This presentation given by the GAA outlines the objectives of the GAA in creating and online community for learning and sharing ideas. The solution developed by Enovaiton involved integrating Drupal, Moodle and Mahara together and with outher third party systems.

1. Building an Interactive Community
Online
Jimmy D’Arcy Technical Development & Support
Manager, GAA.
Liam Ryan Solutions Consultant, Enovation

2. Building an Interactive Community Online
1. Our Context
3. The Idea
5. The Plan
7. The Build Status
9. Recommendations
6. Future Potential

3. Our Context
GAA Mission, Best Practice in Advances in
Vision and Values Education IT Software

4. Categorising our
Communities
GAA Units
4 Provinces
32 Counties
20,120 Club and
School based Teams
Role
• Coaches
• Referees
• Officials
• Players

5. The Idea
Build an online platform where registered users can:
• Access – Better Quality, More Localised and More Relevant Content
• Interact – With members of their units and communities of practice
• Learn – Through Formal and Informal Methods
Produce a more efficient system of administration by:
• Building a database to record all data
• Designing an integrated environment to store and access all resources
• Allowing authorised users to generate content and share it
• Publishing relevant content to many places at once

6. The Plan
Use Web 2.0 based Open Source Software
Drupal Moodle Mahara
(Content (Learning (ePortfolio)
Management Management
System) System)
Interact within a
Access to Formal and
Community of
Information Informal Learning
Practice

7. The Plan
To Publish 8 Themed Portals
- 4 Representing our Basic Key Constituencies -
Main (Club) Primary Post-Primary Third Level
Portal School Portal School Portal Portal
- 4 Representing our Main Role Groups -
Coach Referee Officials
Player Portal
Portal Portal Portal

8. The Build
Status:
System
• ‘Enovation’ Awarded Contract
• Expertise in building solutions based on proven open source products
• Currently in UAT/Pilot with Main (Club) and Coaching Groups
• Go Live with remainder as content is ready
Content
• Redesign of Foundation and Award 1 Content Underway
Requirements:
• Continue to work with National Center for Technology in Education
• Publish Theme Based News & Calendars at National, Provincial, County
Level

9. Future Potential
3. Unified Login with Google mail interface to present more
individualised content through the portal
2. Use Google + to define groups of users into more specific
communities of practice
3. Investigate the potential for localised advertising

10. Demonstration

11. Questions?
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