Project name

A catalogue of existing Education & Outreach material in the CERN IT department-Step 2 - Design & Prototype

Project description

The Web was born at CERN. The very first site of the planet was created at CERN. Such a long tradition, governed by a very liberal content policy,  leads, for the newcomer and general public, to a confusing mesh of information, documentation, web sites and other material.

This step of the project is about:

1. Wrapping our Education & Outreach Strategy in a nutshell (constructed according to current CERN IT domain classification and management terms) [Ref #1] with examples of Fact Sheets and a step-by-step plan on how to integrate, promote, document the IT services and other IT Educational material.
2. Using IT services CERNBox [Ref #2] and CERNPhone [Ref #3] as pilot, check existing documentation and add content, as necessary. Then use these services to propose a structure and layout of the Educational materials' Catalogue and the relevant information accessibility for their user community.
3. Exploring the notion of Communities in the new CERN Document Server (CDS) [Ref #4], currently under development, to prototype the display of documentation, e-learning modules, recipes concerning the above-mentioned pilot services. It is important to note that the new CDS is under development and the lecture videos won't be migrated at this phase of the project. The student will have to manually migrate some of them, in order to demonstrate the new design. Also documents absent from CDS will have to be linked from a new CDS record, that will have to be created.
4. Commenting on the total Educational & Outreach materials' catalogue by expanding the draft first step done in September 2022 [Ref #5, #5.1].
   1. To do point 4, use this random collection of links public, internal, historical, technical, outreach [Ref #6]. The purpose of the links' collection is to show the complexity to draw "Categories" or "Communities" or what we have and the risk of the info getting out of date.

Ultimate goal:

Our Communications, Education & Outreach (CEO) section, within the Strategy & Executive Governance (GOV) group of the CERN IT department, has, amongst others, the Objectives to:

• Share & Deliver Knowledge & Training.
• Make a coherent Educational activities' Programme.
• Support Public Engagement (=Outreach).
• Raise Awareness on CERN IT's innovative impact.

To get an idea of what we already have, as events with educational material for use by CERN IT and/or a larger community, as a first step, we need to:

• Make a Catalogue of Educational & Outreach material.
• Tag the items with Keywords to improve search results.
• Estimate the Curation effort required for the information to remain useful.

This project description is sent to  Computing students at the University of Geneva, who participated to the October 2022 Adopt a Skill event [Ref #7].

Project outcome:

1. Site https://it-edu.web.cern.ch/
2. Repo https://gitlab.cern.ch/it-communication-education-outreach/edu-catalogue/
3. Presentation to the stake-holders https://indico.cern.ch/event/1289136/ (includes a PDF version to the "Notes" (point 4 below))
4. Notes https://codimd.web.cern.ch/VCdFdbckRzyYo2P8PNxkNQ#
5. Accessory presentation https://indico.cern.ch/event/1258588/contributions/5286567/attachments/2614428/4518048/WIT%20site%20layout.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Required skills

Skilled modern Web design.
Drawing tools' knowledge (such as idraw or Tool-X) for quick mockup production.
Web programming (HTML. CSS, javascript, python).
Excelllent communication skills for discussion with IT experts and users.
Good writing skills.
Excellent English.

Learning experience

Education is one of the four pillars of CERN's mission. This is why there are many programmes and series of talks, lectures, e-learning modules, presentations, documentation pages that explain the research done at CERN. While finding and browsing this material the student will learn a lot about the expertise existing in the lab. She will also learn how to structure information and present it in a short report.

Project duration

Six months

Project area

Data Analytics Learning

Contact for further details

Maria Dimou

References

1. Education & Outreach Strategy in a nutshell https://indico.cern.ch/event/1170702/attachments/2487446/4271200/CERN_IT_Education_Outreach_Strategy_nutshell_v.20230728.pdf
2. CERNBox documentation https://cernbox.docs.cern.ch/  and e-learning videos' index https://twiki.cern.ch/Edutech/CERNBox. To actually use the application one needs a CERN login.
3. CERNPhone documentation https://cernphone.docs.cern.ch/ - to actually use the application one needs a CERN login.
4. The CERN Document Server (CDS) https://cds.cern.ch
5. Towards an IT Education Material Catalogue - Step 1 - https://indico.cern.ch/event/1199965/attachments/2506893/4314379/V10reportCERN-draft.pdf
   1. Project description of Step 1 - https://it-student-projects.web.cern.ch/projects/catalogue-existing-education-outreach-material-cern-it-department-step-1
6. Links with Educational material, including IT-focused https://codimd.web.cern.ch/s/aKqHtwDDa# - Most of the links in this list require a CERN login, so they can't be visited before the student starts the internship.
   Moreover, it is part of the student's tasks to navigate and document the difficulty to discover what already exists.
7. Adopt a Skill https://cui.unige.ch/fr/nouvelles/adoptaskill8/ - see proof of massive attendance HERE.

CERN group

IT-GOV-CEO

Status

Accomplished Submitted by Maria Dimou on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 - 16:06.