TechTalks Event
Update on Web Developments
with guest expert Howard Strauss
May 13, 1999
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What comes after HTML? Is XML really going to take off and revolutionize everything. How much attention should you pay to the issues of Web "accessibility." Where will we benefit from bigger pipelines? Will we ever establish "community" online? What tools are best for faculty to start with? What are your most effective searching methods? Which search engine should you use to index your site?
Guest Experts
Howard
Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton University,
is as close as anyone on the globe to the pulse of what's happening
now on the World Wide Web as it relates to higher education—managing
our institutions, enhancing learning, publishing documents and data,
and what it takes to make all that happen.
If you're an IT professional in higher education, the odds are pretty good that you've taken a workshop from him or attended one of his presentations at many, many conferences and meetings. Strauss is featured on CREN's Virtual Seminar CD Untangling the Web, which you can sample online.
By accessing this week's "TechTalk" session with your computer Thursday afternoon, you can listen to him bring us up to date with the latest developments on the Web—what's new, what's hot, what are you going to have to learn to do next!
Co-Host
Laurie
Burns Sitting in for Judith
Boettcher today, this event's Guest Co-Host, Laurie Burns, is director
of Customer Relations and Support at the University of Michigan.
Her group provides general computing support services to the university,
including computing sites, help desks, and contract desktop and
systems administrator support.�
Joining Laurie is Co-Host Greg Marks of Merit Network.
Background & Resources
Howard says "the best book on HTML is" HTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano, Bill Kennedy, Mike Loukides (Editors).
Some of Howard's own online resources you can access:
- The Future of the Web, Intelligent Devices, and Education
- Finding Things On The Web
- HTML Basics - How to Use It
- Introduction to XML eXtensible Markup Language
- Howard highly recommends Hotwired's WebMonkey site.
- WC3 Technical Reports and Specifications—current recommendations, working drafts, and notes about where HTML is going and related items
- XML and the Second-Generation Web by Jon Bosak and Tim Bray in Scientific American, May 1999
- Digital Video for the Next Millennium is a white paper from the Video Development Initiative
- Information Technology Tools and The Future of Teaching and Learning: An Interview with Gary Staunch by James Morrison in The Technology Source, May 1999
- WC3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Creating Community Online by Sharon G. Solloway and Edward L. Harris in Educom Review, April-May 1999
- A Guide to Effective Online Searches by Joe Scuderi in IT Times, November 1998
- Sites Must Serve Customers by Richard Karpinski in InternetWeek, April 1999
