Category: Agendas (Page 1 of 2)

Meeting agenda: Feb 16, 12-1pm

  • Meeting focus: Hello! And new features from January and February releases
  • New functionality: Additional privacy options for publishing on a public site
  • New plugins:
    • Reading Time WP: Adds an estimated reading time on posts and/or pages
    • WP Reading Progress: Adds a bar that moves as you scroll through a post or page
    • Name Directory: Allows you to create a glossary on your site; can also allow students or others to create entries
  • New theme: Typology 
  • Fall Features!
  • Brainstorming / discussion: is there anything in particular you’d like to cover this semester?
  • Coming up: more work with H5P

    Meeting Agenda: December 8, 12-1pm

    Meeting focus: H5P

    1. Defining ‘content type’ (H5P nomenclature) and a few examples (BZ)
    2. Browse!
    3. Demo H5P sandbox – what’s this for? (BZ)
    4. Start doing it! (BZ & CC)
    5. Debrief
      • Workflow for using H5P on the OpenLab
      • Contexts for use/application?

    Meeting Agenda: October 6, 12-1pm

    • Icebreaker & Introductions
    • Introducing the working group concept, goals for the semester
    • Group share: 
      • What are some ways you currently use the OpenLab?
      • Rose / bud / thorn share-out activity
        • Share something good, something emerging, and something thorny about your use of the OpenLab
    • Accessibility and Functionality spotlight
    • What do you want to learn during this working group? What is a goal that you’d like to work toward that supports your professional trajectory that can be served through your OpenLab work?

    Meeting agenda: April 3, 10-11am

    For this meeting we’ll be focusing on new functionality under development .

    • “Connections” – a new way of more formally connecting different groups together so they could more easily see activity happening on different connected sites.
      • Possible examples:
        • Multiple sections of the same course
        • Course with connected student ePortfolios
        • Sections of City Tech 101
      • Are there use cases for this that you can imagine for yourself, or colleagues?
    • More fine-grained privacy options within a single site or profile
      • Private docs, Private files
      • Ability to choose more privacy options for individual posts or pages: Mockup
      • Questions? Use cases?
    • Non-active groups
      • Came out of our discussions last semester!
      • Admins could define groups as ‘Not Active’, which would add a ‘flag’ to the profile and automatically switch them to non-joinable.
      • Mockup
      • Non-active groups would be pushed to the bottom of My OpenLab
      • Could exclude non-active groups in a search
    • Activity block and widget
      • Also came out of our discussions last semester!
      • Would create an Activity Block and widget that you could add to your site to show the activity feed from the profile.
    • Reckoning plugin
      • Inspired by Kate’s request for something that would help avoid too much tedious manual counting.
      • If it seems OK, we could hopefully test it out in our next meeting.

    Meeting agenda: March 24, 12-1 pm

    Icebreaker:

    • What is your impression of the difference between course sites and project sites 

    Update on themes added

    • Themes
    • Cosmetic considerations / questions

    ePortfolios

    • What is a student ePortfolio?
    • Examples
    • Benefits
      • Place to point potential employers or graduate school admissions committees
      • Search engine optimization
      • Can enable the ‘Add to my portfolio’ functionality, which allows users to easily add anything they’ve authored on the OpenLab to their Portfolio
    • Demo ‘Add to my portfolio’
    • Questions?
    • Mention ePortfolio profile (BuddyPress)
    • What do you imagine are some use cases for your students?
    • How ePortfolios can be used by faculty
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