Overview - Two students share how Cafe Con Leche uses Sakai to organize themselves for events, organize their subcommittees, and have resources available to all their members. Cafe Con Leche provides a forum for the discussion of past and present social, political and economic topics that affect women, particularly those of Chicana/Latina descent. The goal of all discussions is to educate the Scripps community while promoting an understanding of significant issues concerning the awareness of diversity on our campus.
In Fall 2007, Café Con Leche set up a private Sakai project site to explore how the Claremont Colleges' online collaboration and learning environment could help their club members. Current Café Con Leche's Sakai site has twenty-nine student participants, five with privileges to maintain the site. Cindy and Elisa noted that everyone in Café Con Leche likes Sakai and that using it has had a good impact overall. Club members are still experimenting with ways to use Sakai.
How does Café Con Leche use Sakai?
- The Announcement tool is used extensively because announcements are not only archived in Sakai but also emailed to members. Meeting times and changes, deadlines, and events are announced via this tool, and reminders to check mailboxes are announced.
- The Resources area is handy. It is convenient to keep Café Con Leche's member contact information spreadsheet where it can be easily updated and downloaded by members; all members downloaded this spreadsheet with information about where members live, their mailbox, cell number, and birthday. Other resources available to members in Sakai include meeting minutes, logos, Dream Act information, etc.
- Polls have been to select a logo for the organization and find out which day members are available for a group dinner. All club members participated in the polls.
- The Calendar lets members know about meeting times.
- The Forum tool allows for discussion about what committees should talk about when they meet.
- The Chat Room is used infrequently. Members find that the phone is easier for synchronous communication.
Two of Café Con Leche's members work for Scripps IT in the IT-FITS (Faculty In-office Technology Support) program and took the initiative to use this campus IT resource for their club. Cindy and Elisa noted that they never use Sakai in their other clubs-probably because most students do not know that they can create their own Sakai project sites. Anyone with an existing Sakai account can set up a Sakai project site. Students in the IT-FITS are available to help any Scripps club get started with Sakai!
Café Con Leche provides a forum for the discussion of past and present social, political and economic topics that affect women, particularly those of Chicana/Latina descent. The goal of all discussions is to educate the Scripps community while promoting an understanding of significant issues concerning the awareness of diversity on our campus.
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