This past Friday we held the second annual Creaties to recognize some of the best new sites created by OU students, staff, and faculty. The event went great thanks to the University Club here at OU. The venue, food, and drinks made for a great setting for people to show off their work and chat with other makers.
Panoramic of 50+ people who came to the 2017 Creaties. Thanks from the bottom of my open heart for celebrating our love for the web with us pic.twitter.com/YnhhzvoM3Y
— Adam Croom (@acroom) May 5, 2017
Last year, we were trying to promote OU Create by showcasing sites built on the platform. This year, we expanded the scope a bit to include sites built in SquareSpace, Wix, and the like. The point of Create and similar Domain of One’s Own projects is to make it easier for people at the university to be digital makers. As long as people are out there making great stuff, it doesn’t matter what platform their using.
Keegan Long Wheeler did a great job documenting the event on our twitter account @OU_Create:
2nd annual Creaties is about to kick off! https://t.co/NtW1sc6p6s pic.twitter.com/nNgrEzjYd3
— Best of OU Create (@OU_Create) May 5, 2017
Hanging out and talking domains. No biggie. ? https://t.co/NtW1sc6p6s pic.twitter.com/FdDK4yyZuC
— Best of OU Create (@OU_Create) May 5, 2017
Hanging out with some top level domainers at Creaties! ?? https://t.co/NtW1sc6p6s pic.twitter.com/2pVyYDLnfd
— Best of OU Create (@OU_Create) May 5, 2017
Food, friends, and domains! https://t.co/NtW1sc6p6s pic.twitter.com/X6AhP16Fk8
— Best of OU Create (@OU_Create) May 5, 2017
Learning how some of these phenomenal websites are created at the Creaties! ? https://t.co/NtW1scnZY0 pic.twitter.com/VZDQF1ONfN
— Best of OU Create (@OU_Create) May 5, 2017
Our best student portfolio winner! What a beautiful website: https://t.co/qpZU46Bsmb pic.twitter.com/zrCRIcmArj
— Best of OU Create (@OU_Create) May 5, 2017
Our best faculty site winner! What a fantastic course website: https://t.co/09HD5EWuiK pic.twitter.com/dbjXsX0cNX
— Best of OU Create (@OU_Create) May 5, 2017
For the event we opened up nominations on our website and emailed all of the Create users and digitally inclined folk here at OU to ask for submissions. It was great to see so many students sites nominated:
WOW. The student finalist list for the @OU_Create Creaties is DEEP this year. Web talent for dayzzzz https://t.co/7vKTBw9VGd pic.twitter.com/GzvthD46lJ
— Adam Croom (@acroom) May 3, 2017
In addition to the student blogs and portfolios, we also had faculty portfolios, course sites, and an open textbook. Perhaps the most unique site was a scheduling app that can help departments identify conflicts between required parts of their curriculum:
Rare glimpse of me. My fav from
this years Creaties. Scheduling app built with PHP/MySQL/LESS/Bootstrap. https://t.co/BllQmQ6JK9 https://t.co/C0amaS32wV— Adam Croom (@acroom) May 5, 2017
The 2017 Creaties were great, thanks to the wonderful makers on campus. As soon as the event ended, I was thinking about next year and a couple conversations I want to start or continue. Rob Carr pointed out the opportunity to promote accessibility with the event.
@rgcarrjr @OU_Create Here’s a recent blog post you might like: https://t.co/JaEqxwPeEO
— Adam Croom (@acroom) May 3, 2017
I would like to see about either creating a prize or making accessibility part of our rubric for all prizes. This is also a great venue for conversations about OER, multi-modal communication, and privacy. Can’t wait for next year.
