Tecfa - SEED

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Tecfa - SEED

• European Schoolnet
• EUN SCHOOL NETWORKS CONFERENCE
• 14-16 February 2003
• BRUXELLES

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TECFA Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de
lEducation, University of Geneva

• TECFA
• Born in 89 within the department of education
  psychology
• Web-based master degree since 1993
• 25 people on various projects CSCL, distance
  learning, MOOs, virtual campus,

• TECFAs interest in SEED
• A chance to work on synergies between collective,
  collaborative and constructivist pedgagogies
• Sponsoring innovative local activities and
  disseminate them to a wider community
• Research development in main areas of expertise
  (CSCL and community systems)

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Technology and learning

• Lightweight portal technology to design CSCL
  activities
• Emphasis on collaboration and communication
• Use of portal technology
• Catalogue of activity plans and software that
  function as building blocks Modules of
  Community,Content, and Collaboration Management
  Systems (C3MS bricks), some developped by TECFA
• Integrated communities of practice Brick
  designers, activity designers, teachers,
  learners, parents

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Example (1) C3MS bricks

• Gathering and distribution of information in
  various forms
• Collaborative construction of documents (case
  analysis, problem solving) and knowledge
  repositories.
• Discussion and commentaries around productions
  (discuss on produced documents, develop
  evaluation criteria, exchange ideas, compare
  different points of view, connect different
  ideas)
• Project management (construct work plans, share
  tasks, form groups, decide on a time schedule,
  manage work-packages)
• Different C3MS bricks are asssembled and
  configured to support teaching scenarios
• C3MS portals provide integration and activity
  awareness tools

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Tecfa Architecture
Program
Teachers activity catalogue (WP1)
Teachers innovations
Define scenarios
Tecfa bricks
Edu. scenarios
Bricks on Internet (200)
Download plug adapt (WP2)
Select configure
Standard bricks (20)
C3MScustomized  PN  PortalWare
Install configure
Teaching Portal
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Example - Activity

• Faire schéma bricks catalogue tableaux
• URL http//tecfa.unige.ch/proj/seed/catalog/net/
  

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Examples

• Tecfa-Seed portal centre of exchange and
  support for socio-constructivist pedagogies on
  the Internet
• http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/door/
• (in french) http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/bejune/
• (Institut international de Lancy)
  http//www.iil.ch
• Pangea http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/pangea/
• Teachers portal Educapoles
• http//tecfa.unige.ch/educapoles/
• http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/users/laurent/poles/
• Terre des Hommes http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/tdh/
• University
• http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/staf18iris/
• http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/staf15iris/
• http//tecfaseed.unige.ch/uticef/