http://drupal.org/project/sticky_notes
Just found this and have been playing around with it. Still very early on in my assessment of it and it just came out the other day but looks VERY promising for all levels of education. Check out the demo and I'm sure you'll be able to see the possibilities. Basically it lets you create a sticky note or view your own sticky notes. It also has a lot of permission settings so that people can set things to public or private stickies as well as who can view / post notes.
Plugs in with CCK and Views as well so you can make views that display listings of sticky notes!! We're looking at using it as something students can use to take notes throughout a course (that are contextual to the page and location on the page kinda like diigo). Give it a look, i think this could be huge for all of us (no I don't know who made it :p) !
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Pretty cool
But not terribly practical, I'm thinking. I actually have a very simple module I use for student note taking. It is deployed as a block, not a node, and all notes are private (no public option, and anonymous users may not submit notes). You can choose between 2 blocks, one that stores page-specific notes, and one that stores book-specific notes. I suppose you could deploy both blocks if you wanted to. The textarea scrolls and is resizable, and it updates without refreshing the page, but you have to submit the notes with a button click.
So far I have only used this on my personal sites and one UD site. The latter is piloting this semester, and students have made good use of the notes feature.
I am creating a guest account at my testing site for anyone who wants to play. This is just my playground site, where I test all sorts of things before going live on any of my real sites, so don't bother letting me know if you find broken stuff and pages that are missing content.
guest/btopro
will get you in to http://wiihat.com. I put up a plain-vanilla deployment of the notes on the home page only. The book-specific block is pretty much identical, except the instructions read 'Type your notes for this book here', and of course, you can name the block whatever you want. When the user is not visiting a book page, the Book Notes block will not appear, no matter what visibility settings you use in the site configuration.
very promising indeed,
very promising indeed, btopro.
any objection if I take a look Becky?
Nice implementation of notes
Nice implementation of notes becky. I like sticky notes as it lets user to put up notes anywhere in the page and as well post multiple notes for a single page. The ui makes it much user friendly and presents notes better on a page.
Thanks
Interesting. One of the things I don't like about sticky notes is that you can put them anywhere. How do you avoid having public notes cluttering up your pages to the point where they can't be read?
For long pages, I can see the advantage of being able to place notes where you want them.
I have submitted my module as a possible project. Maybe it will be rejected since sticky notes already exist. If not, then people can have both options to choose from.
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The permissions follow that of other CCK based modules so you can stop most from being able to use it. I imagine in the future you could block public postings. Can you imagine if this was augmented with OG? You could post group specific notes and what not, that'd be awesome! I'm more interested in letting people post their own private comments for taking notes. Especially since it's CCK / Views capable you could have a student post notes throughout the semester and then hit a "get my notes" kinda view and get an aggregate of all notes they took throughout the semester.
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
one of my first thoughts was
one of my first thoughts was exactly that... OG+stickies would be fantastic. There should be a quick way to differentiate public vs private notes. (ultimately I can imagine a 3 tone color scheme to wit: me, group(s), anyone)
Thinking along similar lines
And take everything I'm saying with a grain of salt, as I have yet to test the module...
The sticky notes appear to be node types, so (in theory, anyways) OG could Just Work.
Different look and feel for different visibility settings could easily be handled via the theme. The notes appear to be doing something similar for priority now.
An additional visibility setting that could be useful would be a setting that stored a note that is only visible to the note author, and the author of the node upon which the note is placed. This way, notes could be used to provide feedback. With the right CCK fields, the notes could actually be used as a rubric of sorts.
Is that the sweet sweet smell of scope creep in the air? :)
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Yeah I didn't think of that,
Yeah I didn't think of that, OG should just work natively with it as long as they're doing node permission hooks correctly to make sure you have access to view the node. It is running off CCK correctly from my playing around with it. That'd be a pretty B.A. way of essentially having Diigo groups specific to a course / learning environment. Could actually be the solution (or start of) the privacy / student data concerns in the area of using Diigo as well as having total cross browser / platform support.... can of worms opened up here :p
hmmm.... technically they could probably be hooked up with my rubric module so you'd have a rubric and sticky notes if we want to get uber scope creep ;) I'll def. be playing with this module more over the summer so if we're able to roll it into things (gotten a lot of requests from my coworkers if it's feasible) our course creation process as well as something for students to be able to take collaborative notes throughout the semester if they want to. This is like node comments on steriods (and could probably be combined with that too if you wanted, lol).
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/
private comments
The first thing I tried for student note-taking were private comments, but it did not quite get the job done. I want people to be able to see their notes without scrolling down the page, and update them without refreshing it. I think my situation is a little bit atypical, since the content I'm most interested in providing a notes feature for is written in Flash, and does not require any page scrolling. The Flash stuff has a major drawback, which is that when the page refreshes, you get sent back to the beginning of the animation. Yes, I could store progress in a cookie and resume, but the best is if there is never a need to refresh the page until the activity has been completed. Putting notes into a side-panel block keeps them accessible throughout the activity. Having the option of pegging notes to a book rather than a page was a request from a professor who wanted students to be able to store things like calculated values that they would need to access throughout an entire multi-page activity.
I guess there is very little general need for my version of student notes, especially now that StickyNotes are available. To be honest, I doubt I would have bothered to write Notes if it had been around when I was getting started. Now that I have it, though, I don't think I'm going to jump ship.
Views integration would be nice, and maybe I'll add that at some point. For something as tiny as Notes, it would not take much.
Becky
I have put the notes in
I have put the notes in private notes so one users notes dont clutter up the page of another user. I think an option with show other users notes would be a nice alternative with notes hidden by default.
Hi, I'm the maintainer of
Hi, I'm the maintainer of sticky notes. I never used OG, so I don't know how integration works without looking into the module. But yes, sticky notes are indeed nodes. If anyone could test if it already works with OG please give feedback. Otherwise I am ready to integrate the module to work with OG but I would need some time to have a look what needs to be changed, regarding the code and the user interface.
@Becky: I was looking for a module like yours before creating sticky notes. Please leave a message once you have feedback from the project application.
gone without a trace
My project submission seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. It no longer shows up on my projects/user page, and I never heard anything back from anyone. I did see that at one point it had been assigned to someone, but now it is simply gone.
Maybe I'll try again later. I actually have a much more complicated module in the works, and dropping Notes into that as a sub-module makes sense. It's going to be a while before I'm ready to go public with the larger project, though. Maybe after DrupalCon I'll have a better idea how to go about getting a module approved.
clapping Bravo. Very cool
clapping Bravo. Very cool project and implementation. We're looking at it for all the reasons I mentioned above, excited to see the direction it takes! We'll be in touch.
Ex Uno Plures
http://elmsln.org/
http://btopro.com/
http://drupal.psu.edu/