Fervr is a website for youth interested in connecting with Jesus. There are some exciting opportunities with Fervr such as free websites for youth groups! As well as great follow up and communication tools for camps and any other Christian youth organisations. You can find out more about Fervr at gofervr.net.
I’m really excited by the possibilities of safe online communication with teenagers (and kids)!
Watch Al Stewart talk about Fervr below
About a month after I started blogging, I’m doing a quick evaluation over the next week about how this blogging thing is going. This is the first step of evaluation. 5 months left of testing blogging…
As a start to the evaluation process. Here are the top 5 most viewed posts so far.
Recently I did an assignment analysing reading paths in picture books.
This got me thinking about reading paths in all sorts of things, websites, posters, flyers. Pretty much anything that is made to be viewed.
The concept of a reading path starts with what draws the viewers eye first. So, I tried to analyse the reading path of my blog, and it goes something like this…
Starts with viewing the header,
followed by going down to the actual material,
Finally moving back up to the widgets column and further down the page.
So hopefully this would be the reading path of this blog, and if the content is interesting to someone, then they can continue further down. It will however be different for different people, someone might be drawn to the blog content first.
The reading path of any text should be designed to draw attention to the content that is vital. This will make it easy to find and the viewer will be more likely to take in information. So in design, think about reading paths, whether it be a poster for n event, or a youth group website. It is important to draw viewers into your content.
Will current email be replaced?
Google have a new web product on the way, it’s called Google Wave. I’m pretty about the release of Google Wave, and it will be out towards the end of this year.
So what is Google Wave?
It is basically a reworking of email. Not a new gmail, but a whole different system to email (that will of course work with email). The way it works is that, instead of replying to a single email as a whole. You can reply inside the email, in an IM like way. You can also collaboratively edit documents among other things.
Google Wave’s main advantage is that it allows you to do all of this in real time. So instead of watching a box saying “Calum is typing”, you can actually see what I am typing. It also allows you to playback conversations and see who has edited what, where and when. So if you miss it live, you can still see what happened.
If you want to see it in action, then go here. Or if you are super keen, watch the hour and a half intro below
I’m pretty excited by this all. I think it will be a great for collaboration on the web. It could be a new form of editing documents, and hopefully it will be taken on in a way that I have not seen Google Docs used. I’m thinking that this will be really helpful for Uni ministries especially, as often people can live hours apart.
Bring on the Wave!
A new post at Communicate Jesus, here’s the intro:
This week, Con Campbell shares how he uses technology in his role in teaching and studying theology. Con Campbell is a lecturer at Moore College and contributor to Read Better, Preach Better. Over to you Con…
Read how he used technology here.
This is the last post about Twitter for a while after “5 reasons to Tweet” and “How to use Twitter“.
One of Twitter’s great advantages is that it can be used in many different forms. Yes, you can Tweet from the Twitter website. But, there are also tools that allow you to Tweet from many other areas. These take the form of both Desktop clients and mobile clients. You can read about some of them here and here.
These other methods of sharing and receiving content are one area where Twitter really stands out from Facebook. Here are 4 ways that 3rd party clients can benefit you.