Buzz Archives: Education
W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is offering the online training course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices from May 26 - June 20, 2008. The course is free, registration is open, but limited.
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 4th, 2008
- Education Task Force Curriculum Survey
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The Web Standards Project Education Task Force has created a curriculum survey and seeks input from educational professionals.
By Rob Dickerson | June 13th, 2007
- The Web Standards Documentary Project
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Aarron Walter, a faculty member of The Art Institute of Atlanta, launches The Web Standards Documentary Project.
By Rob Dickerson | April 20th, 2007
- Spring Fling
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April 5, 2007 sees the Highland Fling in Edinburgh, Scotland - a one-day conference aimed at web developers and businesses with an interest in web standards and accessibility.
By Derek Featherstone | March 27th, 2007
- Advocacy in Education
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Hailing from Sweden, Lars Gunther, (relatively unknown to the Web guru world), takes on a sizable challenge and project to educate and advocate Web standards and curriculum change in his country’s educational system.
By Rob Dickerson | September 26th, 2006
- Accessibility Webcast on Plone
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Many developers in the education field are moving to open source content management software solutions for a variety of reasons, including: better standards/accessibility support, and a growing community and network of resources and help. The National Center on Disability & Access to Education recently hosted a webcast case study of one such solution, Plone.
By Holly Marie Koltz | September 2nd, 2006
- Back to School, Back to Reality
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As a student of Interactive Media Design at the Art Institute of Dallas, Texas, Blake Elshire learned CSS as part of his course, then discovered that not all students were quite as charmed by the technology as he was. He shares his thoughts and insights with WaSP EduTF.
By Rob Dickerson | August 28th, 2006
- New book: Web Accessibility - Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
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Those who remember the (now defunct) seminal Glasshaus book Accessible Web Sites may be interested to know that friends of ED have just released a completely reworked and expanded successor: Web Accessibility - Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance.After an overview of the accessibility law and guidelines, and a discussion about ...
By Patrick Lauke | August 20th, 2006
- Flash, JavaScript, UX, standards, apologia, apologies, and one man’s opinions
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The recent discussion of plug-in implementation, here and elsewhere, points to broader issues that affect everyone who is invested in web standards adoption.
By Ben Henick | August 18th, 2006
- On Quality Education
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“What college or university has a good program for Web Development (or Design)?” is a question frequently encountered on mailing lists, in forums, or in conversations with others. Many would like to know the answer.
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 24th, 2006
- Educating Web Professionals
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José Trudel instructs students with a focus on emerging technologies, standards, and skills; providing a strong foundation needed for today’s web professional.
By Rob Dickerson | May 22nd, 2006
- Notre Dame Web Group
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Lead Web developer Steve Smith and the University of Notre Dame Web Group tackle web standards and accessibility in original and exciting ways.
By Holly Marie Koltz | April 12th, 2006
- Accessibility First - A Novel Teaching Method
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Educator Brian Rosmaita proposes an ‘accessibility first’ approach for teaching web design.
By Ian Lloyd | March 20th, 2006
- Queen's New Clothes
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WaSP eduTF interviews Tim Hannigan on Queen’s University’s conversion to Web standards.
By Steph Troeth | March 13th, 2006
- Kudos to Michigan State
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Michigan State University launched a redesign of its Web site, yesterday. Designed and developed with best practices that follow Web Standards and Web Accessibiity, the university Web site looks good and validates to the XHTML strict doctype. The redesign involved the teamwork of the MSU Libraries, Computing, and ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | February 28th, 2006
- Web Standards in Small Organisations
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I don’t really make resolutions at new year, but perhaps if I did it should be this. To be more actively involved in the organisations I care about in making sure that they get solid advice about the web. Most of us likely have some kind of contact with a small ...
By Drew McLellan | January 30th, 2006
- Pandora’s Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions
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This Thanksgiving I’ve decided it’s about time that I provided some more background and analysis on one of the things I am certainly unintentionally (in)famous for.
By Tantek Çelik | November 27th, 2005
- Beyond New Professionalism
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In Molly's recent WaSP buzz, Web Standards and The New Professionalism she offers: Today, I want to express that I believe that this new professionalism means taking responsibility for the education of ourselves and each other, and ensuring that reversions like Disney Store UK never happen again. As part of the ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | November 16th, 2005
- WaSP Welcomes Sweden
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The WaSP Education Task Force welcomes Lars Gunther as our liaison to Sweden. Lars is working with Skolverket (Swedish Language), Sweden's national agency for schools, to encourage the adoption of Web standards in their curriculum reform project for Gymnasium (Swedish Language) scheduled for launch in 2007. Gymnasium is similar to ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | September 10th, 2005
- Welcome an Event Apart
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Zeldman and Meyer are two names that will always pack a punch when it comes to being shapers of the Web, particularly when it comes to standards. Now, they've teamed up for the long-awaited, content-rich Event Apart. Having worked side by side with Eric for many years, I know how much ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | September 6th, 2005
- Harnessing the Power of User Groups
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Web sites in a university environment are, more often than not, micro-managed within individual faculties, colleges and administrative units. It stands to reason; each department is often responsible for their own content. However, it is a common problem that resources are not evenly spread across the different areas of an academic ...
By Steph Troeth | September 6th, 2005
- Frommelt: Pioneering Web Standards in Higher Ed
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One of the common hurdles in converting university and college sites to Web standards is due to a decentralized system of Web development within the organization. Daniel Frommelt is the World Wide Web Coordinator for the University of Wisconsin–Platteville and has been instrumental in converting their Web site to XHTML. However, ...
By Steph Troeth | August 1st, 2005
- WaSP Interviews Dr. Vito Evola
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The web has long since moved out of the IT and design departments and become a pervasive communications medium. As a result, top-notch minds from other disciplines have begun to help make it more robust, vibrant and just plain useful than before. Dr. Evola has one of these minds. He's applying ...
By Chris Kaminski | July 13th, 2005
- Hiram College Conversion
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A college website, multiple authors, and web standards — how can it be done? The WaSP Education Task Force asked Jonathan Linczak, webmaster and project lead, about the conversion of Hiram College to a standards-compliant website. Jon had been reading about and using standards on sites he had developed before he ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | June 2nd, 2005
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W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 4th, 2008
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is offering the online training course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices from May 26 - June 20, 2008. The course is free, registration is open, but limited.
This course is aimed at experienced Web developers and designers who are interested in learning to develop content for mobile Web access using W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices.
Participants will have access to lectures and assignments providing hands-on practical experience with using W3C’s mobile Web Best Practices. They will have direct access to W3C experts on this topic who are the instructors for this course. Participants will also be able to discuss and share experiences with their peers who are faced with the challenges of mobile Web design.
For more information about the course, instructors, topics, and to view a free sample course, visit Online Training Course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices
Thanks also go to Henny Swan for posting an entry about this on her site at Want to Get Your Content Mobile.
Update: Registration is full and now closed.
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