The 21st Century Information Fluency Project of IMSA

Started in the year 2002
Provides FREE resources and training to Illinois' educators and learners so that they may locate, evaluate and use digital information
Offers FREE online courses, face-to-face workshops and interactive tutorials with up-to-the-minute curricular resources and Wizard Tools
Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education
For more information see project portal: http://21cif.imsa.edu

A Tour of the 21CIF Portal

Zope is an open source web application server
Can be used for building content management systems (CMS), intranets, portals, and custom applications
Features a through-the-web (TTW) development, backed by a tightly integrated security architecture
Various zope products are available for download to extend the basic set of site building tools
Includes its own HTTP, FTP, WebDAV, and XML-RPC serving capabilities
Primarily written in the Python programming language
Powerful page template allows separation of content and logic
Zope Home Page: http://www.zope.org

Stands for Content Management System
It is a web collaborative content publishing and management platform
Allows normal content originators to create, submit, and publish their content easily in the web.
Users do not need knowledge of HTML or other programming languages
Some CMS: Plone, Silvia, PostNuke, Mambo, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal etc.

Plone is easy to use, easy to install, standards-based open source content management system (CMS)
Free download and supported by close to a hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world
Internationalization - Plone interface has more than 50 language translations, and tools for managing multilingual content
Plone is technology neutral - works with most relational database systems, and runs on various platforms (e.g.Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and BSD)
Various add-on Plone products are available to add new features
Plone Home Page: http://plone.org