Web4Students workshop

CRI, 25th of April.

• Common knowledge about what we use
• Imagining/designing new tools
• Imagining/designing an organization to support creation of these tools
• Find a codename!

• What are the tools we actually use?
• What are the existing tools we might use? How?
• What are the (non-existing) tools we'd like to use?

• Tools for storing
• Tools for sharing
• Tools for creating

(Hint: creating = working together on something new.)

• interface (knowledge map, people map, knowledge paths, …)
• architecture (database)
• functions and plugins
• algorithm (matching, clustering, …)
• metrics and multidimensional ranking (autority, …)
• organization (NGO? Business? Open Source? Copyleft? etc.)

• Survey on how the students use
• Literature review on these topics
• List of tools we want to have
• Rough mockup for a possible website

• How to use OER?
• http://lastfm.com
• music-centric (not really a social platform)
• to “scrobble” or not scrobble (privacy)
• local and distant content (transparent)

Imagine a articles/webpages/books portfolio that you can use as a second memory (academic timeline?).

• http://netvibes.com
• Share your reading activity
• (Same feature for Google Reader: anyone using it?)
• Private P2P?

• What kind of content?
• IRL communities?
• Distributed versioning?

• Targeted audience
• Reputation
• Evaluation
• Privacy
• ?

• http://2.718281828.org/

• 10am - 11am : What do we use?
• 11am - 12am : What do we need?
• Pause: How to get what we need?

• Write a survey
• OpenEd conf
• Designing the tools/website
• Designing the organization