announcing: ViewPoints : Alternative Perspectives of Dartmouth
Update:Dartmouth has decided to give further consideration to the ViewPoints project. As such, the site has been temporarily taken down. Sorry…
In my recent paper for Dartmouth College, I illustrated some of my points with the example of a Dartmouth-focused dashboard. Now that example is live: ViewPoints : Alternative Perspectives of Dartmouth.
ViewPoints is a portal that pulls in Dartmouth related photos,Dartmouth news,blog entries about Dartmouth, and Hanover weather, all updated frequently and regularly.
One of the ideas behind this project was to demonstrate that for an institution like Dartmouth- with its many endeavors, and many public venues -the information that people get is very rarely the information that the institution provides. On the web, sources of content are many and diverse. Our tools for sorting that content are improving constantly, but we still need ways to see the bigger picture.ViewPoints is a first step toward providing that to Dartmouth.
If the Web 2.0 technologies enhance our abilities to create and interact with that content, they will likewise enhance our abilities to create and interact with those communities. (Yours, Mine, and Ours.)
The site was built over the past couple of weeks working with Jay Collier and Alan German from Dartmouth’s Web Publishing Services group. It uses a variety of technologies, prominent among them Ruby on Rails and AJAX.
Try it out and let us know what you think.
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