NASATalk: A Content Collaborative for the NASA Education Community

NASATalk:  A  Content  Collabora/ve  for  the  NASA  Educa/on  Community    

Laurie  Ruberg,  Ph.D.  NASATalk,  Program  Manager  

Associate  Director    Center  for  Educa/onal  Technologies,  Wheeling  Jesuit  University  

lruberg@cet.edu  

What  Is  a  Content  Collabora/ve?  

•  A  content  collabora/ve  is  a  user-­‐driven  website  that  expands  and  grows  based  on  the  needs  of  its  par/cipants.  

•  NASATalk  focuses  on  providing  professional  communica/ons  that  differ  from  prosocial  networks  like  Facebook  and  MySpace.    Perhaps  the  term  “procial  networking”*  can  help  dis/nguish  what  we  are  trying  to  accomplish:  –  Providing  a  forum  that  makes  it  easy  to  hear  from  and  respond  

to  our  community’s  needs,  ideas,  and  feedback.    

*Term  first  used  on  NASATalk  by  Bob  Starr.    Share  your  comments.  

Why  is  NASA  inves/ng  in  this?  

•  A  successful  applica/on  of  collabora/ve  content  management  system  enables  rapid  response  to  recommenda/ons  and  concerns  from  its  community  of  users.  

•  That’s  what  we  hope  to  accomplish  with  NASATalk!  

What  Are  the  Measures  of  Success?  

•  To  provide  a  user-­‐friendly  interface  to  NASA  content    

•  To  deliver  content  in  a  highly  personalized,  secure,  and  in-­‐context  manner    

•  To  enable  user  collabora/ons      •  To  make  the  content  delivered  user-­‐ready    

Tracking  User  Par/cipa/on  

Reviewing  User  Traffic  

Monitoring  User  Tools  

Collec/ng  User  Stats  

Mapping  User  Par/cipa/on  

Understanding  User  Interests  

Providing  Professional  Development  

•  Based  on  user-­‐driven  preferences  •  Matching  user  needs  with  NASA  opportuni/es  

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