After being away from this blog from some time – geez, almost 2 weeks, that’s what work can do to you sometimes – I’m back with a new edition of my “Catch-up Date with Karine” series.
Unless, you were leaving on an unconnected deserted island last week, you’ve probably heard about all the great things happening at the HighEdWeb conference in Springfield, MO last week.
Whether you could attend or not the conference, you should check out the following links pointing to the presentation slides made available by the HighEdWeb organizers:
Marketing, PR, etc.
- E-Cards: Using a Thoughful Tool to Communicate with Current and Future Students (PPT file) by Thomas Marrone (Southeast Missouri State University)
- A Day in the (Online) Life of a Humble News Release (PPT file) by Lori Packer (University of Rochester)
- Get a Clue: Shift Happens (PPT file) by Gordy Pace (The University of Montana)
- Feeding the Hand that Feeds You: Supporting Enrollment Efforts (PPT file) by Rob Liesland (Xavier University)
- Authenticity 101: Redefining College Marketing (PDF file) by Jeff Kalay (Target X)
Cool Web Thingies
- Web Accessibility: How Higher Education is Responding to the Need (PPT file) by Terry Thompson (University of Washington)
- Creating a College Web Style Guide: Principles, Processes, and Prototypes (ZIP file) by Jesse Racine (McHenry County College)
- Colors on the Web: Few Things, Great Results (Website) by Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel (University Anhembi Morumbi)
- The Accessible Video Interface (ZIP file) by Gabriel McGovern (Portland Community College)
- Card Sorting: Research That Every Web Developer Should Use (PPT file) by Douglas Tschopp (Augustana College)
- Search Engine Optimization 2008: Beyond META Tags (PPT file) by Brian Smith (University at Albany)
- New Initiatives in Web Standards Education (PDF file) by Chris Mills (Opera Software ASA)
- Hello, Is Anyone Out There? Using Web Analytics to Understand Your Audience by Kyle James (Wofford College)
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Projects (CMS, Redesign, etc.)
- Blogger + Jott = Crisis Communications (PPT file) by Paula Ganyard (University of Wisconsin – Green Bay)
- It Isn’t About the Feature Set: Selecting a Web Content Management System that Works for You (ZIP file) by Anthony Dunn (CSU, Chico)
- Our Pilot Adventure with Luminis IV Leading the Way (PPT file) by Sripriya Giridharan (Seton Hall University)
- Using Our Web CMS to Produce Academic Catalogs (PPT file) by Anne Macdonald (Suffolk University)
- Web Services for Web Services (PPT file) by Kevin Bischof (Xavier University)
- Designing a New User-Centric College Public Website: Lessons Learned (PPT file) by George Sackett (St. Louis Community College)
- Bedework Calendar Implementation Details (PDF file) by Cornelia Ann Bailey (University of Chicago)
- University-Wide Web CMS Implementation – Failure, Then Success (QuickTime Movie file) by James Buratti (Texas State University)
- Academic Alert System (PPT file) by Carla Bates (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
- Bold Fusion: Blending Our Marketing & IT Teams (PDF file) by Lee Staton (Indiana University Southeast)
- Migra(tio)n Headaches? (ZIP file) by Keith Slayden (Ithaca College)
- Wiki + Shared Drive + DocMgmt = Our Intranet (PDF file) by May Chang (University of Maryland)
- Getting Started with WordPress (Website) by Stephanie Leary (Texas A&M University Writing Center)
- A (pod) cast of hundreds (PPT file) by Steve Hodges (IUPUI)
- Webcasting (PPT file) by Joel Doepker (Ozarks Technical Community College)
- CRM Patterns, Puzzles & Prose: Bridging the gap for internal audiences (PPT file) by Paul Redfern (Gettysburg College)
- Identity Management: How and Why (PPT file) by Kirk M. Anne (SUNY Geneseo)
- CMS Success at Princeton University (ZIP file) by John Wagner (Princeton University)
- Vlogging Student Life Events (not as dirty as it sounds) (ZIP file) by Todd Sanders (UW-Green Bay)
Techies’ Corner
- Higher Ed on Rails (ZIP file) by Sven Aas (Mount Holyoke College)
- Cross-Site Scripting: What is it, and how can you protect your site from becoming a victim? (PPT file) by Paul Gilzow (University of Missouri)
- Why Microformats? (ZIP file) by Daniel M. Frommelt (University of Wisconsin – Platteville)
- Avoiding the JavaScript:void(‘’): Building Web Apps That Work Anywhere and Everywhere (PPT file) by Jason Pitoniak (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- Adding Interactive Content to Your Website Using JQuery (ZIP file) by Jaclyn Whitehorn (The University of Alabama)
- HTTP 201 – Or, What Happens When Your User-Agent Isn’t A Browser? (ZIP file) by Jason Woodward (Cornell University)
- Agile Web Development (PPT file) by C. Daniel Chase (University of Colorado)
- Test-driven Development for Web Applications (ZIP file) by Brett Bieber (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Driving a Hybrid: The Basics of Adobe AIR (ZIP file) by Christina Dulude (Duke University)
There was also some live blogging (and twittering) going on at the conference. Karlyn Morissette compiled most of the posts on the eduguru blog.
