Fabian Gebert
2008/11/21 17:40
News
Frank and I have just arrived back from the Campus Innovation, a conference about the topics eLearning, IT intrastructure and campus management.
It was not only very interesting to see the different projects, such as the library 2.0 project, beluga. Apart from that we had the chance to meet several people and head developers from the various eLearning projects from Hamburg, such as commSy.
For portability, Mediabird is most probably going to be offered as a plug-in to the moodle
and OLAT
platforms.
Fabian Gebert
2008/10/28 14:35
News
I've just updated the online version of Mediabird. The minor update brings a new layout and a lighter design. In addition to that, it is now possible to discuss content cards of a topic that is shared with a group.
To try out the new discussion feature:
- Join or create a group
- Edit the topic and share it with the group you've created or joined
- Edit or study a card that belongs to the topic
- Use the "Discussion" panel on the right side of the card to post a message
Messages are shared among the members of the group they have been posted in. They are not shared among the groups.
Features very likely to come are:
- Discussion invitation
- Group voting on card navigation
- Ability to discuss flash cards
- Automatic refresh of message list
As always, feedback is most welcome!
Frank Wolf
2008/10/07 00:43
News
We are proud to present Mediabird's new release: version 0.4 is out! In the course of the new release, a lot of new valuable features have been integrated. Additionally, we improved the workflow and performed a major redesign of the application.
New features
Group management
- Group organization: users with common interest can collaborate with each other using the groups feature
- Topic sharing: topics can now be shared in groups. It is possible to specify the content license and content access
- Group access: groups can either be publicly available (where the group creator can specify if users can join with or without explicit permission) or private (invitation by email possible)
Topic management
- New main screen: separate own and shared topics for a better overview
- Search function: helps you to search your own topics and topics shared in public groups
- Progress overview: access recently or yet to work on topics from menu
- Content creation made easier: import content from a specific source, such as Word or Wikipedia or use templates to structure your contents more easily
Content creation
- New skin: more contrast and better visual separation of functional parts
- New map view design: take advantage of the new simplified interface: read names of cards more easily
- Prerequisites: you can specify prerequisites such as books or other topics that are necessary to understand a topic you are working on
- New editor design: separation of highlighting and insertion function and a streamlined interface make life easier.
Usability
- Intelligent assistance: important or related features are explained using yellow balloons that indicate the UI element they refer to
Check out the new Mediabird release -- and tell us if something is missing, so we can improve Mediabird.
Fabian Gebert
2008/08/25 13:22
News
During the next days, we will substantially improve user's experience by adding an in-app help that lets the user know about the Mediabird concept and the way the application works.
After that, we will concentrate on collaboration and organization features.
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