IT Times Summer 2006

Dubbed the "Sakai Edition," this special edition of the IT Times will mark the beginning of our first major phase of communications before Fall 2006. The IT Times is a quarterly newsletter which provides practical and timely information, primarily for UC Davis faculty and staff, about information and educational technology issues facing the campus, current and upcoming IET services, and technology-related campus projects and initiatives.
This special issue will be delivered on campus the first week of June (i.e., before finals week, and before faculty leave for the summer). If you'd like to join the planning team, send a quick email to babette@ucdavis.edu.

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 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?

• Organize clubs, organizations, groups
• Bring together researchers in a collaborative environment
• Form social networks
• Host study groups or off-campus office ours.
• Collaborate on creative projects
• Plan events
• 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

• Podcasts
• Faculty profiles conducted by ET Partners
• Pedagogic approaches to Sakai
• Concrete examples
• Interviews

A tools comparison chart

Compare Sakai to MyUCDavis

Availability Matrix

Past, Present, Future

Example:

Call for participation

Pilot - Summer and Fall Faculty Pilots

Collaborative use of Sakai for Research or Committee groups

FMFP

ET Partners

Questionaire: "Should I switch to Sakai?"

Open House

Training and Support

Upcoming training classes, workshops, etc.

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.