hey turadg. drupal is pretty cool. I've been using it for a research project, and its all going smoothly so far. I think it could be a fine space for Educoder to grow - does al the RSS, et.
A place to connect the google gropu into, as well. > 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/ , cool. Here is my survey response. I hope others will respond too!! jim > > Please describe your work: I develop technology enhanced learning environments for education. I am a researcher who works closely with coders for implementation as well as for ideas. One of my emphases is on open source development, with the goal of getting re-usable materials out into our community. I want to make it easier for researchers to get traction in this kind of work - providing systems that they can easily configure and (hopefully) adapt for their own investigations. > > How do you get support from others in this work? So far, I've had some difficulty. My approach has basically been to try to build systems that other researchers (and their coders) would want to use. Did pretty well with WISE. Not so well with SAIL. Although the SAIL Portal, developed by my gropu, is currently being used by two other research groups. One other approach that may be working is that of co-design. We tried it with WISE 3 but it didn't play out, maybe because of Java, maybe for other reasons. We are trying it again with RoOLO (Repository of Open Learning Objects) and it may be working. We hope. > > What positive experiences have you had with community support? There seems to be a real value held by coders in our wider community to help other coders (ie, from other labs) adopt their innovations. I've seen numerous conference calls, text messages, etc to support the adoption of portal, RoOLO, O-trunk, etc. > What negative experiences have you had with community support? basically, people (researchers, and coders) being too consumed with their immediate efforts, and not having any spare cycles for the community side of things. Also - the need to deliver on funded projects can often get in the way of developing a more comprehensive or re-usable solution. Also, the tendency to want to use code that was developed in one's own group - and the inevitable overhead of adopting code used by others... > What would your ideal community support system be? Ideally, I think we should have a small set of back-end systems that make it easy for a research group to get up and running: POrtal, repository. Then, a small set of front-ends (learning environments, tools, materials, etc) that grows ever wider - since no two researchers are really going to want to have the same thing. > > > 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? If it had a link in the e-mail, I am likely to follow the link (like in Facebook). I think this is actually how facebook has managed to get people coming in. Once they follow that initial lionk, they are curious to click a few times. Hmm, this makes me wonder - I haven't gotten any FB e-mails for awhile, and consequently haven't been in FB for awhile... > > > What are keywords of topics that are important to you? learning environments, research, smart classrooms, hand helds, open source, online community > > > Are you a part of any online communities for your work now? If so, > which? > ENCORE (http://encorewiki.org) > Are there any blogs you read for your work? If so, which do you read > the most? > not really. > Do you blog? If so, at what URLs? > only personal stuff. > What types of records would you like a community site to keep track > of? code-related activities. Who has downloaded? Who has uploaded? Versions of code. I like the idea of content types for different code types. I would like to have some social information for the members - what projects are we working on, What actual code resources (with links) are we using. Finding a way to make those records easy for people to keep up would be good. > Which of these record types would you use? (read, comment, add) > - learning environments (yes - read, comment and add) > - frameworks (yes - read, comment and add) > - data analysis tools (yes - read, comment and add) > - defunct projects (yes - read, comment and add) > - research papers (yes - read, comment and add) > > Do you have any time to contribute to the development of a community > site? yes, > > If so, how? (e.g. moderating, making a logo, developing the visual > theme, > etc.) building content, moderating, maybe. > Can your answers to this survey be shared online? (yes with my name, > yes yes. > > only anonymously, no) > > What is your name (not shared unless allowed)? > Jim Slotta (feel free to use) > E-mail address (not shared unless allowed)? > >>> [email protected] > > > 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. > survey may be too long for many respondents.... jds > -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
