One more thing that I love about presenting at the High Ed Web Dev conference: They collect and share data about your presentation. This type of information helps me understand my presentation choices and, hopefully, helps me improve the presentations I give. Since they were nice enough to share with me, I’ll share it with […]

John Williams: Systems Architect, NewCity Yes, you can deliver rich, interactive, highly designed experiences without Flash. NewCity developer John Williams walks you through some of the more interesting JavaScript-based charting libraries, then focuses on the most flexible of the lot: D3.js. A relatively recent addition, D3.js is the successor to Protoviz. It has broad browser […]

Karlyn Borysenko: Marketing Manager, Eduventures Everyone loves data, but few people really understand how to collect it in a way that will stand up to scrutiny of your boss, your colleagues and….worst of all….any faculty members that you may need to convince. Fear not, help has arrived. In this session, Karlyn Borysenko will give you […]

Donna Talarico: Integrated Marketing Manager, Elizabethtown College OMG! There’s a typo in my post and it already has seven likes and a share. UH-OH! Someone created a phony account for our mascot! YIKES! I just tweeted from Happy Hour – on the College’s account. If you’re human (you are, right?), then that means you’re bound […]

Jeremy Streich: Web Applications Develoer, UW-Milwaukee The modern web design fashion is to whole sale redesign when things get stale. Marketing “refreshes” are par for course when people begin talking about “brand identity.” That said, wholesale redesign of site based solely on the opinion of the highest paid person in the room’s opinion is fool […]

Curtiss Grymala: University Webmaster, University of Mary Washington During this session, Curtiss Grymala will run through some of the handiest tips and tricks for developing your own WordPress theme. Grymala will run through a series of functions and features you can use when developing your theme. This session assumes some basic knowledge of PHP and […]

Sheri Lehman: Interactive Marketing Specialist, Chapman University Ben Cole: Web Technology Specialist, Chapman University Chapman University’s web and interactive marketing team has gotten in the habit of asking big questions: How to give power to the people, and how to use social media API’s to measure the value of good content? Social media has already […]

#WRK3 Workshops Track Nikki Massaro Kauffman – Interface Designer, Penn State World Campus John “Buck” Buckwalter – Educational Technologist, Penn State World Campus powe In our workshop, we will work with anyone (artsy people, web geeks, newbies, trained monkeys, untrained monkeys, your grandma, etc.) and give you some easy tips and tricks to creating infographics […]