Catch of the Day - Nota - 18 Aug 09

Today's catch is Nota, a dynamic whiteboard wiki.

Nota lets you mash your ideas and media together with others in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can quickly create multimedia presentations on your own or with more than 50 colleagues.

Nota has been used for educational purpose as an online collaboration tool that allows students and teachers to quickly create and share virtually any kind of document such as presentations, notebooks, reports , artwork, anything. Using Nota’s toolset, users can integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web albums or on a local computer, or images from Flickr, and other sources. Users can then embed their work in webpages, wikis, or blogs, and can share and collaborate with other people. There's no limit to what students can express using Nota.

It’s free of charge, no software to purchase or install, and because Nota’s online, collaborative and real-time, student reactions, responses, and ideas can be integrated live into the document.

Unique Features

• Users can create visual presentations or notebooks in literally minutes using any web browser.
• Design and user interface are simple, intuitive, and can be mastered in minutes.
• Instantly combine virtually any kind of material, from any source.
• Materials can be shared and edited simultaneously with group members.
• Work is auto-saved and immediately published.
• Ideal for group projects and hands-on instruction – incorporate student responses into material as you develop it.

Creativity

Use the text tool to add titles, messages, and comments to your creations. Insert photos, videos or flash from your own files or Flickr, YouTube, Google Maps, Wikipedia articles, and more. Use the drawing tools to work on any object in the workspace. Upload PDFs, document files, and audio for sharing.

Collaboration

Create private or public notebooks and invite one, two, or dozens, of people to collaborate on a Nota project. Add as many pages as you want to a notebook.



To use Nota, you'll need to register. See the Nota Quick Start Guide.