Educational Blogger Project - Weekly Update

Week of June 23

Researched how file upload is handled in Moodle
Implemented Image Upload with tinyMCE in mockup
Halfway done with integrating tinyMCE with Moodle
Implemented customization of student page in mockups for user input
Revised Timeline due to delay in XS availability (pushed non-dependent tasks first)

Revised timeline to take some Moodle difficulties into account (tinyMCE integration not officially supported until 2.0)
Outlined changes to OU Blog Tables, first step in phase 2
Discussed more details of Moodle implementation with Greg to rework admin and teacher mockups
Completed Sugar Theme for tinyMCE (IE, FF, Browse compatible! + Easier Moodle integration!) - First Milestone
Bug fixes to Image Upload
Image upload to blogger mostly finished and being tested by users!

Test server almost ready! Gave suggestions of additional software to Tony
Started getting a lot of user feedback (on uruguay-xo-coordination list) and tweaked mockups
Figured out how to upload images to Blogger (very little doc!)
Reconfigured Moodle with tinyMCE (will be replaced officially in 2.0) and started work on the UI
Implemented basic post to Blogger functionality so users can comment on the whole workflow (screenshot)!
Git repository set up by Marcel! Organized and uploaded what we had so far
Work plan nearly finalized and exact Moodle modifications identified
Overall project plan approved by Greg and Martin
Finished mock ups of teacher and student pages for end user comments

Initiated process to obtain development XO
Started discussion with Martin about the EduBlog project
Continued prototyping student editor page (added image upload)
Evaluated using Moodle with OU Blog as per Martin's advice (feasible, but requires more discussion)
Researched methods for remotely posting to Blogger.com (first target system for remote posting)
Revised project plan based on modifications and information from list

Discussed project timeline and milestones with Greg
Applied for project hosting with Marcel
Set up a hosting account with LAMP to develop until Fedora with XS made available
Began developing prototype of student editor page (http://olpc.betarun.com/ui/student_editor.php)