Looking for way to share notes??

ShoulderChip

Hello there,
Does anyone have any suggestions of an easy way to share notes between a class,
ideally i am looking for a site that allows me to have folders for each subject and would allow both wiki style pages where all users can collaborate and edit pages and also the option to upload word and excel files etc.

any ideas?

cheers.

The Black Oil

Google Docs?

Not put it through its paces, personally.

mathew

If your capable of designing your own site, using PHP or such likes, you can get a free student hosting package from digiweb

Thats what my class are using..

Get/use your netsoc account for hosting when in college.

Crash

friends of mine set up uninotes for our course - it hasnt caught on as they'd like, but it was dead handy for our year

www.uninotes.org

Epic Tissue

mathew wrote: »

If your capable of designing your own site, using PHP or such likes, you can get a free student hosting package from digiweb

Thats what my class are using..

How can you get that hosting package?

samhail

Epic Tissue wrote: »

How can you get that hosting package?

nice and hidden of course.

http://www.digiweb.ie/studentoffer/

YogiBoy

digiweb.ie/studentoffer/ is only free the 1st year... ! Uninotes seems just the ticket. Is there too much competition for it?

Boston

Going Forward wrote: »

friends of mine set up uninotes for our course - it hasnt caught on as they'd like, but it was dead handy for our year

www.uninotes.org

I know a certain lecturer who would like to kick their ass.

Mark200

Boston wrote: »

I know a certain lecturer who would like to kick their ass.

Go on, give us a clue

Boston

Nope. He wouldn't "kick their ass" as he's a lovely man, but he's certainly very protective of his notes, some of which where duplicated on that site.

Brian

Skydrive would allow for some of that at least, but it's not great to be honest..

Crash

Boston - gimme a pm? afaik the majority of whats been reproduced was done so after asking, and if not its summarised and linked to the originals.

pisslips

Boston wrote: »

Nope. He wouldn't "kick their ass" as he's a lovely man, but he's certainly very protective of his notes, some of which where duplicated on that site.

I never get this, why are people protective of information?
Surely the reason you would compile it is to share it with as many people as possible.

I mean why should education come down to one's ability to source information.It should surely be more to do with the amount and depth of information you have and your ability to deduce relations and correlations that connect the information.
Jesus, it's difficult enough to learn without clowns witholding information.

O.K. I can see why the guy might want credit but I'd imagine none of the information is original anyway.

Epic Tissue

There is not much notes on the site anyway

shay_562

pisslips wrote: »

I mean why should education come down to one's ability to source information.It should surely be more to do with the amount and depth of information you have and your ability to deduce relations and correlations that connect the information.
Jesus, it's difficult enough to learn without clowns witholding information.

If your profession is as a lecturer in a university, then you job and livelihood is pretty much dependent on your ability to source information and present it to undergraduates, as well as using said information to do your own independent research. So from that perspective, I can see why academics in general are protective of their notes; someone taking those notes and spreading them around without your permission kinda undermines your entire position as a lecturer, as well as sending the message that lectures aren't important* and that the only thing you as a lecturer have to offer is some information collated onto an A4 sheet. So yeah, I can see why (assuming the notes were put up without asking him first) why someone would be annoyed to have their work re-distributed randomly.

*Not saying I necessarily agree with this - in the courses where notes are put up in advance of lectures, it's been my experience that people print off the notes beforehand and then add comments and points that come up in the lecture - but I know this is the reason some of my professors over the years have given for not putting up their notes online.

Boston

pisslips wrote: »

I never get this, why are people protective of information?
Surely the reason you would compile it is to share it with as many people as possible.

You compile it because it's part of your job to do so. I don't spend months or even years working on something just so someone else can have a short cut, why should a lecturer.

I mean why should education come down to one's ability to source information.It should surely be more to do with the amount and depth of information you have and your ability to deduce relations and correlations that connect the information.

Higher education has always been about ones own ability to get off your arse and find the information you need. It's your responsibility to go an research a topic. In my undergrad I spent many an hour in the library reading through various books on a topic to get as rounded a view of a topic as possible. No one said to me "you need chapter 2 from x and chapter 3 from y ... ". Take responsibility for your own education.

Jesus, it's difficult enough to learn without clowns withholding information.

They freely give it to their students.

O.K. I can see why the guy might want credit but I'd imagine none of the information is original anyway.

The information may not be original, but how it is presented is often the result of unique teaching experience. The best lecturers fine tune their notes based on feedback about what works and what doesn't. Ultimately its the lecturer's/trinity's intellectual property, you can no more duplicate it without permission then you could duplicate any other IP.

I've a huge portfolio of lecture notes for the final year electronic engineering and computer engineering courses I did, all in PDF format. I've zero intension of distributing them to people not doing those courses.

AlanSparrowhawk

What a friend of mine class did was set up a google mail account in which they had folders for each topic/subject etc. and just emailed stuff to it and had the filter system distribute it to the right folder.

for example an article from a journal in PDF format would be emailed to xxclassnotes@gmail.com with Topic in the subject and it would pop up in there. worked well for them.