1. Kick-off-meeting Schloss Birlinghoven 17th-18th July 2002: 17/07/02 Welcome to Bonn 18/07/02 German school system
2. Bridging Germany, Poland and France: School bridge Paris-EMA Bonn-Berlin-Warsaw in Weimar/Thuringia 27/09-4/10/2002
3. Vorstellung des
RAFT-Projektes für die e-nitiative-Beauftragten der Bonner Sekundarschulen:
EMA, Endenicher Allee 1, 53115 Bonn, Raum C210 (1.
Etage), Mittwoch, 6.11.02, 15.30
4. 2nd January 2003: Prep field trip RAFT in Xanten (Powerpoint-Presentation)--Xanten (Latin)
5. 3rd RAFT-Community meeting 8th-12th January 2003: Dundee/Scotland
6. Field trip: (two hours) Traces of Nazi-Fascism in the neighbourhood of our school
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Tools
and methods will be developed to support young people, i.e. high school
students, in active, cooperative and sustainable learning combining
classroom and on-site research. The RAFT project provides learning
technologies, content, services, as well as innovative learning and
pedagogical approaches. The project extends existing approaches to
eLearning and mLearning with a variety of aspects. The main scientific and
technological objectives of the RAFT project are to demonstrate the
educational benefits and technical feasibility of remote field trips of
high school students, to establish extensions on current learning material
standards and exchange formats for contextualisation of learning material.
This is combined with the embedding of learning and teaching activities in
an authentic real world context with real time video conferencing and
audio communication in authentic contexts. |
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Description of the
work |
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In
a first year real added value scenarios for the use of remote field trip
devices and content will be developed. Scenario based design includes
expert panels, expert workshops, Delphi methods, questionnaires, and
interviews. The directly integrated school partners and regional
administrations in RAFT ensure a broad user basis that is coordinated by a
central administrator that coordinates the elicitation of topics and
application scenarios to get the most complementary content structure for
the RAFT community. The set of field trip scenarios will be analysed, and
the functional components necessary to provide the learning experience
will be defined. In the second year the engineering of the RAFT client
devices includes the authoring toolkit for creating contextualized
learning materials, the mobile reader client for the replay of
contextualized learning materials, the mobile field station for the
coordination of several mobile clients, and the extension of the server
LMS for managing scheduled live interaction between remote field trip
clients and classroom students. The RAFT system will build on an existing
learning management system developed in a European project from partner. The RAFT system will furthermore integrate the LMS with customized
solutions for contextualised live interaction and video conferencing. In
the third year the main challenge is the realization of a European field
trip community based on the core of the RAFT end user participants and
schools. Specific partners will take responsibility for different
components of the system, and these components will be compiled into
complete systems at the trial sites. A main challenge is the dissemination
and the achievement of a wide user basis for maintaining the RAFT server
after the end of the project. This will include the integration of
national and European initiatives on new forms for school education. |