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Notes from Authoring Summit for Sousa

Sept. 2008, Dearborn, Michgan

Mark (Sousa Ideas)

  • workflow in Sousa has problems.
  • its good to be able to use existing media objejcts, but ...
  • also need to make them as needed.
  • parameters should either override defaults or shift to a page.
  • search to find things with tagging and metadata
  • extend the URL object to include other Sousa pages. (page navigation)
  • bounding boxes could have many styles: thick/thin lines, dashed, dotted, colored, etc.

CARET

  • GoogleDocs in Sakai (Githens, etc.)
  • three levels (John)
    • create/import
    • add active areas
    • orchestrating behavior of active areas (workflow, etc.)

Nico's work at CARET

  • page view, dash view, tool view.
  • page comment widget
  • YouTube widgets
  • this page is a top level page, or not (top pages show up in a menu)

Templating is important, but at what level?

  • whole page patterns
  • element patterns (pictures with captions, for example)

NYU

  • faculty wants simple access to media
  • simple page assembly.
  • managing permissions is important.
  • collaborative authoring

Fluid

  • In-line editor is simple to include, but very limited.
  • Reorderer is much faster, very pretty.
  • Uploader might eliminate the messy RSF menus.
  • Uploader also allows adding elements during edit (rather than before).
  • Uploader is flash based and requires Gears plugin.

Key Authoring Concepts

  • Templating
    • Document
    • Elements
    • Organization
    • Quick/Start seeding of content (instructional, defaulting, etc)
  • Page Layout
  • Navigation
  • Styling
  • Object Linking and Embedding, Creation
    • Sakai
    • Outside
    • Widgets
    • Control Parameters
  • Sectioning
  • Cut/Copy/Paste/Import/Export
    • Standards
  • Composition: editing, text entry
  • Selection: lists, seach, tagging (semantic, free form)
  • Undo, redo, revisions
  • localization support, multi-language support
  • accessibility
  • Metadata (Copyright clearance, tagging, etc)
  • Annotation
  • Access control / sharing
  • Upload / Download
  • WYSIWYG, previewing, view as student
  • Workflow and moderation

Proposed:

  • TinyMCE
  • Entity Picker
  • A way to create entities
  • A way to display the page
  • No labels