Wednesday August 26, 2009

Will Web Education Rock SXSWi 2010?

Written by Leslie Jensen-Inman

With your help, it will!

Web education seems to be a hot topic for SXSWi 2010. There are 2200 proposals for panels this year and 51 of these proposed panels have the word “education” within their title or description. There are only 300 panel slots available and it’s largely up to voters to determine what fills these 300 slots.

Help support the web education revolution by signing in (for free) on the SXSWi Panel Picker and vote for your favorite web education panels. I’m very excited about the three panels listed below and I hope that these will be among the panels that gain your vote.

 
Open Web Education Alliance: Educating the Next Generation

In the world of web standards, industry forms best practices, education instructs emerging talent—and neither the twain shall meet. A decade on, the rate of standards adoption across the school/street divide is dishearteningly poor. Join us to discover how curriculum building and strategic industry alliance can close the gap.


Integrate/Educate: Taking Web Standards to the Classroom

We need to prepare students to become web professionals by using web standards curriculum materials. A group of professional web educators will present case studies and examples outlining how they integrate resources into the classroom. You'll learn how to adapt web standards curriculum resources for secondary ed, higher ed, faculty, staff, and web standards advocacy inside a company.


How to Teach Good Web Design

Efforts like the Opera Web Standards Curriculum and the WaSP InterAct Curriculum have helped give educators frameworks to use but what about the hard part – teaching? We’ll explore how to get into a classroom, what we should expect from students, things to consider before taking up a teaching position, and the state of web design education in general.