On 15 December 2005 9:54:31 PM, "Lynch, Jonathan" wrote:
Heh...
I guess they are listening...
Thanks Kevin.
I bet they are... thanks to my location in Edinburgh I even got to
meet Kevin and Mark in person. I got to see the nice and pleasant
office where everything happens.
The focus of the discussion was on education projects (how to get
runrev more widespread in the education community). There was some
ambiguity some months ago that were in great part due to Ro Nagey
health problems. He had had heart surgery at the time and despite his
high commitment to the cause, he couldn't attend to the education
community as much as he would have wanted to.
I am glad to say that it was clear from the meeting I had last week
that they have been listening to many things said on the list, even
if they didn't always take the time to send an official notification
of this. Even better, they plan to address some of the most recurrent
requests (sorry guys, no specific details about this now... I will
let the runrev team make official announcements about this).
Another good news is that they were very receptive to the proposal to
get us the educators/academics among us organise ourselves as a self-
managed community, so to set up a process by which we can clarify and
agree on our needs (we are too many to get this done in one-by-one
relationships with runrev) and then have a few representatives have
once or twice a year meetings with the runrev team. We will be in a
position to express opinions and requests in a way that is more
constructive than ranting! More details promised by them... later
this month I believe.
Tomorrow's surprise is also one that should better address the needs
of educators who don't spend at least 30% of their time on runrev
projects and for who, therefore, the level of noise on the list is
too big and the nicer nabble forum-like interface (<http://
www.nabble.com/Revolution---User-f2297.html>) is not really the best
answer.
For my parts, with runrev support, I will try to get the persons
working on the LADIE project become interested in runrev's potential.
"The LADIE reference model supports Learning Activity Authoring (the
design and construction of learning activities and the discovery,
specification, sequencing and packaging of content) and Learning
Activity Realisation (the construction of the environment in which
learning activities are to take place and execution of the learning
activities themselves). The LADIE project combines practical teaching
and learning experience, pedagogy/didactics through the DialogPlus
project in addition to the needs of existing technologies." (e-
learning frameworks, UK).
<http://www.elframework.org/refmodels/ladie/>
Stay tuned, guys, with revolution, the future will be bright. For my
part, I am just waiting for some money transfer to convert my studio
license into an enterprise one.
Hasta la revolution sempre!!
Marielle
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