On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 12:13, CLAY Gary M wrote:
> On behalf of a colleague - Are there any facilities that anyone can
> point me to either in current or planned versions of Blackboard (could
> be a building block) whereby students can e.g. edit a document and so
> build up lists / details of bookmarked URLs relevant to their course and
> then share with their peers? Obviously there is the Discussion Board
> but what we ideally want is a way the could add to e.g. a document which
> is already in the course but without being given instructor admin
> rights?
I'm not aware of one in Bb Basic (all we have right now) but maybe it's
hidden away somewhere.
[Historical Note]
The sad thing is that this facility has been possible for over a decade
on the Web without any need for any additional environment like Bb. The
old Panorama browser plugin used to let you create links from any
document on the web to any other document on the web, regardless of who
owned them, by keeping the link data in a local file which you could
publish on your own web site as a useful facility or set of bookmarks
for others. It could handle bidirectional and multi-headed links and if
you install the ancient Netscape 3 for Windows it will still work!
(ftp://ftp.ucc.ie/pub/sgml/panofr10.exe :-) However when Netscape
dropped the ball Microsoft weren't interested, and it's taken 10 years
form XML's XLink feature to start providing this kind of facility.
///Peter
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