Web-based Note Taking
mynoteIT is an extremely powerful utility for any student at any grade level. You can store all your school information in one place, and access it anywhere in the world instantly.
Uses PHP, some AJAXy stuff thrown in. Very straight forward, clean feature set. Student and class centered. Groups are created using school/class/teacher/time boundaries. Includes basic calendaring. Editing is done in a basic box using FCKeditor (my personal fav, BTW) with an AJAX wrapper. There is some stuff to glean from this:)
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Thomson Acquires ePublisher
Atomic Dog was notable in the publishing world because it gave away online versions of textbooks with its paper products — a strategy to blend paper and electronic products.
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Thomson Learning Buys Atomic Dog
In another ebook move by Thomson, Foundation Press is using Zinio technology to make electronic versions of law casebooks available to professors for them to review. Looks like the ebook arena is heating up.
Publishing a Book With RSS
RSS4Lib: RSS Book Publishing Timeline – This reminded me that you could use RSS to handle the time release of complex material like a casebook, or course material generally. Profeessor would create the feed and add material to it based on the syllabus. Students would subscribe to the feed and receive the material in their aggregator on a day determined by the professor. Thie needs to be an eLangdell feature. Prof creates online syllabus, adds course material to the syllabus, cases ,statutes, etc. for reading. Dates are selected to release the material via RSS feed. Students get an aggregator and subscribe to the feed. The aggregator grabs the materials on the selected date and makes it available to the student. No need to visit a website, follow a blog or anything. Coolness.
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