Workshop Tool is a workshop organization and management module built for PostNuke.
When to use it
The organization of a workshop can be considered as a learning event. TECFA
therefore grounds its orchestration on socio-constructivist principles and we
designed a Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) tool called Workshop
Tool. Its three-step organizational framework is inspired by Laurillard's (1995)
Conversational Framework which requires four steps (discursive, adaptive, interactive,
reflexive) to turn learning into a shared information issue. The three sections
(your answers, answers by question and answers by author) of the Workshop Tool
allow the participants first to enter position statements and then comment and
re-articulate them.
What it helps you do
Position Statement
Post your staments for each topic in the "Your statements" pages
Comments and re-articulation
Statements are reviewed, and graded by the workshop organizers. There are
4 grades (accepted, minor revision, major revision and refused)
Based on the grades, participants are either accepted or refused. Refused
participants have the posibility to re-articulate their statements and to
submit them again for approval. All participants have the opportunity to annotate
the others' participants statements.
Synthesis
For the workshop, participants and organizers will be able to print a friendly
version of every participants' statements and comments.
Set a workshop
Define the workshop settings which include it name, description, deadline
and average of points to reach by the particpants
Set the topics
Add, remove, edit and numerate the topics
Review the statements
Filter the statements by questions and status (posted or reviewed) and review
the participants' statements using annotations and grades.
1. Extract the wTool archive and drop the content your PostNuke module directory:
- Windows: Use Winzip (or any other extracting to) to extract wtool.zip
- Unix: Type 'tar xvfs wtool.tar.gz' at the prompt
2. From your PostNuke administration go to:
'modules'->'wTool'->Initialize->Activate
3. Add the module inside a block (e.g. Main menu) by adding a new line that
should look like that: Title:Workshop Tool URL:{wTool} Decsription:Workshop organization tool
