digital lyceum

We’ve been assembling a list of features for the Digital Lyceum Website on our project wiki. Project collaborators are adding to the list and offering clarifications where necessary. The result is a more thorough list (for instance, we originally neglected to ask users for their organization’s website during the registration process), and one that is very well organized. Craig Freeman proposed the structure which breaks the project into 4 distinct phases: Developing the web portal (this page); Event organization and publicity; Event “instance” and facilitation; and, Event archive (which we are considering addressing as a separate project).

In another section of the wiki I’m starting a conversation around the language we use when discussing the site. For instance, there are many types of ‘users,’ each needs to be more clearly defined. We’re also trying to demarcate terms for the word “participant.” For instance, what are the names for the roles the ‘participant’ is playing when a person is: using the event application; participating in the event in real-life/virtually; accessing the event database at a later date? Having this conversation on the same page means that the visionaries and programmers can be looking at the same set of user roles, using the same language, which should help identify any potential conflicts or issues ahead of time.