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Teacher Education
With its first major design, organization, and content make-over since the earliest days of the Curry School's website completed during Fall 2000, the Teacher Education website serves as a primary conduit of information for students enrolled in the Five-Year BA/MT and Two-Year PG/MT programs at the University of Virginia.
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Rebecca Dailey Kneedler
Laid out in magazine style and heavily dependent on images, even for text, this personal home page for the Curry School's Associate Dean of Academic Affairs was originally launched in 1998.
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Office of Admissions & Student Affairs
Like the Teacher Education website, the Admissions & Student Affairs website had not undergone a major revision since the early days of the Curry School's web presence. Launched during Fall 2000, the new pages are the result of an extensive graphics, layout, organization, and content makeover. I am also the photographer for the pictures used in these pages.
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Reading in the Content Areas
With the exception of my first offering of this course, I have created a website for each section I have taught, and if one were to click his way through all those many course websites, one would see a range of design styles and content manifestations. The more recent sections have benefitted from a more consistent design. The front page, shown at left, is the jumping off point for all the sections of the course I've taught thus far.
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Academic Uses of the World Wide Web
Created by John Wills Lloyd and subsequently taught by James L. Huneycutt, Academic Uses of the World Wide Web fell to me first during Spring 1999 and then again in Spring 2000. It is a great course, with an excellent foundation laid by John and built on by Jim, and it was well-established by the time I took the reigns, with assistance from Zahrl Schoeny. I felt that the course website should reflect the same principles trumpeted in the course and always strove in that direction. It was also a fulfilling challenge to develop more guides and examples for our students.
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ReadingQuest.org: Making Sense in Social Studies
ReadingQuest.org was created as a resource for teachers primarily of social studies. Fortunately, it has proved useful for teachers across grade levels and subject areas. The site develops the theoretical basis of sound comprehension instruction, argues for decision-making frameworks for strategy selection and use, and defines and explains a range of practical comprehension and content reading strategies. Many teachers find the printable blackline masters and handouts [saved in pdf format] particularly useful.
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Greta Morine-Dershimer
Professor Emeritus Greta Morine-Dershimer was in need of a personal website after she became editor of Teaching & Teacher Education, and she asked me to put one together for her. We've kept the design simple and straightforward, but this site did serve as my first full test of using cascading style sheets to control layout and appearance.
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Communication Connection
The logo is what I like best. The rest of the site is fairly simple. The Communication Connection is the website that describes the services offered by Dr. Anne McIntosh, who provides consultation in mediation and training for better communication.
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Errors Pages
Until the spring of 2000, the Curry School's common "errors" pages had been the standard gray with minimal text that was standard on early websites. But it didn't seem to put forward a very attractive foot for us, so I persuaded our Chief Technology Officer to let me remake those sites. All told, I redid our six primary errors pages and built a search window and site index into the most common one: 404 - Page Not Found.
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