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.
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The SCY-Lab learning environment First create a new SCY
account
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The SCY-Lab learning environment To create a new teacher
account click here To create a new student account click here
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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
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The SCY-Lab learning environment Enter your username and
password
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SCY-Lab Select a mission The SCY-Lab learning environment
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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
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SCY-Lab Selecting the tutorial mission The SCY-Lab learning
environment
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SCY-Lab Select Start SCY-Lab The SCY-Lab learning
environment
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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
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The challenge is as follows: SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your
Life!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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
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SCY-Lab SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life! Mission map and
Information curtain video Mission map and Information curtain
video
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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
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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!
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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
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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!
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Minimize Center Maximize Information drawers Connect two ELOs
together Rotate ELO Stretch ELO Open ELO A healthy pizza mission:
Working with pizza ELOs
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Other ELOs Opened information drawer Intermediate/ anchor ELO A
healthy pizza mission: Working with pizza ELOs
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The teacher uses the SCYAuthor to: Create accounts for students
and Assign students to a Mission (see figure)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SCYData (Fitex) tool The data processing tool enables students
to process and visualize numerical data sets. SCYData tool video
SCYData tool video
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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SCYLighter tool The SCY-Lighter is a Mozilla Firefox extension
for collecting relevant information on the web and saving it into
the SCY-Lab.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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SCYSimulator The SCYSimulator is a multi-purpose simulation
tool that is able to show and run arbitrary simulations.
SCYSimulator tool video SCYSimulator tool video
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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For more information visit: http://www.scy-net.eu/