Since blogging about Zopler a few days, I’ve had a little contact with its creater – Justin. Thinking that readers here may be interested to learn a little more about this cool collaborative storytelling tool I am, with permission from Justin, publishing an email that he sent me.
Hi Bev,
I am in Melbourne too. Zopler was launched in Feb 2012 with little to no fanfare; just a link on a mailing list of new Web 2.0 websites. That spurned a range of blog posts and the education sector picked it up. Initially, I did not position Zopler in any particular field other than writing (obviously), so was not sure whether it would appeal to schools, journalists/authors or enterprise. Right now, Zopler is firmly in the education sector and I’m very pleased with that outcome.
In April, a middle school (12 – 15 years olds) in USA held a trial run with 300 students. Students were given an assignment to write a story and submit for grading as a group project. For that week, students started 800 stories totalling 5000 entries. Although only 100 stories were required for grading, we found engagement with Zopler was through the roof. Some of those students still use Zopler just for fun.
We’re seeing traffic mainly from USA, India, Australia and Europe. Most users are teachers, students and early tech adopters to try out a new website.
You are able to create stories that are restricted to a specific group. When starting or editing a story, under ‘who can contribute’ choose group. You can then select people you follow.
I appreciate your feedback.
Keep in touch.
Justin
It’d be great to get some feedback from Zopler users. Any pros or cons or suggestions you’d like to feedback to the Zopler team?
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