On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:01:01 +0000, Michael JOHNSON
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>I feel that goodole' jiscmail could facilitate these ably and try to
encourage my students to launch out. Indeed there may be a yahoo! group
doing just that - have you looked ;-) ?
If it was only a matter of messaging then you're right - there are plenty of
general purpose messaging sites that would do fine. Perhaps I should give a
more detailed outline of the sort of thing I'm thinking about....
When part of a Biochemistry department I produced a number of teaching aids
connected with chemistry and metabolism. These have been on open access for
many years and will continue to be. However, on a couple of occasions
material has been plagiarised and edited aparently to adapt it more closely
to the syllabus of a course. For example, I tend to ignore plant
biochemistry and someone copied and edited some pages to adapt it to a plant
biochemistry course.
Part of my plans for these materials is to allow personal annotation (free
of charge) and course specific annotation (for a small fee which will cover
server hosting fees). I will provide a simple mechanism for linking to the
resources from a VLE that will automatically display the appropriate
annotations. This means that although teachers can't edit my text they can
pass any comment they like and relate the materials to a specific course.
(Or translate the technical terms into another language.)
I'm thinking why not include messaging areas where questions relating to
particular resources can be asked and which I currently deal with personally
by Email. I'd like to encourage the teachers who recommend my materials to
answer questions on these boards.
So, I'm wondering whether to go the extra mile and offer more tools which
would allow a teacher to host a whole course module. This could be quick
and easy to create because a lot of the elements would already be there. The
teacher could annotate my resources, add a study guidance forum (private for
the class), a tool to upload essays for marking and some documents on the
assessment rules etc. This is some way in the future because there isn't a
module's worth of materials yet.
Alternatively, the course module could be mainly hosted on the institutional
VLE with links through to the annotated course materials and to the
community communication tools. Shibboleth would ensure that the users can
navigate from one VLE to the other and back again without logging in more
than once.
The web site will be called Terra Vivida (at present there is just a
placeholder page) http://www.terravivida.com/
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