Draft schedule
We expect about 14 participants at C3, representing all the partners. These representatives are:
- UEF: Ilkka Jormanainen, Markku Tukiainen, Tapani Toivonen
- Warwick: Meurig Beynon, Elizabeth Hudnott, Nick Pope, Mike Joy (Monday-Tuesday)
- Helix5: Piet Kommers
- Edinburgh: Hamish Macleod
- Comenius: Peter Tomcsanyi, Michal Winczer
- Edumotiva: Dimitris Alimisis, Manolis Zoulias, Rene Alimisi (Mon afternoon - Friiday)
In the timetable below, people are referenced by their initials. The names highlighted in bold are the representatives of the partners on the project management committee. They will play a core role in M3: the third transnational project meeting (TPM).
The TPM will take place on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, and will be organised in parallel with other activities of a more practical nature that constitute the programme for C3. Following a pattern that is somewhat similar to that adopted at C2 in Athens in September 2015, the principal focus for C3 will be on external dissemination/evaluation, which in this case will take the form of a seminar to which colleagues associated with related projects based at UEF will be invited to contribute (primarily by giving feedback). This will take place on Wednesday 14th September.
The general programme for the C3-M3 meeting and the key themes and activities we have in mind are listed in the draft schedule below. (Timings are guidelines only at this stage. The default venue for our meetings is Room 2D309 in the Science Park Building, Länsikatu 15, 80110 Joensuu. There is also a possibility of a visit to a nearby local school but this is still to be confirmed - this would ideally take place at a time that did not conflict with the TPM.)
| Session/Day | Time | Venue | Content | Present | Notes |
| Monday 12/9 | 8.50 | Meeting up with Ilkka in the main lobby of the Science Park Building, Länsikatu 15, 80110 Joensuu | |||
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S1 Monday 12/9 |
9.00 - 10.45 |
2D309 Science Park Building |
Review of the status of the OOC, and of the online resources that have been developed to support it (e.g. C6: Warwick, December; C15: Athens, April; C9: SciFest, May). Practical sessions to illustrate the various resources conceived. |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW |
A key resource: the iTAG tutorial 2015
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S2 Monday 12/9 |
11.00 - 12.15 | 2D309
Science Park Building |
Practical sessions to illustrate the various resources conceived with project team participation, with emphasis on evaluation as so far practised and as may be done in the teacher/pupil sessions to follow and in the future. Feedback from Edumotiva based on analysis of C15 Teacher Training event if available. |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW |
Introductory resources developed for C2 and C6 revisited. OERs for CAS, as implemented in the MCE: sorting, Conway's Life SciFest 2016 activities reviewed Edumotiva's feedback on C15: teacher feedback and student diaries |
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S3 Monday 12/9 |
13.15 - 15.00 | 2D309
Science Park Building |
TPM Introduction to the third Transnational Project Meeting TPM3. A review of what has happened in CONSTRUIT! so far (to include reports on progress towards the Intellectual Outputs O1,O2 and O3), an introduction to topics that will underpin the activities in year 3 (for which the key themes are the special qualities of construals as OERs and their topicality in relation to contemporary computing applications) - to include a brief review of pre-existing resources relating to these themes. Dissemination activities to date to be reviewed. Planning for the mini-conference |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW |
See the Progress and draft Interim report (2015), the CONSTRUIT! account, and related documentation, and the Interim Report (2016) Draft topics for discussion at C3 and rough notes on plans for year 3 A widening participation proposal ALT-C discussion and feedback Collaboration and Assessment: the key Year 2 themes |
| S4 Monday 12/9
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15.30 - 17.15 | 2D309
Science Park Building |
TPM Management Review of management issues and matters arising from project review in previous session. Potential CONSTRUITers in partner countries. Plans for the final conference at Warwick in Summer 2017. Key dates for Year 3. Planning for the mini-conference |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW, [DA, MZ, RA] |
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| S5 Tuesday 13/9 | 9.00 - 10.45 | 2D309
Science Park Building |
TPM Strategy and Implementation Discussion of strategic and implementation issues going forward, to include discussion of the questionnaire, official project website, the template for each year of the project, the interim report, publications, competitions, Warwick IGGY / Joensuu Kids Club, and AOB. Planning for the mini-conference |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA |
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S6 Tuesday 13/9 |
11.00-12.15 | 2D309
Science Park Building |
TPM Strategy and Implementation Discussion of strategic and implementation issues going forward, to include discussion of the questionnaire, official project website, the template for each year of the project, the interim report, publications, competitions, Warwick IGGY / Joensuu Kids Club, and AOB. Planning for the mini-conference |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA |
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S7 Tuesday 13/9 |
13.15 - 15.00 |
2D309 Science Park Building |
Preparation of seminar/workshop sessions for Wednesday mini-conference as a corporate exercise with trials and live feedback from project team participants. |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA |
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S8 Tuesday 13/9 |
15.30 - 17.15 | 2D309
Science Park Building |
Preparation of seminar/workshop sessions for Wednesday mini-conference as a corporate exercise with trials and live feedback from project team participants. | IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, MJ, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA | |
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S9 Wednesday |
9.00 - 10.30 | 2D309
Science Park Building |
Mini-Conference on Making Construals 1 Piet Kommers and Hamish Macleod on pedagogy and making construals: didactic obstetrics, constructionism, experiential learning and inquiry-based learning. |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA |
Pedagogical Interim Review and ALT-C OOC: primary (TACCLE3) and secondary computing (Eritrea and A level computing wiki) Maths education The trigonometric functions construal |
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S10 Wednesday 14/9 |
10.45 - 12.00 |
2D309 Science Park Building |
Mini-Conference on Making Construals 2 Brief presentation from Markku Tukiainen at UEF (re spreadsheets and software development). Nick Pope and Elizabeth Hudnott on the current status and future prospects for the MCE. |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA |
PPIG 2016 Scoping, Observable Palettes, Project Manager |
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S11 Wednesday 14/9 |
13.00 - 15.00 |
2D309 Science Park Building |
Mini-Conference on Making Construals 3 The CONSTRUIT! project / example construals Tapani Toivonen, Ilkka Jormanainen and others on PhD plans, Arduino and the MCE: Internet of Things, Unsupervised Machine Learning an EM approach Solomon Oyelere and UEF research group: mobile learning |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA |
Edurobotics 2016 Mindstorms revisited Arduino |
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S12 Wednesday 14/9 |
15.30 - 17.15 |
2D309 Science Park Building |
Mini-Conference on Making Construals 4 Interactive collaborative learning and the MCE: current technologies, technical aspects - such as network remote, and case studies Meurig Beynon and others on provisional Edurobotics presentation |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, PK, HM, PT, MW, DA, MZ, RA |
Interactive Collaborative Learning The Napier Chessboard Abacus construal The Malaria construal The Piano Construal |
| S13 Thursday
15/9 |
09.00 - 10.45 |
2D309 Science Park Building |
Reflection on and feedback from mini-conference activities. Implications for the OOC, Virtual Workshops and prospects for the final conference. |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, PK, HM, DA, MZ, RA |
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| S14 Thursday
15/9 |
11.00 - 13.00 |
2D309 Science Park Building |
Forward planning for C7, C16 and SciFest 2017 and final conference July 13-16th 2017. Evaluation of the C3/M3 event |
IJ, MT, TT, MB, NP, EH, PK, HM, DA, MZ, RA |
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| End of meeting |
For the parallel sessions S3, S4, S5 and S6, not all the project team members will wish to be involved in the TPM discussions which only the core members who represent the patners on the project management committee need attend. As at C2, without imposing any strict rules on how team members may wish to contribute, we have established informal groupings based on three themes, broadly concerned with technical matters, evaluation, and strategy. Suggested affiliations might be:
- Technical: PT, MZ, EH, NP, MW, TT, MB
- Evaluation: DA, RA, EH, PK, HM, MT, MB
- Strategy: MJ, DA, PK, HM, MW, MT, MB
In the planning sessions S4-S8 that lead up to the mini-conference on Wednesday 14th September, it will be appropriate to establish specific subgroups to prepare resources (e.g. presentations, demo examples. workshop-style activities) for the mini-conference sessions S9-S12. The suggested content for these sessions is set out in the Notes column on the right: this is provisional at this stage, and the order and actual topics addressed might well be changed. What is presented may also be influenced by the external participants who will be able to attend. There are several sessions at which it may be useful to have Skype connections in place with key team members who are unable to attend in person, such as Steve Russ, Jonathan Fooss and Antony Harfield.