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• Created "Concrete Tactics Organized by Audience" section on Confluence and began development. Will continue on Monday. http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Concrete+Tactics+Organized+by+Audience

Wednesday 4/12/2006

Here is your update for this Friday: 4/12/06

Attention: Items in need of your response are clearly marked with the tag Contribute

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1) Contribute HELP TEST THE BREEZE TSC SURVEY BY FRIDAY

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As a reminder, we are planning to poll TSCs to better gauge their role in supporting course management tools, especially those external to MyUCDavis.

Please take approximately five minutes to access and arbitrarily answer the virtual survey we have stored at: http://breeze.ucdavis.edu/cmsurvey

By providing your mock answers, we will be able to test the effectiveness of Breeze Presenter's database and reporting functionality.

On the last screen, the program asks you to supply your name, contact e-mail, etc. Please use this final screen to enter any comments, suggestions, requests, or concerns.

As the quiz will take less than five minutes, please take the time to complete it and submit comments by the end of the day on Friday, April 14.

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2) Contribute PUBLIC WEBSITE NEEDS UPDATE
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Thanks to everyone who has downloaded a copy of the public site needs and responsibilities matrix. Even greater thanks to those who have already submitted the requested documents.

If you have not yet reviewed the Public Web site Needs Matrix, please visit the following site on confluence:

http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Public+Site+Needs+and+Responsibilities+Matrix

If you believe the identified party is incorrectly identified, please e-mail corrections to mvgiardina@ucdavis.edu

At your earliest convenience please forward an update on these projects and an estimated time they will be available for uploading to the public Web site. Please keep in mind that we hope/envision all items listed as High Priority to be available for site roll-out day. (Fast Approaching)

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3) Contribute SAKAI PILOT USAGE STATISTICS BY QUARTER
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The Sakai pilot usage statistics page has been created on confluence and can be accessed at the address below. We encourage the point persons in IET, VetMed, The School of Medicine, etc. to proactively update this information in order to develop a single up-to-date record of Sakai pilot usage statistics. As this information will be used to develop copy for the public Web site, adding your contributions should be a relatively high priority.

http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Sakai+Usage+Statistics+by+Quarter

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4) View or Contribute CONFLUENCE UPDATES
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Every Wednesday and Friday, all major updates to Confluence are tracked and included in this newsletter. Although you are welcome to edit confluence yourself, all desired changes can be forwarded to Michael Giardina who is available to implement edits and inform the list of the most recent updates.

• Incorporated 4/7's FMFP notes into Confluence. http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu/confluence

– *Updated "Teaching and Learning: User Concerns" with FMFP feedback. http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Concerns

– *Updated "Concrete Applications to Teaching with FMFP feedback. http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Concrete+Applications+to+Teaching

– *Updated "Support and Training" with FMFP feedback. http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Concrete+Applications+to+Teaching

• Created and fleshed out "Concrete Tactics Organized by Audience" http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Concrete+Tactics+Organized+by+Audience

• Requested broken link fixes for "Public Sakai Web Site FAQ" http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Public+Sakai+Web+Site+FAQ

• Created "HyperText Spring 2006" page on confluence and proposed several sections that would cover the same information from IT Times, but from a student perspective instead. This information will be fleshed out by students at a later date. http://mediaworks.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Hyper+Text+Spring+2006

• Created "HyperText Spring 2006 Insert" page on confluence to store ideas for a flier that can be inserted inside of HyperText. http://webby.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/HyperText+Spring+2006+Insert

• (KA) Updated Comparative Overview of Tools chart. http://webby.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Comparative+Overview+of+Tools

• (KA) Revised Schedule on "General Key Messages: Fall 2006 Implementation a.k.a Roll-out: Communication Strategy and Goals" to reflect extension of pilot and the limited (soft) roll-out. http://webby.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/General+Key+Messages

• (KA) Revised "10 reasons to use the new collaboration and learning system" to include: CM improvements, automatic rosters/section support timeframe, and collaboration between IT Express, Mediaworks, and TRC. http://webby.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/10+reasons+to+use+the+new+collaboration+and+learning+system

• (KA) Revised "Frequently Asked Questions" for clarity and correctness. http://webby.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=UCDSAKAI&title=Public+Sakai+Web+Site+FAQ

• (MG) Created, 'Sakai Pilot Usage Statistics by Quarter' page on confluence, requesting the number of classes, faculty participants, and students for each quarter. http://webby.ucdavis.edu:8080/confluence/display/UCDSAKAI/Sakai+Usage+Statistics+by+Quarter

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5 View Sakai in the News
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Thanks to Michael Giardina, three articles were published in the Sakai Consortium's weekly winners. The full text of the articles appears below:

-University of California Davis Hosts Sakai Programmers Boot-camp
Last February, thirty-seven Sakai programmers from as far away as Tokyo Japan met at the University of California in the cozy, rural city of Davis. In a three-day boot-camp led by Davis' Sakai System Architect, Thomas Amsler, participants dove head first into the intricacies of effectively developing Sakai tools to meet institutional needs.

The goal of the event was not to develop a specific tool, but rather to learn as much as possible about the tool writing process, the Sakai framework, and the logistics of using collaboration in process of coding.

The interactive, hands-on sessions grew organically; these meetings generally take on a life of their own, as programmers feed off each other's excitement and dedication to building new and innovative solutions for their development needs.

To that end, the boot-camp agendas were kept loose, open, and ready to accommodate the needs and desires of participants. After morning introductions and planning, programmers broke up into groups, each working in parallel on different parts of the same project to later regroup and merge their parts into a single Sakai tool. In this case, the group worked to develop a simple quiz and polling tool.

The event went off without a hitch and several new constructive technical dialogs were initiated. Following the event, UC Davis was asked to host a similar conference in Vancouver, where the action-packed three-day program will be refined into a single-day session that the campus believes people will find both enjoyable and rewarding.

For those who were unable to attend February's boot-camp, UC Davis has set up a podcast of the entire three-day workshop, available by pointing any podcast-capable media player (such as iTunes) to http://podcast.ucdavis.edu/sakai_bc/sakai_bc.rss.

In the future, the team hopes to stream both audio and video versions of their Sakai presentations over the internet using Macromedia Breeze.

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Join The UC Davis Sakai Programming Team
UC Davis is hiring Sakai programmers. For more information and to access the position description, see http://jobs.hr.ucdavis.edu/jm/ViewVacancy?id=4860 or contact Kirk Alexander at kdalex@ucdavis.edu.

Position Responsibilities: This position serves as an advanced programmer/developer on the LMS/Sakai programming team. Serves as a lead developer of functional tools within the LMS, and performs advanced-level programming in multiple languages, provides expertise in architecture, design, programming in support of campus-wide web-based learning management systems, including the campus' UC Davis Learning Management Software (powered by Sakai).

Listing: VL# 4860 External (Extended) (1-2 positions)
Senior Programmer - Sakai Tools Specialist (PROGRAMMER V UCD)
$4,209.00 - $7,155.00/Mo.
Open Until Filled

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On 10/29/2005 one of our Middleware gurus, Brian Donnelly became the first campus Sakai-father! Born 7 pounds 3 ounces and 19 1/2" long, his daughter Sara Catherine will undoubtedly appreciate the joys of collaborative learning some day!
Thomas Amsler, Sakai Programmer and System Architect, is expecting a baby girl in May! The team will be celebrating the impending delivery with a pot luck celebration luncheon on April 12th. What does this mean for Thomas? Java - config - xml - baby girl - reboot - servers - diapers - coding - bottles - late nights - Sakai - rattles - no more sleep!

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