OEIT web 1.2 ‘past, present, future’ Molly Ruggles

‘web 0.1’ Fall/- winter 2007

‘web 1.0’ Winter 2008 March 28

Spring 2008 news section

Late Summer 2008

‘web 1.2’ Fall 2008

Web 1.0 (old OEIT web) 7 content areas –‘Label’ orientation Thicker banner area Narrow content area Front page highlight gerry-rigged news Web 1.2 (current OEIT web) 5 content areas –‘Action’ orientation Thinner banner area Wider content area Front page portal to: –What we do --> Case Studies –How we can help --> enquiry form –News and announcements -- > news archives Comparison

Site content: Web 1.0: old OEIT web –3 areas of ‘service’: Proj consulting S/W: dev, int. proj mgt Outreach –5 ‘program areas’ Vis & Stim Collaboration Tools X-media Course & Learning Admin Active learning environ. –4 learning spaces –Gallery of Projects –People –Mission - hedgehog, strategy –partners –Pubs/archives Web 1.2: new OEIT web All of old OEIT web content, re- organized and labeled And: –Case studies –Crosstalk info and link –Enquiry form –Awards & achievement

Web 2.0….? CMS. Why….? Provide a consistent navigation scheme, thematically similar templates, and an easy and well-structured way to build on to the site. –Bring disparate web elements together under on ‘roof’ (see next page) OEIT staff get a dynamically generated ”CV” page which lists contact info, the projects they’ve worked on, or will be working on. Staff can add to this material as they like, and can customize. More fully engage MIT faculty, OEIT staff, the ed tech community by providing opportunities for user participation: blogs, forums, adhoc disc groups. Hierarchy of user authentication levels. Will provide: –Site security and stability –Distributed management of specific site pages or areas of site. –Authentication for blog participation: expand/control pool of authorized posters, eliminate spam in comments fields. Repository for project gallery, photo gallery. Serve-up multimedia content, searchable across multiple fields, categories. –Utilize structures inherent in CMS, or integrate systems such as KEEP, dSpace, etc.? Metadata tagging as a 3rd option as a gateway to content. –User generated? How much anonymous participations in the site? Will need more content than is there currently in order to leverage the benefits of tag clouds.

Another view OEIT web Web.mit.edu/crosstalk Web.mit.edu/nmc Edtech.mit.edu/times Web.mit.edu/STAR

Tag cloud example

Staff pages

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