[sakai2-tcc] FYI - Fwd: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Reporting Out and Call Schedule > Sakai Teaching and Learning Group
Josh Baron
Josh.Baron at marist.edu
Thu Jun 20 11:44:37 PDT 2013
+1 on the importance of the "unfunded mandates" issue as I agree this is
vital to address.
Although this is early thinking, I believe that members of the T&L group
may be positioned within their organizations in ways that would allow them
to help seek resources for development work. At least speaking for
myself, I would be ready and more than willing to bring proposals forward
at Marist for new capabilities, enhancements, etc. as part of the work
that the T&L group might do in collaboration with TCC and others.
Another area that did not come up much on our call but I think is
important is some dialog between groups around the effort needed and
technical challenges that any specific work might involve. Having an
understand of the programming challenges, security issues, etc. that some
capability might involve is going to be important for everyone to
understand and appreciate if we want to collaborate.
Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] FYI - Fwd: [DG: Teaching & Learning]
Reporting Out and Call Schedule > Sakai Teaching and Learning Group
A very constructive conversation.
I will try my best to make the next meeting and with Neal act as a link
with the TCC. I expect others in the TCC will embrace this positive
movement foward and also attend.
I would like also to reinforce Neals point about unfunded mandates.
Enhanced functionality requires sustainability and resources. Lets push in
the same direction.
Regards Alan,
Sent from somewhere interesting via a Mobile device.
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Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] FYI - Fwd: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Reporting
Out and Call Schedule > Sakai Teaching and Learning Group
From: Josh Baron <Josh.Baron at marist.edu>
To: Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
CC: "sakai2-tcc at collab.sakaiproject.org 2"
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Neal: Thanks for posting this to the TCC list (you beat me to it!) and for
being on the call, your comments and insights were very helpful in moving
the discussion forward.
All,
Besides sharing the outcomes from the call with the TCC (and others on
this list), I had also wanted share an observation in hopes of avoiding
any misunderstandings or miscommunications which I think we all know can
more easily occur when we're not all together in a face-to-face setting.
If you look over the notes from the call you'll see that we had a very
broad ranging discussion that was primarily around how we might
collaborate with the TCC more. The group on the call include folks who
have been involved with Sakai almost since the beginning to very new
participants who's first experience was a couple of weeks ago at the Open
Apereo conference. As a result, you'll see comments and suggestions that
may include things which we've tried before and which did not work well or
about strategies that are not likely to be embraced by our open source
community. My fear is that by just scanning such notes that some could
get the wrong impression about the group's interests and plans.
To address this I'd like to encourage all of us to actively question and
comment on points that are coming up in discussions on lists so that we
can dialog about them as means to avoid misunderstandings. As Neal noted,
it would be great to have more TCC folks on our calls (we'll be holding a
series of weekly calls on Wednesdays, details below) but I realize that
this may be impractical so I'll be sure to continue to provide email
updates. If there is a point in time when the TCC would like to schedule
a call with the T&L group just let me know.
Thanks,
Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
From: Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
To: "sakai2-tcc at collab.sakaiproject.org 2"
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Date: 06/20/2013 12:14 PM
Subject: [sakai2-tcc] FYI - Fwd: [DG: Teaching & Learning]
Reporting Out and Call Schedule > Sakai Teaching and Learning Group
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Hi TCC,
I attended this call, please see below. Your ears may be burning :-). I'll
try to attend these and can keep you informed, but you may want to
consider more active participation. There could be an opportunity here.
Cheers,
Neal
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From: Josh Baron <Josh.Baron at marist.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Reporting Out and Call Schedule > Sakai
Teaching and Learning Group
To: pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org, portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org,
sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Colleagues,
My thanks to the 13 or so folks who participated in our first Sakai
Teaching and Learning (T&L) conference call following the Open Apereo
conference. It was great to hear voice who've not been involved in awhile
as well as many new participants. As I mentioned at the end of the call,
I'm following up to update the larger community as well as suggest plans
for a regular conference call.
CALL SUMMARY: Much of the call continued the dialog that was started at
the conference on how the T&L group might collaborate more with other
groups in the Sakai community, particularly the Technical Coordination
Committee or TCC. There was some review of past community efforts, for
those who were newer to the community, around things such as "requirements
gathering" which have had mixed success and some of the lessons that have
been learned from those experiences. In particular, the issue of
"unfunded mandates" (i.e. bringing forward requirements without resources
to support the development work) was noted as a concern. This lead to
some discussion of how the T&L group might be able to get involved in
seeking resources from institutional decision makers. A complete set of
notes from the call can be found at:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PED/Wednesday+June+19+Call+Notes
NEXT STEPS AND CALL SCHEDULE: Although I recognize that folks are busy,
I'm going to suggest that we plan for weekly calls over the next 1-2
months as means to keep our momentum going and also help address the fact
that I anticipate people being out over the summer for holidays, etc.
Unless there are objections to this schedule, I'd suggest that we continue
with the Wednesday from 2-3 PM Eastern Time day/time as it seemed to work
for the majority of people.
ACTION ITEM > Please reply back to me by Monday, June 24th if Wednesday
from 2 - 3 PM Eastern Time does NOT work for you. Based on what I hear
I'll either confirm the call on Monday or suggest a new time.
Finally, I have updated the Confluence Teaching and Learning wiki page to
reflect our current work. You can access this page at:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PED
Thanks, Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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