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John Gardiner - Lisa mentioned that Kirk, et.al., are interested in the skins work John has done for VM; John consented to Armando Arbizo contacting him and mentioned that there is a lot of information in the Sakai UI DG. John used a local instance for design process.
Keith - on Ilios, currently importing from CATH? CAF by termcode
Ray - Reordering working before & after, if content, date, or time changes. Erin's scheduling process in Ilios: ordered initially by content but that changes with faculty changes that solidify topics and order (general sourse/session info); Erin then matches to locations and date/time of offering. The new process is a web form (w/AJAX?) to give her and faculty drag & drop functionality.
Dan Dave - re: Unicon training session last Friday: There were lots of things presented that we don't want to do, and the tools were not taught as SVM would want to teach - i.e., every tool, every function was covered. Learned that not all tools are hooked into each other yet or into gradebook. Student usage - study areas, etc.
Faculty probably not interested in allowing students interaction w/their materials (rWiki.) There is a potential for confusion between sakai internal tools and current UCD tools. SVM needs to firm up their list of tools that will even be optional and will roll out additional tools as they are vetted as solid and useful to VM. Negative faculty reactions during training over duplicate functionality - faculty have limited time. 8 hrs of training for committed FMF faculty means less training time desirable for regular faculty. Mental workflows don't adapt easily to tool set introduction - too many rabbit trails. "If you're showing this to me, you must want me to use it." SVM will present a simple, short list of tools w/focus on what faculty really need.
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Rick - Review of Captivate list; focusing on core kernel for training; will email to Jan for approval. VM plans on automated course sites; project sites w/more flexibility; next week - codify all the standards for clips.
Dan Dave - on Unicon training sessions: Interesting to see training curriculum - too long and covered too much; backwards introduction of some tools, e.g., starting Tests & Quizzes w/Templates. Take Home Lesson - keep it simple, start with a limited menu from day 1; showing tools advocates using them; launch with Resources, Announcements for the intro to Sakai with more advanced training later. Intro to Sakai in 1.5 hour format; give faculty time to get used to the tools before introducing other (mature) tools. Faculty in training session were overwhelmed by number of tools and frustrated by overlap of functionality in tools.
Message that VM wants to give their faculty - simple, functional, w/limited tool accessibility, since everything is new to them. Separate classes for quizzing, discussion, etc., one topic at a time. Must be done in computer lab to get hands on experience.
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Re: Twin Peaks linkage to the library? Researching now. Also, Dan Dave has done a partial install of DSpace; Rick reviewed others' content in DSpace, need to experiment to see if it's useful; doesn't look like there's a batch/bulk upload function allowing default metatdata. Harvest Road/Hive - commercial version; may need to sign up for demo account to see how it works (Portland used it?)
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