[DG: Teaching & Learning] rethinking/simplifying learning activities

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Oliver Heyer <oliver at media.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> To meet some initial objectives for the UC Berkeley OAE pilot that
> weren't on the critical path for the central project at the time, we
> implemented capabilities that allow college advisers to send
> notifications to students about things that they need to attend to,
> usually an important administrative task or event. We've built 2 widgets
> for managing lists of tasks and events, respectively. You can sort,
> filter, check off, and archive the list items. The tasks and events are
> also delivered as iCal via email.

Yeah, this is the nice thing about a task model; easy to integrate
with other tools and services. Cool.

> Generalizing, expanding on, and/or integrating these capabilities into
> OOTB OAE has been an obvious longer term goal from the beginning. This
> process is unlikely to follow the relatively straightforward Sakai CLE
> tool/code contribution model.

What does this mean Oliver?

As a general point, it'd be nice if people/institutions working on OAE
widgets would put them up on github and encourage forking.

Bruce