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Presentation for JISC Elluminate Wednesday session 14th September 2011
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Get CloudEngine
Cloudworks open-sourcedComments? cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/5100
Presenters: Nick Freear & Rebecca Galley, Open University
JISC Elluminate Wednesdays session
Wednesday, September 14th 2-3pm
Agenda
• Background to Cloudworks/ CloudEngine• CloudEngine features• Recent work• Roadmap• Get involved
First concepts...
Design...Object-centred rather than person-centred in nature
juhansonin http://www.flickr.com/photos/juhansonin/2250554147/
“The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. They're not; social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object.”
(Engestrom, 2005)Engeström, J. (2005). Why some social network services work and others don't - Or: the case for object-centered sociality . Zengestrom Blog, weblog posting, 13th April 2005.
Approach...
Design-based approach (DBR)“a systematic, but flexible methodology aimed to improve educational practice through iterative analysis design, development and implementation, based on collaboration between researchers and practitioners in real-world settings, and leading to contextually-sensitive design principles and theories”
(Wang and Hannafin, 2005, p. 5-6)
•Development of the Alpha Cloudworks prototype in Drupal Feb 2008•Launch of the Beta Cloudworks prototype in CodeIgniter July 2009•Release of CloudEngine free and open source software October 2010
Wang, F., & Hannafin, M. J. (2005). Design-based research and technology-enhanced learning environments . Educational Technology Research and Development, 53(4), pp 5-23.
• Launched July 2009• Over 4000 registered users • Over 95,000 unique visitors (1000+ unique visitors/ week)• Core of regular users; active discussions; events…
Cloudworks...
CloudEngine...
http://dev.getcloudengine.org
What?CloudEngine is an easy way to create a social web site - using 'Clouds' and 'Cloudscapes'. Ideal for events & discussion.
CloudEngine is lightweight, fast & fully-featured. CloudEngine powers Cloudworks, http://cloudworks.ac.uk
And it's free & open source software, licensed under the GPL!
Who?• Cloudworks - Juliette Culver,
Gráinne Conole, Rebecca Galley
• Institute of Educational Technology The Open University
• Nick Freear, Richard Lovelock
• JISC/ EU/ OU funding
...
Features• Clouds, Cloudscapes • ** Direct messaging - NEW ** • Host & archive events - workshops etc. • Search, tags, user profiles, Cloudstreams • Favourite & follow • Embed video, slides, Twitter ... (oEmbed) • RSS feeds, API • Internationalized – currently English & Greek! • Admin: statistics, moderation• Accessible, extensible, themable
Recent work
• More embeds: LAMS, Prezi, OU player
• Search fixes/ usability enhance• HTML5 forms• Direct messaging
Search before…
• Search bug• Usability
“Very large page to scroll…”
• Score/ relevance?
Search after…
OU embeds• new: LAMS, Prezi,
Google forms• HTML5: YouTube• OU player
• Extends our use of oEmbed
• http://embed.open.ac.uk
• Todo: SVG
HTML5 forms
• Browser handles errors – usability, simplicity, consistency
• type=email|url .. required, pattern ..
• Todo: more forms
HTML5 forms
• <input type=email|url|... required>
• <input pattern="[a-z][\w-]{3,}\s?“ title="Minimum 4 characters, letters,
numbers..” >
Messaging
Evolution• Embeds: CompendiumLD/ SVG…• Plugins: authentication, etc.• Upgrade to CodeIgniter 2 …• Project site – CloudEngine powered!• More internal/ external uses• Community, sustainability
Get involved
• Contribute feedback, publicity• Contribute documentation• Contribute code• Contribute translations• Ideas for integration
Try out Cloudworks...
Support & guidance...
Further reading...Alevizou, P., Galley, R. and Conole, G., (forthcoming) Collectivity, performance and self-representation: Analysing Cloudworks as a public space for networked learning and reflection in Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning. Ed. Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Hodgson, V. and McConnell, D. London: Springer Conole, Grainne (2010). Facilitating new forms of discourse for learning and teaching: harnessing the power of Web 2.0 practices. Open Learning, 25(2), pp. 141–151. Conole, G. and Culver, J. (2009), The design of Cloudworks: applying social networking practice to foster the exchange of learning and teaching ideas and designs, special issue of CAL09, Computers and Education, doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.09.013 Galley, R., Conole, G. and Alevizou, P. (forthcoming) Community Indicators: A framework for observing and supporting community on Cloudworks, Interactive Learning Environments.
Nick Freear (Cloudworks developer) [email protected] Galley (OULDI project officer) [email protected]
Thank you• Go to http://getcloudengine.org • The Cloudworks virtual field trip
http://youtu.be/N0HjlyU8OAU • Discuss
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/5100
• Twitter @nfreear @Rebeccagalley• [email protected]
Questions?