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More Info on "Adopt a Guide" from the AllID Meeting
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 13:04 — bxb11
I was not very clear today on my request to adopt a section of the LD Hub.
If you look on the left block, under Instructional Design Guides, you'll see a number of topics. These came from places like
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/research/index.shtml
At ETS we've been moving them over to the hub for some time, in the hopes that they'll receive more use/exposure, and also in the hopes that as a community, we could own these topics and maintain/update them.
While we still have a few more topics to move over, I think now's a good time to ask you if you would be interested in being the main "keeper" of the content for a topic. For example, I consider myself the keeper of the syllabus topic.
So what does that mean? Basically, it's up to you to keep the topic current, check links occasionally, ask others to contribute if appropriate, etc. We have enough people in the community that I'd like to see one one topic per person, but of you want more, why not?
Also, if you'd like to develop a topic and share it here, wonderful! If you'd like to adopt a topic and add a discussion forum to work in conjunction with that topic, great - but you should also consider just enabling comments for the pages in a topic. If you'd like a forum only, fine too - just let me know and I'll create it.
Hopefully this is now all crystal clear! If you are interested in any of this, let me know.
adopting a guide
I'd be interested in the Web 2.0 guide if someone else doesn't have it.
It is done
We accept! I will send a note with some details.
Request for New Topic of Faculty Professional Development
I am interested in "adopting" a new topic of faculty professional development. First, I have to admit that I'm still a bit confused by the terminology - what is the difference between topic (and random topic), forum, and guide? It seems to me as though the guides are topics, and forums are something you can add to a topic in addition to the ability to add comments. Am I close?
Topics vs forums
Think of a topic as a mini-web site where you can have comments by others on a page in the mini-site, or not. In Drupal lingo, these are called books. So the Syllabus "topic" is a Drupal book, which consists of several web pages.
A forum is a traditional forum - usually based on a topic & responses, mostly text. If you plan on static content with images, links, etc. then a book is the way to go. If you just want running async conversation on a issue, like "Why use Google Docs?" then a forum is the way to go.
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Brett Bixler