[p2pu-webcraft] Interactive Open Video with Popcorn.js

Dan Diebolt dandiebolt at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 02:03:01 UTC 2011


Several points to explore / ponder:

(1) There is a large list of tools that have been categorized and harvested
from several sources (courses, discussion lists, private emails etc):

http://wiki.p2pu.org/w/page/28952063/community-toolbox

<http://wiki.p2pu.org/w/page/28952063/community-toolbox>In parallel with the
debate over content and embedding reaching a boil, it would be wise for
users to list any tool or resource they used in a course and how they
accessed it. There are several problems with these external tools no matter
how good they are: (a) there is no convenient way in the P2PU platform
to aggregate the content or URLs these tools produce (n users, m assignments
produce n * m URLs over the lifetime of a course), (b) there is no way to
search or archive the content produced which cheapens the value of course
work product being created with CC BY-SA licensing, (c) only a few of these
resources can create content that is (i) collaborative,
(ii) fork-able, (iii) comment-able, and (iv) embeddable (these are key
ingredients to open learning). gist.github.com and jsfiddle.com meet all
these requirements.

(2) If you look at a jsFiddle in its editing mode you will see a button
labeled "Discuss" which is linked to the disqus.com service. Nobody uses it
and for various reasons and I think it is being removed from jsFiddle. Part
of the nobody uses it is because you can only see the discuss tab only while
in editing mode and it takes several clicks to make or read a comment while
users expect comments to be inlined underneath whatever they are commenting
on. In other words you can you can't see or make disqus comments when the
fiddle is embedded.

(3) jsFiddle is more than just an rapid way to create an WebCraft examples.
It is jam packed with modern JavaScript frameworks, user interface
components and libraries to allow single page applications to be created to
be used as TOOLS. These tools can be used to produce content for P2PU (a
movie or animation perhaps) or a TOOL used in another school or course. For
example, every single example from this JSXGraph repository (~200 items):

http://jsxgraph.uni-bayreuth.de/wiki/index.php/Category:Examples

can easily be converted to a jsFiddle which could then be easily
incorporated into an appropriate math courses where the users or the course
organizer could rapidly fork and modify an example to serve some new
learning objective (like enjoy math).
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