Just had the chance to speak with Doug Tschopp, the organizing committee chair for the conference.He was great to talk to and offered up a lot of information about the HighEdWebDev. Really good guy. Got a card and I plan to pick his brain a bit more later. … Stephanie Leary – Texas A&M Another […]

Sorry about the delay in updates. I have been very, very busy. Between networking, listening, note taking and blogging, well … I swear it had nothing to do with the heavy drinking last night :) … Ann Vandor – UW Business School The tag line of the presentation was: “Survival through slow change” and honestly […]

Claudia Jarrett, Snow College This was in the same room as the previous session, so I left my stuff in the room. By the time I got back from the bathroom, it had already strated. So, I snuck back in and sat with my stuff which was down from. Unfortunatly, the room was really empty […]

Dawn Truelsen – California State These last two are the short sessions for the day; each just 30min long. In that short amount of time Dawn covered a lot. She lead us through the on-going redesign of Cal State, Fresno. They decided to give all the different departments the authority over their own subsites and […]

Looking over the schedule, I just realized that because of the additional post-session class, my flight back to Portland leaves on Thursday. I left a message on my machine that I would be back to work on Thursday. Someone from work want to drop me line about how to update my message remotely??? … Michael […]

A quick lunch, some networking and then off to more sessions. … Bryan Hantman – University of Maryland Bryan starts with a fairly intensive, textbook explination of what web standards are. Desperatly trying to stay awake… “And then in 1999 we thought about the idea of future compatability”, Zzzzzzzzzz… “So then Eric Myer came along”, […]

Rick Ellis -Washington State Much better! “Our job is to support mountain climbers”, he begins, a huge slide of Mt. Rainier behind him. Mt climbers? Yes, in a way I can see his metaphor. Getting resources on the web can often seem like a daunting task for our faculty and staff. We are the Sherpas […]

Mars Hill College This is not what I expected at all. Currently we are looking developing a flash video interface for our website. I was hoping for tips on compression, captioning, etc. Instead, he has been covering the basics of shooting videos, “Here are the cameras I like. You should use a tripod. And that […]

Keynote just started. The presenter, Todd Markelz looks like a 15-year-old stuffed into a suit – though I doubt that I would look good up there right now. Need more coffee… The keynote got got much better as it went on. Todd appeared to get more comfortable and sited some great comparisons between google and […]

Out my window So far, the conference has been great. The day started with a quick registration, some food and then the pre-work shops. I was signed up for the “Paper Prototyping” hosted by the Penn State team (the other PSU). They were informative and had great advice to offer. After a quick run thought […]