SCY Training Workshop Format and Material DXI.1 Authors Olia Tsivitanidou (UCY), Tasos Hovardas...

SCY Training Workshop Format and Material DXI.1 Authors Olia Tsivitanidou (UCY), Tasos Hovardas (UCY), Zacharias Zacharia (UCY), Constantinos Manoli (UCY), Alex Verkade (PRAK), Yuri Matteman (PRAK), Jo Dugstad Wake (UiB), Cecilie Hansen (UiB), Barbara Wasson (UiB), Isabelle Girault (UJF), Rachel Julien (UJF), Patricia Marzin (UJF), Jaanika Pikst (UTE), Margus Pedaste (UTE), Jakob Sikken (UT), Adam Giemza (UDE), Jan Engler (UDE), Jony Heerink (ST) Science Created by You (SCY) (Project number IST-212814) Date: 09-05-2012 Dissemination level: 2012, SCY consortium X PUPublic PPRestricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RERestricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) COConfidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)

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Executive summary This deliverable includes the material (PowerPoint presentation) to be used for teacher training. This material provides an insight to teachers about what is SCY and SCYLab about. Specifically, information is presented about the pedagogical scenarios, ELOs and missions involved in the SCYLab, as well as a brief introduction to the SCYLab learning environment it self (e.g., tools, resources). Moreover, information is provided about teaching with SCY (e.g., when and how to use SCY, Characteristics and requirements of SCY in the classroom) and how to become a member of the SCY community and benefit from it. Additionally, some important technical tips are provided so a teacher that is interested in SCYLab is able to start with its implementation. Finally, this training material introduces the teachers to the SCY mini-mission, which aims at familiarizing them with SCYLab.

Preface This document includes the material to be used in a workshop for training teachers involved with the implementation of SCY-Lab and its missions in schools. This material is designed for teachers interested in technology enhanced learning and requires only basic computer knowledge and skills (e.g., surfing the Web, using word processing software). The goal is to start from the very beginnings of SCY-Lab both at a theoretical and a practical level. The content and structure of the training material, and thus the workshop format, was created through an itinerary research process that involved teachers from different countries and of varying years of experience. Specifically, the first training material version, which was created within the SCY development community, was presented to about 130 in-service teachers through training workshops (pilot studies) at different countries (mainly in Cyprus and Estonia). Data were collected across all teachers of all pilot studies through the use of a questionnaire and an interview over the period of two years. The data of each pilot study were analyzed and used for revising the training material. It took three cycles of pilot testing to reach to the training material included in this document. In particular, the first cycle of pilot studies was conducted in Cyprus. We implemented the first version of the training material, which was developed in the SCY community, in two workshops with 36 in-service teachers of varying years of experience (from 1 year of experience through 24 years of experience).

Data were collected across all teachers through the use of a questionnaire and an interview. The data analysis revealed a series of changes that had to be made. Specifically, the teachers requested that: the introductory theoretical part should be short. the level of detail should be reduced. the practical (hands-on) part should be much earlier in the workshop. the emphasis should be on the practical side of the workshop. the SCY mission used must be short, so that the learners can complete it (teachers were looking for closure). the workshop should not take more than 45 minutes. these is no need to present all the SCY tools (criterion: ease of use). Given these outcomes, we proceeded with major changes to the training material, which resulted in a workshop format that combines both theory and practice (see Figure 1). The second and third cycles of pilot studies, which involved 70 in-service teachers (24 from Cyprus and 46 from Estonia; all with varying years of experience) and 22 in-service teachers (from Cyprus and with varying years of experience) respectively, revealed that the revised training material satisfied the teachers needs and met their expectations. Preface

The latest version of the training material, which is the one that follows this preface, consists of three parts. It starts with a brief theoretical part, then it proceeds with a practical implementation and it ends with a more detailed theoretical part (see Figure 1). Figure 1: The content and structure of the training material of SCY-Lab The first part of the workshop is a brief introductory part to SCY-Lab. It focuses on what is SCY and SCY-lab and why using SCY-lab. For the purposes of the latter the emphasis is on the added value that SCY-Lab brings into a learning situation, such as monitoring and scaffolding student learning. The second part of the workshop focuses on practically experiencing SCY-Lab and getting a sense of what a SCY mission (teaching material) is about. In particular, the trainees are instructed to create user accounts and then run the SCY mini mission, titled Run for your life. In doing so, the trainees get a feeling of the SCY-Lab components (e.g., Learning Activity Spaces, Emerging Learning Objects, SCY-Lab tools) and an overview of a SCY mission. Preface

The third part of the workshop returns back to the theoretical underpinnings of SCY. It includes information that is essential for teachers when using SCY-Lab (e.g., resources for teachers, information on the authoring tool, SCY teacher forums), information about all of the SCY-Lab tools, technical information about getting the SCY-Lab running and information about the steps a teacher must follow to prepare SCY-Lab for student use. The duration of a workshop making use of the training material included in this document is about 90 minutes. This could vary, though, if the number of tools presented in the third part of the training material is reduced. It is suggested to present only the tools involved in the mission or missions to be implemented. Hope you have a pleasant experience with SCY-Lab! The SCY Development Group Preface

SCY Training Material Welcome to SCY - What is SCY? Why SCY-Lab? The SCY-Lab learning environment SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life! Experiencing SCY-Lab Overview of a SCY mission: A healthy pizza mission

SCY Training Material SCY for Teachers SCY-Lab features for teachers SCY Authoring SCY-Lab Tools Technical tips about SCY-Lab Getting started Who we are

Welcome to SCY What is SCY? SCY is pronounced as sky and is short for Science Created by You. didacticaltechnical SCY is a project that aims to innovate Science Education in both didactical and technical aspects: Learning is centered around the creation of artifacts, which we call Emerging Learning Objects (ELOs), in theoretically grounded learning schemes called scenarios SCY SCY-Lab SCY-Lab is a flexible, adaptive and open-ended digital learning environment.

Why SCY-Lab? Inquiry Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.Grounded in Inquiry and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. (SCY missions)It includes learning material (SCY missions) that are highly relevant to students lives and interests. As a learning environnent: It is easy to install and to use It allows a great flexibility both to the teachers and the learners (e.g., multiple learning resources and open-ended tools) It includes a number of tools that usually do not exist in a single learning environment It supports students learning through cognitive and social scaffolds It offers the teachers the opportunity to monitor student behavior and adapt the environment

Why SCY-Lab? Monitoring student behavior Student actions and other parameters that could convey important information are logged and processed. For example, SCY-Lab keeps track of the time spent in assignments and helps the teacher assess the quality of produced ELOs, but it is also able to analyze written text.

Why SCY-Lab? Adaptive learning environment Using the collected information, the system can act upon the learners behavior. For example, it may adapt to the students learning process by offering more, less or different instruction in an assignment; it may introduce the student to another student in order to collaborate or discuss; or it may inform the teacher when there is a problem.

Why SCY-Lab? Adaptive learning environment In SCY-Lab, the teacher has the opportunity to adapt the scaffolding settings of the system to a specific classroom situation or educational strategy. For instance, a teacher might want SCY-Lab to provide maximum scaffolding in case students have never worked independently before.

Why SCY-Lab? Overall, students engage in missions guided by a general social problem use tools to create ELOs as milestones during their mission share ELOs to enhance collaborative learning and facilitate debate become actors in their learning process going freely through SCY-Lab: Science Created by Students

The SCY-Lab learning environment First create a new SCY account

The SCY-Lab learning environment To create a new teacher account click here To create a new student account click here

The SCY-Lab learning environment Fill in the fields to create your account as teachers Fill in the fields to create your account as student

The SCY-Lab learning environment Enter your username and password

SCY-Lab Select a mission The SCY-Lab learning environment

SCY Missions In the SCY project, we have developed the following missions: Run for your life!(mini tutorial mission) Design a CO2-friendly house ECO mission A healthy pizza Forensic mission Using the SCY authoring tools, the teacher can tweak these missions to fit his own specific situation. The SCY-Lab learning environment

SCY-Lab Selecting the tutorial mission The SCY-Lab learning environment

SCY-Lab Select Start SCY-Lab The SCY-Lab learning environment

SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life! A SCY-Demonstrator tutorial has been developed and is available for getting used to working with SCY-lab. This demonstrator is a mini-mission called Run For Your Life! - an actual mission, but much smaller. It only takes 1 hour to do this mini-mission. When working in Run For Your Life!, students and teachers get introduced to most SCY-features. In Run For Your Life! learners are introduced to the effects of energy drinks. Run for your life! video Run for your life! video

The challenge is as follows: SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life!

SCY-Lab 1. Once in a LAS, a drop-down curtain provides some basic instructions LAS curtain 1. The curtain can be retraced using the curtain handle SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life!

SCY-Lab Mission map 1. The mission starts with the mission-map to guide you through the process SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life! Mission map/navigation The mission map is the entrance to a SCY Mission. This mission map is the first thing you see when you login. Using the mission map, students can navigate through the mission. In the mission map, there are a number of icons. These icons represent coherent sets of activities, so-called learning activity spaces (LASs). All ELOs are produced within such spaces.

SCY-Lab LAS Information window 1. When placing your cursor over a LAS 2. a pop-up window will provide some information about the LAS Close mission-map SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life!

SCY-Lab SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life! 1. Once in a LAS, a drop-down curtain provides some basic instructions 2. The curtain can be retraced using the curtain handle

SCY-Lab SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life! Mission map and Information curtain video Mission map and Information curtain video

SCY-Lab SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life! The SCY-Lab digital learning environment provides the look and feel of a computer desktop. Using SCY-Lab, students can navigate through a mission open assignments browse through previously made ELOs use tools to make new ELOs communicate with fellow students

SCY-Lab Inside a LAS Feedback buttons E-Portfolio button Return to the mission- map by double clicking on the button bellow Search for ELOs button Create new ELO button Remove ELO button Once the curtain is retraced, the students can start working on the ELOs. Double click to open. The curtain can be re- opened by clicking on the curtain handle SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life!

In a learning activity space, a student works by opening ELOs, working in them and saving them. A student can always make more ELOs, search for older ELOs or throw obsolete ELOs away. ELOs can be shared between peers. SCY-Demonstrator: Working with ELOs SCY- Demonstrator video SCY- Demonstrator video

Experiencing SCY-Lab It is time to experience SCY-Lab! Create an account and log into SCY-Lab Select the mission: Run for your life! Use the mission map to move around Enjoy!

Overview of a SCY mission: A healthy pizza mission This mission aims at actively engaging students in the right choice of food products offered by their schools canteen or cafeteria. Students are assigned to create a healthy pizza while considering the nutritional value of the ingredients, diet- related health issues and the human digestive system, and daily exercise.

The activity sequence of the learning material requires from students to pass through several steps and create 31 learner objects (ELOs) These ELOs are all created through SCY-Labs tools and are stored in the SCY-Lab platform. The final target of this mission was to create a healthy pizza. Overview of a SCY mission: A healthy pizza mission

1. The mission starts with the mission-map to guide you through the process 2. You begin the mission by selecting a LAS to work on Reflection LAS Built LAS Conceptualization 3 LAS Experiment LAS Design LAS Conceptualization 1 LAS Information LAS Overview of a SCY mission: A healthy pizza mission Mission map

1. When placing your cursor over a LAS 2. a pop-up window will provide some information about the LAS Close mission-map LAS Information window Overview of a SCY mission: A healthy pizza mission

1. Once in a LAS, a drop-down curtain provides some basic instructions 2. The curtain can be retraced using the curtain handle LAS curtain Overview of a SCY mission: A healthy pizza mission

Feedback buttons E-Portfolio button Return to the mission- map by double clicking on the button bellow Search for ELOs button Create new ELO button Remove ELO button Once the curtain is retraced, the students can start working on the ELOs. Double click to open. The curtain can be re- opened by clicking on the curtain handle Inside a LAS A healthy pizza mission: Working with pizza ELOs

Minimize Center Maximize Information drawers Connect two ELOs together Rotate ELO Stretch ELO Open ELO A healthy pizza mission: Working with pizza ELOs

Other ELOs Opened information drawer Intermediate/ anchor ELO A healthy pizza mission: Working with pizza ELOs

Inside a LAS Feedback buttons E-Portfolio button Return to the mission- map by double clicking on the button bellow Search for ELOs button Create new ELO button Remove ELO button Once the curtain is retraced, the students can start working on the ELOs. Double click to open. The curtain can be re- opened by clicking on the curtain handle Overview of a SCY mission: A healthy pizza mission

Feedback and e-portfolio Teachers and students have an online SCY portal page outside (but linked to) SCY-Lab. There they may work on their portfolios and give and receive feedback among each other. From any learning activity space, students can navigate to their own online portfolio and to the feedback tool. Overview of a SCY mission

SCY for Teachers The SCY developers have created material for the teacher which could be found at http://scy-net.eu/web/scycom/what- is-scy.http://scy-net.eu/web/scycom/what- is-scy On this site, you can: access all information about SCY that a teacher would need, such as information about the missions upload, download and comment on educational materials; chat and meet with colleagues and with other users; communicate with peers on the forum; On SCY for Teachers you can also find: Teachers and technical manual News about updated versions of SCY-Lab Join the SCY community!

SCY-Lab features for teachers Portal page As a teacher, you may log into the SCY portal page (http://scy-review.collide.info:8080/webapp.)http://scy-review.collide.info:8080/webapp Here, you may create a new mission based on one of the missions, or select an existing mission. You may also edit your personal profile and browse the profiles of other members.

SCY-Lab features for teachers: Authoring In the authoring part of SCY-Lab, referred to as SCYAuthor, teachers may tweak SCY missions to fit specific needs, by setting parameters, such as the availability of specific scaffolds. All authoring is done online, outside SCY-Lab, through the SCY portal page on http://scy-review.collide.info:8080/webapp.http://scy-review.collide.info:8080/webapp The authoring part is referred to below as the SCYAuthor tool.

SCYAuthor With SCYAuthor, the teacher may to fine-tune a mission and obtain a real-time overview of activities in SCY-Lab as students carry out a Mission. SCYAuthor has two views: SCYAuthor Fine-tune and SCYAuthor Runtime.

The teacher uses the SCYAuthor to: Create accounts for students and Assign students to a Mission (see figure)

SCYAuthor The teacher uses the SCYAuthor to: Select/specify the default learning goals, criteria and reflecting questions for a Mission Specify which ELOs are required in the students ePortfolios Adjust scaffolding levels (level of help) etc

SCYAuthor During the Mission teachers can: Define a group of students Adjust parameters of the agents Adjust tool specific parameters of agents Adjust scaffolding level View runtime status information Author reflection questions for ELOs SCYAuthor video SCYAuthor video

Tools support cognitive and social processes (transformative, regulative, collaborative), according to SCY scenarios and pedagogical plans, by enabling certain activities and providing support with agents. Data collection tools Modelling tools Planning tools Tools for assessment and reflection Visualization tools SCY-Lab tools

SCYInterview tool The SCY-Interview tool helps learners to design a good interview. There are two stages in this process. During the first stage, the tool helps learners to prepare the interview where as the second helps them conduct the interview. SCYInterview tool video SCYInterview tool video

SCYMapper tool SCYMapper creates concept maps representing ideas as nodes and the relationship between these ideas as links. SCYMapper is useful for note taking, new knowledge creation, idea generation, working out complex concepts and arguments, and creating shared understandings (when used collaboratively). SCYMapper tool video SCYMapper tool video

SCYED (Experimental Design) tool This tool is an editor that allows learners to write down experimental procedures as task trees. The experiments described with this tool are related to a question that the experiments aim to answer. SCYED tool video SCYED tool video

SCYData (Fitex) tool The data processing tool enables students to process and visualize numerical data sets. SCYData tool video SCYData tool video

SCYDynamics (Modeling) tool SCYDynamics is a modeling tool that helps create and simulate graph-based models of complex problems and phenomena. SCYDynamics tool video SCYDynamics tool video

SCYUploader tool SCYUploader enables students to import external files into SCY-Lab as ELOS. The tool has two main functions: import an external file as an ELO in SCY-Lab and export an ELO as an external file. SCYUploader tool video SCYUploader tool video

SCYePortfolio tool The SCYePortfolio tool is used to save ELOs and build a mission portfolio (i.e., a collection of obligatory ELOs) to be assessed by the teacher. The ELOs can be saved as the mission progress or after the completion of the mission, as part of an evaluation or reflection LAS.

SCYePortfolio tool Using the SCYePortfolio tool students can: Add ELOs to their ePortfolio Build a mission portfolio (e.g., CO 2 Friendly House portfolio) Submit a mission portfolio for summative assessment Receive and view the summative assessment of their portfolio SCYePortfolio tool video SCYePortfolio tool video

SCYAssessment tool SCYAssessment is a tool with which teachers assess submitted Portfolios (summative assessment). Mission Portfolio Assessment screen from SCYAssessment SCYAssessment tool video SCYAssessment tool video

SCYLighter tool The SCY-Lighter is a Mozilla Firefox extension for collecting relevant information on the web and saving it into the SCY-Lab.

SCYLighter tool The SCY-Lighter enables learners to gather information from web sources and thereby gain background knowledge for working on a SCY mission. With this tool, students can highlight and collect relevant parts from web sites, add comments and finally save the data and references as an ELO to the SCY-Lab. SCYLighter tool video SCYLighter tool video

SCYText tool This is a simple text editor integrated into SCY-Lab that students can use for writing and editing text. The tool enables students to take notes during the application of SCY-Lab and to create different text based ELOs research questions, hypotheses, inferences, arguments, etc. SCYText tool video SCYText tool video

SCYChat drawers The SCY chat tool allows learners to communicate with each other in SCY- Lab and thereby collaborate on ELOs. SCYChat drawer video SCYChat drawer video

SCYTagging drawer SCYTagging is a co-operative tagging tool used by students to tag ELOs (implicit bookmarking)in SCY-Lab. SCYTagging drawer video SCYTagging drawer video

SCYFeedback tool SCYFeedback is a peer assessment tool with which students can easily ask for and provide feedback on ELOs as they work in a Mission. Asking for feedback on an ELO involves asking a question or giving a comment on your own, or your groups ELO. Providing feedback requires selecting an ELO from an ELO Gallery on which to give feedback.

SCYFeedback tool Using the SCYFeedback tool students can: Ask for feedback on their own ELO Receive feedback on their own ELO Browse an ELO gallery of ELOs submitted for feedback Provide feedback on any ELO in the ELO gallery SCYFeedback tool video SCYFeedback tool video

SCYSearch SCYSearch is a tool that enables students to search the collection of ELOs in RoOLO to find relevant work by themselves or by other learners. SCYSearch tool video SCYSearch tool video

SCYDraw (drawing tool) SCYDraw tool allows learners to create simple drawings, with elementary drawing capabilities: shapes, freehand drawings, importing images. SCYDraw tool video SCYDraw tool video

SCYSimulator The SCYSimulator is a multi-purpose simulation tool that is able to show and run arbitrary simulations. SCYSimulator tool video SCYSimulator tool video

SCYDatacollector and SCYFormauthor (for mobile data) The mobile data collecting tool is a means for learners to collect numerical and multimedia data in the field with their mobile devices (based on the Android platform) and store the collections as ELOs in RoOLO.

SCYDatacollector and SCYFormauthor (for mobile data) The form authoring tool is fully integrated into SCY-Lab and can be used to create forms for data collecting activities. It can produce and create ELOs as well as log user actions. The user can use it as a tool for creating form templates as well as a tool to review the filled forms, i.e., work with the collected data.

SCY-Lab tools Why numerous tools and functionalities? Communication tools and mutualisation functions to facilitate students exchanges Repository to keep traces of all students activities, behaviour and ELOs Pedagogical agents to analyse traces and provide scaffolds to students Authoring and cockpit tools to configure mission and pedagogical agents and adapt them during the students work ePortfolio for peer and teacher assessment

Technical requirements SCY-Lab will work on computers with operating systems such as Windows XP/Vista/7 or Mac OS X and 2 GB or more RAM A fast internet connection is needed. Wireless connections do not work well primarily because they are slow. You need a recent version of Java (version 1.6 or newer). It can be downloaded from free at http://www.java.com.http://www.java.com SCY-Lab runs online. Technical Tips about SCY-Lab

Running SCY-Lab The most recent version of SCY-Lab can be found through the SCY website http://www.scy-net.eu/ at any time.http://www.scy-net.eu/ Technical Tips about SCY-Lab

Create accounts for your students. Enroll your students in a mission. Edit the level of scaffolding (if needed). Formulate learning goals or perform other authoring tasks in the SCY portal page for teachers. Getting Started

Who we are The SCY project team is an international group of around 70 people from 12 different project partners in Europe and Canada. The project partners are University of Twente (NL); InterMedia, University of Oslo (N); Joseph Fourier University (F); University of Duisburg-Essen (D); University of Bergen (N); Fraunhofer IAIS (D); University of Cyprus (CY); University of Tartu (EST); De Praktijk (NL); Stichting Technasium (NL); ENOVATE (N); Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (CDN). You can reach us on the SCY for Teachers website: http://scy- net.eu/web/scycom/what-is-scy. Dont hesitate to ask any questions you might have after reading this manual. And, of course, please share your experiences with us!http://scy- net.eu/web/scycom/what-is-scy

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