1. OBSERVAL Website Communication Prof. John Konrad Konrad Associates International

2. Barcelona January 20082 OBSERVAL goals Establish a national working group in each participating country Identifying practices in use in each country covering such aspects as: values, purposes, regulations, practical arrangements including tools and methods,statistics Contributing to National priorities and EU-wide development.

3. Barcelona January 20083 The Challenges How can the national experts and the working groups learn from each other? How can a user-centred virtual community facilitate and support this mutual learning? This common domain promotes the development of formal and informal interactions resulting in shared practices.

4. Barcelona January 20084 Available tools Homepage:welcomes users and outlines the site’s aims and facilities. Clicking the “login” button will then take users to the login / registration page. Site News: shows the progress of discussions in the Forums making them immediately visible encouraging users to participate because they can see how the discussions are unfolding Forums Users will be shown the most recent 10 discussion threads with links to access older discussions. All users will be able to create new threads and contribute to existing threads.

5. Barcelona January 20085 Social Networking Participant pages: are linked from the Homepage and provide user-controlled information that enables the context of contributions to be identified (including blogs and wikis)and networks developed. Meetings: –Discussion threads with a defined leader; agreed agendas; and themed threads. New ideas and concepts are developed collaboratively in glossaries. –Chat on specific issues and experiences recorded in a log.

6. Barcelona January 20086 Demonstration http://konrad.synergy- learning.com//