New Issue: Educating Geeks by Tom Green

June 17, 2008 at 11:46 PM

This week Digital Web is happy to introduce perhaps more thought-provoking fare. Our resident Flash video expert and all-around excellent contributor Tom Green poses questions about academia, technology and hiring in The Education of Geeks and Freaks. Tom brings up salient points about correcting the gap between self-education, school and employable technologists.

While we’re focusing on education, a number of websites recently put new attention to curricula, educators and whether academics hold value for web professionals. WaSP’s Education Task Force recently announced a new focus and task force members. The SVA in New York recently announced a new MFA in interaction design, along with their new design criticism program mentioned here previously. Meanwhile, Ajaxian gets to the heart of the issue by reconsidering the question, What’s the Value of a College Education for Ajax Developers?

Lastly (and as a nice counterpoint to academic settings), July 19th is the last day for early registration discounts ($200 off!) to Web Directions South! The southern edition of the widely respected Web Directions conferences kicks off September 25-26th in Sydney, Australia, along with solid pre-conference workshops. Digital Web has more information coming soon, but for more details visit south08.webdirections.org.

* Correction, 19June08, Tiff Fehr: I can’t read. The early bird deadline for WDS is July 19th, 2008.