When coming into Olathe Northwest, students get the chance to join a program here known as e-Communications, or otherwise known as, e-Comm. e-Comm gives students the opportunity to get involved with video production, graphic design, animation, and web design.
Mr. Olson, web design teacher, has been an e-Comm teacher since the program had began. Olson has been interested in web since the web was first getting started.
"I've been interested in the web since the web was first getting out because I was online doing things like email and things like Gopher that were all text based. As the web got going in the 90's, it really drew me into web design."
Web design isn't the only thing that draws Olson into the web. He enjoys how it can bring multiple elements together to create something great.
"My favorite thing is that it ties together different things I'm interested in like graphic design, type, layout, and whatever you put out on the web is public, so others can see your work."
Mr. Olson has had the opportunity to share his work with clients around the Kansas City area and he also made the ONW Raven's website.
"I've made websites for a church, a chiropractor, a local non-profit group, and the ONW Website."
Olson hopes that students in his class will learn to go out on their own and show their creativity to the the web.
"The main point of this class to teach the students to go out there to go their thing either for themselves or a client."
The class prepares students, but won't ever be able to prepare them fully because the web changes so much every day.
"It's hard to prepare everyone in all of our areas because of what's coming. Everything just changes so fast."
As e-Comm grows every year, it seems that the number of students who go into the web strand has gone down, while numbers in other strands has gone up. Olson hopes that as more years come, students will begin to come back over to web.
"As years has passed, the focus shift has moved over to the video side, causing the numbers for web design to drop. I'm hoping as years come, our numbers start to increase again."
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"I've been interested in the web since the web was first getting out because I was online doing things like email and things like Gopher that were all text based. As the web got going in the 90's, it really drew me into web design."
Web design isn't the only thing that draws Olson into the web. He enjoys how it can bring multiple elements together to create something great.
"My favorite thing is that it ties together different things I'm interested in like graphic design, type, layout, and whatever you put out on the web is public, so others can see your work."Mr. Olson has had the opportunity to share his work with clients around the Kansas City area and he also made the ONW Raven's website.
"I've made websites for a church, a chiropractor, a local non-profit group, and the ONW Website."
Olson hopes that students in his class will learn to go out on their own and show their creativity to the the web.
"The main point of this class to teach the students to go out there to go their thing either for themselves or a client."
The class prepares students, but won't ever be able to prepare them fully because the web changes so much every day.
"It's hard to prepare everyone in all of our areas because of what's coming. Everything just changes so fast."
As e-Comm grows every year, it seems that the number of students who go into the web strand has gone down, while numbers in other strands has gone up. Olson hopes that as more years come, students will begin to come back over to web."As years has passed, the focus shift has moved over to the video side, causing the numbers for web design to drop. I'm hoping as years come, our numbers start to increase again."
https://plus.google.com/109971680335856076102/posts
http://www.deafculturalcenter.org/
http://www.onwravens.net/
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