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Foil 26 Some General Objects of Importance to Education

From Collaborative Portals for Distributed and Distance Learning NCSA Industrial Partners Meeting -- October 12-13 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


"(better)portalML" -- define the user's customized portal layout and what they can choose from
  • define available objects and layout (number of columns etc.)
  • placement of component objects on pages and specification of their parameters and location e.g. access weather object for suchandsuchcity with suchandsuch sensor overlay
  • choice of nifty JavaScript index
  • preferences for resolutions and "universal access"
  • borders, backgrounds etc.
Portal building tools will exist for developers (architect type of portal i.e. differentiate my.NPAC from my.Netscape) and users ( specialize particular portal architecture )
Such general tools will be competition for education specific systems like WebCT



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