Getting Started
Guide
GATEWAY
Gateway (Entry
point to the Innovation by Design website.)
- Website is touchstone
of the FIPP initiative for connecting with colleagues, building community
of practice around the scholarship of teaching and learning, and fostering
collaborative relationships with others with common interests.
- Join Now or Sign Up
Here – provides access to the Community of Practice tools and workspaces,
notification of events, and opportunity for collegial activities to promote
the scholarship of teaching and learning.
News and Updates
- Informative articles
updated daily
- Articles posted in past
available through the archive feature
Announcements
- FIPP IP Video Town Hall
conference
- Agenda available
- View past streamed
conferences
- FIPP Community of Practice
Council meetings
Search features
- Search Innovation Profiles
– will display a list of public profiles
- Search for ‘term’
that may be contained in the profile title or summary
- Upon finding an
innovation profile of interest, you may contact innovator using email
feature
- Find a Person –
will display a list of users with that name, then can click on name to access
bio page with includes contact information, short biography, picture (if available),
and list of public profiles submitted by this individual
CONNECTION
Visitor - Welcome
and attributes of the FIPP Community of Practice
Join Now - Sign
Up Here - Complete Registration to become community member and enjoy access
to website tools and attend conferences
Governance - Membership
understanding of agreement
COMMUNITY
Town Center (CLII
Members only)
Connection features
- Create Bio graphy
- Displays short biography
- Contact information
- Teaching Efforts
- Link email address
- May provide HTML link
to existing homepage
- Display’s title
and provides direct link to any private profiles you have created
Profile an Innovation
- Create and Edit:
- Profile Title
- Profile Summary
- Templates –
consistent look and feel
- Cut and paste from
Word
- Type in directly
- Format using HTML
- Glossary access while
viewing profile
- My Portfolio -
Lists of your Profiles
- Attached files listed
alphabetically below
- May include short
description of contents
- Suggestion: Include ‘keywords’
in title and summary
Create / Join Neighborhoods
- Create Neighborhood
(Public or private)
- Add members as part
of your neighborhood
- Share your document
with neighborhood
KEEP
- Examples of other profiles
developed by the Carnegie Foundation and being Shared with FIPP Community
of Practice.
COMMUNITY
Neighborhoods
- Display a list of direct
links to public neighborhoods
- Neighborhood classification
- Public – searchable
by all
- Private (are restricted
to members only) – password access
- Join private neighborhoods
‘By Invitation Only’
Regions
- List Names of center-like
'COPs' that consist of multiple neighborhoods that are focused jointly on
collaborative efforts
COMMUNICATION
Communication features
- Public Text Chat Room
- Private Chat Room (only
with members logged in)
- Text based
- Web-based conferencing
- Mail
Collaboration features
- Resource Library
- Lingua MOO
Under development,
projected availability Spring 2005
- Create a Data Collection
Form
- Generate basic survey
- Can send URL to others
- Data collected - My Workbench
ABOUT
FIPP
- Institutions - Insititonal
members of FIPP community of practice.
- FIPP Events - list of
events held throughout the year are part of the FIPP program initiatives.
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- Guide - short description
of features and functionality of the website.
- Assistance - onlline
request and feedback sysems.
