Development & Implementation: Awayday Outputs August 20, 2009
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , add a commentThe awayday outputs are now available in the SHARE Wiki go to: http://wiki.ntushare.org/tiki-index.php?page=Awayday. I have decided to form some sub-groups to assist with achieving the milestones for the project. So far I have decided to have:
- Training and support
- Pilots
- Testing
And I will be assisting the groups with getting a plan together for each of these.
SHARE, WordPress and Accessibility August 17, 2009
Posted by sarahhorrigan in : Comms , add a commentIf anyone would like to know more about accessibility and using this WordPress-powered site, then there is a really useful resource on just that thing at the WordPress Codex. It gives some useful advice on things to remember when putting together your posts to go on the site and has plenty of links to other resources which will help us to keep the NTU SHARE project as accessible as we can.
For other online documents which can either be uploaded here or put into the NTU SHARE Wiki, the:
Accessibility Checklist for online materials v1.5
… should be useful too!
NTU SHARE Wiki now available August 14, 2009
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NTU SHARE Wiki
In the past few weeks we’ve been busy testing and writing documentation for the NTU SHARE wiki for the past few weeks and we’re now ready to get people started using it as a collaborative working space for which you need to be a registered user – anonymous users have read-only access.
To get started, you need to do the following:
1. Go to http://wiki.ntushare.org (there’s also a tab which links directly to the wiki from this site)
2. Click Register
3. On the Registration page, fill in the blank fields and click Register. You may choose your own username, but it would be helpful if it were in the form FirstnameLastname, i.e. Joe Bloggs becomes “JoeBloggs”
4. A registration confirmation will be sent to the e-mail address you provided. Click the link within that e-mail to validate your account.
5. An account confirmation appears in your Web browser and you are now ready to use the NTU SHARE Wiki.
Further advice and support
Once you’ve done that, you might find the other “Getting Started with the NTU SHARE Wiki” guides helpful and you’ll find those at http://wiki.ntushare.org/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=1.
There are also two short video tutorials available via http://wiki.ntushare.org/tiki-index.php?page=Video+Tutorials and we’ll be gradually adding to these with some slightly more advanced tutorials.
We are currently working on further advice / processes for using the wiki, but the main areas to look at will be the work package pages which have been set up and the File Gallery area. In addition, there is a Help and Support forum which we’ve created so that we can answer any technical / usability queries you might have and we’re also building up a set of FAQs as we go.
Migrated Content
We’ve migrated as much content as we could from the temporary Confluence wiki which NTU-based users had access to as well as the Offive Live Space which was being used by the Requirements Analysis work package. However, if there’s anything missing which you expected to see in the new NTU SHARE wiki, do drop us an e-mail and we’ll sort it out.
Hello from RA group… August 10, 2009
Posted by JonTepper in : Comms , add a commentHi,
Just a quick test message to say ‘hello’ on behalf of the Requirements Analysis group!
The Requirements Analysis group have met frequently over the last couple of weeks to model the requirements for an LOR system at NTU. We aim to produce our key deliverables by 27th August 2009….challenging times ahead and definately no comfort zone for the time being! 
However, we look forward to meeting the challenges head on and appear to be on track. Onwards and upwards!
Dr Jon Tepper
Lead for Requirements Analysis Workpackage
Project SHARE Communications overview August 10, 2009
Posted by moledzki in : Comms , add a comment
The main place to find out what’s happening with the project is the main NTU SHARE site here at http://www.ntushare.org. For the collaborative working space, the wiki can be found at http://wiki.ntushare.org and this will offer
Links list
Main project workspace – http://wiki.ntushare.org
Netvibes project aggregation page – http://netvibes.com/ntushare
List of RSS feeds for aggregator users – opens a wiki page
Development and Implementation Awayday: Out of my comfort zone August 7, 2009
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , 1 comment so farI am trying to make a commitment to blog weekly. I am still collating the excellent outputs from our awayday.
As part of the awayday I put some some flip chart sheets around the room on each I put the heading “Out of My Comfort Zone” – this was to encourage attendees to highlight any areas of the project that they needed more information on; they required more personal development and to put just general question (… on Post-its that they could stick on the sheets. No I am not part of the Post-it hierarchy but they are quite versatile for paper microblogging and brainstorming – could these be counted as affordances of Post-its?)
As a result these are the the issues that came out:
- How do we involve our Information Systems Service e.g. particularly in the areas of streaming and storage of multimedia
- Eportfolio tagging is good can this be enabled for LOR?
- Can we rate Learning Objects e.g. stars & comments?
- Links to the LOR – should it appear in the Nav bar it might be confusing for students?
- If a dynamic link is copied from a learning room to another, does it copy the link successfully
- What is IEEE LOM?
- What is a metadata schema?
- What is the definition of a Learning Object? How granular can we go?
- Should we be using the term Open Content rather than learning object?
- Can the level of learning object be automatically added to metadata?
- QA’ing metadata at institutional level if this is necessary who will do it?
- I would like a demo of setting up a trust in NOW
- More explanation on how you would publish to different levels in the hierarchy
- I would like an explanation of different metadata schema, who uses them and why
- Is there a place where I can find all the repositories or is there some way we could bring together links to repositories
- LOR is not quite what I thought it’s not fully open access
- There are quite a lot of channels of communication
- Students will want access to information that they studied last year – how can they access this stuff?
- A catalogue of open LORs would be helpful
- It would be useful to have an overview for the steering group chair and NTU eLearning Working Group
These questions will now help to inform some staff development activities for team members as well as information dissemination. Of course the team can also add to these so it is open list.
