Yearly Archives: 2006

American Observer Crime Map

On the Web: American Observer Crime Reports Skills: PHP, CakePHP, MySQL, XML, JavaScript, Gmap API, Cron The American Observer is a student publication of the School of Communication at American University. Various courses across the different journalism programs take turns maintaining the site, often publishing several issues a week. While serving as webmaster for my…

Curiosity Station Kiosks

Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, ColdFusion, SQL Server, XML, HTML, CSS Total Number of Kiosks: 9 Curiosity Stations are a chance for visitors to take the National Zoo home with them. The kiosks allow visitors to enter their name, email address and select Asia Trail topics of interest to explore in depth at home. Two…

Decision Station Kiosks

Skills: Project Management, Videography, Final Cut Pro, Multimedia Storytelling, ColdFusion, SQL Server Total Number of Kiosks: 5 The two banks of Decision Stations on the Asia Trail exhibit at the Smithsonian National Zoo are meant to illustrate a very import message: conservation is hard. At each set of kiosks, one representing Indian issues and one…

Science Station Kiosks

Skills: Flash 8, ActionScript 2, XML, Final Cut Pro, Project Management, Multimedia Storytelling Total Number of Kiosks: 2 The Science Stations are two 32” touch screen kiosks adjacent to the indoor Giant Panda viewing at the National Zoo. The huge, vertically mounted screens invite visitors behind the scenes with three Giant Panda-based stories of Zoo…