Presentation about several web-based tools for teaching support during Workshop 1 at Conference in Krakow

1. Omnia Vocational Education and Training

3. Population keeps growing

4. Competences needed in working life are changing

6. Vocational Adult Education 4 000

7. Apprenticeship 1 500

9. Natural Sciences

10. Tourism, catering and domestic services

11. Social services, health and sport

12. Technology and transport

15. Close contacts with labor market

16. Offer vocational education and training

17. To correspond the needs of the area

19. Ministry of Employment and the Economy

20. Apprenticeship training

21. Student has a work contract

22. Ministry of Education and Culture funds training

24. WhySocialmedia? Social media is a free and fast way to share and search for information. Today’s people use internet everyday in their work and hobbies, and of course also to socialize with friends. Social media is a very big part of today’ssociety, and business life. Italsogivesitsusersvery big new possibilities. Not been fullyexploited in education, big recourses have not been used.

25. Collaborative software Groupware Workgroup support systems Group support systems

26. Short history and origin Originated from online gaming! 70’s-80’s MUD’s ”Multi User Dungeon” In the 90’s the US military started to use collaborative systems to secure the functionality of defense systems.

28. Modern examples Second Life Voice over IP, Skype, video conferences Onlinedocumentediting Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

29. Second Life Second Life is an online virtual world Has over 20 million registered users Launched in 2003 Enormous environment and extremely flexible

30. Second life

31. Second Life Avatar’s In Second Life everyone has their own ”Avatar” The Avatar’s are characters which are controlled byusers. They can walk, speak, and move like in the real world. In second life everyonecanfly, and changeplace on a mapwhereevertheywant. Youcango to the classrooms to participatein teaching, oryoucan just enjoyotherpeople’scompany.

32. Teaching in Second Life In the classrooms the teaching is interactive, for examplestudentscanraisetheirhand to answer the questions. Teachers canalsofollow who’sparticipating, and whogot specialneedsfor their studying. Lecturescanalsoberecorded to videos, and students in Second Life canwatchthemlaterifneeded. Possibility to learn and teach 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

33. Microsoft Sharepoint Microsoft SharePoint is a popular web application platform for organizations of any size. With MS SharePoint workers can determine the Websites for information sharing with each others, to manage documents from start to finish and publish reports. Sharepoint can be run locally or in a “cloud” through internet SharePoint Online is Sharepoint’scloudservice version, whereall the workhappens in microsoft’sservers.

34. CloudServises Cloudservicesarelikewebsites, all the workhappens in largeservers Only the appearance is shown to the user Only the websiteorclient is needed, nothingelse Website/Clientincludesallavailablefeatures, liketextediting, Collaborative etc. E.g Google Docs

35. Online document editing Offers important possibilities for education Documents including text files, presentations and sheets can be sharedeasily Usually online document editing is easy to use and based on a very graphical userinterface From different services Google Documentsare the most known and actually used in making this presentation

36. Google Documents

37. Skype Skype is a veryusefuland popularsmallonlinephone software Youcanmakefree video callsto othercomputers, sharefilesorleavemessages SkypeSupportsConference Calls(morethan 2 persons on the line at the sametime) Possible to call also mobile phones and Hardlinesaround the world at affordable price Headphones and microphone are recommended

38. Mindmap tools Graphical and easy to use Mindmaps caneasilybe exported to be used in all kind of media Bubbl.us and Mindomo Bubbl.us is free of charge and simpler, while Mindomo offers more features and has a price

39. bubbl.us

40. Mindomo

41. Blogging tools Offers users very easy and quick ways to create websites including blogs, pictures, video and documentfiles A much used blogging platform is Wordpresswhich has many features but basic things can be doneeasily Large amount of different themes for your site

42. Wordpress Dashboard

43. Wordpress appearance

44. Twitter Twitteris a website, which offers social networking and microbloggingservice, Twitter is used as a kind of global text messaging system where new stuff is spreading faster than ever Users communicates by sending messages called tweets. And in twitter you can “follow” people, business or schools and you are always informed of everything Companiescan give special offers and gifts to their followers Twitter can be used by companies or schools etc. internal information

45. LinkedIn The world'sLargest Professional Network, over100 millionmembers. Users can post their CV, hobbies, interests, receive recommendations from their former boss and colleagues and recommend others. LinkedIn is not exactly a work searching site, but it is a good tool to expand your own network and get work offers, or find employees. It may help students to find traineeships.