Comp 119 Fall 2005 CreativeEDU by Brian Sweeney & Hinár Polczer

CreativeEDU - Outline Project Description Target Audience Users Functionality & Services Architecture and Design Inner workings User Interface Questions

CreativeEDU Project Description CreativeEDU takes on the challenge of offering elementary school students and teachers a collection of creative, computer- based resources and fun activities to create a memorable learning experience in studying elementary education subjects

Target Audience CreativeEDU’s target audience is everybody who would like to learn new things or get help with a specific elementary subject while still having fun. Elementary teachers, students and their parents might use this site to assist their studies.

Users Anonymous User: only shared resource browsing (entries and resources posted by others) Registered User: after authentication, can browse database of entries and resources (same as Anonymous) and can create/edit/delete her/his own resources Contributor User: besides registered user rights, user can add new entries and share her/his resources for others to see Administrator: can see and edit/delete anybody’s entries and resources. Superuser: can assign contributor and administrator privileges.

Functionality & Services A searchable database of web addresses that take the users to a variety of teaching and fun resources. The database acts as a portable favorites/bookmarks – users can access the same resource links from any computers with internet access. The site allows classroom teachers to find lesson plans, resources and activities for classroom use. Students and their parents can use the database to get help with homework, to find practice information and playful learning activities. Users can create pre-specified resource-link groups that can be accessed later without searching for the entries - perfect for teachers who want students to access the same web pages from several computers. Users can annotate these collections with their own text to make it easier to remember their thoughts. The link collections and comment text can be organized/placed together in any order it is practical for the user. Users can contribute to the resourc

CreativeEDU Architecture & Design  CreativeEDU uses the power of j2EE to help teachers assemble their thoughts in a timely manner. The use of templating brings all available options to the forefront for beginners while allowing administrators to easily custom tailor the look for their own schools. Multi-window editing allows advanced users to perform complex operations in only a few clicks. The j2EE support also permits the system to be run on a modest machine in order to support a small school or a robust server to support an entire school system.

Inner workings CreativeEDU builds on a similar J2EE architecture we used in the last AB project. It uses 4 main tables (Users, Resources, Lessons, Texts) in the database, which allow the components of the Lessons to be saved individually.

User Interface Welcome (Register, Login)Welcome Registered User Browsing Result List Add a resource Lesson Editor

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