Meeting focus: H5P
- Introduction
- Working session on H5P OER Hub site
- Wrap up
Author: Bree Zuckerman (Page 1 of 2)
- Meeting focus: Hello! And new features from January and February releases
- New functionality: Additional privacy options for publishing on a public site
- New plugins:
- Reading Time WP: Adds an estimated reading time on posts and/or pages
- WP Reading Progress: Adds a bar that moves as you scroll through a post or page
- Name Directory: Allows you to create a glossary on your site; can also allow students or others to create entries
- New theme: Typology
- Fall Features!
- Connections (from our Nov 3 meeting)
- Connections (from our Nov 3 meeting)
- Brainstorming / discussion: is there anything in particular you’d like to cover this semester?
- Coming up: more work with H5P
Meeting focus: H5P
- Defining ‘content type’ (H5P nomenclature) and a few examples (BZ)
- Branching Scenario
- Note: It’s not designed for formal assessment / data collection
- Browse!
- Step 1: Start out by browsing Examples and Downloads list from H5P with examples of available content types.
- Step 2: Once you get a feel for different content types and possibilities, check the list of vetted (recommended) content types that H5P maintains to make sure you’re whatever you consider implementing is accessible and actively maintained! (CC)
- Demo H5P sandbox – what’s this for? (BZ)
- Start doing it! (BZ & CC)
- Tutorials for the different content types
- Debrief
- Workflow for using H5P on the OpenLab
- Contexts for use/application?
- Meeting focus: Module builder
- Demo: PHYS 1433 Module
- Kate will demo the excellent module they built.
- Demo: How to build a module
- The Dashboard side
- Questions and discussion
- Next steps
- Meeting focus: OpenLab Connections
- Demo
- How to make a connection and share content.
- Activity
- Brainstorm how you might use this in your own courses or other OpenLab work.
- What’s a scenario where you might build a connection this or next semester?
- What’s a connection you might consider making in the longer term?
- What are some of the considerations you would make to leverage such a functionality? What content would you want to share?
- Put into practice: If you’ve come up with a use case for a shorter term connection, go ahead and set that up.
- Brainstorm how you might use this in your own courses or other OpenLab work.
- Wrap up, next steps
- Icebreaker: Search
- When you search, what are you looking for? And how do you search?
- Is there anything you aren’t able to find via search on the OpenLab?
- WP Grade Comments plugin
- Quick demo
- Reckoning plugin
- Quick demo
- How it works with WP Grade Comments
- Test on http://openlabdev.org/
- Discussion
- Wrap up
For this meeting we’ll be focusing on new functionality under development .
- “Connections” – a new way of more formally connecting different groups together so they could more easily see activity happening on different connected sites.
- Possible examples:
- Multiple sections of the same course
- Course with connected student ePortfolios
- Sections of City Tech 101
- Are there use cases for this that you can imagine for yourself, or colleagues?
- Possible examples:
- More fine-grained privacy options within a single site or profile
- Private docs, Private files
- Ability to choose more privacy options for individual posts or pages: Mockup
- Questions? Use cases?
- Non-active groups
- Came out of our discussions last semester!
- Admins could define groups as ‘Not Active’, which would add a ‘flag’ to the profile and automatically switch them to non-joinable.
- Mockup
- Non-active groups would be pushed to the bottom of My OpenLab
- Could exclude non-active groups in a search
- Activity block and widget
- Also came out of our discussions last semester!
- Would create an Activity Block and widget that you could add to your site to show the activity feed from the profile.
- Reckoning plugin
- Inspired by Kate’s request for something that would help avoid too much tedious manual counting.
- If it seems OK, we could hopefully test it out in our next meeting.
The responses below reflect the three surveys submitted so far.
Do you currently or have you ever done group annotation activities with students? If so, what modalities have you used?
- Screen sharing on a computer – 3/3 respondents
- Collaboratively edited documents (e.g. Google Docs) – 3/3
- Other online tools reported:
How could you imagine this functionality being useful beyond close reading, detailed writing feedback, writing and reading intensive courses?
The main benefit I see from annotating text online/digitally is getting the student to take charge of their learning, feeling like they have a voice in the conversation. More broadly fostering a sense of being part of a learning community and the ability to engage with the text, as well as return to the conversation later on because they can return to the marked up document(s) on a website/shared space.
Hmmm…
I think annotation could also be quite helpful in generating and recording conversation. I don’t teach right now, but I would use it to replace Google Docs as much as possible in my other work.
What is your interest level for using annotation with your students on the OpenLab, either in class or asynchronously?
- High – 2/3 respondents
- Moderate
- Low – 1/3
- None
What is your interest level for using annotation in your other work on the OpenLab?
- High – 2/3 respondents
- Moderate – 1/3
- Low
- None
If you could design your ideal annotation tool, what would you want it to do?
In addition to being able to mark up the document textually, I would be interested to see if there are other modes of engagement that could be utilized, for example: being able to leave a voice note (that then could be automatically transcribed), including images, or drawing.
Not sure offhand.
A few thoughts about what I would want in an annotation tool:
- visual clarity regarding which part of a page or post is being referred to in the annotation
- the ability to have threaded comments (also visually distinct in their nesting) in a discussion around a particular annotation
- avoid users needing to log into a separate service (e.g. like Hypothes.is)
- not sure about email notifications. Perhaps users might be able to opt in/out?
- It would also be great to be able to annotate elements in a site beyond a post or page, e.g. items in the top nav or sidebar, maybe a header image. (Though this is probably a pretty niche request, and might be separate tool altogether!)
Hi everyone!
The shortlist of themes currently installed on the OpenLab dev site for testing are:
- Michelle
- Miniva
- Neve
- Period
We ended up eliminating a number of themes based on accessibility issues, using the WAVE browser tool to check them for issues. We didn’t choose any that had multiple color contrast or other accessibility issues (e.g. lack of labels that announce to a screen reader what a particular element is on the site).
Testing instructions
You’ll be testing themes on openlabdev.org, just as you did with the new features. You can use the same procedure to access the dev site. And just a reminder that you need to sign in twice! Once is with the dev site credentials so you have access to the site. The second time will be with your own username and password.
- You can use the test course you created for testing the new features.
- Activate one of the themes on your course site (here’s a refresher from OpenLab Help, if you need it).
- As you’re reviewing the theme please think about the following:
- Can you you imagine using this for your work on the OpenLab? Can you imagine your students or colleagues using it? Since the OpenLab is a community platform it can be used by college students, faculty, and staff, including alumni.
- Can you think of any use cases for this theme? What kind of site do you imagine this theme would work well for?
- Repeat steps 1-3 to test a second theme.
Please post about your experience / feedback in the comments below.
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