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Posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 - General News
WSU Vancouver Students Launch New Websites for Local Non-profits
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8/3/2009
CONTACT:
- Dene Grigar, Digital Technology and Culture Program, 360-546-9487, grigar@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Brenda Alling, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360-546-9601, marcomm@vancouver.wsu.edu
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Washington State University Vancouver students in the Digital Technology and Culture Program launched two new websites last week for local non-profit organizations. The work gives WSU Vancouver students experience working for real clients seeking real business solutions and builds their professional portfolios. In turn, the non-profit organizations get hours of high-quality creative work done at no cost.
WSU Vancouver student Victor Sullivan managed the website project for the Clark County Turkey Trot, a fundraiser for the Principal's Checkbook. The Principal's Checkbook provides local public school principals with the means to help disadvantaged students with basic supplies, healthcare and educational opportunities.
Sullivan's team included designers, programmers and content developers: Danny Mulvihill, Sarah Wasill, Sophia Stalliviere, Chris Morrison and Donald Hawthorne. View the website at http://www.turkey-trot.org/ . The site was created in DTC's Senior Seminar. The team also developed a social-media strategy for the fundraiser that includes Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Picasa and Delicious.
The second site was created for Open House Ministries, a local family homeless shelter. The site's design and some of the early programming were undertaken during DTC's spring Design and Composition and Multimedia Authoring courses. Mikhail Oparin, Linda Wylie, Shawn Kepner and Sarah Richards were lead designers on the project. Jonathan Tanner was the programmer. Programming was completed in the summer Senior Seminar by Nancy Kettler. View the website at: http://www.sheltered.org/
The Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) Program at Washington State University Vancouver integrates critical thinking, creativity and computing skills with course work in the arts, humanities and social sciences to offer a broad-based, interdisciplinary degree that prepares students for a culturally diverse, technologically complex 21st century. Media production for non-profit organizations demonstrates the program's outreach to the community and aims to teach students ethical development of digital technology.
For more information, contact Dene Grigar, Ph.D., director, Digital Technology and Culture Program, Washington State University Vancouver, 360-546-9487, grigar@vancouver,wsu.edu.
WSU Vancouver is celebrating 20 years of bringing quality education, research and service to the citizens of Southwest Washington. The campus is located at 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., east of the 134th Street exit from either I-5 or I-205, or via C-Tran bus service. WSU Vancouver offers 16 bachelor's degrees, 10 master's degrees, one doctorate degree and more than 36 fields of study. Learn more at http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu.
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