<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all">Saludos, <br>Pablo Flores<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Tarun Pondicherry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tarunpondicherry@gmail.com">tarunpondicherry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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*Creating a new blog<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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* The login page isn't in spanish<br>
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The UI can be switched to Spanish easily, this will be done in the next update after we get abiword working.</blockquote><div>Great! <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* I'm not sure how to manage users with EduBlog.... I think we<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
should start a wiki page to start documenting (and discussing<br>
it). Volunteers? :-)<br>
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I'm not sure the best way either. There are many many options. I thought the easiest is to just do a bulk upload of all the students. We can also allow students to register themselves or an admin to enter all of them. Comments on which would be best would be really helpful. Students also should only have to login once.</blockquote>
<div>Yes, maybe the best way is making a registration form. Once the child is registered, it shouldn't be asked the user/password everytime, it should stay registered in the laptop. <br>One important feature would be letting children use different registration systems, like OpenId... Having many user/password is very confusing for children and even more for teachers!<br>
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* In the "Adding a new OU blog" form, I can't access the "Manage<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
Remote Blogs" button, it takes me to a page that says "Sorry,<br>
but you do not currently have permissions to do that<br>
([[oublog:manageremoteblogs]]) More information about this error<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<<a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/error/moodle/nopermissions" target="_blank">http://docs.moodle.org/en/error/moodle/nopermissions</a>>". *<br>
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I will look into this, but you need teacher not student login. If you are logged in as student, you would have to logout.</blockquote><div>It doesn't work logged in as teacher. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Do teacher's and students share the same machine?</blockquote><div>Let's assume that teacher do their managing tasks (creating blogs, etc.) from their own laptops. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* It would be better if some options could be hidden, like "Common<br>
module settings".<br>
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This will be done in the next update. There is button to show all the advanced options at the bottom if needed.</blockquote><div>Ok. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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*New blog post*<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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* From the moodle interface, I couldn't upload any picture. I<br>
could use the other interface<br>
(<a href="http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/editpost.php?blog=2" target="_blank">http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/mod/oublog/editpost.php?blog=2</a>),<br>
but with this one I cannot select the blog to post to. *<br>
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For this demo, there was only one blog. The jump to link at the top right was to be used to select other blogs. Perhaps it should be repositioned?</blockquote><div>Mmmh... students should select the blog in which they'll be working before starting to write the post... otherwise could lead to a lot of confussion in the class... <br>
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* I tried to upload a Write document, but I couldn't from any of<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
the interfaces (am I doing right? I tried to upload the file as<br>
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Not implemented yet, hopefully this will work after we get abiword on the server.</blockquote><div>Ok. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I also would like to summarize some points of how the daily work would be. Let's see...<br>
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* First of all, the teacher will have to get a user and password<br>
for the system.<br>
* The teacher creates a new blog using the interface<br>
<a href="http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=2&section=0&return=0" target="_blank">http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=2&section=0&return=0</a><br>
<<a href="http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=2&section=0&return=0" target="_blank">http://edublog.venango.org/test/EduBlog/moodle/course/modedit.php?add=oublog&type=&course=2&section=0&return=0</a>><br>
* All of her children have to get a user and password.<br>
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Yes, and it will be saved on the XO so only needs to be entered one time.</blockquote><div>Ok! <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* Then, the teacher can propose some work to be done, for which<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
children will have to make their posts to the blog. To do so,<br>
children will have to access to the blog page (the moodle one),<br>
and click on "New blog post".<br>
* As children submit their posts, the teacher will be able to see<br>
them in the blog page. Children will only see their own posts<br>
and the ones already approved by the teacher. Question: How can<br>
a child know if his post was approved?<br>
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Hm, I did not think of this. We could automatically post a comment locally. What would you suggest? I'm not sure how teachers and students communicate on the XO.</blockquote><div>We discussed this issue time ago with some friends of a graphics design company that was studying how children interfaces should be. The conclusion we arrived to is that the best would be to remark the state of the post graphically on the blog. For instance, keeping in gray the posts that are still not approved. I don't know if it can be implemented easily.<br>
Teachers could also use the comments form to give feedback, although the most common way would be the straight talk in the class...<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* The approved posts will go public, depending on the<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
configuration: If there is a remote blog configured (blogspot<br>
for instance), they will appear there. If it's local only, it<br>
will be seen by others, depending on the visibility<br>
configuration of the blog.<br>
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All agree with this?<br>
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That looks to be all in accordance with what we are trying to implement.</blockquote><div>Hahaha, ok!<br><br>I think the biggest problem we're facing at the moment, to let some teachers test thoughtfully the application is that we should allow them to post entries to their own blog, being able to upload pictures on them... which is not possible at the moment. As soon as we solve this (allowing pictures uploading from the moodle interface?), we will be able to get more feedback from teachers.<br>
<br>One question: I'm working on the new home page for the blog, <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog</a>, isn't there any problem in putting the passwords there for the moment?<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Pablo<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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Thanks a lot for your input.<br><font color="#888888">
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