Vibrant Journey

(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Tuesday, April 15)
Wichita State University shares information gathered over two myWSU usability tests. Results were similar to many of our findings.
It was interesting that they noted a similar problem with students not really recognizing the existence of tabs in the Luminis layout. The difference being that WSU noted this issue [...]

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(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Wednesday, April 16)
Neil Howe spoke on recruiting the Millenial generation. Millennials are the generation born since 1982 with a childhood era including culture wars and the 1990s boom. What will their coming of age look like?
I thought I was a late boomer but his facts say Boomers are 1943-1960. Gen [...]

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Jason is posting on the sessions he is attending.

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Notes from SunGardHE Summit (Monday, April 14)
Tab and channel drag-and-drop sample from Lehigh University making use of YUI. Cleaner implementation of functionality without major mods to nested layouts.
In Luminis IV you have to preload content/layout channel and then a second call to ‘return’ to where you were so JavaScript calls return you to correct place [...]

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(Notes from SunGardHE Summit Keynote Address on Sunday, April 13)
Highlight of Summit kickoff was the keynote by Eric Weihenmayer, a renowned adventurer and the only blind person to summit Mt. Everest. His talk was inspiring and enjoyable. Much as people speak of the good that can come from “unintended consequences,” Eric speaks of the opportunities [...]

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(Notes from SunGardHE Summit Keynote Address on Sunday, April 13)
SunGardHE Summit 2008 kicked off today in Anaheim. The kickoff was a lower key and less risque than last year’s ceremony in Las Vegas. MASS Ensemble set the atmosphere with a musical introduction featuring a cool auditorium-spanning wire harp, a diagonal spatial harp and a revolving [...]

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We’re in Anaheim for SunGardHE Summit and enjoying our stay at the Disneyland Hotel. Days are filled with conference sessions. Every night is filled with either Disneyland park or California Adventure.
The trip here was great, all quiet with no delays or other travel annoyances.
Saturday was hot, somewhere in the 90s which made standing in some [...]

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