Fabian Gebert
2009/04/09 15:10
News
The Mediabird Study Notes Moodle activity now allows for reducing the feature set if required. This can be done from the activity admin settings in the admin panel. This way, technical universities can deactivate the translation function and human sciences can deactivate the equation editor to get an easier-to-use interface.
In addition to that, the overlay interface now allows for radically reducing the feature set for just having the in-place note taking function rather than an overblown overlay.
More on the Moodle plugin.
Fabian Gebert
2009/03/29 20:39
News
As you will most probably have noticed, the Mediabird home page has been completely relaunched.
At the same time, new functionality has been added to the application and we are working hard to prepare the upcoming release 0.5.2 which will fix many many bugs of the 0.5.1 release and finally bring live editing capabilities.
Stay tuned.
Fabian Gebert
2009/03/18 10:11
News
What was the reason for starting the Mediabird project?
During my business studies I suffered a lot from not being able to
properly prepare exams with what I had studied throughout the semester.
Even though I still had all the lecture notes, solutions to exercises
and text books, it still was a heck of a job to collect all the
necessary information.
But is it really necessary to develop a new tool?
When Frank let me know about flash card strategies and
context based learning, I was convinced that the current E-Learning
landscape lacks a tool like Mediabird. A tool which lets you collect
notes on your study subject and relate important info like questions or
annotations to the notes to allow for later repetition.
Since I was developing and selling E-Learning solutions before my studies I decided to co-found Mediabird.
And what about other solutions such as Moodle, CommSy or OLAT?
We believe that there are very nice tools out there. And we work hard on integrating into these platforms in the best way we can. For instance, we have released a Moodle activity that seamlessly integrates into existing learning environments. Students will have the study environment they are used to, plus a tool like Mediabird that improves their study experience.
Fabian Gebert
2009/03/05 21:31
News
We've just been to the CeBIT 2009, known as "the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions" as Wikipedia states.
Picture by sterlingpr.
During our tour through the various exhibition halls, we primarily focussed on knowledge management and skill management
solutions since that is the area where we want to improve Mediabird. I can recommend you to go to the stands of the Fraunhofer Institut
and TU Berlin, stand B39, in hall 9 which both present their excellent approaches in the fields of Business Intelligence and Data Mining.
There was also quite a strong focus on semantic mapping and content analysis.
In particular, we enjoyed the get together organized by the Digital New Media Forum. They also have quite a nice after-fair party
in hall 6 in case you're interested.
Fabian Gebert
2009/02/18 13:30
News
Picture by jsgraphicdesign.
There's been a lot of people coming to our site from this article here. The article deals with the question of how to join open source team and there is a remark that the Mediabird project is hiring. And yes, we are looking for PHP and Javascript developers. More here.
We are currently doing a video tutorial and step-by-step introduction for new users. We will refresh the software during the next days to integrate these features.
A few guys asked us why the Mediabird notepad is not full-screen but more memo-sized. The reason for that is that we want to enable the user to concentrate on the essential facts rather than having to study loads of text. In addition to that, Mediabird is easily integrated into other platforms and environments because it does not consume as much space as most of the available learning environments.
For all Moodle users: We've now finished the Mediabird Moodle plug-in for MySQL and PHP 5.2 setups and will now work on integration further DB providers.
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