Comments on: MyBristol Toolbar http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/mybristol-toolbar/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Are Institutional Portals and VLEs Really “Creepy Treehouses”? « UK Web Focus http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/mybristol-toolbar/#comment-69057 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:05:58 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=1096#comment-69057 [...] the Tribe” at the IWMW 2008 event. Alan Cann mentioned it again in a recent comment on one of my blog posts, suggesting, I think, that the University of Bristol’s MyBristol portal is an example of a [...]

]]> By: A. M. Doherty http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/mybristol-toolbar/#comment-68942 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:18:09 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=1096#comment-68942 The advantage is infrastructure – Providing such a service may allow the less confident student to gain a better understanding of these technologies, safe in the knowledge that they can approach actual support staff for informed advice.

]]> By: ajcann http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/mybristol-toolbar/#comment-68935 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:30:18 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=1096#comment-68935 http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/
n. Any institutionally-created, operated, or controlled environment in which participants are lured in either by mimicking pre-existing open or naturally formed environments, or by force, through a system of punishments or rewards.

I rest my case.

]]> By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/mybristol-toolbar/#comment-68934 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:38:56 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=1096#comment-68934 A toolbar is a creepy tree-house? I guess any service developed or deployed by institutions is a creepy-tree house, then? Jorum rather than Slideshare? MS Word, perhaps, rather than Google Docs.

Nonsense! Or isn’t Google a creepier place for kids, if you want to use this rather contrived analogy?

]]> By: ajcann http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/mybristol-toolbar/#comment-68931 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:06:49 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=1096#comment-68931 Feels more like a creepy treehouse to me. Why not just facilitate users using public tools so that they’re not tied to UBris?

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