Computer Literacy Community of Practice

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Description

Dedicated to answering clientele questions (both internal and external) related to the application and use of information technologies. Community also provides oversight to FAQs concerning FAQs: identifying potential answers for peer-review, conducting peer-review, and publishing referred answers to the eXtension public web site.


To Join

Go to: https://people.extension.org/communities/68 and click Join Community

January 6 Meetup

Location and Time

Meeting Location: Adobe Connect ( http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/complit/ )
Scheduled Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST

Agenda

  1. Outline of previous CoPs in eXtension, and how this community is different
    • Subject matter CoPs based on public community needs
    • Role-based CoPs based on service to community, professional development -- more organic community
    • People application show interests of people and allows finding of common interests
    • There are already some FAQs in the area of Computer Literacy
    • Ensure quality, peer-review
    • Publish answers web, so that can be found through Google/search
    • No extra funding, just people who care. Same quality expected.
  2. Purpose of community
    • FAQs
  3. Tasks
    • Editing FAQs
      • Correctness of answer
      • Appropriate links (HTML)
    • Reviewing FAQs for publishing
      • Turn on Publishing Controls (Preferences checkbox)
      • Various people do review who were not authors
      • Add tag for when needs reviewed next, i.e., "Review January 2010"
    • Answering Ask an Expert Questions
      • Could add widget to pages on computer-related topics
      • We could help/review other CoPs that get computer-related questions in their subject area
    • Process for our FAQs that are ready for review
      • Author who marks as ready for review should send email to the CoP list to ask for reviewers
      • Would be helpful to have feeds for Questions ready for review
      • Code for feeds *Just* needs to be reveled
  4. Questions/Answers
  5. Linking to other sites within an answer? Yes. Unbiased source of information -- other reliable sources of info
  6. Referencing commercial products? Unbiased, not endorsing. Example: listing all major web conferencing sites
  7. How detailed an answer is needed? May need a note that if this computer is used in a work setting, then check with your system administrator
  8. Are all questions to be *published*? If clearly for an internal audience, then should be clearly answered, but not published to public site.
  9. Who is audience for the widgets? The same audience as for the site page it's on. Internal/External/whatever
  • Capture ideas in the wiki
  • Use the email list to communicate
  • Another Unmeeting in a month or so
  • Goal to publish another 5 in January
  • John Dorner will add a widget to his Tech Talk blog!
  • Everyone is to recruit more to join our CoP
  • Get Aaron to add more feeds
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