Markr – Video: Prakash Chatterjee – Pitch 6 – Day 2

devcsi-team — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:49:23 +0000

BLOG API’s for metadata collection re. Student FacilitationCollecting metadata from Student Blogs and spreading good practice among students and teachers.We have started talking to:More information can be found at:

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Markr – Interview: Parakash Chatterjee

michelle-pauli — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:43:51 +0000

Parakash Chatterjee, a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England at the Bristol of Technology, which consists of computer science and information technology and built environment, explains how Markr will enthuse studentsWhat is Markr?It’s about trying to enthuse students and get payback for lecturers at the same time. It’s about teaching students about semantic data – it allows students to set up blogs and pull metadata from their blogs so if something has been referenced by a number of students we can make other students aware of that. We could then build tag clouds and put something behind those tag clouds such as threshold concepts - the concepts you need to know to gain knowledge about a subject – and see how many of those are being included in the tag cloud. The pay off for the lecturer is that it automates some of the processes. By pulling metadata we can look at where and how links are being made and how concepts are being used.What problems/issues is Markr tackling?To enthuse students and show them openly how semantic data can be generated and used so when we come to teach them notions of the semantic web there is something already there they can look. But mostly it is to enthuse them and build applications in the third generation of the web. It borrows from notions of social computing as well – a blog which is essentially an individual act can join with other blogs to show a social computing idea.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?We’d like to look at ways of other people using APIs to communication with existing blogs and look at examples of that and borrow and steal whatever we can from those technologies.What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?Most of my time is taken up with teaching. I”m not a developer in that sense – if I develop software it’s to use in teaching or show students what can be done.What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?E-learning. It has huge potential and we’re only at the beginning of it. Interactive learning, student-directed learning – all of those things hugely important and will impact on us in a big way in next few years.

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Markr – Video: Prakash Chatterjee – Pitch 6 – Day 2

Markr – Interview: Parakash Chatterjee