Hi Walter, I lost the context of your comment. I assume you are talking about the request for a workflow that passes the edit focus from one kid to the next to the teacher. Let me know if this doesn't answer your question.
We did evaluate the Journalism activity. You can see early Edublog ideas on the talk page at that URL which were put there after an exchange with some Journalism people. The original idea for the project came from Pablo who envisioned it as part of the journalism project. He wrote a Knights Challenge document which is available at the link "Original requirements definition: Blogs Knight Challenge" from: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Blog_Educativo_Plan_del_Proyecto When I noted that they are already blogging from Uruguay (e.g. http://cardal-ceibal.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-10-25T09%3A47%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7) and asked why that or Wikis aren't sufficient. He mentioned these things: * The need for good connectivity * Children getting confused with some options * The number of steps involved in creating a post * Difficulty in collaborating on a post * Difficulty with monitoring and viewing posts before being published from: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project#Problems_with_Current_Blogging_Systems (Spanish original with more detail at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Blog_Educativo#Desaf.C3.ADos_para_un_sistema_educativo_de_blogging) So it was clear that we wanted to make blogging easier and include the ability of the teacher to review before posting. We evaluated Drupal, Moodle, Wikis, Wordpress and other options. None quite fit or it would take to long to implement modify them for our purposes and we weren't sure of good community support. So we decided to create a simple web interface with some basic teacher review options. Add to that end APIs that post to many tools, starting with Moodle and blogger.com and you have EduBlog! In the end it was easier to create the "simple" front end inside Moodle as we knew we would get great support from Martin :-) The details of the work flow for multiple editors and review cycles is not done yet. I'm not sure if that will happen w/XO and collaboration or if we are close enough or if we need to build a more complete workflow into EduBlog in the future. That's all tbd. For now I hope we solve 4 out of 5 of the top problems mentioned and maybe we can solve the collaborating on post problem too, depending on what the beta test results. The other goals of the project are: - See what it takes to build an educational/XO specific web app that runs on the XS - See if we could build a relationship between real teachers and volunteer programmers by addressing specific requests from the teachers - See what we can learn from running a bi-lingual and bi-cultural (in many senses) project HTHs. There's more history and background at the links of above if you dig deep enough. Thanks, Greg S Walter Bender wrote: > Maybe I am missing some subtly here, but isn't the functionality you > are describing just as readily accomplished with a wiki? Also, in case > you haven't seen it, I recommend Jack Driscoll's discussion in the > OLPC wiki on journalism > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Learning_activities/Journalism). Most of it > is applicable to any public writing exercise and is generally agnostic > about the details of the tool itself. The important thing is to have a > structure that affords editing: peer-to-peer and teacher-to-student > (editor-to-journalist). > > -walter > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel