Web 2.0 Scribbls.com
Finally this week we come to Scribbls.com, which is a collaborative drawing community. IT is a simple platform like most Facebooks and MySpaces. The difference is the idea of the site is based around the ideas of simple combination or morph sketching. I find it to be a unique site and a lot of fun for students.
When arriving to the site after your initial registration you have options to configure your profile and settings. As a user you are given a personal page or a URL account. This is a nice feature, because viewers can come to your site and view it directly without searching for it. You are given several tabs at the top of the page. The first tab is browse, which allows you to browse all drawings on the site. The second is the draw tab, which will allow you to draw and categorize your drawings. Third, is your about tab, this will allow you to link to FAQ and information about the site. Fourth, is your profile tab, in here you will find all the information about yourself and the settings you wish to use in your URL. Finally, as you begin to maneuver through the site and its tabs you have your all-favorite Wall Posting option. Having this is always nice because you can post information that you want viewers to see and comment on. The premises behind the site are to create and share small sketches that combine into one final sketch idea. It is a neat idea to incorporate this into a networking site and to create connections between objects and things.
In the classroom, this would be used as another social networking tool for my students. Say I am working on a cartooning lesson with my students and they have to create a simple morph sketch. They could use this site as their drawing tool and personal site for publishing their work. Some concerns are that there is little in the secure department of what is posted and who controls it. As a user I have little control of what the viewer sees and what they can do when they visit my URL.
I found this site interesting and usable on a personal level, but I may not use this in my class for a Web 2.0 Tool, do to lack of secure means. As stated by Zach Johnson and Paul Armstrong, creators of Scribbls.com, “We set out to have some fun in our spare time, designing and developing web sites out of our homes in Minneapolis, MN.” Well, that could be why it is so open and free in Scribbls.com platform design.
References:
Armstrong, Paul; Johnson, Zach.(2007-2009). Watermelon Sauce LLC. Retrieved October 18, 2009. From http://www.scribbls.com.
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