Jaclyn Whitehorn and Gina Tinny, The University of Alabama Actually, only Jaclyn today. What is it? A JavaScript library. Really good at quickly accessing and modifying any part of your page. Todays buzzword is unobtrusive! She just threw down the fact that most of those cool Web2.0 effects are not really AJAX. It only becomes […]

Paul Dempsey, Dickinson College He asks the crowd, “Who has good maps/directions to your campus”. No one in the audience raises a hand… Google maps was launched in Feb. 2005. API released in June 2005. The “terms of use” mean that the service is available to both non-profit and commercial sites. However, they do reserve […]

Karine Joly, www.collegewebeditor.com She started blogging in 2005, and had about 3 readers. Now 7000 visitors per month. 1000 subscribers. So, what make a great blog? The readers! Suddenly – her slides started advancing automatically… but she held it together and eventually got it fixed (it was vista). Back to the presentation: Don’t start a […]

 Danny Harvey, Ryan Gibson, Eastern Illinois University This looks like a very nice system for creating surveys and forms. Unfortunately, the demo did not work properly. Still the idea seemed solid.

Presenter: Gabriel McGovern , Portland Community College I had a coughing fit. Then my laptop crashed.

Testing usability with parents and incoming students: Presenter: Lori Packer, University of Rochester Lori is a great presenter. Her session covered the basics of usability testing, as well as some of the unexpected results from her own experience. Last year she grabbed students and parents during the start of the orientation. With some trinkets she […]

Lunch was at the Hyatt. Afterward, I asked our waitress and then the bellhop about my options for picking up some slacks. Nada, nunca. But the concierge had overheard the conversation.  He set me up with their shuttle driver, Nick. On the next trip he drove past the airport and dropped me off at the […]

The flight from Chicago to Rochester was pretty uneventfully. I have had a sore throat for nearly a week and about an hour in I had a coughing fit, but luckily there was no one seated right next to me. However, on arrival my luggage was nowhere to be found… I almost never check baggage, […]

I love to fly. I just wish that planes didn’t take-off and land at airports. US airports have become awkward places, where a general feeling of paranoia follows you from the security check, and all the way down the concourse. From PDX to O’Hare, I was seated near the very back of the plane. To […]

“HighEdWeb is an organization of Web professionals working at institutions of higher education. We design, develop, manage and map the futures of higher education Web sites.” Each year, the organization puts on a conference where web professionals from colleges around the country gather to learn, discuss and network. I had the opportunity to attend in […]