Who You Calling A Jesse?

December 6th (tomorrow) will see the third annual WatITis (What-IT-is not Wah-Ti-Tis but I prefer the latter) conference on campus. You can check out the history of the conference if you are wondering what it is and how it started. Basically it started with Ian Howard who then went off on a Geekcorps tour of Africa and Martin Timmerman (still in IST). Bob Hicks and Vic Neglia have carried the co-director position both last year and this year.

All IT staff on campus gather to attend presentations, talk about stuff, and have a good day learning some new things. I am involved in two presentations again this year: Paradox of Accessibility and Usability as well as Applying Usability to the UW Webspace. In the first one I look at the great paradox of web development in a higher education setting with the focus being on accessibility and usability. Good fun.

The second is where the original UW web usability project group will discuss our first study back in April and how our work will help the rest of campus. The whole idea is have a good discussion on usability testing and the issues surrounding usability.

Both will be online by the end of the week. As a test I will be working on a few podcasts of presentations as well. Hopefully I will have more than just the keynote and the two presentations I am involved in, but we will see how much IT folks like being recorded ;)