Fluid and free form portfolio

[John Norman]

Sean et al

During the Sakai conference it became apparent to me that we are on  
the verge of being able to offer a different sort of Sakai  
experience. I would like to outline the concept and see if it  
resonates with your requirements.

I would like to take advantage of Sakai services in the mode  
discussed at the pre-conference planning meeting as 'helper tools'.  
The services would provide functional fragments into pages with  
appropriate permissions for appropriate roles.

There would be a page composition tool based on the concepts of the  
drag and drop reorderer/lightbox tool being developed as part of Fluid.

One set of pages would be about the individual student or academic  
and would certainly include 'professional profile' as a primary  
communication goal.

Another set of pages could be student portfolios - in the sense of  
portfolio as a tool of educational development - in which the student  
composes a series of pages, or page collections, that are shared with  
different audiences

Another set of pages would be the course sequence; expressed in terms  
of time, course themes or other organisations of knowledge/work. In  
this set of pages, assignments would be embedded in the page and  
reveal information about the status of the assignment (how many  
submitted/graded for the instructor, countdown to submission date or  
number of peers submitting for the student)

Another set of pages would be for the research group, expressing and  
tracking the data collection workflow, measuring dissemination  
(connected to individual profiles), etc.

And another set of pages would be for the club or society - shared  
widely with the institution or general public.

The page sets would be conceptually similar to web sites and the  
current Sakai sites, but would be much better at offering flexible  
access to different audience groups.

I'm still trying to work the idea up, but have been tipped into  
revealing my thoughts by this post and Jim Eng's, which I think  
contains similar thinking...

John

On 9 Dec 2007, at 07:38, Sean Keesler wrote:

> I sat on the sidelines of Fluid during the last 6 months. I'd like  
> to start
> a project to revitalize the "free form" portfolio...the most simple  
> type of
> OSP portfolio. I'm happy to announce that the we (the OSP  
> functional team)
> have approved a process going forward that would put use cases and  
> design
> ahead of development.
>
>> From what I saw of the components in the Fluid presentations at the
> conference, I am sure that there is overlap ("click to edit" for  
> example
> would be huge in a portfolio). So, I'd like to volunteer a lot of  
> my time to
> be involved, but I am not a developer. I hope to coordinate some  
> resources
> across the community to bring to bear on the serious pain point in  
> OSP.
>
> I know that I can't just jump into the Fluid calls and start  
> hijacking the
> agenda. What is the best way for me to start working with Fluid to  
> get done
> what I want to get done? My guess is that just following the  
> instructions in
> the toolkit will not be sufficient.
>
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