Mobile Organized Knowledge Access for Science Astronomy and Renewable Energy Videos for Mobile Phone

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Mobile Organized Knowledge Access for
ScienceAstronomy and Renewable Energy Videos
for Mobile Phone Delivery
MOKA

• Carola Salis
• Marco Ambu
• Federico Caboni
• CRS4 - ICT
• Centro di Ricerca, Studi Superiori e
  Sviluppo in Sardegna

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• In the context of school drop-outs,
• bring the student to come into possession of
  educational contents.
• To reconcile him with learning activities by
  using the technological tool he mostly uses the
  mobile phone.
• To get him involved in the preparation and
  development of multimedia materials.
• Teachers and researchers work together to
  develop video seminaries
• Thanks to the Wi-Fi router installed in their
  schools, students will be able to download the
  seminars on their mobile phones
• Within the Wi-Fi coverage area, students and
  teachers can exchange files, opinions and
  complementary information

General Context
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• 2 hundred students from 12 to 18 years of age
• 4 schools with 50 students each participating to
  the project
• 8 developers of content
• 5 teachers
• 8 tutors
• 65 VS in astrophysics and 35 in renewable energy
• CRS4, a research centre and its Educational
  Technology, ICT and Energy Area
• INAF, National Institute of Astronomy at the
  University of Cagliari
• Ministry of Education of the Autonomous Sardinian
  Region

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• Definition of conceptual maps
• Adaptation of Gagnés model into a development
  guide
• Development of the TELA authoring system
• Development of video seminars
• Experimentation
• Monitoring and Evaluation

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• Conceptual maps
• Astronomy
• Observation, earth, moon, sun and solar system,
  stars, universe, technology for astronomy.
• Renewable energy
• the history of energy consumption,
  transformation, solar energy and its
  availability, photovoltaic and aeolian,
  efficiency and energy saving.

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PhasesConceptual maps
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• Adaptation of the Gagnés model
• a brief guide which presents the phases of
  introduction, presentation of the concept and of
  conclusion.
• 3 phases that appear within TELA with related
  suggestions.
• The last 3 phases are exercise, evaluation and
  in-depth studying. These phases are distributed
  on the site web and do not have any influence on
  the VS.

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PhasesConceptual maps Pedagogical guide
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guide Authoring system
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• Technical components

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guide Authoring system Technical comp.
Video player/ 3GPP or MPEG4 format
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• Technical components

Server / LMS the server/Learning Management
System based on the operative system Ubuntu
Linux, implemented with Python language With the
use of the Django framework, The standard SCORM
is supported, Mobile Phone Mobile phones with
Symbian S60 3rd edition, CRS4 application to
read Data Matrix defined with ISO/IEC16022
standard Multimedia format MPEG-4 H.264 for
video codification and AAC for audio
codification. The resolution is about QVGA
(240x320). Licence The system TELA will be
distributed with an open source licence to enable
the system to be improved.
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PhasesConceptual maps Pedagogical
guide Authoring system Technical comp.
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• Development of VS
• Storyboard writing
• Multimedia object research (img/simulation/video/a
  nimation)
• Integration of objects within TELA throughout its
  3 phases
• SCORM indexing
• VS generating
• Exercises preparation
• Reference adding for in-depth studying
• Final evaluation

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guide Authoring system Technical comp. Video
seminars
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• Experimentation
• The experimentation phase with the participation
  of 200 students will begin on 5th September 2008
  and will be carried out till May 2009,
• 4 schools are involved in the project,
• 50 students who are at risk to drop school have
  been invited to participate with parental
  authorization,
• 8 teachers and 8 tutors will take care of
  classroom curricular and extra-curricular
  (3h/week) didactic activities for a total of 96
  hours,
• Weekly meetings to discuss what has been done and
  to undergo unofficial assessment,
• the tutor will report on actions each student has
  carried out during the week.

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Phases Conceptual maps Pedagogical
guide Authoring system Technical comp. Video
seminars Experimentation
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• Evaluation
• VS style mostly downloaded
• the impact of free time access to VS
• the entry level of knowledge and the new level of
  it at the end of the project
• how students respect the rules (min. 4 VS/week,
  do not follow traditional classroom with the
  mobile phone switched on...)?
• why and how often they access the internet
• their general appreciation of the project
• The difficulties both students and teachers have
  to cope with

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guide Authoring system Technical comp. Video
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• Future
• TELA will be accessible from all over our
  regional educational space
• On-line training material will be accessible for
  teachers/trainers
• MOKA will be presumably used by unemployed people
  who look for a job/information and could use VS
  to get informed on the expertise a sector is
  looking for,
• upon where people points on the mobile phone to
  download VS (institutions, museum, research
  centres,...).

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seminars Experimentation Evaluation Future
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Web site address http//moka.logicsolutions.biz
We thank teachers who have developed VS with
courage e innovativeness Silvana Fadda, Maria
Fichera, Salvatore Lobi, Gabriella Puxeddu,
Marcella Todesco, Maria Teresa Caddeu. Contacts
Project manager, Carola Salis
carola.salis_at_crs4.it Schools Coordinator,
Angela Camerata acame_at_virgilio.it ICT expert,
Federico Caboni Fcaboni_at_mac.com Expert of
renewable energy, Bruno DAguanno
bruno_at_crs4.it Expert of astrophysics, Manuel
Floris manuel.floris_at_yahoo.it

• Thank you

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