Workshop5 Intro

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

eTwinning & Educational ResourcesJean-Noël Colin

European Schoolnet

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Agenda

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Agenda• The Learning Resource Exchange

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Agenda• The Learning Resource Exchange

Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

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

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

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

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 LeMillHans Poldoja, Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

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 LeMillHans Poldoja, Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University

• What’s next?

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

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 LeMillHans 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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s next?

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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

eTwinning Conference – “Promoting Intercultural Dialogue - March 14-16, 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Thank you!