Opened Practices Users Named: Pierre

French TA and PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
I was a very early Sakai/Collab adopter at UVA and as Teaching + Technology Support Partner in the French Department, I intensively contributed to the use of Sakai/Collab in the French Dpt.
Among the projects I developed as a TA and TTSP :
- Collab sites to enhance collaboration between TAs/Instructors/Professors teaching the same course (collaborative sites) : archives and discussion groups to develop courses ;
- I use intensively Collab/Sakai (course sites) in the classes I teach as a platform to communicate with my students (mainly the resources, the discussion tool, the
- But the most developed project I worked on was for an advanced class about Contemporary France. I was TA for two professors and was in charge of developing a project with Collab that would eventually is the creation by the student, as a final project/paper, of a website. Except for the website tool that was used to create the website (iWeb), every step of the project (including the storage of the websites) was developed on Skai/Collab.