1. VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004 Wolfgang Appelt  FH Institute for Applied Information Technology - FIT (about 120 people, St. Augustin near Bonn)  Working in CSCW group (about 35 people)  Head of cooperation support for distributed teams and organisations department (6 persons + students)  Engaged in national / European research & development projects  Short term projects for customers from industry / government  BSCW Shared Workspace System usually development basis  Gerry has worked in our group in 2001/2002 on ITCOLE project  BSCL (Basic Support for Collaborative Learning) developed in ITCOLE

2. VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004 Pedagogical Model of BSCL  Progressive Inquiry Theory (Paavola et. al., Proceedings CSCL 2002)  Knowledge is created by students in discursive mode  Students classify their contributions (problem, comment, help request...)  Knowledge building process supported by computer usage

3. VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004 BSCL - Basic Support for Collaborative Learning  BSCL Features  Creation of Shared Workspaces for courses and groups  User management (registration, assignment to courses and groups)  Upload of documents, images, spreadsheets, etc.  Discussion forums with mandatory thinking types  Event and notification features  Document management features (versioning, locking,...)  Email integration  Multilingual interface (English, Italian, Greek, Dutch, German, Finnish)

4. VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004 BSCL User Interface  BSCL  Software

5. VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004 Field Tests in Schools  Two series of field tests in schools  January to June 2002  October 2002 to April 2003 (with revised version of Synergeia)  Teachers were trained/supported before and during field tests  Pedagogical model of Progressive Inquiry  Usage of Synergeia system  Ca. 35 schools, 85 teachers and 1,500 students  Primary and secondary level  Age between 6 and 20  Finland, Greece, Italy and The Netherlands  Art, biology, grammar, history, literature, philosophy, physics...  Several joint projects between locally separated schools

6. VMT CSCL Workshop June 2004 Current Status  BSCL available at http://bscl.fit.fraunhofer.de  BSCL Server (over 1200 teachers and 4500 students registered)  Software available for download  Upgrade to latest BSCW version under development  Currently used in Venus transit project ( BSCW, not BSCL )  organised by scientific magazine of German TV  more than 700 school classes involved  replay of historical experiment