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  • Rebruary 25th, 2011 ed 4 WESTERN CAROLINIAN Page 6 oes developing campus tour mobile Web applications + dill Ingram, WCU News Services. ay Bivdints in a capstone computer information sys- .,fems course are performing . Work that not only sharpens their skills as they prepare to _enter the job market but also will provide the university with opportunities for mo- _ bile Web tour applications. soit his is the second semes- -der Dan Clapper has taught GIS 465, an upper-level -applications development class and a graduation re- _, quirement for computer in- _ formation systems students. dn fall 2010, the nine CIS .A65 students began-a series @f mobile Web application .ptojects. This semester, the 19, students in the class are ~Sworking to finish some of _,those projects and also have _, begun working on new ones. The students work in _ groups of threes and fours in the roles of client-side devel- opers, server-side develop- evs and client liaisons, with WCU faculty and staffmem- _bers serving as some of the ehients, The client-side de- Vlopers work with HTML, CSS and Javascript to. use Google Maps and geoloca- "ioh to create the pages users t all see on their handheld. devices; server-side devel- epers use C# (pronounced see sharp), a program- Hing language, with Asp.net t6 develop the content cre- ation and management tools needed to create and edit At al From Staff Report in Ibs PLM ey the, Western Cuolean: +, AWestern Carolina Universi- tys award-winning student newspaper, has started to do what some of their counter- parts are considering not do- ig anymore: offer subscrip- tions. Though many newspa- Seeks across the country are wseeing a decline in circu- waation, Justin Caudell, the PaWestern Carolinians editor- ; chief, believes there is a the content of the tours; and client-liaisons work with the clients, develop and run us- ability testing sessions, and develop and use acceptance testing plans. (Some class projects arent related to mobile Web tours and have: clients such as local govern- ments.) Since last semester, Laura Huff, the universitys e-mar- keting coordinator, has been aclient of Clappers students developing a system to allow Huffs student-workers to generate customized mobile Web tours of campus. Its a little bit different, Huff said. We could say, Students, I want you to go : and do a tour of all your fa-. vorite spots on campus. Huff envisions creat- ing tours that will appeal to alumni, students and po- tential students and then cross-promoting the tours on the universitys website and social media outlets. Huff also is part of a univer- sity project to adapt WCU news, events, social media and other information feeds into a smartphone applica- tion. Currently in testing, the application converts WCU info feeds and social media | content into a format that is easy to view and navigate on _smartphones. A tour of the universitys outdoor sculpture instal- lations with client Denise Drury, interim director of the WCU Fine Art Muse- market for the newspaper. We have had a lot of parents routinely ask us if we offer subscriptions, and we finally got to thinking, why not, said Caudell. We dont put online everything we have in our print edition ~ and we also typically have special features in the news- paper that cannot be. fully replicated on our website. One case in point Caudell mentioned was a_ special three-page spread the West- em. Carolinian did on the eee Th 5 nm <4 nal Ad eiGe: a = eS Oe regina ine 0 [> |= |x| HOLES aoe um, will likely be the first to achieve a primary course goal: a mobile app available for download. : Td really like to deploy the sculpture tour as an app that we could make avail- able on the iPhone and Droid marketplaces, Clapper said. Weve not done that before so we're excited about the possibilities. The mobile apps. will allow visitors to take self- guided tours. The tours will use GPS technology to pin- point a users locations on- screen and then highlight nearby points of interest. Users can _ select specific points of interest for more information. Brian Estes, a senior from Chapel Hill majoring in computer information sys- tems, is a server-side devel- oper on the Fine Art Museum sculpture tour. In addition to increasing his knowledge of code he learned in a previous Clapper class, Estes said hes learning crucial time-man- agement and group-work skills that will serve him in his career. Estes appreciates how Clapper encourages students working on diverse projects to help each other, and said that the class, while his toughest, also is his fa- vorite. | It would be amazing to hear someone talk about i my project, and I could say. to them, I helped make that app, he said. Pride of ie Mountains in their January 28, 2011 edi- tion. To honor the Pride of the Mountains trip: to. the Tournament of Roses Parade and also to address other ex- citing news the band had at the time, we built our Arts and Entertainment section around them in our Jan. 28 edition, said Caudell. The design we put into a special like that is something mem- bers of the band and also their friends and family are melee |> wigs ia f= |ofololo]s [ole a [olol=[]efalo mie! EE | a= ele [mo = |> Dan Clapper (lefi), associate professor of computer information systems, None with stu- dents Brian Estes (standing) and Tim Harper on developing mobile Web tour applications. Ben Holbrook spent last semester helping develop a mobile Web tour of Chero- kee points of interest on campus with client Jane Eastman of the Cherokee Studies Program. He has since graduated (with new students now working on the project) and reported to Clapper that the capstone class gave him huge ad- vantages as he job hunts because it equipped him with experience not many others have straight out of school. Potential employ- : ers are very interested that we covered C# in school, Holbrook wrote Clapper in an e-mail. And the mobile tour also gets attention, he reported: T have had a lot of interest from people seeing going to. want to have to keep and possibly frame. Something like that on our website could never be tangible or keep worthy, he added. The cost of a subscription to the Western Carolinian will be $30 yearly for North Carolina residents and $45 for those who live out-of- state. 2 Subscribers will not have to wait long for their paper to arrive to their doorstep ac- cording to Caudell. CO > ]on] co] |oo| A[=|~ [ro ERIE) SCE CCIE that on my rsum. Because the projects are hardware intensive, Clap- per has an equipment wish list, which he shared with the Division of Student Af- fairs during a recent presen- tation because of that divi- sions interest in developing tours. On the list: Droids and iPhones, MacBooks, and. ifouch and an iPad: Cur- rently, students work with emulator programs, but hav- ing a variety of devices to test the applications would allow tweaks for different platforms... cone Clapper continues to adapt his course as the stu- dent teams solve problems and develop solutions to mo- bile challenges. While last semester was about figuring Unlike many nwspa- pers who use third class or media mail, we will be mail- ing our papers first class to readers, Caudell said. We dont want our subscribers who .live in New York City or Seattle to have to wait up- wards of seven days to get their paper. Most subscribers who live on the East Coast will receive the Western Car- dlinian in 1-2 days and the Mid-East and West Coast in 3-5 days. That means if you live in 3/4]2 out what was possible, this semester is about testing and fine-tuning. For instance, last semester students coor- dinated with Mountain Heri- tage Center staff members ona mobile tour of points of interest along the nearly 500- mile Blue Ridge Parkway. While the students ended the semester with a working ver- sion of the application, Clap- per realized the scope was just too large. This semester, Scott Philyaw, director of the : Mountain Heritage Center. and the projects client, has shifted focus to a mobile tour _ of Dillsboro with an empha- sis on womens history to ac- company an exhibit, Wom- ens Work, on display at the museum. . After requests, Western Carolinian now offering subscriptions Florida, you should receive our paper by Monday and the news will still be fresh since we distribute in Cullo- whee on Friday, he added. Those who wish to pur- chase a subscription can send a check or money order to P.O. Box 66, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723. Readers will also soon be able to purchase a sub- scription with their credit card on-line at http://www. westerncarolinian.com, Caudell said: Sf |rfofo|=lo De) [a] a|~]or}oro]o|o
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