Evolving to Ubiquitous Elearning Environments: a Collaborative Writing Scenario Pedro Pablo Sánchez...

Evolving to Ubiquitous Elearning Environments: a Collaborative Writing

Scenario

Pedro Pablo Sánchez VillalónManuel Ortega Asunción Sánchez Villalón

Grupo CHICO UCLMCiudad Real (Spain)

CLIP 2003, Firenze, Italy. 4-5 December, 2003

Pedro P Sánchez Villalón, Manuel Ortega, Asuncion Sánchez Villalón 2/18

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Contents

Introduction EC Directives Conventional Learning CALL

Objectives & Proposal (TELL) Evolution to the AULA System Methodology: Collaborative Writing User Interface: AULA eLearning Scenarios

Contribution


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EC Directives about Language Learning & ICT : Language Learning as preparation for the active use of

the language for communication e-Learning Program: ‘developing skills such as the

ability to communicate, to work in group, and to make use of the new technologies for all this’.

Introduction (I)

European Community Directives

“Ability to Communicate”

Skill-based Information Exchange

“Work in group”

Communication through

Collaboration

“Use of ICT”

Technology-Enhanced Language Learning


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Introduction (II)

Conventional Learning Environments Active Skills in

Conventional Language Learning

Speaking:Face-to-face Communication(Pair work, conversations)

Writing:Writing exams, exercises, letters (rarely) no interactive activities

Conventional Learning Environment

Inside the Classroom,Books (textbooks, workbooks, notebooks)BlackboardPen & paper


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CALL Environment: Physical environment: Hardware

ComputerLabs full of DesktopPC,

Software in CD-ROMs:Grammar exercises &Practice of Phonetics

Interaction only with the computer

Improvement:Access to Information

Introduction (III)

Adaptation to CALL Use of Computer-based

Tools Printed material

Digitized Activities

Drill and practice tutorials Repetition & simulation

Delivery of contents Not very active use

for communicationin Writing & Speaking

Improvement:Self-assessment

Computers = an optional tool to assist the language learning processResult: No real communication, students work in isolation


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Objectives & Proposal

Technology-Enhanced Language eLearning

TELL eLearning Interaction A System which provides:

Active Use of Language for Communication

Real skill-based Collaboration

Real Web-based tools to access information (e-Accessibility) and to communicate (ICT & Language Integration)

TELL eLearning environmentenabling :

communication anywhere (Mobility or M-Learning).

communication both in real time & at any time(Life-long Learning)

pervasive access to the system, to information & to ICT tools (Ubiquity)electronic Whiteboard,e-notebooks, the Web

Objective: evolution to meet the new needs and possibilities of the Information Society, from school to university to life-long learning

Learning by communicating easily & actively anywhere anytime.


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Conventional Classroom

Blackboard

BooksPen & paper

Ubiquitous Classroom (TELL)

Whiteboards: Mimio™ WhiteBoard.

Connections: Wireless Connection

between the computing devices and to the Internet:

RF IR (IrDA standard)

A Web-based Server.

Computing devices : Laptop, PDA o Tablet

PC.

Classroom Evolution Computers Language

Lab (CALL)

Whiteboard: Whiteboard or Screen

with Projector.

Connections: LANs with an Internet

connection

A Intranet Server.

Computing devices : Desktop PC


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AULA Foundations Web-based learning by communicating

by collaboratively writing in a ubiquitous environment.

AULA (A Ubiquitous Language Appliance) Infrastructure. TELL e-Learning Environment Active Skill: Collaborative Writing

Technique: Writing texts in group Sample Scenario: The AULA Newspaper Activity: Writing news items for an online newspaper. Pedagogical innovation: Writing evolves from a

evaluation technique to a learning technique based on a social activity.


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Methodology (I) Collaborative writing process

Planning: (1st stage) The teacher establishes a

Scenario (e.g., an online newspaper, a travel brochure, films reviews, etc.)

The participants propose titles for the documents.

The participants generate ideas by brainstorming in the documents.

outlining freewriting


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Methodology (II) Collaborative writing process.

Development (2nd stage) Discussion session on the ideas

proposed. with the communication tool

The Chat facility Writing the notes into sentences& organizing them into paragraphs

with language tools: Lexical tools

(Dictionaries and Lexicon). A grammar analyser. Access to information online


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Methodology (III) Collaborative writing process.

Edition (3rd stage):

Revision and final edition. Collaborative correction.

Using both the chat & the language tools

Teacher’s assessment: Analysis of students’

trace file Analysis of the chat file

of every document.


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User InterfaceScenario: Online Newspaper

Figure 3

List of Scenario Items


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User InterfaceThe Reading Area.

The Reading Workspace


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User InterfaceThe Writing Area

The Writing Workspace


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User InterfaceWhiteBoard Screen


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User InterfaceThe Tools & Help Area

Language Tool (Lexicon) Communication Tool (Chat) HelpAdaptable to other languages

Adaptable to other dictionaries

local,internal/external Web-based

Synchronous

Asynchronous

HTML file


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Implementation

CGI Perl y Dynamic HTML on the Web for Laptop PC and TabletPC.

Java y Visual C++ for PDA. (Microsoft Embedded Tools)


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Contributions to eLearning Applied to English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

Easily applicable to any language (Flexible)

In an apparently conventional classroom

Taking notes and writing in their electronic notebooks

Paying attention to the WhiteBoard and to the teacher

Evolving to a collaborative ubiquitous classroom

Development of the Collaborative Writing Process

Scenario-based eLearning : The AULA Newspaper

Evolving to Ubiquitous Elearning Environments: a Collaborative Writing

Scenario

Pedro P. Sánchez Villaló[email protected] Manuel [email protected] Sánchez Villalón http://chico.inf-cr.uclm.es/ppsv/aula.html

Grupo CHICOComputer-Human Interaction &

Collaboration UCLM - Ciudad Real (Spain)

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