Words of wisdom from a combustable amphibian.
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 information
user-defined tags - once sets of [...]
Popularity: 16% [?]
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 next few [...]
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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 you’ll see [...]
Popularity: 13% [?]
Facebook
Came to this session a bit late since I was posting my last set of notes. This is a packed room. People are standing around the door. I just lucked out and was able to grab a chair from someone who left.
Universities are starting to use the Facebook API to add their own apps. Pen [...]
Popularity: 13% [?]
We Don’t Make the Rules: Developing User-centered Tutorial for First Year Students
Academic integrity – Miami University committee came up with a report w/12 recommendations. It was determined that there needed to be instruction in incoming freshmen, but there was no time in the student schedule to add yet another course just for AI. So they [...]
Popularity: 11% [?]
