PALETTE Pedagogically sustained Adaptive Learning through the Exploitation of Tacit and Explicit Knowledge

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Date: 2008-04-07 18:01:11

PALETTE Newsletter 4

We are glad to present you the PALETTE Newsletter.

PALETTE is a FP6 european project dedicated to improve learning process in Communities of Practice (CoPs). PALETTE aims at facilitating and augmenting individual and organisational learning in the CoPs.
This newsletter will provide you with news and informations about events regarding Communities of practice and learning technologies.

Editorial	PALETTE Second review Reviews are organised each year by European Commission to assess, regulate and valorise projects such as PALETTE. This evaluation activity is very important to enable the European Commission to measure the quality of the project and the level of achievement of its objectives in relation with the work plan. A review is also useful for European Commission and projects partners to revise this work plan taking into account the experiences and results. A first review occurred last year on 3^rd and 4^th April. The second one is planned on 8^th and 9^th April, in Luxembourg. This second review is the occasion for the PALETTE partners to make a wrap-up of the achievements of the past year and to expose the orientations of the work for the third year to the project officer and reviewers. It also enables to reinforce collaboration and share of experience between the different partners.
News	New releases of Amaya, CoPe_it! and LimSee3 Amaya This new Amaya version is the result of 8 months of work and collaboration with partners of the project. Amaya comes with a completely new user interface and five user interface profiles. This would allow each user to tailor the tool to his/her own needs, without being disturbed by unused features. More information can be found here. LimSee3 LimSee3 is a multimedia authoring tool that aims flexibility and easiness of use through extensive use of document templates. LimSee3 project is carried out at INRIA (French national research institute in computer science), in the WAM team. LimSee3 has reached version 1.0.5. You can read more about it here. CoPe_it! This new version is based on the improvement the tool’s functionality, usability and performance, by elaborating issues related to the user and role management, awareness and communication, collaboration workspaces and objects, exploitation of legacy resources, interoperability with other tools, and the tool’s resource repository. You can find more information here. More information on PALETTE services is available on http://palette.ercim.org, “Show Room” Section. Focus on Deliverable - D.PAR.04: User Centered Description of PALETTE tools and services and first analysis of usability The present deliverable aims at providing any CoP member, CoP animator or CoP mediator with the most complete view of the PALETTE tools and services. It gives a voice to the developer, the educationalist, the ergonomist, and of course the user to explain how they consider them. So, it suggests use cases, scenarios but also shows to the reader where are the obstacles of use (with the aim of avoiding a too quick discouragement on his/her part) and it provides real users’ testimonies. You can access it on http://palette.ercim.org, “Deliverables” Section.
Training	LimSee3 Trialling jointly organised by ePrep and INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Paris, January 24^th, 2008 A LimSee3 trialling was jointly organised by ePrep and INRIA Rhône-Alpes at Lycée Henri IV, in Paris, on January 24^th, 2008. On this occasion, ePrep CoP members were invited to build a multimedia module, including texts, pictures, video and audio recordings, thanks to the last version of LimSee3, a multimedia authoring tool based on extensive use of templates and adaptable user interface developed in the framework of the PALETTE project. This trialling took place after several “design-in-use” sessions involving PALETTE researchers and ePrep CoP members for the production of a real multimedia history course for “Hypokhâgne” students at Lycée Henri IV. An example of such sessions was the recording of the course at Lycée Henri IV, on October 17^th, 2007 (see the account here). Thirteen participants attended the LimSee3 trialling on January 24^th. The account of this trialling, available here in French, is written as a “distance training module” to allow all ePrep CoP members to “replay” the session and contribute to the design-in-use ongoing process.
Events	Summer School PALETTE/PROLEARN, Ohrid, FYR of Macedonia, 16^th-21^th June 2008 PALETTE joined PROLEARN, the Network of Excellence in Professional Learning, to organize a joint 2008 Summer School. Our ambition is to foster cross-domain training and collaboration opportunities among researchers in Europe and beyond, working in the disparate fields of expertise which promote the advancement of TEL at the workplace. The programme includes lectures and working sessions from leading professors in the field, tutoring, mentoring, and joint research opportunities. Additionally the school will offer practical sessions in research methodology for Technology Enhanced Learning. For more information on this workshop, click here . ED MEDIA’08 conference, Vienna, Austria, 30^th June-4^th July 2008 ED-MEDIA- World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education. You can read about it here. Summer School EUMATHOS, Nantes, France, 18^th-22^th August 2008 The "e-learning and communities of practice summer school" aims at bringing together two worlds that generally ignore each other inside organisations. At the crossroad of e-learning and communities of practice you find two subjects: - knowledge: creation, storage, diffusion, reuse - group (or community) leadership: who, when, how and with which tools Building bridges, links, sharing methods and tools, practices and ideas is our goal in this 1st Summer School chaired by Alex Mucchielli and Etienne Wenger. During the 5 days of this Summer School, conferences, testimonies and workshops will alternate. More information can be found here. ECTEL’08, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 17^th-19^th September 2008 The European Conference Series on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) provides a unique opportunity and forum for researchers of all respective disciplines to come together and discuss recent achievements and future challenges in TEL. With the previous two highly successful EC-TEL in 2006 and 2007 and about 200 participants each, this year EC-TEL 2008 invites all researchers across the different fields of TEL (education, psychology, computer science, economics...) to contribute to the scientific landscape of technology enhanced learning. Read more here . Plenary meeting, Nice, France, 24^th-25^th September 2008 (to be confirmed) PALETTE Workshop, Tlemcen Algeria, ~15^th October 2008 (to be confirmed) SC meeting (preparation final review), Lausanne (to be confirmed), early December 2008
CoPs	A new CoP has joined the project. CoPeL: CoPe-Learning is a Luxembourgish Cop of 30 representatives of public and private organizations working on e-learning, education and training. This community has as objective to share practices about e-learning in Luxembourg and to promote e-learning activities. Contact : Stéphane Jacquemart, CRP-HT. More information on PALETTE CoPs is available on http://palette.ercim.org, “Communities of Practice” Section.

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