| Task |
Description |
Volunteers willing to assist |
| China coordinator |
Vance asked Yaodong to assist with problems of access to and participation in WiAOC particular to China |
Yaodong Chen |
| Help system |
Dafne González has created wiki pages for help with each venue and Dennis Oliver has volunteered to assist with these pages: http://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/
Buthaina Alothman would like to help with "assisting presenters and participants with anything needed using our virtual venues" Sedat Akayoglu is also willing to be involved (and has time in late April)
Coordinate with Elderbob at Knowplace and Moira on Partner relations?
Help Desk (Tapped In): Sedat Akayoglu will coordinate this and arrange for volunteers to be at the help desk for the 72 hours all 3 days of the convergence 24/3
Visit the following link in order to volunteer to assist at a particular time on the Tapped In Help Desk. http://tappedinhelpdesk.pbwiki.com/
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See names at left
I (Daf) have started this page at: http://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/venue_help
Daf created venue Help pages. I'm assisting her and have changed the copy to the left under Description. Dennis 3-09-07
Vance went through and set all links at the top of each page to valid ones April 26 - I also set links from wiaoc.org to here under Help!
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| Coaching |
Related to HELP but directed at presenters, the coaching team assigns mentors on an individual basis to presenters who request help in finding the best way to make their presentations |
We need someone to MANAGE this area, and to set up a wiki where presenters can request help and volunteers can put themselves down to help them.
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| Knowplace coordination |
Knowplace.ca offers a weekend a month to experiment and ask questions abou both the Moodle and presenting in Elluminate through our KnowTips room at Learning Times. These are free asynchrounous weekends that are open to anyone and last for an entire weekend, and you can attend as many times as you like. If there are presenters out there that need to practice, this would be a great way to get some experience before you give your actual presentation. Additionally, there are several of us at Knowplace who enrolled in Moodle Teacher Certification and would love a challenge, so if you have any question about Moodle or how it operates, we would welcome your interest. I am hoping that eventually we will be able to set something like this up with DimDIm as well. If you are interested let me know. |
Elderbob Brannan
EBob's email overfloweth per bounce notice April 28 and I'm not sure of the nature of our convergence with Knowplace as of that date - Vance
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| Partner (sponsor) coordinator |
Moira has been working with DimDim creator and can move into being point person for other coordination tasks if these can be defined for her. |
Moira Hunter |
| Portals |
Vance has created a clean portal for the conference and mirror at http://wiaoc.org. and http://www.wiaoc.org .
Vance has updated the Moodle (and will continue to do so) at http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=47
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Vance Stevens
Vance has developed the portals associated with wiaoc.org and will update Moodle today April 28. This should be simple, as I've come easily to grips with Moodle. However, see next item.
Incidentally if anyone would like to take some responsibility with portals and can self-start and contribute substantially please make yourself known.
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| Portal: Drupal |
Jeff had offered a Drupal portal prototype at http://edtechcon.net/. but we have decided to use http://www.webheadsinaction.org as the site for our shenanigans. All events are posted there as of May 1. For Calendar look here: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/event Example of an associated forum thread - http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/169 |
Jeff Lebow
Jeff has created a screencast to help Vance get to grips with http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007 and Vance is hoping to grip April 28. Once I've arrived at grip stage I will announce this as our official portal.
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| Portal: Wiki |
The role of the 'official' wiki for the conference has yet to be specified, but it has been set up at: http://wiaoc2007.pbwiki.com/
I am hoping that this wiki can be used to develop help and coaching with numerous authors contributing here, developing a hyperlinked FAQ facility, monitored by Daf and Dennis
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Dafne González -
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| Portal: WiABCO Yahoo Group |
The group description is for Nov 2005. It needs to be updated in case any volunteers reach the site and want to join and work with us
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A moderator with editing rights here needs to do this
Chris has done this and given Vance full editing rights - (thanks :-)
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| Proposals submission and scheduling system |
We have a wiki page devoted to this here: SubmissionsSystem; This work is top priority for end of Feb |
Fernanda Rodrigues
The system is in use and working well and is helping us organize vetting at end of April 2007
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| Proposal vetting |
This team will read proposals after submission deadline and apply rubric to judge their suitability to the conference
Here is the URL for the rubric: http://snipurl.com/wiaoc_vetting_rubric
Each proposal is judged by two referees initially and here is the scoring system
12 -18 – Accept as is
8 -11 – Request further clarification
0 – 7 -- Not acceptable / incomplete
Vetters need only report a total score to the coordinator (Vance) who will then take action of approving, rejecting, or sending the proposal out for a third reading.
A Microsoft Word version of the rubric / score-reporting
sheet has been uploaded to the Files area of our Yahoo Group. Dennis 04-23-07
Vance has made a pdf of the revised version of this file and stored it here:
http://wiaocplanning.pbwiki.com/f/07-WiAOC-proposal-rubric.pdf
Vance has provided this PDF version of Dennis's file for easy and alternative access over the Internet but Dennis points out that you would not be able to type on the PDF file and save it in soft copy.
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Empowered referees
VanceAdmin
Dafne Vetter
D-Oliver-Vetting
Nina Vetter
chrisj
Sedat Vetter
MoiraVetter
jean
susaneb
leevetting
susVetter
elderbobvetter
It's good to see that all the folks who volunteered as vetters (referees) are now "empowered." Dennis 04-25-07
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| Strands and differentiation |
Implement a way of differentiating which sessions offer an introduction to an application and which one offer teaching suggestions, pedagogy, theory, etc. - a way to organize different types of sessions so that the organization will be relatively transparent to participants. |
Chris Jones and Buthaina Al Othman
Buth checks in an end of April that she is ready to work on this. Obviously we have to start posting presentations.
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| Unconference strand |
Wikipedia definition of unconference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference - There's also an unconference unBook - http://www.unconference.info |
Michael Coghlan and Elderbob Brannan
Michael checks in an end of April that he is ready to work on this.
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