LINC Community -User Guide
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1. Started by jgy Pout Pouf Here you can access a list of films that focus an Education Reform 1 week ago httpy www edutopia org education refonm documentaries They stress issues within the American education system Can we make a similar list with European films that revolve around educational debates and dilemmas Any ideas contributions Started by p Linc Proj Adding content to the community The members of the community can add content to the community by creating posts or pages The process of making posts or creating pages does not differ much The main difference is that a post can be associated with categories and tags whereas pages cannot What s the difference between categories and tags Tags are ad hoc keywords that identify important information in the post names subjects etc that may or may not appear often in other posts Categories are pre determined sections Let us think of the website as a book the categories could be the table of contents and the tags could be the terms in the index Posts versus Pages LINC Community has been built around two basic concepts posts and pages The posts are typically blog entries A series of articles listed usually in a reverse chronological order The pages allow the creation of static content i e content that does not change or changes infrequently An About us page is an example of a page on a typical website In most cases the content in the About us2. LINC Community User Guide Dimitris Koutsaftikis SI Z ZOLG Lifelong LINC Learning Programme LINC Everyone matters Holistic inclusive community building approaches for early and continuous interventions addressing ESL KA project 539024 LLP 1 2013 1 GR COMENIUS CMP December 2013 November 2015 Contents AIT ASTIN SC OAM res e oeen tosses EEEE cen stone de seit een A A S 3 SCM A Be I oc sect E E EE E EE E 3 Getting to know the LINC COMMUNITY sovocinscsexconseconstasssne cane senetaneinadesneceuseaseineceeaeseanienennads 5 Tne We CONEDE arn E A 7 MOSM ee A E A E T E A E N E E E E E E E S 8 POMC PAC E E EE A E N E E N 9 Featured content Footer deieren ocasdeni wasispntinuiageasweserawececesdechnseepusneaadudees 10 The Mnternal Social IN CCV aes ates cosas dtusenessosscvaactionatostencouscdsussoesiosacveactesetettteeouatdouseets 11 Facebook TING CEAMION sessed an aA a E E r OT AE Eaei 12 Adding content to the community esssssseeeeeessssssseeeerssssssseeerressssssscerrressssseseerresssss 14 AE A T e E re E AE 14 PROG aN O50 e A case 14 Associating categories and tags with a post cccccccccccccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 14 Adding a post page content ccecccecccccccseeeessseeccccessceeesseseececeesseeeessesececeesssaeessses 15 Cae OE e E E E E 15 Adding images and other media cccccsssssssseeccccccseeeessseeccccceseeeesseeecccessuaeeessseeesees 16 PANG 1 TN
3. in English has been created that corresponds to the parents teachers forum that appears in the English site A parents Facebook group in French has been also created that corresponds to the parents forum that appears on the French site and so on What does this practically mean With Facebook integration a visitor who is a member of a closed group in Facebook can sign in with his her account and view the relevant wall posts directly on the LINC community In addition authenticated users can share a message from a restricted forum directly on a Facebook group given that they are members Linc Home Find Friends Line Proj FJ Edit Profile GROUPS EJ Update Status E Add Photos Video Create Photo Album YOUR PAGES Gs Line Project curs What s on your mind Parents Teachers This Week Toveic EAAnvixd se loveic Adorado Post 34 15 4 Science Teachers 20 Post Reach People Engaged Parents English Namdar retmen shared his video to the group Science doaia Parents Fran ais Teachers in Europe ai j P Talking with kids about school Strate Parents Enseign 1 hr Edited 4 5 Reached 1 Engagement F r ldrar Swedish Science and O litter Boost This Post F r ldrar L rare Rodi e Czech Rodi e U itel C F Create Group 7i Student Led Conferences Anytime yo 4 Reached 0 Engagements Boost This Post See More E Manage Y
4. 2015 CLMOOC is a collaborative knowledge building and sharing experience open to anyone interested in JOINT LEARNING ACTIVITIES PROJECT SHARING THE STAR GAZING ACTIVITY Parents play an important role in addressing ESL The LINC community acts a virtual meeting point in Star gazing is one of the joint learning activities through support to their children which can be either which the outcomes of learner parent projects can be designed for execution by both learners and parents at the practical level by helping with learning and published for the collective benefit of the entire class The activity revolves around studying the night sky schooling activities or at a higher level by This activity promotes sharing of projects with At the Ist Primary School of Volos the activity emphasizing the value of education and by keeping multiple benefits on the one hand it introduces already takes place in collaboration with the READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE KEYWORDS HALL OF FAME LIVE POSTS teaching material school to work tran networks Stargazin gazing a View All THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN FUNDED WITH SUPPORT FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION THIS COMMUNICATION REFLECTS THE VIEWS ONLY OF Lifelong Learning THE AUTHOR AND THE COMMISSION CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE WHICH MAY BE MADE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED Programme THEREIN Featured content Footer area KEYWORDS HALL OF FAME LIVE POSTS a
5. Ctrl Z Cmd Z undo Ctrl Y Cmd Y redo Ctrl A Cmd A select all etc use the Ctrl key on a PC or the Command key on a Mac The Toolbar Toggle button Ez will show or hide a second line of formatting buttons which gives extra functionality Categories The categories can be used to define sections of the website and group related posts The default category is called Uncategorized Unlike posts the pages cannot be associated with categories Categories can be added whilst navigating through the Front End From the Manage menu select the Edit categories link to add or edit categories Adding Categories in the Front End Overall adding Categories option will simply add them to the list of available Categories displayed when publishing a Post When clicking on the Categories menu option the user will be given access to a list of Categories that have already been added along with some blank fields that allow to add a new Category The user adds a new Category by filling in the blank fields and then clicking the Add New Category button Important terms Name The name of the category Parent Categories unlike tags can optionally have a hierarchy One might have a Car category and under that children categories for Ford General Motors and Toyota To create a subcategory one has to choose another category from the Parent dropdown menu Edit button Allows to edit the Category prop
6. Forum 2 2 3 days ago school of g valimisi Parents Forum No Topics What engages students 220 kids were moved to speak out Private Teachers 1 1 1 week ago on student Teachers g btsalapa ae j j ee l Get to know CLMOOC htsalapa i E initiative CLMOOC takes place June 18 August 2 User likes and Posts likes Communication Mechanisms Focused Social Network Rene ralimissi active 6 hours 52 minutes ago Cra a Add Friend Public Message Private Message Activity Profile Sites Notifications Friends Forums Settings Personal Mentions Favorites Friends Show Everything A Rene wrote a new post Talking with kids about school on the site Linc Project 1 This article brings into focus strategies that get kids and parents talking about school and listening to each other in meaningful ways See the suggested talking strategies the questions that work and get Facebook integration Recent developments include the integration between the community and Facebook This has been implemented in order to facilitate visitors and members access to the community Our thought process was straightforward go where the people are by using a platform that they use on a daily basis Thus closed Facebook groups in which only members can view posts have been created for parents and teachers in alignment with the restricted forums of the LINC community In this respect a parents teachers Facebook group
7. overall user experience and secure the proper access to resources Staff Somebody who has access to all the administration features especially the ones that are Community oriented Wikis Forums etc Teacher Somebody who can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users parents and teacher posts etc Parent Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts Student Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish them Forum specific roles Keymaster Can create edit and delete other users forums topics and replies Can manage Tags and moderate a forum with the moderation tools Has access to global forum settings tools and importer Moderator Can create and edit forums Can create edit and delete other users topics and replies Can manage Tags and moderate a forum with the moderation tools Participant Can create and edit their own topics and replies Spectator Can only read topics and replies Blocked All capabilities are explicitly blocked Editing personal profile To edit the personal profile details the user simply has to click on the user name located in the top header area and then to click on the Edit Profile link that appears beneath the user name when visiting the User Profile page References Easy WP Guide V2 7 for WordPress 3 9 by Anthony Hortin easywpguide com Official Wordpress User Manual Learning communication refl
8. A Peme teaching material PiE sl l ite school to work tran networks Stargazing Linc Project View All Keywords The keywords section is actually a list of tags that appears as a tag cloud The size of each tag indicates how many times that particular tag has been assigned to posts Hall of fame This section demonstrates the most active members of the community based on custom criteria i e the total posts published per member total post views level of participation in discussions average time spent on the community The icons of the members in the hall of fame are clickable When clicking on the icon a pop up window like the one below appears A ralimissi A 94 ENTRIES Gs 0 COMMENTS 1857 TOTAL VIEWS 19 76 AVG VIEWS Email ralimissi linc project eu Live posts This section contains the wall posts that are published on the LINC Facebook page The Internal Social Network The LINC Community integrates social networking features i e user profiles activity streams user groups and more Some of the most important features are presented below Discussion Area Forums Everyone matters TIPE Early School Leaving Logged in as Guest HOME RESOURCES TOOLS DISCUSSION AREA WIKI NEWS EVENTS CONTACT SWITCH ACCOUNT The primary school of Giannitsa Greece raises a eo FONUS SEARCH discussion about vaccination Eorum Topics Posts a The school staff of the 11th primary Parents Teachers
9. ANNE A AS E E E A E E E A 16 O E a E E E O E E E A E E seeianeetnenecasceeeeee 17 PUn ets Ola O E eaaa E E E E E E 18 References cccccececcecccececcececcececcccscscscesesceceecscescecesescecescecescecescececeececescecesescesescecesces 19 The LINC community The LINC social networking community has been designed as a software solution destined to provide a range of services to an online community It is accessible via a simple Internet connection and a basic browser It does also support mobile access from anywhere anytime offering availability of information and community support The community is implemented on the popular WordPress platform which is an Open Source software system This innovative social networking service introduces an alternative way of communication that will bring added value to existing practices It is tailored to enhance knowledge about learning activities for parents learners and teachers in primary and secondary education schools This service does not aim to replace face to face communication instead it tries and serves as a complementary tool for communicating accessing information and following learners activities and progress System Architecture Technically the LINC Community takes advantage of Wordpress network of sites feature With this feature activated multiple websites can be created from the same WordPress installation Y m 4 THEMES a8 PLUGINS NETWORK DOMAIN AD
10. ATION REFLECTS THE VIEWS ONLY OF Learning THE AUTHOR AND THE COMMISSION CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE WHICH MAY BE MADE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED Programme HEgEIN When the visitors enter the first page of the LINC Community they are introduced to a tile layout Four options represented through tiles are available Students Parents Teachers Guests The tiles represent specific roles In order to login to the community you need to select a representative role and then to enter your credentials Non authenticated users can enter as guests Login The members of the community should login in order to have access to all the services provided by the community Before clicking the login button a member has to confirm that the correct language is currently used website This can be done by selecting the appropriate language context from the language switching menu The last step of the process includes filling in the user account form and clicking on the form related login button The guests can simply enter by clicking the Login as Guest button but they ll then have limited access and rights One can also use his her Facebook account to sign in Facebook authenticated users gain access to the Portal Forums and can publish to LINC Facebook groups directly through the LINC community Homepage i Everyone matters WA Hello visitor LINC A community for preventing e English fY Sil Search Q y 4 L
11. MIN MAPPING F F WEBSITE 1 3 e WEBSITE 5 WEBSITE 2 WEBSITE 4 WEBSITE 3 Given that the LINC community targets parents and teachers that do not necessarily speak fluent English the interface is available in the national languages represented in the consortium through project partners namely Greek Swedish French and Czech This is possible through the Wordpress multisite feature that enables the co existence of 5 different websites one for each national language including English More precisely the LINC community is organized in the following way English Website http community linc project eu This is the main landing site of the community that has localized content in English this site aggregates all social networking activities through the Project and hosts sitewide information French Website http fr community linc project eu This site has localized content in French and hosts information and resources for learners teachers parents or other interested parties that are native speakers of French or know French Czech Website http cs community linc project eu This site has localized content in Czech and hosts information and resources for learners teachers parents or other interested parties that are native speakers of Czech or know Czech Swedish Website http sv community linc project eu This site has localized content in Swedish and hosts information and resources for lear
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13. ed content e g the tag cloud the hall of fame and posts published through social networks Content specific Layout Posts and Pages Main Navigation Work Area Right Sidebar This layout includes content and features posts pages Wikis Forums etc specific to site appearance that are not displayed in the front page It consists of five main sections Each section has its own specific use More precisely e Header area this area contains the language switcher for the entire website navigation the social links and the search area e Main Navigation the Main Navigation bar gives quick access to all the work areas and links to all the major administrative functions within the Portal e Work Area this area contains information and editing areas relating to the editor s choice of navigation e g featured posts short description of the Project details about the joint activities etc e Right Sidebar contains the recent news and events posts on the Portal as well as posts published right through LINC s social networks The Welcome page 5 J Everyone matters unce A community for preventing Early School Leaving STUDENTS AN 7 Mig NO NO SOx SOs Kali B50 es JLJiw i a om If qucr D ai pane a e i A 7 te ee Ree Vim wy Reston pom PACI AT G PS ch TA A Lifelong THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN FUNDED WITH SUPPORT FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION THIS COMMUNIC
14. erties such as Name Slug Parent and Description Adding images and other media Adding images and other media files such as videos documents or PDFs is not a complex process The Media Library is the place where images files and media are uploaded and stored Once they have been uploaded into the Media Library the user can simply insert them into a page or post In the case of files such as Word Documents or PDFs there is also the option of creating links to those files the links can then be forwarded to interested individuals or used within a post or page Inserting an image In order to insert an image into a page post the user has to click the Add Media button Add Mediz l 2 and then simply drag the image s from wherever they are on his her computer into the browser window Then the file is automatically being uploaded Alternatively the user can click the Select Files button and then select the file s to be uploaded using the dialog window that appears The user can also simply drag the file straight into the Visual Editor Create Gallery Upload Files Media Library l Simply drag and drop files from Create Audio Playlist your computer to anywhere in this i window to upload them Create Video Playlist ne Set Featured Image Insert from URL Drop files anywhere to upload Select Files Insert Media Maximum uplog Click Select Files if you wish to open a dialog box to manually select the fi
15. les to upload Once the image has been uploaded the Media Library is displayed The Media Library contains all the previously uploaded images The images files that have just been uploaded will be automatically selected to ease the insertion into a page or a post Selected images appear with a tick icon on the top right corner of the image Users This section lists all the subscribed users of the LINC community The users based on the role that they have been addressed can have or have not access to specific content or facilities The website administrator is the most powerful user and can create and manage user accounts The user roles can be grouped in three different sets all set by the website administrator Wordpress specific roles Community related roles Forum specific roles Wordpress specific roles Administrator Somebody who has access to all the administration features Editor Somebody who can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users posts etc Author Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts Contributor Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish them Subscriber Somebody who can only manage their profile Community related roles Community related roles mostly serve as aliases to the corresponding Wordpress roles There might be a slight difference between the default Wordpress and the Community s custom roles only to enhance the
16. ners teachers parents or other interested parties that are native speakers of Swedish or know Swedish Greek Website http gr community linc project eu This site has localized content in Greek and hosts information and resources for learners teachers parents or other interested parties that are native speakers of Greek or know Greek The content published in each website may differ but the basic rules of uniformity are followed resulting in a common template theme Getting to know the LINC community The LINC Community has an easy to use interface The main user interface UI consists of two different layouts Home Front Page Layout Main Navigation News Sidebar Work Area Featured Content The home page layout is divided up into five main sections that serve different purposes Header area this area contains the language switcher for site wide navigation the social links and the search area Main Navigation this Main Navigation bar gives quick access to all the work areas and links to all the major administrative functions within the community Work Area this area contains information and editing areas relating to the editor s choice of navigation e g featured posts short description of the project details about the joint activities etc News Sidebar contains the recent news and events posts Featured Content this area works complementary to the Work Area to provide extra featur
17. ogged in as Guest Early School Leaving LE Boosie S HOME RESOURCES TOOLS DISCUSSION AREA WIKI NEWS EVENTS CONTACT SWITCH ACCOUNT GENERAL DESCRIPTION LATEST NEWS EVENTS The primary schoo of Giannitsa Greece raises a discussion about vaccination The LINC community developed in the context of the LINC project LLL Comenius Action project 539024 LLP 1 2013 1 GR COMENIUS CMP aims at introducing complementary activities that help strengthen the ties of The primary school of Giannitsa Greece raises a school communities which include learners parents discussion related to vaccination with the support mon e 9 teachers and others The community s objective is to of a doctor that visited the school The doctor a N e 3 r Bj alleviate ESL contributing factors or ideally prevent them What engages students 220 kids were moved to speak out on student from setting root in the school environment What is different in the LINC approach is that it introduces learning interventions early on in primary school engagement Their responses fall into 10 continuing throughout lower high school The activities categories Students feel more engaged when 1 build awareness enhance communication between Working with parents learners and teachers build confidence and capacity towards addressing ESL and help learners READ MORE Get to know CLMOOC initiative CLMOOC takes place June 18 August 2
18. our Groups Get People to Take Action Find New Groups Choose a call to action button for LINC your Page Linc Project so people can take an action like shop sign APPS up or watch a video fj Games Ain On This Day Choose Button ai Find Friends Everyone maiters Hello visit CY EN E peno OOGO m Early School Leaving ogge HOME RESOURCES TOOLS DISCUSSION AREA WIKI NEWS EVENTS CONTACT SWITCH ACCOUNT Restricted Forum Only teachers and parents have access LATEST NEWS EVENTS We are sorry you are logged in as Guest so you have no access permissions However if you are a member of our The primary school of Giannitsa Greece raises a discussion about vaccination The school staff of the 11th primary school of Facebook Group you can log in with your Facebook account You can log into Facebook to view the Facebook Group Posts What engages students 220 kids were moved to speak out on student Thanks for logging in Linc Proj Live Posts from Parents Teachers English Facebook Group View All Topic Freshness Hi from France Aur lie Berguer went to ORT MONTREUIL to explain to our 3 days ago teachers the possibilities of the new functions of the plateform Linc A great tool they will have the opportunity to use with their classes even next year Few of them did it already this current year and everybody parents youngs and Teachers found this tool very useful Just have a look
19. page doesn t change very frequently Adding a new post To add a new Post from the Front End the user needs to select the Add Post link from the Manage menu that is on the Main navigation menu SUBMIT POST Publishing from the Front End Associating categories and tags with a post Associating a post with one or more categories and tags is really essential As it has been mentioned above the categories are pre determined sections and the tags are ad hoc keywords that identify important information in the Post names subjects etc As a matter of fact the use of categories and tags has a tremendous impact on the platform s overall usability The association can be done either from the Frond End or the Back End filling out the corresponding fields Adding a post page content Visual At the top of the editor there are two tabs Visual and Text ae These switch the editor view between the Visual Editor and the Text editor The Text view enables the author to view the HTML code underpinning the content The editor used to enter content into a page or post is easy to use and does not differ from a regular word processor It includes toolbar buttons that allow to bold or italicize text to enter in headings or bullet points and more One can even use basic keyboard shortcuts used in other text editors For example Shift Enter inserts a line break Ctrl C Cmd C copy Ctrl X Cmd X cut
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