Thanks Jim! I've updated the survey and put it into a nice web form. Everyone please give it a go, http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cm1wUDJmTVMtQmdoUTVMUUlCUl9kMlE6MA
You can spend as little or as much time on it as you want. If you have any feedback on the survey itself, it's still malleable. -Turadg On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Jim Slotta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
