I'm amazed when I see these people who have time to post every day to their blogs. (Should I say "guys?" Is it just me or does it seem like men just have more time in general??) Wow . . . that could start a whole other discussion.
Sticking to technology, I was just reading about Jakob Nielsen's studies on literacy and the web, how younger kids AND teenagers lack reading skills to have as much success on the web as adults assume. A success rate of only 55 percent was measured for the teenage users in a study (success rate indicating the proportion of times users were able to complete a representative and perfectly feasible task on the target site, with anything less than 100 percent representing a design failure and lost busienss for the site. ) The study said teens' poor performance is caused by three factors: insufficient reaidng skills, less sophisticated research strategies, and a dramatically lower patience level.
The following features, which are interactive all worked well because teens are allowed to DO things rather than simply sit and read:
Online quizzes
Forms for providing feedback or asking questions
Online voting
Games
Features for sharing pictures or stories
Message Boards
Forums for offering and receiving advice
Features for creating a website or otherwise adding content
These features allow teens to make their mark on the Internet, to express themselves - becoming not just consumers on the web, but producers of the content.
(Reference: David Warlick http://davidwarlick.com/blog/
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