Fabian Gebert
2009/02/05 10:35
News
As the LEARNTEC is almost over now, it is time to report about our exciting experience here in Karlsruhe.
During the last three days, we were given the opportunity to present Mediabird to the public. We have spoken with both educational as well as business customers and discussed interesting ideas in the fields of cooperation and further improvements.
You can now use the new software directly from your account. All previously created data has automatically been converted to the new 0.5 version.
Fabian Gebert
2009/01/16 10:23
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I've just uploaded Mediabird release 0.4c. This is the final release of the 0.4 branch featuring interface improvements and bug fixes. The next upcoming release will be 0.5 featuring the new desktop design as illustrated on the right and having a much more intuitive interface.
In case you have ideas about Mediabird you want to share or want to contribute, let us know.
Fabian Gebert
2009/01/14 11:36
News
It is now possible to use Google to sign in to Mediabird. If you have registered your existing account with your googlemail.com or gmail.com address, you can simply use that method to sign-in to your existing account
To sign-up using Google, simply click on the Google logo on the start page
I will publish an article on the technical realization using CakePHP in a few days
We will fully support Open-ID logins during the following days. Stay tuned.
Frank Wolf
2009/01/04 17:43
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From the end of November until the beginning of December, Fabian and I worked on an submission for the German D-ELINA E-Learning award. We've handed in a 10-sided file describing the current Mediabird software as well as features that are supposed to be added in the near future.
Mediabird's principles
Throughout the submission, we've put emphasis on Mediabird's general work flow. We've described the process of taking notes about a subject and relating the important notes with thoughts that come up during the study process. We thus have described the work flow of studying a textbook, some lecture notes or an article on the internet and how to sum up the most important facts and make this learning process reproducible on the base of one's own study process.
A perspective on community functions
Additionally, we have pointed out the group based learning work flow. Right now, users can create and join groups to work together by creating and discussing topics. Soon, every user will be given its own virtual profile, where he or she can display questions that he or she may have come across while studying a particular topic.
Profiles will make it easy to find users of similar interests. Users will be able to hook up spontaneously to form short- or long-term work groups for the sake of discussing questions or working on shared tasks or projects. Not to mention that anybody may simply answer other user's questions on the particular profile page.
To sustain the high quality of content on the Mediabird platform, every user can reward other users' work with thumbs that are given for a particular topic. The hall of fame motivates users to be more ambitious and share their work with other users.
With the help of this game-based-learning approach, we want to make learning more fun and more successful.
So much for the basics. If you are interested in more detailed information, sign up and get to know Mediabird. Anybody who wants to participate in Mediabird is most welcome.
See you soon on Mediabird!
Fabian Gebert
2008/12/03 13:46
News
You might have noticed that there weren't any code changes during the last two weeks. We are working hard on the participation documents for an eLearning competition. Additionally, we are working on a new homepage in both English and German and a major redesign of the software. Using CakePHP from now on.
And we are still looking for developers. So in case you're interested: Let us know!
Stay tuned anyway.
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