Leonardo da Vinci BeLT - Blended Learning Transfer On line collaboration Previous experience and proposal Confindustria Veneto SIAV SpA Mestre, Fabruary 25-26th, 2008

How to collaborate in BeLT project - share procedures - efficient way to communicate - share format & template - store & publish project output -… BeLT COMMUNITY PLATFORM

BeLT The project BeLT involve in the activities: 1 technological partners (ICUS) 1 technological partners (ICUS) technological experts (Siemens, …) technological experts (Siemens, …) Evaluation of platform proposals Experiences from other partners

Leonardo da Vinci “Tacitus” ( ) Confindustria Veneto SIAV SpA VCP Virtual Community Platform A proposal...

partnership Tacitus BeLT

The online community service provided by EUproject.net Grundtvig Virtual Community (GVC) Leonardo Virtual Community (LVC) R3L Learning Region Network

LLL Grundtvig VCP COMMUNITIES Leonardo da Vinci - public information - public documents - public cards - Group Project level Group desktop Group file Group messages Group Activites Group Forum Group Meeting … Member desktop Member file Member messages Member Activites Member Forum Member Meeting … - single member User level VCP Structure

Four types in each engine Each service in the VCP has four types of components besides their core functionality: 1.Interaction – The interaction component in the engines focus on enabling communication, exchange, and collaboration between members 2.Networking – The networking component in the engines focus on finding, building, and maintaining relations with individual or multiple members in the community 3.Information publishing – The information publishing component in the engines on sharing, publishing, and editing information in a web browser readable format 4.Management – The management of a community need to have both an overview and a detailed view of the member’s activities so that they can follow and facilitate the development of the community as well as administrate it

Members Member and community management tool that gives you complete control of member information and overview of the activities in your community. Calendar A calendar with month, week, and day view. There is a public, group, and private calendar. Events in the public calendar can be filtered to only show the event that are of interest for the member. A member can also register themselves to an event. Files Create directories where you can store and share files. Messages Send messages to other members or groups in the community. Works like Outlook and you can also see when someone read your message and you can choose if you also want to send a message by . You can also access your normal account when you are not at your normal computer. Discussion forum: Content Create and publish a document online by using an Ms Word similar interface. You can also attach files, presentations, and/or a discussion forum. Projects Report and manage project budget, costs, and grants for project actors and work blocks. Project coordinators also see an overview and detailed financial status. Assignment Project and assignment planning, monitoring, and execution tool. You can structure assignments, involve members, monitor progress and automate standard project management processes. Meeting rooms Shared rooms for scheduled online meetings with dashboard, chat, presentation panel. VCP services

Information card There is an unique information card for each member, group, organization, and community. An information card that contains descriptive information about the member, tools to interact and collaborate with the member, identify commonalities and relations between the card member and visitor, and see the activity in the community by the member. Links Collect links to information resources on different web servers on the Internet and place them in categories with descriptions and if a link stops working you are automatically notified. Web pages Web page editing engine that is completely web-based and without knowledge of html you can design and publish a webpage.By using web pages you can easily link together content created in any of the other engines. Specialism Members can register their specialist areas and find specialists if they need help or have inquiries. Advice Members can pose questions to categories and experts can be automatically notified when a question is posed in their interest category. Statistics If you manage any type of content in the community you can see who, when, and how often it was visited. …

Next steps: 1. Selection of the platform (ICUS platform, Siemens platform, VCP, Moodle,...) 2. Definition of procedures (ways to transfer administrative data, ways to communicate, …) 3. Definition of common templates and layouts for documents 4. Other workgroup issues