SVM DEVELOPERS MEETING
Scott F. - Course evals coming along; using Maven to build & deploy as a tool. Will need to split out among services & APIs.
Calendaring - first draft from Chris - in design stage, to integrate in Subversion w/build
Working with Aaron Zeckoski, Virginia Tech - Aaron and Scott will collaborate during boot camp end of Feburary.
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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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Ray - VM was able to recruit a new Java/Sakai resource - not sure where to physically locate him yet.
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IMPLEMENTATION MEETING
Rick - Review of Rick's Captivate list - ; focusing on core kernel for training; will email to Jan for approval. Automated VM plans on automated course sites; project sites w/more flexibility; next week - codify all the standards for clips.
Training Dave - on Unicon training sessions: Dan - interesting Interesting to see training curriculum - too long and covered too much; backwards introduction of some tools, ie.eg., starting Tests & Quizzes w/templates. Tak home lesson Templates. Take Home Lesson - keep it simple, start w/with a limited menu from day 1; showing tools advocates using them; launch with Resources, Announcements , for the intro to sakai w/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 gives wants to give their faculty - simple, functional, w/limited tool accessibility, since everything is new to VM facultythem. Separate classes for quizzing, discussion, etetc.c , one topic at a time. Must be done in computer lab to get hands on experience.
Issues on Resources: Need to increase 20 MB file size to ?; current manual process of converting to One Note OneNote files - ppt slides & pdfs are huge as content may encompass multiple lectures; students assisting faculty by uploading ON OneNote files for faculty prior to the lecture - maybe minutes before.
Jan - we need to encourage faculty to get deliver content at least 24 hrs prior to allow time to for upload and for student downloads prior to lecture.
Pilot users for spring; webdav WebDav makes it easy to move content up - on Mac, using Goliath w/next release. Build , although there will be a fix with next Sakai release. Process worked out to build folder structure in sakai, then move over files using webdavWebDdav. Determined that they will not give faculty default folder structure.
Where we will pull topical outlines for spring? For 414C (Birgit Puschner) and 405 (Pat and Conrad/Walter Boyce) from Ilios - will get session topics today. Will manual manually load, if needed.Carl Coka? re: what? , to ensure material in Sakai. Appears that these faculty have tried a few things out in their courses already.
Re: Twin Peaks linkage to the library? Researching now. Dan Also, 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 w/allowing default metatdata. Harvest Road/Hive - commercial version; may need to sign up for demo account to see how it works (Portland used it?)
client? VM faculty with an interactive online quiz need; needs it to be accessible behind iWeb for both students and certain outside users. Type of quizzing tool? Already built - needs it to be launched ASAP.