Just to add my $.02, I agree with Walter and Claudia's approach in this paper. Making the specifics of learning visible to teachers and students, and doing the development from this perspective, I think is the best way to go. Thanks. Gerald
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Martin Dluhos <mar...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> On 7.1.2014 01:49, Sameer Verma wrote: > >>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos <mar...@gnu.org> wrote: > >>>> For visualization, I have explored using LibreOffice and SOFA, but > neither of > >>>> those were flexible to allow for customization of the output beyond > some a few > >>>> rudimentary options, so I started looking at various Javascript > libraries, which > >>>> are much more powerful. Currently, I am experimenting with Google > Charts, which > >>>> I found the easiest to get started with. If I run into limitations > with Google > >>>> Charts in the future, others on my list are InfoVIS Toolkit > >>>> (http://philogb.github.io/jit) and HighCharts (http://highcharts.com). > Then, > >>>> there is also D3.js, but that's a bigger animal. > >>> > >>> Keep in mind that if you want to visualize at the school's local > >>> XS[CE] you may have to rely on a local js method instead of an online > >>> library. > >> > >> Yes, that's a very good point. Originally, I was only thinking about > collecting > >> and visualizing the information centrally, but there is no reason why it > >> couldn't be viewed by teachers and school administrators on the > schoolserver > >> itself. Thanks for the warning. > >> > >> > > > > In fact, my guess would be that what the teachers and principal want > > to see at the school will be different from what OLE Nepal and the > > government would want to see, with interesting overlaps. > > You left out one important constituent: the learner. Ultimately we are > responsible for making learning visible to the learner. Claudia and I > touched on this topic in the attached paper. > > Just to place all my cards on the table, as much as I hate to suggest > we head down this route, I think we really need to instrument > activities themselves (and build analyses of activity output) if we > want to provide meaningful statistics about learning. We've done some > of this with Turtle Blocks, even capturing the mistakes the learner > makes along the way. We are lacking in decent visualizations of these > data, however. > > Meanwhile, I remain convinced that the portfolio is our best tool. > > regards. > > -walter > > > > > > cheers, > > Sameer > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > server-de...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > >
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