As you can see below, Pineapple has a presence at the GEES Subject Centre GEES Learning and Teaching to 2020 conference taking place this week.

Yesterday the University held a showcase of TEL activities that are going on at the institution. As part of an exhibition of JISC funded projects at Plymouth, the Pineapple Project disseminated information and talked to lots of delegates. The team were wearing a variety of hats and also took the opportunity to promote the Uplace Repository project and the Uspace Web 2.0 project. A busy but enjoyable day with great cream cakes.

The team recently met up with the University of Plymouth registry to discuss the finer detail of their APEL regulations.

In London fo the JISC annual conference, some of the pineapple team took the opportunity to visit its namesake the Pineapple Dance Studio. No sign of Louie though!

Attended a JISC Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development Programme meeting last week. It was a good opportunity to talk to people from other projects and find out what they are doing and it turns out that there is a lot of common ground when it comes to tackling APEL issues. I made some interesting contacts that I hope to follow up.

I’ve been keeping a log of development progress so far on the system. Been concentrating on backend administration so far whilst we finalise the APEL process aspect of the system. Much of this functionality is in basic stages and will be refined in time. Got a bit more work on this backend basic setup side of things before moving onto APEL applications and process side of project. Aim is to add in AJAX and javascript functionality down the line to improve usability and error checking.

• Basic site structure HTML and CSS
• Basic setup system script (to create admin)
• Register user
• Login / Logout
• User profile page (edit/update)
• User list of contacts (within college / upc)
• databases structure setup
• input error checking

Admin Area

• Edit User information
• Manage roles within system (e.g. advisor, tutor, administrator, student) (Add/edit/delete)
• Manage Areas (Institutions) within system (Add/edit/delete)
• Manage Locations (Campus’ or sites) within system (Add/edit/delete)

The PINEAPPLE team are pleased to announce our second newsletter covering our progress up to February 2010. It can be viewed here.

Pineapple Newsletter # 2 - Screenshot

The Pineapple baseline report can now be downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10293/356 . It covers local policy (University of Plymouth), looks at drivers, models and stakeholders. We hope you will find it useful.

A JISC/CETIS day in Birmingham showed, amongst other things, the use of the LEAP2A specification for moving ePortfolio content between applications.

I am not sure how relevant it is going to be for Pineapple but it may be implemented at a later stage.

The last few days I have been creating various screenshots of how the system may look and function.

I have now compiled these in flash to produce an interactive version so we are able to mock up how the system may function before making it all and get feedback from potential users.

This will be evolving over the coming months and can be seen here.