WP9 Spreading of Excellence and Dissemination
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GaLAGame and Learning Alliance
The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games
WP9 Spreading of Excellence and Dissemination
Wim Westera,OUNL
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GALAGames and Learning Alliance
The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games
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WP09 first year’s goals
• Establish the core identity of the GALA NoE • Establish a dissemination policy/strategy• Develop dissemination instruments
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WP09 first year’s goals
• Establish the core identity of the GALA NoE • Establish a dissemination policy/strategy• Develop dissemination instruments
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GALA Dissemination Policy
Our value proposition:
Becoming the knowledge kernel for European SG research and industry that aims at establishing a coherent, open and innovative SG practice by aligning SG research across Europe, fostering knowledge transfer to SG industry, propagating appropriate opportunities for SG education, and disseminating insights, evidence, applications, tools, and case studies to the education and training market.
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Principles of operation
• Dissemination is covered by all GALA partners• Branding conforms to the common framework explained
in the D9.1 document• No formal authorisation is required for partner-initiated
dissemination• Partners register and report all their dissemination
activities to WP9
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GALA Logo
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The website
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Social media
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Coordinated conferences, workshops, events
• ECTEL 2011 (Atos): GALA workshop september 2011 • OEB (OUNL): GALA workshop december 2011• ECGBL 2012 (UWS): anticipated 2012• ICALT (UCM): anticipated 2012• ISAGA (ATOS, UWS): anticipated 2012• VS-GAMES (UNIGE): applied for 2012
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Branding strategy: GALA versus the European Serious Games Association
GALA NoE
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Branding strategy: GALA versus the European Serious Games Association
European Serious Games Association
GALA NoE
Branding will focus on:
“ESGA” (powered by GALA)
Branding will focus on:
“ESGA” (powered by GALA)
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GALA Web Site
Riccardo Berta, Francesco Bellotti, Alessandro De Gloria
ELIOS Lab, DIBE, University of Genoa
www.elios.dibe.unige.it
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Target
• D9.3 GALA Website Release– Description of the GALA project web site– The description covers the public area and the private area
• Target – to provide up-to-date information about the advancement of the
GaLA project
• Structure:– Public Section: Accessible to all– Private Section: Accessible to the GALA consortium
• Link to the Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
– System Administrator functions: Accessible only to the System Administrator (SA) of the project website
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Releases Notes
• First version – online from the KoM
• October 2011
• Second version – online from May 2011– Restyle
• Logo and graphics
– New features– Link to VRE
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Site Architecture
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Public Home page
Login
Private Home page
VREMeetings
Project Information(Mission, Workplan, Consortium)
News(Call for papers, Recent papers, Blog)
Contact us
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Public Area
• The entry point for GALA online dissemination– offers information about the project
• “Home page”, “The project info pages”, “Footer” and “Contact us”
– provides continuously updated news and external feeds about calls for papers, conferences and events
• “The News sub-menu” subsection)
– An internal editorial team to keep the website dynamic and up-to-date
• to publish posts, articles and news also on social networks
– Web-2.0 support• Twitter module to show #galanoe hashtag
• Share content on Social Networks
• User Generated Contents
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Private area
• The private area is the online tool for managing and supporting the GALA project activities – A link to the VRE– ...see the VRE description...
• Deliverable 8.3 (VRE Release)
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Home Page (header and menu)
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Home Page
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News sectionprovides the latest news on serious games research and related events. The website clearly distinguishes between messages from GALA partners (Call for Papers, Recent Papers and Blog) and external messages (feeds)
FooterContains:-the logos and links of the EC and of the FP7-the support for sharing the web site over the most important social networks -the possibility of exporting GALA site content in XML format (RSS)
Linkslinks to GALA activities or events considered of high importance by the Consortium and that need wide visibility
Twittershows posts with the GALA hastag#galanoe
SlideshowA display for a series of information and pictures, which gives the user a snapshot of the aims and main features of the GALA project
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Project Info
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Mission
Work Plan
Consortium
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Social Network Links
• Login using Facebook or Twitter account
• Share Contents
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News
• Using the post functionalities authorized GALA users can provide contents for the site– Post a call for papers– Post a new publication– Post a new blog Entry
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Statistics (Oct 2010 – Nov 2011)
• Site usage– Google Analytics
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Conclusion and future work
• Conclusions– The site is online and monitored with Google Analytics – The site provides
• Public area: news, information
• Private area: link to the VRE
• Future work– SEO activity in order to gain good position in search results– Improving the look&feel– Improving performance
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Challenges year 2: increased visibility
• Smart instantiation ESGA (website, instruments)• Partner involvement: website, social media• Stakeholder events (various WPs)• Some more instruments (video clip, print, slides, ..)• Gamification (Playgen)• Task 9.4 European conference (VS-Games)• Task 9.5 Special journal issue(s)
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