Worksheet: Implementing Pyramid-based educational scenario using

Web Collage

Yannis Dimitriadis GSIC/EMIC research group

University of Valladolid November 30, 2011

The theory and practice of Design for Learning

OEB 2011 pre-conference workshop

Index

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  Context (it’s real!) ………………………………… 3   Activity description …………………………… 4   Accessing WebCollage …………………………… 5   Configuring the general options ……………… 6   Selecting the pyramid pattern ………………… 7   Defining roles ………………………………………… 8   Creating the groups structure ………………… 9   Defining the tools to use in each activity …… 10   Defining Activities …………………………………… 13   Getting the list of participants ………………… 16   Assigning participants to the groups ………… 20   Examples ……………………………………………… 23

Context (it’s real!)

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  Telecommunications Engineering M.Sc.   3rd year (out of 5)   12 students   Course on Computer Networking

–  Assignment: programming network software

  Situation (two 2-hours sessions) –  Motivation: reflecting before doing… –  Goal: collaborative flow and sequence charts describing what to

program

Scenario: Activity description

Activity Name Type Groups Duration Expected Outcomes

SKETCHING of flow and sequence charts (in dyads)

Face-to-Face

6 initial groups of 2 students

1h30min Document with charts and text with explanation and problems/doubts

DISCUSSION AND NEW ROUND OF sketching flow and sequence charts (in supergroups)

Distance 2 supergroups formed by 3 initial groups (6 students per supergroup)

1h30min Agreed charts and a slide presentation to explain the decisions

PRESENTATION of final results to the whole class

Face-to-Face

Whole class 30min Oral presentations

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Accessing WebCollage

1.  Go to http://pandora.tel.uva.es/wic2/

2.  Register! 3.  Create a “New Design” - Choose

the name you prefer for the design

4.  A new tab will be opened (if not, check your browser preferences!)

Note: Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome are the best options!

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Configuring the general options

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It is possible to provide a detailed description of Prerequisites and Learning Objectives… But you can skip this step…

Selecting the pyramid pattern

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You can press in help (“?”) to see a pedagogical explanation of the pyramid pattern

Defining roles

  4 Repeat the previous steps for the other levels: –  Level 2: “Work in supergroups” –  Level 3: “Whole Class”

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1 Hover the mouse over the “red square” and select “Edit role” option

2 Type “Work in groups”

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Creating the groups structure

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1 Hover the mouse over the “red square” and select the “Clone this group instance” option

2 Do it again to create another group

3 And one more time… but to create another “supergroup”!

AND THAT’S ALL!!

Defining the tools to use in each activity (1/3)

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3 Type “Shared Document in groups”

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Defining the tools to use in each activity (2/3)

  You should repeat the previous steps for all the tools to be used: –  Shared Whiteboard in groups –  Shared Whiteboard in supergroups –  Shared Presentation in supergroups –  Presentation 1 –  Presentation 2

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Defining the tools to use in each activity (3/3)

  When finished, the list of tools should look like the following:

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Defining Activities (1/3)

  Go back to the “Learning Activity Flow” tab

–  Hover the mouse over “Level 1” of the pyramid (yellow part)

–  An “arrow” will appear – Click on it to see the activities contained in that level

–  Repeat the process for the other two levels…

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  Now, let’s configure each Activity:

1.  Click on the activity 2.  You should specify

1.  Title 2.  Description 3.  Resources (documents/ tools) to use in that activity

Defining Activities (2/3)

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Defining Activities (3/3)

  You can check the design by going to the tab “Summary”

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Getting the list of participants (1/4)

1.  Go to the “Participant management” tab 2.  In “LMS Installation and class selected”

click in “Select”

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  Now we are going to select an ad hoc configuration of “LMS” for the workshop with participants pre-configured, to load them.

1.  Select the LMS Installation “Test Installation”

2.  Select the class “TestingClass” (it’s an ad hoc class for the workshop)

3.  Then load the participants of that class

4.  ... and press OK

Getting the list of participants (2/4)

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Getting the list of participants (3/4)

  You could restrict which of the participants will take part in the design (in this case, do not “delete” anyone)

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Getting the list of participants (4/4)

  And that finishes the process of getting the list of participants…

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Assigning participants to the groups (1/3)

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1 Hover the mouse pointer over the “red square” and select “Assign users to group instance” option

2 Select student_a11 and student_a12

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  Go to the “Learning Activity Flow” tab

Assigning participants to the groups (2/3)

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student_a21 student_a22

student_a31 student_a32

student_b11 student_b12 student_b21

student_b22

student_b31 student_b32

  Repeat the previous steps for the other groups

You can check how students are automatically assigned to upper level groups

Assigning participants to the groups (3/3)

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  Assign the teacher (“educator WS”) to the “Teachers” group

Assign the teacher (educator WS) to the “Teachers” group (the grey circle)

Examples

  In http://pandora.tel.uva.es/wic2/ there are examples of the designs

–  (user: educator / pwd: <ask for the password!>)

  In http://www.gsic.uva.es/glue/moodle/ there are examples of courses automatically deployed from WIC2

–  (user:educator / pwd: <ask for the password!>) for teacher view user:student_a11 / pwd: <ask for the password!> for student view) –  Courses: OEB 2011 - <…>

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