In our first video back in a while, we introduce our new format as well as do a roundup of major sites teaching web design and development online.

Welcome to Required Listening, the weekly show for web students and teachers. I’m your host, Prof. Zac Gordon and today I would like to welcome our guest, Aarron Walter, to the show. Aarron is Lead User Experience Designer at MailChimp, a regular speaker at Events like An Event Apart, and author of Designing for Emotion. However, today, Aarron and I will be talking specifically about his time working as a lead on the Web Standards Project InterACT curriculum project.

In this episode we discuss, in depth, the topic of hosting for web design and development students and recommend the Student Web Hosting Company.

In this show we talk with former host and web student extraordinaire, Kyle Cotter, about the 2012 Student Web Conference.

In our last recording from Springbrook High School we wrap up on the school year, get technical with HTML5 video and JavaScript, run through the latest web news, update you on the latest from Think Vitamin Video membership, recommend some sweetness (sort of) and drop word on our next series: Real Web Students.

In this video we cover the latest from the classroom, get technical with CSS advanced selectors, and cover the latest web news.

In this short episode we recap our series on "The Pros' Education", skip webucation, and cover the latest web news from the week.

In our last of the series "Pro's Education" we talk with local web celeb, Dave DeSandro about his education background and how they influences what he does today. Of course, we also cover the latest from the classroom and the weekly web news.

Continuing our series on the Pro's Education, we talk with Vector Media Group's Matt Weinberg about how learning music and business in school affects him as a web strategist and developer today. We also talk about the latest from the classroom and the weeks web news.

Continuing our series of asking web professionals what they studied and how it affects their job today, we talk with Dan Philibin about how he learned what he knows and what his plans are for after high school. Of course, we also go over what's current in the classroom and the latest web news.