<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Victor<div>This sounds very interesting... I, and perhaps others?? ( I note Kevork's post on ITAPPS today) woudl be interested in some followup on this... maybe a URL so we could lurk on your Open Source Q&A ...? or a blog url so we could follow you?</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew Shortell</div><div>soon to leave Wallan SC</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 19/11/2010, at 11:05 AM, Victor Rajewski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Folks,<div><br></div><div>I'm curious if anybody has used any sites or services such as stackoverflow for educational purposes. Stackoverflow is a community driven question-and-answer site for programming questions, but has spawned a number of offshoots. Users get points for different types of activity (posting, commenting, answering, voting), and can use accumulated points for 'bounties' on their questions (and a warm fuzzy feeling inside). Somewhat like a forum, but with a bit more of a social aspect, and reward aspect. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If so, what have people's experiences been?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm going to introduce such a service to our school for next year (I'm using the OSQA system to run such a site locally) to see what happens - some faculties have been successfully subject-specific helpdesk-type forums this year, so this might replace them if things go well. I'm also hoping it will work alongside the other IT helpdesk resources.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is a proposed site like this for pedagogy at the stack exchange <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/23685/pedagogy">http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/23685/pedagogy</a> - have a look and vote for it if you think it would be useful.</div>
<div><br clear="all">Victor Rajewski<br>IT Manager<br>John Monash Science School<br>+61 3 9902 9828<br>
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