building your own collaborative environment
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Building your own collaborative environment. Mark Tigwell [email protected]. What do we mean by collaborating?. “To work with another person or group in order to achieve something ” What does this mean for education technology?. If you want to…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Building your own collaborative environment
Mark TigwellMark [email protected]@microsoft.com
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What do we mean by collaborating?What do we mean by collaborating?“To work withwork with another person or groupperson or group in order to achieve achieve
somethingsomething”What does this mean for education technology?
““Work with”Work with” ““Person or group”Person or group” ““Achieve something”Achieve something”Talk to Students A decisionExchange ideas Educators A learning outcome
Create things (sounds, words, pictures, movies)
Family An agreement
Modify things Administrators A reportPublish things Government A curriculum plan
Express opinions Community A learning object
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If you want to…
Stream a live video or audio presentation to a large online audience You would use Windows Media Encoder on a PC and Windows Server 2003 with the
Media Server role turned on.Videoconference with one or two people
You would use Windows Messenger on a PC with a webcam.Create a presentation with commentary that could be downloaded or viewed over the web
You would use PowerPoint and Producer for PowerPointCreate and edit Movies or Slideshows
You would use Movie Maker and Photo StoryCreate a document, spreadsheet, presentation or web page
You would use Office 2003Create a learning object
Use any of the above tools and package it with Class Server 4
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Microsoft provides a complete toolkit for collaboration
Capture Windows Media EncoderWindows Image Acquisition
Microsoft Office 2003Other software
Create Windows Movie MakerWindows Photo Story
Producer for PowerPointMicrosoft Office 2003
Other software
Share Microsoft Outlook and ExchangeWindows Messenger
SharePoint
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Sharing
Outlook and Exchange Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes
Messenger and Live Communications Server
Real-time, one-to-one & one-to-few: Instant messaging, voice, video, application sharing
LiveMeeting Real-time one-to-many: meetings & presentations
Media Server Real-time or store and retrieve streaming video and audio
SharePoint Capture all of the above and more in one place: collaboration portal
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What does SharePoint do?
SharePoint automatically creates web sites for people to share information with each other.Some of the things it can create:
Discussion boardsSurveysDocument librariesImage galleriesPowerful custom listsEvents and calendarsAddress booksMeeting workspacesManage users and permissions
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Interactive demonstration…
Let’s install, configure and explore a typical SharePoint server….
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Install & configure SharePoint 1
1. What you need: a server running Windows Server 2003 with IIS (“Application Server” role switched on)
2. Install SharePoint Services (note: to enable search function, SQL Server must be used)
3. Run IIS – look at web sites and options4. In Administration Tools, select SharePoint Central Admin5. Extend a web site (Extend and create) Extend and map to another is for load-balancing Can use any SQL Server Enter a URL path
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Install & Configure SharePoint 2
Go to the new sitePick a templateNote: I am administrator, so I can do anything!
Explore Documents & Lists:• Shared documents (upload a document, alert, settings and
columns)• Standard lists (explore)• Discussions (explore)
Special areas (later): (sub)Sites Workspaces:
Document workspacesMeeting workspaces
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Site Settings 1
Home > Modify Shared Page Appearance Web parts
What are they?Types
Add a web part (content editor, text file)
Site Settings Customisation Alerts
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Site Settings 2
Go to top-level site admin Manage site groups (create a group) Cross-site groups Anonymous access (enables the magic button!) View storage allocation Manage regional settings Save as template
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Adding users
Adding a userUnderstanding roles and delegated authority
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Create:
1. New subsite (note context and permissions)
2. Document workspace (check-out, check-in, versions)
3. Custom list (staff DVD library)4. Survey5. Blank page6. Picture Library
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Integrating with Class Server
1. Class Server admin (teacher, student, class)2. Class Server SharePoint home page3. Class Server web parts
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Modifying in FrontPage
1. Fully customise all the elements of a SharePoint site2. More flexible data views and web parts3. Easily see the structure of your site4. Apply more themes5. View and modify code (careful!)6. WARNING: Break your SharePoint site!
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Advanced Topics
Writing web parts with Visual StudioIntegrating with Outlook:
Synchronise calendars and contacts Receive alerts Integrate alerts Create Meeting Workspaces
Command line tool: stsadm.exe useful for many tasks including backup and restore:
stsadm.exe -o backup -url http://server_name/site -filename file_name.dat
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Where to get the tools mentioned in this presentation
Microsoft Office 2003Microsoft Office 2003 www.microsoft.com/office
Microsoft WindowsXPMicrosoft WindowsXP www.microsoft.com/windowsxp
Microsoft Windows Server Microsoft Windows Server 20032003(includes Media Server)(includes Media Server)
www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003
NO COST – Windows NO COST – Windows SharePoint ServicesSharePoint Services
www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/
NO COST – Windows Media NO COST – Windows Media EncoderEncoder
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/
NO COST – Windows Movie NO COST – Windows Movie MakerMaker
Via Windows Update
NO COST – Windows Photo NO COST – Windows Photo Story 3Story 3
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/
NO COST – Producer for NO COST – Producer for PowerPointPowerPoint
www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/prodinfo/
NO COST – Windows NO COST – Windows MessengerMessenger
Via Windows Update
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Books and training
1.1. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step, Microsoft Press by Step, Microsoft Press (ISBN 0-7356-2075-X)(ISBN 0-7356-2075-X)
2.2. Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out, Microsoft Press Out, Microsoft Press (ISBN 0-7356-2171-3)(ISBN 0-7356-2171-3)
3.3. Microsoft eLearning Library (MELL) Module on Microsoft eLearning Library (MELL) Module on Windows Server 2003 and SharePoint (demo) Windows Server 2003 and SharePoint (demo) ((http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mell/)http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mell/)
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Web sites
1.1. TechNet TechNet (technet.microsoft.com)(technet.microsoft.com)2.2. MSDN MSDN (msdn.microsoft.com)(msdn.microsoft.com)
3.3. SharePoint UniversitySharePoint University www.sharepointu.com
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