This is my report on “Breaking the Frame of Web Design” Presented by Fritz McDonald.
Fritz is the Creative Director at Stamats. He supervises web and print designers as well as writers. His ideas regarding breaking out of the web design “frame” are influenced in part by author Brendan Dawes.
(Fritz McDonald begins his talk.)
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For better or worse I’ve been buried in video-land for the past several days. Bossman and I decided that it would be nice to have some video content in time for the new design launch. Being that I’ve never done anything with video, I’ve been cramming.
It’s been a lot of fun. I’m [...]
The Washington Post has some expanded coverage this morning on the speech that US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings delivered yesterday. (Read the original Education Department advisory committee’s report.) I highly suggest you read the article, and I hope no one has any confusion about how much a federal college report card would change [...]
(If you’re coming in to the middle of this, please have a look here first.)
Andrew Careaga over at Higher Ed Marketing weighs in with some coverage of the Margaret Spelling’s speech. He uses a poignant quote from the Chronicle article:
At times during the interview, Ms. Spellings seemed exasperated by the response of higher-education officials [...]
From CCN Article: Spellings backs ideas to simplify college choices (or you can grab some news from the Chronicle free for once.)
Handed a plan to shake up college life in America, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is endorsing some of its key ideas [...]
High on her list is the creation of a massive information system [...]
Those of you who use Google’s free Public Service Search feature to power your school’s site search may have noticed that the service has been squirrelly lately (your site template is gone for one thing). The good people on the uwebd list have pointed out why:
Exploit in the Site Search service
and
Google’s Response
I heard rumors [...]
Getting back into the thick of things after a nice little vacation. Lots to catch up on.
There are some excellent new blogs on my roll. Robert “Bob” McPeak, creator of the incredible Goucher College website, has a blog full of fun things. Bob Johnson has a blog on internet marketing for higher [...]
The Chronicle released a very interesting article (sub. req.) on how an anonymous faculty member’s blog contributed to the downfall of the President of SUNY College of Technology at Alfred.
The blog, which administrators including Ms. Gupta said they barely read, claimed that it was “a last-ditch effort to bring about a dialogue about the future [...]
Coming to us via a newspaper blog (?), here’s a piece about how the Princeton Review rankings affected one high school student’s search.
The result is, as the Princeton Review says, “that which a college admissions viewbook by its very nature can never really achieve—an uncensored view of life at a particular college.” And they’re right. [...]
If you work at a college or university on the socially liberal end of the student spectrum, you may have heard the word “community” used frequently with a kind of idealistic fervency. We encourage community at Warren Wilson. We espouse a system of shared governance. We craft “Community Meetings” to help students [...]
There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.
Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…
