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Collaboration in NSDL: Ad Hoc CollaborationBrandon Muramatsu, California State University Cathy Manduca, Carleton College Rob Stephenson, Wayne State University Dave Yaron, Carnegie Mellon University This session will focus on tools that support the interaction of the development community, as well as other communities. Representatives from the NSDL Developers Portal and the Collaboration Finder will discuss their processes for defining user needs, building responsive environments, encouraging the use of these environments, and measuring their impact. Notes - Collaboration in NSDL: Ad Hoc CollaborationBrandon Muramatsu Collaboration Finder grew out of a presentation at the AP Meeting 2 years ago--Vision Support Planning Database Tool recorded project interest areas and activities Grew into CF--CF started by being a central location to identify like-minded individuals Now, CF serves CI and others by listing links to collection policies, sustainability policies, etc. in addition to activities Cathy Manduca Integrated Sites/Distributed Authors: SERC Web-based Authoring Environment Digital Library for faculty http://serc.carleton.edu
Using Digital Library
Management Tools
Communication Management
Question: What need does this respond to? Answer: Faculty are often not supported to collaboratively develop learning assets to together Strong Solution
Question: Gene Klotz--Can other people use Question: Dave Yaron--Are you archiving the user interactions? Answer: Sean (Carleton)--Standard email listservs are archived, we're working on whether to treat user info as annotations Rob Stephenson, Wayne State University For NSDL to succeed, it needs
Design goals
An Now, the Demo... Based on Zope and Plone--open source content management systems; not designed to be a portal but as a place for people to build their own sites
New projects building on
Enabling Technologies: Linking Concepts
Challenges for active content
Promotting reuse and maintenance Using DLs to build educational communities
Chemistry Domain Map (a basis for discussion) Phased development process is very one-on-one Post Presentation Discussion Question: How can OpenCourse.org and the Developers' Portal work together? Answer: The pieces could work together (Casey) About 11 people were in a focus group in which they discussed what they needed from the Developers' Portal (Susan J.) A lot of people don't know that the DP is--even CI is still trying to figure out what the DP is now, or going to be soon; It is functioning as an entry point for developers and users Question: What would I find there? Answer: Handbooks, development advice, people's project stories Question: Large amount of tool development has been going on. Is seems like we need a tool developers' workshop to come together... Answer: Seems like it would be powerful to look at all of the ideas at once and see how they might work together Opencourse.org database of tools, skills brokerage Question: What has worked in the collaborations you've done? Answer: (Cathy) A little bit of structure goes a long way. (Dave) We're not quite there yet. The development of the labs is still viewed as a collaboration with us, not with each other (Rob) The idea of sharing and open source makes the collaboration healthy. Once there's a profit motive, that ruins the dynamic. People still have the notion that they can make lots of $$ from educational content (Casey) There's no spelled out process, so projects end up getting derailed and confused by their own collaboration (Susan J.) CI is a distributed team and has to collaborate with various pieces. What saved us was regular communicatin in a weekly phone call. (Audience member) The best collaborations seem to also include a To Do list (Cathy) Our tool has a To Do list in a way because our telecons culminate in a summary message that goes into the listserv archive (Rob) Our tool includes a feature called "I Need a Hand" and they post a Want Ad and there's a tool to track who picks up task Question: (Ellen) Synchronous and asynchronous things are happening. How might you continue to take advantage of this? Answer: (Dave) We need to build in both. We have a virtual lab for people to build things, but we don't have a collaboration model. Comment: (Susan J.) We need to make the tools created for developers usable for faculty and learners. The METIS project has a workflow management system (Ken Anderson; ask Laura Bartolo) Special performance by Big Daddy Rap Fork ~ The Collaboration Rap ~ CommentsPlease enter any comments in the following format.
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