Education/Courseware Support and Interoperation Affinity Group

<H1> Education/Courseware Support and Interoperation Affinity Group </h1>

Current Members:
<li> Rashmi Ramagiri
<li> Poonam Agarwal
<li> Gustav Verhulsdonck
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<A href="http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pagarwal/edu.html">Group home page</A>

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This group is charged with providing support for instructors to operate
courses.  Their primary goals are to develop CVE interoperation with
<A href="http://www.moodle.org">MOODLE</A> (Ramagiri) and to develop
CVE-internal course navigation aids (Agarwal, Verhulsdonck).  A secondary
mission is to provide mutual assistance and support to each other.

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Ideas about maps and tours (from a CS 579 guest lecture):

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<li> Integrate Notepad, Electronic Blackboard, Calendar/Schedule in the main
map interface

<li> Use size distinctions between nodes (Large = Important, Small = not so
important), and perhaps use animated gifs or color coded nodes

<li> Nodes are involved in the text (I am not sure what this is, but I wrote it
 down).

<li> History of tour node (when a node gets updatedm, say, on the collaborative
line, the old node has a link to the new node)

<li> Multiple collaborative lines (instead of just one)

<li> Add a lounge line to chat & interact with other avatars. So you can
click on the lounge line and get transported to the lounge, while the map is
in the background.

<li> Whether we should have a central point as FTP, or whether we should use
 context based FTP (i.e. Right mouse click on the video screen to ftp
 there), or both

<li> Separate rooms for learning concepts (you literally get to walk through
the map with a 2d presentation perhaps in the right uppercorner?)
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