european learning resource community lemill
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Presentation in conference "Digital learning resources in educational practice", Brno, Czech Republic. 7 February 2008.TRANSCRIPT
European learning resource community LeMill
Hans PõldojaTarmo Toikkanen
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What is LeMill?
• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources
• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE
• Learning Mill
Designed for teachers
• Scenarios
• Design sessions
• User stories
• Prototypes
Design session results
• Teachers are looking for something else than raw text material
• Learning resources can be divided to content, activities and tools
Learning resources
Web page
Presentation
PILOT
Exercise
Progressive inquiry
Advanced editing features
Embedding
• YouTube
• Google Video
• Google Maps
• SlideShare
• ...
Media pieces
References
Simple licensing scheme
• All resources created in LeMill are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license
• Media pieces can be also under Creative Commons Attribution license, GNU Free Documentation License or in Public Domain
More than content
• Methods
• Tools
• Collections
• Teaching and learning stories
LeMill as a social software
• Linking people by location, skills and interests
• Groups for collaborative authoring
• Group forums
LeMill in numbers
Members
0
500
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4 5 6 10 15 16 26 26 38 49 52 57 65 71 73 81 89 117 147 155
11 27 30 40 65 97173 173
241
344396
450524
597 618695
798
1137
1500
1720
Switzerland1
Venezuela1
Turkey1
Australia1
Peru1
France1
United Kingdom2
Romania2
Brazil2
Netherlands2
Germany2
Norway2
Cyprus3
Greece3
Colombia3
China3
Slovenia5
United States6
Italy6
Canada7
Belgium8
Spain17
Poland23
Austria29
Czech Republic35Finland
40Lithuania58
Georgia64
Hungary99
Estonia305
No country specified1047
No country specifiedEstoniaHungaryGeorgiaLithuaniaFinlandCzech RepublicAustriaPolandSpainBelgiumCanadaItalyUnited StatesSloveniaChinaColombiaGreeceCyprusNorwayGermanyNetherlandsBrazilRomaniaUnited KingdomFrancePeruAustraliaTurkeyVenezuelaSwitzerland
Visitors from Czech Republic
Web pages
0
175
350
525
700
1 2 2 6 8 13 16 16
49
95117
161
190213
259276
290
373
595
657
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nl3
pl4
ru4
fi5
de8
lt16
sv20hu
31
ka71
en101
cs105
et224
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Collections
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54
7081
98108
118
147160
212
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nl1
da2
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Other resources
PILOTsExercisesMethodsPresentationsToolsReferencesForum threads
LeMill competition in Estonia
LeMill competition in Estonia
• Organized by Tiger Leap Foundation in November–December 2007
• 32 teachers submitted their teaching and learning stories
• Two first prizes: “Pronaunciation of r-letter” and “Media”
Future plans
Future plans
• lemill.net will continue to be a free service after the end of CALIBRATE
• The development will continue and feedback is welcome
• New features: Powerpoint and Word import, personalized homepage
• ...
