Technology and Tools Task Force TECH Technology that Educators of Computing Hail website ACM Education Council T&TTF: Dan Garcia, Chair Sally Fincher Don Bailes 6 student developers : “Cal TECH” Dan Garcia UC Berkeley plonetest.acm.org/techtools/
Garcia, , Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail Grand Vision
Garcia, , Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail TECH site structure Home page Topics pages (discussion threads here) Technology page (forums here) + ratings (+ overview, photo, cost, systems, external link, …)
Garcia, , Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail Policies (how we grow gracefully) How links get added / updated / removed? Links there are “official” links Moderators monitor Topics pages (RSS helps) Member in topic page discussion mentions change or s moderator(s) through smart ‘contact’ option on page auto-includes what page user is visiting and sends to the moderator of that page One of the moderators updates main page …and maybe deletes discussion / forum comment
Garcia, , Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail Moderators Share Ownership Moderators can edit their topic & ALL child technology pages (including adding new) They can also modify supplemental pages Can suggest restructuring / order of topics ACM Council TechTools Task Force also chimes Perhaps moderators can write a “state of the topic” discussion every so often CreativeCommons licensed…
Garcia, , Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail Recent Developments Recruited more moderators (now 37!) Steady-state, we hope for 50 (2-3 for 20 topics) Held successful SIGCSE BoF session Plan to hold one in Milwaukee + post-BoF meeting ACM moving from Plone CMS to Savvy CMS Plone is an open-source, Python-based CMS Savvy is a commercial, ColdFusion-based CMS My star student developers say neither Plone nor Savvy appropriate for our needs Plone makes it difficult to run custom code, has a higher learning curve than other CMS systems
Garcia, , Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail Merge with Ensemble! Ensemble (NSDL Computing Portal) The timing couldn’t be better! Drupal CMS looks very mature, easy to develop in Ensemble will be building a user community Dan is working with Ensemble project, perfect! Key Features we’ll have in Ensemble “Watched” pages & auto-notification, RSS feeds Auto-created topic pages Rating of technologies Forums for discussions of topics or technologies
Garcia, , Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail To Do List Immediate Caught up to speed with Drupal & Ensemble Move our content & user communities over Get forums, tutorials up (perhaps screencast videos) Longer-term With Ensemble, build user community Think about branding; tech.acm.org ? Work on all the features we’ve wanted (easy & hard) Curriculum tool hierarchy? Keep moderators active & engaged Conference calls? Rewards (Dan discusses later) key…