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[edit] About
Post ideas, requests, suggestions for information and services that would be part of the "Members Only" area of the NMC web site. This would be a place where only members have access to log into.
[edit] Considerations
- Account management: Directors who login should have special edit capabilities? How to create accounts for member institutions, e.g. create a special login for anyone from Big University if BU is an NMC member.
- Ideally a single user log-in will provide access to all resources based on roles
[edit] Current Offerings
Already available at http://www.nmc.org/membership/members/
- Searchable member directory (also as PDF)
- Software/service offerings from corporate partners
- Past reports (2003, 2004, 2005 NMC highlights, 2002, 2003 Salary Survey) PDF
- summary of NMC listservs
[edit] Ideas for "Members Only"
- Job Posting / look-up- a place for member institutions to post job announcements
- Aggregate of podcast feeds from member sites-- or this could be a place for members to add their ppodcast feeds that would then be available on the public site to access
- Aggregate of content from member sites vis RSS
- Collaboratively build a collection of grant opportunities for technology in education, perhaps with comments from places that have received awards?
- Publishing tool for members to post content on main site as news, highlights, spotlights from their center
- Publish a "profile" of each center or each corporate partners; randomize publish to NMC main site membership area
- Build our own del.icio.us as resource sharing strategy, e.g. Scuttle members would be able to ad/tag resources that are publicly available on other parts of the site
- Other community tools- discussion boards?
- Results of Member surveys + discussions
[edit] From Discussions at NMC 2006 Conference
- Thoughts
- "help us not be alone"
- "eat our own dog food" we need to use this if we ask for it
- demise of "web sites" -- micro-content; tags as navigation, but still need for browsing
- Suggestions
- a tool for generating syllabi and/or sharing examples
- shared collection of training documents we can use a template to share to pdf, share code, rate quality
- share institutional structures, where centers fit in
- blog roll of members or member sites
- post members with pictures so we can recognize next time we meet!
- Podcasting - legal issues on campus; ask Apple for iTunesU presence for NMC note: Apple has *agreed to help us do this.
- Use Google Map to provide locations of members
- tagging everything so we can browse archives
- all past conference presentations posted, and a way for presenters to return to add updates, etc
- info or resources to keep executives informed on IT
- document our use of Drupal in running this site note:- there is an excellent opemsource tool we can use to manage software /web development projects http://www.edgewall.com/trac/
- Also, note the Drupal "Project" module - similar to Trac, it adds project info pages and issue tracking (think of Mantis with more info on the Project page). You've already got a wiki, and a generic content management system - it should be ok to avoid using additional tools just because they're available. Drupal is capable enough to handle this kind of thing natively.
- archive of listserv; harvest the listserv, use listserv to generate interest that points to our web site ([Sympa] is a list software used at UMBC)
- job postings- wiki? how do you know if response came from NMC
- tool base, groupings by themes
- resource links on topics, perhaps with open source del.icio.us tool
- rss, text based equivalent, need quick or cool, remember dial up, remember ADA, common & best practices
- wiki makes sense for sharing creation of this content- but some want it to be a wiki that has a WYWSIWIG editor, no obscure codes
- grants from NMC to help development of shared applications
