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Summer 2006 - "The Sakai Edition"

*Planning Session is scheduled for Tuesday (04/25), from 2-3 p.m., in the Redwood Room at Chiles. Below is the preliminary information that needs to be included in this issue.

Goals

• Discuss objectives
• Brainstorm story and

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• content ideas
• Identify resources for stories.
• Review timeline and distribution plan.

Background

What is Sakai?

Why switch?

Who's involved?

What can I DO with Sakai?

• Organizing Student Groups
• Forming Organize clubs, organizations, groups
• Bring together researchers in a collaborative environment
• Form social networks
• Hosting Host study groups Collaborating or off-campus office ours.
• Collaborate on creative projects
• Planning Plan events
• Hosting Host a personal Web site
• Sharing files with friends and family

What are we doing to prepare? What can I do to prepare?

The Least You Need to Know

The Faculty Pilot

Spotlight excited/ambitious/succesful pilot participants to highlight faculty experience

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Availability Matrix

Past, Present, Future

Example:
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Call for participation

Pilot - Summer and Fall Faculty Pilots

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Support structures (IT Express?)

FAQ

Story Ideas and Planning Meeting Advice

• Feature Story of NO's Sakai Class on Graduate Dissertation
• Feature of FMFP, spotlighting active particiants
  • Don, Roger, Kiskis, Holomon, Delano, Meisenheimer, McDonald, Parfit
  • Additional contacts: Dorothy Frasier, Virginia Hass, Jan, Ray
• Address teacher's concern about switching systems.
• Encourage participation in the fall
• (KA): Address the theme of collaboration amongst UCs. Bring up Educause. Learning form reach other. It's both a software program and a community. UC Davis was "At the right place at the right time" to identify Sakai as a need.
• (AJ): "Why should I put my time into this?" - Tools can be used for many contexts, including personal.
• "Intelligently hit the highlights"
• Suggest spotlighting a mentor that is willing to list himself as such in IT Times.
• Address the "Fear & Dread"
• Back-up benefits with a timeline to accurately reflect expectations.
• Add a preview of future IT Times?
• Get Peter to write/podcast "How I use it" (research?)
• Work with Jann Ilkew at VetMed
• Link to the public Web site.