Sunday, July 17, 2011

Project 16

Our EDM 310 Collaborative Story
Told Through our Memolane Timeline
Clemente Brooks, Paige Ellis, and Krissy Mennicucci

All because of the vast information attainable by visiting Twitter on a regular basis, we were led to, “One of the most widely read how-to blogs in the world,”  Digital Inspiration.  Scanning the blog, we stumbled upon the headline, Create a Timeline from your Online Social Life.  Our first thought was that this could potentially replace the sometimes unpredictable Timetoast Timeline currently used in EDM 310.  We knew that Dr. Strange had been seeking other options, but after exploring the Memolane website, we realized that it was not what we first thought the site could offer, it was not a replacement...it was BETTER!  Memolane won us over instantly with its ease of use, collaborative possibilities, and organization.  It is not bad looking either!
In mutual agreement, we decided to focus our final project on sharing Memolane with you.  Keep in mind that Memolane is an “infant” in the world of social media and similar programs.  Setting up our accounts was sinfully easy, but becoming friends took A LOT of patience!  Kudos to the support team at Memolane.  Within two hours of submitting a request for help, we were contacted and then assured by a friendly and competent staffer that she would do whatever she could to fix the issue at hand.  Later, after we had finished our timeline and were anxious to embed it into our blogs, we asked for help again.  Just like the first time, a fast response was received with everything we needed to know about embedding our finished project into our blogs.  It worked!
So what is the big deal about this cool tool?  View the short Memolane video embedded below, and then explore our collaborative story of our time in EDM 310.  Here’s what others are saying too...

"Memolane, though, takes the cake. You’ll see photos, checkins, tweets, status messages. Even TripIt airport checkins. All in a unique timeline and you can look back pretty far." - Robert Scoble
"If someone plotted out your life over the past five or so years, what would it look like? What if you could revisit every comment you've posted, every tweet, every photo you've uploaded or was tagged in, and recall every expression of the ups and downs you've made on the Net...all on a single timeline?  Memolane is a Web app that makes walking down memory lane visually interactive and borderline effortless. It extracts each moment you've shared with your online accounts from popular services such as Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter, Foursquare, and more and combines them into one visual timeline." - Eddie Cho
"Beyond just recalling good times (or the name of that restaurant that you ate at last month) Memolane also enables users to collaborate on shareable “stories” by selecting posts from their timelines to create a scrapbook-like timeline for an event or topic." - Sarah Kessler

How can it be used in EDM 310, at home, or in your classroom?  We have a few ideas that we will share with you during our presentation on Thursday, but would love to hear your ideas or suggestions.  Leave us a comment, and if yours is one that we have not thought about, we will share it as well.

Finally, Thanks for the Memories Dr. Strange, staff, and students of EDM 310! - Clemente, Paige, and Krissy


3 comments:

  1. Hey Krissy,

    I am glad to see that you and exploring new things outside of our class! It looks very interesting.

    Stephen Akins

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  2. Stephen's right, the exploration is great! Have you found this tool useful?

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  3. I feel it could be useful in the classroom if the class goes on a field trip to a museum or any other exhibit. The teacher could break the class into groups and give each group an exhibit to take notes and on and take pictures of.Then after the field trip the students could upload their pictures and comments to memolane and the class could have a class discuss using memolane.

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