Opened Practices Users Working at: University of Virginia

Luke Wright holds a Doctorate from Oxford, an MA from the University of Virginia, and a BA from The University of The South, Sewanee. His first book, _Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church_, was published by UNDP in 2010 and his next book _The Biblical Foundations of English Radical Thought_ is also under contract to Notra Dame. The course which he is nominating is taught to mature students studying for the BA level degree in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at the University of Virginia.

My title at the University of Virginia is Faculty Consultant in Instructional Technology. I work with any faculty member at the University who is interested in technology integration in teaching. I am also responsible for developing and promoting the use of our course management system by our faculty. We run Sakai which we have branded UVaCollab.

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.