{"id":39,"date":"2003-09-04T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/09\/04\/project-skins-for-h2o\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T18:44:58","slug":"project-skins-for-h2o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/2003\/09\/04\/project-skins-for-h2o\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Skins for H2O?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a60'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As fall courses are entered into the H2O system, we are discovering what we knew already: it&#8217;s unclear how to use H2O for syllabus construction.  The projects\/topics\/resources nomenclature in its generality and inclusiveness is unfortunately obtuse in an academic setting &#8212; not only for instructors, but more importantly for students.  I&#8217;ve heard concern expressed that when students visit the site they won&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re looking at, or where to find certain information.  Course websites such as Jonathan Zittrain&#8217;s old <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/torts02\/\">Torts<\/a> website have 4 simple links: home, syllabus, courseware, discussion. These links make it clear where to find information.  Of course, it remains to be seen how confusing the current system will be to students &#8212; perhaps concern is premature.<\/p>\n<p>We already have plans to add a tutorial page to the site explaining how to enter a syllabus, but this doesn&#8217;t address the problem students  face in making sense of the syllabus once it is entered. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a crazy thought: we <i>could<\/i> offer an academic &#8220;skin&#8221; for projects &#8212; a feature that project leaders could turn on\/off to substitute academic nomenclature such as course\/syllabus\/readings, for the current, more general projects\/topics\/resources nomenclature.  Optionally, this academic skin could be made visible only to project participants, with guests seeing the more generic skin lessening the system wide impact of the different look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fall courses are entered into the H2O system, we are discovering what we knew already: it&#8217;s unclear how to use H2O for syllabus construction. The projects\/topics\/resources nomenclature in its generality and inclusiveness is unfortunately obtuse in an academic setting &#8212; not only for instructors, but more importantly for students. I&#8217;ve heard concern expressed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/geekroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}