UNC CAUSE 2010
8 - 11 Nov 2010
at Hilton Wilmington Riverside
Talk comments
I'm not sure what the anonymous commenter meant about FERPA. All of the data sets I mentioned in my slides were about real world public data - the location of parking, housing, dining, computer labs. It's already published on web sites and in PDFs by every campus in the UNC System. No student information is exposed in any way. The only theory I have is that the commenter was worried about geoloction. Current map geolocation APIs (not to be confused with location based services like Gowalla / Foursquare / Facebook) only shows the current user of a device to see the device's location (based on GPS, cell tower triangulation, or IP address), and only if you allow it. The functionality doesn't point out to anyone else that "student Jane is here now in this parking lot".
Very, very informative, I am now more alert (and a little scared) than ever. It is a brave man who is willing to expose the weaknesses under his watch to prevent the rest of us from having to undergo his pain.
Thank you Dennis.
It's amazing that you can accomplish so much with students. We can all learn from you techniques.
This was a very helpful session. Matt even customized it at the last minute to address specific interests in the room.
To me, this was the best session at the conference. Dr. Saunders-White essentially gave her audience a guidebook detailing the thought processes of senior administrators.
Dynamic oration and key information combined to create one of the finest forty-five minutes in conference history. Dr. Saunders-White should develop a whole seminar series on this subject.
Agree with most of the above. Presentation well done. A lot of info covered in a too little time (as is often the case). Still, it got me excited about trying out some of what this new Google technology has to offer (just hope I can find the time to try some of this stuff out). Will be looking for the slideshow for resources info.
Thanks
light and tasty
Excellent presentation. Nice to hear a focused, and data driven approach to working with clients who have their own vision for what they want their website to look like. One of our graphic designers asked me the question after a researcher presented a colorful, overly active site as what she wanted her site to look like, "would she ever present herself [dress like] that to her peers?"
Nice change of perspective to look at things like 'mobile first' (for site organization), designing the home page last, doing usability tests to see what people actually came to the site to do. [thank you for http://fivesecondtest.com/]
How to communicate this to the client is still a challenge however, I now feel like I have more resources to support me in questioning what it is that the client really wants from their site.
It was very helpful to have the input/evaluation from the two presenters, each of whom had a slightly different experience/take on the same product, each having implemented different features/possibilities for this product. One was focused on an Institute of 350-400 users and the other 8,000 - 9,000 users. The setup for the two was different. Besides exploring the many features available for this product in some detail, just seeing how two different universities were using this product, each having different expectations was helpful [that is if I was a network manager].
Great presentation, with lots of specific strategies to improve the content our editors create. I learned more from this presentation than just about any other.