Agenda Items for the second transnational project meeting M2

Project management

• Management committee and meetings (cf. Progress Report) (MJ)
  
• Developments in course of the year such as Erkki to Turku and British Council developments (MJ)
  
• Distribution of work / roles of partners (MB, MJ)
  
  • website / dissemination
  • development of resources
  • practical organisation of dissemination and trialling events
  • consultants / evaluation
  • attendance at meetings - how might change
  • communication
  • budget issues - accountability (Quality document)
  • risks - claims in Progress Report

• Dates for meetings to be decided well in advance (MJ)
  
• Ethics protocols (MJ)
  

Project Implementation

• Review the reports at the following webpage (MJ)
  

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/em/construit/reports/

• Feedback on the draft (incomplete) Interim Report and the reports at the following webpage (MJ)
  

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/em/construit/year1/documentation/

• Status of the open online course (MB, SR)
  
  • Technical developments
  • Evaluation matters
• Prospects for Virtual Workshops (MB)
  
• Review dissemination over the year, critique our performance (RA, MB)
  
  • low attendance at dissemination events
  • mixed reception for publications
  • concentration on UK and Greek partners
  • check dissemination table updates / status
• Review social media presence - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (RA)
  
• Initiatives including CAS, BETT and IGGY (MB)
  
• Video tutorial resources / cartoon-style animation / in-tool documentation / commentary / voiceover (EH)
  
• Management of construals: how archive and control versions? (EH)
  
• Conference planning
  • national CONSTRUITer comunities (SR)
    • webpage
    • local self-sustaining events
    • virtual workshops
  • topics for construal projects e.g. (MB)
    
    • an opera, a walk, Rostock identification of Germany game
    • teaching music and medicine
• Liaison with other projects such as TACCLE3 (all)
  
• Extended visits for 2015-6: Andres / Carolina? Rene / Ilkka? (DA, MT)
  
• Recruitment for C6 (all)
  

Project strategy

• Review the documentation of 'activities directed at generating IOs' (MB)
  

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/em/construit/reports/annotatedconstruitaccount/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/em/construit/year1/documentation/

• Face-to-face project implementation meetings A13, A14, A15 not a good idea? (all)
  
• C11, C12, C13 coinciding with SciFest C8, C9, C10 problematic where project team concerned (all)
  
• The questionnaire - status of this (PK)
• Auditable evidence of work done? (MJ)
  
• Reporting obligations: A1-A6, O2-A2 and O3-A2 (MB)
  
  • how far the evaluation promises have been fulfilled (O3-A1)
  • how / how far partners have played the roles assigned to them
• C14 "a key issue moving forward as conveying what added value there is in making construals" (all)
  
• Dearth of makers! - vital to address (all)
  
  • importance of paper / classroom resources
  • culturally lagging behind other school resources
  • cf. Scratch, processing, Arduino
  • need to embrace other promotional models
• Funding for a follow-up project? (DA, PK)