Using SharePoint 2007 as an Extranet for Blended eLearning and Communities of Practice

Stephen MauWebsite & eNewsletter CommunicationsThe Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario

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Workshop Description

While known primarily as an enterprise portal platform, the latest version of SharePoint can be configured as an extranet and used to provide eLearning and online collaboration opportunities in membership-based organizations. Learn how a large teachers federation leveraged SharePoint 2007 and related technologies to provide long-term online learning opportunities to its membership. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario has adopted a long-term approach to professional development that involves action research, the use of trained facilitators, and a blended model of eLearning. This presentation will focus on both this blended model for professional learning, and the use of SharePoint to deliver the online components.

Workshop Agenda

1. About ETFO & Me2. Overview of

SharePoint3. MOSS vs. WSS 3.04. ETFO’s blended

Model of Professional Learning

5. Tour of ETFO Team Sites

6. Three levels of deployment, or ‘how rich is your organization?’

7. SharePoint as an LMS?

8. SharePoint Tools9. Questions/

Comments

About ETFO

The professional and protective organization representing 73,000 public elementary teachers and education workers (K -8) in the province of Ontario

Provides the following services: Collective Bargaining Professional Counseling Equity & Women’s Services Professional Development

About Me

Professional teacher Began teaching online 10 years ago Learned some web design Became an e-Learning consultant, then web

content person Not a developer, a content person Led a project to deploy SharePoint at ETFO

for public website, intranet and extranets

What is MOSS?

Full Version of SharePoint is ‘MOSS 2007’ Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is

an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

Source: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/product/Pages/default.aspx

What is MOSS? (2)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

An enterprise portal

Source: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/product/capabilities/Pages/default.aspx

Six Pillars of MOSS

1. Collaboration

2. Enterprise Search

3. Business Intelligence

4. Portal

5. Content Management

6. Forms-driven business process

Tour of ETFO MOSS

Public website Capitalizes on robust enterprise search,

lists, ability to roll up data

Secure Intranet Document sharing, some forms driven

processes

Team Sites eLearning, document sharing & work

group sites

MOSS Licensing

Standard CAL – collaboration, portals, enterprise search, enterprise content management

Enterprise CAL – add Business Process/Forms, Business Intelligence, Business Data Catalogue

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet Sites – for MOSS used only for public sites, or to bring external users in. A server license.

WSS 3.0 Windows SharePoint Services “It enables the creation of web sites for

information sharing and document collaboration, integrating with the Microsoft Office System and serving as a platform for application development.”

Free download with Windows Server 2008 license.

Lists, libraries, blogs, wikis, discussion forums, etc. – WSS can drive eLearning.

ETFO has full enterprise MOSS, but WSS would suffice for our blended eLearning

ETFO Teacher PD

Teacher professional development activities tend to be ‘one-shot’ workshops Little impact on practice

ETFO has embraced longer-term strategy Communities of practice PLCs ‘critical friends’

ETFO Teacher PD (2)

Focus not on ‘training,’ or mastering of techniques

Instead, focus on Critical thinking skills Reflective practice Action research Inquiry Learning as part of a community of

professionals

Blended Model

Reflections on Practice 3 face-to-face sessions interspersed with

online tasks/community building Action Research Report

Innoteach 2 face-to-face sessions with online

collaboration in between Develop a curriculum resource (learning

object) with critical input from the group

Blended Model (2)

Union School Developing a new generation of union

leaders 2 face-to-face sessions with online

activities/discussions in between

Tour of Team Sites

ROP: http://teams.etfo.ca/rop2

Innoteach: http://teams.etfo.ca/innoteach http://teams.etfo.ca/innoteach2

Union School: http://teams.etfo.ca/us

3 Levels of Deployment

1. Full enterprise portal Create a new site collection, set up for

forms authentication Install account management web parts:

Extranet Collaboration Manager by SharePoint Solutions ($6000)

Community Kit at Codeplex (open source) Cost - $100,000 +

3 Levels of Deployment (2)

2. WSS 3.0 + Extranet Collaboration Manager Cost: $3000 for Windows Server 2008, $6000 for

ExCM Or use Community Kit at Codeplex and save $$$

3. Hosted WSS Site Can build unlimited sites below your root Find a provider who will allow unlimited users $10 – 100 per month. More for back ups. E.g.: Sherweb -

http://www.sherweb.com/sharepoint-hosting Example site: www.harcourtpark.ca

SharePoint as an LMS? Codeplex project: SharePoint

Learning Kit - http://slk.codeplex.com

Replaced MS Class Server Expanded capabilities – more

standards compliant MS Released the source code –

developers are encouraged to expand the functionality

Features at a GlanceTechnologies Capabilities

Curriculum planning tools Create complete curriculum plans—including both digital and analog content, as well as learning activities and assessment activities.

Certified SCORM 2004 support and full support for SCORM 1.2 and Microsoft Class Server formats

Support for interactive branching, multimedia, and active content are possible with SCORM 2004

Basic support for any electronic document

Get assignment delivery and tracking for Microsoft Office documents, media files, PDF files, and any other document in a SharePoint Document Library

Features at a Glance (2)Technologies Capabilities

Integration with SharePoint “Easy to deploy because no separate provisioning is required for SLK. It gets its data from SharePoint products and technologies.”

Designed for community development and extension

Much deeper customization and plug-in development opportunities

Student-centric design Enables students to self-assign content; virtual classes; auditing with permission

Grade Book Grade activities based on criteria.Combine assignment grades into final grade

SharePoint Tools

Sharepoint Designer 2007 Free download as of April 2009 Access at MS Download Center

CorasWorks Enterprise Suite Enables roll ups across site collections Use actions builder to simulate workflows

without paying for MOSS Approx. $20 K per server plus yearly

maintenance

Questions/Comments

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