design of the automobile’s critical controls hasn’t significantly altered since the Model T Ford. It’s worked for more than 100 years, and we love it. Read the rest of this entry »
This article was originally posted at Blogs@SI on April 22, 2005.
Content management systems are the only sane way to manage Web sites. Once you’ve worked with a CMS, you will not want to go back to the bromidic and irksome labor of diddling with static Web pages. Read the rest of this entry »
This article was originally posted at Blogs@SI on April 22, 2005.
Just having served on a panel that presented to Penn State Web developers about converting to Web Standards, I’m reminded once again that the biggest challenge with talking (or writing) about this subject is figuring out what on earth can be said that already hasn’t been discussed six ways to Sunday. And not only by the Web Dev community in general, but by individuals such as Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer.
Follows is an interview by the web standards project, in september 2005: www.webstandards.org/action/edutf/interviews/pruyne/.
