[DG: Teaching & Learning] OpenEd Practices

[Janet de Vry]

Thanks, Nate, for your willingness to work with us to improve the 
OpendPractices site. I think that for a call to be meaningful some of us 
need to spend some time going through the site and noting what works and 
what doesn't right now and coming up with a vision for what we want.

John Hays is willing to look at it and so I am. Those who are interested 
  could plan to take some time in the next 2 weeks to evaluate what's 
there and articulate what we want and why. We could hold some e-mail 
discussions and post some thoughts on the confluence site to jump start 
a conference call.

Anyone else interested in reviewing the site?
The main goal as I see it is to make the site more friendly and useful 
for those seeking "best practices" and simply examples of how they could 
use Sakai for effective teaching/learning.

Janet
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Nate Angell wrote:
> I'm totally open to OpenedPractices.org (OP.org) becoming whatever the  
> community wants it to become.
> 
> I haven't been able to spend as much time administering it, but am  
> open to making certain interventions if they are not hugely ambitious  
> and/or I'm not working totally alone. I know we've worked some with  
> Josh Baron's group at Marist in the past, and they may still be open  
> to helping work for the site.
> 
> rSmart can continue to host the site, so I don't see any issue there.
> 
> One thing is I personally bought the domain OP.org and while it's not  
> a huge deal, it might make more sense for the Sakai Foundation to own  
> it as I'm a single point of failure.
> 
> Robin: I'm working out a way for http://mysakai.rsmart.com to host  
> fullblown Sakai sample sites (more on that soon), but it would be hard  
> for OP.org to host such sites as it's in Drupal, not Sakai. Seems like  
> we'd want to list them in OP.org tho, and have that be the central  
> directory for all open/shared site demos.
> 
> I'd love to participate in a call specifically around how to augment  
> OP.org, including changes we might make to better support TWSIA.  
> Should we just dedicate a T&L call to OP.org?
> 
> --
> Nate Angell
> Client Evangelist
> http://www.rsmart.com
> 
> On Jul 15, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Robin Hill wrote:
> 
>> A specific question, Nate, that you and I recognized during the  
>> conference:  What about sample courses on the openedpractices.org  
>> site?   And you can tell us about the talk you gave, and whether it  
>> drew suggestions.
>>
>>
>> Jon Hays wrote:
>>> Hi Nate,
>>> We were talking on the T&L call about OpenEd practices and the  
>>> different ways it is being used or might be used.  We purposely  
>>> didn't go into depth, but there was general interest from the group  
>>> in continuing to invest in OpenEd practices as a way to express and  
>>> share the T&L practices in Sakai beyond the innovation award process.
>>> Is there a time on an upcoming T&L call or other when we could hear  
>>> from you about where OpenEd practices is going and how the  
>>> community can participate?
>>> best,
>>> Jon
>>
>> -- 
>>  Robin Hill, Ph.D.       hill at uwyo.edu       307-766-5499
>>  Instructional Computing Services            http://www.uwyo.edu/ctl
>>  Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning   University of Wyoming
>>
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