This looks very intriguing. I am sure that there are many potential edutional uses for it, though right now I am not sure just what (I think my brain may be checking out for the night!)
I used to teach DBMS skills (many years ago!) Looking at the examples on this website, today's online databases sure are a lot more sophisticated in appearance than dBase was. However, they still appear to require a lot of forethought in design and layout.
Lazybase provides some vey creative tools, as well, including mapping, star rankings, and charts. All this could make for some interesting and challenging assignments for students. In particular, it could be used for creating group or class resources. A student could post links and descriptions of items to be added to this, and the whole class could map or rate them. Others can rank and comment (breifly) on each item. Unfortunately, there is no individual password, and any student can change the name that is attributed to each posting -- so there is no way to reliable track individual contributions.
(2) MyOwnDB
This is another online database tool. Its functions appear to be more like a traditional database, with less of the flash of Lazybase. I ould not tell from the demo if it had individually assignable passwords. Might be worth checking out.
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