He has a point about how the demand for page views changes the manner of content, but "contaminate"? Really? 

via tech_rhet. Move away from teaching and using proprietary software - from Word to Dreamweaver - and start incorporating open source and web-based stuff - the kind of stuff that students can use to get beyond the proprietary. Excellent little article, but I wonder what took them so long to figure this out. Academia doesn't move as slowly as all that. Been doing this, and wrestling with it, for years. Might want to read this in conjunction with TBL's Long Live the Web.

by Rachel Lovinger. Early piece on content strategy and thinking about difference between copy and content

Amber Simmons. A few elements for writing for learning

Distinction between copy and content.

displays a page for a few secs then quizzes viewer on what they recall.

ppt

Pop piece for Web Content Writing on placing links effectively. Old hat. Nielson was on this years ago, and rhetoricians were suggesting alternatives long before this piece was conceptualized - as the comments on the post point out.

Although the finished site looks nothing like a newspaper I think it has more in common with newspapers’ best features than most news websites do. The sense of browsing quickly through stories and reading the ones that catch your eye, feels similar.

A passable review of what web developers see a valuable in learning web development and design. As expected, the focus is on understanding theory, engagement, malleable learners. The article stereotypes higher ed courses as too slow to adapt. Also relies on the outdated bicameral mind to address the differences in practices in development and design. Worth tapping into.

The Hyperlink as Organizing Principle

Javascripts that check text on web or file.

sets out some general principles of interface design, drawn from examples. Good fpr WCW and Web Design to get students looking at interfaces.

Web Annotation Demo

This is a demonstration of Marginalia, my web annotation implementation.

crit of nielsen's findings of reading online.

Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, Images of UI sketches

A brilliant example of a screencast: well organized, well produced ... and good software, too.

Sedley. Cf his A-Z: this list is focused on what he calls "persuation windows" aka kairotic moments, or just plain ol' kairos.

podcast. Richard Sedley. Solid intro to persuasion - and how it applies to web development and writing, with a focus on basing rhetorical strats on current psychological theory.

An OV page

Denin is an open source app for early web design and prototyping.

critique of the Chasing Crusoe multimedia presentation: squanders the opportunity to really develop the text. But it looks like the project is supposed to be a mass media story rather than a deep text.

companion piece to Card sorting: a definitive guide

via Karen Schwalm

a hypertext MFA thesis

most of the BSUED web pages place promo materials above information and/or pass off promo as info. Most make good exercises for re-writing and reorganizing. The FAQ is phonied up, too, used as a device for structuring the page rather than a FAQ

also published at http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/usersadvocate/usersadvocate_webaudience.html Emphasis on content, including links, etc. Right at the beginning of web2.0, advocates making content available for free., providing communities, .

Constance Petersen. 10 suggestions. The virtue with this work over others is that Peterson connects the suggestion to end/effect: use a list to slow readers down; simplify for understanding, etc.

when dreamweaver goes away. uses web design process to adapt drupal to well-stated purposes. what it means for web design and wcw: projects will deal with selecting the right cms for the job, finessing the css, etc