Whizle is an online platform that allows users to:
1) Discover, learn from, and share knowledge and resources through interactive "Whizles" on various topics.
2) Follow professionals, organizations, and categories of interest to receive personalized updates.
3) Create Whizles on any topic by adding steps and resources, and collaborate with others to expand and improve Whizles over time.
3. DISCOVER learning resources, guides and tutorials LEARN from a wide range of resources and formats SHARE your knowledge, expertise and resources with civilization FOLLOW business professionals and organizations on a real time basis
7. Step 1: Search Select & Search – As soon as you enter Whizle you are given the option to select the categories you are interested in following: Personalized Feeds – Any postings made by/on categories, organisations or people that are being tracked or followed by yourself will appear on your homepage Site Wide Search – To make search quicker and more to the point, Whizle contains a site wide search function that enables users to search through the entire website by simply entering in keywords
8. Step 2: Post Post in one go! Post your entire Whizle in steps and add resources to them Post as you go - Capture resources from around the web using the Whizle toolbar and add them later to Whizles Re-use - Remember, you can re-use steps from other Whizles You can re-use resources from your library or from other Whizles Edit – Users can even edit existing whizles to either make it more interactive or informative
9. Step 3: Follow Follow – Users can follow people, organisations and categories Community – organisations can gather there own community, though this depends on the quality and amount of whizles they have been posting. Opportunities are endless once a community or following is formed
10. Julie learns about Operations Research (OR) and posts a Whizle based on her lecture notes Another student in a different group adds more steps to the OR Whizle A systems analyst at a logistics company posts a video and link it to the OR Whizle A professor at another university adds a presentation that he finds on the web using the Whizle toolbar and refer his studetns to the OR Whizle More on using Whizle...
11. View Whizles from Categories, Organizations, and Users you're following
12. In the 'Full View' of a Whizle, each Whizle consists of Steps & Resources that can be re-used in any other existing or new Whizles
13. Whilst browsing the Internet, you can upload resources to your profile so that you can use them in any Whizle
14. You can capture resources fom the web (videos, slides, images & documents) and add them to your Resources page, so you can use them in your Whizles later