Hunters' Greens
Jim and Diane allowed me to start a site to help advertise their CSA. This project is one of my favorites not only because it allowed me to learn more about how to style a page to be reflective of the people behind it, but also because I am an avid local food advocate. The site is a FlexCMS site. I chose Flex for this project because it is easy to skin the CMS, and - in the event I am no longer managing the site - it is really, really, easy to run the back end.

I am also happy that Jim and Diane love writing, and I help host their blog - Notes from the Margin - on a joomla! site. I have a project on my volunteer backburner for Diane's animal portrait work. Hopefully these projects will take on a new shine in 2009.

Salmon Creek Brewery and Pub
Larry and Ana had a few web"masters  before I offered to help out. In each case, I believe that they were promised something that never materialized. That put them off the website idea because their focus is the pub, not the website! So far, the site has had an original incarnation of about ten straight HTML pages and now an incarnation as a CMS. This site is also a FlexCMS site. FlexCMS is easy, customizable, and offers just enough features "out of the box" to make it a worthwhile choice for individuals/groups/businesses that want a website, but do not know much about web technologies. It can be made to look fancy, despite it entirely "unfancy" backend.

Salmon Creek also has a newsletter, which is on again off again as time and content allows. I was hoping for more "community input", but the beer is the real attraction not the website.

shaven monkey
This is my own project. It was originally just me playing around with b2evo, but I admit that I have enjoyed the content part a lot. I am currently getting ready to run my vlog too - Blurry Monkey. b2evo is a stupendous blogging platform with all the bells and whistles that any blogger would love. It is easy to set up, has good SEO settings built in, and it will even let people "share" their blogs through cross categorization. It has 4 blogs available and each can be customized to suit the blogger. I run all four blogs for my own purposes, and I am learning new tricks all the time.

Luck Rubs Off
This is a blogger blog. I jumped on blogger pretty early but was more interested in why and what a blog could/should be than in running my own blog. This latest incarnation of my blogger blog is about me and a statistics course I am taking online. I am behind schedule...and now I am altering this project radically. I just have a very different slate of work in front of me than when I first thought to reinstate this project.  I really must pay attention to Blurry Monkey, and I am slavering to turn my attention to a project that is currently entitled: an annotated dead man.

Gendered Mexican Immigration Project
This project was born out of excitement and frustration. Frustration at the technology infrastructure problems that faculty face at WSUVancouver and excitement at the prospect of helping faculty utilize and integrate information systems into their courses. What to provide, what to ask for?

This first project was graciously offered to me by Dr. Gordillo. As a "first", I felt that I should bear the brunt of tech frustration instead of asking either her or her students to tack on a bunch of tech related tasks to their course schedule. I also wanted to make sure that Dr. Gordillo felt that this was an accessible project - and, as it turns out, I believe she felt it was.

I have learned that some pre-class prep and a possible "upload" session and/or "critical review" session would be helpful, and if given the opportunity to help manifest this project again I will certainly ask for 45min of class time in two parts. One 20 minutes session to talk about formats of documents and source citation and one session to talk about connectivity/hyperlinking and reviewing documents in this kind of context. It would definitely make for a synthesis piece for the course content and not be something extraneous or non-topical.

If I could have at least one course per semester that wanted this kind of project, I would consider myself brilliantly happy. (Even if I don't yet have the infrastructure to implement this through Campus infrastructure. This is why I am crushing and crunching Drupal...as that is what is in the pipeline for the campus. Until it is manifested, however, I will use what I have at my disposal to help students and faculty.)