High Ed Hangout

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High Ed Hangout episodes:

June 27, 2016HEH 5: I’m Not a Nerd, Nerds are Smart
Page-turn PDF viewers, smartphone apps, virtual tours, and how The University of Waterloo protects its students from geese.
Magazine page turning (PDF viewers)
Not accessible
“If we use it we could be sued”
Create dynamic web content as an alternative
Re-purpose source material into new and interesting interfaces (tablet/smartphone/magic new device)
University Smartphone Apps
Use cases (vs app-like website)
Who builds the app? Why isn’t it a full-time job commitment?
GVSU: central web builds APIs, computer science class maintains/updates app features each year
http://goose-watch.uwaterloo.ca
Virtual tours
360 VR Camera
http://kodakpixpro.com/Americas/cameras/actioncam/sp3604k/
Youtube 360 examples:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzuqhhs6NWbgTzMuM09WKDQ
Student-generated content? Gallery of 360 degree shots of campus.
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57min
June 20, 2016HEH 4: Just Smashing…
Highlights from the Smashing Conference in New York, Custom 404 pages, beautiful calligraphy and more.
Smashing Conference Update from Scott and Dan
http://smashingconf.com/ny-2016/schedule
Design for touch
Future input devices (touch+keyboard/mouse, voice, etc.)
Design everything bigger: touch first
Can’t assume based solely on screensize alone anymore
SVG
Responsive SVG
Shared pattern language
Take an interface, cut it up
Sort elements into like piles
Share with team to help name the piles
Apply common language for element naming
Physical interfaces
http://bluetoothbeacons.com/
Seb Lester (Calligraphy)
https://www.instagram.com/seblester/
http://www.seblester.com/
CSS Modules
Reduce long selectors
Each selector is given a unique name
Templating library converts
CSS Source Mapping
Custom 404
Entertaining or useful?
Tracking?
Pages have moved
Self-reporting
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1h 2min
June 08, 2016HEH 3: Strongly a Booger Head
Learn how the (high ed) hangout got started with the HEH! origin story. Site performance: Dan spills his guts on how he got a 100 on the Google page-speed test.
UrbanDictionary Word of the Day: Breastie?
Origin Story (SXSW 2007, 2008)
Mobile admission application experiences
How do you plan for web groups
Audiences
Presentations?
Site (Dan’s) Performance
https://www.ampproject.org/
Client-side caching
srcset and sizes
Image compression
100/100 on Google Bay-bee!
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1h 12min
May 30, 2016HEH 2: Is your site accessible?
This episode takes a deep dive into accessibility and how we try to keep our sites accessible.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.0 AA is the rule for all our schools
SiteImprove (GVSU, UALR)
Compliance Sherif (Iowa)
We need a tool that checks on the fly for content editors – or an API into existing checkers.
Training should be provided to content editors with a mention of accessibility.
How do you re-priorities the resources for training?
Recent lawsuits make it hard to react.
Captioning Video – it’s easy for short videos and really tough (expensive) to do longer lectures etc.
Youtube captioning tool
SubtitleEdit
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59min
May 23, 2016HEH 1: Yeesh, who still uses Firefox?!?
Site search options, browsers, computer platform of choice, and more…
Site Search (what do you use?)
Google Custom search with a Google Appliance at GVSU
Library Search (collections vs. website)
Firefox or Chrome?
Safari is the new IE
Everyone uses Chrome now (except for Scott, who likes his plugins)
What machines do the Geeks use?
All Mac, no Windows
Let’s analyze Apple…
Are They simplifying too much with MacOS?
...more
56min
May 16, 2016HEH 0: Take a Ride on the Carousel
OK, here we go… the very first hangout!
The geeks talk web carousels, site navigation and how to determine your site audience.
Carousels
Homepage Audience?
Prospective students?
Current students?
Athletics fans?
Alumni?
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1h 1min

FAQs about High Ed Hangout:

How many episodes does High Ed Hangout have?

The podcast currently has 66 episodes available.