Many people are now heading back to school, for the fall semester. A new service aims to make the learning experience a socially-sharable one. NoteMesh is a collaborative wiki-like way for students to share their class notes, helping other students who missed a day, are out "sick" or help for exams and term-papers. Finally the collective knowledge of the masses is put to good use in the classroom. I could see online-only students benefiting from the service as well, since the service caters to students who are online anyway. One thing I don't like about the service is that you can't use it if you don't have and use your school's provided email account. I understandd the need for authentication, but they can't possibly verify that each person is a part of a certain class anyway, so what's the point?NoteMesh: Collaborative note sharing for students
Many people are now heading back to school, for the fall semester. A new service aims to make the learning experience a socially-sharable one. NoteMesh is a collaborative wiki-like way for students to share their class notes, helping other students who missed a day, are out "sick" or help for exams and term-papers. Finally the collective knowledge of the masses is put to good use in the classroom. I could see online-only students benefiting from the service as well, since the service caters to students who are online anyway. One thing I don't like about the service is that you can't use it if you don't have and use your school's provided email account. I understandd the need for authentication, but they can't possibly verify that each person is a part of a certain class anyway, so what's the point?
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10-01-2006 @ 3:03AM
scottt said...
um... good luck with that...
(most the people i want the notes of are note-hoarding whores...)
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10-01-2006 @ 10:18AM
oneshot417 said...
It looks like one of those things you keep the idea for a while before releasing it, because it needs to be done exactly right or it will fail. It would be a great asset to web-based learning students though.
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10-01-2006 @ 11:01PM
Mike said...
I tried this site out, and it seems like it could be very good (assuming people actually start using it at my school). I have found a problem already though. I tried setting up the wiki site for my math course and found that the tag is not even supported on their site. I also was unable to find any other way of representing complex math equations. But once they fix that problem, I anticipate using it greatly!
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10-02-2006 @ 2:42PM
Brett said...
This just creates excuses for people to skip class and expect to get my notes for free.
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