1. Technology and Tools Task Force TECH Technology that Educators of Computing Hail website 2009-10-08 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/

2. Garcia, 2009-10-08, Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail http://plonetest.acm.org/techtools/ Grand Vision

3. Garcia, 2009-10-08, Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail http://plonetest.acm.org/techtools/ TECH site structure  Home page  Topics pages (discussion threads here)  Technology page (forums here) + ratings (+ overview, photo, cost, systems, external link, …)

4. Garcia, 2009-10-08, Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail http://plonetest.acm.org/techtools/ 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 emails moderator(s) through smart ‘contact’ option on page  Email auto-includes what page user is visiting and sends email to the moderator of that page  One of the moderators updates main page  …and maybe deletes discussion / forum comment

5. Garcia, 2009-10-08, Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail http://plonetest.acm.org/techtools/ 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…

6. Garcia, 2009-10-08, Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail http://plonetest.acm.org/techtools/ 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

7. Garcia, 2009-10-08, Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail http://plonetest.acm.org/techtools/ 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

8. Garcia, 2009-10-08, Google TECH: Technology that Educators of Computing Hail http://plonetest.acm.org/techtools/ 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…