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March Meeting of Web Tec Committee

2016-03-28T08:04:09.314Z

ARNA March 23 Web-Tec Committee Meeting

Present: Margaret, Jenny, Richard, Linnea

1) Changes or issues with the website.

Seems to be stable-- counter working-- traffic is not increasing but part of having the conference site separate-- visits to the conference site are not included in the count

Rich - conference sites is working seems to be updated when is needed.

LInnea reports on the paper.

Jenny doesn't see anything needed on the groups page, although nothing much is getting updated in the last months.

2 Technology Support

web, facebook, youtube, twitter all seem to be functioning but what might the next stage of history look like?

3) Conference Presentation Proposal Planning

Pecha Kucha: 20 slides/5 minutes for each of us.; followed by 45 minutes of discussion/groups on creating a survey about our tech presence and how to improve it for all of us.

1) Organizational Perspective (Margaret)

History How did technology help ARNA get organized-- what do we have now..
- What are doing... wiki and why we have a wiki do we need a wiki or some other
- Platforms-- google sites...
- Organizational support for conferences- ways in which we provide the best support.

Rationale: Why do we do what we have done?
wiki-- social media

Looking forward: What might we do in the future...

2) Operational Committees and Action Research Communities (Jenny)

Structure of groups_ websites
Why because people expressed an interest more interaction on the site around areas of interest or operations
Formation of the communities

How do you find your group? How do I find people like me? A forum for group formation. Projects posted might be a way to bring people together. Groups that meet face to face, and they might connect, but for our members that do not come to the meeting, we need to have a connect people. Forums for creating communities.

Support for the communities (Forming the ARC) (what are the best tools... website, facebook, twitter)

(Emphasize - we have ARCs and would like to support them with technology)

Start your own network - or add your current AR network. Is training needed? How will we support (provide environment) your group. Highlight the focus of your AR interest. A group/forum can be added to any page. We can link to their forum. Meeting time during conference. Leadership guidance. Check the kind of support you need and how much support is needed. Examples.

Sharing resources--showcase work Come together at conferences.

groups for social progress AR

groups for educators doing AR

groups for local associations doing AR

groups of professionals doing AR

AR publishers groups

3) Members --How can we shape the experience of new and renewing members? (Linnea)

How do we welcome new members?

They have access to the website, but most do not know how to participate with the digital tools.

Website

Pages within the website

Groups

Links to conference pages

Facebook

Twitter

Introduce survey

Possible Survey Questions -- (Goal keep it short, and easy--make each question count (don't ask about things we can find out from analytics)

1) Organization Structure and Conferences
The organization and the navigation of the website is clear and easy to use. (agree, disagree)
I read and value the announcement on the first page of the website. (agree, disagree)
Frequency of visits to Never Yearly Monthly Weekly
The main website (www.arnaconnect.org)
Conference Websites
Facebook ARNA Group
You tube channel
Twitter (weekly, monthly, yearly, never)

I would find the ARNA website easier to use if: (Text box)
I find the communication options meet my needs (agree/disagree)

2) Operational committees and Action Research Communities
I have posted to the ARNA website groups.
The communication on the website meets my needs. (5 pt Likert scale)
My ideas for new group structures:
Starting ARCs... start my own ARC and then attaching content to it the groups page...

3) Members
I know how to make changes to the WIKI-website.
I have made changes or additions to the website
I read ARNAs Twitter feed. (5 pt Likert scale)

4) Going Forward- Your Ideas

The following content and/or features could added to the ARNA website: (Text box)

A different way/platform/or approach to support ARNA:

Feb Meeting of the WebTec

2016-02-25T01:11:46.957Z

Feb 24 2:00

Present: Jenny Margaret and Linnea

1) Leadership page has blank boxes... we need to have them filled with either text or videos

Margaret sent emails today; will add content when received. Feb 15 --(no progress.. the question is should I remove the boxes or keep trying)

2) Margaret is going to check with Holly and Joe, on the new members and interface with the website. New members need to be added to the wiki and also to the membership. ( Feb 15 I think this has been taken care of)

3) Everyone is going to test the scholarship page and then Margaret will give access to the people who will be reviewing. (It appears to be working but no applications have been received)

4) Jenny is going align the menu with group and arna connect (This was done and Jenny reports that there has been some activity in the groups)

5) Rich is going to check on the connections between the conference website and Youtube and see if twitter has an option. (The link back from the conference page is not there--MMR will send a message)

6) Someone needs to check on proceedings and make sure it has a way back. (This has been done)

7) Margaret will experiment with the site look and see what others think. ( I experimented with colors, but Lonnie and Joe did not like the change in colors (orange and blue) so I changed it back).

8) Rich is going to work on the video from the last conference (In process)

Discussion:

Groups-- not working reason is likely to be that it is not a grassroots effort. It is more something that the leadership is trying to create. Needs energy from the participants.

Is a Website a good way to support a group? Maybe facebook groups are better. Maybe we need a listsr rather than a facebook or website. Hard to know what would

help people to organize. We need to hear from members.

New website -- What platforms are going to be around? Why choose one over the other? Who has a good idea as to which would be better? We should be looking and

be ready to make a new proposal. Maybe we can work on a new site slowly over time and then be ready with a new version some time after the conference. Do we need

it to be a wiki? In reality only the leaders change the site but that access is important. We might be able to have multiple ownership of a new site.

We discussed plans to submit a PechaKucha Session... with a focus on: How Technology Serves ARNA Community Development

Large questions about the role of technology in the

Margaret --5 mins - development of an organization

Jenny -- 5 minutes-- from the perspective of small groups

Linnea -- 5 mins-- from the perspective of the individual member

Then the rest of the session will be to elicit ideas for how we move into the next stage of technology development

Jan Web Tech Meeting

2016-01-28T22:53:07.392Z

Meeting Jan 2016

Present: Margaret , Linnea Rademaker, Jenny Robins Rich McPherson

Reports:

Margaret:

MEMBERS TAB:

Updated: Updated the membership page with the brochure

New: Award page is now completed under members-- pictures and information about the awards and the people.

CONFERENCE TAB

New: Eduardo Flores Scholarship application form has been implemented and is under conference tab- the information is stored on a sheet in the ARNA google identity (actionresearchnetwork@gamail.com.

ABOUT ARNA

Updated: History page-- documentation timeline history

New: added oral history taken from proceedings site

RIGHT MENU

New: Added RevolveMap for better tracking of visitors-- we had problems with cluster map

MANAGE SITE

Continuing on the clean up and moving of assets to the google drive and link

We are at 72% --moving large files will solve any space problems.

Richard:

CONFERENCE WEBSITE:

Working on a list of housekeeping things

Providing support to the the conference website

Posting content and working on the desgin

TORONTO VIDEO:

-need to finish Toronto review video and post to conference page

FACEBOOK:

-upload and manage photos in Facebook, year-by-year

Linnea:

MEMBERS:

not receiving any new members to share the website with or any updates to the membership

Nov/Dec Web Tech Meeting

2016-01-27T20:03:54.739Z

ARNA Web Tec Meeting

Nov/Dec Meeting on Dec 2 at 2pm PT

Present: Jamie, Linnea, Jennifer, Margaret

1) Overview of site:

Leadership changes were not yet made in all places.

We edited the site so that all leadership was accurate

We still need to get videos or written statements in the boxes. (Margaret will send email)

2) Cluster map updating problems

Site was not updating -stuck on Oct 17 and Clustrmaps not responding to help requestst

Margaret Created a new map which seems to be updating.

On Jan 1, we should revisit what we want to have on the site.

Choice between Clustrmap and Revolving Maps (both have pros and cons

-- both can be seen working on (ccar.wikispace.com, or onlinelearningcircles.org (this a google site so it would look like this one)

3) Membership listing

Any new members? Not appearing on the listing

Need to establish procedures for getting them added both to the sharing and to the member list

Founding who have not renewed are stilled listed on the site. What is the plan for removal of those that have not renewed?

Brochure-- When is it going out? We can use the content to create a webpage that features membership.

Blog... need to energize responses from the community. Will announce posts on FB.

Jamie will work on update FB more often and including Peter Richmond's blog posts.

When is the brochure going out?

Who is writing the announcement for the new conference website?

The images from the membership brochure could renew the membership page __ Margaret agrees to do this.

October 2015

2016-01-27T19:59:33.191Z

I could not find the notes from the meeting....I think that only one person attended and we talked without recording minutes. The task has been to

move all ARNA documents into our public spaces so that if any person should be missing, we would not lose assets. We are continuing in this

process.

Rich could not attend but he did send this report which indicates the work that he has contributed to this group effort:

Here is a list of items that I am working on.

1) Checking on any further duplicated/missing files and cleaning them up (though I know you have already done an excellent job of this)

2) Download MASTER files from website to a folder for backup

3) Ensure all photos and videos that I have are uploaded to the actionresearchnetwork@gmail.com account. Video may have to go into a Dropbox because of size.

4) Create a word document that contains all links to videos live on our YouTube Channel so people have access quickly.

5) Edit Toronto Overview video

6) Update Facebook folders for photos

7) Update 2013 Conference web page to reflect newer look; link to old page as legacy

September Web Tec Meeting

2015-09-24T07:42:41.953Z

Web Tec Meeting AGENDA

September 23, 2015

Holly, Jamie, Margaret, Jennifer, Rich in attendance

(Note: The meetings during the summer month were small in size and focused on membership ideas, proceedings and general issues)

AGENDA

ASSET COLLECTION.

We have begun the process of getting the web assets (videos, images, files) into one place--ARNA Public Masters. Currently there are three folders here. One for videos, one for web-linked or attached files, and one for us to keep files and list the locations of assets in other places.

SPACE AND REVISIONS

Site storage 84% of 100 MB used. We should be able to move back to 40%.

We need to keep the size of the main website lean. Two ways to do this.

Attach rather than upload files -- we currently have 260 files on the site.

Margaret created folders to represent the menu items and demonstrated the process of copying files and graphics to the google drive. She also showed how to move files that we think are no longer current in a folder called marked for deletion. We need tol go through every page this way until we know that all graphics are in this folder. This makes it possible to reconstruct any page. Different people agreed to go through this process for different pages.

Rich will do this for the conference tabs

Holly will look through membership

Jennifer is looking through groups

Margaret will do about this website and history and other pages

2) remove the long history of revision.

There is no easy way to do this. Once we have all of the assets in one place, we willl take the pages with the most revisions and copy them getting rid of the revisions giving us more space. The home page is the hardest as the system does not want you change/rename or copy the home page. However we start on other pages and see how this affects the size limits.

PHOTO COLLECTIONS

Our collection of Conference Photos are stored in the ARNA CONNECT Google+ Account

We will also store photos in a file in the ARNA CONNECT google+ account

NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION FOR THE WEB TEC Team

Margaret agreed to create a sheet listing the access permissions that have to be given to new members of the Web Tec Community, as well as an introduction letter.

REVIEW OF THE WEBSITE

Everyone agrees to review the website making sure that everything has been changed for the new year.

Jennifer took on the task of writing to leaders to get graphics and videos for all of the people on the leadership team.

HELP FILES- Margaret will work on these once other tasks are done.

PROGRESS ON PROCEEDINGS

Jamie Hill provided a brief update on the Conference Proceedings. We decided that space on these websites was good for about 5 years and if we run out of space and are still on google sites in 5 years it will be easy to link a new site.

CONFERENCE 2015

Rich McPherson, Video, Conference, Knowledge Mobilization, YouTube Channel
We agreed to keep these on the root site for now as once we have the practice of linking to attachments from the google drive, space should not be a problem.
Rich has been working on Conference 2016 page

SOCIAL MEDIA POSTINGS

Holly is going to write to John and ask for regular updates about the conference planning that can be twitted to followers. These can be little news items like setting up hotels or find speakers or creating a plan for some part of the conference.

And another way of doing this is to share news from our networking partners. Margaret shared the listing of other networks and Jamie and Holly might reach out to people either on our executive community or at these networks to keep news coming out on a regular bases.

We also talked about featuring images from the image collection on facebook from time to time.

May Meeting

2015-06-22T05:52:26.076Z

Meeting took place at the ARNA Conference

The Webtec and Membership groups meet together.

We discussed a range of ideas for how to increase membership and

discusssed rates, and ways to increase participation.

April Meeting Web-Tec Group

2015-06-22T05:49:47.376Z

Web Tec Develop Group Meeting

Wednesday April 29, 2015, 2:00-3: 25

Hangout link...

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwlnykbr2hgdm6ty2vs4b6ndwua

Present: Margaret Riel, Rich Mcpherson, Jenny Robins, Linnea Rademaker, and Miguel Angel Lopez

First Issue is how to present the Delphi Study contents on the website.

We discussed location and settled on Knowledge Mobilization. We considered the following possibilities tab names and settled on What is action research?

Action Resarch approaches
**** What is action reseach?
Understanding action research
First steps of action research
The community of action research
Action research (defined?)
Action Research Persepctives

Margaret is going to post and the group approved the general sense of content and links.

Membership -Linnea

Payments through the Moravian which says who is paying for what. She logs that process. We need to have a better more automatic system. She can email to a list of people who are members, or conference people or both without causing two emails to the same person. She sends out a certicate to members, and gives them to link to post themselves online as a member.

Removing people from list.

Taking off the people who are not members? Removing of the founding members that did not renew. We need to send a message to tell them that if they do not renew by the end of the conference, that we will be removing them from the listing with great sadness.

Conference - Rich -- conference pages are coming. We have an app for the conference which he has listed on announcements.

he is receiving video clips and putting them together.

Groups and the Website Jenny -- email to the committe chairs and told them that the page has moved. This give them more control over the site. She is putting togehter the contact information. She will not be at the conference but we need to make sure that we share her image and offer her support at the groups meeting session.

We also talked about connections to our social media and it is growing -- we might need to add a member to be a facebook person or Jenny might just continue to do both groups and facebook.

March 25th Web Tec Meeting

2015-03-27T06:20:16.824Z

The WebTec group met on Wednesday, March 25 at 2:30pm PT and reviewed the work done

and to be done on the website.

Present were:

Margaret Riel,
Rich McPherson,
Jennifer Robins
Linnea Rademaker

Reports:

Rich-- Made the following changes

1) Developing a map graphic for the sponsors. Right now it does not have individual links
for the sponsors, but he is working on it. Possible solution is to have it the map link to a
page with links for each sponsor.
2) Added icon links to facebook, youtube and now our new twitter sites.

To be done....

1) Fix sponsors. Make additions of two Journal sponsors and create a linked page that
lists all the sponsors withs links to schools.

2) Fix various pieces of the Knowledge Mobilization pages, specifically the
Story Telling page. Need to move information over.

Linnea -- Membership is getting under control. There is a process including a welcome

message that gets sent to new members with all of the information that they need. We

are still low on membership but they are slowly coming in. More are likely to be bundled

with the conference registration.

To be done...

1) Explore emailing tools

2) Continue to process new memberships

Jennifer - Has created a seamless link for the collaboration groups so that they can work

on their pages without any risks to the main website. Need to check to make sure

the site is shared with all group members.

To be done

1) to develop ideas for how to support the development of groups.

Margaret - Monitoring the site and making small changes in response to requests.

To be done...

1) Talk to Peter about including the link for the discussion at the end of every post

2) Work on tech support and FAQ

3) Invite Tammy Marich (twitter person) to join the Web-Tec group

The group skill is developing providing for continual evolution of our connections.

Feb 25 ARNA Web Tech Meeting

2015-02-26T00:07:30.554Z

Present for the meeting:

Margaret Riel, Facilitator, Site Structure and design
Linnea Rademaker, Membership, member sign in and membership listing
Jamie Hill, Conference Proceedings and facebook
Rich McPherson, YouTube Channel and Conference and Story Telling
Jennifer Robins, Collaborative groups and networking

The web committee is working well and the web site continue to evolve with all of the good

ideas and input of the group.

Monthly Reports:

Linnea Rademaker:

MEMBERSHIP Membership drive is in place and Linnea reported on the message that was sent out with a certificate that
inidicates membership. There are still some glitches in the information flow and some of it is around the
issues of sponsorship since these have memberships that need to be indicated and when they change,
without the email of the people, it is hard to reach the people. Signup to the website seems to be
working. Margaret agree to format the incoming information on the member listing. Soon we will
have to make a decision about removing founding members that have not renewed.

To do (Lineea) : Continue working with new and returning members

(Margaret): Update entries with formatting and sorting

Rick McPerson:

SOCIAL MEDIA: Rich has completed work on the YouTube and is helping with the Facebook. We discussed how to feature
these links on the website. We decided to having them in the menu on the left might be good way plan
for these links.

CONFERENCE: The conference link has a new graphic interface and Rick is updating other parts of the
site as well.

STORY TELLING - For knowledge Mobilization story telling, he wants to have a feature story. He will be working
on the existing site and then when he has it ready to go, we are thinking about how to feature it. Maybe a video
link on the first page un Peter's Blog and an announcement each time a new story is featured.

To do (Rich) Link the images on knowledge mobilzation to the pages

Develop graphic interface for knowledge mobilization (like conference page)

Continue to work on video story telling

Jamie Hill:

PROCEEDINGS - Site is in great shape. It sets the standard for spinnoff sites. We need to have the branded as

part of the site but also clear that it is different. We discussed this and decided and a link back to the hom site
is an important way for the person to know where they are and how to get back.

To do (Jamie) : Find the best way to make the movement between the home and proceedings home as seamless

as possible.

Jenny Robins:

COLLABORATION GROUP - Jenny designed a new home for the collaborative groups. This is ready to go
live. It will not look much different from the user side as the menu and look is the same as the website.
The reason for doing this space and saftey. The groups can have as much webspace as they would like
without it adding to the size of the website. And safety in that they cannot do any harm to the main website.
They can be owners and if something goes wrong, it will be easy for Jenny to fix it. So they an complete
control without there being a risk to other information. (operations groups will stay on the main website

but we need to get the other groups to post short and concise monthy updates of their work.

To do: (Jenny) Contact the leaders of each of the collaborative groups and help them to learn how to use

website to keep organized.
Remind groups to take pictures at the conference that can be used for the website.

Margaret Riel:

LANGUAGE TRANSLATION We have completed the shift to the new way of doing translation.
I have not been able to test the translation correction process. I did change my computer
to French to try it but then I could not understand what I was being asked
to do. So to test the correction of the translation, I will need to find either a bilingual
techie or be co-present with a computer and bilingual person.

Language translation appears to be working in so far as we have not heard any complaints. But we
need to have create a survey that examines this and other issues with the website perhaps for

the conference or to be distributed before the conference.

TALK BACK TO PETER We needed a way for people to respond to Peter's blog without having to
signin to the site. We solved this problem with a public google group forum posted on the web which
allows for threaded discussions. That seems to be working well. We talked about when a google
group of facebook discussion might be the right implementation.

TECH HELP

Suggestion for change is to have the menu button read Need Help? Then have a contact list
and tech help as options

To do (margaret) : Tech Help needs updating (both pages and the links to it)
Back up maintanience (make a current copy delete old ones)

Great teamwork is happening in the WebDev group! The task is no longer so large as there are different people in charge of

the sections of the website.

Jan 2015 Web Tech Meeting

2015-01-29T20:22:43.385Z

Web Tech committee Meeting

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

(We did not meet in December)

Members present: Margaret Riel, Linnea Rademaker, Miguel Angel Montoya,

(and virtually there Rich McPherson)

Membership: Linnea is working on putting membership into Microsoft Access

Renewal dates updated on website until April (just before conference).

Still can be founding member if you renew by April

Translation

Google sites is now into different languages-- and our multi-lingual members

can help adjust the translation where needed.

Margaret put the translate option on the side and hopefully that will work.

Margaret will help test the translation process with Miguel. Miguel reports

that the changes he is making are not staying on the site.

Margaret will use the current empty translation page to put some small

screencasts to help others after testing.

Knowledge Mobilization: Rich to review and consolidate all ARNA video and

stories and create a plan for dissemination.

Conference Pages:

Rich is continually updating and revising, as new information

is given in planning committee meetings and materials are created.

Social Media:

Rich to review and update ARNA YouTube video we past video from

conferences and build communication plan. Materials to be showcased

on YouTube; looking into a Twitter account.-once I have the Knowledge

Mobilization and YouTube pieces in place and more robust, we need to

highlight our social media pieces on the main page to make it feel like

more of a ‘living’ page.

Web Tech Group Nov 2014 meeting

2014-11-20T06:41:11.787Z

The Web Tech Meeting Nov 18 2:00

Participants:Margaret Riel, Jamie Hill, Linnea Rademaker

Agenda

General Discussion Items

1. Move to use google translate

put the message on the side

put a message on the front page of the spanish side

2. Need to continue to develop the facebook site

Jamie has agreed to take over the site.

Jamie is the new facebook guru taking this over from the great start that Linnea made

Will actively engage in this process over Thanksgiving. (currently developing

ARNAproceedings)

Reports from each of the people present

Jamie Hill - Proceedings

https://sites.google.com/site/arnaproceedings/home?pli=1

email about background color

tan is all over the page.

Linnea Rademaker- We decided to do two membership drive and we are doing a Nov renewal and new members

and then new members again at conference time. We are working with a Profit data base. We are sending them emails to join.

Listservs need to explore how we can get one.

Margaret Riel -- we fixed the lower banner on the website but we need to fix it on the proceedings.

We got Linnea to make a fabulous video but Shelly still needs to make one.

Problem with Joe’s video needs to be fixed not open access.

Oct Web-Dev Meeting

2014-10-29T07:28:52.388Z

ARNA Web Tec Meeting Oct 22 2014- 2:00pm PT

Attending: Margaret, Jennifer, Miguel, Linnea

Agenda

1 General Topics or Issues:

Rethinking the Spanish/English split with google translate doing the work for us.

The coordinating committee approved this approach

Steps

Check browsers to see if it comes automatically in different browsers

works in chrome
doesn’t work in firefox

Embed the option to get to different languages (on the side or on the page)
Once the translation is embedded, remove all but the first page of Spanish site.

Action Items
Miguel is going to try Google Translation on ARNA in both Spanish and French and
report back on both quality and length of time it takes to fix a page
Margaret is going to explore how to embed the transition option on either the template or on the web content page.

http://translate.google.com/manager/website/?hl=en

2. Reports from each of the people on their sections

Margaret:

Done:
Wrapper bar at the bottom of the template not acting as we wanted-- Jennifer and Margaret working on it after the meeting and fixed it.
Created a resource link for online teaching and added some references

ACTION ITEMS
work on the home page or sections in about ARNA
need video clips of current leaders
Develop frequently asked questions --
Also need to revise the tech help sections

Linnea --Membership -- Linnea

Create ARNA certificate for members (Linnea is doing this, via Shelley’s templates), but we may want to add this to member benefits (that certificate will be emailed); add web link to flyer
Members page

Membership form (she can fix this one
Talk with Joe about changing the Movarian Site link

Talk with Margaret about linking blog on website;
Re-do membership page on website, with approved membership material for founding members, members, and institutional members. (need wire transfer possibility for payment? contact?)shelley?

ACTION ITEMS
Work on the membership section of the website and update the pages -- check with Joe about Moravian Membership and Cathy

Jennifer - Groups

New template used to model new site for groups. This helped me learn about sites. The new site looks like and links to/from the ARNA site, but is a separate site. This is to help with growing size of ARNA site. https://sites.google.com/site/groupsarna/
contacted Rachel Sherman - tried to set up a phone call. I will send her my number again.

Rich - Conference

Done:

Has revised his pages and there is a map of the locations and he is continuing to work on this this. 2014 page has been revised and gives more information-- and 2015 is under construction.

Action Items

doing a youtube gallery of videos from the conferences.

sep 2014 meeting web-dev

2014-09-24T23:56:26.342Z

Wednesday Sep. 24th

2pm PT, 4:00 CT and 5:pm ET

Present: Margaret, Jennifer, Rich, Linnea

google hangout link

Reports on the parts of the web that each person is working on and list of things that need to be done.

Template issues- Margaret

bar at the bottom needs to be reconsidered-- change width or color gradient

Home page development and about sections-- Margaret

frequently asked questions (need to develop or remove)
Tech Help need to be redone.

About Arna-- Margaret

needs video clips of current leaders

Membership -- Linnea

Membership committee is working on membership drive

fall- Nov and Spring - Feb

Members index -- needs work (Linnea will work on the page for “Members” that you access via the menu bar at the top, so that it also is a first page for people clicking on “members” as a general page (similar in structure to “I am a Member” page).

Map -- Brett

Groups- Jennifer

Rich: share arna gmail account/password with team…
Will be archive/bank of photo and video
Margaret will make a group template for Jennifer

Conferences -- Rich
Overall check of site --Alin
Knowledge mobilization -- Elena & Jamie
Spanish Site - Camilo and Miguel
New ideas - Jennifer

August 20 Meeting Web Tech Group

2014-08-20T23:42:05.650Z

August Meeting of the Web Tech Development group

August 20, 2:00pm

Present: Margaret, Linnea Rademaker, Jennifer Robins,

Agenda

1) Report of changes made
     Reports by each person

Margaret:
The structural and template update of both the English and Spanish sides is mostly finished. The goal is to have a spanish page for every english page with some exceptions. The Interest groups will work in either English or Spanish and will be housed on the side of the web that they are working in with links to it from the other side with a note that says that they are working in Spanish or English. If a group is working in both languages, it will be translated. Right now we are proposing this for the Collaborative Interest groups but not the operations groups as this information should be available in both languages. Margaret is going to work with the translating crew to help them with the process of translating google site pages. One thing to keep in mind is that each page can be checked to make sure it is the same but adding or taking away "sp" in the url.
   https://sites.google.com/site/arnaconnectsp/aboutarna
   https://sites.google.com/site/arnaconnect/aboutarna

LInnea - shows off the home 3 - for new members -- work still needs to be done on the tech help pages but Linnea is going to focus on getting the membership area working well.

Miguel - has some FAQ ideas that he will send to Linnea)
missing members that Miguel has and will send
Jennifer- is working on cascading style to clean up the website. She is taking it on herself to explore how this might work and then to create unification of fonts, font size and headings.
Alin - looked at the design and had some comments which he shared with Margaret-- he will be looking for ways to use images to make the site more visually appealing.

Changes still to be made
    what do you plan to do this month
     FAQs - tech help
     Margaret - add Miguel to the spanish contact list
                     announcements… makes sure they are up to date.

     Jennifer is going to working on style sheet
       -Finish the CSS course and resize the video as a percentage of the space alotted.
     Miguel is going to meet with the spanish group and see about translations.
     Alin is going to give some feedback on the site.
     Linnea is working on membership- working out the correspondence between the            website and the membership listing

Future designs

  Cascading Style Sheet
  more images and videos

Update on the Web Reorganization

2014-08-14T08:27:31.106Z

Hi Web-Dev group,

This message is also directed to ARNA en Espanol group...

I think I have recreated the website on the spanish side. I have two more things to do

1) Operations Committees... I am going to save that for tomorrow.
2) Announcements... seeing which ones are missing

We are ready to start the translation process. I suggest that someone translate the first page immediately as it is not very reassuring to go to the Spanish side and be hit right away with English.

I am also going to suggest that someone be identified for each of these sections of the website-- they should subscribe to the changes of these pages on both the English and Spanish side so that they see when pages they are responsible for are changed.:

WEB WIKI PAGES Person who is in charge of translation

Home pages and About ARNA _____________________

Announcements: _____________________

Members and Groups ____________________

Conferences _____________________

Knowledge Mobilization ____________________

Resources & Q and A_ _____________________

This way we will know who is working with the different options and we can let them know when there might be a something that needs immediate translation.

Translation Process

1) Click the Edit Button...

Header Translation

Each page starts with a first line separated from the rest of the text with dotted lines.

This is the name that appears in the red tabs so that when you translate the name, it will change in the menu. Some of these are in Spanish but others are not. Please try to keep them shorter rather than longer.

2) Text Translation

Copy a paragraph to MSWORD or Google Translate and translate the text. Then copy back to the pace where you took it. Text inside of tables will have to be done cell by cell.

If a page get messed up when translating, you can either use the revision option (top of wheel menu next to edit pencil icon), or go to the English page and copy what you are missing (better to hit edit first and then copy). If you copy links, you will need to change them to the Spanish side (see below).

3) Text Boxes and other Gadgets

If text is in a text box and does not appear in the edit page, use the option/setting wheel on the gadget to see and change the text in the text box.

NOTE: The highlight from right to left highlights the whole paragraph, from left to right only what you choose. I have been confused by this as I highlight a few words and then find that the rest of the paragraph is gone.

When you are finished you can compare the page with the English page. This will help you see if you lost any content or images as you were translating the text.

High Priority

Home pages (even the ones that are in production)

Conference (when information about new conference appears)

Membership

Rachel, you might take note of how I organize the Collaborative Interest Group. I think that these can have the language specified and then records will be kept in either English or Spanish (or other languages) and we will just link to the space where it is working. At some point we will need to work with groups to help them with their space, but I don't think we need to translate these. ARNA en Espanol can keep notes in Spanish and any groups that want to work in Spanish (or any other language can do that).

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Unless you see problem, please don't

1) Move the location of the page (under other options) (this changes links)

2) Rename the page (under other options- page settings) (this also changes links)

The page url "name" is the same in both wikis so that we can easily change links when pages are copied from English to Spanish or Spanish to English. When copying a page, iall the links can be changed by adding "sp" at the end of arnaconnect so that the links will work on the spanish side and not link back to english side. (if there isn't a page on the spanish side then we will need to create one).

( I will also post this on the website.)

See you on Wednesday at 2pm PT unless we change the time.

Margaret

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Update on progress

2014-08-12T08:13:26.395Z

The new look has been updated on the English side and once we are happy with it, it need to be added to the spanish side.

There are new pages for the three targeted home pages-- first visit, return visitors and new members.

We need a new page for the 2015 conference. I think that there was a video that we can show. What other things are there that can be put on this page. Once we get feedback from the committee on Aug 12, I will start on the Spanish language side.

Miguel-- working on FAQs

Rich

-Look into improving slideshow on ARNA Conferences homepage, link to ARNA gmail account; reduce photo size if required

-Review Conference webpage; format; add videos/photos to the leadership 2015 page

Jenny

- edit the first time member page

Linnea

-Edit the member page

Margaret

-continue with the web overhaul and then work on the structure of the Spanish side

Tasks yet to be assigned--

"Index" pages -- many are under construction

members

groups

knowledge mobilization

2015 Conference information

July Meeting of the Web Dev Group

2014-07-23T22:58:09.490Z

Web Development Group Meeting

Wednesday July 22 2:00

Present: Margaret, Jenny, Rich, Linnea

Revision of the Website

1) Discussion of the Index pages-- each of the items across the top (red boxes) will link to an "index" page as it may not be clear to users that they can click on them once they see choices. We discussed the layout and look.

2) Home choices-- After some discussion we settled on three specialized home pages under home...

New Visitor

Visitors

Members

Here is what we have worked out...

Home 1, (first visit) My first visit (Jenny)

what would make people feel comfortable?

Not just a website but owned and managed by the members of arna

video introduction of arna (point to ‘about ARNA’)

International aspect… Americas and beyond

Please join us!

Home 2, I am not a member (yet).

Membership Benefits:

1) ability to edit and add to the website (wiki)

2) ability to join a collaborative interest groups within ARNA

Visitor Benefits:

1)Contact me—a direct link to send your question to Linnea Rademaker

(membership --pic and note)

Frequently asked questions

Site map

Home 3, I am a new member (Linnea)

I am a member: (Hyperlink within arrow, or next to arrow):

This link will take you to instructions on how to:

1. sign-in to the website, so that you can edit, if you wish (add an announcement, add information about a journal, etc.).

2. Tech help: other issues that are tech related, such as “how to edit the webpage,” or “how to add information about an upcoming action research event in my area.”

3. Contact me—a direct link to send your question to Linnea Rademaker

4. Frequently asked questions—a one-stop location for questions we are frequently asked about ARNA and the ARNA website.

sign-in to the website, so that you can edit, if you wish (add an announcement, add information about a journal, etc.).

Tech help: other issues that are tech related, such as “how to edit the webpage,” or “how to add information about an upcoming action research event in my area.”

Contact me—a direct link to send your question to Linnea Rademaker

Frequently asked questions—a one-stop location for questions we are frequently asked about ARNA and the ARNA website.

Pitch an invitation to join an interest group

Frequently asked questions for members

Site map

IDEAS: Maybe a personal note from the leader of a group that is relevant?

Jenny suggested that we could use people rather than topic menu items as they do on http://www.ucmo.edu

But since we don't have that much content that would only be for one group, we decided to stay with the current menu but think about it for the future.

Could be a flag at the bottom of each page to move to the specific page in Spanish and from the Spanish page bakc to the English. (might be time consuming but could help with translation.

Rich Duties:

-Look into improving slideshow on ARNA Conferences homepage, link to ARNA gmail account; reduce photo size if required

-Review Conference webpage; format; add videos/photos

Jenny

- edit the first time member page

Linnea

-Edit the member page

Margaret

-continue with the web overhaul and then work on the structure of the Spanish side

Tasks yet to be assigned--

Index pages -- many are under construction

members

groups

knowledge mobilization

Feel free to volunteer!

Horizontal Navigation Bar

2014-07-23T22:54:53.793Z

About ARNA

Mission,

Values

Vision

Leadership Structure

ARNA Leadership 2014-15

ARNA History

2013-14

2012-13

Membership

The navigation bar

2014-07-11T08:01:14.969Z

We are about to redo the navigation bar and we are look for final comments on the following proposed organization for the site navigation

About ARNA

Mission,

Values

Vision
Leadership Structure

2013-14

ARNA History

2012-13

2011-12

Membership
Directory

Becoming a Member

Sponsor ARNA

ARNA Member Map

Connections (?)

ARNA Participation
Operations Committees

Interest groups

Conference
2013 San Francisco, CA, USA

2014 Bethlehem, PA, USA

Resources
Storytelling
Conference Proceedings
Connections to Other AR Organization (here or under members?)

Career options

Action Research web links

Contact ARNA

include tech support here

June 18, Web Dev Meeting

2014-06-19T07:30:48.741Z

2pm PT Attending: Linnea, Elena, Margaret, & Miguel

There was some confusion over the time as the message said 2pm but the calendar did not update before the invite was sent and it said 1pm. This caused some people to miss the meeting.

We agreed as a group to accept the new template with the horizontal menu. Margaret will begin the process of implementing this shift. We also agree on the audience filter and we are going to mock up the four pages. In this discussion Miguel suggest that we need a FAQ feature and he agree to write the questions and answers. We decided that this might be featured in the first two filters.

Design-- the use of arrows. We discussed where the information should go, on the arrows or before or after the arrows, or if we should use the arrows at all. After some discussion, Margaret is going to try a mock up of the front page with the arrows and we can see what we think. Linnea think that the arrows might point to buttons to click.

This is my visit to ARNA- Margaret

I am not a member (yet). - Margaret

I am a member. - Linnea

Looking for conference resources- Elena (draft exists)

1) First time visitors (answers to the questions...(Margaret)

What is action research? (could be short statements by people, short videos, links to find out more

What is ARNA? (origin video shown at the conference)

Why ARNA? Some notion of why the group was formed

What you will find at the website -- what are the highlights of the site? (conference and participation)

2) Returning Visitors (Margaret)

Welcome back

Featured Announcement and focus on what changes on the site

Invitation to be become a member

Member Benefits

How to sign up

3) Members Linnea)

Welcome to Members -- Thank you and notion that this site is member supported and only exists by the

volunteer work of a larger member base.

How to sign in. -- Tech help featured and videos on how to edit the site and develop working groups

leadership training and other options that we want to make available to members

4) Conferences (Elana- Draft exists)

Invitation to join us at the next conference

Save the date

Call to participate

Past conferences

Highlights

Proceedings

We will work on pages in the ARNA backup website.

https://sites.google.com/site/arnabackup/

We also agreed on the process for Membership

Notices of new members go from Joe to Linnea
Linnea shares both the English and Spanish websites with a welcome message
Linnea sends the membership directory form and maybe an explanation for why they are sharing this information a second time. This time they are giving permission to post.
When the directory form is submitted, Linnea will need to change the entry to 8pt and resort the list by last name (or find the way to data be added at 8 pt.).
Linnea sends message to Brett and Brett maps the new member with the information sent

Hopefully that will work smoothly. One additional step that we might implement in the future is that Linnea sends a message to someone to welcome the person. We could all agree to do this on a rotating basis or a group of people could be assigned the role of ARNA greeters and Linnea would assign new person to one of these greeters.

May 25th Web Dev Meeting

2014-06-19T07:01:10.006Z

2:00pm PT

Attending: Linnea, Elena, Jennifer, Jenny, and Miguel

Introductions and working in Google Hangouts.
Since many people were new to google sites
two resources to help with editing were suggested:

The Google Sites Edit Page Toolbar

06 - Creación de sitios web con Google apps

In English:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-OhihSw0U

In Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFYc_qv9FVU

We decided that we should all find and bring to the group (by email) examples
of websites where we liked the design and then some page frames for each
of the new four opening pages.

We discussed what would go on the opening page. We consider the
removing the menu and announcements and just having a video, banner and
four choices. The consensus was to keep the menu, and the announcements
and then offer the four choices. We considered the working and decided on:

This is my first time visiting ARNA
I am not a member (yet).
I am a member
I am looking for conference informationn

This is my first time visiting ARNA

what action research is, why ARNA and point to the history...
feature the origins video that we saw at the conference.
discuss why you might want to join

I am not a member (yet).

The benefits of being a member and
something about the working groups

For the members

How to sign in and links to tech help
A short screencast on editing
listing in the directory and on the map
working groups and joining these

I am looking for conference information

Some general information about our upcoming conference
links to past, present and future ARNA conferences

To do:

Share websites with designs we like (everyone)
Search of templates that might work (Margaret)
Create frames with the ideas that would appear on each page (everyone)
Check with the executive committee about choices (Margaret)

We set the time of meeting at 2pm PT so that Nate on the east coast could join at 5pm.
The meeting is held on the last wed of the month but next month, June, it will be held
on the 18th of June.

May 23 Meeting- At ARNA Conference

2014-06-19T06:30:29.857Z

Attending: Margaret Riel, Linnea Rademaker, Jennifer Robins, Elena Polush, Alin Vrancila, Miguel Angel

We received a copy of the ARNA survey results and while there was some positive feedback about the quality of the information and resources that were available on the website, there were also a number of people who provided constructive criticism of the website.

We read and discussed each of the comments. In brief they included:

Difficulty in finding information or comments that the navigation was too complex
Suggestions for changing the look and feel of the website-- different comments but a more active or modern site was desired and possible a new more graphically oriented icon
Our site has too much information, too much dependence on text
Questions about why google sites and a desire for a more professional web presence.

We discussed each comment and the possible reasons for the comments. In some cases the webteam felt that the comments came from people who were in experience a learning curve as they learned to use technology to work collaboratively. They did not understand the advantages of a wikisite and the open development process that is enabled by this approach.

We discussed the options for platforms and costs and decided that Margaret would explore and present the executive committee an estimate of the cost of a managed website. In this discussion, we also talk about looking for new templates or ideas for the display of the website.

The videos and photos from now our second conference would provide a way to move past text to more interactive forms, however there was some concern that videos are rarely watched by any of us and the text is often the may source of information from the page.

Considering the issues over navigation and the feeling of being lost, the group concluded that this might be solved by audience filtering on the first "splash" page so that we could tailor the message to the audience. This would also help solve the overuse of text as we would not be trying to reach everyone with one opening page.

Our solutions from discussion lead to these action items:

Explore other platforms, options, support services, and costs. Margaret would present these to the executive committee and determine the path forward
The group decided that Margaret should tape a welcome message that explains why the webdev group has selected a web-wiki site and what this means for group participation. She would find Rich and do this at the conference.
We would move forward on the idea of audience filtering would solve the issues with navigation
A new look was needed and all of us would work to find that new look-- it might be a new platform or a new template

Mar & April Meetings

2014-06-19T05:55:16.498Z

Margaret and Linnea meet for the Mar and Apr meetings.

They were mostly workshop meetings where we mostly discussed issues that surround membership. They include:

1) How to create a directory that be shown on both the English and Spanish sites but would require only a single updating. We did not want to have two listing of members as we discovered in the past how hard it was to keep both of them updated.

2) We working on a plan that involved the flow of information from the sign up portal which is managed at Moravian to the Prophet data base and then to the web development team. This plan ran into trouble as the link between membership and the membership databased was somewhat strained.

3) Over the two months, we created a membership form that was tied to a google spreadsheet which could be posted on both the English and Spanish sites. After testing this, we implemented this process.

4) Between April and May we sent the spreadsheet to all existing founding members and encourage them to complete the listing. We got about about 75 for the 100 founding members to complete their listing and they are now listed on the site. We set up the links and the directory is now listed.

5) We discussed the sequence of events that need to happen when a person becomes a member in ARNA

6) We also discussed the look and feel of the website as there were some issues in the ARNA survey that were linked to the website. We were waiting for the feedback.

7) We also discussed the low participation in the Web Dev group and planned to recruit new members at the conference.

Work over the Holidays (Nov & Dec)

2014-01-22T08:22:14.322Z

The Nov and Dec meetings both feel over holiday weeks and group did not meet as a whole but continued work on a number of issues:

1) The domain www.arnaconnect.org was purchased and linked to the site.

2) We made the decision for now to have one membership list and from the spanish side it is linked but we need to think about putting it on a google doc and display the same google doc from both sites. In Jan, founding members will have to be taken down from all of the pages as for Jan 1 on, members will be members since 2014. Also In Jan, we will have to think about how to or if to mark founding members.

3) The work on the conference site for 2014 is moving ahead with the committee posting to the site.

4) Some clean up was needed when a member posted annoucements in the wrong place. This took place fairly quickly. If we have people on the site frequently, we can afford to keep it open. Might want to see if it is possible to lock some pages.

Next meeting is planned for the 4th Wed in Jan-- on the 22nd at 1:30.

Open Development

2012-11-19T06:04:02.772Z

Web Development Working Group is working to evolve a website that addresses the needs of ARNA

Margaret Riel, Facilitator
Kathryn Shafer, English Website
Miguel Angel Lopez Montoya, Spanish Website
Brett Campbell, Mapping of membership
Linnea Rademaker, Membership

Please contact any of us (see membership list for emails), or leave comments here if you have ideas for how to improve the website.