We don’t have to re-invent the wheel - so after playing arounbd with a variety of Facebook-Plugins, following this post are the ones which seem to be promising. The reason for facebook-integration is clear: convenience!!! While it is a privacy problem to a certain extent, it is also the fastest way to get people from all over the world connect and compare their individual courses - and that is one of the goals of the edu.sci project. If similar courses would share - or people at least take a look at - other course resources, we expect a benefit for all involved. Therefore we provide edu.sci as a platform and facebook, StudiVZ et al as the social connection. Think about it - this is much more powerful than a closed system… and we will be integrating it when we start building the first courses for a real semester in september.
Here the promised list:
Ask Questions, Get Answers – Ask people on Facebook and perhaps they will help you with your coursework
Easy Bibliography Generator – If EndNote or Citavi are too expensive, BibTEX is not for you and you need a formatted bibliography (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian) tomorrow - try this.
Notely – Notely is a time management system with to-do lists, calendar etc and helps you organizing you coursework. To Do List is a little plugin for lists.
Scholarium – This is a new plugin for an eLearning system which lets you look an your friend’s timetables, rate profs, find co-students etc. It is similar to StudiVZs functionality…
Zoho – Zoho Online Office is exactly that - writer, spreadsheet, presentation application easy to use through your browser - for 1 person or groups.
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