Upload from ReCourse editor

The new version of Reload, ReCourse, now has an upload to the Opendocument.net repository (previously one could discover and download designs, but not store them from the editor).

Peer Review workshop

We attended the Peer review workshop in Bolton today as part of the current round of Toolkits & Demonstrators. We were put into groups and reviewed each others' projects. We reviewed the ResourceBrowser project, who reviewed FROCKLE who reviewed DesignShare. Roy demonstrated the plugin. Got some useful notes from the review. ResourceBrowser looked interesting for us as they were using FOAF to see what friends had liked to in a repository (Delta) but also a user could search by pedagogy and subject, which is just what we were discussing at the meeting in CETIS yesterday (see entry in my LD4P blog).

Alpha version of plug-in

Roy Cherian has produced an alpha version of the Reload plug-in. This goes beyond what we had planned at this stage.

The plug-in connects to the DesignShare openDocument.net server and allows one to searchthe repository from within Reload. A UoL (unit of learning) can be selected and downloaded, whereupon a project is automatically generated within Reload so the UoL can be immediately opened up. Below is a screenshot showing the form in Reload.

Initial project meeting

We had a very useful initial project meeting at CETIS today. Dai Griffiths, Ray Elferink and Phil Beauvoir (for Roy Cherian) attended.

We discussed how the project was going to work, in particular, Ray described the OpenDocument.net architecture and Phil talked about how the plugin to Reload could be developed and linked to the repository.

We're going to start off with a simple browser implementation in Reload that connects to the OpenDocument.net server via its web interface. Then a plugin will be developed that consists of the business logic to connect to the OpenDocument.net API via XML-RPC, and after that a UI in Reload to connect to this. Phil thought it might be good (although beyond the scope of the project) to take the busniess logic out of reload and have it as a service in its own right.

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