{"id":119,"date":"2008-06-10T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-06-10T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:11:09","slug":"project-zephyr-letting-students-weave-their-own-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/project-zephyr-letting-students-weave-their-own-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Zephyr: Letting Students Weave their own Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation from Ian Corns from Talis.<\/p>\n<p>Lecturers want to teach differently, students are learning differently. Students are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use to multimedia environment\n<li>always connected\n<li>work in groups\n<li>&#8230; insert your &#8216;millenial&#8217; attributes here etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Talis has\/had a &#8216;reading list&#8217; application called &#8216;Talis List&#8217;. However, realised it wasn&#8217;t falling short in some areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Didn&#8217;t embrace richness of &#8216;resources&#8217; rather than more traditional &#8216;book&#8217; list\n<li>Didn&#8217;t offer value to lecturers &#8211; they saw it as a &#8216;library&#8217; app, not offering them benefit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Decided to develop new approach which addressed value to lecturer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Needed to be easier to author list in the system, than in Word or usual authoring tool\n<li>Offer ability to embed the list into any (web) environment.\n<li>Improve quality of lists &#8211; feedback based on usage (what resources used, in what assignments etc.)\n<li>Feedback directly from students\n<li>Start to see connections between lists within and between institutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From a data point of view, by compiling a set of resources into a list for a specific module, the &#8216;expert&#8217; is adding implicit information to the resources.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ian showing some screenshots. Talking about the power of the system built on flexible platform &#8211; e.g. can say &#8216;show all key resources from all my courses for the next 2 weeks&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Hard to capture screenshots here &#8211; there is stuff at <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.talis.com\/list\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.talis.com\/list\/\">http:\/\/blogs.talis.com\/list\/<\/a> &#8211; there are some demos and screens etc. here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d197e822-5372-4e83-9957-38832307d34c\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/xiphos\" rel=\"tag\">xiphos<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This presentation from Ian Corns from Talis. Lecturers want to teach differently, students are learning differently. Students are: use to multimedia environment always connected work in groups &#8230; insert your &#8216;millenial&#8217; attributes here etc. Talis has\/had a &#8216;reading list&#8217; application called &#8216;Talis List&#8217;. However, realised it wasn&#8217;t falling short in some areas: Didn&#8217;t embrace richness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-xiphos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}