Drawtivity project completed
We are very pleased to annouce that the initial phase of the Drawtivity project has been completed. The system is now ready for you to use to create your own activities and the source files are available for those wishing to install and run their own authoring systems:
- A related project has been set up within SourceForge where the latest source files are now available (go to the Drawtivity SourceForge project).
- Documentation including help for activity authors, system administrators and details on installing your own Drawtivity authoring system (go to the Drawtivity documentation page).
- More example activities are now available illustrating the possibilities of activities authored with the Drawtivity system (view the example Drawtivity activities)
Drawtivity article published in Talis Panlibus magazine
Heads up on an article on Drawtivity that has just been published in the Talis Panlibis Magazine – issue 19 (view magazine).
Drawtivity update – activity scoring
If you are interested there has been progress on the Drawtivity project in the development of a mechanism to score activities. This has proven to be quite a complex business involving a great deal of thinking and also a fair bit of mathematics. We now have a mechanism that in testing seems to automatically generate appropriate percentage scores based on the accuracy of the user’s drawn response when compared against the activity answer. To learn more about the thinking behind this mechanism please review the Drawtivity blog posts How to score a Drawtivity activity and Implementing activity scoring. To try an example scored activity click on the screenshot below.
Drawtivity presentation at OpenEd 2010
Just left Barecelona following an intense and enjoyable few days at OpenEd 2010 where I presented the Drawtivity project. Thanks to those who attended my presentation. Here are my slides:
It was great to meet up with some old friends, learn more about the current thinking in the open education movement and finally meet Scott Leslie having been in touch and influenced by Scott several years ago now.
Drawtivity poster at ALT-C 2010
I’ve just sent my Drawtivity poster for this September’s ALT-C 2010 conference to the printers. I’m looking forward to the conference again this year and hope to get lots of interest in this exciting new system. If you are attending please do call by during the poster session! In the meantime here is a preview of the poster (fingers crossed there aren’t any typos!)
Example Drawtivity activity now available for feedback
We are making progress on the Talis Incubator funded Drawtivity project. Today we have published a first example working activity for feedback. Please visit the Drawtivity project blog to try the activity and leave feedback.
Tony Lowe interviewed in Talis podcast
Fame and fortune beckon! May be not quite yet but I have a taste of celebrity with a podcast interview now available on the Talis Education website. In this interview I talk about the ideas behind the Drawtivity project and how I hope it will one day be used.
Access the Talis Education podcast interview
