A tool to help educators manage, track, evaluate, analyse and visualise the information from student blogs.

JISCMarkr: Prototype RSS reader for teachers

Posted: December 1st, 2009 | Author: Dan Dixon | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Title of Primary Project Output: JISCMarkr: Prototype RSS reader for teachers

Screenshots or diagram of prototype:markr screenshot

Description of Prototype: Markr is a tool to help educators at all levels manage, track, evaluate, analyze, visualize and assess information from student blogs. This prototype provides an RSS reader front end and word cloud interface to student blog content pulled live from the web via the gdata API.

Link to working prototype: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/markr/

Link to end user documentation: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/markr/

Link to code repository or API: http://code.google.com/p/markr/source/browse/

Link to technical documentation: http://code.google.com/p/markr/source/browse/

Date prototype was launched: 30/11/09

Project Team Names, Emails and Organisations: Dan Dixon, dan.dixon@uwe.ac.uk, University of the West of England; Prakash Chatterjee, prakash.chatterjee@uwe.ac.uk, University of the West of England

Project Website: http://markr.digitaldust.org/

PIMS entry: No project entry found.

Table of Content for Project Posts:

Figure and Ground

Negative space

Technical standards and stuff we can’t live without

User participation, undiscovered use cases and spanners

The chart that dare not speak its name

Wins and Fails with SysAdmins

Reflections on attempting an Agile project in academia

Project Evaluation and Future Planning



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