April 17, 2006
Building your site: Tertiary pages—When more is more
In the Planning your Web site articles I wrote on first and secondary pages, I recommended not overwhelming the user with too many choices or too much information. That less is more approach works very well to ensure that critical information is not lost in a crowd of words, and helps us set up an easy to maneuver navigational system. But as we get deeper into specific areas of the site, our goals and strategies change. Once we have carefully guided our visitors to our third, fourth and deeper level pages, it is time to reward them with in-depth...
April 03, 2006
Listening to academic podcasts: Who would and why? Part I
Friday on Management Professor Notes II, Professor Piderit wrote, "Jeremy Smith writes that Case has been accepted into Apple's iTunes University program, which sounds exciting... as long as it doesn't mean that students stop coming to my class." Instead of worrying about this, she (and her commenters) then focused on ways to make classroom attendance worthwhile, while I started thinking about ways in which students and others might use podcasts. As our iTunes workgroup waits to learn more about the technical requirements for the iTunes project, now seems like a good time to consider how classroom (and other) lectures...