Client
TIMELINE
April 2020
INDUSTRY
- Instructional Design
Services
- Branding, UI/UX, Web Support
Client
Latitude High School
The Challenge
A printed book can showcase great projects, but it cannot carry the handouts, videos, and student work that make them teachable. After Larry Rosenstock’s WISE Prize prompt, High Tech High and the Graduate School of Education needed Changing the Subject to turn 50 profiles into a searchable public archive. We had to organize 505 mixed media files, keep it ADA compliant, and make downloads fast worldwide, without overwhelming teachers with options.
Design a global project archive with searchable, free resources
Our Methodology
Illuminate
Craft
Engage
Foster
Sustain
The Solution
We built ChangingtheSubject.org to extend the book Changing the Subject into a public archive where the book and project pages are free to download. Funded by the High Tech High Foundation, the WordPress site on Kinsta organizes 50 projects, 96 contributors, and 505 media items through profiles, resource modules, and ADA compliant descriptions. We designed the logo and wordmark, delivered forum display graphics, and maintain the site with analytics monitoring and Zendesk support.
Key
Takeaways
Changing the Subject shows how a book can become a teaching archive when the platform carries the artifacts, not just the narrative.
- Treat content as data: we mapped 50 projects, 505 resources, and 96 contributors into a taxonomy aligned to how teachers search.
- Make discovery effortless: filters by subject, grade band, site, media type, and PBL step, with templates and ADA compliant descriptions.
- Protect speed and access: open downloads under Creative Commons, clear excerpts, and WordPress hosting tuned for fast global loading.
Stewardship stays visible: link repair, Zendesk support, light analytics monitoring, a 20GB video move to YouTube, and future portability.
