www.klascement.net

Presentation #TIES2012Hans De Four

@dj4am - hans@klascement.net

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

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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

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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 hans@klascement.net

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