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Welcome
April 10th, 2006
Welcome to the Refletive Evaluation project community site. This site is intended as a working area for project partners - a web space where researchers working on the project - and others interested in the project ideas - can share work in progress and discuss ideas.
The site is deliberately simple to allow easy access to working tools. However the software we have used to build the site is deceptively powerful and more functionaility can be added when and if we need it.
The site has a number of features and tools:
- This front page uses a blogging interface and it is easy to add new entries - including pictures and multimedia.
- The left hand menu gives access to ’static’ pages. New pages and menu items can be created from a simple adminitration interface. Any page can be password protected if we so wish
- The project forum is part fo the shared bazzar Forum area. Reflective Evaluation has its own forum pages. We can choose whether or not we wish these pages to be accessible by other members of the Bazaar community.
- The project wiki also is shared with other memebrs of the Bazaar community. Once more we have our own working area.
- The gallery is supplied through a Reflective evaluation Flickr account. All members of the project can use this to share photos.
- Finally the RSS feeds on the right fo the page allow us to display RSS feeds from other sites - for instance from delicio.us bookmarks. We can also offer RSS out for others to share in our activities.
The site is very easy to manage. Please do not worry about making a mistake - everthing can be edited and changed. And if you have any questions please email me, Graham Attwell.
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1. jenny | August 17th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Note that the front page says “the site is deliberately simple…” but the next paragraph goes on to talk about blogging interfaces, static pages, simple administration interface, shared bazaar forum area, Flickr accounts, RSS feeds and delicio.us bookmarks. Now i may be in a technically illiterate minority of one, but all this means nothing to me and really puts me off trying to use the site.
In Portugal the group were quite hostile to using this as a form of communication and lots of people asked why we couldn’t just use e-mail. Then we asked Graham to stop his presentation half way through because it was getting too technical and we didn’t undderstand it. Nevertheless, it went ahead. So be it - but there is a clear message here - if this is a tool for communication it actually puts people off communicating.
Please make it simpler and avoid any technical jargon or have button marked technical jargon and put all this stuff in there for those who want to know.
If it is necessary for the rest of us to have this information in order to use the site and we don’t understand it then it seems a bit pointless including it.
2. jenny | August 17th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
just a few more moans
1. I registered, got an email confirming user name and password. Tried several times to activate the registration through the link provided but kept gettting told that it was an incorrect user name (jenny). Could not contact bazzar and tell them this because I could not log in etc….
2. As instructed in e-mail from Ira, clicked on ‘tools’ area but told error 404, page not available.
3. Front page is repeated if you click on general? If this is deliberate it’s really confusing because you expect to see something different
4. Responding to front page is not possible as permission denied message at the bottom of page. Any reason why?
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