New Developments

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New Developments

• Nexus
• Extended activity description pages
• Commenting and discussion features
• Custom layouts for different combinations of
  media and text
• Public areas (Galleries, e-Publications, etc.)
• Survey Studio Revision

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Initial Nexus Communities

• Collaboratory resource for sharing media projects
  in Art, Music, Writing
• Video Conferencing component
• Mentoring and critiquing
• Also possible use for very large communities with
  distributed media, such as Illinois Reads

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Nexus in the Collaboratory

• A Nexus resource is part of a Collaboratory
  project
• Extended activity format
• Multiple support documents
• Lists of uploaded files or links
• Multiple activities

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Commenting and Discussion

• Uses Community Builder templates
• Comment/critique individual components of a
  student contribution
• Focused Discussions
• Guestbook
• Survey features

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Custom Layouts

• Manager determines available formats from a
  palette of choices such as
• Document List
• Image text pages
• Video text
• Audio Image Text
• Students contribute media in one of the selected
  formats

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Public Areas

• Student work can be viewed by public
• Students submit work as for an exhibition or
  publication, or mentor or teacher selects
• Manager approves submissions
• Access is limited to specific suite of pages
• Visitors may comment in guestbook

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View Art Nexus

• A design prototype
• Implementation in Summer 2002

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Survey Studio

• Development Prototype
• New and Improved
• Editing
• Record tracking
• Graphics
• Delivery in Fall 2002

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