The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
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Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#2I've been wanting to play back the writing of an essay for years. Since Etherpad saves every keystroke, I convinced the founders to add a way to play them back. "Startups in 13 Sentences" was the first essay I wrote on Etherpad. Now I'm going to write all of them on it.
Playback is just one little feature of Etherpad, but think of the implications of this alone. Among other things it will make cheating impossible in classes where students write papers, because now you can finally "show your work" in writing the way you do in math.
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#3I've been wanting to play back the writing of an essay for years. Since Etherpad saves every keystroke, I convinced the founders to add a way to play them back. "Startups in 13 Sentences" was the first essay I wrote on Etherpad. Now I'm going to write all of them on it. Playback is just one little feature of Etherpad, but think of the implications of this alone. Among other things it will make cheating impossible in…
That feature is neat and gives insight into the way people write. Would be just as interesting to see a playback of versioned source code files in SVN / CVS..
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#4I've been wanting to play back the writing of an essay for years. Since Etherpad saves every keystroke, I convinced the founders to add a way to play them back. "Startups in 13 Sentences" was the first essay I wrote on Etherpad. Now I'm going to write all of them on it. Playback is just one little feature of Etherpad, but think of the implications of this alone. Among other things it will make cheating impossible in…
That feature is neat and gives insight into the way people write. Would be just as interesting to see a playback of versioned source code files in SVN / CVS..
You can do that in Etherpad now. It grew out of a code editor the Appjets wrote for their own use.
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#5I've been wanting to play back the writing of an essay for years. Since Etherpad saves every keystroke, I convinced the founders to add a way to play them back. "Startups in 13 Sentences" was the first essay I wrote on Etherpad. Now I'm going to write all of them on it. Playback is just one little feature of Etherpad, but think of the implications of this alone. Among other things it will make cheating impossible in…
> think of the implications of this alone
There are already non-webapp mouselog/keylog and replay applications. And besides, think of the implications of letting students be on the internet while they are writing essays.
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#6An incredible website.
Finally I have found the motivation I need to write my IB Extended Essay (days before it is due).
How do you get the play back link though?
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#7I've been wanting to play back the writing of an essay for years. Since Etherpad saves every keystroke, I convinced the founders to add a way to play them back. "Startups in 13 Sentences" was the first essay I wrote on Etherpad. Now I'm going to write all of them on it. Playback is just one little feature of Etherpad, but think of the implications of this alone. Among other things it will make cheating impossible in…
> think of the implications of this alone There are already non-webapp mouselog/keylog and replay applications. And besides, think of the implications of letting students be on the internet while they are writing essays.
Can you provide links to some of these? I'd prefer a non-webapp version, since I have an intermittent internet connection.
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#8An incredible website. Finally I have found the motivation I need to write my IB Extended Essay (days before it is due). How do you get the play back link though?
For now they just hacked together something custom for me. However, Etherpad saves every keystroke, so once they enable this for everyone, you'll be able to replay stuff you wrote with it.
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#9Great site. Interesting biz related side topic: Have sites like this trended too far towards the policy of "no account required"?
This is a service I actually want to sign up for and I wasn't able to find a sign up link after looking around for 30 seconds or so. Surely there would be some benefit to EtherPad to have me sign up for an actual account and collect data on me.. which in this case I am happy to have them do since they are providing a solid service..
Re: The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
#10An incredible website. Finally I have found the motivation I need to write my IB Extended Essay (days before it is due). How do you get the play back link though?
cool!
I did IB in Tallahassee, Florida. That was 5 years ago, but good luck!