Jon
I tried to mail you off list but got an 'unroutable' error.
Did you know that there's a commercial open source company interested in
offering a hosted Bodington service? If this interests you then get in touch
and I'll give you the details.
Keep well
Adam m
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
| Of Jon M
| Sent: 30 January 2006 22:10
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| Subject: Re: [VLES] Subject Based VLEs?
|
| On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:01:01 +0000, Michael JOHNSON
| <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
|
| >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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