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Students Hone Web Authoring Skills
4/29/2009
Writer: Bill Gibbs, 979-777-0171, billgibbs@tamu.edu
College Station--Not every end-of-term assignment leaves the classroom, but projects produced by students in Dr. Gary Wingenbach’s course, Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications (AGCJ 407), may be useful beyond helping the students earn a grade.
The Web sites the students prepared for their course might soon be available to educate and inform agricultural professionals.
“AGCJ 407 is senior-level three credit course that teaches studies basic Web site design theories, principles, and writing,” said Wingenbach, an associate professor in Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He teaches in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications.
“It teaches Web authoring software used to create online publications tailored for agricultural audiences,” he said. “It emphasizes informative content and functional design for agricultural purposes. My goal is that students develop Web sites that really could be used and could meet real agriculture-related needs.”
Thirty-six students were enrolled in the course this spring. Wingenbach selected four students’ Web sites as excellent examples of agriculturally-related projects.
“Blayne Thompson’s site is particularly excellent because it is a good example of Web site design and it addresses a very real need: water conservation,” Wingenbach said.
Thompson’s site is called “Water Conservation.” Other sites noted by Wingenback were those by Rachel Brauner, “Muegge Cattle Company,” Gabe Chmielewski, “GEC Photography Tips,” and
Chelsea Tomascik, “Kalen Poe Livestock.”
Links to all 36 student projects, as well as some projects from previous semesters, are listed on the AGCJ 407 course page.
