verso’s evolution
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Verso’s EvolutionKey Features and Benefits
By CTE Resource CenterRichmond, Virginia
Our Pre-Verso Vision
Reduction of printed copies and printing cost
1- to 3-year update on curricula Consistency among curricula Functionality of data focused on
formatting through a customizable database
Access for Web-based users with limited login requirements
What VERSO Became
Responded to Perkins requirements Provided consistent frameworks at a faster rate Disseminated information quickly and cheaply Allowed for editorial changes without incurring
additional costs Helped to link academic standards to task lists Linked industry standards to task lists Became an online gathering place for all state-
required and helpful curriculum resources Gained attention from administrators and teachers
Growth
We have been able to track hits to our site and the numbers of registered users we’ve gained, and there has been noticeable growth since release in April 2003.
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Rollout
Offer supporting materials (brochures, quick user’s guide, full user’s manual)
Attend conferences and physically assist registration
Follow up with timely VERSO e-mail messages to all registrants
Offer in-services/training sessions Present the system at state functions Make VERSO the sole site for state validated
curriculum information
Training for Remote Users
CTEresource.org>Verso>Training & Resources
Evolution
The current version of Verso has accomplished our initial goals, but because of its data growth, and our processes, we needed another generation of this system to handle and reuse data in different ways.
Evolution: Rigidity v. Flexibility
Rigidity creates uniform documents links standards easily omits data that doesn’t conform
Flexibility creates multiple types of “documents” arranges a hierarchy links data in multiple ways
Data
Evolution: Rigidity v. Flexibility
Data
The evolving management system will store each piece of information with all connections attached to it. It will also connect in a number of different ways, rather than in just one instance or occurrence.
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Evolution: Rigidity v. Flexibility
Reports
The evolving management system will store each piece of information with all connections attached to it. It will also connect in a number of different ways, rather than in just one instance or occurrence.
Reports
Document
Evolution: Document-Driven v. Element-Driven
Because the next generation of Verso will be flexible and allow for different types of documents to be created and managed within the system, we have learned to focus on connections at the element level rather than the document level. It is the collaboration of these variously connected elements that eventually form the document.
Evolution: System Isolation v. System Integration
The current Verso connects outwardly to other systems through hyperlinks, but it does not make real-time connections between shared data types; therefore, these connections are static.
The new Verso could connect to other important Virginia systems: career planning, tracking, and reporting.
Evolution: System Integration
Career Planning The integration with the new Virginia Career
Planning Guide (CPG) will be produced as part of the production of the new Verso system.
The arrangement of the CPG is based upon the career cluster hierarchy.
The CPG allows students, parents, teachers and administrators access to top-level planning tools, such as courses, completer sequences, and certification opportunities linked to courses.
Evolution: System Integration
Tracking CanDo is a Web-based, freely-distributed skills
tracking program developed by master teachers and their students in Arlington, Virginia. Students actually programmed this system, using Zope.
CanDo will change the paper and pen tracking approach into a Web-based solution (Web-based Excel sheets).
CanDo uses Verso’s SCRs, making the important link with curriculum.
CanDo was programmed with the same software as the new Verso.
Evolution: System Integration
Administrative Reporting Plans budgets Prepares planning documents to meet the state
Standards of Quality (SOQ) Supplies Career and Technical Education
enrollment data to agencies or individuals who request this information
Determines financial disbursements of state and federal funds
Speaks the same language as Verso and the tracking system
Speaking the Same Language
Zope Zope is an open-source, object-oriented Web
application server written in the programming language Python.
Zope stands for "Z Object Publishing Environment." “The open-source model can allow for the
concurrent use of different agendas and approaches in production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies” (from wikipedia.com)
Safe and Accessible
The new, revised VERSO system will be opened up to allow non-Virginia educators to register in VERSO.
All patrons, regardless of affiliation, will be asked to register and will need to do so to obtain any data beyond the task lists.
This modification better reflects Virginia’s long-term policy of selling its CTE publications only to recapture printing costs.
In Closing
Verso has evolved from a white paper in October of 2001 to a
new generation of Verso. from a rigid, document-driven system to a
flexible, open-source system that can grow exponentially and integrate with other useful systems.
from a system with somewhat limited access, to access for all.
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