New Portlets

New Portlets New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can manage to sequester a few minutes of Quintons schedule, youll see them in the portal. (Quinton is the code-master around here; hes constantly making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates MyMIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We hope to implement a simple portlet that will briefly explain OCW and then link to a given users interests in academics as designated in his/her preferences. For example, if a student has selected biology, the portlet will link to biology content on the OCW site. For students who choose multiple disciplines, portlet content will rotate randomly between them. #3 Posters Portlet This portlet will display a thumbnail of a poster, which can be clicked and enlarged via a detail page. One poster (chosen randomly from the collection) will be displayed at a time. The idea is to give folks a glimpse into the hundreds of activities and announcements that line our hallways each day. #4 UROP Portlet A portlet to showcase cool UROPs, as well as cool summer jobs. Pretty straightforward. The inventions portlet is also coming back soon, rebranded as Creations Discoveries so that we can add research, books, art, etc to our archive of inventions. Down the road, well also hopefully be launching an athletics portlet. Wow, thats a lot of portlets. What do you guys think? What portlets would you like to see? What portlets could you do without?