PST1: HighEdWeb: Who We Are IV
Based on a survey of conference attendees, what can we determine about ourselves? What type of technologies do we generally use? How does our staffing differ from other institutions? How has this picture changed over the last three years?

PRESENTER: Steven Lewis, SUNY Brockport

PST2: Florida Challenges: Florida Solutions
What's a BOG? The Florida Board of Governors was created in 2002, by consitutional amendment. The establishment of a new board followed the devolution of a long-standing board of regents and the reorganization of the state's education system to a seamless K-20 system.

PRESENTER: Diane McCain, State University System of Florida

PST3: Your DOCTYPE Is Showing: Where Do We Stand in the Battle for Web Standards? (Part II)
This poster session will carry on from a study conducted for last year's HighEdWebDev conference, looking at university homepages and Fortune 500 company homepages to see where we stand when it comes to adopting and adhering to Web standards.

PRESENTER: Lori Packer, University of Rochester

PST4: Sustaining a Web Redesign One Year and Beyond…
Your institution has redesigned the website and implemented a new Content Management System. Hopefully your entire campus was energized around the process and the community is pleased with the result. Now how do you sustain the momentum from that redesign effort?

PRESENTERS: Paul Redfern, Gettysburg College
Amy Aasen, Concordia College
Tim O’Keeffe, Colgate University

PST5: Self Attendance: A Moderate Answer to the Absence-Tracking Nightmare
To help my colleagues keep up with taking roll without the burden of doing it themselves, I have developed a very simple ASP application that allows students to take their own attendance.

PRESENTER: Jean-Jacques Medastin, Clayton State University

PST6: Usability Testing 101
Usability studies give you an insight into how your users really use your site. It’s not usually how you intended them to use it. This presentation will cover the who, why, when and how of usability studies, starting with why you should perform usability studies and what data you should expect from them.

PRESENTERS: Renee L. Cerullo, University at Buffalo
Christine Kowalski, University at Buffalo

PST7: Target 10,000 Interactive Site & Donor Map Mash Up
The College New Jersey is in the middle of a giving campaign to reach 10,000 donations. The Target 10,000 website is playing a major role in creating awareness for the campaign. The site features announcements for events and contests, audio clips, virtual postcards, a Blackberry guest book, and other assorted bells and whistles. The latest addition is a mashup that plots donations on a Google map.

PRESENTER: Matthew Winkel, The College of New Jersey

PST8: Making the Transition from Print to Electronic Publications
This session will discuss strategies for using the Web and email to engage various audiences (students, faculty/staff, alumni) in order to tell a school's story and convey information.

PRESENTER: Paul Dempsey, Dickinson College

PST9: We BlueTube. Do You Tube?
At Xavier University, our Student Web Team created BlueTube, a contest in which current Xavier students created short films about what makes Xavier so great. These videos were uploaded to a YouTube-like website and admitted prospective students voted on which they liked the best. Based on those votes, current students won some great prizes and the prospective students had the chance to see what makes Xavier special.

PRESENTERS: Doug Ruschman, Xavier University
Kevin Lavelle, Xavier University
Kevin G. Bischof, Xavier University

PST10: Solving the “Readers vs. Writers Dilemma” of the World Wide Web
The Web has been a great medium for the “readers” – those who browse information, whereas, for the “writers” – those who put that information on the Web, the Web itself is not a convenient medium. This is what we refer to as the “Readers vs. Writers dilemma”.

PRESENTER: Nagendra Gulur, Texas Instruments

PST11: Readying Reason: Developing Carleton's Open Source Content Management System
At HighEdWebDev 2006, Carleton College released the first public beta of the open-source Reason Content Management System. This session will demonstrate Reason's toolbox of features, explain what development challenges we've been tackling, and present a roadmap for the future.

PRESENTER: Nathan White, Carleton College

PST12: Typography and Web Design
No one ever thinks of typography as a form of Web design. But it is. Graphic designers view typography as the arrangement and appearance of text to produce content that is legible, aesthetically pleasing, and visually attractive to spark an interest in the content and message on the page.

PRESENTER: Jeannine Papelino, University of Rochester

PST13: Formatting Web Data for Printed Catalogs
Does your Web data also appear in your printed catalog? If you have ever had to format repetitive text for a print document you know how tedious it can be. See how to create an Xpress Tag document from your ASP page that can be imported and formatted in no time!

PRESENTER: Susan Greene, Housatonic Community College

PST14: User-Centered Development & Paper Prototyping From the Classroom to Real World
The User-Centered Development approach makes it possible for software engineers to know and apply concepts based of human behavior, psychology, and personal preferences when developing information systems interfaces. Paper prototyping is a low-cost but effective technique for incorporating user participation.

PRESENTER: Mary Carmen Garduño Campos, ITESM-CEM

PST15: Best Practices for Websites
This poster will cover essential best practices that Web professionals can apply to improve the quality of their website. Using these practices will reduce problems encountered by visitors to the site. Although this is not an exhaustive list of recommended best practices, it does include many that are often overlooked.

PRESENTER: Rob Dickerson, The Pennsylvania State University

PST16: Site Content Gathering Techniques
The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration recently completed a ground-up redesign of its primary website which included revisiting the content creation and gathering process. In this session we will discuss the software and social processes the school used to create and sustain a culture of interest in creation and maintenance of the school's website.

PRESENTER: Jason Woodward, Cornell University

PST17: Pattern Matching: An Introduction to Regular Expressions
Regular expressions. Hard-core programmers know them as a powerful tool for manipulating strings of text. But, with support for regular expressions also built into most modern text editors, why should the code monkeys get to have all the fun? Learn how to use the power of pattern matching to speed up the development and maintenance of your content and source code.

PRESENTER: Gabriel McGovern, Portland Community College

PST18: The Virtual Development Office
This poster session illustrates the needs of the virtual development officer and how the Web professional can enhance that role and the overall experience of the off site and on site development staff. Inovative methods to create a seamless operation without the barriers of location are also discussed.

PRESENTER: Bette AB Mammone, Gift of John

PST19: Building a Course Management Solution That Fits the Faculty
How do you manage a large collection of didactic materials involving over 40 courses, for 720 medical students, 1,200 faculty, several teaching and administrative offices, all of whome subservient to a dynamic, ever-changing calendar?

PRESENTER: Peter Schmidt, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

PST20: Improving Web Usability: A New Card Sort
Pop the hood and kick the tires: This presentation will introduce a new open source project which aims to create a new card sorting tool built on theoretical groundings. Learn about the psychological background of card sorting, see how it can be applied to practical usability research, and, most importantly, get the first glimpse of the resulting software.

PRESENTER: Tim Shearouse, Augustana College

PST21: Fun and Games: Eliciting Participation in Collaborative Content Design
The challenge of eliciting content is well-known to Web developers. This poster describes some of the novel ways our team has tried to encourage group participation in Web and content-development projects.

PRESENTER: Robyn Ness, The Ohio State University

PST22: Comparative Web Analysis... It's Where to Start
Learn about a free form of preliminary research that you can do on a coffee-break (or is it a Dew break?). This research helps guide what to include in other research such as card sorts or surveys. It also provides you with substantiated data... so when the annoying committee member says, "everyone else has X on their site", you have the truth at hand.

PRESENTER: Shaun Callighan, Augustana Web Guild