IDEA 2006
Integrated e-learning environments
9 - 12 October 2006
Victoria University Flinders
Street Campus,
Melbourne Australia
ICE Workshop
Hands-on introduction to the Integrated Content Management system
Wednesday 11th October, 1:30pm - 5:00pmPresentations: About ICE | ICE-RS
The Integrated Content Management System (ICE) is a system for producing web, print, and other electronic content using a word processor for authoring. ICE gives many of the advantages of high-end single-source publishing systems with a low cost and simple interfaces.
ICE is a cross platform (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) solution that enables distributed authoring in either Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org, with automatic version-controlled backups. Authors can work either on or off-line and synchronise with other team members collaborating on projects such as courseware or books.
ICE is a free software product released by the University of Southern Queensland (http://ice.usq.edu.au/).
The purpose of this half day workshop is to provide a hands-on introduction to ICE. The session will cover:
- What is ICE and why is it useful;
- Producing courseware to the IMS packaging standard;
- ICE in a research context: How to use it for thesis preparation, writing books and papers;
- How to generate presentations automatically from source materials such as courseware;
- Other uses for ICE, such as maintaining web sites and intranet resources;
- How to sign up for a supported pilot installation for ICE in a research context;
- How to install ICE (we'll have the system available on CDROM and USB devices and can assist in getting it installed);
- How to set up a repository for ICE content; and
- A road-map for future development, with demonstrations of coming features such collaborative authoring.
Participants seeking help with ICE installation should bring a computer (Mac OS X 10.4, Windows 2000+ or Ubuntu Linux) to which they have administrator rights.
If you would like more information about the content of the ICE Workshop and its objectives please contact Peter Sefton. If you would like more information on registering for the event please contact Johanna McKenzie (email: jmckenzie@adlaustralia.org).