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Equella access for CE@UP

I finally got back to Jamie about working on an Equella demo for CE@UP. Rick had asked me back in October 2009 (?) to create a list of Equella items of interest for Jeff Hand.Joe says that Equella can’t generate…

I finally got back to Jamie about working on an Equella demo for CE@UP. Rick had asked me back in October 2009 (?) to create a list of Equella items of interest for Jeff Hand.

Joe says that Equella can’t generate reports just yet, so I’ve been collating this data by hand from the search results I’ve begun. This document
Equella Objects of Interest to CE@UP.xlsx is just a subset of the entire list. Information that I’ve left out is:

  • [uploaded] date
  • version
  • status
  • keywords
  • unabridged descriptions

Rick responded: the two types of information that will be really helpful to Jeff and faculty would be: 1) Is it a full lesson that can be used in a course; and 2) Is it an interactive element that can be used in a course.

The first is probably more valuable. So I’d probably want to know what the lesson is about (short description) and how do I integrate it into my hybrid course.

Also, which lessons are related to existing WC courses. This would give the faculty an idea of how many lessons they may be able to draw upon for there course.

Jamie recommended a demo and I replied that was exactly what I had in mind to: to try to figure out what they would need access to, how they might use it, who might need access it in the future and when.

How will Equella fit into my workflow?

We were asked to publish at least 10 objects into the Equella repository and it brought up a few questions for me:What level(s) of granularity are we supposed to publish? Let’s say that I have a custom graphic for a…

We were asked to publish at least 10 objects into the Equella repository and it brought up a few questions for me:

  1. What level(s) of granularity are we supposed to publish? Let’s say that I have a custom graphic for a lesson. Do I publish the graphic, the graphic plus relevant content paragraphs, graphic, text and outcomes, the full lesson, the full unit, all of those discreet pieces? Let’s say that I publish the full unit… how does someone find just that custom graphic?
  2. How are copyright issues handled? I would think: don’t even go there.
  3. How should the content authors be involved with the metadata? I would say that they would be responsible for specific fields, but I’m sure that would be problematic. Many faculty don’t want to share their materials. There would be additional demands on the time line and task list as well.

I’m just not convinced that anyone would ever use the repository. It’s one of those things that sounds like a great idea, but doesn’t really work.