CampusLIVE merges personal and academic Web sites
Kory Peal
Issue date: 2/18/10 Section: News
Instead of surfing each Web site through individual searches, Web sites like CampusLIVE have compiled personal and school-related sites into one location for students.
CampusLIVE, a Web site designed to help college students, combines a range of leisure Web sites including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and eBay while providing educational resources like Web mail and Blackboard. CampusLIVE is also equipped with links to the Lovejoy Library and the campus Web Radio.
Offered by CampusLIVE to 150 colleges nationwide, SIUE is one of only four schools in Illinois with its own personal site. Mass communications professor Musonda Kapatamoyo said creating one page with direct access to frequently used Web sites can be useful to students.
"It's a convenient social networking tool that young adults use," Kapatamoyo said. "It's a creative way of getting widgets and putting them together."
Started in 2007 by a group of students at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, CampusLIVE was created to be a main Internet resource with both a combination of on and off-campus related lifestyles.
"It creates a platform where students can go and find everything," Kapatamoyo said.
CampusLIVE also offers some unique aspects as well. One widget included is the Food Finder. Clicking on a 'Dine Out' feature shows restaurant options, including full menus, food prices, store hours and phone numbers of local restaurants. From there, users can choose whether or not they want to dine in or have their food delivered.
Senior mass communications major Letoyia Snow is a frequent user of CampusLIVE.
"I use CampusLIVE often, especially in the Mac lab," Snow said. "They have top sites, and it makes it a lot easier."
However, there are other sites like CampusLIVE that SIUE students find convenient. Sophomore civil engineering major Aaron Green uses iGoogle, another virtual hub Web site like CampusLIVE.
"I just have a lot of stuff on my Google," Green said. "It's got everything so I go there frequently."
Sophomore psychology major Jameelah Mahdie also uses a different virtual hub Web site.
"I use Floc," Mahdie said. "I use it because it's similar to CampusLIVE."
However, when Mahdie was asked if she'd consider using CampusLIVE, she said it would change her Internet habits.
"I would definitely use CampusLIVE because it's definitely annoying opening five tabs," Mahdie said.
Senior theater performance major Tiffany Wilcox doesn't see a purpose for sites like these.
"I don't see any need for them," Wilcox said. "I have [sites] saved on my browser favorites."
Using Web sites like CampusLIVE can make everything from school to having a social life through the Internet much easier, according to Kapatamoyo.
"It's an advantage. It puts everything into one place."
CampusLIVE, a Web site designed to help college students, combines a range of leisure Web sites including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and eBay while providing educational resources like Web mail and Blackboard. CampusLIVE is also equipped with links to the Lovejoy Library and the campus Web Radio.
Offered by CampusLIVE to 150 colleges nationwide, SIUE is one of only four schools in Illinois with its own personal site. Mass communications professor Musonda Kapatamoyo said creating one page with direct access to frequently used Web sites can be useful to students.
"It's a convenient social networking tool that young adults use," Kapatamoyo said. "It's a creative way of getting widgets and putting them together."
Started in 2007 by a group of students at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, CampusLIVE was created to be a main Internet resource with both a combination of on and off-campus related lifestyles.
"It creates a platform where students can go and find everything," Kapatamoyo said.
CampusLIVE also offers some unique aspects as well. One widget included is the Food Finder. Clicking on a 'Dine Out' feature shows restaurant options, including full menus, food prices, store hours and phone numbers of local restaurants. From there, users can choose whether or not they want to dine in or have their food delivered.
Senior mass communications major Letoyia Snow is a frequent user of CampusLIVE.
"I use CampusLIVE often, especially in the Mac lab," Snow said. "They have top sites, and it makes it a lot easier."
However, there are other sites like CampusLIVE that SIUE students find convenient. Sophomore civil engineering major Aaron Green uses iGoogle, another virtual hub Web site like CampusLIVE.
"I just have a lot of stuff on my Google," Green said. "It's got everything so I go there frequently."
Sophomore psychology major Jameelah Mahdie also uses a different virtual hub Web site.
"I use Floc," Mahdie said. "I use it because it's similar to CampusLIVE."
However, when Mahdie was asked if she'd consider using CampusLIVE, she said it would change her Internet habits.
"I would definitely use CampusLIVE because it's definitely annoying opening five tabs," Mahdie said.
Senior theater performance major Tiffany Wilcox doesn't see a purpose for sites like these.
"I don't see any need for them," Wilcox said. "I have [sites] saved on my browser favorites."
Using Web sites like CampusLIVE can make everything from school to having a social life through the Internet much easier, according to Kapatamoyo.
"It's an advantage. It puts everything into one place."
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