EUN WP08 Meeting
November 11, 1999 from 9:00 to 16:30
Stockholm, Sweden (Swedish National Agency for Education)
Partners present: Fredrik Paulsson (WP leader, LITU), Johan Bergquist
(LITU), Kell Sonnichsen (UNIC), SEMA, Daniel Peraya (TECFA), Allison Piguet
(TECFA)
1. Presentation of the VWE
Project overview
Overview of pedagogical visions
Overview of technological visions
VWE website launched at: http://www.vwe.nu
2. Current status of the VWE
VWE Alpha 1, D8.2 (specification draft
1)
Kernel version is running. The Kernel
is the part of the workspace that handles all interaction and activity
within the VWE. It is built up by a number of modules for different tasks
and is considered the "core" of the VWE. The Kernel modules can
be identified as: an API module, Management module, GUI module,
Storage module, Network module, and Metadata module.
Early versions of some tools (draw
tool, form tool, chat tool, molecule viewer, word processing tool, user
manager tool) have been implemented but not fully developed
- load and install the Java 1.2 plug-in,
which can be found at:
- Then, replace the file java.policy
located at:
(C:\Program) \JavaSoft\JRE\1.2\lib\security
with the one found at:
- http://intermedius.lh.umu.se/~vwe/vwe/java.policy
- After that procedure, log (user login
and password required) in into the system by opening the following page:
Technical partner task (technical
implementation and development of the VWE alpha version)
- D8.2 and D8.3 to be delivered in November
1999
- GUI to be implemented
5. Future
WP08 Meeting
- Projected for mid-January in London (date to be discussed)