Hi Turadg, I believe given the description you've given for Educoder, we might be able to talk about smart-room technologies. I think that falls under "information hub for developers of educational technology".
What some of my interests are and perhaps could contribute to once I learn more about them are the following: 1. I believe coming up with applications that fit in the "multi-touch" paradigm is something that will emerge and requires a different way of thinking. So maybe ideas/applications that are really meant to be used with multi-touch devices. 2. We're thinking of perhaps using programmable legos (MindStorms: http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/Bangkok_dest/Default.aspx) inside the smart-classroom. There are several lego pieces where each piece could have different types of detectors (eg, motion sensors) and we could use these pieces in order to contexulize a room depending on various situations. I really like to learn more about the technology for building such applications, finding other parties who may have written their own applications and also questions where such an environment would perhaps help us answer. If everyone thinks these categories fall under the EduCoder project, then let's please add them. Thanks again for this initiative. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Turadg Aleahmad <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's an update on the "CODER" thread from Dec 9 on SAIL-Discuss. (I > figured it's only relevant to SAIL-dev people.) > We have Educoder up and running now, in a very basic form. We're using > Wordpress, mostly so we can use the excellent blog aggregator plugin > Blogregate <http://code.google.com/p/blogregate/> . Here is what it looks > like on Educoder, > http://www.educoder.org/blogs/ > > So the next bit of work to do is gather up blogs to put into the list. > Also, please suggest categories. Maybe we can do that on this thread. > I'll get the ball rolling: > Java, LAMP, IMS, Mobile, OER, SAIL (I propose including OTrunk as SAIL) > > The next thing after that, which can happen in parallel but is lower > priority, is to write some copy for the site. I wrote a terse "welcome" > post in the blog and an About page. When I was in Berkeley a few weeks ago, > we were thinking of having a regular blog post on topics in EdTech for > research to kick off discussions in the comments. We also thought of having > a regular "best of blogs" roundup to highlight the best of what's in the > aggregator each week. > > Another important item is to draw in other developers so this isn't just > another place for SAIL discussion. What groups do we know who would be > interested? How can we make the site more appealing to them? > > -t > > > > > -- Rokham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAIL-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SAIL-Dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
