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Links related to the content authoring initiative and Sakai 3.
Updated on Apr 06, 09
Created on Jan 16, 09
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As you may have heard, a number of contributors in the Sakai community have begun talking about, and even working on, something being called Sakai 3. Sakai 3 would be a new version of Sakai representing significant change to the end-user experience and, likely, the underlying technology.
This page captures VERY preliminary thinking/brainstorming from the 3akai UX working meetings. It will continue to evolve quickly as we iterate through out thinking. Please also feel free to add your ideas here.
This blog post is somewhat a summary of my understanding of what Sakai 3 is all about, from a user point of view. I hope it can become a starting point for current community members who might still see Sakai 3 as a blurry long term vision, and maybe even draw more people’s attention to Sakai as a valid alternative to commercial learning management systems like Blackboard.
These comments are in response to the Sakai 3.0 Proposal at the Sakaiproject. A shorter version was posted to the Teaching and Learning email list on the Sakai Collab site.
Here is a stripped-down version of the workshop notes that I give to faculty at my institution. You are invited to adapt them to your own purposes, and to use the same links to courses on WyoSakai, or to follow the paradigm to set up your own.
We have begun this effort by implementing a new tool that closely mimics the current tool's basic functionality (support for numeric grades including points and percentages) with some significant new functionality (extra credit, drop lowest grade item, grade item weighting, excuse individual grade record, etc.) and ease of use improvements and a more flexible and extensible UI strategy. This tool shares data model objects with the old tool, which should largely address compatibility issues with other existing tools that make use of the original Gradebook1 to aggregate grades.
I’ve realized that learning portal creates a self-service environment for users that can’t be beat. They can go, search, find what they need, and move on.
SI 182 is an introductory programming course designed to be useful to a wide range of students in all concentrations. Built as a web site that uses Sakai as a repository.
Beyond Sakai 2.6, a vision of the future of the Sakai LMS. Slides presented to the LMS Committee at the University of Delaware. January 21, 2009.
The Kuali Foundation manages a growing portfolio of enterprise software applications for colleges and universities, such as Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Coeus (KC), and Kuali Student (KS).
Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and more. Typical applications that use content repositories include content management, document management, and records management systems.
Shindig is a new project in the Apache Software Foundation incubator and is an open source implementation of the OpenSocial specification and gadgets specification.
My purpose is to examine certain concrete technical expressions of the drive to create a next generation Sakai, known as Sakai 3 or less prosaically as “3akai.” In particular, I discuss the new emphasis on content addressability, clean URL spaces and web services embodied by a re-factored Sakai service known as the the entity broker that embraces RESTful design principles and mircroformat-style APIs.
The assignment tool is arguably the most used tool in courseware packages and faculty and students expect it to behave a certain way with certain rules. The student work handed in through a traditional assignment tool currently is “stuck” in that tool and subsequently is unavailable for students to use in their portfolios without a lot of extra steps that duplicate their data in their personal content area.
Functionally, we need to be able to display structured data elements like forms, wizards (and hopefully, assignment data in the future) on a portfolio page. This functionality is not supported yet in the freeform portfolio.
Rodríguez congratulated committee members on playing an instrumental role in the successful selection, promotion, and implementation of Sakai as the replacement for WebCT at the University of Delaware.
Folders from Venus and Labels from Mars. With the introduction of Google's GMail, the Gmail designers wanted to approach email differently. They started by collecting all the messages in a conversation into a single email "message". Now, the entire conversation would occupy only one line of the inbox, giving the user one-click access to every message in the discussion.
A customizable portal page. Uses widgets to link to dynamic content.
37 items | 82 visits
Links related to the content authoring initiative and Sakai 3.
Updated on Apr 06, 09
Created on Jan 16, 09
Category: Computers & Internet
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