Showcasing Content with Jux
Jux is a stunning image-based alternative to what you might call ordinary blogging and allows the user to make impactful statements and delightful slideshows using their six different posting styles – slideshow, photo, block quote, photo, video, article and countdown.
Pictures can be uploaded from your own hard-drive or sourced from services such as Facebook, Flickr or Instagram.
Jux can be used by teachers to introduce or reinforce topics or, even better, by the students themselves as the culmination of a research or creative writing project.
Currently, as far as I can see, Jux only allows one Jux per user. It would be fantastic if students and teachers could have different Juxes for different topics or projects under the same main account. It would also be fabulous if individual pages from Jux could be printed out to form part of classroom displays. I wonder if Jux is listening…
Anyway, here is a Jux I made earlier using the block quote format in Jux, using quotations from my personal blog Socially Networked.
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