[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] personalisation and collaboration

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> 2009/6/15 Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>:
>> David,
>>
>> For frameworks, you may want to look at "achievement systems" and 
>> "reputation systems" (e.g. karma on slashdot). I just helped a 
>> colleague with his grant proposal about adding achievement systems to a 
>> peer review-based authoring environment, Expertiza, so we did some 
>> literature review for that. It's a well-developed topic in gaming and 
>> in internet-based community studies. It involves creating an "economy" 
>> of good deeds, basically. In more advanced systems, users can define or 
>> co-define which deeds are considered "good."
>
> Greg, is this something related to the assessment framework you
> referred to the other day?

Absolutely.

It seems to me that it all begins with one smart architectural decision: 
how do we share "assessment" data about kids, however we define it?

It also seems to me that Ben had a very simple answer, that I like:

1. Dropping tuples into the journal, but doing so *consistently*,

2. Having a preferred method for synching certain pieces of journal data 
to a central repository.

I would love to spend one of our hackfest days at Sugar in front of a 
gigantic whiteboard, imagineering various scenarios for 
awards / assessments / etc.

--g

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