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JOBS: User Experience instructors for Washtenaw Community College classes (fwd)
Dan Cooney forwarded this on from the MOCHI list. Good to see
what they're teaching at WCC, and if you know this stuff there's the chance to teach a ready-made course. thanks Ed ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dan Cooney <dcooney@...> Anyone on the MOCHI list interested in teaching at Washtenaw? ------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:30 PM -0400 From: "Withrow, Jason" < jwithrow@...> Subject: User Experience instructors for Washtenaw Community College classes ...you may know of some people qualified to teach the Designing User Experience classes at Washtenaw Community College. At this point we need an instructor for the evening section of INP 153: Designing User Experience I (Thursdays 6-8:55 pm) and the daytime section of INP 203: Designing User Experience II (Tuesdays from 9-11:55 am). INP 153 focuses on information architecture while INP 203 is the usability methods class. I wrote an article for Boxes and Arrows describing the courses: The skillset and concepts taught in INP 153 are: - User needs analysis and user research - Personas - Competitive analysis - Navigation / content / labeling - Card sorting - Site diagramming - UI design and wireframes - Within-site search and SEO - Content design The skillset and concepts taught in INP 203 are: - User testing - Heuristic evaluation - Cognitive and pluralistic walkthroughs - Task analysis - GOMS analysis - Storyboarding and prototyping - Style guides - Thesauri and controlled vocabularies - Accessibility - Working in the user experience field Lectures for both INP 153 and INP 203 will be provided to the instructor, as well as labs and other assignments, so preparation time should be minimal. I look forward to hearing from you! Thanks, Jason ------------------------------------------------- Jason Withrow Department Chair Internet Professional Department Washtenaw Community College BE 229 jwithrow@... courses.wccnet.edu/~jwithrow ------------------------------------------------- ------_=_NextPart_001_01C69F1A.2419F9E2-- ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- -- Daniel Cooney |
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lunch non-summary for 7/6/06
Thanks to everyone who came. We were at a record
attendance of 14, and as such & with a lot of new people there were introductions all around. I won't try to summarize everything but... Larry Kestenbaum circulated a sample ballot that will be used for voting access for the visually impaired and for others with difficulty with standard ballots. Corissa Demetrius (sp?) and Andy Petersen were there with news from Menlo Innovations and "high tech anthropology". Matt Hampel is starting school at U Michigan next fall and isn't sure whether to study a European or an Asian language. John Remmers is playing ragtime piano. Mary Remmers was interested in my descriptions of arborparents, and we talked some about the challenges of maintaining open community sites online & how some individuals can dominate discussions. Katherine Lawrence is on the lookout for space near campus that could be rennovated to support a non-profit that promotes innovation. Nat Poor is looking to move to NYC to be a telecom analyst. Tom Meloche wants you to take a look at his new project, Studytag. Dan Cooney was at the far end of the table so I didn't get to talk to him much; hi Dan! Jim Elliott is working on building a prototype of his golfing community site. Lance Carlson noted how small differences in page layout can make a big difference in how search engines rank pages & thus how valuable the Google ad revenue is for those pages. Andy Brush was at the far end of the table and I didn't get to talk to him much either; hi Andy! thanks everyone Ed |
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topic for lunch: geographic information systems
You never really know how lunch conversations will turn out,
but I'd like to suggest a topic to cover for this one, namely geographic information systems. With Google Earth providing a convenient framework for decorating the planet with your data, and locator systems like Plazes figuring out where you are, there should be all kinds of good stuff out there to see and do. Of particular interest to me at the moment is to figure out who nearby has used the new Google Earth Pro, any of the ESRI tools, or anything else that combines geographical visualizations with analytical tools. thanks for any hints - see you tomorrow - pity the U wiped out its geography department years ago - Ed Edward Vielmetti Ann Arbor, MI emv@... |
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a2b3 weekly meeting, 6/29/2006, 11:45 am
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a2b3 weekly meeting, 6/29/2006, 11:45 am
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Welcome Jim Schreiber to the lunch list
Please welcome Jim Schreiber to the lunch list.
Jim is a U of Michigan undergraduate (history and computer science) and is originally from Chicago. I met him in a classic friend-of-a-friend style online, through a new blogging tool called Vox. Jim says by way of self-introduction I love to cook and I'm a huge baseball fan. Interested in technology law. thanks & see you some Thursday Ed |
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welcome to new a2b3 members in the last month
I'll try to keep this more up to date in the future, but
as a start, here's a little welcome message for a group of people who have joined the lunch group in the past month. I sent out a big message to a bunch of people I know in Ann Arbor, hence this activity since June 1: Bob Kuehne is a friend from far enough back that I don't remember how I met him. He's the person behind Blue Newt which does high performance graphics and media applications. Ayca Aksu is a masters student at the U of Michigan School of Information. Her summer project is RideNow which offers ride sharing to anyone who wants to get anywhere (esp. if your destination is the School of Information or the airport). Andy King runs Web Site Optimization which helps organizations make web sites that work better, are faster to load, and have better performance. I've been helping him produce the Bandwidth Report a monthly roundup of network speeds and access news from around the world. Mary Remmers is a founder of Cyberspace Communications, which operates Grex one of the longest running online conferences running on the Internet. John Remmers is also a founder of Grex, and a professor of computer science at Eastern Michigan University I know John and Mary from back in the day when a 2400 baud modem was fast. Victoria Green is a neighbor in Lower Burns Park and a fellow participant on the arborparents list. Her kids are about the same age as mine, and she lives on a lovely little one block long street that is my vision of what a neighborhood street should be. Andy Seidl runs MyST Technologies, a company that has developed an XML based publishing system that they use to host blogsites I first met Andy back in the 1980s when we both were part of the Washtenaw Area Zenith Users group. Gary M. Olson is the Paul M. Fitts Collegiate Professor of Human Computer Interaction Fitts' law (from 1954) models human movement, predicting how long it takes to reach a target. Fitts' Law: The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target. there's a good discussion of it from AskTog: thanks everyone and welcome; I'll try to send out future welcome messages in something more resembling real time. Ed |
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Del.icio.us research, $20 (2 lunches!) for 1.5 hrs survey
If you are a delicious user, you can earn $20 for
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participating in a study of the service being done at the U of Michigan School of Information. I'm including Rick's entire message here (with a few bits elided) for context. thanks Ed ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rick Wash <rwash@...> Date: Jun 23, 2006 2:27 AM Subject: Re: Del.icio.us research To: Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> Cc: Emilee Rader <ejrader@...> Hi Ed, The end of the semester was good, though we were not really able to do much work on the del.icio.us project. However, this summer is different. Right now we are in the process of conducting interviews, which are yielding some very interesting data so far. We'll let you know what we see in them once we get a chance to transcribe and analyze them, but everyone so far uses delicious in very different ways. We are also working on a short paper that studies del.icio.us in relation to the vocabulary problem that Furnas et. al. studied 20 years ago*. I'll send on a copy soon when we finish writing it. I was wondering if you could do us a favor? You are pretty central in a social network sense, and we could use some more subjects for our interviews about del.icio.us. Can you send out an email (is there a good mailing list?) to anyone you know who might be willing to be subjects in our delicious study? The subjects need to be in Ann Arbor and be mostly regular users of delicious. They get $20 for participating, and the interviews usually last 1.5 hours. Here's the text of the flyers we have posted around: --- Do you usedel.icio.us? You could receive $20.00 for participating in a user study! Researchers at the University of Michigan are conducting a study about tagging and del.icio.us, and they want to interview users in the Ann Arbor area. Interested? Send email to Emilee Rader and Rick Wash at delicious.study@... for more information. --- Thanks, Rick Wash * Furnas, G. W., Landauer, T. K., Gomez, L. M., and Dumais, S. T. 1987. The vocabulary problem in human-system communication. Commun. ACM 30, 11 (Nov. 1987), 964-971. DOI= On 4/28/06, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:
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XML talk today at 3pm
what I'm up to late this afternoon - thanks Ed
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: carlrc@... <carlrc@...> Date: Jun 22, 2006 10:23 AM Subject: XML talk today at 3pm To: si.cic.all@... Today (6/22) at 3pm in the West Hall Connector conference room Edward Vielmetti, the organizer of the Community Information Corps, will be talking about XML. XML is the infrastructure of modern data exchange! Come learn about the history, developing standards and the power it has to change information into something more meaningful. Dale Hunscher will support the talk and take apart some XML to look at what its made of and talk about XML databases and XML tranformations. For more info see: This is the third talk in a summer series that meets every other Thursday at 3pm. When: Today 3pm Where: Cullington Room (West Hall Connector Conference Room) 3rd floor West Hall What: XML talk with Edward Vielmetti and Dale Hunscher |
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a2b3 weekly meeting, 6/22/2006, 11:45 am
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Re: Ann Arbor Bi Bim Bop (a2b3) @ 11:45 AM Thu, Jun 22, Eastern Accents
On the short list of invitees for this event are
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my sons Saul and Jonathan - we'll all see you there. Ed On 22 Jun 2006 00:45:13 -0700, robot@... <robot@...> wrote:
Hi, this is the event reminder you requested! |
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Re: a2b3 weekly meeting, 6/22/2006, 11:45 am
non-agenda for the week
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- social money with billmonk - social books with librarything - social spying with the NSA - How do you keep your calendar? - Cell phones, threat or menace? and whatever else people have in mind Ed On 6/21/06, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielmetti@...> wrote:
Looking forward to seeing everyone this week. |
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Re: a2b3 weekly meeting, 6/22/2006, 11:45 am
Looking forward to seeing everyone this week.
I'm going to be trying a new protocol for the lunch - I'll get there early, make some arrangements, and collect money at the table (suggested $10) to pay for lunch. That will leave a little extra for a tip, and it will help me see just what kind of tab we actually do ring up all together. One time only test, if it works out we can adjust etc. Please also do bring some kind of business card or something with you for me to collect - I'm sometimes not able to accurately remember everyone at the table and there are some new faces who i'm not convinced are always on the mailing list. thansk Ed On 21 Jun 2006 16:55:17 -0000, a2b3@... <a2b3@...> wrote: Copyright (c) 2006 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service |
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a2b3 weekly meeting, 6/22/2006, 11:45 am
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Re: bi bim bop locations in town
Ah, yes - that place also serves ice cream -
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I was in there once. Rod's Diner. Ed On 6/16/06, Sam <nycshim@...> wrote:
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