Educating DC Staff on DC3

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DC3 is Diversity Council Collaboration Center. The DC Board' IT Task Force has been prototyping and in fact put into operations how a virtual team can better use Web 2.0 (cloud computing) technologies to better collaborate. Now there is a potential to put that to wider adoption and operationalizing the use of DC3 to staff programs as well. This is a set of "training" meetings that Al is conducting to make measurable progress toward a wider deployment.

Overview

What is DC3?

What is Content Management System?

What is Cloud Computing and Why?

DC3 is an "intranet/extranet" -- think of it as a tool to enable virtual teams to collaborate

More later

Immediate focus

Enable Sparkle! collaboration first

Prereq:

1. DC3 sign in

Check it out now

2. Highly recommended: a google account assigned to your DC email (xxxx@diversitycouncil.org account)

Get a personal Google account so we can use google doc to do some deeper collaboration.

Do it now

Spark! Online evaluations

1. Where do data go? How do I access it?

- Data is on the google secured cloud. Once you have an account, I will give you access to the folders that contain the spreadsheet for each of the class surveys.

-- Demo now

2. How do I change the form?

3. Do we really need to have login id and pw for teachers?

General Plone (DC3) usage techniques

How do I edit a page?

- After a page has been published, only admin people can edit directly

Major changes, you should check out a working copy

Edit the page and then check back in

Demo Now

How do I upload a file?

How do I create a folder?

How do I create an event?

How do I create a newsitem?

What are states?

- A more fundamental question is what do we mean by Work Flow

And State of a Content Type has various states

- Private, Internal and Publish, etc

What is content type?

Browsers

Stay away from IE 9 for now. It has editing problems. Reading is ok. But since you will be editing and creating content, don't use IE 9 for now.

I like Chrome, Firefox better than IE.

If you use IE (which most people do, unfortunately) you should change its default annoying behavior of opening a new pop up page link.

See these instructions: http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/force-ie-to-open-link-in-new-tab/

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