Published by scenariogirl May 3rd, 2008
in User Experience and mobile.
How’s this for an excellent free online course?
An introduction to the W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices
Run by the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative, the course runs for four weeks from May 26 to June 30 and provides lectures and hands on exercises for anyone wanting to learn more about designing and developing mobile friendly, accessible web content.
More information can be found on the course overview page, including a course outline, instructor details and other important stuff.
If you think you might be interested, check out the free sample course or go straight in and register.
Places are limited to the first 100 people, so if this is your area, don’t leave it too long to register.
I’ll be there, will you?
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Update
All places in the course have been filled, they went quickly, and I’m really happy to see 15 Australians on the list. So it will be interesting to see if we’re able to build a bit more momentum around building for an accessible mobile web. I hope so!
One thing I’ve really wanted to do of late is attend the IA Cocktail Hour in Canberra. It always sounds like they have so much fun and actually learn stuff at the same time. It’s rare that you can mix Fun, Alcohol, Learning and Canberra in the one event, but I think they’ve got it sorted.. and I want to give it a go too.
In a strange twist of fate, I’ve been invited to present at the Web Directions Gov08 Conference on May 22nd, which isn’t an IA Cocktail Hour event, but I’m sure there’s going to be some of the same crowd there. And surprise surprise! There’ll be lots of Fun, Alcohol, Learning and Canberra there too.
I’ll be presenting something on Accessibility and the User Experience, a talk based on the one I gave at Web Directions South 07… but better and more interesting, funnier and well, if Cameron Adams is in the room, there might even be a re-run of last years hilarity where he fell asleep during my presentation! Only this time *I will* have a camera ready.
Web Directions Government is a full day two track conference (May 19), plus an optional extra day of workshops (May 20). Presentations will focus on the concepts, technologies and techniques for meeting the challenges of eGovernment:
- José Manuel Alonso (W3C) - eGovernment Lead
- Robert Hoekman Jr (Miskeeto) - Interaction design and user experience
- Lisa Herrod - Usability and accessibility
- Scott Gledhill (News Digital Media) - Real world web standards
- Sebastian Chan - Social media and government (workshop)
- Cameron Adams - Frontiers of Javascript (workshop)
- Jason Ryan (NZ State Services Commission) - Government 2.0
- Jenny Telford (Australian Bureau of Statistics) - Opening government data
- Matthew Hodgson (SMS) - Social computing for knowledge management
- Ralph Douglas (AGIMO) - GovDex for secure online collaboration
- Patrick Lee (News Digital Media) - Javascript with legacy systems
- Andrew Kesper (ABC Online) - Ajax for dry data
It’s all very exciting! I’ve only ever been to Canberra once before, and never to present. I’m really, really looking forward to seeing all my Canberra friends on their home turf for a change… it’s going to be fun!
