Meeting of the Matilda Web- Administrators Vienna, April 24 – 25, 2009 Welcome!

1. Meeting of the Matilda Web- Administrators Vienna, April 24 – 25, 2009 Welcome!

2. About Matilda: http://matilda.ned.univie.ac.at/

3. Alexia Bumbaris • Historian and PhD- student at the University of Vienna • Focus on Gender History • Former study assistant eLearning at the School of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

4. Content Management Systems What is a Content Management System, or CMS?

5. Content Management Systems What is a Content Management System, or CMS? • A computer application used to create, edit, manage, search, and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text

6. Content Management Systems What is Content? • In essence: any type or “unit“ of digital information • It can be text, images, graphics, video, sound, documents, records etc.  anything in an electronic format

7. Content Management Systems What is Content Management? The management of content by combining rules, processes, workflows  A CMS is a tool that enables technical and non technical staff to create, manage and finally publish a variety of content, while being constrained by a set of rules that ensure coherent, validated electronic content.

8. Content Managment Systems Types of CMS: • Asset management tools • Document management systems • Enterprise content management • Web content management (example: http://www.univie.ac.at/hypertextcreator/europa/site/browse.php) • …

9. Content Management Systems Area of application for CMS in economy and Industry: • Storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry- specific documentation: news articles, operators’ manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures • Management of work flows and the paperless office

10. Content Management Systems Area of application of the CMS for Matilda: • CMS as connecting element beside personal contacts of the persons involved • Storage of documents available for all members • Communication • E- learning

11. Content Management Systems Drupal = the software, the Matilda CMS is based on www.drupal.org

12. Content Management Systems About Drupal • Software, that allows an individual or a community of users to publish, manage, and organize a wide variety of content on a web side • Drupal is one of the leading Web CMS software with tens of thousands of people and organizations using it

13. Content Management Systems Applications for Drupal: • Community web portals • Discussion sites • Corporate web sites • Intranet applications • Personal web sites or blogs • E- commerce applications • Social Networking sites

14. Content Management Systems That is special about Drupal: • Open source • Easy to use for technical and non- technical staff • Web- based: content is stored in a database, dynamically composed and presented to a user in response to the request sent via a web- browser

15. Content Management Systems Thank you for your attention! And now: Coffee and Tea break!

16. Hands on the website: http://matilda.ned.univie.ac.at/

18. Questions on the previous day Good morning! Let’s start with questions on the previous day!

19. E- learning E- learning: • Technology supported education/learning, medium of instruction is through computer technology “pedagogy empowered by digital technology” • E- learning and blended learning • Growing usage in education and training of employees

20. E- learning E- learning takes place • mostly by using e- learning platforms (these are all CMS’!) • or by using independent Web 2.0 tools like fora and blogs

21. E- learning To give you an idea, how e- learning looks like with a platform, let’s have a short look inside a blended learning course I am attending at the moment: https://elearning.uni-klu.ac.at/moodle/

22. Blogs Blog • Short form of “Weblog” (compiled of the words “web” for Internet and “log” for logbook) • a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video

23. Blogs Blogs as tools for e- learning • The teacher gives exercises, the results have to be presented at the student’s personal blog • Blogs are usually part of e- learning platforms • or free software is used for this purpose

24. Blogs Examples: • Blog used as a diary: http://discobandit.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/i-hate-school/ • Blog used as a jounal: http://www.krusenstern.ch/

25. Blogs Start your own blog in five minutes: www.wordpress.com

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31. Blogs http://hi4e.wordpress.com/wp-login.php

32. Blogs Please post a new entry to your blog: Write five minutes about your favourite (Austrian) dish Please save the draft, and then publish it. Afterwards have a look at your blog. Now we will connect each other via the Blog Roll

33. Forum Internet forum: • or message board, is an online discussion site. • From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content.

34. Forum Internet Fora and e- learning: • Same function as blogs, but content is organized in postings concerning certain topics or exercises, it is not bound to the user like in blogs

35. Forum https://elearning.uni-klu.ac.at/moodle/

36. RSS- Feeds What is an RSS- Feed? • Abbreviation for Really Simple Syndification • Family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – blog or forum entries, news headlines etc. • Keep readers up to date quickly from favoured websites

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38. RSS- Feeds RSS- Reader: • Used to read RSS- feeds • Can be included in Browsers, e- mail programmes or is used as a special programme • Checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads updates and proviedes a user interface

39. RSS- Feeds Now we will subscribe to RSS- Feeds of the Matilda Forum. Please got to www.google.com to get your own feed reader.

40. RSS- Reader

41. RSS- Reader • Please sign in now, • and follow the link that was sent to your e- mail account to activate your google reader. • Please go to the internal Forum of the Matilda web page and click on the RSS- logo. • Now you can add the news feed to your reader and are always up to date!