Eurodidaweb - a Synthetic report

1. Eurodidaweb March 17/21-03-2014
A synthetic report

2. Course Program
Lunedì – Monday: 14:00 - 18:00
Sapienza University
1. Visit to Museo dell’Antichità
2. Via dei Volsci 122 - Classroom G
Presentation of Participants
Martedì – Tuesday: 14:00 – 18:00
Digilab - Sapienza University
Classroom G
Via dei Volsci 122
Vetreria Sciarra II. Floor
Mercoledì – Wednesday: 14:00 – 18:00 –
Digilab - Sapienza University
Classroom G
Via dei Volsci 122
Vetreria Sciarra II. Floor
Giovedì – Thursday: 14:00 – 18:00
Digilab – Sapienza University
Classroom G
Via dei Volsci 122
Vetreria Sciarra II. Floor
Venerdì – Friday 14:00 – 18:00 –
Digilab – Sapienza University
Classroom G
Via dei Volsci 122
Vetreria Sciarra II. Floor
• Monday - La «Sapienza» University – Piazza Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma -
• Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and Friday:
DigiLab - La «Sapienza» University – Via dei Volsci 122, - Roma

3. Course sites and directions
• Monday - La «Sapienza» University – Piazza Aldo Moro, 5 - Roma -
• Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and Friday: DigiLab - La «Sapienza» University – Via dei Volsci 122, - Roma

4. Programme of the training activities (day by day)
• FIRST DAY: Some historic perspective, the Web through the end of 2th. millennium. A whole new media, invented in 5 years. The years
of the Web of Science. The Years of the Mass Web. Where we are going from here? Illusions and poverty of the WorldWideWeb.
Laboratory: learning and teaching HTML trough the Web: simulation environment; on-line courses free and brilliant. What does it
means today Web publishing. The Content Management System evolution. A specific stack of software to manage Web Pages, Links,
News, Events Documents, Information and Knowledge.
• SECOND DAY: The semantic and multimedia Web: a tool to share knowledge, a tool of cohesion: a powerful integration instruments for
the European union and its peoples. A sight to the future: exchanging knowledge among the European cultures. A first individual
approach to the technological tools that will be used during the course: The Zope/Plone stack, Moodle etc., an Open Source powerful
yet easy Content management platform. Hypermedia and hypertextual communication elements; planning the multimedia project: our
first web page with Plone: coping with HTML. Using the Wysywyg Editor. Importing Documents from other programs / other sources.
• THIRD DAY: The concept of workflow: members, roles and rights tables and workflow; local rights and global rights; document
workflows; creation, reviewing and publishing a resource. How to manage a group of publishers, reviewers and members. Using
multimedia source: samples of Plone sites with multimedia contents. Heading forward Knowledge management: archetypes functions;
vocabulary management; use of schedules form, construction download insertion, pictures and sound insertion, pictures touching up.
• FOURTH DAY: A functional comparison will be presented between Moodle style and EduCommons style of structuring learning content.
Mashing educational contents: Images in a Plone site or other with the internal upload facility; importing Slides from thirdparty servers;
mashing video from third party servers (YouTube, Vimeo) ; mashing SCORM material;
• Team work site construction: “Europaclub/Eurodidaweb site"; making a template for Plone or other; modifying the Style Classes(CSS)
to produce a personal layout. How to use embeddable contents using external services from the web: Slideshare, Youtube,EventBrite,
Picasa, Flikr …. Pro’s and Con’s of external services and how to cope with this new kind of dynamic contents. Open Data and Linked
Data. Future of the WorldWideWeb: from Wikipedia to dbPedia; from onsite Course and Content Editing to Authoring Tools (online or
local) to produce XML schemata Based Learning Materials. The cases of OpenCourseware,
• FIFTH DAY: use of some simple procedures written in a Plone site or other with the internal upload facility. During the conclusive work
participants will deal with practical example, extracted from real world experiences, of usage of web platform in learning /teaching in
different “learning styles”: 1) constructionist 2) blended 3) self-paced “mentored” online learning 4) distance learning. Further analysis
activities will guide each participant to develop awareness on the different styles of web-based learning / teaching tools.

5. Programme of the training activities (Objectives)
• Preparation
• Prerequisites: knowledge of basic Windows 2000/ XP operating system; personal computer basic knowledge; office automation basic skills. The
course will be held at “La Sapienza" University and SMS “Piranesi” - Rome - Italy
• Objectives
• The course is organized in two modules, plus an on line verification and assistance during a period of six months post course. The 2 modules will be
taught during in the same days, one following the other. Usually is better to start with a theory session, opening the practice session in the second
part of the day.
1° Module: History and evolution of the web applications.
Objective: Learn how to select the right technology for you: old and new methods, old and new languages in the Web information and knowledge
sharing.
Objective: Learn how to organize the server infrastructure; selection and utilization of hardware and software instruments suitable for the publishing,
selection of hardware and software for a Workstation to produce web pages,
Objective: hypermedia and hypertestual communication elements; the multimedia project. Internet and WorldWideWeb server sites and portals.
Creation of a document with html, files and títles: “Eurodidaweb /Europaclub" of texts and of paragraphs, colours and back grounds and link
production.
2° Module: Applying all that competence. The project and realization of a WEB site: historical, artistic, and archaeological patrimony of the
participants’ regions. ASSESSMENT of the knowledge reached by participants.
Objective: Learn how to use methods, languages and tools to effectively produce a web portal.
Objective: Learn how manage information, documents, lay-out styles ; Learn how to organize anda manage user profiles, user rights, and
authentication
Objective: Learn how to provide feedback and training to your users/pupils
• Methodology
• The course is organized in two modules, plus an on line verification and assistance during a period of six months post course. The 2 modules will be
taught during in the same days, one following the other. Usually is better to start with a theory session, opening the practice session in the second
part of the day
• Follow-up
• Experts in hypermedia and in planning web pages for didactic purposes
•

6. Course Report Day 1
Lunedì – Monday: 14:30 - 18:00
14:00 Sapienza University – Faculty of Lettere and Filosofia,
Museo dell’Arte Classica
14:30 Digilab - Aula G Via dei Volsci 122
Participants self-introduction:
• My professional profile
• My job and my work context
• My country
16:30 Digilab – Aula G
• Self registration to the Plone Educational Site
http://eurodidaweb.comphumanities.org
• Filling in your profile notes into the Eurodidaweb site

7. Course Report Day 2
Martedì – Tuesday: h 14:00 - 18:00
Digilab - Sapienza University
• Theory: Some historic perspective, the Web through the end of 2th. millennium. A whole new
media, invented in 5 years. The years of the Web of Science. The Years of the Mass Web.
Where we are going from here? Illusions and poverty of the WorldWideWeb.
• Laboratory: learning and teaching HTML trough the Web: simulation environment; on-line courses
free and brilliant. What does it means today Web publishing. The Content Management System
evolution. A specific stack of software to manage Web Pages, Links, News, Events Documents,
Information and Knowledge.
• Theory: The semantic and multimedia Web: a tool to share knowledge, a tool of
cohesion: a powerful integration instruments for the European union and its peoples. A sight to the
future: exchanging knowledge among the European cultures.
• Laboratory: A first individual approach to the technological tools that will be used during the
course: The Zope/Plone stack, Moodle etc., an Open Source powerful yet easy Content
management platform. Hypermedia and hypertextual communication elements; planning the
multimedia project: our first web page with Plone: coping with HTML. Using the Wysywyg Editor.
Importing Documents from other programs.

8. Course Report Day 3
Mercoledì – Wednesday: h 14:00 - 18:00
Digilab - Sapienza University
• Theory: The concept of workflow: members, roles and rights tables and
workflow; local rights and global rights; document workflows;
creation, reviewing and publishing a resource. How to manage a group of
publishers, reviewers and members.
• Laboratory: Using multimedia source: samples of Plone sites with
multimedia contents. Heading forward Knowledge management:
archetypes schemata and functions; vocabulary management; use of
schedules form, construction download insertion, pictures and sound
insertion, pictures touching up

9. Course Report Day 4
Giovedì – Thursday: h 14:00 - 18:00
Digilab – Sapienza University
• Theory: The “Home on the Web” concept. Client side of my
Personal Knowledge Home. The usage of more and more
sophisticated Personal Productivity Tools (Lastpass, TabCloud,
Xmarks…). Server side of our Personal Knowledge Home. Plone, a
CMS perfectly suited as one of the best “aggregator tools suite”
• Laboratory: Team work site construction: “Europaclub/Eurodidaweb
site"; making a template for Plone or other; modifying the Style
Classes (CSS) to produce a personal layout. Images in a Plone site
or other with the internal upload facility; use of some simple
procedures written in a Plone site or other with the internal upload
facility.

10. Course Report Day 5
Venerdì – Friday: h 14:00 - 18:00
Digilab – Sapienza University
• Images in a Plone site or other with the internal upload facility; use
of some simple procedures written in a Plone site or other with the
internal upload facility.
• Laboratory: Team work site construction: “Europaclub/Eurodidaweb
site"; making a template for Plone or other; modifying the Style
Classes (CSS) to produce a personal layout. Images in a Plone site
or other with the internal upload facility; use of some simple
procedures written in a Plone site or other with the internal upload
facility.