Dear Johncn, The bssd wiki is the best thing I have seen in a while. Congrats on what you've accomplished so far. I would love to take part in a session next week to see a demo of what you are developing.
As for the Yupik and Inupiaq dictionaries -- they are quite nice. Have you been in touch with anyone from the Inupiaq Wiktionary? Piolinfax may be a helpful resource for expanding such projects. http://ik.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllPages http://ik.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piolinfax Regards, SJ (And: have a great time at cosn. is anyone else on the list going?) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Johncn <jconci...@bssd.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm one of the project people at Bering Strait School District that has been > working with DART. > > Although I've exchanged some emails with Gregdek and Jef about DART's > ability to track > standards progress, and link needs to a MediaWiki instance, they have not > seen the latest > version of the system. > > The newest features and bug fixes really expand the DART / Wiki combination > into complete > student information AND collaborative curriculum development system for > managing our school district. > We are about the size of Great Britain, but with less than 2,000 students. > > The system runs well, and is very, very stable. Down time for us has been > almost a non-event. Training and roll out has been mostly unnecessary, and > handled with an hour so "overview", and a few PDF tutorials for teachers and > students. A bit more for school administrators. We get a very, very low > number of Help Desk requests compared to our other software packages in use. > The most training has to go toward editing the wiki system, not to DART > itself. > > Our current version has been our official system since August, and has > vastly improved "modules" that can be activated to track organizational > performance and functioning, such as a "Dashboard", Improvement Planning, > standardized test data analysis, and improved individual learner tracking. > > I'm sorry to say that we're woefully short of help right now, and scrambling > to finish an installer package and an updated demo server so we can share > these features with groups like this. To be honest, it's just our school > ditrict at the moment working to develop the project. Others have expressed > an interest, but have not been able to help with programming or design work. > > As soon as our installer package is done, we need an admin setup screen that > will allow easier setup for adjusting language CSS, logos and turning > modules on or off by need. That will spur a wider adoption base that will > get some more partners, I think. We have a table at CoSN conference in > Austin in March, and will handing out information to like minded school > districts and organizations...if we can find some! > > Like CATB says, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". We'd LOVE to > have some others interested in moving this project forward, and I can set up > a DimDim demo session in a week or so if there is interest in seeing the > existing build. > > Finally, on the collaborative development of our curriculum we are up to > about 11,000 pages. We are hoping to work with Palo Alto Research Center > (PARC) to test their fantastic WikiDashboard tool with DART and our Open > Content Curriculum. This will allow us to track and measure the impact of > individual contributions to the curriculum in visual manner, and provide all > users with a "meta" view of that content as it develops. This is PERFECT > for use in a curriculum system. > > http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22076/page1/ > > http://wikidashboard.parc.com/ > > Teachers and students have created a number of spin off projects just this > year in the wiki that may interest educators doing OLPC rollouts, such as > Inupiaq and Yup'ik multimedia dictionaries: > > http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Category:Yupik_dictionary > http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Meteghluk > http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Category:Inupiaq_dictionary > > Thanks, folks, and please feel free to contact me at jconci...@bssd.org if > you need more information, and thanks for the kind words in this thread. > > Regards, > > Johncn > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/RFC%3A-Supporting-olpc-ish-Deployments---Draft-1-tp2351291p2360168.html > Sent from the It's an education project, not a laptop project. mailing list > archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep