According to Hack College, which broke the story, the 7cubed team skipped class and challenged themselves to create seven apps in seven days. Quick Cite took about eight hours to write and is the first app to be released. More are expected to be released in the future.

The 7cubed team acknowledges that the app isn’t perfect and would like to find time to schedule future revisions. It seems the catch is that it is apparently difficult to schedule the time for them to all skip class. The ability to effectively transfer citations between styles was mentioned as one area to improve. Another challenge may be the issue of bar codes only coming into use in the 1970′s. This may hamper the app’s effectiveness with older books.

As a real-life exercise, the 7cubed team has come up with a remarkably effective app in a short amount of time. Hopefully this will encourage other students and faculty members to develop more useful apps in the near future.

The @ONE Project was initially designed with the purpose of making it easier for California Community College faculty and staff to learn about technology that would enhance student learning and success. With this goal in mind, the @ONE Project provides training, online resources and research for free – or at a very low cost (funding is provided by a Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program grant from the Community College Chancellor’s Office). The great news is that you don’t have to work for a California Community College to use these services. These training tools are available to all educators.

Training offerings include:

• Desktop Seminars (presented at lunch)
• Online Courses (led by an instructor)
• Self-paced Training
• In-person Institutes

With the desktop seminars taking very little time and so many training options available for free or generally less than $75, the major barriers to an educator’s learning are removed. This makes @ONE inviting, not only for the educator that seeks to be proactive in their technology training, it also provides an inexpensive option for schools/institutions to effectively train their educators. Quite an attractive option for either party in these economic times.

Because @ONE provides training in such a variety of subjects, from file management to Dreamweaver MX, it may seem a daunting task to decide what classes to take. @ONE works with both educators and administrator’s to help create the most beneficial paths for learning. In addition to having training for a wide variety of subject, @ONE provides courses that aimed to serve varying levels of proficiency. With this flexibility it is easy to see several ways of using @ONE to provide the learning/training for education staff. I hope to bring you more regarding the @ONE Project in a future installment.