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If you are using shared applications such as Open Office, you can now upload your shared documents to the machine that is running those shared applications. This functionality is provided by a new web page, part of the Wonderland.war distribution. There's a link to the new web page from the Wonderland welcome page, such as http://localhost:8080/Wonderland/.

By default each document will be uploaded to a directory named sharingUpload contained within the .wonderland directory of the user that initiated the shared applications (you can change that setting in the web.xml file). Applications such as Open Office expect to find documents in the user's Documents directory, so to enable easy access to the document upload directory from shared applications such as Open Office, we suggest that you add a soft link to it from the user's Documents directory, as follows:

cd ~/Documents

ln -s ~/.wonderland/sharingUpload

Those of you who have been following our 'Mixed Reality Teaching & Learning Environment' (MiRTLE) will be interested to hear that we've just published a paper on MiRTLE in Hybrid Learning and Education of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. If you (or your institution) has access to this publication, you may view the article at:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85170-7_5. There's more information about the project at its wiki page.