Testing Notaland.com

Posted on June 17, 2009 
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I’m thinking of using Notaland.com in my Year 11 History class this semester. It lets you put together scrap-book like pages, where you can add videos from YouTube or pictures from Flickr and lots of other things. You can also leave comment on people’s pages.

My thoughts are that my students could create a page for each week of the semester to summarise what they have learnt. They can find relevant videos etc and I can comment on their pages each week, as well as get them to comment on their classmates pages. A different and much more interactive way of ‘taking notes’ and keeping summaries that might help with end of term assessment.

This is a page I put together for tomorrow’s lesson as a way of presenting to them and showing them to application. I’m not known for my graphic design skills :-)

Let me know what you think of the ideas and if you’ve used this application before. Thanks!

P.S – Hmm, it seems that the embedding code is not working for the moment so here is a screen shot of what my page looks like – and here is the link to the actual page: http://notaland.com/jessmcculloch/26192

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One Response to “Testing Notaland.com”

  1.  Dylan Faullin on July 23rd, 2009 10:28 pm

    Hello. Apologies for taking a while to reply. I thought I’d try to contact you here, but I couldn’t locate an email address in less than a minute so I gave up and decided to leave a comment. I would have replied on notaland, but I didn’t want to fill up your page with comments.

    I like what you are doing with notaland. I’m glad to hear your students are taking to it with enthusiasm. I’m afraid my students will not go out of their way to try something new, so I am trying to find things that are not too inconvenient for my students to try.

    I had two thoughts about notaland for my math classes:

    1. Set up a notebook with all of the homework problems, one to a page, that they could copy to their own notaland account, work on the homework problems, and then share with/mark on each others work in a collaborative way, using the very handy comments tool, even maybe co-editing a notebook with one another, so they could work on the homework together.

    I could not find a way to allow a user to copy my notebook to their account. That would be a nice feature. And my students will balk at having to create their own. Most of the students at our community college (junior college/2yr college) are underprepared/under-motivated students.

    2. Posting my lecture examples on a notaland notebook and let my students mark it up with comments. They could put a comment right on the spot they don’t understand and either I (or another student if I’m lucky) could respond to help out, by leaving another comment.

    Is it possible to respond to comments on notaland?

    I’ve also thought about using it as a fun sort of guestbook on a webpage somewhere.

    Feel free to email me. It’s nice to have these time of discussions. Let me know if you’ve found any other interesting tools that might help out.

    ~Dylan Faullin

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