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Here's an alternative name: LTD Teaching Resources. Can people think of something catchier?

Learning about Learning Tech Design... L2TD that's fun. I like it.

I'm not sure about the superscript though... Superscript makes me want to say "Squared." I'd suggest either all inline (like above) or subscripted... H2o is written subscripted and pronounced 2. But Subscripting tends to be more reminiscent of chemistry and not computer science.

On Jan 26, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Chris DiGiano wrote:

Still searching for a catchy name for our nascent community...

How about
L2TD Resources (with the 2 superscripted)
Instructional Resources for Courses on Learning about Learning Technology Design

Still a mouthful, but maybe better than before?

Chris

Anders just suggested...

I like L2TD. I also like LDLT - "Learning to Design Learning Technologies". Doesn't have the cool superscript, but to me it rolls off the tongue closer to "R2D2"...

I like it! Chris replied he liked it too. So is that what we are now?

Anders and I had a conversation on 1/23 and here are the notes from it. Judi is writing the notes as she remembers the conversation... If she puts words in Anders's mouth she apologizes.

We're not sure about how or if using the SRI Implementation of Confluence will work for a community. We're concerned that SRI won't allow outsiders to log in, or if they do, how we would be able to create accounts for each person that wants to log in. We're concerned about the overhead that it will take for both the perspective member and for the Trails staff to create and manage the accounts in Confluence.

(Some specific questions / issues we discussed were about Permissions for members (not give them the ability to delete, but give them the ability to add), And if there is any way for people to be anonymous and see the community without being a "member.")

Anders and I had a side conversation about Tapped In and the capabilities it has and the capabilities already built into it for managing members, groups and etc. If Trails used Tapped In, my feeling is that Trails would want to become a tenant (I'm not sure what Mark's best deal is for CTL projects, but I'm sure he'd be willing to talk and make a deal.)

If we do use Confluence, we need to look at Templates that are available for uploading documents to the site so that members of the Trails community can upload things more easily. We do need to decide what technology will be used so that we can get things going.

Anders and I also discussed what kinds of things Trails members would potentially be doing in the LDLT community...

I think there are different potential activities...

People can come to the community to

Find an article
Find other materials (syllabus)
Post an article
Post another piece of material (syllabus)
Find a reference piece on the web (e.g., a link to a syllabus and course space for a course)
Post their own links

Find other colleagues who are doing similar things
Find a colleague to help them learn how to do LDLT activities (sort of in the ZPD tradition finding someone a little bit more experienced than you to help you learn the activities and provide scaffolding for you as you begin)

Because of the last two it's important to have a way for members to find each other (in my opinion)
I really like this page (https://www.sri.com:1800/display/org654/Instant+Messenger+Names) and the ability to launch an IM from Confluence. (Alex Reppening didn't think that many CS profs used IM though and wasn't sure if this would be that valuable.)

I could see a great deal of value for Trails community to provide contacts to others and use something like the Confluence tool or even just a directory of email addresses (or special email addresses for people to contact others through if people were leery of leaving their personal addresses).

In addition to a "directory" of links (email or IM) there is also the Discussion Board for people to communicate through so posting and reading the Discussion Board is another activity that people will be doing in the Trails Community.

(I'm not sure whether this should be a comment where I'm posting it or if it should go up in the body of this page)

Anders has been charged to run a little contest. Other TRAILS folks at SRI were concerned that LDLT was too similar to other acronyms, e.g. Stanford has a related LDT masters program and a LSTD Ph.D.) For this reason, I myself am coming back around to L2TD.

Judi and Anders Meeting - 2-16-06

Tapped in "group room" might be a solution, free - but not an optimal solution. Neither TappedIn nor confluence at this point will do everything we need, but if we have a registration work around in confluence then confluence should work pretty well for the time being. Not sure how well it will scale if we have 100+ or 1000+ users.Seems like the SRI implementation of confluence has most of what we need.

We like the idea of having an outside webpage that has some static headers, registration page, etc., and also have some "live" content that has been tapped from our confluence space. We could have some summary stats ("we have 94 people" and "in the past week 23 new articles were posted") give a sense of lots of activity.

Ask Mark - if we have an outside space with live content, can attachments show up too? Maybe abstracts are good enough - teasers to pull people in. Not sure on this one, if it is even desirable to provide attachments. Like NY Times - you have to register before reading full articles.

How do we deal with someone who posts content being notified.

Do we want to have a membership roster page somewhere in the site. Inform people that their info will be available (email, IM) to other users in the space.

Anders and I spoke today (2/16/05)

Some of our notes:

Confluence can be our start. Not a perfect solution, but we can figure out how to make it less kludgey. (Word of the day = Kludge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge)

We may want to talk to Mark Chung and have him pull some of the content from Confluence and make web pages from it as a demo site for the community. This way we can put pretty headers directing them to apply for a guest account... (There will be a wait process in the account application, but Anders and I think it's okay.)

Questions for Mark
-Are the articles/any kind of attachment available for download if we pull things from Confluence?
-As long as we decent abstracts it's not necessary and is it even desirable to have the full deal on the web site

Anders will look to see if there are macros or things in Confluence Technology for watching pages and contacting people who have uploaded an article and then notifiying them when people post a comment

Membership page pulled from Confluence, will just be a teaser on our web site and will just have summary stats about the L2TD Community.

What are we doing for the conference?
Is Gucci going?
What's on the poster?
What are we doing for the community?

Friday Meeting 2/24 around lunchtime I will try to be there for a few hours.
Content party... Saturday We don't know if I'm necessary.

Anders might make each person a page (or just have them do it in word)... They fill it out at the meeting and then we clean it up and reformat in the system.

What is happening with Trails site (http://trails-project.org/) and the resources e.g., http://trails-project.org/activities.html, http://trails-project.org/reading.html?

We need to hear from Chris D. about this.

We need to pull some of the resources off of these pages and put it into Confluence. But does it also sstay on the original Trails web site?

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