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Hi Michael,

thank you. great work plan. I agree that it is fine to let KALite handle all 
that it needs itself (e.g. downloads).

On the licence side:
KALite is BY-NC-SA, so it fits well with awarenet. We have to say that this is 
KALite in the background, and make our software freely downloadable to others 
if it is tightly integrated with KALite. We cannot charge money for the 
software.

Looking forward to the progress report.
Best, Ron

On 06/09/2013 10:57, Michael Appelt wrote:
> Hi Anna,
> In terms of work I think if we take doing Khan integration into awarenet 
ourselves as 100% then the amount of work needed to integrate with kalite 
(assuming that it works the way I think it does) would be maybe 20% instead!
> It does not look as if we need permission from anybody to run the server and 
redirect calls to it - Khan is 100% "use as you please" and I think kalite is 
too?
> I think the report/feedback functionality, assuming that it works well - am 
busy testing it locally on my machine would be useful for teachers, they would 
handle this all themselves since working with kalite offline should be quite 
similar to working with Khan online ... let's see what I find out.
> It could be that such a study is an overkill because I have to implement Khan 
lesson creation right now. The requirement to get Khan content into awarenet is 
acute and the question is should I "update" Strix's implementation of 
downloading videos or should we let kalite do this all for us (administration 
of what videos to download, setting pupils lessons for Khan, teacher getting 
reports).
> I will spend time to see how well kalite works, the webpages linking awarenet 
to kalite should be quite easy to do and should not take much time ...
> Will let you know beginning of next week about what my findings are - will 
first check what kalite can do and then try to link to it from awarenet's side 
(makig a prototype page that links to the download functionality). If I see 
that this is a major thing then I will report and not do anything further but 
if I see that it is a simple thing then I should write further prototype pages 
for it and let you, Ron and Strix decide what to do after that.
> Ok?
> Kind regards,
> Michael
>> "Dr. Anna Wertlen" <anna@eKhayaICT.com> hat am 6. September 2013 um 10:26 
geschrieben:
>>
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> thank you very much for your input. I have to rely on the 3 of you about 
tech details. Then, the cost-benefit analysis will have to be discussed between 
all of us.
>>
>> * How much work will this be and who will do the work/be able to do the work?
>> * Do we need permission from Kahn?
>> * Is it useful for teachers, will we have more independent users/awarenet 
champions/coordinators?
>>
>> I would do a before-after study, perhaps with the help of the volunteers. We 
need to communicate the impact of the awarenet programme.
>>
>> Anna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Appelt wrote (05/09/2013 16:13 ):
>>> Dear Anna, Ron, Strix
>>> I think that this co-operative, open source platform offering offline 
access to Khan Academy learning materials could be the answer to Anna's idea of 
integrating the knowledge map of a student and solving our problem of a 
semi-implemented functionality (because we have to switch to the new Khan API) 
that downloads Khan Academy videos into the awarenet context. So in other 
words, I think that this could relieve us from implement our own "knowledge map 
/ feedback student to teacher" functionality as displayed in the video found by 
Anna and also relieve us from maintaining compatibility with the Khan API. Two 
very good "relieves" from my perspective!
>>> Technically we *could* solve it such that we would install this Khan Lite 
Server on awarenet server (all it needs is Phyton 2.6 or 2.7 - I do not know if 
this would contradict our current installation but I think it does not) and 
redirect requests from our pages to it. Using simple words we could create web 
pages on awarenet that in the background call on the Khan Lite Server to get 
its functionality.
>>> I will download and install this Khan lite server today/tomorrow and see if 
its "knowledge map / feedback student to teacher" functionality is similar or 
close in terms of sophistication of what we could see on the video Anna found. 
Ron, what a find if this is so!
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> > Ron Wertlen <ron@ekhayaict.com> <mailto:ron@ekhayaict.com> hat am 29. 
August 2013 um 21:42 geschrieben:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hi Anna,
>>> >
>>> > +1 awesome!! Khan Academy is just magic.
>>> >
>>> > There's now KA Lite:
>>> > website: http://kalite.learningequality.org/
>>> > code: https://sites.google.com/a/learningequality.org/kalite/
>>> >
>>> > Khan Academy for offline use. Doesn't seem to use a database, so
>>> > probably uses file storage. Which we can use to integrate with awarenet.
>>> >
>>> > This would be a huge drawcard for awarenet.
>>> >
>>> > Best regards, Ron
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 28/08/2013 13:33, Dr. Anna Wertlen wrote:
>>> > > Hi Strix and Michael,
>>> > >
>>> > > please, have a look at this video.
>>> > >
>>> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQQjbq0gMmE&list=TLafMJaPhb7XE
>>> > >
>>> > > Any chance we can cooperate with Kahn in a way that an awarenet user
>>> > > can also make use of this?
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks for your your recommendation.
>>> > > Best,
>>> > > Anna
Original issue reported on code.google.com by a...@villagescribe.org on 11 Sep 2013 at 8:34
VillageScribeAssociation / awarenet

KahnLite #370
