Comments on: Mobile Phones and TodaysMeet

By: Michael Gier

Michael Gier — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:27:52 +0000

It would make a huge difference, both for mobile usage and for ease-of-use on desktops, if we could customize the text size, perhaps choose from a couple of templates.
–on my MacBook, the comment text is too large, so only a couple of comments fit on the screen, so the comments fall off the screen before I can look down to see them. If I have to spend time scrolling down to “catch up,” usefulness drops off exponentially.
–on my iPhone, it looks about right, except that the name text is so much smaller than the comment text, it’s almost unreadable.

Both problems are solved if the person setting up the meeting can choose slightly smaller comment text and slightly larger name text.

Thanks. Great idea, and really useful!

By: Roderick

Roderick — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:45:03 +0000

By the way the app rocks.

By: James

James — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:32:06 +0000

@Karen:

Short answer: no. I’ve avoided features that would require someone to “own” the room because they would require that person to have an account (or some other identification) and I’ve been focusing on simplicity.

@Roderick:

I totally agree. Using TodaysMeet on a mobile is not as good as it could be. Improving that experience is on my road map.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:37:52 +0000

I can clearly understand not being able to do SMS text messaging with Today’s Meet.

What would add a lot of value is a MOBILE FORMAT. Today’s Meet works with iPhone, Droid and Blackberry but the layout makes it a little awkward to work with.

By: Karen Rutynowski

Karen Rutynowski — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:38:29 +0000

Well I went live and lived to tell the tale. My biggest question is “Is there any way to delete comments?” I had one student who would send every comment 5 times. Plus the silly chatter. I am glad that I set the room up to expire in one week.

By: Karen Rutynowski

Karen Rutynowski — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:54:24 +0000

I am a teacher also, at a middle school. I teach 6th grade reading to struggling readers. I am planning on trying todaysmeet this Friday with one small group. I have some vocab sets uploaded on quizlet that I want them to practice, and I am planning on having them use todaysmeet to let me know their scores as they finish each round and any comments they have. It’s always fun working with them — I see how this goes. I am lucky in that I have a small class to experiment with before I go “live” with my big classes. LOL

By: Joan Bonnell

Joan Bonnell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:39:24 +0000

Hi, I’m a teacher and there was an article about this site in a recent NJEA article but you don’t explain how to use it and there’s no way to contact anyone. Very strange. Can you voice record here or is it all 140 word tweets? I’m trying to decide if it will be useful. I’d really appreciate a reply.