[p2pu-dev] P2PU Classroom Dating Service / Platform Feature Request

Thu Feb 10 22:58:14 UTC 2011

Hi Dan,

thanks a lot for sharing these products, looks like the students are having
a lot of fun!

The thing you describe is something ironically we had in mind all the way
back when we first started thinking about the platform. I am not quite sure
what happened with the "submissions" module along the way, I know it never
really worked the way we wanted it to. Totally agree that something like
this is necessary. Also great to be able to keep these things around for
future generations etc!

Stian

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:12, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com> wrote:

> A clever member in the jQuery course has submitted a novel piece of work
> for the second week assignment. A sample set of 100 records with three dozen
> fields reflecting a virtual class was created and placed on an external
> website. The assignment was to retrieve the data using jQuery and to produce
> some type of dynamic display of the data (dealer's choice). This particular
> member created a Classroom Dating Service and added controls with search
> criteria and displayed matching virtual dates on a dynamically update a
> Google map:
> *
> *
> *Classroom Date Finder With Search Controls And Google Map (move the
> slider)*
>
> http://jsfiddle.net/suggsgested/YQJ3p/110/embedded/result,js,resources,html,css/
>
> He is a couple of other submissions that range from brilliant to basic:
>
> *Information Cards for Class Roster (pulls photos from Twitter; expandos;
> links to Google Maps)*
> http://jsfiddle.net/isemanjski/XWUmr/embedded/result,js,resources,html,css/
>
> *Simple Class Roster (simple styling)*
> http://jsfiddle.net/4fr6F/embedded/result,js,resources,html,css/
>
> jsFiddle is a run away success with this class and is ideal for WebCraft
> courses. Similar tools need to be identified and integrated with the P2PU
> platform even for non-WebCraft courses. The features that make this
> particular tool extremely attractive are:
>
>
>    1. collaborative requiring no installation;
>    2. users can fork each others work;
>    3. lightweight requiring no credentials, uploads,
>    server configuration etc;
>    4. HTML, JavaScrpt and CSS content is stripped of the normal <body>,
>    <script> and <link> containers so users can focus on one technology area as
>    they author and debug
>
> One feature in jsFiddle that extremely few people use is the ability to
> discuss and comment on the fiddle by clicking on the "Discuss" button on
> this presentation of the fiddle:
>
> http://jsfiddle.net/suggsgested/YQJ3p/110/
> http://jsfiddle.net/isemanjski/XWUmr/
> http://jsfiddle.net/4fr6F/
>
> So after having updated on progress in this course and possibly entertained
> you with these examples, here is my platform feature request:
>
> We need a way in the P2PU platform (and especially for WebCraft courses)
> for users to submit a URL field and possibly some other fields for meta data
> (description, notes, etc) representing their homework, assignment, quiz,
> project or whatever and allow comments and discussion to be added to the
> entry. If P2PU were sticking with Drupal this could be implemented using CCK
> and creating new content types for homework, assignment, quiz, project etc.
> I don't know much about the new platform but in my view it is critical that
> there be a feature like this for a user to be able to identify their work
> products through a form on the P2PU platform and allow discussion and
> comments on the work in a seamless fashion. The fields in the form could
> represent a URL for a web page they authored, video they uploaded, blog they
> made etc. But the P2PU platform would be used as an aggregation point for of
> this content that would bind all the information together under the
> particular course container and not disassociate identify even though the
> content exists outside of the P2PU platform.
>
> Please consider making this feature in the new platform. How long will it
> take? I am willing to bet there are members in this course alone that would
> like to help out designing this feature if the opportunity were presented to
> them.
>
>
>
>
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