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“Forms of Exchange” website with Alex Brey

ken — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:34:20 +0000

Alex Brey (whose site is delightful, btw) and I collaborated on the site Forms of Exchange: Art of Native Peoples from the Edward J. Guarino Collection for Karen Lucic, Professor of Art History at Vassar College. The site was in support of the show curated by Professor Lucic and her students at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar. Alex’s design is elegant and spare, and in no way detracts from the Native American works it is designed to showcase. The “wall labels” were written by students in Professor Lucic’s course.

The site works in all major browsers and complies to modern (circa 2006) standards. We used the fantastic LighboxJS script to create the image galleries. This work was begun during the 2005-2006 academic year, and completed in the summer of 2006. We used BBEdit to hand code every page. Alex did the CSS and the majority of the XHTML. I managed the project and did some heavy lifting to get it out the door.

Presenting in absentia

ken — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:12:29 +0000

Meg Stewart at Vassar posted the abstract of the talk she, Mary Ann Cunningham, and Kirsten Menking gave on April 20, 2007, in San Francisco at the American Association of Geographers meeting on using virtual globes in higher education. This is based in part on the many presentations that Meg and I gave together over the last year to faculty, students, and staff. The official conference proceedings abstract is here. They were kind enough to include me as a co-author of the talk.

Scientists as Writers

ken — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:37:11 +0000

Using a content management system to promote collaborative writing in the sciences (and beyond)

NERCOMP Annual Conference 2006

View the slideshow. (Web-based using S5)
Download the PowerPoint. (524 KB)

by Ken Bolton, Eric Eberhardt and Cristian Opazo — last modified 2006-03-27 16:58

HarryRoseman.com

ken — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:53:17 +0000

HarryRoseman.com is a combination portfolio and social networking tool for the professor and sculptor Harry Roseman. Harry is also an avid photographer of his works and friends. We used the Zope/Plone stack and a lightly modified version of the PloneLightBoxJS product.

Chris Joslyn did the hacks to LightBox. Michael Pepe-Mooney modified the skin to make it slightly less Plone-ish. Me? I managed the project, the content, and Harry.

The best thing about this project has been watching Harry go, “Ah ha!” He totally gets it now, and makes changes and additions almost daily.

We justified using Media Cloisters resources for what was pretty obviously a portfolio project thusly:

The project content could be used as a teaching and reference platform in art history and studio art courses.
With modifications to the LightBoxJS, a hide/show button could be added to hide and reveal the metadata, making it potentially as useful a study guide as Luna, an analog slide library, or Gardner’s Art Through the Ages.
The students working on this would develop skills in Plone and CSS which would be applied to future projects.

‘geez you were a smart ass kid’ - Anonymous

ken — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:40:53 +0000

The Wayback Machine finally archived something I thought was lost forever. We can all stop now.

I moved it here.