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Children's University “Think shop”. Timeline…. May 2010. National Children's University Commission the Project. Project Goals:.
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May 2010 National Children's University Commission the Project Project Goals: • This web site will provide an online version of the Children’s University passport. It will allow children to update the passport with a list of all the Learning Destinations that they have visited, upload photos and provide a facility to display these photos. • It will allow teachers to add Learning Destinations, manage the input that their children have added as well as obtaining reports on what their children are doing. • Administrators of the site will be able to upload and manage the Learning Destinations, users and other data aspects.
June 2010Design & Planning phase begin The Creative Process • Start with wire frames development • Develop a creative concept - design look and feel • Concept development • Page design • Template build
July 2010 Development of first prototype commences
Dec 2010 Exasoft attend National Children's University Conference The ePassport concept is introduced at National Children's University third annual conference. I would like to thank everyone for the fantastic reception of the concept and for taking the time to look and comment on the work whilst we were in the market hall. Your feedback and the great many follow up e-mails we received post the event were most welcome.
Jan 2011 New Challenges New Galleries and Show & Tell • Show and Tell will allow students to upload photos of their activities for their school to view. • The images will be restricted to all members of the submitter’s school, including Coordinators, Managers and Administrators will not be able to see anything here, unless they have been associated with a specific school. • The system will automatically compress uploaded images for the galleries
Jan 2011 New Challenges Administration Dashboard This section will only be available to Coordinators, Managers and Administrators. Following your feedback this interface has been redesigned to allow for further expansion. • The following will be accessible from the Administration section • Bulk Uploading • Reporting • Learning Destination Management • Learning Activities Management • User Management • Licensing Information • Show and Tell Management • July online ordering and access to payment gateway
Jan 2011 New Challenges New Avatars for 2011 A new avatar facility has been added to allow users to personalise their profile with an Wii console type avatar An avatar is a pictorial representation of the user and will be used against anything that would distinguish them. For example, where there's a comments feature, the avatar will be placed next to the comment or update. • Personalise • Hair • Facial Features • Expression • Clothing • Body Language
Feb 2011 New Challenges Reporting Tool Following the feedback received we have integrated a new report writer Generally the reports will fall into two categories. The first will be information on the users of the site. It will contain the following data (provided this data has been imported into the application): • Reference: This is the unique reference of the application • School Reference: This will be the unique reference supplied by the school. • Name: The name of the child, with both their first and last name • School: The name of the school (this will not be displayed for local reports). • Gender: This will be Male/Female/Unknown. • Ethnicity: To be clarified. • Special Education Needs: This will state if the child has special education needs. (It will not contain details of those needs). • Free School Meals: This will state if the child has free school meals or not. • Number of activities: The number of activities that they have done, according to their online passport. • Total Time: The length of time the user spent on activities. The will be displayed in minutes.
May 2011 Software Pilot Begins We would like to thank all the pilot schools, your feedback on the system has been hugely valuable. The questions that were sent in have raised some very interesting topics and ideas and hopefully you will see evidence of your feedback in this new release and update to the product. Typical user questions included ....
May 2011 Software Pilot Begins Continued Children Did you understand how to add activities to the passport? Can you change the details of activities if you have made a mistake? Were you able to add photos to the blog? School Co-ordinators Could you bulk upload children’s details to the system using a .csv export? Could you add and alter Activities at your school? Can you bulk enter children’s activity details? Were you able to produce reports using the information that your children have entered onto the system? CU Managers Can you add and edit Learning Destinations, Badges and Activities? Can you produce reports using information that your schools have entered? Were you able to create user accounts and permissions for schools?
July-August 2011Online Ordering and Payment Process • Order Process Structure: • Order received - check they have paper passport • Checked by CU National • Processed by us - If first order, payment will be required before account is activated • Accounts Activated • 14 Days to Receive Payment - If no payment received, accounts will be de-activated
E-Passport Jan 2012 Dedicated Support Site More children must be able to locate the learning, manage and celebrate their achievements and come back for more…. Where are we now E-passport and website linked so that E-passport is principal method of maintaining information about Public Learning destinations for all, and restricted Learning Destinations for elective users 4,000 licences – need critical mass to ensure data becomes powerful – both for CU evaluation and feedback to Learning Providers 4000 Licenses
3 things we need you to do now • Upload your learning destinations directly into the E-passport • Check your current Learning Destinations are up to date and have activities attached • Key word your activities
3 benefits the E –passport will give you in return Even before your schools are using it, the E-passport can give you: • An overview of all your Learning Destinations • An overview of the breadth of your provision • A quicker way of keeping your Learning Destinations updated
Demo/shot of LD report for 1 local CU Instant reporting on all your Learning Destinations Valuable feedback for all your Learning providers
Demo/shot graduation report Lynne need Text?
Where we would like to be We need to reach a critical mass of E-passport users We need you to find the potential enthusiasts – once schools see the benefits, news will spread! LinkedIn group
Jan 2012 Dedicated Support Site Launched • Accessed via National Children’s University web site • Features include: • Online ticketing systems for support questions or issues • FAQ Area • Help Forums • Submit new tickets - check your existing requests online • Email status updates
Dec 2012LinkedIn Network Group Established • LinkedIn Groups allow us to: • Quickly discover the most popular discussions in are network. • Have an active part in determining the top discussions by liking and commenting. • Influence new development and roadmap ideas • See both member-generated discussions and news on ePassport in one setting • Find interesting discussions by seeing who liked a discussion and how many people commented.
Digital New Media You’ve told us that administration and communication for the growing CU needs to harness on line processes and new media to become sustainable….
Where we want to go….Why Social media ? We’re experiencing a ripple effect as conversations progress to many niche communities. There has been a growing emphasis on the role of social signals within search engine marketing. We need to ensure there is Children's University authorship and Google+ and twitter strategy in place to drive increased visibility and awareness.
Where we want to go….Twitter The Bradford Home Educated Network found us through Twitter – now keen to look at establishing a virtual school
Where we want to go….Twitter Ask questions. Twitter is GREAT for getting opinions Follow interesting people. If you find someone who tweets interesting things, see who follows them build your community Commenting on others’ tweets, and retweeting what others have posted is a great way to build community. Share the human side of things. If you’re bothering to tweet, it means you believe social media has value for human connections New twitter landing page design available to all CU Managers
where they can use the passport….. • Families are increasingly contacting us to see where they can use the passport….. Where are we now? The website search pulls the latest information from the E-passport – but as we hinted earlier, it’s only as good as the data we put into it…
Where we want to go….An Mobile Application Audio tour Request information via email Validated learning destinations Local CU attractions Photos for this location Video for this location
Learning Providers Learning Providers are beginning to see how being part of the CU improves their reach and visibility Where are we now? Potential exists within the E-passport for public learning destinations to receive data on numbers of participants, approval ratings, hours spent etc. Large providers could also take “Learning Destination Administrator” access rights to send updates to their local CU manager
Learning Providers Where do we want to go ? Encourage all providers to have a CU page on their site with links back to us?Demo example Encourage providers to partner/sponsor on-line follow up/challenges based on mutual areas of interest? http://www.rspb.org.uk/youth/join_in/childrensuniversity.aspx
Learning Providers Where do we want to go ? Liven up the “Trails/quizzes” approach of destinations to include interactive/discovery journeys – harness GPS/QR code ideas Using 2D Barcodes – which are readable by a Smartphone device we are looking to develop an interactive medium for learning destinations. Placing these codes on a plaque, post or wall visitors could access information in relation to the building through their phones. The information could be as simple as a dedicated web page providing essential information such as opening times through to advanced interactive portals which could include video, audio tours and even timelines of the history of a building
Tell us what you think Tell us what you think What is working well for you with our website? What is working well with your website? How is social media helping you? What plans do you have to introduce the E-passport? What would be even better if… Prize draw this evening so please complete your forms Thank You
