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Schools PortalRepository• Some figures• Principles and

practices• Challenges• Future plans

José Moura Carvalho, DGIDC, Portugal | [email protected], 4th Strategic Seminar, Barcelona, 24-26 March 2010

The Schools Portal - Portugal


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Schools Resources News “e-little

schools”


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Most voted

Most visited

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Validated


The Schools Portal – Portugal

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Resources



• Repository launched in June 2009• 9,000 registered teachers;• 1,500 resources in all; 900 validated ones;• 1,500,000 scanned pages of magazines and newspapers

from 1910 to today;• 33,000 unique visitors a month;• Most visited resources: Science, Maths, History, Primary

education;• Most voted resources: History, English, Geography,

Primary education .

Some figures


• Adoption of international standards and specifications:• LRE metadata application profile v4;• OAI-PMH;• SQI;• Translation of LRE Thesaurus into PT;• Promotion of Creative Commons licenses;

• No packaged content (SCORM, Common Cartridge).

Principles and practices


• Content and metadata are validated:• Scientific mistakes, gender problems, language

appropriate to learning level, etc.;• Metadata is checked for inaccuracies;• Team of ± 30 teachers, trained in the evaluation of

DLRs;• Checklist includes content and metadata.



• Open access to teacher-created content;

• Access to registered teachers only for other content (a section containing about 1,500,000 articles from newspapers and magazines from 1910 to today);

• Search in the LRE portal is now possible.



• Disseminate information on the Schools Portal;

• Get teachers to contribute content more widely;

• Build user communities around subject areas and transcurricular areas;

• Prepare information and promote the use of Creative Commons licenses.

Some challenges


• Sections on:• educational blogs maintained by teachers;• open source software and Web 2.0 tools;

• “Dedicated sections” (mobile technologies, use of GIS, etc.);

• Materials and initiatives on Creative Commons licenses;• More collaborative tools (subject areas, forums, etc.);• Incentives to teachers to create DLRs;• Protocols with media companies.

Future plans

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