Re: [seul-edu] Link Management System

["David M. Bucknell" <david@members.iteachnet.com>]

These are tremendous contributions, Les. 

*LINKS:
How 'bout a category view for the links a la Yahoo or MyThreads -- you know an
overview?
Also, can you make subcategories?

Your tool has much more functionality, but I have an unused installation of
MyThreads here just for experimentation/ideas: 

http://members.iteachnet.org/links/

It doesn't look great, but that's what I mean by overview.

*CASE STUDIES
Perhaps the same sort of visual overview (as above) would be useful here, too?

Very impressive.

David
I'm talking Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca> said:

> 
> As teachers "collect" sites that can be used to enhance their classes,
> there is a need for a simple approach to entering links and building web
> pages, particularly for the "technologically challenged" segment of the
> teacher population.
> 
> One approach is a simple web based submission form that allows teachers to
> enter a "link" which would include a name, a description, an URI, and
> perhaps a couple of categories on which to classify. One might be a
> teacher's name.
> 
> Once submitted this link could be stored in a file or database for later
> retrieval. 
> 
> A web site could be setup that would then dynamically generate a webpage
> or pages from these stored links in a variety of formats for students (and
> other teachers) consumption.
> 
> This approach eliminates the "lockup" of links that occurs when teachers
> make their own pages, because other teachers will then have to manually
> edit these links into their own pages. As well, once stored in this
> structured format, they can be easily exported or reported upon in a
> format unanticipated at the start.
> 
> Where should this be located?
> 
> This normally would be on the inside of the school LAN and attached to the
> local in-school webserver. All schools should have these in order to allow
> teachers to create websites to direct students to educationally
> appropriate sites. All school workstations would normally load this as the
> home page, rather than any external site (which would be much slower than
> LAN speed).
> 
> And where could such software be found, you ask?
> 
> (Hmmmm....) Well, I've written something similar for educators who are
> promoting the use of Open Source software in Education, including Unix
> software. It is written in a language available on all computers, called
> Perl, and of course I will share it freely.
> 
> It's here:
> 
> http://seuldat.seul.org
> 
> 
> I've also written an indexing system to track computer applications for
> educational use. It is located here: (and is also affiliated with the
> Seul/Edu group)
> 
> http://richtech.ca/seul
> 
> 
> Please contact me if any of this would be useful.
> 
> Les Richardson
> H. Hardcastle School
> Edam, Sk. Canada
> 
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