eOrganic Workspace Training

Vegetable Group Intensive

January 12-162009

http://www.eorganic.info

•What is eOrganic?

•How is it organized?

•What tools does it provide?

•Examples of collaboration using eOrganic

•Practice using eOrganic tools

•How to find help using eOrganic

eOrganic Workspace Training

What is eOrganic?

Community of Practice on http://www.eXtension.or

•Public Website at http://www.extension.org/organic_production

•Website to find peer-reviewed science and experience based information on organic agriculture

•Open to the public

•Workspace and Online Community at http://www.eorganic.info

•Place where members can write, share information, collaborate and communicate.

•Open to members only

What’s the point?

Farmers and extension agents need reliable information on organic agriculture. eOrganic provides information and training, and allows fast and broad dissemination of information using the web.

You, the community of people on eOrganic collectively have a tremendous amount of knowledge about organic agriculture. eOrganic facilitates the communication of that information to those who need it—we have the potential to create the best and most credible national resource about organic agriculture on the web.

eOrganic fosters connections between members of the organic agriculture community. If people know what others are doing and work together with them, their work will be better. There is no other national network of organic agriculture researchers, extension personnel, farmers and other organic agriculture professionals.

Using eOrganic, you can work on and manage group projects, post materials, publish, communicate and inform others about your work—all in one place.

How is it organized? Home page

Find proposal

information

Find proposal

information

Read the eOrganic

pulic content

Read the eOrganic

pulic content

Find articles, members and help

Find articles, members and help

Find or start a group, how to attend a web

meeting

Find or start a group, how to attend a web

meeting

Vegetable Group Home Page

Group Wiki

Group Wiki

MembersMembers

Recent ActivityRecent Activity

ForumForum

Navigation Bar

Navigation Bar

Useful LinksUseful Links

Group CollaborationTools

•Wiki

•Forum

•Comments

•Image Gallery

Wiki

•What is a wiki? A wiki is a collection of web pages that can be edited or changed by anyone with access. Wikipedia is the most common example of a wiki.

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

•The difference between a wiki like Wikipedia and eOrganic is that eOrganic is easier to use. No need to learn a special markup language because of eOrganic’s WYSIWYG text editor.

•All documents on eOrganic are created in the wiki of a group.

•Group wikis have hierarchical organization—parent and child pages.

Forum

How to start a forum post:

•Go to group home page

•Scroll to Forum

•Add new forum topic

•Add your title

•Type your

•Select an audience

•Save

Comments: To comment on an article or forum post, click Add New Comment

More Communication Tools

•Adobe Connect: for meetings

•GoTo Webinar: for webinars

•Ask an Expert: answer questions from the public

•FAQs

•Blogs: for announcements

•About Me page: create a profile so that other members

can learn about you

Examples of collaboration using eOrganic

•OSPUD

•Lab Groups

•Organic Seed Guide

•Write Proposals

•Review articles

Practice Using eOrganic Tools

How to edit your About Me page

•Go to My Account

•Go to About Me

•Fill out the page

•Click Save

How to find someone else:

Under Members in the Navigation Bar, search for another member and read about them

Create an article in the Group wiki

•Go to vegetable group home page

•Go to group wiki

•Find an appropriate parent page or click “Add child page”

•Select a title, a topic and a farming system

•In the Body area, if you want to paste text from Word, use the button. Otherwise, type text.

•Select what group this page will be shared with

•Add a comment about what you did. Fill out metadata.

•Save

Add an image to an image gallery

•Go to Images

•Click Browse Galleries—take a minute to look at this page

•Click Back

•Click Upload an Image

•Create a simple title

•Select one or more image. You can put the image in more than one gallery by holding the Control (PC) or Command (Mac) key while clicking on the gallery names.

•Add tags (keywords to help someone find the image)

•Describe the image and give credit to the photographer

•In the Image area, click Browse and find your image. Click Open to upload the image.

•Save

Add an image to an article:

Note: An image must be saved on your computer or a disk/memory stick before you can add it to a page on eOrganic—you can’t put it directly from an image gallery into a page.

•Save the image to your computer•Click the Insert/Edit image button•Click Browse Server. It will show the images on your computer.•Click Browse.•Locate your image and click Open•Click Upload. You’ll see the image highlighted in green.•Click Add•Select the alignment of the image.•Click OK.•Image can be resized by clicking and dragging it.•Click Save.

How to create a Blog Post

Post news and announcements about you and your work regularly!

On left navigation bar, click My Blog

At top of page, click Post New Blog Entry

Enter Title, Body (text of blog)

Select groups with whom it will be shared by email. To select more than one group, use the shift key. If no groups are selected, no emails will be sent.

Click Save

If you are lost: Find help on eOrganic!

•Use the search box to find topics

•Use Members to find people

•eOrganic Help Pages on Navigation bar

•Vegetable Group Support: •Alice Formiga and John McQueenformigaa@gmail.com, mcqueenj@hort.oregonstate.edu541-737-3483