Comments on: User stories: adult student http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/ Keith Peter Burnett's blog about Maths teaching and ILT Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:43:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Clifton Kandler http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1326 Clifton Kandler Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:50:27 +0000 http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1326 Keith, these links from Leeds and Greenwich who used surveys to identify user requirements might be useful. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/portal-project/portalsurvey.htm http://www.gre.ac.uk/offices/ils/cis/projects/portal Keith,
these links from Leeds and Greenwich who used surveys to identify user requirements might be useful.

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/portal-project/portalsurvey.htm

http://www.gre.ac.uk/offices/ils/cis/projects/portal

]]> By: KeithB http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1303 KeithB Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:01:11 +0000 http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1303 Hi Seb The idea of students 'pulling' stuff into their own home pages using RSS feeds or similar is one I had thought of, but first we need to decide what we are making available! Hi Seb

The idea of students ‘pulling’ stuff into their own home pages using RSS feeds or similar is one I had thought of, but first we need to decide what we are making available!

]]> By: Seb Schmoller http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1302 Seb Schmoller Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:08:50 +0000 http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1302 On the phones theme, these links may be useful: * http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/04/google_lays_out.html - about the three categories - 'repetitive now', 'bored now', and 'urgent now' - that Google breaks mobile users into when designing services: * http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/06/test_the_mobile.html - about testing the mobile readiness of a web site - note in particular the talk Gummi Hafsteinsson, Google's Mobile Applications Product Manager. More generally, the direction things are taking is that users want to put "stuff" from portal providers into their own environment, e.g. an iGoogle page, rather than have to go to the portal to get it. Seb On the phones theme, these links may be useful:

  • http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/04/google_lays_out.html – about the three categories – ‘repetitive now’, ‘bored now’, and ‘urgent now’ – that Google breaks mobile users into when designing services:
  • http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/06/test_the_mobile.html – about testing the mobile readiness of a web site – note in particular the talk Gummi Hafsteinsson, Google’s Mobile Applications Product Manager.
    More generally, the direction things are taking is that users want to put “stuff” from portal providers into their own environment, e.g. an iGoogle page, rather than have to go to the portal to get it.
    Seb
]]> By: ian greenwood http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1299 ian greenwood Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:49:50 +0000 http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1299 i think most of what you have written is applicable to sixth form students as well keith. I would add - a link to the UCAS website for application advice & progress of application, a link to Connexions, maybe exam board specifications, a link to college register systems to monitor her own attendance (read only!), course progress tracking via STAR, read own TMGs and analyse progress towards them (needs tutor input), work experience arrangements, college calendar, mentoring personnel links, IOLAP or similar, relevant hyperlinks for her programmes of study, Activ8 student activities in college, "college news" and deadlines/noticeboard. that's enough to be going on with I think !! i think most of what you have written is applicable to sixth form students as well keith. I would add – a link to the UCAS website for application advice & progress of application, a link to Connexions, maybe exam board specifications, a link to college register systems to monitor her own attendance (read only!), course progress tracking via STAR, read own TMGs and analyse progress towards them (needs tutor input), work experience arrangements, college calendar, mentoring personnel links, IOLAP or similar, relevant hyperlinks for her programmes of study, Activ8 student activities in college, “college news” and deadlines/noticeboard.
that’s enough to be going on with I think !!

]]> By: KeithB http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1298 KeithB Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:07:35 +0000 http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1298 Good point Ian - a 'standards compliant' web theme on the portal and the more recent Web browsers in phones will handle this automatically, but perhaps some thought to 'phone friendly' presentation would help. What do you think teenagers would want from a Web portal? Good point Ian – a ‘standards compliant’ web theme on the portal and the more recent Web browsers in phones will handle this automatically, but perhaps some thought to ‘phone friendly’ presentation would help.

What do you think teenagers would want from a Web portal?

]]> By: ian greenwood http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1297 ian greenwood Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:40:42 +0000 http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/user-stories-adult-student/#comment-1297 something we may need to think about - a bit of crystal ball gazing if poss !! how much of this will be accessible through a traditional PC/browser combination, and how much thru simplified web browsers as available in most recent phones. not all students will have PCs, but they will have phones - of a rapidly increasing spec and capability. e.g. I already sync google calendar with my mobile each day, and record events and classes on both. i have noticed 6th form students use phones for appts and meetings as well. something we may need to think about – a bit of crystal ball gazing if poss !! how much of this will be accessible through a traditional PC/browser combination, and how much thru simplified web browsers as available in most recent phones. not all students will have PCs, but they will have phones – of a rapidly increasing spec and capability. e.g. I already sync google calendar with my mobile each day, and record events and classes on both. i have noticed 6th form students use phones for appts and meetings as well.

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