[Portfolio] Sakai 3-ish discussion

[Noah Botimer]

I would like to call attention David's email that John mentions here.  
In fact, I was enough struck by it that I circulated it locally as a  
valuable touchstone with many kudos to the clear, broad [educational]  
perspective. If folks are not aware of it, it's available here:  
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.sakai.pedagogy/663

For discussion, I would also say that the promise of person-person  
groups/associations are extremely compelling in the portfolio  
context. We have often suffered configuration pains due to the lack  
of object-level permissions and cross-site publishing.

I also agree that "tagging" (broadly, with free/structured/annotated  
varieties) and activity awareness and flows are central to many of  
our concerns. The complexity of our scenarios may be clear extensions  
of simpler cases that share base needs; such as in course-based  
learning, for example.

The only way we can know the depth of overlap and divergence and take  
good advantage of our scarce face-to-face time (in July) is to do  
some homework now.

I like the direction of this conversation.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:23 PM, John Norman wrote:

> The groups may have different top-level priorities, but that doesn't
> mean there are not a vast number of shared interests i.e. if the plane
> is on fire and there is only one parachute, who gets the parachute?
> The groups may make different choices, but that doesn't mean they are
> not both interested in the prospect of a safe landing or putting out
> the fire.
>
> I think OSP have developed some good practices around the needs
> statements that help developers a lot to see what is needed, I'd quite
> like to get "teaching and learning" group to follow a similar route,
> for example fleshing out David Goodrum's priority list to a similar
> level of detail. Many of the things David is calling for would be of
> value to portfolio folk - for example the concept mapping as a means
> of stimulating reflection.
>
> For OSP needs, the main thing that I think Sakai 3 brings is a tag-
> centric view of content and therefore the ability to assemble and
> reassemble information in many ways and far more easily than in
> current Sakai. But that doesn't mean we know exactly how to do this
> best for OSP needs. Also Goal awareness and user activity tracking
> seem very relevant to both sets of requirements.
>
> HTH
> John
>
> On 16 Mar 2009, at 16:05, Sean Keesler wrote:
>
>> Here are some notes I took from the community conference call during
>> our discussion of the future development:
>>
>> Relevant notes from 2009-03-16 OSP Community Call
>>
>> Sean reviewed the changed to the vignettes page with the group and
>> suggested that a next step would be to come up with a strategy for
>> introducing this to the Sakai3 working group. Noah has been keeping
>> his finger on the pulse of Sakai 3, but others probably could also
>> participate. Sean asked if others would be willing and able to
>> participate in conversations with the UX and T&L group, and if so,
>> how do we best do that? Noah mentioned that there is a weekly UX
>> call that could be used, but that the main conversations for Sakai3
>> are small conversations over Skype and the Sakai 001 bridge with
>> Nathan and a small group of developers. This group is under a lot of
>> pressure to release a version of Sakai 3 for Cambridge/GeorgiaTech
>> and we are unlikely to have an impact on its direction.
>>
>> Perhaps a good strategy for interacting with the Sakai 3 WG would be
>> to do so in concert with the T&L group. We recognize that there is a
>> barrier between how we think. Lynn had mentioned last week that they
>> are primarily focused on course/project sites. It may be that the
>> readiness of the OSP are a barrier (in which case, we should talk
>> with them soon to ensure that this is not the case in the future).
>> Nancy mentioned that Matthiew Plourde attends the T&L calls and she
>> would ask him for a recommendation on how the T&L group is
>> interacting with the Sakai 3/UX group and report back next week.
>>
>>
>>
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