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GLOBAL excursionJ. Quemada, E. Barra

2 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - WP2

What is an Excursion? An excursion is a short trip by a group of people

focused on a given topic (scientific, cultural, etc.) attractive to them, usually made for leisure, education or physical purposes Active and participatory

Some features: Must be prepared in advance

by teacher or tutor participants shall acquire related knowledge in advance

to maximize benefit. Parents/tutor consent mandatory Excursions should be instructive and pedagogic Excursions should enable further related activities


What is a Virtual Excursion? A virtual excursion is a tour through a digital world by a

group of people focused on a given topic (scientific, cultural, etc.) attractive to them, made for leisure and education purposes. Active and participatory : social and collaborative

technologies.

Some features Must be prepared in advance

by teacher or tutor participants shall acquire related knowledge in advance

to maximize benefit. Personalization possible

Digital access to e-infrastructures must exist Proper security and privacy must be ensured Excursions should be instructive and pedagogic Excursions should enable further related activities


Scientific resources and Virtual Excursions

Scientific institutions provide “Scientific Learning Resources” Real-time access to e-infrastructures

Doñana park, Microscopes in Cambrige & Zaragoza, Renderfarm in Budapest

Blogs, Ideas forum, Q&A, Videos, video-snippets, screencasts, ....

The Internet Huge pool of learning resources

Virtual excursion Tour in a digital world created by integrating those

resources In a pedagogical path with a given learning objective

in bio/nano-tecnology, biology, renewable energy, ..

ViSH ViSH: Virtual Science Hub

A site for teachers and scientist to: Perform virtual excursions to scientific institutions

Virtual meetings for classrooms to visit sci. institution Classroom presentation of e-infrastructures

With scientific multimedia learning resource

Share scientific learning resources Find the most successfull resources

Collaborate in scientific learning resource creation Collaborative multimedia resource creation

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ViSH: Social Network

ViSH integrates teachers and scientists in a social network To receive recommendations of most successful

resources To follow activities performed by others (Twitter like)

Activities: excursions and resources created or run, To see who others follow and who follows them To send messages to other ViSH members

Students do not need to register in the ViSH They can only answer questionnaires passed by

teachers


Types of Virtual Excursion

Presentations Designed to be used in the classroom

Learning path along a series of scientific learning resources

Three types of content Integration of Web resources into a page Integration using a flashcard or game metaphor Questionnaires: multiple-choice or open-ended

questions

Virtual meetings Real-time session with audio/video/data conferencing

Objective bring scientific institutions to the classroom Scientists, real experiments, etc


Tools Social Stream (http://demo-social-

stream.dit.upm.es) Social networking features. Social network federation. Open software (https://github.com/ging/social_stream)

MashMe.tv (http://www.mashme.tv) Videoconference, chat, content presentation…

Mashed up together in a real-time collaborative session Based on HTML5

Some Flash still there

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MashMeTMashMeTvv

https://github.com/ging/social_stream

http://www.mashme.tv/

ViSH

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Teacher/scientist home


Teacher/scientist profile


Repository

Messages

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Virtual excursion

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Virtual excursion (fullscreen)

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Questionnaire

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Thank you

Questions??

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