JISCMarkr: Prototype RSS reader for teachers
Posted: December 1st, 2009 | Author: Dan Dixon | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: demonstrator, finalProgressPost, JISC, jiscmarkr, JISCRI, output, product, progressPosts, prototype, rapidInnovation | No Comments »Title of Primary Project Output: JISCMarkr: Prototype RSS reader for teachers
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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:
Technical standards and stuff we can’t live without
User participation, undiscovered use cases and spanners
The chart that dare not speak its name
Reflections on attempting an Agile project in academia
Project Evaluation and Future Planning


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