I posted this to the Educoder group but it's pretty quiet over there, http://groups.google.com/group/educoder/browse_thread/thread/c46d58f2e128b4fd
So I'm trying SAIL-Dev, where once the comments flowed rapidly. The idea we're working with is to take the community aspects of SAIL and expand them to include more edtech researchers and developers, who don't necessarily use the SAIL stack (if there is such a thing). We call this Educoder. I've been thinking about how to manage the diverse interests of such a community and a mailing list probably won't do because there will be so many esoteric conversations that will either be on the list and annoy many others or be off the list and be invisible to lurkers and archives. I've been working with Drupal on my open social question bank project and found it to be a good fit for some of the aspects of Educoder. For one, you can subscribe to whatever author, topic, or keywords you want. You can also subscribe to just one thread that you want updates on. You can also quickly input new content types for easy searchable databases of whatever records you want to keep track of (e.g. useful code libraries). You can take a look at the working draft site at http://educoder.com/ . Once that's ready, I'll serve it up at http://educoder.org/ , replacing the Wordpress there now. There's not much up yet, except a blurb and a feed aggregator, http://educoder.com/aggregator. I think the rollout will go much better if we have people's input in setting it up so I'm making a survey to disperse far and wide. Here's a draft and I'd appreciate any input you have on it before I send it out: <<< Please describe your work: How do you get support from others in this work? What positive experiences have you had with community support? What negative experiences have you had with community support? What would your ideal community support system be? If you received an e-mail with a post on a topic interesting to you, how likely would you be to reply if you could do so in your e-mail client? What about clicking to a web page? What are keywords of topics that are important to you? Are you a part of any online communities for your work now? If so, which? Are there any blogs you read for your work? If so, which do you read the most? Do you blog? If so, at what URLs? What types of records would you like a community site to keep track of? Which of these record types would you use? (read, comment, add) - learning environments - frameworks - data analysis tools - defunct projects - research papers Do you have any time to contribute to the development of a community site? If so, how? (e.g. moderating, making a logo, developing the visual theme, etc.) Can your answers to this survey be shared online? (yes with my name, yes only anonymously, no) What is your name (not shared unless allowed)? E-mail address (not shared unless allowed)? >>> What do you think? After some feedback I'll put it into a Google Form to send out and pass around. The results may also be shared in the June CSCL panel on supporting edtech developer exchange. -t --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
