Location:Dickinson Hall, FDU, Teaneck
Date: 2/8/2005
Cost: Free

Directions

For general directions to the FDU Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck , NJ

http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=227

The road will curve left toward an unoccupied guard shack. Park on the right, close to the footbridge over the river.

Walk over the footbridge to the five-story building on your left, Dickinson Hall.

http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=651

• Pre-Meeting
• Mission, Bylaws and Constitution Discussion
• DOCC Presentation
• Podcasting Presentation
• Comities

Pre-meeting:

Another reason for the consistent site design: Creates a demarcation between official school-sponsored & endorsed content and unofficial personal expression from people associated with the college. If your content is on an official college page, it carries the full weight and influence of the school.

Should the webmaster be in IT, Enrollment, or Marketing? Surely they work in all three areas, but they have to be organized into some reporting structure. Web advisory groups & committees allow for multiple departments to interface. Should there be an avoidance of committees? Large bureaucracy leads to slow changes, but allows for people to become comfortable with their choices. Many committees or advisory groups don’t know much about the web, so providing them with choices is necessary to smoothing workflow.

Below are some reports from the Pew./ Internet & American Life Project. The reports include:

“How Women and Men Use the Internet”
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Women_and_Men_online.pdf

“Search Engine Use”"Teens and Technology”
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_SearchData_1105.pdf

“Podcasting”
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_podcasting.pdf

TCNJ’s Web Initiatives leverages Macromedia templates for web content management for administrative and academic sites. Information Technology develops and deploys standards compliant xhtml/css templates with Macromedia Dreamweaver and Cold Fusion. Templates allow the development team to write code, provide information architecture solutions, and design layout elements for various platforms. Administrative Departments develop web content with Macromedia Contribute which features: User Profiles, Check In/Check Out, Roll Back Versions, conversion of Microsoft Documents into xhtml and accessibility enforcement. Design Patterns and our Macromedia Contribute Tutorial work together seamlessly to offer design resources for our web content providers.

Last April 27, 2005 a dozen or so webmasters joined educational technologists at Brookdale Community College for the 2005 Website Accessibility Leadership Academy. Those who attended (and I assume a few others) got the following email invitation to attend this year’s event. We post it here to inform you and to ask you to spread the word to your colleagues.

I went last year, and I’ll be checking my calendar to see if I can go again this year.

To register, visit …
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ped/northeastada/events/

This posts will be dedicated to NJHEWA, its membership, and the exteneded community and will cover topics of web site content, technology, policy and personnel in addition to NJHEWA business items.

The audience will be members, prospective members and interested higher education personnel in and outside of the state of New Jersey. Other readers will be providers of content, technology, policy and personnel.

Posts will be added after each meeting (every other month) and whenever topical opportunites occur.

The blog will serve as one communication tool for the association and its audience.