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Second edukalibre project meeting
Here is the information about the second edukalibre project meeting in Porto.
Location
The second meeting will take place on Porto in July 9th-10th, 2004
First of all, our meeting will be at "FEUP" (indicated by a red 1 in the map attached) which stands for "Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto" (Engineering School of the University of Porto). It is located next to the largest hospital in Porto: "São João Hospital" (red H in the map).The airport is about 9 km in the direction indicated by the arrow.
I will first talk about hotels and further down I will give you some URLs where you can find more info or even book one of them. The nearest hotel, about 1.5 km away, is "Beta Porto Hotel" (number 2 in the map). There is also a "residencial" (boarding house) nearby, about 1 km away, called "Residencial Palanca" (6 in the map). It is a four-star "residencial" which seems to me comparable to three-star hotels. Another "residencial" nearby is "Pensão Paulo Cesar" (7 in the map) this one is much cheaper and humble (basically, a small family house).
Hotels are expensive in Porto, but taxi fares are very cheap, as long as you do not go out of the metropolitan area. Therefore, it might be worth booking a hotel in the downtown area (3 in the map) which is about 4 kilometers away, and taking a taxi. That way you will be closer to the tourist attractions. Two nice, affordable hotels are "Hotel da Bolsa" (4) and "Hotel Mercure Batalha" (5).
I leave 15 km south of FEUP, by the beach (Madalena Beach). I can host two people (even more if you're willing to sleep on a sleeping bag :) and bring you to the meeting place. You would not be near the nice historical buildings in Porto, but you would have nice beaches, swimming pool and tennis courts. It is not a problem for me because I live alone in a two-bedroom apartment (I have a son who stays overweekends but that weekend he will stay at his mom's).
Schedule
Friday 9th, 1st session
- 11:00 Get together and agreement on the final version of the agenda
- 11:30 Brief presentation of activities already performed by partners (about 3 slides per-partner, if slides are to be used, at most 15 min. per partner, no problem if it is much less for those with little work scheduled during this first phase. Please send slides in advance, PDF format) (All partners)
- 12:45 Overview of the progress of the project as a whole (Jesus)
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:30 General administrative issues (Jesus)
- 15:00 Demos by partners
- FEUP (Wims/Moodle/Wikiup)
- URJC (collaborative editing system)
- SOC/LU (groupware modules for Moodle)
- USI (graphical student monitoring system)
- 17:00 Discussion about the collaborative editing tool and future progress (Jesus) (Will include how it is going to be tested in the second phase of the project) (Jesus)
- 17:30 Discussion about the Moodle module and Moodle use in general (Will incolude how it is going to be tested in the second phase of the project) (Riccardo)
- 18:00 End of 1st session
- 19:30 Dinner
Saturday 10th: 2nd session
- 10:00 Pedagogic aspects, evaluation of pedagogical needs, and common rules for testing experiences (Riccardo)
- 11:00 Schedule and work plan until December-January. General part (Jesus)
- 11:15 Schedule and work plan until December-January. General part (about 2 slides per-partner, if slides are to be used, at most 10 min. per partner, probably less. A schedule accorging the project work plan should be presented. Please send slides in advance, PDF format) (All partners)
- 12:15 General discussion about next meetings (including final schedule for meetings) (Jesus)
- 12:45 Lunch
- 14:45 Tools for collaboration in the project: the website (Jesus)
- 15:00 Tools for collaboration in the project: the GForge site (Jesus)
- 15:15 Tools for collaboration in the project: the collaborative editing system, the Moodle site at FEUP, the Moodle site at SOC/LU (Jesus, Diego, Jaime, Chris)
- 16:00 Final remarks and dissemination strategy (Jesus)
- 16:30 Any other issue
- 17:00 End of second session
Slides for the meeting
- Slides from URJC:
- Slides from DFIU:
- Slides from SOC/LU:
- Slides from UTIA:
- Slides from USI:
Links
A very nice site has been set up by my physics colleagues, who are hosting an international conference in June. You can look at their travel advice and practical information at their site