#known 2019-03-26
2019-03-26 UTC
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[kenbauer] So maybe a dumb question (as an educator I say these do not exist). I know that [jgmac1106] will have some thoughts here. Is Known ready now or what does it need to implement a #DoOO course setup ala what many of us have been doing with WordPress and FeedWordPress ?
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[jgmac1106] [ken] yes and no, for my first year undergrads (not computer science not grads) I do something like wordpress.com....I used to use Known when Reclaim kept updates current but they stopped since 0.92
# [kenbauer] My question is more from the course side. The RSS subscriptions to populate the "mothership homebase". I prefer to allow students to choose any blog that produces decent RSS that we can consume.
# [jgmac1106] so now Known requires you to set up an install, add composer, download package, and update..
# [kenbauer] So, the technical install is my problem in this scenario.
# [jgmac1106] ....yes I did that as well but it became a support issue for me....I had to make tutorials for all the platforms
# [jgmac1106] I use a planet on my site
# [jgmac1106] You could also check out unicylcic
# [jgmac1106] unicyclic.com
# [jgmac1106] the plumbing for a native reader is 90% done in Known as well as federation
# [jgmac1106] ...but it isn't done
# [jgmac1106] I am actually more interested in making sure the blogs I use have an h-feed not rss, makes my life so much easier
# [kenbauer] okay, this is a long term project. Throwing ideas around for summer projects and the rest of 2019
# [jgmac1106] edu522.jgregorymcverry.com used WordPress but I made folks use IndieWeb themes
# [kenbauer] for now, the FeedWordPress setup "just works" for a course site.
# [jgmac1106] but what I am doing in Ghana is working swimmingly, one domain, each learner on a subdomain....
# [kenbauer] My other project (discussed with Laura Gibbs on Twitter) is getting a gradebook into that WordPress setup
# [jgmac1106] though for this to work I would have to have the 20 or so sites ready to roll for students
# [kenbauer] Good model for sure. For my population of students, I like to push them to setup their own.
# [jgmac1106] my feed: http://edu407.jgregorymcverry.com/feeds.html and my grade book http://edu407.jgregorymcverry.com/badges.html
# [jgmac1106] going to do a session on rubrics at NHV for the critical gradebook work
# [kenbauer] sounds nice.
# [jgmac1106] I laid out a domain, indicator, and attribute, need to mkae single domain with indicators, and then an holistic rubric
# [jgmac1106] yeah you are computer science, first assignment should be choose and set up a blog....though I would push you to microformats over rss as then you can put everyone in a social reader
# [kenbauer] good thoughts.
# [jgmac1106] ohhh BTW Cameroon and Medillin want to do the same thing we are doing in Guadalajara and Accra
# [jgmac1106] your social reader becomes your critical gradebook
# [kenbauer] from the connectivism perspective I want to put more emphasis on the micro. Blogging for some longer post assignments but encourage the connecting via perhaps microformats which I had attempted via Twitter in the past. But there was resistance to using Twitter.
# [jgmac1106] here is how the badges parse: https://pin13.net/mf2/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fedu407.jgregorymcverry.com%2Fbadges%2Fworkshoproutines.html
# [jgmac1106] yeah long term I want to develop some tutorial chat bots
# [jgmac1106] I refuse to make students sign up for Twitter. Violation of my principle to say "you must give away your data"
# [jgmac1106] so for Ghana we did, riot.fm for chat, everyone gets a Known site, and we have wiki for common knowledge base....basically copying everything we do here
# [jgmac1106] so in my current class flow you have to do reading posts, either blocqkoqures and analysis or picture of your notes, then you synthesize in a writing post, and then there is a performance activity
# [kenbauer] Nice.
# [kenbauer] that link for Riot is a band.... ??
# [kenbauer] ah, you linked fm, not im 🙂
# [kenbauer] thanks Greg.
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