Re: [Fle3-dev] Course announcement: functional dummy

[Teemu Leinonen]

Michel Isac Metzger wrote:
> Hummm... (sorry, back in this thread) what-if blogs
> became the Fle3 desktop? In this case Fle3 do the core
> functions (knowledge building and jamming) and blogs
> mediate the inside-outside course. 

This sounds interesting idea but this is not the need we try to meet 
with the course announcement -feature. The need to have the course 
announcement page is very simple: once in a while teacher(s) need one 
way "broadcasting" medium to guide student (announcements, ToDo, events).

However, the possibility to mediate the inside-outside flow of the ideas 
and artefacts generated in knowledge building and jamming is very 
interesting idea.

Should we think about some kind of "library" in which the users of Fle3 
could add the results of their work made inside Fle3? When the content 
would be put to the library, they would be freely available to anyone 
interested in.

For instance, when creating the knowledge type sets one could define 
that when the note is some specific type (e.g. summary), the note will 
be automatically made "public" in the library of the site.

> Artifacts in
> construction are inside fle and mature artifacts are
> outside (in this case blogs became students
> eportfolios, see more:
> http://www.electronicportfolios.org)

Hmm.. I think the electronic portfolio is already one way include to the 
Fle3. It is not obvious, but actually one may use some folder of the 
WebTop as a portfolio and add there all the results he or she want to 
show as her results for others.

To make the portfolio more obvious in Fle3 we could maybe consider if it 
makes sense to have on the WebTop certain "portfolio"-folder with some 
specific features. For instance the owner of the portfolio could decide 
if it is open for anyone interested in (all you need to know is the URL) 
or  set some "guest key word" to access in it. This way the user could 
give the URL (with the key) for teacher or possible employer for 
evaluation.

        - Teemu