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

Meeting of the Matilda Web- Administrators

Vienna, April 24 – 25, 2009

Welcome!

About Matilda:

http://matilda.ned.univie.ac.at/

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

Content Management Systems

What is a Content Management System,

or CMS?

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

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

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.

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)

• …

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

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

Content Management Systems

Drupal

= the software, the Matilda CMS is based on

www.drupal.org

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

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

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

Content Management Systems

Thank you for your attention!

And now:

Coffee and Tea break!

Hands on the website:

http://matilda.ned.univie.ac.at/

Questions on the previous day

Good morning!

Let’s start with questions on the previous

day!

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

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

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/

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

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

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/

Blogs

Start your own blog in five minutes:

www.wordpress.com

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

Blogs

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

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

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.

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

Forum

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

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

RSS- Feeds

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

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.

RSS- Reader

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!