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- Teaching and Learning (T&L) Group.
**o Design Lenses meeting last week, Lynn demoed prototype for OAE (set of html pages and jpg images that you can click through to see what a work flow through a particular proposed functionality, fully developed design, gives you an idea of what a feature would look like if it were implemented, just a set of static html pages) regarding structured feedback designs, specifically for annotations; included: collections(organize content created by self and/or other users, including content on the internet, collections can be shared, much like Google collections, the same item can be in multiple collections)
+ Next meeting not yet scheduled.
o Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) committee forming; Janice is on committee. - Portfolio Visioning.
o Portfolio Visioning for Sakai OAE.
+ Next meeting November 22, 2011, 4:00-5:00 PM EST, Lynn will demo the prototype for OAE (see above description in Design Lenses meeting info).
+ Nikko is mediating between the URG and the Design team, understands fully the capabilities of the presentation level of OAE, not actually doing the designs, meets regularly with the URG
+ Will be looking at what exists, what can be tweaked, info regarding feedback from URG.
o Portfolio Reports. – no additional information at this time.
o Portfolio Minispecs.-- no additional information at this time.
+ Next meeting, December 13, 2011, 4:00-5:00 PM EST – hoping to have feedback from the URG members. - OSP Help
o Update sakai.properties documentation.
o Accessing 2.6 Help
+ Help for 2.6 complete, turned over for final approval, then Janice will look at what needs to be done
o Completing 2.8 Help - Robin Hill working on 2.8
o Planning for 2.9 Help - Upgrading OSP pages on the Sakai Project website .
o Enhanced content and links to tool description and resources needed.
+ Would like examples of Presentation portfolios to share w/permission.
o Link to OSP Community Directory - Consider deprecating, removing from default settings, and/or removing from the tool list in the site.template.portfolio realm the Wizard tool.
o Wizards tool.
+ UD & UM not using; Rutgers using, but probably personalized; rSmart has it available; may be too late for 2.9, perhaps for 2.10
+ If turned off, would not be tested and could become significantly broken; those using could be doing Q/A testing w/o significant development commitment.
o Consider making the default state of the Design Your Own Portfolio function hidden.
+ can be turned off, would also mean portfolio layouts would be turned off too; community agreed to move forward on this - will take to list.
+ make sure that there is Help available to assist people in turning features back on. - Back burner items for future discussion – no additional information at this time.
o Recruiting OSP resources for QA or other activities.
o Planning for Sakai 2012 Conference. (Find or make OSP Community banner for Tech Demo.)
o Discussion of ways to alert Sakai Foundation leaders of the need to persuade Sakai (portfolio-using) institutions to put more funding into java developers working with OSP.
o Response to Ian Dolphin's request for feedback from the OSP Community
o Possible occasional discussion of implementation, performance, and teaching and learning issues at our various institutions
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