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eTwinning PDW in Helsinki
Nov 13 2010 Digital Resources - workshop (eQnet project)
Dr. Riina Vuorikari, EUN and the eQnet project partners
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• Surname: Vuorikari [vuori-kari]
• From Finland, lives in Brussels
• Background: school teacher
• Studied hypermedia and internet in Paris
• Working in European Schoolnet since 2000
• Gets into “flow” when talking about technology enhanced
learning ;)
Riina who?
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• Introduction to digital resources (10 min - Riina)
– Examples of classroom use (20 min - Teija)
• Can learning resources be used across borders?
– Hands on examples 1 (20 min - Gunstein)
– Hands on examples 2 (20 min - Lithuanian teachers’ team)
• Building eTwinning projects around digital resources
– Brain storming, ideas exchange, presentation ( 30 min - all)
Agenda
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All material available at: www.eqnet.eun.org
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• Text books and exercise material
• Reference material, school libraries and other “memory organisations”
• Teachers create resources themselves
• Teachers use any object or piece of content
They all exist in digital format now!They all exist in digital format now!
• What is so special about digital?
• Once it’s produced, creating multiple copies is easy;
• Handy to edit and modify
• Sharing over multiple devises is easy
Introduction to learning resources
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Context: European Schoolnet (EUN)
• 31 Ministries of Education (MoE) in Europe
• Created in 1997
• Major European education portals for learning resources, collaboration and skills
• Leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology
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A variety of learning resourcesInstitutional sources (e.g. Ministry of education, university)
Community driven content
Teacher-created content
Commercial (e.g. text book publishers) and public resources (e.g. libraries, museums)
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• Educational use in motivated amount is permitted (fair use)
• You need author’s agreement to distribute, adapt or translate the resource
But can I just use it? a few words about copyright
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Different licence schemes - different permissions
• Open content describes any kind of creative work
published in a format that explicitly allows copying
and modifying of its information by anyone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content)
• Different schemes, Creative Commons is recommended!
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http://creativecommons.org/
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1. FINDING and USING content made easy thanks to the variety of services
2. SHARE: Sharing of content is made MUCH easier, thanks to handy ways of aggregating content
3. REMIX of content is made easier thanks to easy and freely available software and licensing like Creative Commons
4. CREATE: Easy creation of content by everyone
• not only the ones who have the technical knowledge
• many tools available on the Web for anyone to use for free
Advantages of social media for teachers
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http://dotsub.com/view/f810c5b5-b8dc-4946-a58f-5f7ce7ce4d44
Video on social media
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Thank you! Kiitos!
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