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- Create common workspace (wiki) to organize, share, and support guided inquiry investigation.
Guided Learning Tools Reviewed; to Consider:
- Pedagogica, (http://pedagogica.concord.org/
) - "Pedagogica is a software environment that converts tools and models into hypermodels. These are inquiry-based lessons that provide guidance to students as they use the software. Pedagogica tailors the appearance of the tools and the available options, presenting only those that are relevant to the activity. The interface is also used to assess student progress. It reports feedback, in real-time over the Internet, as students work through a series of activities." - LAMS (http://www.lamsinternational.com/) - LAMS manages and delivers online collaborative learning activities
by providing teachers with a highly intuitive visual authoring environment for creating sequences of learning activities. These activities can include a range of individual tasks, small group work and whole class activities based on both content and collaboration. - .exe (http://exe.cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/) - An off-line authoring environment to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup.
- Simple Sequencing (http://www.icodeon.com/product.do) -
- Connexions (http://cnx.rice.edu) -
- Learn eXact (http://www.learnexact.com)
Timeline: By June 1st we hope to have completed initial review of existing systems plus a list of design criteria to discuss at our next meeting.
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