CommunityLearning_CWE Conference Call (2QUE)
Friday 2005-05-27 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EDT (2QUF)
- Call-in Number: 800-857-9370 (2QXC)
- PASSCODE: 51208 (2QXD)
- Your entry will be toned-in; please announce yourself (2QUI)
- Attendees: (2QUJ)
- Invited / Expecting: (2QUK)
- Regrets: (2QUL)
Agenda Ideas and Suggestions (2QUM)
- Newcomers' orientation for first 45 min. (2QUN)
- If you've already been introduced to the space, join us at 11:15 am when we discuss how to comment in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2QUO)
- people with specific tasks they need done on the CWE are encouraged to bring them to the second half of Friday's session -- we can discuss how best to accomplish these tasks. (2QUP)
Agenda & Proceedings (2QUQ)
- 1. First 45 minutes - Introduction and New User Orientation - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim ("=ppy") (2QUR)
- number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (2QUS)
- number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (2QUT)
- CWE for CWE users and administrators - our place to add content and help us learn together faster (2QUU)
- DougEngelbart pioneered groupware, hypertext and many of the seminal ideas underpinning this space - beginning ~40 years ago (2QUV)
- our Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) is a suite of 4 work spaces for the trusted community: (2QUW)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (2QVC)
- first place people go to: http://colab.cim3.net (2QVD)
- a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (2QUX)
- a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (2QV0)
- a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (2QV3)
- like your file space, but remote. Requires one time set-up. Any content is accessible by a browser and the content can be referenced and you can point your audience directly to the link of interest (2QV4)
- File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (2QV5)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/resource/ (2QV6)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/ (2QV7)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/community/ (community member password required to access) (2QV8)
- http://colab.cim3.net/file/admin/ (administrator password required to access) (2QV9)
- To access the File Workspace - refer to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess (2QVA)
- in addition to linking to just the top of the page, linking is more granular -- fine-grained accessibility, linking to any paragraph or bullet point (2QVB)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (2QVC)
- 2. Why do we need this? (2QVE)
- Mission of Company: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (2QVF)
- Ref: DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space - particularly, his concept on OHS (Open Hyperdocument System) and DKR (Dynamic Knowledge Repository) (2QVG)
- see also: "More about Collaborative Work Environments" (2QVH)
- Tools segmentation: (2QVI)
- Community segmentation: (2QVM)
- Affinity networks (2QVN)
- Learning communities (2QVO)
- Communities of Practice (see: CommunitiesofPractice) (2QVP)
- Project teams (2QVQ)
- it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (2QVR)
- it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (2QVS)
- To be able to wrap the right processes around tools with the right people in place to implement (2QVT)
- It's a participatory workspace (2QVU)
- it's about: (2QVV)
- sharing (2QVW)
- distributing the work (2QVX)
- getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (2QVY)
- capturing the memory and knowledge over the entire life-cycle of the community (2QVZ)
- have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (2QW0)
- perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (2QW1)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (2QW2)
- testbed global community over the past 3 yr. - over 100 members from 13 countries - you're welcome to visit (join us too if you're interested in ontologies) (2QW3)
- 3. a mini wiki-tutorial: (2QW4)
- The top two things that makes this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (2QW5)
- "create account" / "login" (near upper-right corner of the page, right below the logo/icon, any page.) (2QW8)
- suggested using your name in WikiWord format as your UserName, and use some password (to avoid being spoofed too easily) (2QW9)
- pick a page (your namesake page or SandBox would be a good start) and click on "Edit text of this page" (near the lower-left corner of the page, any page.) (2QWA)
- write something onto your namesake page (2QWB)
- click "save" or "preview" - Preview enables you to see what your page will look like on the web after saving - while simultaneously showing the edit box. Its helpful to see how the text formatting rules are rendered on the web by looking at both windows. (2QWC)
- Summary box - annotates the nature of the change you made (2QWD)
- Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (2QWE)
- take a look at the page index (2QWF)
- Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (2QWI)
- intro to PurpleNumbers (2QWJ)
- 4. How to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2QWK)
- How to use "in-line" method for succinct commenting within a small group (2QWL)
- edit by putting your suggested change in parentheses under the relevant section followed by your wiki name and date - e.g. (Suggest revising this definition...--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:30pm EST) (2QWM)
- How to use "forum" method for commenting on the DataReferenceModel_09_2004 (2QWN)
- large document, large number of contributors representing all interested parties and anticipate contributions that may include large "amounts or chunks of pages") (2QWO)
- use purplenumber method to anchor your comments to the relevant paragraph (2QWP)
- Right click on the purplenumber following the section identified for comment, like the "2QWQ" at the end of this line (2QWQ)
- Select copy shortcut (2QWR)
- Paste into your email message with subject line - Comments (2QWS)
- Follow the examples of comments provided below; PurpleNumber is pasted in after ref: (for reference) (2QWT)
- Add your name, date and time in parentheses (2QWU)
- Send your message to the public site at: drm-public@colab.cim3.net (2QWV)
- How to use "in-line" method for succinct commenting within a small group (2QWL)
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- Example: Comments (2QWY)
- ref: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SandBox#nid7VT (2QWZ)
- suggest changing from: "You can insert a graphic image too:" (2QX0)
- changing it to read "You can insert a graphic image (jpg, gif and png formats) too:" (2QX1)
- (--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:30pm EST) (2QX2)
- ref: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SandBox#nid7VW (2QX3)
- Comments: This is a very important section. (--SusanTurnbull / 2005.02.09 12:45pm EST) (2QX4)
Comments received from the public forum (drm-public@colab.cim3.net) will be added to the bottom of the relevant page with the corresponding "purple number" link. (2QX5)
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- 5. Observations and Insights from the Week - All (2QX7)
- the new search box at http://colab.cim3.net/ (2QX8)
- using InterMap (2QX9)
- RSS support (2QXA)
- 6. Date/ Time of next call: Friday, June, 3, 2005, 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EST (2QXB)