The beginning of a new academic year is just around the corner. September 2011 is just days away! We both know that there is an uneven mix of keeners and slackers in any class.
NoteWagon is another tool that students have today, that didn’t exist a decade ago. This site is for both the motivated student who takes pride in copious, excellent notes, and others who miss class, or have difficulty keeping up.
This site encourages bookworms to share their notes online with other students. As a reward, they get credit for it. Each time one of their notes is viewed and printed they earn tokens that can be redeemed for gift cards or cash. Students who want access to those notes have to buy tokens first.
This represents another market for sharing content, which benefits the student, as they are able to share and collaborate on content for various courses.
The cost is similar to the cost of photocopying, at about $0.10 per page.
This site launched launched last year and is available for 20 schools and has 25,000 students registered. NoteWagon hopes to serve as a social network for each and every class, where students have the ability to talk to each other and collaborate on material in a Wikipedia-like manner.
August 26, 2011 By
