P>On the other hand, I myself have some dreams about how Etherpad could be pushed much further, as part of a social annotation suite (<span class="il">Gravpad</span>).<br><br>This is incredibly crude, but I modified the Gravpad GreaseMonkey script to use jQuery so that the etherpad loads and hangs off the 5% right hand side of the screen. When you mouseover the etherpad it repositions to 95% of the screen. Mouse out moves it back to the 5% dock position.<br>
<br><a href="https://gist.github.com/868823">https://gist.github.com/868823</a><br><br>To use this script you have to have the GreaseMonkey FireFox add-on installed - then just load the file DanGravPad.<br><br>The formatting is pretty hinkey and to get it to work smoothly you probably need to reskin the <br>
etherpad and not even use a <iframe> - just overlay and absolutely position the etherpad and keep focus until edits are paused.<br><br>The example only works on <a href="http://p2pu.org/">http://p2pu.org/</a> and pulls jQuery like so:<br>
<br>// @require <a href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js">http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js</a><br>// @include <a href="http://p2pu.org/">http://p2pu.org/</a><br>
<br><b>IDEA:</b> I don't see why courses could not be created where the assignments are to create tools like this. We have hundreds of learners and they are working on silly foo, bar, baz examples of whatever technology they are studying. Let's put them to work on the chain gang. <br>
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