What do Roger Ebert and Jim Carrey have in common with Bucknell University? They all just won Webby Awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, picked from over 10,000 entries.
Bucknell won in the category of best school or university Web site. The academy specifically praised Bucknell’s virtual tour. Visitors to the site can click buttons to complete sentences that describe their interests and characteristics. The site then shows visitors a campus map, with arrows pointing to programs and areas at the university in which those interests might be developed. Visitors can then read related blurbs about Bucknell and click on mutimedia describing the Bucknell experience.
3 Responses to Bucknell U. Wins Webby Award for Virtual Tour
craigc - May 5, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Put link to their website in the article.
bergstroma - May 6, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Neat concept but has couple technical issues.1. Flash not supported on iPhone/iPod/iPod platform, so tour is not available to those devices.2. The tour behaves quirky with Google Chrome browser. Right click and zoom in on the tour. Now try right click and zoom out. I am not able to and have to restart the tour to reset it to show all. Oddly enough this works fine in Firefox.
icenine - May 7, 2010 at 8:42 am
Web accessibility? Web standards? The Bucknell homepage fails validation on both counts.