Learning, Sharing, Growing.: Using web 2.0 tools

Hello everyone,

For this week’s assignment my group worked with Diigo, a bookmarking and markup tool which allows users to easily record and share web sites they find interesting or relevant to a particular project they may be working on. There are many nifty features available in this web 2.0 tool and while I am still to discover most of these I found the following useful for my activity:

The ability to save bookmarks as part of a list – this allows me to classify my bookmarks according to some purpose which makes it easier for me to organize and access the content at a later time. In this activity my list was called HCI Activity 3 since these resources were to be used for that particular activity.
The ability to create groups – this feature allowed me to invite my students to a closed group where they could view resources I had shared with them and also allows them to make contributions of their own (either by adding new bookmarks, comments or marking up the bookmarks I had shared with them)
The ability to associate a bookmark with a particular group – this feature meant that I am able to categorize which students have access to the bookmarks I have added to my library.

My Activity

Human Computer Interface Design – In Class Activity #3 (one hour)

Group One :

http://art.yale.edu/

Group Two:

http://www.ifly.com/flights

Group Three:

http://www.vacaway.com/

Group Four:

http://www.rodcdavis.com/

Group Five:

http://www.adlucent.com/

Group Six

http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/

You must form yourselves into groups of three persons then randomly select one of the above websites (by blindly drawing numbers) and complete the following activity.

Instructions & Deliverables:

You are required to login to diigo and access the resources put into the HCI Activity bookmarks list. Visit the bookmark for your assigned group number then, based on the principles discussed in our “Visual Organization” and “Colour and Typography” classes, critically evaluate the web site. You will find bookmarks to other site resources you can use in completing your activity included in this bookmark list. If you use other sites be sure to add them to the HCI Activity List using diigo so you can easily share them with the class later.

Your evaluation should include, but is not limited to the items below:

The use of these design principles on the web site (Layout/colour schemes/font use etc.)
If these principles have not been used state where and how they can be incorporated to enhance the usability of the site.

Your submission must include:

An actual markup of the page or site done by your team members using the highlighting and ‘sticky note’ features of Diigo to illustrate your critical assessments.
A discussion presentation to the class of your analysis of the web site.