With the increment inward involvement inward mobile too handheld learning, I idea I’d investigate 1 of the many novel Web 2.0 type start ups that are offering gratis (at the minute at least) services for setting upwards websites too spider web based communities to live on accessed on mobile phones too other mobile devices.
The 1 I’ve started alongside is a service called
Winksite. On the dwelling identify page of their website the society claims that, “Winksite makes it slow to issue mobile websites too communities that tin live on viewed worldwide on whatever phone.” So I idea I would crusade to ready my ain site equally an extension of this blog.
What’s practiced virtually itI was genuinely quite impressed at merely how slow it is too at the number of features on offer. Once you lot get got registered, Winksite offers users the chance to ready equally many equally five websites for mobile devices. Each site tin get got a make of features that you lot tin pick out too edit from a fairly slow to role spider web based interface. Some of the possible features for your mobile website include:
- Announcements
- Blog entries
- Journal entries
- Field reports
- Profile information
- User surveys
- Chat rooms
- Forums
- Feed syndication
- Plus a few others
I spent virtually an lx minutes on
Winksite, yesteryear which fourth dimension I had;
- set upwards my mobile site
- added my profile
- personalised the expect of the site
- created a duet of surveys
- added chat too a forum
- posted a weblog entry too an announcement.
Once you’ve created your site at that spot is also a tool that allows you lot to import e-mail addresses from your address majority to shipping out invitations to join, thus you lot tin quite easily acquire people onto your site too publisise it to your friends.
The sites that
Winksite creates comply to all the established standards for mobile site, thus that’s swell likewise too also way that the site tin live on accessed through other mobile devices. I role an Opera browser on my Nintendo DS Lite equally a sort of wireless palmtop equally I roam unopen to the identify too garden, thus to live on able to access the site on that for me is genuinely a swell bonus.
The
Featured books department is also interesting equally it provides a way to access books on your phone, page yesteryear page too chapter yesteryear chapter, equally they are written. This also enables you lot to interact alongside the author equally the majority is written too hash out diverse elements through the forums too surveys.
What’s non thus practiced virtually it From the
Winksite homepage you lot tin also get got a expect unopen to at the other sites that are existence created. This isn’t thus impressive, equally it seems that lots of people are interested inward finding out how this industrial plant etc, but it’s hard to abide by whatever sites that get got to a greater extent than than 1 or ii members signed up, too non many get got much content added. That isn’t a criticism of the tool though, I scream upwards it’s merely that the audience / marketplace for mobile spider web content is soundless quite novel too at that spot is manifestly huge potential here. The makers get got also tried to steer you lot towards the best content yesteryear adding an
Editor's choice section, equally good equally having a regular
Featured site.
Unless you lot get got a practiced contract alongside your telephone provider that gives you lot enough of spider web access included, accessing the site could live on expensive. Having said this the pages the site create are all pretty visible lamp too should charge pretty quickly, thus comparatively, this won't live on such an expensive site to access.
How to role it alongside my studentsThis is a hard one. If you lot get got students who come upwards to degree regularly, are they genuinely going to desire to role a στοιχείο based spider web community to interact alongside their instructor too the other students from the class? I scream upwards belike not. There is also the work that some students may good non get got phones that are capable of browsing websites.
- If nonetheless you lot get got distance or online classes too thus I could meet the possible potential of using a tool similar this inward conjunction alongside other spider web based materials to back upwards students too locomote into easier for students to operate together too locomote on inward impact alongside you.
- The site could live on useful for a degree project. Get the students to determine on issues that they experience are of import to them, too thus ready the site based unopen to 1 of these issues too crusade to acquire students from other classes or schools exchanging opinions too polling each other.
- You could ready polls too surveys on Winksite equally a shape of activity inquiry to acquire anonymous feedback from students too create dialogue alongside them virtually some of the methods you’re using inward class.
- You could acquire students to create their ain site equally a shape of learner diary.
- You could ready a site to locomote on inward contact alongside the parents of your students too assist to locomote on them informed virtually what’s going on alongside their children too whatever events etc that are happening at the school. You could fifty-fifty post your homework assignments on the site thus that the parents cheque to meet that their children are doing the operate you lot laid them.
- You could crusade to acquire students to collaboratively write a book/ floor from their telephone or computer. Decide on the theme outset too and thus inquire students to get got it inward turns to add together a page each. Others could interact too vote on what they would similar to hap adjacent using the survey feature.
ConclusionIf you lot desire a multi-featured στοιχείο website alongside lots of interactive features, too you lot don’t desire to pay anything for it, this is a swell identify to start. The characteristic laid is rich too varied too the interface seems to live on pretty slow to use. It’s hard to enjoin though at the minute if having a website that is accessed though a στοιχείο has whatever genuinely meaning advantages over 1 that is purely accessed through a computer. I suppose a lot depends on how much modify at that spot is inward coming months / years regarding access the spider web through mobile phones. The popularity of Apple’s novel I-phone surely points towards, this happening, but looking at the costs involved at present, it’s soundless going to live on a spell earlier this sort of access is available to many inward poorer countries.
If you lot crusade out this tool or get got tried similar 1 delight acquire out a comment.
Best
Nik
