1. Intro

[Slide 2 of http://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/2014-10-01_Presenting-the-Lively-project.html]

=> Lively Web is a Construction Kit that combines multiple layers typically not combined in software systems:

• General programming tools and specific end-user interfaces to create applications
• A wiki environment to share and collaborate
• Infrastructure to readily integrate other systems:
  • like Web-services (Google Maps, Twitter, etc)
  • SOAP Applications (SAP HANA)
  • Via node.js: Even not out-of-the-box "internet-compatible" applications (like R)
• In it's sum: A self-modifiable networked cloud application

=> We particularly focus on ease-of-use and concreteness

[show a quick Morphic demo here]

2. Using the Web for sharing and collaboration

[Slide 5 of http://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/2014-10-01_Presenting-the-Lively-project.html]

=> Live connected users and applications

• Collaboration via creating a shared computation runtime
• Via Wiki workspaces + PartsBin

[Show a remote lively2lively preview]

3. Evaluating this approach for providing a learning and teaching system for CSC130 @ UVic

[Slide 6 of http://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/2014-10-01_Presenting-the-Lively-project.html]

• Setup time and customizations of Lively <2 weeks (including a the creation of excercise content + learning material, a highly customized user-access system)

=> Providing an environment in which students can learn (and have fun doing it)

Challenges:

• Learning environment that allows students to focus on learning about particular topics but is open enough to allow explorations for the curious!
• Excersises that interesting but not too complicated

[Show examples from Slide 6]

=> Teaching environment

[Slide 7 of http://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/2014-10-01_Presenting-the-Lively-project.html]

• Quickly create and refine course content
• Find students needing additional support and provide (remote) help
• Evaluate teaching approach and effectiveness of excercises

[Show on http://uvic.lively-web.org/admin/user-settings.html]

• customized tools to manage users and user access
• lively-web.uvic.ca activities, drilling in, who was online?
• User world viewer

4. Back-to-Lively: Where we see our future

[Back to Slide 5 of http://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/2014-10-01_Presenting-the-Lively-project.html]

• extending collaboration and "connected-ness", Tooling to improve collaboration and communication

[Show Felix video demo]

• Focusing on novel programming approaches to improve ease-of-use in application creation
• • End user programming

[Show Astrids/Lars demo]

1. "Internet of things" [Maybe when there is time: Extend the system integrations even more to provide a programming tool for the "Internet of things": Show Arduino/Tessel ultrasonic demo]