My Projects

-Design History

-Domestic Interior

-DesCo

New Project/Help…

Recent Activities:

Forum Entry by Kart43…New Images…Deadline for Submission…

Usage:All RCA members who are active members in projects. Could also be used by non-RCA members if they are part of any projects.

Description:The ‘My Projects’ interface gives a list of the projects the user is involved in. This functions as a shortcut to the user’s projects. In the lower part a list of recent activities across all of the user’s projects is display giving the user a real-time sense of the activities within his projects.

Technology:The Ning platform hosts projects at the RCA. A list of the user’s projects needs to be compiled as well as a list of recent activities across his projects. This list can be fed via rss. Ning does not use the Directory for user authentication. This may be a problem as the user needs to be logged in for his list to be retrieved.

Categories:Promote; Collaborate; See/Read/Hear; Learn; Research

My Projects

RCA Projects

-Design History

-Architec

-Domestic Interior

-Fine Art Research

-DesCo-More…

New Project/Help…

Usage:All RCA members who are active members in projects. Could also be used by non-RCA members if they are part of any projects.

Description:The ‘RCA Projects’ interface gives a list of all the projects currently run at the RCA. This functions as a display of activities across the disciplines. Only those projects with the most recent activity are shown making that list change it’s appearance/order. Access to all projects is provided through a link at the bottom, where the project headers (abstracts) can be read.

Technology:The Ning platform hosts projects at the RCA. A simple RSS feed should be sufficient that delivers all projects with the RCA namespace.

Categories:Promote; Collaborate; See/Read/Hear; Learn; Research

RCA Projects

E-mail

New E-mail…

Paul Smith Meeting TodayWendy Blue RE: QuoteHfg@test.com Online Drugs for cheapSteve McCain RE: RE: RE: answerJohn Wayne Project ProposalInbox…

Usage:All RCA members.

Description:The ‘E-mail’ interface gives a list of the most recent unread emails in the users inbox. This keeps the user informed about new mail items. Via a short cut quick access to the inbox is given

Technology:Exchange or Google plus feed

Categories:Manage

EMail

My Documents

New Document…

Work.xlsThe Work in the Age.docNotes.txtNumber.xlsImage_001.jpgImage_002.jpg

All Documents…

Usage:All RCA members.

Description:The ‘My Documents’ interface gives a list of the user’s documents stored online. New Documents can quickly be submitted.

Technology:It is as if File2 was run through a web-based application.

Categories:Manage

My Documents

RCA Notice Board

New Notice…

Paul Smith Design CompetitionWendy Blue Private View TONIGHTStudent One Tonight in the Art BarSteve McCain Collaborator soughtJohn Wayne Too Dark in the ParkAll Notices…

Usage:All RCA members, but could be used publicly.

Description:The ‘RCA Notice Board’ interface shows the latest posts on the notice board(s).

Technology:The boards are hosted on RCADE at the moment from which an RSS feed could be used. The boards may need to be consolidated into a single board, or multiple feeds can feed into this interface. User needs not to be logged into RCADE since RSS feeds are public.

Categories:Promote; Collaborate;

RCA Notice Board

Repository

Submit Article…

Paul Smith ‘The Dress in Present Culture’Wendy Blue ‘Electronics in Fine Art practice’Student One ‘Victorian Art’

All Articles…

Usage:Could be used publicly (apart from the ‘Submit Article’ option)

Description:The ‘Repository’ interface shows the latest articles submitted to the repository.

Technology:A repository software needs to be purchased from which a public RSS feed can be taken.

Repository

Blogs

Make your own blog…

The Photo Blog - Walker Evans Show - New EOS 3166XS - Digital Photography

Art & Commerce - Lucien Freud auction - Hirst in free fall - Monet stolen

Edit Blogs…

Usage:Could be used publicly.

Description:The ‘Blogs’ interface showsa list of blogs I am interested in plus the 3 latest posts in that blog.

Technology:Links in with blogs in Ning for example for RCA blogs, but can use any RSS feed from any blog.

Blogs

My Bookmarks

Filter by tag:

-Royal College of Art-Designer’s Guild-Tesco-Ritzy Cinema-TV Guide-Google-My website

Edit Bookmarks…

Usage:All RCA members, but could be used publicly.

Description:The ‘Bookmarks’ interface displays a user’s bookmarks. Ideally a drop-down box lets the user filter the bookmarks by one of his tags.

Technology:RSS feed from a delicious account could be used - this would also make the collection of bookmarks very easy because delicious is integrated into the browser.

Categories:Manage

My Bookmarks

Links

-Library Catalogue-FTS-Showgallery-RCADE-Intranet-VRC

Usage:All RCA members.

Description:The ‘Links’ interface displays the basic RCA links every RCA member will need from time to time.

Technology:This is just a list of hard coded URLs (which could come via RSS though, to make updating easy?)

Categories:See/Read/Hear; Learn; Research

Links

Search

Search

Usage:Everybody

Description:The ‘Search’ interface allows to search the internet.

Technology:A link to Google of some sorts.

Categories:See/Read/Hear; Learn; Research

Search

The Web

RCA

VTC

My courses:-Photoshop CS5-RHINO for dummies-Final Cut

New courses:-Microsoft Office-Web Design-Illustrator CS3

All courses…

Usage:Restricted to current RCA members (staff and students).

Description:The ‘VTC interface displays a list of the user’s courses on VTC and a list of new course material. The top list functions as shortcut to the user’s courses, while the bottom list keeps the user updated with new resources as they come in.

Technology:We are subscribing to VTC. However, there is a single login, which doesn’t identify individual users making it difficult at the moment to compile a my-courses-list. For VTC to work user must be logged into the intranet.

Categories:See/Read/Hear; Learn

VTC

My RCADE

-CHS Autumn Term-College Wide-Photography Departm.

All Courses…

Usage:Restricted to current RCA members (staff and students).

Description:The ‘My RCADE interface displays a user’s courses on RCADE as they would appear on his my-page. At the bottom a list of the most recent activities across the user’s courses would be given updating the user on changes to the course.

Technology:RCADE needs to run in the background into which the user needs to be logged in. There is no feed as yet for either courses or activities.

Categories:See/Read/Hear; Learn

My RCADE

Recent Activities:

Forum Entry by Kart43…New Images…Deadline for Submission…

Calendar

Edit Calendar…

Usage:All RCA members.

Description:The ‘Calendar’ interface displays a user’s calendar. This should be integrated with an RCA wide calendar showing general dates this could also be used for group (I.e. project) dates, so that the calendar could also feature directly within the project pages.

Technology:Probably Google Apps - we need to disable the calendar in RCADE.

Categories:Manage

Calendar