Jason Ming Sun & I made this presentation at a National Techie Training Day in 2008 to promote the use of the Sakai OSS learning and collaboration platform among HE institutions in South Africa. The event was sponsored by DITCHE.

1. National Techie Event 2008 Jason Ming Sun Deon van der Merwe

2. Introduction to Sakai

6. Sakai Users

7. Sakai at Unisa ( my UNISA)

8. The my Unisa Team (Jan 2008)

16. Usage

17. Over to Jason….

18. Environment Sakai release: 2.5.x OS: Ubuntu Server OS version: Gutsy Web server: Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat Web server version: 2.2.4 Database: Oracle 10g JVM: Java 1.5.x JVM version: 1.5.0_11 JVM tuning: JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xms700m -Xmx700m -XX:MaxPermSize=500m"

19. Hardware 64-bit processing: No Application server(s): VMware ESX3 virtual server farm = Physical Dell PE1955 Blade, 2 x Dual Core Xeon 5160 3.2Ghz 16GB RAM Virtual 6GB, 2 x CPU Total app servers: 12 Db server(s): Oracle 10g Total db servers: 1 File storage: Fileserver/NFS: Virtual 2GB, 1 x CPU Cluster/load balancing: Pound/Apache-mod_jk Software Load Balancing

20. myUnisa Cluster

29. “… [while] in textbook-based learning the activity focus is to get students to remember, understand and apply knowledge, collaborative learning encourages them to analyze , evaluate , and create ” Michael Laine – Collaborative Contributor to Wikinomics Wiki

30. Thanks Jason Ming Sun [email_address] Deon van der Merwe [email_address]

32. … . and More?

39. … .THE END…. … .NO REALLY!