Presentation of the project

Presentation of the project Athens 27 February 2006

Welcome! Sofoklis Sotiriou, Anna Zoakou, Evi Chryssafidou, Pavlos Koulouris

Agenda • Beginning of the meeting • Introduction and goals of the meeting • Brief introductions by partners • Presentation of work packages • Reflection and exchange process • Working groups – round tables • Scenario-based design • Pedagogical and technological issues • Implementation in school environment • Evaluation and Validation • Workshops (tomorrow) • Conclusions and administrative issues (01.03.06)

Agenda

Project dinner

Agenda • Beginning of the meeting • Introduction and goals of the meeting • Brief introductions by partners • Presentation of work packages • Reflection and exchange process

Goals of the meeting 27/2/06 • Ensure and share a common understanding of the COLLAGE objectives and goals • Work with learning scenarios in order to understand how each partner’s work fits into the overall picture • Get to know each other’s competences and background • Discuss in the panel the issues raised during the round table discussion • Initiate the reflection and exchange process

Round tables (11:30 -12:15) Room 1: • Pedagogical framework: • WP1: Development of the COLLAGE pedagogical framework • BfBWK (AT), UoB (ES), Nesta (UK), Växjö (SE) Room 2: • Implementation in school environment • WP3: Implementation and test of the COLLAGE pedagogical framework • EA (GR), VBC (DK),BGS (AT), Forthnet (GR), MIKSIKE (EE)

Round tables (12:15 -13:00) Room 1: • Technological framework • WP2: Adaptation and integration of the COLLAGE technologies • Forthnet (GR),MIKSIKE (EE)Nesta (UK), Växjö (SE) Room 2: • Evaluation – Validation • WP4 Pedagogical evaluation of the COLLAGE service • BfBWK (AT), UoB (ES),EA (GR), VBC (DK),BGS (AT) • WP5 Validation of the COLLAGE case studies • BfBWK (AT), UoB (ES),EA (GR), VBC (DK),BGS (AT)

Goals of the meeting 28/2/06 • Pedagogical and technological workshops • Take the reflection and exchange process a step further • Identifying existing applications of mobile learning that could be implemented in schools

Goals of the meeting 1/3/06 • How are we going to combine the pedagogical needs and technological platform? • Address issues • What is the pedagogical need that needs to be addressed? • What is ‘innovative state-of-the art application’ for us, the COLLAGE consortium? • Financial and administrative issues • Leave the meeting with a checklist of things to be done

Overall objective of the project COLLAGE aims at: using existing experiences in the field of mobile learning applications in Europe, so that existing best practices are integrated in an innovative, really state-of-the-art mobile learning support and information application.

More specific objectives • innovative, more flexible approach to e-learning, • a rich pattern of integrated formal, non-formal and informal learning spaces (learning at school, in museums and sites of interest, at home, in the street, during travelling, etc.), • integration of a blend of technologies (laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, the Internet) into a single learning-supporting and learning-enhancing environment. • development of a new ‘everywhere-learning’ and ‘lifelong-learning’ culture among secondary school students, • No barriers between school activities and everyday life, and that learning is related to life in general rather only to schooling.

Learning everywhere • History Education: a visit to Acropolis • students get information (drawings, historical events, etc) about the monument • the history teacher has uploaded information to the database earlier • students capture moments of their visit with the camera of the device • students upload photos for future reference.

Learning in a playful way • Students visit the • Benaki museum: • they take pictures and notes • they participate in several games, e.g. treasure hunting • they communicate with the class mates who did not attend the visit.

Means for achieving the project’s goals • The integration of existing best practices into the design and development of a pedagogical framework for the effective integration of e-learning into the school environment • The adoption and integration of existing technologies into an innovative COLLAGE platform for mobile learning

Means for achieving the project’s goals • The implementation and test of the COLLAGE learning support and information service with secondary school students and their teachers • The pedagogical evaluation of the COLLAGE project • The validation of the best practices of the COLLAGE project at a European level • The dissemination of the project, the exploitation of its potential for further development

Target groups of the project: Direct target group: • Secondary school students (12- 16 years old) • Secondary school teachers Indirect target groups: • Parents • education policy makers • technology developers • general public

The partners • Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Greece) • Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur (Austria) • Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Schwechat (Austria) • Vejle Business College (Denmark) • MIKSIKE LearningFolders (Estonia) • Forthnet (Greece) • University of Barcelona (Spain) • Växjö universitet – CeLeKT (Sweden) • Nesta FutureLab (UK)

Project partners

Agenda • Beginning of the meeting • Introduction and goals of the meeting • Brief introductions by partners • Presentation of work packages • Reflection and exchange process

The partners • Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Greece) • Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur (Austria) • Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Schwechat (Austria) • Vejle Business College (Denmark) • MIKSIKE LearningFolders (Estonia) • Forthnet (Greece) • University of Barcelona (Spain) • Växjö universitet – CeLeKT (Sweden) • Nesta FutureLab (UK)

Presentation of the project