IDEA 2007

Integrated Education Infrastructure:

Innovation and use of technology in education

8 - 11 October 2007
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

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ICE Workshop Description

The Integrated Content Environment ( ICE) is a word processor based system that allows authors to work individually or collaboratively on material for the Web, CD and print. Developed at the University of Southern Queensland as an open source project it builds on using standards and sustainable methods of authoring using different word processors across multiple platforms.

The ICE for Research and Scholarship project (ICE-RS) is using ICE to improve the process of conducting and reporting on research, with benefits in improved efficiency, greater usability of research outputs, and publication to research repositories for sustainability.

The purpose of the ICE workshop is to provide a hands on experience using the system and to demonstrate the progress made on improving the integration of research tools as part of ICE-RS.

Workshop Location: PLAZA 2

Afternoon Tea Provided: 2:45 - 3:15

ICE Workshop

Dr. Peter Sefton - Senior Research Fellow, Distance and e-Learning Centre; RUBRIC Project Manager, University of Southern Queenland
Daniel de Byl - Integrated Content Environment for Research and Scholarship (ICE-RS) Project Manager, University of Southern Queensland

The user workshop will be a hands on session to demonstrate how to use the ICE application for authoring, this workshop be an introduction into the following:

• The ICE word processor toolbar (used for creating structured documents for publishing to HTML and PDF)
• ICE templates (word processor templates containing the ICE styles)
  • Creating
  • Modifying
  • Extending ICE styles
• The Zotero template (used to manage bibliographies and citations)
• How to install ICE client side version
• Using the ICE application
  • Creating/Modifying/Rendering documents
  • ICE packages (used for creating self contained websites and IMS packages.)
  • Collaborative authoring
• Publishing options
  • IMS Packages (used for publishing to Learning Management Systems etc.)
  • ATOM Publishing Protocol (used for publishing to Blogs, institutional repositories etc)
• Overview of Web server requirements for ICE (used for setting up multiple users)
• ICE repository configuration
  • Make a Subversion repository ICE enabled (used to version control the different renditions of content produced by ICE, and how ICE is configured for different purposes)
  • Customizing the skin (customize the 'look and feel' / branding of the HTML and PDFs produced)

ICE-RS at IDEA 2007: ICE-RS: Single source flexible publishing for the academy

Workshop Requirements

Those attending will need provide their own notebook with sufficient access to install software. The following operating systems will be supported in the workshop:

• Windows XP
• OS X (Intel and PowerPC)
• Ubuntu - limited support

It would be preferable if those attending were able to install all the required software before arriving. Details on what is required is to be provided closer to the start date as they will vary from the time that this document has been written. Software required includes:

• ICE - http://ice.usq.edu.au/instructions/downloads.htm
• OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org
• Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html

Mac users please note you will need OpenOffice.org 2.0 and NeoOffice, see the ICE website for more information at http://ice.usq.edu.au/instructions/osx/osx_installation_guide.htm

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