Rokham, Glad to see your registration on the site. :) People come on down.
I've added a "Physical Environments" category to the list. What blogs to include? Physical Environmentstags: smart room, smart classroom, classroom, room What do other people think of the site? Is it missing stuff? Have you lost interest? -t On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Rokham Sadeghnezhadfard < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
