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Public Sakai Mock-up

The goal of this page is to include all copy text and other resources that have been submitted for the Sakai public Web site. Once all materials are collected, team members will be asked to review, revise, and submit additional content before everything is moved to the Sakai Public Web site. If the content you're looking for does not appear here, please review its status at: Public Site Needs and Responsibilities Matrix.

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Welcome to the Sakai public Web site. Here you can prepare for the UC Davis roll-out of the Sakai course management system, familiarize yourself with the project's history, interact with the new tools, and voice your requests and concerns by getting involved.

What is the Sakai Project?
The Sakai Project is a software development effort to bring together over eighty educational institutions to collaboratively construct a sophisticated, easy-to-use, extendable set of course management tools known collectively as a Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE).

Tools for Everyone!
With its vast array of tools, Sakai can prove useful for staff, students, and researches. The system stable, easy to use, expandable, and can evolve alongside our rapidly changing technological environment. With over 85 educational institutions across the country contributing to the creation of the Sakai course management system, faculty, staff, students, and researchers will undoubtedly appreciate the unyielding focus afforded their unique needs.

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About Sakai

The Sakai Project is a software development effort to bring together over eighty educational institutions to collaboratively construct a sophisticated, easy-to-use, extendable set of course management tools known collectively as a Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE).

When you switch to Sakai, you???ll enjoy all the MyUCDavis features you are accustomed to, plus a whole host of new, intuitive, easy-to-use tools created by universities for universities.

Sakai Project Background
Sakai has its origins at the University of Indiana and the University of Michigan, where both universities independently began open source efforts to enhance their course management systems. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford soon joined in, along with the Open Knowledge Initiative and the uPortal consortium.

The Reasons for Change
Many faculty and students have voiced concern about the slowness and instability of MyUCDavis. We understand these concerns and recognize that it is imperative UC Davis??? learning information systems keep pace with the ever-increasing demands and expectations of students and instructors.? Adopting Sakai will allow UCDavis to bring its course management system up to date and to leverage the work of an international community towards its support.

The Benefits of Collaboration
Using Sakai will resolve many of the concerns that both faculty and students have voiced about MyUCDavis. Not only is the system more stable and easier to use, it???s expandable and can evolve alongside our rapidly changing technology environment, instead of drowning in its wake.

With over 85 educational institutions across the country contributing to the creation of the Sakai course management system, faculty will undoubtedly appreciate the unyielding focus afforded their teaching needs and pedagogical concerns. Extendibility is the unified strategy.

Tools

  • Announcements: Inform site participants of current items of interest
  • Assignments: Create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments
  • Chat room: Carry on real-time conversations with worksite participants
  • Discussion: Hold structured conversations organized into categories
  • Drop Box: Share documents within private folders between instructors and students
  • Email Archive: Keep track of course or project site email correspondence
  • Gradebook: Manage grades and submit as Final grades
  • Message: Center Communicate through discussion forum topics and private messaging
  • Modules: Create ordered content for student review
  • News: Add RSS feeds to your worksite
  • Preferences: Control how often you are notified of course or project site activity
  • Project Sites: Use Sakai for other purposes besides teaching (e.g., research collaboration)
  • Quiz and survey: Create online assessments
  • Resources: Make any kind of material available online
  • Schedule: Organize and post items in a calendar format
  • Section/Group: Info Manage sections of a class (lectures, labs, discussions, studio work, recitations, or any combination thereof)
  • Site Info: Maintain course or project site settings
  • Syllabus: Post and maintain your official course outline
  • Web Content: Maintain course or project site settings
  • Wiki: Create/contribute to a collaborative, editable Web site

Implementation Timeline

http://sakai2.ucdavis.edu/access/content/group/57c3877b-1b08-4eab-005e-f1fc1d9f3ff4/timeline.html

Get Involved!

Join the Pilot Project!

Want to be one of the first to test drive Sakai? Want your course-management needs heard? By joining the pilot project, you will be have the opportunity to work side-by-side with specially-trained ET Partners who can assist you in accomplishing a project you develop.

Faculty Mentoring Faculty Copy Text

Join the Faculty Mentory Faculty Program
Faculty interested in becoming mentors, and thus being among the first to work with early versions of Sakai , should contact Andy Jones, Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program Manager, at aojones@ucdavis.edu or 752-4080.

The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program provides UC Davis faculty an opportunity to mentor and to learn from other faculty interested in instructional technology. Participants will learn about tools such as Macromedia Breeze and Almagest, and about the UC Davis Learning Environment powered by Sakai, the new suite of web-based course management tools that will improve upon and eventually replace the current (MyUCDavis) tools faculty use to instruct and communicate with their students. The mentoring program's success will depend upon participants sharing their discoveries and expertise with fellow faculty and with the program manager, and upon their building formal and informal networks with faculty who seek effective and innovative ways to meet their teaching goals.

Managed by Andy Jones, a longtime user of instructional technology at UC Davis, the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program will guide faculty through the technical and pedagogical opportunities offered by the many tools within the new course management tools, including the new lesson builder, the digital drop box, the integrated calendar, the wiki, and the improved assessment tools, among many others. The Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program will also serve as a conduit of information and ideas about teaching and instructional technology among UC Davis faculty, The Teaching Resources Center, and Mediaworks, the Instructional Technology and Digital Media Center at UC Davis.

Beginning in 2006, faculty mentors have tested the new course management tools with the assistance of the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program manager, the Faculty Training Coordinator, and student ET Partners. Together they will discover the early challenges and continuing opportunities offered by the expanding array of course management tools that will soon be available to all UC Davis Faculty.

Incentives to Participating Faculty

  • One-on-one tutorials and consultations with the Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program manager and with the TRC/ Mediaworks Faculty Training Coordinator
  • Instructional and technological support from a student ET Partner from the ET Partners program
  • UC Davis Learning Environment technical support from Mediaworks managers and programmers
  • New friendships and working partnerships with faculty from other disciplines
  • Opportunities to improve instruction with innovative use of new technologies and effective teaching methods

Responsibilities of Participating Faculty

  • Attending relevant demonstrations (preferably with a colleague!)
  • Meeting with new program participants to discuss trends and discoveries in teaching with technology
  • Acting as a conduit of information about teaching for fellow faculty
  • Meeting with Mediaworks representatives to ask and answer questions about new applications and procedures
  • Helping to arrange departmental demonstrations and identify other potential users

Faculty interested in becoming mentors should contact Andy Jones, Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program Manager, at aojones@ucdavis.edu , 752-4080, or 752-3408.

As a pilot participant, you will test and evaluate the new collaboration and learning tools, identify problem areas, suggest additional functionality and improvements, and prepare recommendations that will help guide the roll-out of the Sakai service to campus. We need your input to ensure that Sakai will meet the needs of our faculty.

To join the pilot or learn more about requirements, contact Kirk Alexander (kdalex@ucdavis.edu).

Present Sakai to Your Department

If you are excited about the potential to incorporate Sakai's collaborative learning environment into your classes but are unsure how to present the new system to inspire departmental support, help us help you get the ball rolling. We can help provide PowerPoint presentations and support representatives to help you champion the new system. To arrange a presentation, contact Kirk Alexander at kdalex@ucdavis.edu 754-7778.

Attend Workshops / Meetings
Include Workshop/Meeting Schedule Here

Tutorials and Workshops

  • Responsibility for this page has been transferred to NO. NO plans to develop this page as a worksite that we will link directly to. For those interested, she has developed the following timeline:

Workshops and Training Sessions
Notes: Two separate, but identical, workshops are planned for each day:
From 11:00 - 1:00, workshops will be held in Olson 27 (Macs).
From 2:00 - 4:00, workshops will be held in Hutchison 93 (PCs).

Friday, May 5
Dissertation Organization with Sakai

Friday, May 26
Organizing Your Research Projects Using Sakai

Friday, June 2
Wikis: THE Collaborative Learning Tool

Friday, October 6
Organizing Your Research Projects Using Sakai

Friday, October 13
Teaching with Sakai

Friday, October 20
Breeze-y Virtual Meetings

Friday, October 27
Organizing Your Research Projects Using Sakai

Friday, November 3
Breeze-y Virtual Meetings

Friday, November 17
Teaching with Sakai

Friday, December 1
Wikis: THE Collaborative Learning Tool

Friday, December 8
Teaching with Sakai

Announcements

What's new? Since the release of this site, we on the Sakai team have watched excitedly as the dedicated and curious members of our campus community dove headfirst into Sakai, our brand new collaborative learning environment.

If you're ready to join them, hope right in! Try the chat room, the wiki, or the message center bulletin boards for starters.

Want to know when new tools be available for your use? Select "Implementation Timeline" on the left. For more information, contact sakai-com@ucdavis.edu.

Wiki

Welcome to the Sakai Public Web site Wiki!

What is a Wiki?
A wiki is a Web site that allows members to add and collaboratively edit content freely. Together, visitors build organic projects that merge the unique expertise of all participants.

What will I use a wiki for?
You and your students can build collaborative environments for your classes.
Researchers can work with each other remotely, share their expertise easily and effectively, and organize their data in one location.

Try it Now!
It's time to get your feet wet and try out the wiki for yourself. To practice using the wiki, try to participate in the three wiki pages below. Click one now to get started.

Wiki Introduction Exercises.

  • Join the community by adding a personal Profile.
  • Add Your Personal Profile.
  • Recommend a book to colleagues.
  • Ask questions about the wiki and help your peers with their questions.

Want to add another page? Click the edit button above and add it yourself!
What if I break it?

No need to worry. On a wiki, contributors can improve on your designs or correct any mistakes. Plus, pages can be reverted with one click of a button. There's no need to worry about one person accidently breaking the wiki, when there are thousands here to fix it in an instant. That's the wiki spirit.

Examples of Successful Wikis

http://www.wikipedia.org - Wikipedia, perhaps the largest wiki in the world, is an encyclopedia with over one million entries in over ten different languages.

http://www.daviswiki.org - Originally developed by Davis students and maintained by over 2,000 city residents, this wiki catalogues every aspect of the city of Davis.

Sakai in the Media

  • "UC Davis Prepares for New Course Management Tools" (PDF) - IT Times, Summer 05

Testimonials / Spotlights / Profiles / Podcasts

These have not been completed or submitted. Caren Weintraub and the ET Partners are both aware of and participating in the creation of these.

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