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www.klascement.net
Portal for Education
Agenda
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About KlasCement
1998: first steps
2002: support of Ministry of Education
2007: non-profit organisation
2010: subdomains + translation Overall portal: KlasCement.net
Flanders: KlasCement.be
The Netherlands: KlasCement.nl
Europe: KlasCement.eu
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Keywords
User generated
Professionally produced
Knowledge sharing
Communication
‘Don’t reinvent the wheel’
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Objectives
KlasCement is about:
§ Exchanging learning objects and good practices.
§ Stimulating cooperation between stakeholders in
education: teachers, schools, organisations,
publishers, …
§ Helping to close the digital gap.
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Target group
§ All functions (18+)§ Teachers
§ ICT coordinators
§ Headmasters
§ Students of teachers training institutes
§ Pedagogical counsellors, inspection...
§ All educational types§ Kindergarten
§ Primary education
§ Secondary education
§ Adult education
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Some numbers (April 2011)
§ 66 000 unique users– 57 000 Belgium, 8 000 Netherlands, 1000 Europe
– Flanders: 33% of all teachers
§ 18 000 learning objects – 75% user generated - 25 per school day
§ 4 000 interactive language courses
§ 16 colleagues (the KC-team) + some volunteers– Moderators (teachers)
– Project coordinators (teachers)
– Developers
– Administration
§ 7 000 unique visitors per day
§ 1 000 000 pageviews per month
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Learning objects (April 2011)
§ Calendar : activities - 1532
§ Articles : information, thoughts - 831
§ Documents : lesson documents - 8400
§ Sites : educational websites - 2915
§ Ware : useful hardware and software - 586
§ i-Exercises : interactive online exercises - 941
§ Audio : sound, music, stories - 41
§ Images : pictures, diagrams - 1526
§ Video : information, educational - 1018
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What can members do?
§ With learning resources
– Search
– View
– Download
– Add
– Review, comment, give scores
– Collect (favourites)
– Share (email, Twitter, Facebook…)
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What can members do?
§ With members
– Search
– View profile
– Add to your palls
– View contributions, favourites, scores
– Connect
• Personal messages
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Extra on KlasCement
§ Project sites
– Languages, ICT, special care, Thinkquest, digital whiteboards …
§ Forum
§ Newsletters
§ RSS
§ Themes
§ Polls
§ …
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Points
§ System to motivate teachers to add and share
§ 1000 point at registration
§ - 2 when viewing a contribution
§ + when adding contributions (e.g. +70 for docs)
§ + when giving scores, comments…
§ + when contributing at the forum
§ + birthday
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Quality
§ Moderation
– Metadata: title, keywords, subject …
– Content: no spelling mistakes, trustworthy, curriculum related, immediately useful …
– Copyright violation
– Not pedagogical
– Approve or disapprove
§ Crowd sourcing
– Reviews, comments, ratings…
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Succes
§ Bottom up
§ User generated
§ Quality (moderation)
§ Encouraging and engaging users
§ From teachers / For teachers
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Agenda
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StartStart
View all contributionsView all contributions
RegistrationRegistration
View one contributionView one contribution
Adding a contribution (1/3)Adding a contribution (1/3)
Adding a contribution (2/3)Adding a contribution (2/3)
Adding a contribution (3/3)Adding a contribution (3/3)
SearchingSearching
Viewing a document (1/3)Viewing a document (1/3)
Viewing a document (2/3)Viewing a document (2/3)
Viewing a document (3/3)Viewing a document (3/3)
Viewing a videoViewing a video
Video storyboardVideo storyboard
CalendarCalendar
View membersView members
ProfileProfile
PointsPoints
Forum: overviewForum: overview
Forum : messageForum : message
Agenda
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