Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web
Think Big: Designing a Web Site
Assist Your Audience
Over the years, I have researched and visited a number of
campuses. Increasingly, in recent years, I have used the Web to
obtain both preliminary and more detailed information.
I have done this
as a faculty-colleague,
as a hired consultant,
as a publishing company editor,
and
as a job-seeker.
One thing I can tell you, from experience, is that many web sites do
adequately address the needs of:
- either their local, on campus audience,
- or their public, off-campus audience.
But very, very few even attempt to address both, and fewer still succeed...
Let's see what issues come up, and how we can address them, as we
develop some preliminary pages for the web site of the Department of
Mathematics at the University of Okefenokee Swamp (aka U O'Swamp).
Some preliminary pages already exist, and we'll link to them shortly.
During the workshop, I may revise them, and may even add a few others,
based on the suggestions of workshop participants...
In particular, any time you see a list that ends with the item:
it indcates a place where, in an on-site course, I'd have asked for
student input in compiling the list (rather than present it as fully
as I've done here), and would likely have included some other
suggestions generated that way. So, you should feel free to offer
suggestions via the course discussion list and some of them will get
added, either during this workshop, or before it is repeated...
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Copyright © 1997 by
Carol Scheftic.
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(This course is based on a workshop originally offered at
The Geometry Center
and adapted with permission.)
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