Enhance your audiovisual production competences using the TENCompetence infrastructure

The TENCompetence and the SALERO European projects have established an on-line community pilot where you can develop competences and share knowledge with other professionals around audiovisual production and automatic broadcasting using the new NINOS Platform.

The NINOS Platform is a set of tools for automatic and semi-automatic generation of audiovisual pieces.

The training materials (including video tutorials, 3D characters and animations) can be addressed freely by the members of the community. This service has been already launched and will be available for at least four months. In June assessment activities will also be published. Those completing these activities will receive a certificate.

We would like to inform you about this opportunity to increase your audiovisual production competences and knowledge, and get to know and cooperate with other professionals and scholars in this domain. Registration for the community is free of charge since the pilot will be used to validate the underlying TENCompetence infrastructure and is part of the Training tasks of SALERO.

You can find more information and register to the community at: http://pilot-ninos.upf.edu

For screenshots and videos please follow the links:

http://pilot-ninos.upf.edu/ninosweb/imgs/programEditor%20ScreenShot.jpg
http://pilot-ninos.upf.edu/ninosweb/imgs/ProgramEditor_video.mov

IMS Learning Impact Awards

The TENCompetence LD & QTI toolkit (authoring, runtime) has been honoured with the IMS Learning Impact 2009 Best in Category Award “Most Innovative New Realization of Standards“.

See this video!

The complete list of award winners is available at IMS GLC website.

e-learning conferences

A quite complete list of e-learning conferences can be found here. Thanks to the persons compiling and sharing the list!

e-learning patterns workshop

A promisingly interesting workshop on e-learning patterns will take place in Tuebingen in 4-6 March.

TENCompetence Winterschool 2009

I’m currently at the TENCompetence Wintershool in Innsbruck.
These are the slides I used yesterday in my lecture:

Special issue on Comparing Educational Modelling Languages on the “Planet Game” Case Study

Dec 2008: JIME Special Issue: Special issue on Comparing Educational Modelling Languages on the “Planet Game” Case Study

From the Introduction: “The aim of this special issue is to share and confront approaches (i.e., models, tools and methodologies) through modelling experiences of collaborative learning activities. There is a starting point focused on a common case study, called “Planet Game” or “Astronomy Game”, which is modelled and implemented with a very specific approach in every paper. ” This issue of 9 papers is edited by Laurence Vignollet, Christian Martel, and Daniel Burgos.

Japan

I went to Japan in November 2008. This is a selection of the photos I took there.

I hope you like them! 

Holidays in Extremadura

This summer I’ve spent most of my holidays in Extremadura, the region of Spain in which I was born. The specific city is Plasencia.
It is situated in a wonderful place, part of “El Valle del Jerte” and very close to “La Vera”, “Las Hurdes”…

After months travelling around Europe, I’ve finally managed to discover again Extremadura: “Reserva natural de Garganta de los Infiernos” (or “Los Pilones”, in “El Valle del Jerte”), see this picture I took last week , Trujillo, Mérida or the “Parque Natural del Monfragüe“, see the picture that is now (temporarily) in the header and also this picture Isn’t it outstanding?

100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner

Thanks to Fiona King for pointing me to this very useful article “100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner”, which you can read at http://www.collegeathome.com/blog/2008/06/10/100-helpful-web-tools-for-every-kind-of-learner/ Enjoy it!

ICALT 2008 Conference

Last week I attended the ICALT 2008 Conference in Santander. I have always enjoyed the nice environment of this conference which provides an opportunity for meeting many colleagues (now also friends) working aroud Technology-Enhanced Learning. Some of these friends attended also the LAMS conference in Cádiz, so that we could continue going out after the conference for dinner, etc. We really had fun! I still keep laughing because one of the (many) jokes by Lluis Vicent (U. Ramon Llull) talking about Ernie Ghiglione (LAMS project manager) when being in Cádiz: (for Spanish people) “¿Cuál es el colmo de dedicarse al eLearning? Llamarse “el’Ernie”

My contributions to the conferences have ranged from two full papers (“Supporting Distance Learning Activities and Social Interaction: a Case Study“, “InstanceCollage: a Graphical Tool for the Particularization of Role/group Structures in Pattern-based IMS-LD Collaborative Scripts“) and one short paper (”Social Structures Representations as aid for effective creation and reuse of CSCL scripts according to a problem-solving approach to ID“) to the participation in the workshop “Crafting didactic materials based on IMS LD: from requirements to evaluation” This is the presentation I used in the workshop:

Eloy Villasclaras (from Valladolid) completed the presentation with a demo of webCollage, a new version of Collage which is Web and includes new patterns (not only at the level of the learning flow, but also at the level of activities and resources) of assessment.