This is a quick follow-up to last week’s post about Rübrick, the Firefox plug-in for assessing or grading online work that a few of us are developing for Mozilla’s Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge.
The Mozilla folks have picked a group of projects to help design and implement working prototypes over the next two months. Rübrick is one, and some of the others look cool also:
- ClozeFox–automagically builds quizzes for language learning out of any text in a browser
- Educational Facilita–no idea!
- iWorld–your whole online universe, in a browser window
- NetDetective–browser-based online game for teaching internet research literacy
- Reflecting Pool– creates an assignment-based virtual notebook for students to explore the web
- Web Troll–create on-the-fly quizzes based on facts you want to learn
There may be others, but these are the ones who’ve updated their profile so far. The next two months will be interesting, as an international group of participants collaborates to learn about Jetpack and build these suckers. Will keep you posted as events warrant.
Updated 12/12: Here are some more Jetpack projects:
- Bamboo Learning: “a personal learning manager synchronized with the daily life of an individual”
- Check Republic: link not available
- CoFindeR: Bringing “the collective intelligence of social bookmarking services to the classroom by supporting learners to identify web-pages that can be relevant and useful for their courses, while the learners browse the web.”
- Cohere: “providing learners with an environment for them to reflect critically and engage with documents, ideas and people online and directly through their browser.”
- Expression Widgets: “a rich annotation and collaboration framework where students can interact with a variety of Web-based widgets”
- Ho(o)verNotes: post-it-style annotation for webpages
- iNotes: Gathering, saving, and sharing information [text/urls/images/videos, etc.]
- Learn By Linking: capturing path data and including that context in a URL shortener
- MoodleTab: Bringing Moodle into the Web 2.0 environment
- MUPPLE:Mash-up personal learning environment
- OneWorld Schoolhouse: a browser-based learning environment for elementary school classes
- Open Learner: “a micro-lab focused TODO list on steroids.”
- Tenurometer: browser-based academic impact analysis (easily the scariest idea I’ve seen
- YupGrade–a quiz-building, link-sharing learning environment
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The iWorld link is broken.
Fixed!
Congratulations! I look forward to seeing how the app progresses.
I did a little digging and Facilita is “an assistive technology to help lower-literacy users to understand the text content of Web applications.” See http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1621995.1622002
Me too. NetDetective looks great as well. Hopefully they put in more challenging “cases” over time as I know some adults who could use that type of tutor.
@OPIEWeb You might find Internet Detective helpful. I’ve used it with students in the past.
@Amy Cavender: That’s a great link. Thanks Amy.
How do you convince the Facebook and Twitter literate that this is a separate and useful skill?
I’m not sure I’ve convinced them. I just keep making them deal with it. Actually, I’m thinking that one of these days I should give them an assignment based on Internet Detective, instead of just devoting some class time to the topics it covers.
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