This morning at the Open Education 2007 conference David Wiley announced our new conference application 51weeks. I wrote the code so if you have any feedback or run into problems feel free to post comments here and we'll get right on it.
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The rss link for the aggregator does not appear to work or be recognized (at least by bloglines):
http://www.51weeks.com/aggregations/show/5.rss?event_id=3
But great work! It’s nice seeing all the pictures already
Well, since you asked…
I think the site looks great, and I particularly like the the function that allows me to pick my sessions, and then have a page I can print out to remind me where and when to go. But I had a bit of feedback on how it works.
At one point I clicked on a session, then realized I wanted different one at the same time. It would be nice to be able to take it off my program on that same page, rather than have to go to the my program page, take it off, then return to the program page.
And this might be more work than it’s worth, but I noticed when you clicked on the ‘add to my schedule’, the page refreshes to the top of the page. It’s a bit of pain to scroll down every time (If I get carpal tunnel, I won’t be able to ride my mountain bike). It would be nice if there was some kind of thing that just added it there without having to refresh to the top.
Just a few nit picky details, overall I think the site is quite useful.
Small bug - in the program for the second day, if you click ‘I am attending’ it returns you back to the Day 1 program, not Day 2 that you were just looking at.
sorry, I mean when you click on “Add to my program”
I know it is popular to use technorati to aggregate tagged posts in feeds like 51weeks is doing, but IMO technorati is flaky and unreliable. Another approach (which arguably is less ’small pieces loosely joined) would be (a la Attendr) to have attendees add their feeds to a profile entry in 51weeks itself and do the aggregation there rather than depending on technorati’s flakiness. This would also be another piece off profile info to help socially connect attendees. So, more work, but would work better if you ask me.
Cheers, Scott
Hi Scott,
Thanks for all your feedback. We need to sit down and chat before the conference is over. Hopefully sometime today you will be able to add your own feeds. I am working on setting the correct day for the program issue right now.
If there are other features you would like to see keep on posting.
thanks,
Justin
Justin, really glad to sit down with you last night at dinner, definitely another of the highlights of an all round great conference.
More feedback (when will this guy shut up?!?) - Pibb is flaking this morning, at least in Firefox. when you lad a page with it embedded it looks like the javascript is just looping and looping and never actually appears on the page. Don’t think it is a bandwidth thing. Cheers, Scott
I was just about to post about Pibb’s flakiness, but Scott beat me to it.
I don’t know if it’s related, but I haven’t found an archive of the chats from previous sessions (ie when I go to the session entry, there is no record of the chat that went on).
But overall, I’m liking 51 Weeks — this is a really cool application. I like how the various external media (blog posts, Flickr) gets displayed — very appealing layout. I think it’s got real potential.
Oh yeah, thanks for adding the “add link” functionality. I created a word doc for my link, and by then time I went to upload it — there it was!
One more idea, one suggested to me by the name 51Weeks - if there was some sort of “opt-in” way I could subscribe to get (by RSS or mail) periodic messages of sessions I missed with the audio, links, comments, etc…
Maybe if there was any way to prod presenters to give the occasional update to their session materials (if someone blogs, even a way to enter RSS?)…
When I am logged in, and click on another user, I get an error message.
[...] It is worth mentioning that Open Education 2007 is supported on a conference resource site called 51 Weeks, which is still under development. It is a great tool that allows the activities occurring at the conference and the conference resources to be made available and put in some context. Each session has a description, chat area, and links to download resources. The application was being tweaked throughout the conference, so if you visit the support site and it is behaving oddly, you can report the behavior through 51 Weeks Feedback. [...]
Hi Justin - are you intending to make the software available for other conferences? If so, I’d love to chat with you…
George
I bet you thought ‘phew, the conference is over, no more complaining about 51 weeks for a while’
Am unable to see the program pages today. I get
“We’re sorry, but something went wrong.
We’ve been notified about this issue and we’ll take a look at it shortly.”
Wanted to see these both to get ‘My program’ and also links to some of the podcasts.
cf. also George’s request above. I know that ‘open sourcing’ an app like this is not as simple as ‘here’s the code, there you go’ but seriously, you have enough here already for others to see the value proposition and decide to contribute or not, which in my mind is the critical hurdle to first clear. I don’t have any Ruby resources, and I don’t know about George either, but I do know both of us would likely at least publicize this more and try to garner you some additional developers if you would take this step (and with the MOCSL tools too!) Cheers, Scott
Hello All,
The problem you are seeing Scott should be fixed now. I would love for everyone to tell their family and friends about this app - more users is always a good thing.
We will make this available for other conferences just post here or get me an email and we’ll get you up and running.
Best,
Justin
Justin, sorry to bug you - am I right to look for the video of the keynotes on the program pages for each of those sessions? I am seeing some of the audio for individual sessions attached to their pages, but I *think* the keynotes in the big room were video taped and I am hoping to grab some of this for future remixing. I am guessing this may take some time to get online; is there an RSS feed I should be watching to let me know when the video gets posted (specifically DJ Lamb’s one, how can I resist?!) Cheers, Scott
No worries. I am not sure where they will post the video. Matt has to edit it which will take some time. There isn’t even an RSS feed to watch - although that is a great idea and probably something we should add into 51weeks. Keep in touch and I’ll let you know when the video is available.
Justin
MP3 is patent encumbered - could we access the audio files in Ogg/Vorbis format? It might be possible to offer our users download format options … and, to simplify the programming, run their requests through something like http://media-convert.com/
Hey something super easy to fix! Click on photos and then hold your cursor over the “previous 50 pictures” and “next 50 pictures”. Their alt descriptions are reversed.