Comments on: DART: Organizational Interface with Future VLE? http://teachers4schools.com/open/2006/06/dart-organizational-interface-with-future-vle/ Open Content :: Open Systems Thinking :: Open Source Thu, 17 May 2012 00:23:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: debt forgiveness http://teachers4schools.com/open/2006/06/dart-organizational-interface-with-future-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-114445 debt forgiveness Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:05:18 +0000 http://teachers4schools.com/open/?p=6#comment-114445 Excellent blog post. I was checking constantly this blog and I'm amazed! Extremely helpful information particularly the last part :) I care for such info a lot. I was looking for this certain info for a very long time. Thank you and good luck, debt forgiveness Excellent blog post. I was checking constantly this blog and I’m amazed! Extremely helpful information particularly the last part :) I care for such info a lot. I was looking for this certain info for a very long time. Thank you and good luck, debt forgiveness

]]> By: The Education Bazaar » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 Content in the Typical Classroom? http://teachers4schools.com/open/2006/06/dart-organizational-interface-with-future-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-125 The Education Bazaar » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 Content in the Typical Classroom? Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:07:44 +0000 http://teachers4schools.com/open/?p=6#comment-125 [...] The current buzz in my own little world is now revolving around the idea of “Personalized Learning Environments”, or PLE’s, which small technologies can now support. For examlpe, the online learning system Moodle is now working with a budding PLE called Elgg, and also with an ePortolio block. My school district is developing DART to help track individual and group progress toward standards, and to play nicely with these other systems. See my recent rant for more detail. [...] [...] The current buzz in my own little world is now revolving around the idea of “Personalized Learning Environments”, or PLE’s, which small technologies can now support. For examlpe, the online learning system Moodle is now working with a budding PLE called Elgg, and also with an ePortolio block. My school district is developing DART to help track individual and group progress toward standards, and to play nicely with these other systems. See my recent rant for more detail. [...]

]]> By: Tuttle SVC » Blog Archive » Turning SIF On Its Head with TinyZIS http://teachers4schools.com/open/2006/06/dart-organizational-interface-with-future-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Tuttle SVC » Blog Archive » Turning SIF On Its Head with TinyZIS Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:17:49 +0000 http://teachers4schools.com/open/?p=6#comment-6 [...] The Education Bazaar — What we need to do now if focus on getting DART to “talk” with Moodle and Elgg ” [...] [...] The Education Bazaar — What we need to do now if focus on getting DART to “talk” with Moodle and Elgg ” [...]

]]> By: Damon Hargraves http://teachers4schools.com/open/2006/06/dart-organizational-interface-with-future-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Damon Hargraves Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:30:35 +0000 http://teachers4schools.com/open/?p=6#comment-5 I was happy to stumble upon this blog entry and I found it informative. I am a teacher in BSSD and I'll have to say that we are extremely excited about this new DART application. Cheers! I was happy to stumble upon this blog entry and I found it informative. I am a teacher in BSSD and I’ll have to say that we are extremely excited about this new DART application.

Cheers!

]]> By: Tom Hoffman http://teachers4schools.com/open/2006/06/dart-organizational-interface-with-future-vle/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Tom Hoffman Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:36:34 +0000 http://teachers4schools.com/open/?p=6#comment-2 Very exciting news! I worked in a similar vein using an all-RDF system about three years ago, but then the grant I was working under ended, my job went away, and nobody else on the planet seemed to have the slightest idea of what I was talking about, so that project died. It did lead to me managing SchoolTool, which is an open source administrative framework for schools, funded by The Shuttleworth Foundation. We're focusing on more traditional school structures, although I'm trying to keep the flexibility in there for more learner-centered approaches in the future. Some career/technical schools in Virginia have put together a competency-tracking application for SchoolTool called CanDo http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us/cando/index.htm which has worked well for them, although it is more simple and course-based than it seems your work is. I agree that we're getting to the point where interoperability of these tools is the next step. Matt Jezorek and I have started doing some coding on open source tools for SIF interoperability over at http://sifsoft.com SIF is an existing, widely implemented standard that works, and it will be a great way to integrate open source apps if we can get the tools together. Otherwise I'm afraid we're going to end up with an n^2 where every app has its own API. Also, you should consider using a free software license for the software rather than a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses aren't designed for software, and there is no reason not to use a software license for software. Very exciting news! I worked in a similar vein using an all-RDF system about three years ago, but then the grant I was working under ended, my job went away, and nobody else on the planet seemed to have the slightest idea of what I was talking about, so that project died. It did lead to me managing SchoolTool, which is an open source administrative framework for schools, funded by The Shuttleworth Foundation. We’re focusing on more traditional school structures, although I’m trying to keep the flexibility in there for more learner-centered approaches in the future. Some career/technical schools in Virginia have put together a competency-tracking application for SchoolTool called CanDo http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us/cando/index.htm which has worked well for them, although it is more simple and course-based than it seems your work is.

I agree that we’re getting to the point where interoperability of these tools is the next step. Matt Jezorek and I have started doing some coding on open source tools for SIF interoperability over at http://sifsoft.com SIF is an existing, widely implemented standard that works, and it will be a great way to integrate open source apps if we can get the tools together. Otherwise I’m afraid we’re going to end up with an n^2 where every app has its own API.

Also, you should consider using a free software license for the software rather than a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses aren’t designed for software, and there is no reason not to use a software license for software.

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