Amy Jo Kim has written a useful booked titled Community-Building for the web, to pull out information relevavent to the modelling4all project. The book is based on a checklist designed to help step a designer through the process of building online communities. The book companion website gives a useful set of checklists and guidance on some general heuristics for builidng a community. The key seems to be to let users drive feature development, and use improvements as motivation for getting people involved. The question at this stage is to pin point our community, is it undergraduates, learners in general or teachers?
Archive for June, 2007
Might be able to make the service work even when off-line
When I watched
Google Developer Day US – Better AJAX Apps:Gears, GWT, Dojo
I saw how AJAX applications developed with the Google Web ToolKit could be interfaced into the Google Gears browser plug-in so that it can run off-line. The service can run even when one is disconnected and then when (re) connected the local state and the server state are synchronised. As presented in
http://code.google.com/events/developerday/mv-sessions.html#building_better_ajax_apps
there are several situations where people want to run web applications even when not connected. And one can run off-line the same way (even using the same URLs) as one does when connected.
The combination of GWT and Gears may provide us tools for doing this.
