education

Hello everyone,

I am the co-founder of the Mediabird Study Notes software, which is an extension to existing LMS.

Mediabird is a collaborative online notepad that allows small study groups to collaboratively work on shared notes at any time. It is not only possible to extend notes or edit them at the same time but in particular Mediabird allows users to annotate notes and ask questions about them. With that respect, Mediabird combines the ideas of a wiki and of a forum but is not as public as a wiki and relates questions to the notes rather than separating them as done in a forum.

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/2110

Here's the write up for it. Please help vote us in so that education can be represented in the presentations at Drupalcon DC! If you're going make sure to do a write up and submit it too as the deadline is coming up soon! Education makes up a good part of the community and the more visibility the better it is for everyone!!

Abstract:

So about 2 weeks ago, just before a break from school, I gave a presentation titled Using of Open Source Software in Education which is a topic that discussed quite a bit, but not often at my school. During the presentation I made the observation that if education were more like Open Source, we would solve a lot of problems involving resources that teachers have. In the context I was discussing during the lesson, I viewed a resource as a lesson plan, a worksheet, a test, an image, an audio clip to share with students, etc...

Here's the scenario we're looking for:
*Student submits a node
*This node has an image field and a text field
*They can upload as many images as they want (usually like 3-5) and they submit some text about the group of images
*Other students come in and give comments specifically about images that they submitted OR about their textual description of their artworks
*Teachers can read and respond to all comments / approve / disapprove of them for all to see

Greetings and Salutations,