iStoa.net lands on Olpc
Par Hilaire Fernandes le samedi, mai 24 2008, 01:00 - Lien permanent
iStoa.net is a pretty large project I am developing for education. It is a learning environment with emphasis on interactive activities through artifacts, recording of student activities for further analysis, curriculum modeling with oriented graphs and learner modeling. Yesterday I tested the iStoa client application on the Olpc XO notebook.
The client is pretty large as it comes with its own Squeak virtual machine, image and a large set of code specific to iStoa. Moreover it gave me the opportunity to test the iStoa persistence based on the Magma object oriented database.
I knew the client will work without much problem but I was quite unsure regarding recording the learner activity. Indeed recording is done remotely in a dedicated server on the Internet (so teacher can also review remotely the learner activities). All in all, with the wifi connexion up, the recording went smooth. Of course it is pretty slow behind an ADSL connexion but I am confident this can be improved with Chris help.
