I recently have begun working with a small team at Weber State University. Their School of Education is interested in moving forward with an OSP implementation. My proposal to them included:

• an OSP overview
• informal training of the tools they need to complete their project
• documentation of those tools on the public Sakai wiki

This approach will benefit the team involved in the immediate project, their successors and the entire Sakai community. We’ve allocated about 15 hours to writing an overview of the tools and how to use the “Forms” and “Portfolio Template” tools. The effort will be largely guided by Weber State’s needs, but I believe that any newcomer to OSP will find the documentation we write to be useful.

UPDATE: See the following confluence pages:

• Interactions between OSP tools
• Template-Based Portfolio Projects
  • Introduction
  • Staffing and Skills needed
  • Suggested Project Activities
  • Iterative development Until Deployment
  • Explore the tools
  • Template and Form Development for Template-Based Portfolios

I also contributed a related FAQ to openedpractices.org to clarify how to us the data structures in the community library.