[DG: Teaching & Learning] Fwd: New to Sakai

[Josh Baron]

Jeffrey,

First, welcome to the Sakai community!  Let me assure you that everyone in 
this community has at one time or another struggled to get involved and to 
understand what you find when you begin to search around some of our 
online collaboration spaces, such as our "Confluence Wiki".  These are 
online environments where hundreds of people around the world are actively 
documenting work, sharing ideas, and collaborating...in a sense, you've 
stumbled into our global office...and an office where we don't have that 
many folks around to help us keep things neat and cleaned up.  You can 
think about it as if you had walked into the middle of the NY Stock 
Exchange in the middle of a trading day...it would probably look like 
complete chaos but there is actually lot of organized stuff going on.

A potentially good place to get started is at 
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26444079 
as this is a "FAQ" for those who are new to Sakai.  I will note that this 
site has not been updated in the last 9 months or so (again, part of the 
challenge as we don't have a lot of resources for such things) but it will 
help answer some of your questions.

Rather than listing out a lot of other places to go, I'd suggest that you 
begin there and then post your specific questions to this list...you'll 
find that many of us jump in to help out.

I hope this helps.

Again, welcome!

Josh

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Joshua Baron
Director, Academic Technology and eLearning
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron



From:
Jeffrey Titcomb <jeffstick at valornet.com>
To:
pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
Date:
08/30/2010 04:45 PM
Subject:
[DG: Teaching & Learning] Fwd: New to Sakai
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Begin forwarded message:

From: Jeffrey Titcomb <jeffstick at valornet.com>
Date: August 26, 2010 2:36:34 PM CDT
To: mkorcuska at sakaifoundation.org
Subject: New to Sakai

Good day Michael!
Please forgive my 'newbie' status to Sakai, my difficulty with negotiating 
the keyboard, and ignorance to all things Sakai to-date! I am a masters 
student with Kaplan University, and much of what I am seeing and reading 
on the various pages of Sakai are foreign to me.

I will continue searching and reading as I try to learn this new language, 
yet request some sort of glossary of terms and acronyms (i.e. I have no 
idea what the hell a CVN is, or Tomcat, etc.)

I am a grandpa to Gen-Xers, and this entire platform is overwhelming! In 
any case, I wish you all continued success (though I couldn't possibly 
recant what or how your successes have been achieved!) and I look forward 
to the day that I understand a great deal more than I do today regarding 
Sakai. Also, please, what is the meaning of the name 'Sakai', an acronym?

In watching your YouTube video, I am heartened by the prospects and 
seeming current-to-furture role Sakai plays in higher education, and I 
hope to be an active part of the movement as I am able.
Best wishes,
Jeffrey
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