 | System Team - margaret has some questions |
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Hi Systems, To reach/find me more quickly for questions about the meeting place, you can find me on MSN (margaret.lam@gmail.com, yes, I was a late adopter), feel free to add me. As an aside, two things have come up: 1) Andrew from the Digital Contents team was in the same night class as I was, and inquire whether we have addressed the data structure of the sources of public domain books, and how that might impact on our team's work. He raises a good question, and it's an area we have completely neglected! Can someone pick up on this? 2) A follow up from that, is that I realize we need to speak with one representative from each teams as we begin to collaborate with the other teams, in order to filter our 'live' communication with each other. I know that the CR team has assigned Celene to liaise with us. Since Andrew has already begun talking to me, I could arbitrarily assign him as the liaise of that team. Which leaves the Marketing and Outreach Team... anyone want to talk to them about finding a designated liaison and pass on our idea about the myKNET page? Perhaps we will keep these assigned individuals on our email lists as well, and just keep them in our loop, so to speak. Margaret |
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Hi Margaret, The meeting place is looking good.  By data structure, do you mean the data architecture of where the public domain books reside online or the format of these books (e.g. PDFs)? Actually, I had a question about having a homepage on MyKnet, which I wasn't sure was important but thought I'd bring it up anyway. I was wondering if directing people to the portal from MyKnet only might make it less accessible to those who aren't on MyKnet -- who may be interested in using the ODBS, but who may not want to bother signing up on the site. Probably the majority of people who would use the On-Demand Book Service are younger people who would be on MyKnet, but I'm worried about excluding anyone. It sounds like you would have to log in on Moodle to access the ODBS as well as on MyKnet to get to the ODBS homepage, unless I got that wrong, and I'm not sure it would be user-friendly if people have to log in twice, though I think it would be fine for people on MyKnet already. I guess there could be a second intro landing page somewhere on K-Net if that would be possible, but that may be a bad idea in terms of updating. Maybe there could be some sort of call-out or sidebar (like a short blurb about the project and how to access it) on K-Net site pages that would make sense or be meaningful to link from, such as "Language"/"Native Language" or "Training and Tutorials" or anywhere else where one might be interested in finding a book (if there are ones available) on the topic. I noticed there's an announcement section on the K-Net homepage. Would we be able to use that? Also, I wonder how open individual communities would be to putting a link on their community sites to the project. Sure, I can talk to the Marketing/Outreach team [she says with voice cracking...]. Sally |
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A sidebar promoting the ODBS project would work just fine on the knet website. Why make it more complicated than we have to! The idea is to promote to target users, and as you pointed out, myKnet users tend to be younger, and would be closer to the demographic we are trying to reach. This would also reduce the amount of maintenance we would have to keep, ad we just focus on developing our presence on meeting place/moodle. We should definitely look into other "online" areas where we can promote the project as well. Thanks for talking to the Marketing/outreach team! In the mean time, I'll try and learn as much as I can about moodle, to see how we can utilize it for our class's objectives. Margaret |