Op 10 december 2008 hebben we onze volgende bijeenkomst van de Sakai NL gebruikersgroep. Deze zullen we zeer waarschijnlijk gaan houden in Utrecht, bij SURF Foundation (gemakkelijk te voet bereikbaar vanaf Utrecht CS). De bijeenkomst zal worden gehouden in de middag, van 13-16 uur. Mocht je een interessant verhaal te vertellen over Sakai, horen we dat graag.
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maandag, november 24, 2008
donderdag, november 13, 2008
"Sakai will be the 'Eclipse For Education" (source: IBM)
Een discussie tijdens de 10de SURF Onderwijsdagen bracht de vraag naar boven wat de relatie is tussen IBM en Sakai. Voor een open source ontwikkeling is het interessant als belangrijke spelers (IBM) deze ontwikkelingen steunen. Michael Korcuska schreef op 24 oktober in zijn blog over Sakai en IBM op de laatste Educause conferentie. Ik was niet alleen nieuwsgierig naar wat de Sakai community over hun relatie met IBM schrijft maar juist ook hoe IBM kijkt naar Sakai. In een presentatie van Kevin Turner, IBM Public Sector Education Industry van 9 april van dit jaar staan een aantal duidelijke aanknopingspunten en IBM maakt helder waarom zij Sakai een belangrijke ontwikkeling vinden en daar ook hun steentje aan bij gaan dragen. De uitspraak "Sakai will be the 'Eclipse For Education" (source: IBM) is gedurft en voor mij een reden om even een korte post te wijden aan IBM en Sakai.
dinsdag, november 11, 2008
"The Official Sakai Handbook" is under development
From Michael Korcuska, executive director Sakai Foundation:
I'm extremely pleased to announce that first Sakai book (tentatively untitled "The Official Sakai Handbook") is under development. It will be published next year by John Wiley & Sons (a Sakai Foundation partner institution). The book is the brainchild of Alan Berg, 2008-2009 Sakai Fellow from the University of Amsterdam. I will be a co-author. All royalties from the book will go to the Sakai Foundation. We are working with Wiley to allow educational institutions to use portions of the book without paying royalties. They have been very receptive although specific language is still to be finalized.
Although Alan and I will be listed as authors on the book we are really counting on contributions from the community for much of the content. He and I will be reaching out to the community in the coming weeks and months to solicit content that we can incorporate. We appreciate your help with this exciting development.
I'd like to thank Carol Long from Wiley for her assistance during the proposal development and contracting phase. And, of course, a special thanks to Alan Berg for being the engine behind this effort!
I'm extremely pleased to announce that first Sakai book (tentatively untitled "The Official Sakai Handbook") is under development. It will be published next year by John Wiley & Sons (a Sakai Foundation partner institution). The book is the brainchild of Alan Berg, 2008-2009 Sakai Fellow from the University of Amsterdam. I will be a co-author. All royalties from the book will go to the Sakai Foundation. We are working with Wiley to allow educational institutions to use portions of the book without paying royalties. They have been very receptive although specific language is still to be finalized.
Although Alan and I will be listed as authors on the book we are really counting on contributions from the community for much of the content. He and I will be reaching out to the community in the coming weeks and months to solicit content that we can incorporate. We appreciate your help with this exciting development.
I'd like to thank Carol Long from Wiley for her assistance during the proposal development and contracting phase. And, of course, a special thanks to Alan Berg for being the engine behind this effort!
vrijdag, november 07, 2008
Sakai op Onderwijsdagen 2008
Vorig jaar hadden we een succesvolle pre-conferentie (zie presentaties) op de SURF Onderwijsdagen. Deze keer, op de SURF Onderwijsdagen 2008, doen we het anders. Je kunt ons (Wytze Koopal, Jaeques Koeman en Frank Benneker) ontmoeten bij de Innovatietafels (op de informatiemarkt) op woensdag 12 november rond lunchtijd, vanaf 12.30 uur. Je kunt hier in een informele setting met ons van gedachten wisselen. Aanmelden is niet nodig.... wij zullen er zijn.
donderdag, november 06, 2008
Edia launches Sakai Scorm demo server
Being able to play Scorm content in Sakai is a commonly heard requirement from (potential) Sakai users. Although there have been several efforts to develop a working Scorm player for Sakai, there is still no stable player available as of today.
A team from UC Davis is now developing a SCORM 2004 player for Sakai 2.5. We are strong supporters of this initiative and we decided to help find an fix some issues to get it to work on Sakai 2.5.
At this point we want to announce that we launched a demo server for the SCORM player: http://scormplayer.edia.nl
We would like to to invite people interested in Sakai and Scorm to test their Scorm content packages and if applicable, report issues.
A team from UC Davis is now developing a SCORM 2004 player for Sakai 2.5. We are strong supporters of this initiative and we decided to help find an fix some issues to get it to work on Sakai 2.5.
At this point we want to announce that we launched a demo server for the SCORM player: http://scormplayer.edia.nl
We would like to to invite people interested in Sakai and Scorm to test their Scorm content packages and if applicable, report issues.
Sakai op Holland Open conferentie
Op 18 september gaf Jaeques Koeman een presentatie over Sakai. De presentatie geeft een introductie Sakai en voorbeelden vanuit de use case van de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Daarnaast wordt de Nederlandse community geintroduceerd en worden er enkele ontwikkelingen geschetst.
Bekijk hieronder de presentatie:
Bekijk hieronder de presentatie:
maandag, november 03, 2008
Paris, Hull and Amsterdam collaborating on Sakai and Uportal
Last week several developers from the University of Hull, l'université Pierre et Marie Curie and the University of Amsterdam met in Amsterdam. We discussed our present and future plans with Sakai and Uportal and shared experiences and practices. During the two day meeting several ideas on possible collaboration were discussed. We decided to work together on some small projects on extending Uportal functionality and Uportal - Sakai integration. If we succeed in making these little projects a success it could be the start of something really nice. We hope to show the Uportal and Sakai community the progress of this collaboration in progress in next year conferences.
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