- Davinia Hernández-Leo is a visiting Fulbright scholar from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain working in the CS department and POET Lab at Virginia Tech. - She is an assistant professor coordinating the Educational Technologies section of the Interactive Technologies Group, which does research on computer-supported collaborative learning and educational technologies. - Her research focuses on providing teachers with design tools to plan collaborative learning activities and support orchestrating integrated learning flows across virtual and physical spaces.

1. Some slides introducing myself! Davinia Hernández-Leo Visiting Fulbright Scholar @ Virginia Tech – CS department - POET Lab January 2012

7. Some outcomes

8. - Hernández-Leo, D.; et al. Collage, a Collaborative Learning Design Editor Based on Patterns . Educational Technology & Society 2006; 9(1): 58-71. - Hernández-Leo, D. et al. A multicase study for the evaluation of a collaborative learning pattern-based visual design approach , Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 21(6), 2010, p. 313–331 A design process based on broadly accepted collaborative learning techniques (formulated as patterns) that enables teachers to create their own (computationally represented) learning designs (implemented in the Collage editor, uses IMS LD)

10. Assessment: new interactions for (IMS QTI) question items and interaction contexts for tests Application to Web Maps: Answering test questions interacting with maps (drawing, ordering markers, etc.) Routes of geo-located questions In virtual situ In real situ - Navarrete, T.; Santos, P.; Hernández-Leo, D.; Blat, J . QTIMaps: A model to enable web maps in assessment . Educational Technology & Society 2011; 14(3):203-217 - Santos, P.; Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Hernández-Leo, D.; Blat, J. QuesTInSitu: from tests to routes for assessment in situ activities . Computers & Education 2011, 57(4): 2517-2534

14. Thank you! Gracias!