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Lubbock Colon Cancer Prevention Task Force Web Site (2007)

The Lubbock Colon Cancer Prevention Task Force was established to increase screening rates for colon cancer. Its efforts include using radio and television spots, working with local governments and hospitals, participating in area health fairs, and, since 2006, having a presence on the Web. The site logo is based in part on a national blue ribbon colon cancer prevention symbol. The images on site masthead are of local colon cancer survivors. The site makes extensive use of cascading style sheets (CSS) to control text formatting as well as to create the drop down menus. PHP includes are used to make site management easier—the text in the gray area on the side of the page is controlled by a single file. The site also takes advantage of Dreamweaver templates. One of the goals in designing the site has been to make it relatively easy for someone without an extensive background in Web design to take over the site. I am currently a member of the task force. This site has been submitted to the BEA Festival Faculty Interactive Multimedia competition.

EM&C 4300 Blog (2007)

In the Fall 2007 semester, I taught a course titled "Producing for New Media," in which students produced a themed podcast series supported by a blog. Given the theme of the course, I included a blog as one of my teaching tools. The experience taught me a great deal about teaching with a blog and about the Blogger system as a whole. The blog turned out to be an effective tool and made it easy to not only post information for the students, but to get feedback and promote discussion. For more on the course, including a copy of the syllabus, see my teaching page.

Health Education Kiosk (2006-2007)

The health education kiosk is an interdisciplinary project that I have been working on with faculty in the Texas Tech University Department of Computer Science and the Texas Tech Health Science Center School of Nursing. The kiosk presents information in both English and Spanish and is designed for low literacy users. My involvement in this project included early usability testing, focus group design, and image editing. The kiosk currently uses an HTML/PHP interface and connects to a MySQL database for both image presentation and data collection. In the spring, I will be working on a Flash-based front end for the kiosk. The kiosk is currently in testing in two area health clinics. This project has spawned a number of conference presentations, and there are currently four journal articles under review based at least in part on data collected as part of this project. For more information on the research aspects of the kiosk, visit the research section of my Web site.

Campus Caregivers CD-ROM Mailer (2001)
(clicking on the VR images will open them up separately from the map)

Developed in 2000-2001, this Director-based project was to have been a mailer for the Texas Tech University campus beautification group, Campus Caregivers. The map contained hot-spots, which, when clicked on, would switch the user to a screen highlighting a campus beautification effort with a QuickTime VR panoramic and text. Unfortunately, the organization changed priorities as the project neared completion, and it was abandoned. In addition to the screen shot, I have included two of the panoramic images I created for the project. The panoramic "Band" was shot on Arbor Day and used parts of some 50 images. The panoramic "Park Place" is a series of statutes that had recently been installed at the university.

School of Mass Communications Web Site (circa 2000-2001)

In 2000, I was asked to redesign the Web site for the then School of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University. The site I designed relied heavily on server-side includes to make site management easier. With the exception of the middle white section of the page, all the other elements could be redesigned across the entire site by modifying four or five files. Mass Communications continued to use the site until 2004, when the site was redesigned as part of the transition from school to college. By the time I turned over management of the site to someone else in 2001 or 2002, the site had grown to around 80 pages. While my redesign site is not available at its original location, several versions are available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The version shown in the illustration is from May 16, 2001. Users can also get an idea of what the site I inherited looked like before the 2000 redesign, though none of the images are available on that version.

North Overton Project Web Site (circa 2000)

In 1999, Delbert McDougal embarked on a sometimes controversial project to redevelop a 325-acre neighborhood. known as North Overton, next to Texas Tech University. In the process, McDougal's company razed the entire area, which had first been developed in 1907. Knowing that the neighborhood was about to disappear, the Southwest Collection, an archive at Texas Tech, sought to document the area before the families who had grown up in the area were scattered. The design mimics the display boards used in archive exhibits. The site is no longer available online.

For more information, please email me at ed.youngblood@gmail.com



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		Main > Projects Click on an image to open a site or larger image in a new window. Lubbock Colon Cancer Prevention Task Force Web Site (2007) The Lubbock Colon Cancer Prevention Task Force was established to increase screening rates for colon cancer. Its efforts include using radio and television spots, working with local governments and hospitals, participating in area health fairs, and, since 2006, having a presence on the Web. The site logo is based in part on a national blue ribbon colon cancer prevention symbol. The images on site masthead are of local colon cancer survivors. The site makes extensive use of cascading style sheets (CSS) to control text formatting as well as to create the drop down menus. PHP includes are used to make site management easier—the text in the gray area on the side of the page is controlled by a single file. The site also takes advantage of Dreamweaver templates. One of the goals in designing the site has been to make it relatively easy for someone without an extensive background in Web design to take over the site. I am currently a member of the task force. This site has been submitted to the BEA Festival Faculty Interactive Multimedia competition. EM&C 4300 Blog (2007) In the Fall 2007 semester, I taught a course titled "Producing for New Media," in which students produced a themed podcast series supported by a blog. Given the theme of the course, I included a blog as one of my teaching tools. The experience taught me a great deal about teaching with a blog and about the Blogger system as a whole. The blog turned out to be an effective tool and made it easy to not only post information for the students, but to get feedback and promote discussion. For more on the course, including a copy of the syllabus, see my teaching page. Health Education Kiosk (2006-2007) The health education kiosk is an interdisciplinary project that I have been working on with faculty in the Texas Tech University Department of Computer Science and the Texas Tech Health Science Center School of Nursing. The kiosk presents information in both English and Spanish and is designed for low literacy users. My involvement in this project included early usability testing, focus group design, and image editing. The kiosk currently uses an HTML/PHP interface and connects to a MySQL database for both image presentation and data collection. In the spring, I will be working on a Flash-based front end for the kiosk. The kiosk is currently in testing in two area health clinics. This project has spawned a number of conference presentations, and there are currently four journal articles under review based at least in part on data collected as part of this project. For more information on the research aspects of the kiosk, visit the research section of my Web site. Campus Caregivers CD-ROM Mailer (2001) (clicking on the VR images will open them up separately from the map) Developed in 2000-2001, this Director-based project was to have been a mailer for the Texas Tech University campus beautification group, Campus Caregivers. The map contained hot-spots, which, when clicked on, would switch the user to a screen highlighting a campus beautification effort with a QuickTime VR panoramic and text. Unfortunately, the organization changed priorities as the project neared completion, and it was abandoned. In addition to the screen shot, I have included two of the panoramic images I created for the project. The panoramic "Band" was shot on Arbor Day and used parts of some 50 images. The panoramic "Park Place" is a series of statutes that had recently been installed at the university. School of Mass Communications Web Site (circa 2000-2001) In 2000, I was asked to redesign the Web site for the then School of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University. The site I designed relied heavily on server-side includes to make site management easier. With the exception of the middle white section of the page, all the other elements could be redesigned across the entire site by modifying four or five files. Mass Communications continued to use the site until 2004, when the site was redesigned as part of the transition from school to college. By the time I turned over management of the site to someone else in 2001 or 2002, the site had grown to around 80 pages. While my redesign site is not available at its original location, several versions are available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The version shown in the illustration is from May 16, 2001. Users can also get an idea of what the site I inherited looked like before the 2000 redesign, though none of the images are available on that version. North Overton Project Web Site (circa 2000) In 1999, Delbert McDougal embarked on a sometimes controversial project to redevelop a 325-acre neighborhood. known as North Overton, next to Texas Tech University. In the process, McDougal's company razed the entire area, which had first been developed in 1907. Knowing that the neighborhood was about to disappear, the Southwest Collection, an archive at Texas Tech, sought to document the area before the families who had grown up in the area were scattered. The design mimics the display boards used in archive exhibits. The site is no longer available online.
		For more information, please email me at ed.youngblood@gmail.com