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Web Design Cooperative

Nathan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:36:25 +0000

Through a connection with Allan’s friend from Pretoria, Nic Marsay, we have set up a brand new web design cooperative in the township that will be designing sites for clients in a few weeks or months. It’s called Ikamva Web Development Services—Ikamva means “future” in Zulu. Nic has started a consultancy firm that helps companies [...]

Latest Student Websites

Nathan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:12:05 +0000

The second web design class wraps up this week and today they finished their websites. We shortened the class down from three months to two, and I’m very proud of the work they’ve done on their sites. Have a look, read their stories and if they’ve included their email feel free to drop them a [...]

Guest Post: Nate Massey On NComputing

Nate Massey — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:03:36 +0000

As you know from our post on our recent trip to Cape Town, our good friend Nate Massey from Chapel Hill, NC, came to visit for two weeks in late January/early February. We asked him to write a bit about the work we did in the computer lab while he was here.

3D Pano: Powerhouse Computer Classroom

Nathan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:37:47 +0000

Something I had a chance to experiment with at my former job at WRAL.com was creating 3D panoramic images. The basic idea is, you take 6 shots around a circle, then one up and down. Using some powerful software (I use PTMac), you stitch all the images together into a cube which allows the user [...]

Web Design Class Graduates

Nathan — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:12:12 +0000

UPDATE (12/7/2008) – See the video of the graduation below where one of the students, Nelly Makhubela, gives a speech followed by singing and dancing. The past three months of teaching the first web design course at the Powerhouse has flown by. I am very proud of the 11 students who graduate today and of [...]

Teaching Web Design

Nathan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:33:13 +0000

For more than a month now I’ve been developing and teaching an advanced-level class at the computer school offered at the Powerhouse. The class is on web design, meets three times per week and will run through the end of November (for those interested, I am teaching Dreamweaver). All the students have graduated from the [...]