October 14, 2009
At Damascus High School I teach a Advanced Web Tools and Digital Media course to my second year web design students. In this course we discuss both development and design at a high school pace (crazy, right?). About 4 years ago I reached out to the Refresh DC community soliciting for guest speakers. Nclud and Jackson Wilkinson stepped up to the plate. Since that year this guest speaker program has exploded into what it is today: Prestigous Web Professionals connecting with high school students. In each guest lecture the topics are as varied as the speakers and by doing this I am hoping to expose my students to as much as I can about the web profession. In a perfect world all my students would go on to be great web designers and developers, however, if they simply become an informed users I can live with that. And no, they don't realize how lucky they are to have these highly qualified professionals speak to them.
So this is this years' guest speaker line up (all microformatted up for your SEO enjoyment). If you see an open slot and you're interested in speaking that day please contact me.
We are lucky again to host such a wide variety of talented web professionals.
Friday, September 25th,
2009
Jackson Wilkinson, Strategist at Viget Labs
Friday, October 9th,
2009
John F. Croston, Web Content Accessibility Manager for The US Army
Friday, October 30th,
2009
Nicholas Tolson, Web Strategist
Friday, November 6th,
2009
Jared Smith, Associate Director of WebAIM
Friday, November 13th,
2009
The Entire Nclud Team, Web Design Agency
Monday, November 16th,
2009
Dan Philibin and Michael Castilla, Students / Entrepreneurs of WPCandy
Friday, November 27th,
2009
Owen Shifflett, Web Designer at Viget Labs
Friday, December 4th,
2009
Chris Coyier, Web Designer / Blogger at CSS Tricks
Thursday, December 10th,
2009
Field Trip to Viget Labs in Falls Church, Virginia
Friday, December 18th,
2009
Chris Mills, Evangelist at Opera
Friday, January 15th,
2010
Anton Peck, Web Designer / Illustrator Freelancer
Friday, January 22nd,
2010
Matthew Smith, Principal / Creative Director / Designer at Squared Eye
Friday, January 29th,
2009
Dan Mall, Senior Designer at Big Spaceship
Friday, February 12th,
2010
Jason Garber, User Interface Architect at Mixx
Friday, February 19th,
2010
Dan Rubin, Founder of Web Graph
Friday, March 5th,
2010
Anna Debenham, Freelance Front End Developer
Friday, March 19th,
2010
Discovery Creative Digital Team Interactive Team for Discovery Creative
Friday, April 9th,
2010
Jonathan Snook, Web Developer at Squarespace
Friday, April 23rd,
2010
Jina Bolton, Interaction Designer at Crush + Lovely
Friday, April 30th,
2010
Tom Osborne, Design Director at Viget Labs
Friday, May 14th,
2010
Open Interested? Contact me: mrbrown at teachmetheweb dot org
Friday, May 21st,
2010
Open Interested? Contact me: mrbrown at teachmetheweb dot org
Friday, May 28th,
2010
Open Interested? Contact me: mrbrown at teachmetheweb dot org
There are several others whom I am waiting to finalize dates with but this year I'm not going to list them below here. You get on the list after we confirm a date for you.
This is shaping up to be another exciting year of guest speakers and fun. If you see that I've made a mistake (and I'm sure I did while putting this all into hCalendar microformat) then please let me know and I'll fix it. Thanks.
