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Sakai Notes
Here are some highlights, in no particular order, the Sakai meeting in Ann Arbor. I'm still here at the meeting.
Daphne Ogle's been leading an effort to evaluate Sakai's 'legacy tools' - those tools that were part of CHEF and have moved into Sakai. She's been using 'High Tech Anthropology' techniques she learned at the Menlo Institute.
I missed this part of the meeting, but in the beginning of the day the group sorted through user personas and select 1 primary and 3 secondary personas to use in evaluating the importance and usefulness of Sakai functionality.
Scatter graph plotting use cases (e.g. 'make my site world readable' or 'add announcement') against frequency of use and importance. We based all of this on the primary and secondary personas.
The Sakai website has been relaunched. it's now maintained using the Mambo CMS.
Sakai gradebook now has basic working versions of all pages. Nice work, Berkeley.
Everybody I've talked to on the Sakai team concerned about how much we can accomplish for the 2.0 release in June. Everybody is excited about the amount email activity in SEPP since the release of 1.5. The Pedagogy group is a real highlight.
Chen Qain from UMich did a live demo of how to install sakai on a Powerbook. In just a few minutes she'd downloaded the code and installed it, opened a web browser and showed it running on localhost:8080. Very impressive.