Computer Literacy Community of Practice

2009-01-06T20:39:18Z

Organic Community of Practice == 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=== # 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. # Purpose of community #* FAQs # 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 # Questions/Answers # Linking to other sites within an answer? Yes. Unbiased source of information -- other reliable sources of info # Referencing commercial products? Unbiased, not endorsing. Example: listing all major web conferencing sites # 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 # Are all questions to be *published*? If clearly for an internal audience, then should be clearly answered, but not published to public site. # 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 [[Category: Portal]] [[Category: Educational Content]]

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