Quicklinks: Michigan Week Exchange website and CAPspace login.
Registration for Michigan Week Connections is right around the corner – March 3 through April 4, 2008. This year, Michigan Exchange Project participants will register at the new CAPspace site, Collaborations Around the Planet. The registration process will be the same as the one used for Read Around the Planet, so if you registered yourself or others for RAP 2008, you’re already several steps ahead of the game! (Note: this process does not apply to Where In Michigan? participants.)
VERIFICATION: prior to registration, all Exchange Project sites must have their videoconferencing equipment verified to ensure compatibility of equipment between partnering schools. If your site was verified for Read Around the Planet, you are already verified for Michigan Week Exchange and can skip this step.
If your site equipment has not been verified, here are the steps to follow:
- If you are a building/district/site videoconferencing coordinator, you will need to have a Collaborations Around the Planet profile. Click here for instructions on how to set up a CAPspace profile. Teachers: check with your videoconferencing coordinator to make sure they have a CAPspace profile.
- Within 48 hours of creating a profile, the coordinator should receive access to an Admin button on the CAP menu. The profile narrative must mention that the person coordinates videoconferencing – that detail tells us to “promote” the coordinator in the system so the person can access the Admin button. If we miss promoting the coordinator, email Debbie Glasgow at dglasgow@mcesa.k12.mi.us and let her know that Admin access is needed.
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When the coordinator obtains access to the Admin button, he/she can then add the site equipment and list the Tech contact information. Adding site equipment alerts a verification coordinator that a verification test needs to be done, and a verifier will contact your coordinator and Tech contacts to schedule a test. Click here for instructions on how to add equipment.
This is just the beginning of the process. You will get the chance to pick your dates and times and when registration opens March 3rd.
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