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Lois Delcambre is talking about the new ensemble portal and the CS1 project being motivated by the CSTA. There is an intellectual debate about what you should use to introduce people to computer science. Their community site is intended to promote discussion. The site uses drupal as a platform. They have added their own content types: textbook post, software/other resources, language post, syllabus, teaching strategy. I wonder the value of this over just allowing users to tag content. She also talks about their subdocument tracking project using fine-grained pieces of digital content. Their overlay approach that allows you to select content from multiple resources, copy it into a workspace where you can adapt it, keeping track of where the content came from. Their tools for extracting their resource are prototype plugins for Microsoft Word and Open Office. When you copy content, a link to where it came from is preserved.I shared with her some of my similar work in Send2Wiki and the eNLVM. Send2Wiki allows you to copy content into a wiki with a single click, while preserving credit and licensing. The eNLVM lets you annotate interactive web resources with your own instructions and questions. Boots Cassel says they are calling their project a distributed portal – many places that take you to lots of places.

Jim Jenkins asks about how attribution and copyright works when you copy resources from one system to another. In Send2Wiki we address this by embedding it in the database. In eNLVM we track the source and attribute it in a status bar along the bottom.

Posted on November 18th, 2009 by joel
Filed under: authoring tools, conferences