The Interaction Experience
For our third activity, we will explore some web sites that are more than text or click and read types of content. This activity is set up as a "Chinese Menu" in that like some Chinese restaurants, we want each particpant or group to sample at least one site from Column A, Column B, and Column C (see below).
The Purpose: Like the previous activities, this one is geared to look at what are mostly "non educationa" web sites to explore the experience and design of these sites. As you explore (do not get too distracted), thing about what is similar or different (structure, navigation, purpose, engagement) to what we might be more familiar with in educational content.
Column A: Digital / Net Narratives
These sites provide rather non-linear modes of presenting stories and some are almost game-like in format. Please sample at least one story from this menu:
We are not all artists but these sites offer easy to use tools for creating content. Please try and create one unique piece of media from an site in this menu (and see if you can save the URL to post in your blog):
Column C: Web Interfaces
We are not all artists but these sites offer easy to use tools for creating content. Please try and create one unique piece of media from an site in this menu (and see if you can save the URL to post in your blog):
The Purpose: Like the previous activities, this one is geared to look at what are mostly "non educationa" web sites to explore the experience and design of these sites. As you explore (do not get too distracted), thing about what is similar or different (structure, navigation, purpose, engagement) to what we might be more familiar with in educational content.
Column A: Digital / Net Narratives
These sites provide rather non-linear modes of presenting stories and some are almost game-like in format. Please sample at least one story from this menu:
- Found Floppy- a multimedia story buried inside files found on a floppy disk http://www.dreamingmethods.com/floppy/
- I Love Bees - a story of intrigue told via clues in a "hacked" web site http://ilovebees.com/
- The LiveJournal of Zachary Marsh - story told via weblog format http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/the_livejournal_of_zachary_marsh.php
- Roommate From Hell - another one told in weblog form http://roommatefromhell.com/
- The Simulator - a day in the life, a branching story of text and pictures http://conceptlab.com/simulator/index.html
- 99 Rooms - another non-linear game like storyspace http://www.99rooms.com/
- Book of Waste - a game like multimedia exploration story http://www.dreamingmethods.com/waste/
- The Blue Chamber - an explorative puzzle http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/bluechamber/
- Brambletown - an animated story http://www.brambletown.com/
- Implementation - stories told via a sequence as public posted stickers
- http://nickm.com/implementation/location.html
We are not all artists but these sites offer easy to use tools for creating content. Please try and create one unique piece of media from an site in this menu (and see if you can save the URL to post in your blog):
- Imagination Cubed - create grahpics http://www.imaginationcubed.com/
- The Excellent Intranet Cost Analyzer - cacluate how much money is epxended by confusing web sites http://www.dack.com/web/cost_analyzer.html
- Mr Picassohead - create a Picasso image using a Mr Potatoe Head tool http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
- gnomz - create your own comic strip http://www.gnomz.com/
- DFilm Movie Maker - make your own animated cartoon movie http://www.dfilm.com/index_moviemaker.html
- Carol maker - create music http://www.zefrank.com/xmas/
- Timeline creator http://timeline.cer.jhu.edu/ or http://www.learningtools.arts.ubc.ca/timeline.htm
- Spell With Flickr - create a logo based on words using images from Flickr http://www.metaatem.net/words/
- Create a Text Logo http://cooltext.com/
- Convert a word to a Scrabble Score http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/
- TV Misguidance - Generate a fake list of TV shows http://thesurrealist.co.uk/misguide
- Create ASCII ART - from the old text only days of computing http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
- Flash Ascii- create animated ASCII art http://www.flashcii.com/flashcii_main/index.htm
- Thinking Machine 4 - a chess game that creates graphic patterns http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/
Column C: Web Interfaces
We are not all artists but these sites offer easy to use tools for creating content. Please try and create one unique piece of media from an site in this menu (and see if you can save the URL to post in your blog):
- Guess the Google - play a game against the information that lies in Google http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/
- Just Letters - a multiuser game http://web.okaygo.co.uk/apps/letters/flashcom/index.htm
- The Phone - explore a mystery http://www.aooa.co.uk/
- The ESP Game - play against another person or computer to "tag" images http://www.espgame.org/
- M is for Nottingham - a multiplayer myster drama game http://califia.hispeed.com/Incubation2/
- Don't Click It - a whole new type if web interface http://www.dontclick.it
- 10x10 the news in images http://tenbyten.org/
- WebNote - a shared space for virtual post it notes http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ (example: Will Richardson's WebNote)
- iSketch - online Pictionary (requires Shockwave) http://www.isketch.net/
- Turning The Pages - virtual books http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation.html
- Visual Thesaurus - a 3d visualization of words and their relations http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
- Google Maps http://maps.google.com (example- find Penn State University!)
- Content Management Stress Level Test http://www.stressfree.stellent.com/
- History Bot - ask it a historical question http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/h-bot/
- Baby Name Wizard - explore the history of names http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/
• permalinnk • posted 6/19/2005 10:55:00 AM •
