[DG: Teaching & Learning] [Building Sakai] Sakai simplified tablet interface for children in hospitals

[Keli Sato Amann]

As we say in America, OMG! Congratulations to your and your team Diego! If you ever contribute this back, we'd love to check it out, as it really seems to do a good job of adapting Sakai for that size screen. This is a good example of how developing a product with a specific type of user in mind (children at a hospital) results in a product that can satisfy many, many users. I will follow up with you specifically about your changes to Tests & Quizzes

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Swinsburg" <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
To: "Diego del Blanco Orobitg" <diego.delblanco at samoo.es>
Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org, pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org, "Sakai Dev" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:31:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai simplified tablet interface for children	in hospitals


This is absolutely fantastic! Great work and congratulations to all involved! 


The parent/auditor function is excellent too. I had an idea for this a while back: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-19059 as we have people interested in using Sakai in primary education. 


Is there any chance this can be contributed back? Especially the parent/child function. 


cheers, 
Steve 










On 19/01/2012, at 9:37 PM, Diego del Blanco Orobitg wrote: 





Hi to all: 

We have finished the development of the “Sakai simplified tablet interface for children in hospitals”, as we have announced in the list time ago using restful services. This web interface (is not native) shows only the basic tools of sakai in a very simple way to be used for children with a tactile interface. The aim of the project is to use Sakai for children in Hospitals and allow them to continue the learning in their rooms with a tactile dispositive. 

You can see a demo (in English) here: http://youtu.be/1o5296xIqa8 … you can see Chuck’s book as background and the Spanish Sakai’s one too ;) 

Anyway, this interface is not only for children you can adapt it changing skin for other uses because is a very simple interface of Sakai for use in a mobile tablet so it can be used in a University, college, enterprise…. 

In Spain all the hospitals have a team of teachers for the children and a school room for them, but sometimes children can’t move or can’t stay enough time out of their bedrooms, so with this system, teacher in the hospital can send tasks and resources to them (teacher will use sakai usual interface) and they can do it from the bed. There are several hospitals using a tactile screen for each bed with a lot of services, one of them can be this one. If Hospital don’t have those screens can use tablets as seen in the video. 

We have modified Sakai too to improve the experience for parents. Parents can connect to the system (with a standard Sakai interface too) and communicate with the teachers. Those users are “student-related” so they can view the work done by their son but not the work done by other students (this is new in Sakai and in general in LMS’s, the “individual watcher user”). You can define in this Sakai a hierarchy of users with parents and sons. We have done other tools as “notes” tool where teacher can add information about the students and select if parents can read it or not. 

You can see a demo of this changes (this is in Spanish, sorry) here: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgaEJn-ribc&feature=player_embedded 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Tc2JSiR04&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL 

If you are interested into this product or part of it, please ask us! 

Saludos desde España! 


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Diego del Blanco Orobitg 
Director de Operaciones 
diego.delblanco at samoo.es 
Tlf Oficina: 673 803 269 
Tlf Móvil - 653 683 489 
www.samoo.es 

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