Karel – Cooperation, Ethics and Dissemination Aspects

Mihai AgapePalatul Copiilor Drobeta Turnu Severin

KAREL Project MeetingKaterini, 12 – 19.10.2014

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The Purpose of the PresentationDiscuss some aspects related to

cooperation inside the Karel project

Discuss some aspects related to ethical aspects

Present future dissemination at international level

COMMUNICATION

Karel Project(Miss) Understanding Beypazari

Karel Language: STEM vs English Rybnik

Problems related to the PCB workshop Dimensions of Turkish chassis Lack of I/O devices

Katerini New design Lesson plans (not) using Karel platform

Surprises Polish team restarted the Karel design

The new design is a downgrade related to the previous Polish design and doesn’t respect the specifications of the project.

It would be polite if the Polish contact person announce the project coordinator related to this kind of initiatives.

When there are new members in the project team, the contact person has to informed this members related to the work already done in the project.

Polish team didn’t send me the design for I/O devices.

Surprises

The chassis manufactured by Turkish team fits the new Polish design and not the specifications for the platform and dimensions decided in Rybnik project meeting.

(Non) Cooperation Example 2 I didn’t receive anything related to the work of

Polish team related to I/O output. Romanian team is in the situation to

design the I/O outputs for the Karel platform.

(Non) Cooperation Example 3 I didn’t receive any answer to my emails from

Turkish new contact person Supposition: He has some problems with

communication in English language. Fact: I found in Katerini meeting that the

communication with Polish contact person was possible.

Problem The written information is understood different

by the people Solution

Ask someone who has the expertise

Expertise? Who knows better the Karel project?

Mihai Agape Why?

Initiator of the project Author of the all technical part of the project in the

Application Form Proves

Application Form & emails communication during writing Application Form

Work already done in the Karel project related to the management, technical design and manufacture, training…

Turkish Improvement Proposal Turkish teacher proposals

As coordinator, I have to say to everybody what to do.

My answer We are not in the army and I cannot order what to

do everyone We agreed in application form and meeting

minutes what each partner has to do. Unfortunately, they are not respected. It seems that the contact persons doesn’t make available the information to the team members.

EASY TO USE SOFTWARE FOR KAREL PLATFORM

Arduino compatibility

For now there is not any initiative related to assuring the compatibility between the Karel platform with Arduino IDE.

Another Form of CooperationVisual Karel Software

One of my former students, Claudia Tudosie, who is now student in last year, at Timisoara University, Computers Enginnering Faculty, chose for his final project a theme related to KAREL. She proposed to create a visual programming language (similar to Scratch for Karel platform).

ETHICS

Ethics

Don’t forget to cite the work done by others. To identify a problem is some time more

difficult than to solve it. Yes, you have to quote other works even if it

is not related to a solution but to a problem. You have to cite other works even if it is not in

written form.

FUTURE DISSEMINATION

Scientix Conference,Brussels, 24-26.10.2014 Conference organized inside of European

project SCIENTIX I have a 15 minutes slot for the presentation

“Karelino – a robot for STEM education”. There will participate more than 600 people

involved in STEM field, from all the European countries and from other continents.

“Engaging tools for science education”Sofia, Bulgaria, 31.10 – 02.11.2014Teamwork Training and Technology Network

A 30 minutes slot for presenting “Enhancing STEM activities through contests and European projects”

I will present some of STEM projects I initiated

ROBOTOR SCRIPT KAREL

I was / am involved in SCIENTIX RECAP

Suggestions?