Slides by METID

eLene Kick Off meeting: WP 7 + WP 8 + WP 6 Dissemination + Knowledge Management + Website

Nice, 27th and 28th January 2005

2/19

Dissemination + Knowledge Management + Website

WP and person in charge:– WP 7 Dissemination Laura Besana

– WP 8 Knowledge Management Matteo Uggeri

– WP 6 Website Ignazio Locatelli

. Public dissemination/info area

. KM area for partners

. Virtual Learning Resource Centre area

These are related subjects which must walk together.

3/19

Schematic overview of the project and the interrelation between the activities

ONGOING ACTIVITES

Teacher training actions

Workshops/online collaborative workEvaluation

First draft of

guidelines

First selection of tools / resources

Content development Website Development

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Final version of guidelines

Final selection of tools and resources

VLRCstructure

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Design of Templates

Public project information

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Public Info.Area

Design, create and integrate contentProof read and debug

EvaluateMaintain, update, adapt

Virtual Resource Learning Centre

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Identification of tools, resources

Analysis

Criteria

Identification of practices

Analysis

CriteriaResearch papers

N e e d s a n a l y s i s

4/19

WP 6: Website / 0 - General features

Graphic:– Style / logo / fonts / colour…– Shall we keep the existing ones [yes, please]

Environment:– MS DOS / Windows– Mac– Linux

Programming:– HTML + Java (jsp, servlet)

e.g. CoL 3– Flash + actionscript + Java

e.g. e-design Database, if we use XML / LOMS:

– SQL Server– Tamino (expensive, hi performances)– Exists (open source, low performances)

With Bremen colleagues

5/19

WP 6 + WP 7: Website + Dissemination / 1a public

Public dissemination/info area:– Already partially available

. www.metid.polimi.it/eLene/website/index.htm– Domain name registration

. www.elene.com - Not available

. www.elene.net - Not available

. www.elene.org - Not available

. www.elene.biz - available

. www.elene.info - available

. www.elene.it - available– or:

. www.elene-tt.ext - all availables

– Please vote!

6/19

WP 6 + WP 7: Website + Dissemination / 1b public

Public dissemination/info area:– Small updating:

. small description of our project

. things to the EU:– logo of EAC etc…– name and code of our proposal– “This project has been carried out with the

support of the European Community.”– “The content of this Project does not

necessarily reflect the position of the European Community or the National Agency, nor does it involve any responsibility on their part.”

. list of really involved people (after this meeting)

. PPT presentation of each parter

. Put the nice story monsieur Armatte told us this morning

. Photos (Jens is our offiacial photo artist and…

Keep the website appearance as ‘human’ as possible (in my opinion).

7/19

WP 6 + WP 8: Website + KM / 2a private km

KM means:– Profiled and monitored access

– Specialized research tools

– Tracking systems

– Versioning

– Tools (open source or not, see before)

– Real time interaction (Centra) online meetings every 2 months

– Motivation and stimulation of people

– Validations of inputs the troubles of Wikipedia...

– Push-pull notification via mail...

– Easing the group discussions

Most of all: the people involved must be motivated.

e.g.: select 1 for each partner who will be responsible for the KM.

Reduce complexity.

We don’t search for THE solution for KM, but the right tools for a international consortium as eLene.

8/19

WP 8: KM / 2b private km: “thinking aloud intentions”

In this eLene context we would like to ease:– communication among us, for instance: “what we mean with e-learing,

content, tool, resources, plattform, guideline...“ (maybe we can steal...). It’s something like we did for EAC (do you remember the coloured doc?) which form documents are going to take [WP +oo / coord.] attributes for the Bremen database [WP 6]

– collecting of material for UOC [WP 1]– ‘story telling’ of students and teachers and staff and us– recovery of analysis material [WP 2]– summarizing/mapping of the material (not a big messy list, but a minimal

map) of Umea (I appreciated their approach!) [WP 3]– ‘work in parallel’ [WP +oo]– solving of compromises (i.e. local languages/English, different cultural

contexts...)– Saving and taking care and disseminating what comes out from our

discussions

[ YES, I WROTE THIS TODAY ]

9/19

WP 8: KM / 2c private km: intentions

minimal human not boring

effective

...let’s think about the famous Ramboll EU report...

...and the few sentences of Umea

10/19

WP 6 + WP 8: Website + KM / 2c private km

Knowledge Management area for partners tools:– Developed by METID:

. CoL 3 http://corsi.metid.polimi.it/

– free support portal for the University’s institutional teaching and training activities

. e-Project http://131.175.10.222:8080/edesign2/client/client.html

– expecially designed for collaborative work– Under licence:

. Centra Symposium http://aulavirtuale.metid.polimi.it/main/eugroup/index.jhtml

– Open sources (as inspiration or as real tools):. Gantt Project http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/. WebDav http://www.webdav.org/. Wiki http://wiki.org/

Briefly: WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

Wiki is in Ward's original description: The simplest online database that could possibly work. Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.

11/19

WP 6 + WP 8: Website + KM / 2d private km

Knowledge Management area for partners: METID experience 1

– side_lab open source laboratory for methodology . leaded by Susanna Sancassani

. www.lizzeri.net/mad_lab/tiki-index.php

. Testing and then using open source software we mentioned before and others

. “Digital Communication between procedures and creativity”

– km_lab knowledge management laboratory for connecting METID’s different locations

. leaded by Marzio Ghezzi

– OJT Gene Bank vocational training for work safety and occupational health. . Made by Poliedra (now METID). Leonardo. www.ojtgenebank.net ID: test04

PW:salakala

12/19

WP 6 + WP 8: Website + KM / 2e private km

Knowledge Management area for partners: METID experience 2

– DLAE Distance Learning Accreditation in Europe

. http://dlae.enpc.fr

. (a part of the project content…)

. We used Centra for international OnLine meeting

. www.centra.com

– METID:

. Create accounts (not for all!)

. Select a leader for each session

– Participants

. Explorer 5 or higher…

. Install a plug-in

. Test audio video (mics and w-cam)

BEFORE ALL, IS BETTER TO DO A TRAINING SESSION

13/19

WP 6: Website / 3 VLRC

Virtual Learning Resource Centre area

– Milan: Ignazio presentation of our existing platform.

– Bremen: Jens, Yildirai, Martina

14/19

WP 7: Dissemination / 1

Articles for the beginning:– Article “CANEGE partenaire du réseau européen d’excellence eLene” for

Canal EDU (fr) by Deborah Arnold, already published;

– Already issued and article “Perspectives for a creative international co-operation” by Matteo Uggeri about EU projects which involve METID on the Italian magazine “E-Learning and Knowledge Management“, February 2005 (soon available);

– Ready to write an article entitled “Human e-Learning network” or something like this about the building up of our consortium for www.elearningeuropa.info;

Contacts with other “TT” EU projects: – E-TT “the one Deborah mentioned” (not HE but: ???)

. Leaded by Finland

– EPICT (under e-Content) European Pedagogical ICT Licence (high schools)

. Leaded by Denmark (but with Czech, Greece and Ita – Geneve DIST)

15/19

WP 7: Dissemination / 2

For guests and interested people from all the world:– Open mailing list– Free access to a part of the VLRC– Open web seminars via Centra

Publications:– (international on web: AACE Digital Library – elearningeuropa.info)

International events: – EDU!!!! ask Ejia!– EDEN Conference, ask Ejia and Amaury Legait (DLAE)– Online Educa Madrid, ask UOC girls– Online Educa Berlin, Deborah!– ED – MEDIA (next: June/July Canada)– AACE - Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference SITE

2006 - Orlando, Florida, USA

Leaflets, posters, t-shirts, stickers, songs… PS: Informing the UKHEP

16/19

WP 7: Dissemination / 3

(Our) national contacts: Inside our institutions! Events:

– ''eLearning Result” Sestri Levante (e-learning mondial summit by Giunti)

– TED Genova (Innovative Didactical Technologies)

Magazines:– E-Learning & KM

– Ericksson FORM@RE

Sodalities:– Sie-l - Società Italiana di e-Learning

Public institutions:– MIUR (Ministry of Education)

– CNIPA (Ministry Public Adm.)

– MIT (Ministry Innovat. and Tech.)

17/19

WP 7: Dissemination / 4

minimal human not boring

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Create a ‘style’ for eLene (which in part already exists)

18/19

Timeline / sketch

19/19

Summary of first “To-do”

WP 6:– Updating the public area– Creating the private access area– Graphic design– Structure – General layout– Hypertext

WP 7: – Write the article for elearnigeuropa.info– Domain name registering– Take care about copyright and logo!

WP 8: – Select one person in charge for each partner for ‘getting deep’ into the KM

. Centra session

. KM admin for his side

. Room owner– Set a flexible timetable for online meetings– Define priorities for internal communication and sharing of documents

. i.e. Put all the slides of this meeting and the report templates in a private area...

20/19

WP 6 DISCUSSION GROUP: Deborah, Ulf, Matteo, Ignazio, Yidirai

KM

Public

VLRC

WP 1 room

WP 2 room

WP 3 room

WP 4 room

WP 5 room

WP 6 room

WP 7 room

WP 8 room

WP 9 room

common room Centra + Gantt Project + Skipe...coffe room

WP 1 show room

WP 2 show room

WP 3 show room

WP 4 show room

WP 5 show room

WP 6 show room

WP 7 show room

WP 8 show room

WP 9 show room

Teachers group rooms

Teachers group rooms

Teachers group rooms ...

eLene guidelines, model...

eLene pilot course

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21/19

WP 6 DISCUSSION GROUP: Deborah, Ulf, Matteo, Ignazio, Yidirai

all the mess we saw in the previous slide

METID - Milano

ZMML - Bremen

WP-Groups KM

... ...Upload Files Upload Files

Metadata-Repository

Metadata-Repository:Resource Descriptionbased on LOM

Interface for Services (Retrieve, Store, ...)

22/19

WP 6 DISCUSSION GROUP: Deborah, Ulf, Matteo, Ignazio, Yidirai

The rooms owner (WP responsible) must:– Take care of the whole room

– Prepare the showroom

– Invite (subscribe) users and guests (i.e. colleagues...)

– Prepare a room door (using a provided ‘template’) . 3 news / 3 latest items that occurred

. List of people invited (involved) in it

. Image representing (or not) the room

. Collecting the faces of his staff

– Preparing a template for collecting information(i.e. WP1 + 2)

– Write a short story for the showroom abouthis group’s work paths

– ...

23/19

METID TO DO

Milestones as soon as possible Define responsibles inside METID (public):

– Project manager

– Financial manager» +

. Km

. Website

. Dissemination» +

– Someone for the next call

Internal– Designer

– Graphic

– Programmer