Flametoad

11 am Tuesday session I have handouts for this presentation, and the slides will be on the conference website in the coming weeks. This session was presented by someone from Yale, who recently implemented the search appliance. Google won’t budge much on their price. "Hey, we’re Yale. Cut us a deal." "Hey you’re Yale, you [...]

Tuesday 9:15 session This presentation is being given by Martha Gabriel remotely (in Second Life for visuals and traditional telephone line for voice) from Brazil. The slides are available (or will be) online www.martha.com.br/presentations/sl2007. The presenter displayed her powerpoint presentation from within SL on a giant screen. People who use Second Life say that it [...]

8:15 session What  XML allows us to separate content from design even much more than HTML and CSS. XML is extensible for all types of data. Unlinke HTML, XML’s purpose is to organize data. XML is… containment – all data is contained within a tag structure an organization of data – uses tags to organize [...]

By now I’ve been to four or five other sessions today, so my note-taking is going to start becoming more brief. Furthermore, I have handouts of the presentation so I don’t need to copy as much from the screen. We in higher ed only about halfway through the millennial generation.  Due to demographics, in the [...]

Card sort is used to find trends in how website visitors expect navigation to work. At its most basic, your research group takes a stack of index cards and sorts the terms on the cards into piles based on navigation structure. Quantitative analysis “I have a stack of cards. These cards represents terms of links [...]