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