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| GoodNotes | ||
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| Author(s): | Christina Goodness | |
| Instructor: | Hechinger, Nancy Shirky, Clay |
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| Class: | Final Project Seminar (Wed.) Thinking About Networks |
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| URL: | http://www.goodnotes.org/ | |
| Keywords: | education, learning, open source, collaboration, tags | |
| GoodNotes is a free, easy to use Firefox extension for students. | ||
| This project is the thesis project of Christina Goodness, Masters Candidate at NYU\'s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). GoodNotes is a tool to use with your browser that allows you to set up groups of people, share bookmarks, tags, annotations and spatially invasive note marks on any web page. The project was inspired by student behaviors in the South Bronx, at NYU and by adult learners at the United Nations. What I aimed to do with this project was make an invisible learning tool - something quick and useful, like a swiss army knife. The tool would let you replicate natural behaviors adult students and teachers or peer-to-peer student/teachers had: sharing research, notes and the kind of notes people used to leave with big red pens! Many students and adult learners don\'t use libraries - Google is their best friend. But the kind of guidance a guru or teacher or smart peer might provide in the empty broadcast experience of web publishing. Blogs and wikis and other social software are getting at it, but maybe not specifically to enable more powerful relationships that purely social or commercial ones. GoodNotes is an attempt to create a free open-source tool for students/learners who are fairly tech-savvy to re-socialize online information searching. To reinforce local knowledge that is located in social groups and allow people to push back against the dominance of the author in the current web model. | ||
| Personal Statement: | Please see website: www.goodnotes.org | |
| Background: | Please see website: www.goodnotes.org | |
| Audience: | Students/learners age 16+. | |
| User Scenario: | Please see website: www.goodnotes.org | |
| Technical System Description: | Technical System Description: GoodNotes is a browser extension for FireFox. FireFox is an open-source browser built using a combination of technologies, including XUL, JavaScript, RDF and CSS. FireFox, and the browser project it inherits structure from - Mozilla, is built to allow the open creation of extensions, simple code sets that extend the functionality of the browser itself.
GoodNotes is, more specifically, an enhanced distribution of the browser extension called Annozilla. Annozilla is a basic annotation engine that allows users to create annotations associated directly with concurrently displayed web content in the primary browser window. GoodNotes added a feature set to Annozilla that allows users to identify each other and assign \"friend\" status, and share groups of bookmarks that can be filtered via \"tags\" or loose meta-data. GoodNotes is built on the existing architecture using SQL, Perl, and the standard development technologies of FireFox. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | Please see website: www.goodnotes.org | |
| Conclusions: | Please see website: www.goodnotes.org | |