[Portfolio] Collections Tool in NYU Sakai OAE Instance

Robert Squillace rs84 at nyu.edu
Wed Feb 9 08:14:23 PST 2011


Dear Lynn,

Totally second what Lucy said.  Also, one improvement we'd like to see is the capacity to toggle any sort of portfolio to a kind of "site map" view, which would display all the contents at a glance, so one would not need to open various boxes to see all the items archived in the portfolio space.  Sometimes, an instructor or advisor just wants to see all the stuff a student has uploaded together in one place.

Down the road, I could imagine the site map view also including an interface to allow you to convert the contents of one kind of portfolio into any other kind of portfolio - one of our ultimate goals is to allow a user to easily reconfigure their content into different presentational forms for different purposes.

But that's in the had we but world enough and time category for the moment!

Yours,
Bob

Dr. Robert L Squillace
Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
Liberal Studies Program
New York University
726 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003-9580
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rs84 at nyu.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Lucile G Appert <lucy.appert at nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:37 am
Subject: Re: [Portfolio] Collections Tool in NYU Sakai OAE Instance
To: "Ward, Lynn E." <leward at iupui.edu>
Cc: Robert Squillace <rs84 at nyu.edu>, osp <portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Jeff Pasch <jeffpasch at nyu.edu>

> Hi Lynn,
> 
> That was exactly my vision for this visual represenation schema! Users 
> would have number of "nodes" they could pull into images of their 
> choice and create their own visual space.  I understand that this will 
> not be terribly expensive, but beyond our budget now. We have always 
> had the goal of at least offering multiple options for visual representation.
> 
> I do want to emphasize that this is not the only possibility for OAE. 
> Soon we'll have a screencast of a self-representational portfolio that 
> we've created for our Wagner school just using templating native to 
> OAE. We will also be integrating a commercially licensed portfolio 
> tool used by NYU-AD and our career center. What we want to show is 
> that portfolio can be a multifaceted functionality in OAE, tied 
> together by the underlying Content store, Assessment service, 
> Discussion service, etc.. There is no need for there to be only one 
> type of portfolio to which everyone must bend their needs. 
> 
> Does that make sense? So glad you like the concept!
> 
> Lucy
> ____________________
> Lucy Appert, PhD
> Director of Educational Technology
> Liberal Studies Program
> New York University
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> New York, NY 10003
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ward, Lynn E." <leward at iupui.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:24 am
> Subject: Re: [Portfolio] Collections Tool in NYU Sakai OAE Instance
> To: Robert Squillace <rs84 at nyu.edu>, osp <portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Cc: Lucile Appert <lucy.appert at nyu.edu>, Jeff Pasch <jeffpasch at nyu.edu>
> 
> 
> > Very exciting work, Bob! Thanks for sharing.  Wondering how easy it 
> might
> >  be to change the visual metaphor of the floorplan to something 
> else.  
> > One
> >  hope that I had for the OAE portfolio environment (inspired by 
> NYU's 
> > work)
> >  was the ability for end users to easily upload and use any digital 
> image
> >  as the visual metaphor for a portfolio and then define hotspots 
> that 
> > would
> >  expose functionality similar to that provided in your example.  
> That 
> > would
> >  give institutions, programs, and individuals to the select metaphor 
> that
> >  was best suited to their purpose.  In the short term, I imagine making
> >  changes of this sort would require a developer, but it would be 
> great 
> > if
> >  we could put that sort of power in the hands of students, faculty, 
> and
> >  staff.  Thoughts?
> >  
> >  Lynn
> >  
> >  ==========================
> >  
> >  Lynn Ward, Principal Systems Analyst, Academic and Faculty Services
> >  University Information Technology Services <
> >  Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
> >  Information Technology and Communications Complex (IT 225D)
> >  535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
> >  Phone: 317-278-5713  E-mail: leward at iupui.edu
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  On 2/8/11 6:38 PM, "Robert Squillace" <rs84 at nyu.edu> wrote:
> >  
> >  >Hi All,
> >  >
> >  >I want to share with everyone a demo that Lucy Appert and Jeff 
> Pasch 
> > have
> >  >just posted of the Collections tool included in NYU's pilot of 
> Sakai 
> > OAE
> >  >(Atlas NYU) and of the student portfolio groups in which we have embedded
> >  >it.  We expect it to be ready for the community release in March.
> >  >
> >  >Here's the URL:
> >  >
> >  >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WeawYLLdSg
> >  >
> >  >Enjoy!
> >  >
> >  >Yours,
> >  >Bob
> >  >
> >  >Dr. Robert L Squillace
> >  >Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
> >  >Liberal Studies Program
> >  >New York University
> >  >726 Broadway, 6th Floor
> >  >New York, NY 10003-9580
> >  >(212) 992-8735
> >  >rs84 at nyu.edu
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