I have finished reading and commenting on all of the website proposals for this course (at least so far). Overall, pretty good, although there were many that did not really have "instructional design" style goals and objectives, even among people who took ID last semester! As far as I'm concerned, that's one thing that makes a site instructional rather than just informational. It is the desire/plan/intention to have people actually get something specific from the site, as opposed to just putting up information that people can take or leave. Even so, I think there will be some very interesting sites to come out of this semester.
I have also made sure that I have read all the blog posts added by this class since the beginning of the semester. Although setting up netvibes was not quite as easy as advertised, now that I have it, I like it a lot. It's very easy to see what each post is about, and one click takes you there. The one weakness is that I can't see how many comments have been made to a posting without actually going to the blog. I'm sure that I will miss some of those as we go along. Overall, though not a bad way to see what people are thinking about quickly and easily.
Meanwhile, everyone is kind of worried about Twitter. This is really just an experiment to see if it has any value for us. So far, I'm as skeptical as some of the class members, so we'll see how it goes.
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Netvibes looks like the google start page, iGoogle. I think the interface is a bit more polished which will probably push google to step it up a bit.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming that this is a soft version of data mining based upon what you select as your gadgets/widgets and they already have your contact info. I'm also assuming that they will store X amount of data collected through your widgets so if you select facbook they will essentially be your friend.
I'd have to read through the contract agreement to be certain but those are changeable as time goes along. Very free to begin with and mostly free with a bit of inconvenience later. Let's call this internet rights 2.0