<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Eben Eliason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eben@laptop.org">eben@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Caroline Meeks<<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > My vision is that we would create Moodle Classes for all the various<br> > groupings that students have throughout the day.<br> > Then maybe the Neighborhood view shows only people who share a group with<br> > you, or maybe those people get preference if the Neighborhood gets too<br> > crowded.<br> <br> </div>I think giving preference to people one knows/interacts with is a<br> logical approach.<br> <div class="im"><br> > On the Friends view it might be useful to pick just one of these groups. So<br> > if I'm in Reading Group A right now I could choose Reading Group A in a drop<br> > down in the friends view and it would show only people in my reading group.<br> > Later I am in Mr. J's Afterschool club and I pick that so I can work with<br> > them. After that I'm in homework time and I want to work on my Reading<br> > Group, I can use this to easily see if anyone else from my Reading Group is<br> > around to work on the homework assignment with.<br> <br> </div>+1. This has been our intent for the groups view all along, and the<br> lack of groups (naturally) has left it mostly useless. I think we<br> should retain the ability to make friends, who should also appear in<br> the view (and give it some utility until the rest is built), but the<br> ability to filter the view to see and interact with specific groups of<br> individuals is key to the collaborative experience.<br> <br> We had an ambitious view of what groups should be in the absence of a<br> server, before Moodle was investigated. Perhaps we can start with a<br> moodle approach and merge/sync that with a server-less approach later.<br> Or perhaps the server-less "ideal" isn't actually needed, and Moodle<br> is the appropriate means of introducing this much desired feature.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mmm, seeing that many deployment schools (a) don't seem to have a school server or (b) might have a school server but one that's not in use (due to config issues, power supply issues, etc.) I'm not convinced that making Moodle a hard requirement for that kind of functionality is a good idea. If there's a school server / Moodle installation then let's use it by all means but I do believe that we must try to offer a reasonable solution to places without that kind of infrastructure.</div> <div><br>Christoph </div></div>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>