Portfolio - AICT Classroom Technologies
Jason Ross has been employed with the University of Alberta Academic Information and Communication Technologies (AICT) department of Classroom Technologies since September 1997. Starting in 2000, he took on the responsibility of designing and maintaining the department's website.
In 2004 Jason was asked to sit on the AICT web committee which was tasked with redesigning the website templates for the department. This committee has since established the current templates for AICT which can be seen here: http://www.ualberta.ca/AICT/.
The need for a departmental Intranet emerged with the ongoing expansion of the Classroom Technologies department and their Internet presence. An Intranet was developed as a result and now enables the Classroom Technologies staff, who are spread across the University of Alberta campus, ready access to technical information, forms, and the ability to update aspects of the department’s website themselves.
Jason’s tasks were to create both a user friendly, dynamic Internet website as well as a custom, secure Intranet that integrates seamlessly with the external web pages. Since both parts of this project required technology that was not available on the general University web server, he had to develop the project by building a server from scratch using openBSD as the operating system.
From there Jason continued developing the database backend and programming the web pages to use this information to provide dynamic content for both the Internet and Intranet.
This project is ongoing with a slated launch in September 2007.
Links to these websites can be seen below.