On 15.12.2009, at 18:30, Gerald Ardito wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being 
> able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating 
> with others) is becoming more and more important.
> 
> My temporary solution is having them upload their work (along with 
> reflections, if desired) to Moodle, which I can do because we have an XS 
> implementation. However, this means that if a student has created a Memorize 
> vocabulary game that s/he want to share s/he has to:
> 1. Create the game.
> 2. Save it to the Journal
> 3. Go to Browse
> 4. Navigate to Moodle
> 5. Find the right course/right assignment within the course
> 6. Upload game.
> 
> S/he pretty much has to do the same thing to download and then play other 
> games. This is certainly workable, but dramatically slows down the momentum 
> of creating games and wanting others to play them. 
> 
> So, I am asking to create/offering to help create an Activity that allows 
> users to share work products easily. I know that Bert was working on 
> something called Distribute, which may be a starting place. It seems to share 
> Journal objects, which seems right.

That is Ben's activity, not mine:

> 2009/10/28 Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu>:
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> The Distribute activity would be your best bet I guess. Where is it?
>> 
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/Distribute-1.xo
>> 
>> Distribute is the barest prototype of a sharing activity, designed purely
>> as a proof of concept.  It is unmaintained, has essentially no user
>> interface, and is not available in any language other than English.  The
>> code is a simplified derivative of the hackish HTTP-based sharing system
>> from Read.
>> 
>> Any attempts to revive it are welcome.  This is the first time I've ever
>> heard of anyone even attempting to use it.
>> 
>> --Ben

We got reports that it does indeed work, though I'm not aware of anyone 
starting to improve it.

- Bert -

> I am happy to work with developers on this. I could create requirements, if 
> need be. Just say the word.
> 
> I look forward to what comes next.
> 
> Thanks and best,
> Gerald
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