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Subject: [school-discuss] Survey for Schoolforge site
updates
From: Paul McKimmy <
paul.mckimmy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, July 09, 2013 10:38 am
To:
schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Justin Riddiough <
jriddiough@xxxxxxxxx>
Aloha, Schoolforge members!
As Justin noted, I am
working on developing a graduate course on
Free/Open-Source Software in Education, which will be
available at University of Hawaii-Manoa in August. As part
of the course, students will submit reviews, case studies,
and/or lesson plans to
schoolforge.net as
community contributions.
I've discussed some
potential site updates with Justin Riddiough, David
Bucknell, and Laura Michaels. My interest is in adding
functionality that I feel would be useful for educators in
identifying, selecting, and using F/OSS in education. I am
fortunate to be working with a talented design team, the
Distance Course Design
& Consulting group (DCDC), at UHM. We are hoping
to get your input on my suggestions, and collect your
ideas on making
schoolforge.net even
more useful for educators.
If interested, please use
this
very short survey to provide input and/or new ideas.
We have a tight time-line for DCDC's assistance, so we'll
be reviewing results in one week. We hope to use your
feedback, modify the
mockups
linked here, and release updates in August.
Also, if anyone is
interested in taking
the
course, either for-credit or for fun, please provide
your email address on the survey. Registered students earn
credit at UHM, but I can add unregistered students (no
credit) if they're willing to commit. Fully online
participation is planned, though local students may join
web conferences and speakers from on-site.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
McKimmy
On 07/09/2013 09:24 AM, Justin
Riddiough wrote:
Dear SchoolForgers,
Exciting news on the SchoolForge website front!Â
Paul McKimmy contacted us in Mid June via the website
with the following:
"Aloha - I am a university professor at U of
Hawaii-Manoa, preparing a graduate course on F/OSS in
Education as an online course. ÂOne of the assignments
in the class will be to write a review of educational
F/OSS applications that students have tried and tested
in educational settings.
I have a talented web team available to me for the
next 8-10 weeks. ÂWe are talking about building a
similar site, but I wanted to contact the schoolforge
team first to see if collaboration would make better
sense. I am wondering about the possibility of
building new features into
schoolforge.net."
Since then, David Bucknell and Laura (LM) have
discussed with Paul where we are at currently, as well
as efforts and strategies we've worked on in the
past.Â
Paul McKimmy brings a development team that has some
availability over the next weeks to upgrade and bring
some of the features that have been discussed. They
are very eager to connect with the community and get
the ball rolling! I believe they have some resources
to share that show what they have in mind.
With that, I welcome Paul to introduce himself and
share what is in the works!
Thanks,
Justin Riddiough