Webmaster Camp 2010
Which direction should we go?
Student Cell Phone Usage
Results from Fall 2009 student technology survey 97% own a cell phone 91% use text messaging 47% have a data plan
90% of future enrolled students have their cell phone numbers recorded in SAP
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Percentage of Employees with Cell Phone Number Recorded in SAP by EEO Category (May 2010)
iPhone20%
Blackberry17%Basic Cell Phone
54%
PDA with Windows Mobile
4% Other5%
Fall 2009 Student Technology SurveyCell Phone Type
Device-Agnostic
adj. Of, or relating to, a software program or other system that is not dedicated to a single hardware platform, but instead is flexible enough to work with any device.(from http://www.wordspy.com/)
AllTell1%
AT&T53%
CellSouth19%
Cricket0%
Other1%
Sprint PCS5%
Tmobile6%
US Cellular0%
Verizon15%
Employee and Student Cell Phone Provider May 2010
AT&T Cell Service in Oxford Problem Areas
Woodland Hills including the stretch of Highway 7 just north of Highway 30
Old mall area Hospital area
Game Day Service
Progress COW just installed in
old mall Tower planned for
Hwy 7 & Hwy 30 for 7/10
Other towers planned for this calendar year
DAS …
Distributed Antennae System Network of small
antennae connected with fiber.
Improves any participating cell vendor’s campus signal strength and capacity.
Smaller antenna cells prevent need for larger “macro” cells.
Better overall cell service for the campus.
Can be mounted on Utility poles Traffic signals Street lights Telephone poles Buildings
Target “Go Live” First home football
game (9/4)
Text Messaging
Current Future
Current 3 year contract is for emergency use only
Expires in December 2010
Example uses Tornado warnings Power outages Internet / telephone
outages Graduation relocation
How it works
RFP in progress now with several options Emergency text messaging Non-emergency text
messaging Two-way text messaging SOAP API for dynamic
messaging○ From SAP processes○ From myOleMiss
Student Feedback on Mobile Apps
The Big Three myOleMiss WebMail Blackboard
○ Access from iPad○ Licensing issues
Other I like my phone to be a phone
and that's about it. I do NOT want the university
communicating with me through my cell phone.
Need better coverage in the residential college.
None, you should not be on the phone during class. But maybe a campus map where you can enter your schedule then it will give you a walking route from class.
More Feedback … Twitter to tell about cool events Cell phone service on bottom floor of
J.D. Williams Library Parking spot locator Campus events calendar Office applications (Word, Excel) Class schedules Grades Ole Miss sports updates Class cancellations Reminders about academic advising Angel Campus directory Campus map with current parking lot
availability GPS to campus buildings Bursar account balance Web registration Library catalog
Especially new feature on the library's website that gives virtual directions to where a book is located
IT alerts Weather alerts Game day stats coverage Voting in student elections Turner center hours and group fitness
class schedule Campus dining meal specials Check price of books and whether
they are required for class University news application On-campus weather Epocrates free of charge for Pharmacy
students Teacher lecture podcast Daily Mississippian Use my cell phone as a clicker Assignments Road closures Parking location map Lexicomp Rebel Radio App
Mobile Computing Strategy
Address campus infrastructure issues Expand usage of text messaging Deliver first round of myOleMiss and other
mobile applications via HTML Explore SAP’s Netweaver Mobile
middleware for the development of native applications Asset management deployment later this year:
http://www.infologix.com/pdf/InfoLogix-Baylor-SAP-NetWeaver-Magazine.pdf
UM Domain
www.olemiss.edu
Considerations
Device Variety No universal experience No preferred experience
(“This page best viewed using Android?”)
Yet it is possible to channel experiences into similar groups: Full capability Limited capability Targeted to device
Considerations
Input Track ball, telephone keypad, small
keyboard, stylus, touch screen Hard to enter punctuation ;) Hard to enter long URIs
http://events.olemiss.edu/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=396
Spotty support for “back” and other features
Considerations
Bandwidth and Cost Mobile networks are often slower Data plans cost money Some retrieved content may be useless
(PDFs, some wide tables)
Image file size matters
Considerations
User Needs Based on user’s location or activity
(at rest, making plans, travelling)
Practicality of content offered(need to refer to multiple windows)
Convenience Content
(concise, with expanded version available)
Considerations
Browser Limitations Fancy menus Client side scripting
(Javascript)
Plugins and Adobe Flash animation Background and transparent images
Considerations
Terms Keyboard
(touch screen, keypad, phone buttons)
Mouse(fingertip, touchpad, tab key, stylus, trackwheel)
Click(tap, tab and select, click the trackwheel, …)
Right-click(not usually implemented)
Considerations
Advantages Personal, portable, and connected Location awareness Always “on” Universal alerting device Camera + my thoughts Web Oh yeah, it also makes phone calls
UM Domains
www.olemiss.edu m.olemiss.edu
Specific Example
Plain HTML with CSS and Javascript
<ul class="pageitem"><li class="textbox">UM Web for mobile devices</li><li class="menu"><a href="http://news.olemiss.edu"> <img alt="news" src="images/thumbs/uml <li class="menu"><a href="http://events.olemiss.edu/events/m"> <img alt="calendar" src="imag <li class="menu"><a href="http://xhtml.weather.com/xhtml/cc/38677"> <img alt="weather" src=" <li class="menu"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/m?dc=gorganic#ll=34.367623,-89.534<li class="menu"><a href="http://www.olemiss.edu/itunesupublic"> <img alt="iTunes U" src="im <li class="menu"><a href="https://webmail.olemiss.edu:7443/surgeweb?cmd=logout,show&pag <li class="menu"><a href="contact.html"> <img alt="contact" src="images/thumbs/telephone.pn <li class="menu"><a href="band.html"> <img alt="music" src="images/thumbs/music.png" /> <s </ul>
Current plans
Separate top-level mobile Web site Shorter URL: m.olemiss.edu Limited, targeted content for mobile user Common “device agnostic” experience
where possible(same links, though possibly different styles)
Richer “device specific” experience only as needed(iTunes links, location-aware features)
Train secondary content providers
Mobile Offerings Today
Webmail Calendar Any flat text
Easy additions Weather Links to existing mobile-ready sites
Requested Faculty/Staff directory Web directory Course listing View grades View paystubs Pay account Anything currently available in myOleMiss
myOleMiss Content
Discussion!
Your own Mobile Site
Things we won't consider in this exercise:
Switching between full and mobile sites
Styling for non-iPhones
Any real content… this is just for practice
Your own Mobile Site
1. In Dreamweaver, create a "mobi" folder in your site's home directory.
2. Create two new blank HTML pages named "index.html" and "contact.html" and save them to that folder.
Your own Mobile Site
3. Go to www.olemiss.edu/webmaster/mobi and view/copy the source code. Paste it into your index.html file and save it.
4. Do the same with the Contact page.
Your own Mobile Site5. Edit contact.html with your information.
Save/Upload.
6. Create two more links in index.html. Programs Organizations
7. Create pages for those links based on contact.html and add some content.