• Nearly come to the end of all special-study presentations
• It was good for today – with two related papers presented.
• Next to work on defining which level of adaptation my system wanted to implement. They can actually base on recently works as 60% – additional ideas for 40%. Also we should be able to criticize their works to make the best of chices that mostly suit for the learners.

Presentation about SCORM specification. Needed to imporove on finding the relevant papers as examples. Prof. said the sholarship will be for only two people but we are now having three people working with him – so … “lucky draw” would be the solution. – so I hope ‘luck’ might show me to the best way I deserve….

• Didn’t go to study IW – as I had to prepare for the presentation 
• Presentation not well-done – as busy with work and IW – but OK
• Next step on special study – studying the SCORM model to include metadata for adaptive information of learning objects

• Presentation on 'User Modeling'
• Next progress on 'Adaptive Learning Objects'
  • SCORM
• I will do – the adaptive LOs to match with learner models

• First presentation
• Outline
  • E-Learning
    • Concept
    • Comparison
    • Architechture – Example
  • Personalized E-Learning
    • Concept
    • Technique
    • Architecture – Examples
• Comment – Next step
  • User Modeling
    • How to model user
  • Mapping – User modeling and Learning Object
    • How to select LO that are suitable for a user
  • Customizing Learning Object
    • If can't find suitable LO for a user, what to do – how to create the new suitable one.
• How to do special study
  • Documents
    • Submit presentation every week
    • Submit report at the end – but update every week – concept of writing one book about my topic and divided in the different chapters
  • Ideas – Thinking processes
    • Try to work with Top-Down approach – seeing the topic from the top – try to find out and collect the information from top view – until can scope down to the specific topics – and finally find the problem area that can be improved. – (see it like a tree)
    • Annotation – Ontology: mapping btw a content inside language models – we are doing the framwork which can be implement to different domains

[Keeping working - only 'persistence' help to improve and succeed]

• Semantic Web 
  • Install Phyton
    • C:\Python24
  • Learn MochiKit
• Sun Java
  • Server 
    • Server-side script – JSP, Servlet
    • Server – Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5.5
      • C:\Tomcat 5.5 (http://localhost:8081)
    • J2SDK 1.4.2_10
      • C:\Program Files\Java
    • J2EESDK 1.4.0.3
      • C:\Sun\AppServer
      • JAXP
    • JWSDP 2.0 – Java Web Services
      • C:\Sun\jwsdp-2.0
      • JAXP
  • Client 
    • Client-side script – JavaScript
    • AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript + XML
    • DOM
  • JXTA – P2P
• Finally got 4 servers running on my machine.
  • Port 80: AppServ – PHP
  • Port 8080: J2EE 1.4 – JSP Servlet JAXP
  • Port 8081: Tomcat 5.5 – JSP Servlet
  • Port 8082: Plone – Zope, Phyton

Just a thought to update a bit about the progress on my thesis works.

• Finally got two books as refs - 'The semantic web primer' and 'Towards the semantic web'
• My topic - 'Personalization for e-learning in the semantic web'
• Got lots of refs to read
• Presentation on Friday – thinking of the outline
  • e-Learning in the semantic web
    • the perspective
    • the techniques and standards
  • Personalization for e-learning in the semantic web
    • the perspective
    • the techniques and standards
    • the architectures and examples
    • the problems and improvement
  • … etc
• Need to study more in the deeper details…

Update more soon before Friday – another two days to go for the first presentation – best of luck

Frist meet and talk with prof. Vilas. – It was quite good, at least the topic has been scoped down. From 'Personalization services for e-learning in a Peer-to-Peer Semantic Web environment' to 'Personailzation services for e-learning' Sound better as he said Peer-to-Peer is on of the concept in Sematic Web, but it is low layer. Now we should focus on the upper layer and let's assume that we have a huge database for an e-learning application so that we can access and provide some services to. – It is good then.

He also said he would emprasize for 'special study' on finding other related works and defined how our works would be better – also we needed to find the way for evaluation. – That's the concept for working – needed to do some progress and presentation on the coming Friday.