Looking for a few good TW5'rs!

[Ed Dixon]

Hi Guys, 

I am recruiting to create a cohort group to go through an online training program provided for free by (ADL) Advanced Distributed Learning in developing educational solutions using xAPI (also known as TinCan). The details are here: http://www.adlnet.gov/from-adl-team-member-craig-wiggins-xapi-design-cohort-season-3-kickoff/

I hope to use TW5 and the excellent plugins so many of you have created here as a base for the required project our team is expected to create as we progress in that program. I am also recruiting from other educational projects I am associated with so mixing, mingling, and plenty of fun are pretty much guaranteed but I need a few good TW5'rs with me so please do check it out and let me know if your are interested. As I understand it we would be meeting once a week and I promise to do all the heavy lifting! We can share our efforts here in this thread gaining the communities insights and help as we progress. Because so many here are building such excellent educational tools, xAPI (TinCan) to me this is a logical next step in allowing the students experience and efforts with those tools to be reported to the teacher, school, etc... Right now there is an educational crisis in many countries and our efforts could make a real difference. I do hope you join me.

P.S. For my part, this is not related to the X-Prize contest in any way but I do feel it be great if we found our efforts helped one of those teams if any here are involved in that important effort and became a part of one of those projects solutions. Again to me it is all about empowering students and teachers and getting word out there that team Tiddly ROCKS!

Thanks,

[RichardWilliamSmith]

Hi Ed,

This is really exciting. I'll have a closer look over the weekend but I'd certainly like to help. I also think the xAPI is an important piece of tech and have many thoughts about how it could be used both in formal educational and personal learning settings. If I can help in any way, I'd love to.

For what it's worth I am involved with the global learning x-prize and am also close to completing my first 'port' of an open-source math textbook to TW5 (which I'll post here very soon). My goal is to make TW into a platform for remixing OERs and thus making existing content more useful through re-use. I like the idea of textbooks that can report back to the teacher as students work with them.

Regards,

Richard

[Ed Dixon]

That would be awesome Richard! I felt I was being a little too specific and cautious about making sure it was known I am not a player in that competition but am really glad I did so now! I can not wait to see the math text (one of my true loves) and would be elated to have you join us! (now a party of 2 as I did manage to convince someone from xAPI to join us to help as well). This is so great! 

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[RichShumaker]

Very Cool Stuff.

I would like to help if I can so I guess the question is when are you getting together?

Rich Shumaker

[Ed Dixon]

I am wide open so what ever time works best for our group here as we come together (anytime) works for me.

Since the registration for the event is a webex on the 30th I figure we can work out those details as that approaches and hopefully have our first meeting after that orientation. But just shooting from the hip here at this point?

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[Ed Dixon]

Hi all, 

I should have posted this over a week ago but we did move this conversation to the Dev group in case anyone here is interested and not aware of that. We do plan to have a hangout tomorrow morning which I will try to record and Friday is the registration day so its still not too late! Please join us in that other thread and regardless if you go through this training, make the meetings, or not, know that your support, help, and the work you have already done in all this is so greatly appreciated and will be recognized. So many excellent people and outstanding works here in this community!

Thanks,