Forum OpenACS Q&A: live communication & dotLRN...

Posted by David Kuczek on 03/01/02 08:50 PM

I am wondering if live communication will be integrated in dotLRN?

For live chat I am thinking about Jabber and for live classroom
transmission I stumbled over a German project that looks quite nice.
It is initiated by "Freie Universitaet of Berlin" and is called
e-chalk... (http://www.e-chalk.de) It would look splendid
alongside a live stream of a course.

I don't know if they would want to opensource the project, but I could
try to persuade them 😊

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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 03/02/02 11:14 AM

Hi David,

why dont you use Wimpy Point along with Jabber Groupchat instead of the chalkboard ?

And if the professor does not want to type that quickly, use voice recognition (or an outsourced secretary listening to the talk of the prof. and typing it into the computer.).

More seriously, I dont think dotLRN is the tool to replace the live classroom. Or should even try to intergrate it. But you might want to have interfaces to other tools, so you could at least search the data generated in that classroom. Which probably isn't much, if you think about live communication in terms of "voice".

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Posted by Ben Adida on 03/02/02 05:59 PM

dotLRN will include a number of well-known packages (bboard,
faq, survey, calendar), and a fairly detailed architecture for
adding your own applications (applets in dotLRN-speak). If you
want to add a live classroom integration package, you're going to
have the hooks to do that.

That said, doing true live classroom integration is hard, with or
without dotLRN. But if you find a good way to do it, dotLRN can
and will support that type of integration.

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Posted by Rafael Calvo on 03/04/02 05:36 AM

Ben,

Any idea when we will be able to have a look at dotLRN? Is it going to be in March?
I hope you understand that many off us are quite keen in seen the code (or at least a demo) soon.