Workshop5 Intro

Slide 1: eTwinning & Educational Resources Jean-Noël Colin European Schoolnet eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 2: Agenda eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 3: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 4: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 5: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet • Social bookmarking in the Learning Resource Exchange for schools: What is there for eTwinning teachers? eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 6: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet • Social bookmarking in the Learning Resource Exchange for schools: What is there for eTwinning teachers? Riina Vuorikari, Resident Expert on Social Tagging, European Schoolnet/K.U. Leuven eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 7: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet • Social bookmarking in the Learning Resource Exchange for schools: What is there for eTwinning teachers? Riina Vuorikari, Resident Expert on Social Tagging, European Schoolnet/K.U. Leuven • User generated content in the LRE - illustrated by a session on LeMill eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 8: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet • Social bookmarking in the Learning Resource Exchange for schools: What is there for eTwinning teachers? Riina Vuorikari, Resident Expert on Social Tagging, European Schoolnet/K.U. Leuven • User generated content in the LRE - illustrated by a session on LeMill Hans Poldoja, Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 9: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet • Social bookmarking in the Learning Resource Exchange for schools: What is there for eTwinning teachers? Riina Vuorikari, Resident Expert on Social Tagging, European Schoolnet/K.U. Leuven • User generated content in the LRE - illustrated by a session on LeMill Hans Poldoja, Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University • What’s next? eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 10: Agenda • The Learning Resource Exchange Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet • Social bookmarking in the Learning Resource Exchange for schools: What is there for eTwinning teachers? Riina Vuorikari, Resident Expert on Social Tagging, European Schoolnet/K.U. Leuven • User generated content in the LRE - illustrated by a session on LeMill Hans Poldoja, Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University • What’s next? Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 11: The Learning Resource Exchange • A new service enabling schools to find content from many different countries • a federation of content repositories (already includes 16 MoE!) - 40,000 resources and 70,000 assets • a central LRE portal plus searching within your own national portal • in a second phase, opportunities to create and share your content with others • building on CELEBRATE, CALIBRATE and MELT projects eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 12: The Learning Resource Exchange • CALIBRATE project (2005-2008) – improve connection ease – research semantic interoperability of curricular descriptions of learning resources – develop open source collaborative knowledge building environment and authoring templates – validation with up to 100 schools in seven countries eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 13: The Learning Resource Exchange • Melt Project (2006-2008) – There’s a need for metadata that more accurately reflects how LOs are actually used in different learning contexts – Some MELT content enriched with metadata by expert or trained indexers – Enrichment of any/all of MELT content by teachers and learners who have used the content • ‘social tagging’ and ‘folksonomies’ – Enrichment with automatically generated metadata eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 14: Pre-release Melt-LRE Portal • Already 20 repositories incl. 16 MoE • 40,000 resources, 70,000 assets • Plus more free resources from Associate Partners • Creative Commons licenses • Social tagging tools • Help us fine tune the LRE service for eTwinning teachers! eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 15: LRE & eTwinning • Two initiatives based on the same philosophy and approach • Content exchange, social tagging and social networking in the LRE support collaborative eTwinning activities • We want to provide early access to the beta version of the MELT LRE portal to eTwinning teachers – to enable eTwinning schools to exploit the LRE resources as quickly as possible – to fine tune the LRE features and functionalities to the specific needs of eTwinning teachers eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 16: What’s next? March April May June July August Sept. eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 17: What’s next? nt se n tio ta vi In March April May June July August Sept. eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 18: What’s next? nt se n tio ta vi In March April May June July August Sept. Ev a lu at io n eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 19: What’s next? d s te nt ue se q re n tio ck ba ta ed vi Fe In March April May June July August Sept. Ev a lu at io n eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 20: What’s next? d s te nt ue se q e re as n le tio ck re ba ta ew ed vi N Fe In March April May June July August Sept. Ev a lu at io n eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Slide 21: References • LRE: http://lre.eun.org • Melt Project: http://info.melt-project.eu • LeMill: http://lemill.net/ • Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org • Travel Well Survey: http://del.icio.us/tag/travelwell eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

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Slide 23: Thank you! eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania