Building Green

This site covers all aspects of environmentally friendly home building. Researched, reported, designed and coded by student Jordan Kennedy and me. The code employs Javascript and canvas for animations, and is fully responsive.

Fortress Rosecrans

Fortress Rosecrans is an historic monument in Murfreesboro, where the largest fort built during the Civil War once stood. This interactive project was originally researched by Floris Moriceau, a student in the visual communication sequence, and then designed and illustrated by me, with Floris doing the coding using Javascript.

The purpose of the project was, in part, to create an interactive graphic without any Flash or other proprietary elements, instead using open source resources such as jQuery. This project is fully functional on any device, including Apple iPhones and iPads.

Good Friday Tornado

An MTSU School of Journalism project for the one-year remembrance of a tornado that hit Murfreesboro on April 10, 2009. The project was originally proposed by professor Ken Blake. Students from a reporting class team-taught by professors Leon Alligood and Jennifer Woodard interviewed tornado survivors and prepared stories in a variety of media, from text to soundslides to audio files.

I then designed the website and one of my students, Floris Moriceau, did the coding using Javascript. The students’ interviews are embedded in the neighborhood pages.

A print version of the graphic ran in the Murfreesboro newspaper, the Daily News Journal, along with six of the students’ stories, and the web version was promoted and linked to from the paper’s website.

Tennessee Congressional Watch

An advanced visual communication class project, designed by me and student Chloe Polivka, with reporting by Kelsey Wells and Christopher Do, covering Tennessee’s nine U.S. congressional district races in the 2012 midterm elections.

We started the project at the beginning of the Fall semester prior to the elections, and updated with results at the end.