Next steps for the Sakai community - - General Support Possibilities * Mentoring/Sherpaing * Sakai Listserv * hosting field trips * Panel Discussions at face to face meeting on the developments of Sakai in the past year ** blog of the same content - this is could be tied to the central * Finding champions to support our community of liberal arts colleges - Pedagogy Support Possiblities * Collecting Exemplary courses * Inclusion of course demonstrations in every face to face meeting * Find ways to share the courses and tools asynchronous and ageographical manner * incorporate MIV sessions in ongoing support * attempt to connect faculty to other faculty in similar and diverse disciplines
Mary and Mike are leading this one - Decisions are made in the many online forums - being involved in the confluence site to be apart of the community development process nitle sakai listserv - join by emailing karen.davis@nitle.org Issues of the equation editor - - Private wiki pages - Hack the permissions (available on the front end) might be an option for the the just in time teaching - look at a better html editor to plug in as a cartridge - Longsight job... WebCT Converters group on http://collab.sakaiproject.org Perhaps we would look at an advisory committee - to ask people what they are having trouble with.. Google Doc API - keep an eye out for developments on this Integration API - how far away is that... One of the benefits of an LMS is the equity of everyone on campus having access Back door to get the webdav from the drop box..
Started in the spring of 2007 - Will finish fall 2008 Goal was to create a graphical multi author simile timeline -features of the tool is instructor control -form submissions -picture upload -improved display -Anonymous print view -sortable list view of time -security of Sakai authentication Timeline was brought into the classroom through a foam board - viewable by other classes - students outside of course posted relevant info to the physical timeline My Questions: When you are done is this something that will be offered to the community - Release in August to those who want to use it. Is this something that only works in Sakai? Only sakai at this point but might have future with Moodle or other... What was the reaction to the addition from the outsiders? Action steps - Bring this to Longsight
Clairmont Colleges - using project sites to encourage investigation of the tools outside of the course. - courses on the My Workspace to teach students how to customize their my workspace to make their work in sakai even easier - writing comments on readings shapes lectures Mt Holyoke - is using a project site to manage the project of maintaining Sakai. - used my workspace to be the introduction into sakai from webct - issue of keeping courses - student think of previous courses in much the same way as text books - historical resources - encourage faculty to take advantage of the unpublish option Whitman - faculty don't want students to have access to prior courses as they don't want students to copy and paste. - interest in sharing exceptional courses or exceptional pieces of a course Allegheny - looking for an equation editor that the physics faculty will like jsmath for the wiki mathematica export as tec
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