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-MODULE DETAILS:\r
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-Description:\r
-Putting ATutor into the age of social networking. Allow users to share profiles\r
-and activities, link OpenSocial gadgets and applications into their social \r
-learning environment, and network with others locally, on other ATutor \r
-installations, or on other social networks.\r
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-Version:\r
-0.9 Beta\r
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-License:\r
-GPL/ATutor\r
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-State:\r
-In development. \r
-This version is primarily available for experimentation and feedback, \r
-leading up to a release of a stable version about June 09. Users are encouraged \r
-to make feature suggestions, report bugs, and get involved in developing the \r
-ATutor social network. Discussions can the started in the ATutor community \r
-forums http://www.atutor.ca/forum/16/1.html\r
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-Notes:\r
-Also note that ATutor Social runs with or without the OpenSocial Shindig \r
-server. You may point to your own Shindig server if you have one (download \r
-from: http://incubator.apache.org/shindig/), or use the ATutor social network \r
-server at http://social.atutor.ca/shindig/php. See the Administrator's \r
-Networking Admin panel to setup a link to a Shindig server, and link to other \r
-netowrks and applications, or do not use Shindig to create a self-contained \r
-social network using only your local ATutor installation. \r
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-INSTALLATION\r
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-1. Login as ATutor admin, install this module.\r
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-2. Setup Shindig if you want to have your own local social container, for a \r
-HOWTO on installing Shindig, please visit the following site:\r
-http://www.chabotc.com/guides/shindig_install/\r
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-A note on shindig installation, you will need to have the following PHP Extension enabled:\r
-- curl\r
-- openssl\r
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-If you don't want to setup your own Shindig, then you can use ATutor's Shindig server: http://social.atutor.ca/shindig/php\r
-Log in as ATutor admin, click on Networking tab, and type http://social.atutor.ca/shindig/php into the URL text input field.\r
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-3. Done, now you can enjoy e-learning with social networking in your ATutor :) \r
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-GADGETS:\r
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-One of the greatest features of Opensocial, gadgets are applications that sits on your social networking page.\r
-Similar to the gadgets on your iGoogle account. \r
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-ATutor social networking module allows users to install any Opensocial gadgets. Such gadgets can be found in:\r
-http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open or http://www.labpixies.com/\r
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-In order to install a gadget, click on the "Gadgets" link in the side menu, and copy and paste the URL of the gadgets' XML file.\r
-ie. http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml, http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/horoscope/horoscope.xml\r
-Then click "Add gadget".\r
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-FEATURES:\r
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-All Users\r
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- * Search Network: Search for people on a network to display basic information about them. Login to add people as contacts.\r
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-Registered Users\r
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- * My Contacts: Search the network for people you know and add them to your contact list.\r
- * People you Might Know: To help build networks, contacts of your contacts (i.e. friends of friends) are displayed making it easy to add common contacts to your own. Random selections of a few other's contact display each time a page loads.\r
- * Network Activity: Keep track of what other people in your network are doing by following their activities.\r
- * Network Groups: Create interest groups, or join an existing ones. Invite people to join groups you belong to.\r
- * Gadgets: Select from thousands of OpenSocial gadgets available around the internet to customize your social network to your specification. Once a gadget has been used on a system, it becomes available to others on your network to add to their social networking tools.\r
- * Privacy: Select from a range of privacy settings to control who sees what parts of your profile, and control which parts of your profile are searchable by others.\r
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-Instructors\r
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- * Turn off ATutor Social: ATutor Social runs both inside or outside of courses. Instructors may choose to disable social networking in their courses.\r
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-Administrators\r
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- * ShinDig Location: The ShinDig server acts as a hub for a social network. By default social.atutor.ca acts as the central hub for the ATutor social network. Administrators may choose to point to a different ShinDig server to create a private network.\r
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-Developers\r
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- * OpenSocial Standard: Develop your own OpenSocial Gadgets that will plugin to ATutor, or into other OpenSocial container applications.\r
- * Public Source Code: All ATutor Social source code is available for public checkout from the Subversion version control repository.\r
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-TODO:\r
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-- OAuth implementation\r
-- Improve UI.\r
-- Allows multiple ATutors to connect to each other, further expand the Social Network.
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