2008 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 local professionals from the industry in front of my students as I know its important for them to hear from others. If you are interested in speaking to my students please contact me [mrbrown at teachmetheweb dot org]. Our schedule thus far:
Friday, September 26th - Kevin Hoffman of Happy Cog Open
Friday, October 3rd - LuAnne Bell, VP of Business Development at Blue Atlas Interactive
Friday, October 10th - M. Jackson Wilkinson, Strategist at Viget Labs
Thursday, October 24th - The Entire Nclud Team
Friday, October 31st - Ali Felski, a Flash Developer
Friday, November 14th - Paul Boag, Web Designer/Podcaster, of Boagworld
Friday, November 21st - Samantha Warren, Designer, of Viget Labs
Friday, December 5th - Jason Leveille, Web Developer, of Blue Atlas Interactive
There are several others whom I am waiting to finalize dates with. This includes people like:
- Zac Gordon, Web Design Teacher of Springbrook HS
- Brian Williams, CEO and Co-Founder of Viget Labs
- Andy Rankin, President and Co-Founder of Viget Labs
- David Buonomo, President of Blue Atlas Interactive
- John F. Croston III, Developer and Accessibility Guru
- James Hobbs, Designer at Threespot
- Doug March, Senior Web Developer at Mixx
- Jason Garber, User Interface Architect at Mixx
Bobby Walsh
09.18.08
10:12 AM
I think this will be great to see what some Pro Web and Graphic designers think about like their ideas towards how to make websites and graphics. to give us some ideas how we should present information and entertainment to people.