Re: [opensuse-edu] question about reviewing apps
Hello all, Thanks for the welcome & enthusiastic guidance :-) Lars wrote:
Which applications do you mean? Well, I was originally thinking of contributing to the review of the educational applications listed for inclusion in openSUSE since that is the distro I will be testing them on... However, your point about helping inform the developers and users on other platforms is well taken and I the the reviews I and others write should have the broadest impact possible. I hope you will use list asked for input on to update the template Rajko mentioned: (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Software_Overview) since it has some very good descriptor/prompts for reviewers. Then we can link it to the page you created for housing the actual reviews: http://en.opensuse.org/Reviews.
I think this is something for _all_ distributions around the world. If no one intervenes, I try to talk to Edubuntu, Skolelinux, Ofset and other Organisations. I think we should think about a central place for such things like edu-software-reviews, curriculums and so on. As most of the other plattforms also using a MediaWiki for storing their Articles, we can just start on the openSUSE Wiki and migrate or just copy the content to a "cross-plattform-education site" later.
Great! - let me know if I can help. Ok Here are my suggestions for the template. I will be happy to help & go into more detail if needed on this thread (and will help definately operationally define them further on the wiki). =Name of the program = 1. Overview 1.1 History (if useful) 2. Reviewer type (parent, student, teacher, etc) (link to reviewer bio?) 3. Features 3.1 Application area 3.2 Standards supported 3.3 Target population 3.4 Pre-requisite skills 3.5 Assessment functions (if useful) 3.6 Accessibility & Usability 4. Alternative applications and forks 5. Development 6. Security remarks 7. References/ Notes 8. External links 9. See also At some point, I think it would be good to include a way to categorize based on learning theory approach (constructivist, behaviorist, etc.) but that will have to wait. Cheers, Sarah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 16:54, srs76@earthlink.net wrote:
=Name of the program =
The article title should contain one, but also I would like to see very short introduction right under the title, prior to first paragraph with title, that is easy to copy in indexes of reviews that are listed on: http://en.opensuse.org/Reviews and all other similar openSUSE wiki browsing helpers like Portal pages.
1. Overview 1.1 History (if useful) 2. Reviewer type (parent, student, teacher, etc) (link to reviewer bio?)
I guess this is the answer on: Who am I? For readers reference to point of view, experience etc.
3. Features 3.1 Application area 3.2 Standards supported 3.3 Target population 3.4 Pre-requisite skills 3.5 Assessment functions (if useful) 3.6 Accessibility & Usability
4. Alternative applications and forks 5. Development 6. Security remarks
7. References/ Notes 8. External links 9. See also
It seems to be more in wiki style to list in this order: 7. See also 8. References/ Notes 9. External links (to similar content)
At some point, I think it would be good to include a way to categorize based on learning theory approach (constructivist, behaviorist, etc.) but that will have to wait.
Author can use Wiki built in categories, for instance: [[Category:Constructivism]] It is up to reviewer experience where to put program, later other wiki editors can reuse that categorization to create other forms of wiki browsing helpers, like indexes or Portal pages. The only thing that has to be set in advance to prevent many similar categories is list of categories for educational software. Your and Lars posts remind me that there is more than one type of review, with slight differences in list of relevant subtopics. The education should be put on something like: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Software_Overview_-_Education Page doesn't exist, as I didn't want to go over your wish to develop idea here first, but wiki is invented for collaborative effort, so go ahead. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org
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