Educational Content widgetsworkinggroup

Most recent meeting - Widgets Meetup

 * Date: 13 October 2009
 * Location: Upper Hall, University of London Student Union (map and location)

More information available by following this link

About this working group
This working group was formed after the widget session at the JISC - CETIS  2008 conference. In order to get to a position where a variety of useful widgets can be used easily in a variety of teaching and learning environments, the work has divided in two parts:

1) Building a widget infrastructure such that a collaborative widget server is available to anyone in the H/FE sector, which includes developing widget server plug-ins for all major web platforms and making widgets easily discoverable and embedable

2) Determining models of widget use in teaching practice, and decide what widgets need developing

The first stage of the group focused around infrastructure needs based on the W3C and shindig approaches.

Mailing list
If you would like to be added to the group mailing list, please email [mailto:s.macneill@strath.ac.uk Sheila MacNeill]

Links
General
 * Wookie accepted into Apache incubator blog post by Scott Wilson
 * Wookie/Moodle Wave - what's next blog post by Scott Wilson
 * Using "Moodle Wave" live demo blog post by Scott Wilson
 * "Talk About Widgets" Google Group Group setup by Palette collaborative widgets project, but has broader usefulness
 * Wilbert's usecase diagrams and architecture sketches [[Media:WidgetArchSketch.pdf]]
 * Sheila's introductory slides [[Media:Widgetsintro_28Jan09.ppt]]
 * Outline of widget developer guide

Sakai 3
 * Overview, feature list, links to latest code and more for the widget work on Sakai 3

Wookie
 * Downloads, source code and bug reports of Wookie server
 * Getting started creating widgets for wookie - David Sherlock, blog post

Last meeting

 * Date:23rd March, EICC Edinburgh
 * Venue: EICC, Edinburgh (Directions and other relevant information)
 * Time: 1.30pm - 4.30pm

Agenda: The meeting discussed progress made since the first meeting. In particular the developments in integrating shindig into the wookie server by Scott Wilson and the team at the University of Bolton. More information is available from Scott's blog

First meeting, 28 January 2009 (University of Bolton)

 * Sheila's blog post of the meeting
 * Li's thoughts on widgets and OER

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