Planning and Reporting

Date & Location

When: Wednesday July 5- Friday July 7, 2006

Where: New York City, New York, USA

Exact Location: 523 Butler Library, 535 west 114th, Between Amsterdam and Broadway (google map, campus map)

Directions: Take the 1/9 local (not the 2/3 express) to 116th st. and Broadway. Once you enter the university campus, Butler library is on your right. It is the largest, southern-most building on campus. The one with all the dead white males engraved in stone on its facade. (picture of butler library)

Accomodations: Here are a few hotel suggestions, but you really may do better in the wild:
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/abouttc/visit.htm?id=Hotels
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bahai/hotel.html

Hosted by: Columbia University's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning

Mailing List: sprints@lists.plone.org

About

Many educational goals can be enriched with the help of a good CMS. Plone has served CCNMTL well on a number of projects, including a multimedia case constructor, a journalism school online newspaper, a portfolio system for a dept at the dental school, and an web-enviroment for clipping and taking notes on video.

Recurring themes in educational technology are the use of multimedia assets, annotations (of canonical text, images, audio, and video), and balancing and tuning the workflow between students, faculty, and beyond.

At this sprint we hope to advance and integrate some of the technologies that are becoming more and more important to educational technology, including rss, podcasting, annotations, tagging, discussion boards, blogging, and more. These kinds of features overlap with what is described as Web 2.0, whose effectiveness we are actively exploring in educational contexts.

In many respects, the classroom is representative of a variety of deployment scenarios, and the communication challenges encountered there are similar to ones found within organizations, between organizations and their constituents, between corporations and their customers, and between governments and their citizens.

Topics

• Folksonomic tagging: CCNMTL, OpenPlans, Abstract Edge, Jazkarta , and EngageMedia, have all expressed strong interest in a zope3 style tagging solution, and this will definitely be worked on at the sprint.
  
• User contributed content annotations - one way of thinking about tagging is in the larger context of user annotations
• improved inbound rss syndication
• pod/vod-casting
• video clipping
• large file handling
• Plone video player
• Content Licensing Solution
• Improved user experience w/ Plone-based blogging solutions
  

Participants

• Please see the participants page in our OpenPlans project.