Spring 2009 Guest Speaker Line Up
Advanced Web Tools and Digital Media is the second course students are eligible to take after successfully completing Website Development. Topics for this course include XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, MySQL, XML, RSS, and advanced graphics. For this class I do the best I can to get professionals from the industry in front of my students as I know its important for them to hear from others. As you can see I have 7 days still available and 8 people listed below for still finalizing dates; however, stuff happens and sometimes people cannot make it so if you are interested in speaking to my students please contact me [mrbrown at teachmetheweb dot org]. Our schedule thus far:
Friday, February 6th - Zac Gordon High School Web Design teacher at Springbrook High School
Friday, February 13th - Tom Osborne, Creative Director at Viget Labs
Friday, February 20th
Friday, February 27th - Cameron Moll, Designer
Friday, March 6th - Patrick Haney, User Interface Designer at Harvard University
Friday, March 13th - Addison Berry, Documentation Team Lead at Lullabot
Friday, March 20th - Chris Avore, Designer and Usability Expert
Friday, March 27th - Trevor Davis, Front End Engineer
Friday, March 31st - Chris Coyier, Web Purveyor, CSS Tricks
Friday, April 3rd - Aarron Walter, User Experience Designer at Mail Chimp
Friday, April 10th - Holiday - Easter
Friday, April 24th - Elliot Jay Stocks, Web Designer for himself
Friday, May 1st - Owen Shifflet, Web Designer at Viget Labs
Friday, May 8th - John F. Croston III, Developer and Accessibility Guru
Friday, May 15th - Greg Lavallee, Web Developer
Friday, May 22nd - Nick Fogler, Manager of Engineering, Yahoo! Juku Program
There are several others whom I am waiting to finalize dates with. This includes people like (in no particular order):
- Brian Williams, CEO and Co-Founder of Viget Labs
- Andy Rankin, President and Co-Founder of Viget Labs
- Jason Garber, User Interface Architect at Mixx
- Dan Cederholm, Web Designer
- Richard Worth, JQuery Contributor
- Derek Featherstone, Web Accessibility Guru
