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Notes from Authoring Summit for Sousa
Sept. 2008, Dearborn, Michgan
Mark (Sousa Ideas)
- Use Fluid in-line editor for titles, descriptions, etc.
- Use defaults initially (Click to Edit Title)
- Allow edits where ever text appears.
- Uses Fluid Reorderer for sequencing elements.
- Use TinyMCE for rich text.
- Consider flow between elements with states:
- break/no break
- align left/right/center
- workflow in Sousa has problems.
- its good to be able to use existing media objects, but ...
- uploading/creating items first is not practical for users.
- need to create new pages with hints on what to do (could be done with templates)
- too many views: select a page (or create), then edit it. That's all. This would require Ajax/REST.
- allow uploads during page edit.
- allow creation during page edit.
- parameters should either override defaults or shift to a page.
- create a drop down box for parameters.
- 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.
- cloning / templating is needed.
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
- 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 Authoring work:
- TinyMCE
- Entity Picker
- A way to create entities
- A way to display the page
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