1. Using SharePoint 2007 as an Extranet for Blended eLearning and Communities of Practice
Stephen Mau
Website & eNewsletter Communications The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
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2. Workshop Description
While known primarily as an enterprise portal platform, the latest version of SharePoint can be configured as an extranet and used to provide eLearning and online collaboration opportunities in membership-based organizations. Learn how a large teachers federation leveraged SharePoint 2007 and related technologies to provide long-term online learning opportunities to its membership. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario has adopted a long-term approach to professional development that involves action research, the use of trained facilitators, and a blended model of eLearning. This presentation will focus on both this blended model for professional learning, and the use of SharePoint to deliver the online components.

3. Workshop Agenda About ETFO & Me Overview of SharePoint
MOSS vs. WSS 3.0
ETFO’s blended Model of Professional Learning
Tour of ETFO Team Sites
Three levels of deployment, or ‘how rich is your organization?’
SharePoint as an LMS?
SharePoint Tools
Questions/ Comments

4. About ETFO
The professional and protective organization representing 73,000 public elementary teachers and education workers (K -8) in the province of Ontario
Provides the following services:
Collective Bargaining
Professional Counseling
Equity & Women’s Services
Professional Development

5. About Me Professional teacher Began teaching online 10 years ago
Learned some web design
Became an e-Learning consultant, then web content person
Not a developer, a content person
Led a project to deploy SharePoint at ETFO for public website, intranet and extranets

6. What is MOSS? Full Version of SharePoint is ‘MOSS 2007’
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
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7. What is MOSS? (2)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.
An enterprise portal
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8. Six Pillars of MOSS Collaboration Enterprise Search
Business Intelligence
Portal
Content Management
Forms-driven business process
Collaboration: Social networking, Wikis, blogs, Surveys, Integration of , Task coordination, Document collaboration, Issue tracking,
Enterprise Search: Search by ‘rights,’ search ‘any’ content, narrow search by dept, etc., search other systems
B.I.: access to data—internal and external (external data connector)
Portal: personalization, Mysite, site collections, site collection admins, site admins– control
Web and Enterprise content management: workflows, document management, records management,
Forms driven business process – Infopath forms combined with workflows, approvals, etc.

9. Tour of ETFO MOSS Public website Secure Intranet Team Sites
Capitalizes on robust enterprise search, lists, ability to roll up data
Secure Intranet
Document sharing, some forms driven processes
Team Sites
eLearning, document sharing & work group sites

10. MOSS Licensing
Standard CAL – collaboration, portals, enterprise search, enterprise content management
Enterprise CAL – add Business Process/Forms, Business Intelligence, Business Data Catalogue
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet Sites – for MOSS used only for public sites, or to bring external users in. A server license.
MOSS for Internet – can get full enterprise capabilities for that license alone as long as all content is accessible to external users as well as internal users. If not the case, need to buy this license on top of CALs.

11. WSS 3.0 Windows SharePoint Services
“It enables the creation of web sites for information sharing and document collaboration, integrating with the Microsoft Office System and serving as a platform for application development.”
Free download with Windows Server 2008 license.
Lists, libraries, blogs, wikis, discussion forums, etc. – WSS can drive eLearning.
ETFO has full enterprise MOSS, but WSS would suffice for our blended eLearning

12. ETFO Teacher PD
Teacher professional development activities tend to be ‘one-shot’ workshops
Little impact on practice
ETFO has embraced longer-term strategy
Communities of practice
PLCs
‘critical friends’

13. ETFO Teacher PD (2)
Focus not on ‘training,’ or mastering of techniques
Instead, focus on
Critical thinking skills
Reflective practice
Action research
Inquiry
Learning as part of a community of professionals

14. Blended Model Reflections on Practice Innoteach
3 face-to-face sessions interspersed with online tasks/community building
Action Research Report
Innoteach
2 face-to-face sessions with online collaboration in between
Develop a curriculum resource (learning object) with critical input from the group

15. Blended Model (2) Union School
Developing a new generation of union leaders
2 face-to-face sessions with online activities/discussions in between

16. Tour of Team Sites ROP: Innoteach: Union School:
Innoteach:
Union School:

17. 3 Levels of Deployment Full enterprise portal
Create a new site collection, set up for forms authentication
Install account management web parts:
Extranet Collaboration Manager by SharePoint Solutions ($6000)
Community Kit at Codeplex (open source)
Cost - $100,000 +

18. 3 Levels of Deployment (2)
WSS Extranet Collaboration Manager
Cost: $3000 for Windows Server 2008, $6000 for ExCM
Or use Community Kit at Codeplex and save $$$
Hosted WSS Site
Can build unlimited sites below your root
Find a provider who will allow unlimited users
$10 – 100 per month. More for back ups.
E.g.: Sherweb -
Example site:

19. SharePoint as an LMS?
Codeplex project: SharePoint Learning Kit -
Replaced MS Class Server
Expanded capabilities – more standards compliant
MS Released the source code – developers are encouraged to expand the functionality

20. Features at a Glance Technologies Capabilities
Curriculum planning tools
Create complete curriculum plans—including both digital and analog content, as well as learning activities and assessment activities.
Certified SCORM 2004 support and full support for SCORM 1.2 and Microsoft Class Server formats
Support for interactive branching, multimedia, and active content are possible with SCORM 2004
Basic support for any electronic document
Get assignment delivery and tracking for Microsoft Office documents, media files, PDF files, and any other document in a SharePoint Document Library
HunterStone Thesis

21. Features at a Glance (2) Technologies Capabilities
Integration with SharePoint
“Easy to deploy because no separate provisioning is required for SLK. It gets its data from SharePoint products and technologies.”
Designed for community development and extension
Much deeper customization and plug-in development opportunities
Student-centric design
Enables students to self-assign content; virtual classes; auditing with permission
Grade Book
Grade activities based on criteria.Combine assignment grades into final grade

22. SharePoint Tools Sharepoint Designer 2007 CorasWorks Enterprise Suite
Free download as of April 2009
Access at MS Download Center
CorasWorks Enterprise Suite
Enables roll ups across site collections
Use actions builder to simulate workflows without paying for MOSS
Approx. $20 K per server plus yearly maintenance

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