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UConnect at UCAR UConnect at UCAR

Teri EastburnTag-Up 9.25.13Teri Eastburn

Tag-Up 9.25.13

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UConnect’s GenesisSpring/Summer 2013

Initiating

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Advisory Committee

• Jeff Van Damme & Shawn Winkleman, Multimedia

• Cindy Schmidt, University Relations

• Bruce Muller, COMET

• Zhenya Gallon, Communications

• Raj and Teri, Spark

• Marijke Unger & Stephanie Barr, CISL

• Kate Legg, DLS, Archivist

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Before the “what”, the “Why”

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It’s About Connecting

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Absorbing the Trends

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ConnectEd, E-Rate, Internet2, mobile, flipped, moocs, communities

of Practice, active vs. passive

Connect ~ Matter ~ Play with the other kids on the

block, including the big kids

• “The US has a global network in the research and the higher education community which is simply the envy of the world. We need to find a way to maintain that edge in a networking environment.” ~ President Obama

Relevance in Time, Space, Content,

Approach to Our Audiences

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Original wireframe

Planning

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Content needs discussed

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From the broad to More specific An Approach; An Opportunity

WebinarsVideos

Playlists

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the “What”, After the “Why”

• Vision: Develop a strategy, which leverages and expands upon existing effort

throughout the organization, to develop, deliver, coalesce, and archive all UCAR

educational materials via a unified framework. The framework should be designed for

public usability, be thematically based, and make use of social media and other evolving

technologies and platforms for dissemination

• Components of the strategy should address:

• Institutional ownership

• A standard approach, process, and platform for developing and hosting recordings of presentations, interactive events, and links to other educational materials within UCAR

• Staff training requirements

• Technical tools and development activities required to support the initiative

• Communications and change management strategies

• Scope: UConnect is a free and open collection of audience-focused & topic- driven digital resources accessible across all platforms & devices. It takes a novel playlist approach that is active, emergent, and responsive to the needs of UCAR’s varied audiences.

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UConnect Schema

Communi-cations

EditorialCalenda

r$40K

~12 videos

UForum

Gov’t & media briefs

K12Spark

Multi-media

Trainings

Tutorials

COMET

HigherEd

Webinars- high level

DPS modelof 4 slides

Video ShortsToolsContext...

Playlists

“Teaching Boxes”

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Spark’s Focus

“Teaching Box” Context Summary Scope & Sequence

• NGSS Alignment• Pre/Post Assessments• Content•Activities• Videos, multimedia• Tie-ins, Links

EditorialCalenda

r$40K

~12 videos

K12Spark

COMET

HigherEd

DPS modelof 4 slides

Video ShortsContext...

Playlists

“Teaching Box”

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CCMAP Example

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The Game Plan: From Here to there

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Planning

Meet w/ Kaye, Mary, Karon

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Immediate Priorities• Advisory board, roles and

responsibilities

• Web Engineer Hire

• Educational resource structure/package

• UConnect Hub interaction w/ Spark site

• Re-wireframe

• Stakeholder review/approvals

• 3-4 month REALISTIC project plan

• Member Meeting Presentation Oct. 9

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Now... Next...

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So... What is UConnect?

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Post Activity Request

• Explore the websites on the New Horizons Report TagUp page for inspiration and to see some of the best that’s out there in educational websites.

• Look for good examples of resource curation on sites (and poor so we learn from their mistakes.)

• Online resources, conferences, contacts Let’s connect.