Today I got 21 messages in my Yahoo!360's internal mailbox (i.e., not Yahoo! Mail, but Y!360 mail). They were sent to in a 30 day period stretching from last week to June 7th. I also got 16 "360 mail alerts" in my regular Yahoo! mailbox. I should have gotten 21 of those too, one for each message.
More to the point, I should have gotten them on time.
I hate to give up, but its obvious that Yahoo! is broken.
I really liked what 360 had to offer my literacy work. Each of my learners got a "real" web-based email account that they could use outside the classroom. They got to create an avatar to express and present themselves while preserving confidentiality. They got a blogsite that was gated - the owner decides who can view or comment - and offerred photo hosting. They got a system for connecting with and communicating easily with friends, including friends outside class. (I reserved my site for learners only, but each learner's site was their own property to do with as they pleased.) They got a chance to post serious product reviews. They got to use feeds. They got a place to practice html and plain-text editing, complete with spell checking. They got access to an online notepad, a briefcase where they could store writings, photos or audio-visual files, and several other tools. And all of this was free and accessible anywhere they could get online.
For someone wanting to use the web in a functional literacy context, Yahoo! offered the world.
Offered. But apparently can't deliver. At least, not on time.
If it doesn't work, reliably, then it doesn't matter how good the idea is.
So, what now? Not facebook. Too spammy and invasive and Limited. Blogger? Geeze... I hope not. That's got a whole different set of limitations. M$N Live or whatever is completely outside my quality world (I've already had a run in with Vista... grrr!!).
Any ideas? Anybody?
*sigh* Oh, Yahoo!
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2 comments:
Oh man - that is no good.
I was going to try Yahoo because you were using it.
Someone suggested this to me:
http://www.tumblr.com/
But I know nothing about it yet.
I'll keep looking.
In the meant time:
Check this out - http://storyjuice.blogspot.com/2007/07/games-people-play.html
P.S. - it is me from Literacies under my other identity.
hi wendell - i just read what you wrote about memes - and i sent you one yesterday! was it the same one?
i felt the same way ... it was not really what i wanted on the story juice blog but i played anyway.
and when you see what i wrote you will probably figure out why:-)
i felt kinda bad tagging the 7 people - kinda like sending a chain letter. but i thought you guys might enjoy each other's blogs.
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