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In the coming months, I hope to finish the book and back to automating processes.
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- Development of SiteStats 2.0: a lot of changes have been made to accomplish what instructors typically desire. Most desired features are now available from start page and a lot of new features have been added. This have been the main goal over the last months;
- Participation on Sakai the community, as time permits:
- Reporting of new bugs
- Fixes/patches for existing bugs
- Localization of 2.6.x
- QA 2.6.x (as possible)
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Current Activities:
- Branch Manager for 2-6-x; includes involvement in the 2-6-x release process (including calls and discussions.)
- Branch Manager for 1.0.x kernel and component owner for K1 components.
- Hosted Anthony Whyte on his visit to South Africa (he stayed in my house.)
Currently starting a project to port the polls services and tools to K2. The aim is to be a public "first user" and blog the experience so that the community can get more information on what is involved in the move. The project will be blogged at http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/daves-blog (syndicated on planet sakai) and already the first post is up:
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/daves-blog/2009/04/04/paddling-in-k2-pool-part-1-preparation. Completion to some extent depends on the speed at which the K2 project matures.
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The past year has been challenging in terms of budgets and system integration schedules in Sakai. OHSU has integrated webconferencing and iTunes U with Sakai. Our work on a federated digital repository has been waylaid, and our work on Portfolios is still in trial. Consequently, my primary focus has been documenting the implementation of pedagogy within the Sakai environment, assessing course materials and faculty performance, and challenging faculty to look at alternatives to their current teaching strategies.
Specifically I have accomplished the following:
- Last year I was an integral part of developing the Rubric used in the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award self-evaluation process. I have also encouraged other institutions to use this as a way to evaluate good course design on their campuses. We have incorporated that rubric as a formative evaluation tool for exemplar courses at OHSU.
- I have also been part of a team of nursing faculty who developed a literature review document on teaching and learning best practices in nursing, including extensive sections on Distance Education, Collaborative Learning, and Deep Learning. This document is in the process of publication with national distribution options.
- I presented at and participated in the Virginia Tech Conference focusing on pedagogical practices in the Sakai Community.
- I have been evaluating and revising my past pedagogical work, as well as creating quick handouts for faculty in table format to assist them in making determinations around pedagogical strategies and types of technology to incorporate in their online learning courses. These are linked below and shared through the OpenEd Practices site.
As other resources become available, I will post them to the OpenEd Practices site.
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Current activities:
Tackled a number of development tasks in the Sakai code:
- Improved Search service by upgrading to a newer version of Lucene (2.2), updating a number of content digester and addressing some scaleability issues. Work is ongoing.
- Helped to improve the Chat tool by fixing a number of reliability issues, and reviewing and committing code contributions. Currently doing some further work on Chat aimed at eliminating internal tool iframes, and implementing some entitybroker support.
- Fixed some issues in the code base which were holding up the 2-6-x release, including completing work and testing delayed event notification.
Advocacy work has included:
- Organized Sakai South Africa workshops in March 2009, to discuss future directions focusing on Sakai 3, and joint work amongst Sakai SA institutions.
- Presented Sakai to an e-learning workshop at SITA (the State IT Agency) in December 2008.
If time permits, I plan to pursue a JMS implementation of the events service in the 2.x (K1) code base, building on previous work by Thomas Amsler and Aaron Zeckoski.
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