The Show-me day in Barcelona was organised on November 11 2006. The event was monitored by Javier Melero and Josep Blat from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and organised by Agora, a non-profit Participant’s Association for adult education. Agora is placed in the context of an Adult Education School: Escola de persones adultes La Verneda-Sant Martí.  The chief purpose of the Show-me day was to give teachers with different backgrounds in adult education a hands-on introduction to the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) standard, Units of Learning (UoL) and two Open Source tools to edit and play UoLs, Reload and CopperCore. There were 19 participants. It was a diverse group, existing of teachers, participants, collaborators and volunteers. One of the participants to the Show-me day, Armando, gave a presentation about Agora in Catalan. This was translated by Sergio in English.  At Agora learners are referred to as participants and these participants are just as active as their teachers. They are the owner of their own learning and take part in managing the school. Agora is open 7 days a week and the courses are free of charge. Agora website: www.edaverneda.org.  

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The show me session took place in Klagenfurt on August 24th, 2006. It was hosted by the University of Klangenfurt and organised by Wolfgang Greller, Head of e-Learning at the University.

A report on the show-me day can be found in the wiki.

Agenda

10.00 – 10.15 Introduction to the Workshop
10.15 – 10.45 Social Software and Learning Research has stressed the importance of communication and communities in the use of ICT for learning. Graham Attwell will talk about how social software can be used to develop learning in communities of practice.
10.45 – 11.15 Using ELGG Learning Landscapes Dave Tosh and Ben Werdmuller will demonstrate the use of ELGG for developing e-Portfolios. They will also show how ELGG integrates with the Open Source Moodle learning management system.
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee
11.45 – 13.30 Developing e-Portfolios with ELGG (hands-on) This hands-on session will give those new to ELGG an opportunity to experience the potential of a truly learner-centred tool. We shall walk through setting up your own ELGG environment, explore some of the social networking power and explain how this can integrate with Moodle to create an excellent personal portfolio application.
13.30 – 14.00 Next Steps Wolfgang Greller will introduce a discussion on future support and networking for ELGG and Moodle users.

At May 15, 2006 the first “Show-me day” of the Bazaar project took place successfully at University of Cologne. Fourteen teachers were introduced in creating, exchanging and re-using e-learning materials with Open Source software tools. The participants came from schools and institutions for further and vocational training of the Cologne region.

The Show-me day started with an introduction to open content by Carsten Kozianka from the Cologne team. Carsten explained how one can safely copy, modify and redistribute Open Content in combination with its own learning material. Equipped with an own computer and online connection every participant could verify how easy it is to add a creative commons licence to an own image or text file.

The second part of the Show-me day was dedicated to hands-on experience in creating e-learning content. Matthias Kunkel demonstrated how to turn a simple text file into an multimedia-enhanced e-learning module by using OpenOffice with the add-on iLEX and the learning management system ILIAS. At the end of the event Carsten presented how to create and format wiki pages as an alternative way to create content for educational purposes.

Due to the deep interest of the participants and their wish to continue this exchange of information and experience, the Bazaar team Cologne decided to open an ILIAS stall for all participants of the Show-me day and for all people interested in creating e-learning content with ILIAS.

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