klascement: educational social network with oer content
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Paper for TIES2012 in Barcelona 3rd February 2012TRANSCRIPT
www.klascement.net
Presentation #TIES2012Hans De Four
@dj4am - [email protected]
Porta l for Educati onSoc ia l Network for Teachers
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Agenda
• Introduction
KlasCement
• KlasCement.net
Online presentation
Questions and answers
www.klascement.net
Exchanging learning objects and good practices.User generated & Professionally produced
Stimulating cooperation between stakeholders in education: teachers, schools, organisations, publishers, …Knowledge sharing & Communication
Don’t reinvent the wheelKlasCement : Portal for Education 3
Target group
All functions (18+) Teachers ICT coordinators Headmasters Students of teachers training institutes Pedagogical counsellors, inspection...
All educational types Kindergarten Primary education Secondary education Higher education Adult education
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History
1998: first steps2002: support of Ministry of Education2007: non-profit organisation2010: subdomains + translation
Overall portal: KlasCement.netFlanders: KlasCement.beThe Netherlands: KlasCement.nlEurope: KlasCement.eu
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Some numbers
67 250 unique users – 100% active – 2/3 female– 58 000 Belgium, 8 000 Netherlands, 1000 Europe– Flanders: 33% of all teachers
(50% of all teachers Special Education)
7% is sharing – 2/3 male 26 350 learning objects – 75% user generated – 30 new items per school day
5 000 - 7 000 unique visitors per schooldayKlasCement : Portal for Education 6
Learning objects (February 2012)
Calendar : activities 1900 Articles : information, thoughts 1100 Documents : lessons, manuals, courses 10300 Sites : educational websites 3700 Ware : useful hardware and software 700 i-Exercises : interactive online exercises 5500 Audio : sound, music, stories 400 Images : pictures, diagrams 1600 Video : information, educational 1200
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What can members do? With learning resources– Search – View – Download – Reuse – Comment, give ratings– Collect in favourites– Share (Email, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, …)– Print– Add !
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What can members do?
With members– Search – View profile– Add to your friends– View contributions, favourites, scores– Connect• Personal messages• Email
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Extra on KlasCement
Project sites– Languages, ICT, special care, Thinkquest, digital
whiteboards … Forum Newsletters RSS Themes Polls …
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Points
System to motivate teachers to add and share 1000 point at registration - 2 when viewing a contribution + when adding contributions (e.g. +70 for docs) + when giving ratings, comments… + when contributing at the forum + birthday
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Quality
Moderation– IEEE-LOM Metadata: title, keywords, subject …– Extra metadata: pedagogical context, theme …– Content: no spelling mistakes, trustworthy,
curriculum related, immediately useful … – Copyright violation– Not pedagogical !– -> Approve or disapprove
Crowd sourcing– Reviews, comments, ratings…
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Success
Bottom up User generated Quality (moderation) Encouraging and engaging users From teachers / For teachers. KC is their portal. Keep it simple Communicate with users
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Agenda
• Introduction
KlasCement
• KlasCement.net
Online presentation
Questions and answers
Start
View all contributions
Searching
Registration
Viewing a document (1/3)
Viewing a document (2/3)
Viewing a document (3/3)
Viewing a video
Video storyboard
Calendar
Adding a contribution (1/3)
Adding a contribution (2/3)
Adding a contribution (3/3)
View members
Profile
Points
Forum: overview
Forum : message
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Agenda
• Introduction
KlasCement
• KlasCement.net
Online presentation
Questions and answers
21/04/2011
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Welcome at …
21/04/2011
Thank you !@dj4am [email protected]
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