Got this email from Hannah Reeves:
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:52:00 -0500
From: Hannah Reeves
Sender: hannabel@critters.imap.itd.umich.edu
To: Mark Pearson
Subject: Re: Access to CourseTools Next Generation
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Mark,
Apologies for the lengthy delay in responding to this message. We've been trying to set up a workshop and a conference at the same time.
The CHEF group would be very interested in talking to you about the possibility of Earlham using CTNG in the fall! I have set up a meeting with John Leasia, Project Manager and Joseph Hardin, the CHEF director, to discuss this on Wednesday. Any information you could send in the meantime vis-a-vis potential numbers (of students/classes) would be helpful.
Attached are two screen shots, screen 1 and screen 2, from the Spanish site. Just wanted to clarify one thing here. The Argentinian news we have on this site is displayed through an embedded iFrame window. If we have access to an RSS feed, we can create a separate portlet and plug it into the framework so that it shows up as a menu item. In this case, we are merely linking CTNG to the Clarin Diario site through the iFrame tool. The nice part of this, as I mentioned to you earlier, is that this instructor writes every few weeks to request a new link be set up to Chilean news or something relevant to what the class is studying at that point. Hope this makes some sense. I'd be happy to send screen shots of the back-end (the customization of panes, portlets and java applets) later and will follow up after our meeting tomorrow.
Best,
Hannah
--On Thursday, March 6, 2003 10:13 AM -0500 Mark Pearson
At 09:37 AM 3/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Let us know what you think.
Well, several faculty werre quite excited and of course want to play with
it. I said "hands off - it's my toy!" (not really :-)
However, what I'd like to do in the next couple of months is to work out
a possible way that half a dozen Earlham faculty (at most) could use Chef
to Manage a course each starting in the Fall. Whether that means hosting
at Michigan or Earlham I don't know but if we start soon we can suss
things out in a leisurely fashion.
The screen shot is of a blank screen that I obtained from CHEF at one
point. I have tried to replicate this phenomenon but have failed. I use
Netscape 7 because it has the cool tabbed panes which I like and anything
else I discover I'll pass along.
Also, you showed me a cool Spanish Chef course with a Spanish newspaper
RSS feed. Any chance of a screen shot of that because our language folks
would be well chuffed with seeing that one.
Cheers
Mark