5.6 Summary
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A lot of structured activities, mostly:
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Students do something
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using tools and resources
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Results are collected
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Debriefing, synthesis, feedback
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tasks are often pseudo tasks
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these phases are sometimes repetitive
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most are collaborative
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collaboration is structured
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teacher can monitor, add, help, edit ...
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Student acceptance
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Overally good
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Assessment
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Unknown yet (well, our students like it)
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A word of caution
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Some student projects/exercises are "open" and will remain so
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We have to avoid the "video game effect"
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We must plan the mastering of the content, not of the tool
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We are looking further into project management and information tools
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Problems
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"Mushroom style development" will make maintenance difficult
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Often decentralized authentication
.... in addition to all the other tools...
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Tedious navigation:
.... several clicks to get "there"
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Klunky HTML-based interfaces
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Yet more work for us...
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cost/benefit yet undetermined
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Students don't have much of a collaboration culture
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Our information web is badly managed so far
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resource collections
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on-line manuals, etc.
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Nobody wants do the boring stuff:
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navigation aids, updating, etc.
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resource indexes, information sheets, etc.
We have ideas about our information web
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we just got started (XML, RDF, visualisation tools)