Editorial

PALETTE Second SAB meeting

The PALETTE project is supervised by an independent Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) whose objective is to provide feedbacks on project activities performance and technology transfer. It also allows the Steering Committee to initiate timely corrective action if that need arises.

A first SAB meeting was organised in February 2007 in Luxembourg to prepare the review with the European Commission. A second one was held on the 15^th November 2007 in Grenoble.

This time again, the discussions between PALETTE partners and SAB members were very usefull in order to evaluate the project production quality and highlight the points to be focused on.

The main issues adressed during this second meeting concerned the following topics: the achievements of the project according to the second year implementation plan, the evolution of the Participatory Design Method (PDM) within the project, the integration and the usability aspects of PALETTE services, the presentation and demonstration of the PALETTE services portal, and the proposition for the future steps in anticipation of the next implementation plan.

All remarks made during the meeting will feed the strategic decisions to be integrated and exploited for the next work plan foreseen in 2008.

News

“PALETTE in the media”

In the last months PALETTE was presented in several media…

ERCIM News
PALETTE present in the Publication of ERCIM NEWS 71, dedicated to “Technology-Enhanced Learning”.
The publication contains a keynote made by Patricia Manson, Head of Unit E3 “Cultural Heritage & Technology Enhanced Learning”, Director E, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission, and several articles written by PALETTE partners.
You can read it by clicking here.

Thot - News of Distance Learning
Thot, one of the most important Web site  (in French) in the eLearning actor's community, with more than 30 000 professional subscribers, has presented the work made by the PALETTE members in a news "Panorama des communautés de pratique" posted on 23^rd October 2007. Several CoPs and working groups are referenced in this article.
You can access it by clicking here.

Training

Several training sessions were organised during the last months:

SweetWiki / Amaya training, Liège, November 8^th & 9^th October, 2007
This two-day meeting aims at developing a user centered approach of Amaya and SweetWiki and to understand some advantages and inconveniences of their uses. Its target public is mainly CoPs' mediators, validators of scenarios of use of these tools and some Belgian CoPs' members (TFT (Transition Formation Travail), @pretic and Form@HETICE).
More information about this training here.

Second ePrep International Thematic Seminar, Lyon, November 5^th & 6^th, 2007
The Second ePrep International Seminar, on the theme "The ePrep Community of practice: which tools for which needs ?", was organised by ePrep at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon (INSA de Lyon), on November 5^th & 6^th, 2007. The event brought together 50 participants from 8 countries (China, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Italia, Luxembourg, Morocco, Switzerland, Tunisia) and was a unique opportunity to discover the projects launched at the First ePrep Thematic Seminar (Sousse, October 30^th, 2006) by the members of the ePrep Community of Practice, thanks namely to the tools developed in the framework of the PALETTE project.
Read more about this Seminar here.

KM training, Sophia Antipolis, November 20^th & 21^th, 2007
The PALETTE Training on Knowledge Management was organised by INRIA Sophia Antipolis and held on November 20^th-21^th in Sophia Antipolis. Aimed at both Palette members and CoP mediators or members, it was attended by 18 persons coming from CRP-HT, EM Lyon, INRIA Sophia, University of Fribourg and Universiy of Liege. The courses were given by members of INRIA, I3S and CRP-HT and the practical work was organised by CRP-HT and INRIA.
More information here.

For those who were unable to attend some meetings, you can see the videos of some selected PALETTE seminars by clicking on the following URL .

Events

PALETTE has organised ...

EIAH’07 : 2nd International Workshop On Learning and working in CoPs: Theoretical and technological issues, Lausanne, June 27^th-29^th, 2007
This workshop challenges how communities and practice are represented and conceptualized as well as their relations with workplace and learning processes.
For more information on this workshop, click here.

TEL-CoPs'07 : 2nd International Workshop on Building Technology Enhanced Learning solutions for CoPs, Crete, Greece, September 17^th, 2007.
This workshop was organised by CTI and held in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning.
It focuses on current research trends in technology enhanced learning solutions that aim at addressing the multiplicity and complexity of needs of Communities of Practice all along their lifecycle.
The proceedings are available here.

ePrep-INRIA Design-in-use event, Paris, October 17^th, 2007
A Design-in-use event, jointly prepared by PALETTE researchers (INRIA Rhône-Alpes) and ePrep CoP members, was organised at Lycée Henri IV Paris, on October 17^th. On this occasion, a real course made by an ePrep CoP member, History teacher in “hypokhâgne”, has been recorded in order to build, with LimSee3, a teaching module to be presented and discussed at the Second ePrep Thematic Seminar (November 5^th &6^th, 2007). After the course, an informal and interesting Participatory Design meeting took place.
Read more on this event.

I2LOR 2007 Colloque LORNET, Montreal, Canada, November 4^th-7^th, 2007
A PALETTE workshop for the “LORNET 07 conference” was organised in Montreal by UNIFR, presented by Bernadette Charlier (Université de Fribourg), France Henri (LICEF - Teluq- Uqam) and Bastien Vaucher (EPFL - Lausanne).This workshop presents part of the research and development conducted by the European project PALETTE (Pedagogically sustained Adaptive Learning Through the exploitation of Tacit and Explicit knowledge).
Using a simulation strategy, it offers the opportunity to get familiar with the custom made participatory design approach adopted by the project.
More information on this workshop here.

PALETTE was also present in…

Online Educa Berlin, November 30^th, 2007
ePrep made a communication titled “Birth and development of a CoP inspired and supported by PALETTE” on the occasion of Online Educa Berlin 2007 (download this communication here).

International Ni-Hao Conference
IInvited talk by Nikos Karacapilidis on PALETTE collaboration services entitled “Supporting Collaboration, Enhancing Learning”, Beijing, November 19th, 2007.
You can find more information here . 

PALETTE will organise…

The PALETTE 3rd plenary meeting is planned from 19^th to 21^th December in Lyon.
This plenary meeting allows partners to have an overview of the project progress.
Moreover it permits to discuss about the prospects and the future of the project.

CoPs

Two new CoPs have joined the PALETTE project:

APCdE is an emerging CoP that regroups persons who accompany entrepreneurs in their projects of creation of a company. This CoP is embedded in the Centre des Entrepreneurs of EM Lyon.

TFT is an association of professionals of the health domain (hospitals…) that gathers teachers and workers concerned by the management of learners during in practice training. Around 30 institutions, both schools and health institutions, are members of the CoP “Transition - Formation-Travail”.


Nowadays PALETTE supports 12 CoPs, namely ADIRA, ARADEL, BADGE, Doctoral Programme, Form@hetice, @pretic, Learn-Nett, Unix module, ePrep, Did@ctic, APCdE and TFT.
For more information, click here.