Meeting Info
- Zoom Meeting Link
- Tuesday, 2/27/24 at 3:30pm
To-Dos From Last Meeting, T 2/20
- OpenLab Report for President
- “Did You Know?” Post on The Buzz
Starting with this existing list of 10 Things We Love About The OpenLab, choose one and create a Draft post on The Buzz by next Tuesday. Let the rest of the team know on Asana which “thing” you choose so we don’t have duplicates. - Project Proposal
- Brainstorm and create a proposal with timeline for your Major Project to share next week.
- Continue working on your OpenLab ePortfolio
- Follow the COMD Portfolio Template menu structure (restructure your existing menu or start from scratch and document the experience of creating a new portfolio)
- “Every Week” tasks
- Complete weekly check-in by Friday
- Document your hours in the spreadsheet
Objectives
- Thank you for contributing to What do you like about the OpenLab?
- Review ePortfolio creation and research
- Review Project proposals
- Housekeeping Tasks
Activities
- Review Ongoing Work
- “Did You Know?” Post on The Buzz
Based on 10 Things We Love About The OpenLab, review Did You Know posts- Example: Did you know the OpenLab is accessible?
- We’ll provide a template via an example post this week.
- Building out your ePortfolio (as model for students)
- Feedback?
- How did it go?
- Did you learn anything that could be shared with other students as they start building their ePortfolios?
- “Did You Know?” Post on The Buzz
- Major Project Work: Review Project Proposals
- How should we share Proposals for ease of review and feedback?
- ePortfolio Community Outreach Campaigns – Janieca/Corey
- Student Engagement via The Buzz, Campus Screens, Swag (printed handouts/stickers)
- Student Support eg Tutorials, Screencasts, Workshops
- Consult with Director of Professional Development Center,
- Work with peer mentors for First Year Programs, or for the program itself
- ePortfolio WP Theme improvements – Saria/Lyonel
- Identify themes that we have that you like
- Identify themes that would be good additions
- Use OpenLab Dev for testing and evaluation
- Fix accessibility errors in child theme
- Consult with our developers Bree and Boone
- ePortfolios Templates – Shabaj/Darren
- Evaluate existing ePortfolio templates
- Evaluate the Template interface
- Research different majors/departments’ needs
- Build new templates on Dev in consultation with Bree
- Logistics/Housekeeping
- Meeting days/times
- Tuesdays at 3:30 via Zoom
- Mid-week check-ins in Asana: on Fridays post a comment on the shared Check-in task with updates on project progress or questions.
- Sign and return Internship Agreements
- Other announcements:
- upcoming workshops for Undergraduate Research might be helpful (link forthcoming)
- Meeting days/times
MEETING NOTES
- Questions/Challenges
- Changed roles from Contributor -> Author (to allow image/media)
- Saria – learned you could color the text, use gradients
- Shabaj – image duplication problem, resolved by removing header image & keeping featured image
- Jody: have any of you been to a workshop on campus? What gets you to actually attend a workshop?
- Janieca – changing font appearance. Discussion around appearance options for blocks in block editor
- Activities
- Portfolio:
- Lyonel – did some research into themes, found a few that he likes (but unsure about how to upload)
- Here are some themes Lyonel likes:
- Astra free version https://wordpress.org/themes/astra/
- Portfolio lite https://wordpress.org/themes/portfolio-lite/
- Arrival Me https://wordpress.org/themes/arrival-me/
- Advance https://wordpress.org/themes/advance-portfolio/
- RT Portfolio https://wordpress.org/themes/rt-portfolio/
- Saria – Portfolio
- changed theme to Typology
- liked the bright colors, liked the typography options
- Discussion/feedback. Color contrast (accessibility).
- Shabaj – Portfolio
- Used featured images – creates nice gallery format on home page
- Darren – can you adjust size of gallery images? (discussion)
- Discussion around Appearance options in Theme
- To share Portfolios next time: Janieca, Corey (following week Daren & Lyonel)
- Proposals:
- How will we share them?
- Google Drive
- pdf – share via Dropbox
- Janieca – created a folder in Dropbox
- Proposal – Google Drive.
- How can we raise student engagement on the Buzz?
- Bring out the benefits for new students, how they can use OL (not just for COMD)
- Highlighting the things we actually utilize & like
- Design – make it lively, use more colors in posts
- Campus screens – bee buzzing around in screen?
- Infographic of “did you know” campaign? Could also use it for posters, distribute to new students
- Highlighting more collaborative aspects of OL — using it for projects
- Idea: Introducing faculty, introducing student govt —
- if you have this kind of issue, this is who you should be reaching out to.
- Did you know this is your student body president?
- Corey
- ePortfolio community outreach compaigns
- information sessions & workshops, hands-on training sessions
- online tutorials & guides
- video tutorials
- Student ambassador program – recruit enthusiastic students with experience in OL & WordPress — peer to peer outreach
- Promotional Campaign
- NOTE: Ashley started building tutorials last semester, could be added on to
- Idea: Could collaborate with peer mentors/first year programs?
- Lyonel – What about a contest to design a landing page in OpenLab and use the results in an ad campaign “Created with OpenLab”
- Lyonel
- Create a wordpress block — create images with ai to include in your post?
- Create an image block – input a prompt, it will generate images for you
- Creating a contest (see suggestion above). Campaign “did you know you can create these with OpenLab”?
- Add a chatbot – could use ai to answer student questions, like “how do I create an ePortfolio?”
- Create a plugin. When you activate, have a little ? icon – when you click, you are able to chat with AI. Can provide AI with OpenLab documentation (or use general WordPress documentation)?
- Jenna: Help seems like a natural place for it. It would be available in the dashboard. Specifically for Portfolio?
- Create a wordpress block — create images with ai to include in your post?
- Saria
- 1. Promotion of OpenLab – posters (hand them out) or email them. Maybe merchandise or videos?
- 2. Create an OL channel for COMD students where they can add their coursework — there could be a mini-competition on OL where they could post their work, and others could see their work
- 3. For non-COMD students – template/theme
- re: chatbot discussion – Maybe there could be an OL Help department – ask the basic questions (ai response), but for questions it can’t answer can direct you to a person?
- Jody: used to be chatbot available on City Tech website but no longer is – would be good to look into why (what are the concerns?)
- Shabaj
- Google doc
- Portfolios: make template simpler for non-designers and newcomers
- Templates tailored for different departments – Architecture,
- Might not be required for program, but also there is nothing tailored for their uses.
- Want students to feel comfortable designing their portfolios – comfortable with WordPress, comfortable with templates.
- Created sample Persona – architecture student experiencing OL for first time
- Timeline: researching needs, …
- Was thinking about How To guide – but found Ashley’s on the Buzz. Having screenshots would be helpful!
- Darren
- Likes the Project Overview. (discussion)
- Jody: re: templates – we have two “generic” templates, could start with one of those, or start with the COMD template
- Jenna: in addition to looking in Portfolios section, might also look in Projects – many students
- Evaluate existing ePortfolio templates, evaluate the Template interface
- Research different majors/departments needs
- Building new templates on Dev in consultation with Bree
- Detailed timeline
- Shared mindmap re: template!
- How will we share them?
- Portfolio:
- Practicalities: Google, Dropbox, Asana, time-tracking spreadsheet
- Asana checkin seemed like it worked well
To-Do For Next Meeting
Tuesday, March 5th 3:30pm via Zoom
- Project Proposal
- Share feedback on each intern’s proposal
- Asana – make a task for yourself where you link/upload the document, share feedback.
- Meet with partner to discuss each other’s proposals
- Begin to combine into one proposal for your Major Project to share next week.
- Share feedback on each intern’s proposal
- Continue working on your OpenLab ePortfolio
- Follow the COMD Portfolio Template menu structure (restructure your existing menu or start from scratch and document the experience of creating a new portfolio)
- Document your experiences to share with the group and/or write up for The Buzz – DYK or Tips.
- “Every Week” tasks
- Complete weekly check-in by Friday
- Document your hours in the spreadsheet
