Entertaining and inspiring video on what happened when someone teaching an entrepuership class at Stanford gave small teams five dollars and two hours to make as much money as they possibly could. Visit site »
Johnson County Community College, in the Kansas City suburbs, is wisely considered one of the best community colleges in the nation, and they have an adjust position open for an interactive media prof. Growing up very near this school, I can say with a great deal of certainty that they have a great funding, great facilities, and great students. This would definitely be a good gig for the right candidate. Visit site »
Wow. This is awesome. Liz Danzico and Steven Heller have put together a MFA program with a faculty that includes the likes of Christopher Fahey, David Womack, Jason Santa Maria, Karen McGrane, Khoi Vinh, Paul Ford, Matt Owens, Rachel Abrams, Jeffrey Zeldman, and more. The program will launch in the Fall of 2009. Only one question: where were you guys in 1994?! Visit site »
Intern Rob on getting through college and into a career that truly excites and stimulates you, and avoiding the institutional rat race the system encourages. Really good thoughts for pre-professional designers, developers and the like — but I do wonder if what Rob did would have worked so well to get him great job offers in other industries?
Still, a great read. Visit site »
KU redesigned its homepage, and it’s a bit of an abomination. Really too bad, because while the previous one did have a few issues, it was overall clean, elegant, and well put together (you can still see the general style of the previous design on the second-level pages). Visit site »
Beth has a very nice blog post on the importance of formal education for web designers. Her conclusion, which I completely agree with, is that college education probably isn’t necessary, but some sort of training — even self-training — on traditional design principles is still sorely lacking in a lot of the corners of the web. Visit site »
An awesome short video by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University (one my my former employers) and 200 of his students. Very captivating stuff, this. This isn’t the first time Michael’s made a kick-ass video, either — check his other YouTube submissions. Visit site »
This is really awesome news. It’s about time some school acknowledged the need for these types of people. Way to go, Medill! Visit site »
This seems like an awesome way to get stoners to come to your school. Fun stuff. Via Coudal. Visit site »
A collection of hilarious answer students put on test when they didn’t know the right one. Good stuff. Thanks, Khoi. Visit site »