Nate Angellraised by wolves, accidental open-source evangelist

Interested in user experience and online pedagogy? Learn how you can benefit from and contribute to two new efforts to share best practices across open source projects: The Fluid Project's Open Source Design Pattern Library and OpenedPractices.org, a community of practice for teaching and learning with open/community-source tools.
With co-presenter, Allison Bloodworth.

The Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology (RINET), in association with the Sakai Foundation, is hosting the second annual Rhode Island Sakai Conference March 31 - April 1, 2009 at the Providence Biltmore Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island.

TBD

I admit I've been lurking in a very slackernly manner in all the discussions in the Sakai community about content authoring, 3akai, UX, K2, Sakai NG and other unpronounceables, so I'm sorry if all this is a day late and a dollar short. Feel free to ignore me if you're part of Sakai and are way too far gone for any more input. After all, these are just thought experiments ;) If you're not part of Sakai, you might learn something about Drupal at least, so it may well be worth your time.

• Collaborate to define and market the rSmart Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE).
• Evangelize for the adoption of open source technologies, Sakai, Kuali, and rSmart services among K-12, higher education, and corporate organizations.
• Advise clients on educational technology and online learning adoption and implementation strategies to ensure their best use of Sakai and rSmart services.
• Foster new leads for Sakai adoption among K-12, higher education, and corporate organizations.
• Organize and lead regional events with clients and their peer and neighbor institutions to showcase Sakai and demonstrate its best practices.
• Build relationships with technology partners to augment the rSmart Sakai CLE.

Participants will present experiences from their institutions' use of project sites to address a number of questions: Who sets up project sites & why? How are sites being used? Presentations will include summary use data and user feedback, and will provide a wide variety of examples showing how Sakai is being used beyond its course site capabilities.

Speaker(s): Steve Lonn, University of Michigan; Nate Angell, rSmart; Mara Hancock, University of California - Berkeley; Stephanie Teasley, University of Michigan - Moderator

A day-long, interactive session to craft a Sakai/OSP implementation plan tailored to your institution's characteristics, resources and needs. Each university considering Sakai and/or OSP is distinctive, but to ensure implementation success, each should prepare for issues common to any technology change, and a few issues unique to open/community source applications. Session leaders will help participants begin to develop a detailed implementation plan for their campus.

With co-presenter, Wende Morgaine.

Community Source Week

The Sakai Foundation is pleased to announce that the December 2007 Sakai Community Conference will be held in Newport Beach, California, USA, Tuesday-Thursday, December 4-7, with pre- and post-conference sessions and activities on Monday the 3rd, and Friday, the 7th. The site will be the Newport Beach Marriott.