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Comment on Middlebury Stories by Middlebury Web Context « MiddBlog

Middlebury Web Context « MiddBlog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:08:02 +0000

[...] Blog. Have something to say about the trees and landscape at Midd? MiddLand. So, start a blog, submit a story, talk about your experience abroad but do so with context as to who else at Middlebury is working [...]

Comment on Survey Results by Survey

Survey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:40:13 +0000

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Comment on LS Stories by Online Youtube Video Converter

Online Youtube Video Converter — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:58:41 +0000

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Comment on Survey of Prospective Students and Families by Mazzola

Mazzola — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:58:38 +0000

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Comment on Unveiled homepage mockups for middlebury.edu by Loraine Joye

Loraine Joye — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:20:57 +0000

Hey great post, I certainly enjoyed it, in particular about the 2nd commentary that you made. The only thing I have to point out to you would be viewing the website through the Konquerer browser… for various reason it doesn’t seem to load the web site in addition to the sidebar seems to break – might want to check that out!

Comment on Designing the next levels: Section Homepages by Social Science Advisory Group – Notes from Fall 2009 Mtg. « LIS Advisory Groups

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:09:19 +0000

[...] reviewed more designs from White Whale (the company that is designing the website). The latest presentation from White Whale can be viewed on the Web Makeover Blog, where you can find more detailed [...]

Comment on Designs for Academic Departments and Faculty Profiles by Ian

Ian — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:49:57 +0000

The way we implemented faculty profiles for the Monterey Institute site allowed editors to set a line of content as a heading and create their own labels for “Expertise”, “Publications”, “Languages Spoken” or other sections of relevant information with the understanding that different faculty will need to display different categories. I see no reason to change that model for the Middlebury faculty profiles.

The sole exception is Courses. We are in the process of developing a new Course Catalog which combines the course information from Banner with course descriptions. The Courses sections on the faculty profile would be an automatic list of the courses taught in the current semester, likely with a link to browse the professor’s course history. As this information is being pulled out of a database it won’t be an editable section of the page and will need to appear in the same position on each page.

Comment on Designs for Academic Departments and Faculty Profiles by Jason Mittell

Jason Mittell — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:14:19 +0000

Miguel – there will be templates for departmental pages, and users will find the editing interface much simpler than what we’ve become used to. I don’t think much will be different in design & look between various faculty profile pages, as we need some uniformity in content and layout.

Barbara – we’ve added a “Recent Accomplishments” list between Teaching and Activities/Orgs on the faculty profile page. This will feed a range of accomplishments, from awards to publications, grants to performances – all entered by the faculty member with the ability to choose what gets highlighted. We don’t want to be too specific with categories, as not all fit each faculty member (e.g. grants vs. pubs vs. performances), and changing the available fields is not a simple self-service task.

Comment on Designs for Academic Departments and Faculty Profiles by Barbara Hofer

Barbara Hofer — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:31:43 +0000

Just looked at the faculty template and I’m wondering if the categories are set or if we have flexibility in creating them. The sample one has only two subheads: “Courses” and “Activities and Organizations”. I’m puzzled about whether this is how faculty are best identified. How about “Research” (brief description, with links as needed) and “Teaching”, maybe also “Publications” (perhaps a sample list) and then other boxes we can create as we wish? I suspect our faculty web sites are used more by people outside the institution than within, and it would be useful to have research featured explicitly, not just tucked into the intro.

Comment on Designs for Academic Departments and Faculty Profiles by Molly

Molly — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:08:13 +0000

Two thoughts:

While the current content is not as it will be, I do hope there will be some heavy duty attention paid to proof reading for grammatical reading ease, at least initially. For example: such long compound sentence structures to describe departments feels like your forcing the sentence to include everything possible, including the kitchen sink.

Other than that, I honestly cannot wait until the website is unveiled. I especially like the links to blogs and other projects and research going on that will give great insight into Midd life. Hopefully, the cuts in staff and faculty won’t stagnate what promises to be a dynamic and evolving peek into the School; Keeping it fresh will take some effort. I also like where it’s possible to get to a more visual insight with a “about this picture” link.