Photos from Silver Car - Italy

06-November-2006

Photos for video recording

Dear Graham

I am attaching the first set of photos for video recording. The photos belong to one of the three companies belonging to the case study.

Photos from the remaining two companie will follow soon.

Best Regards

Elmo



Elmo De Angelis; 06-November-2006 15:41:12 forum (0)

Photos from Training 2000

06-November-2006

Photos for multimedia products

Dear Graham,

I am attaching photos from Training 2000 you can use in producing multimedia products.

Regards

Elmo



Elmo De Angelis; 06-November-2006 18:05:54 forum (0)

Photos from COMEC innovative

07-November-2006

Photos for multimedia products

Dear Graham ,

I am attaching photos to be used for multimedia product.

Best Regards

Elmo



Elmo De Angelis; 07-November-2006 11:07:22 forum (0)

Photos form San Marco

07-November-2006

Photos to be used for multimedia products

Dear Graham,

I am sending you the last set of photos from Sam Marco - car company in Abruzzo.

Best Regards

Elmo



Elmo De Angelis; 07-November-2006 11:15:26 forum (0)

From Strasbourg to final results 1: The revision of the WLP website

21-November-2006

[ knowledge sharing , Final run , WLP Web , project planning ]
The WLP project had its concluding workshop in Strasbourg 9.11.-10.11.2006. The workshop made a thorough examination of the current stand of the project work. The ain thrust of this examination was how to transform the hitherto produced materials into products for users. In this respect the key issue is the revision of website. Therefore, this blog entry takes up the issue of website already before the minutes of the workshop are available.
The discussion of the website was opened with my proposal on reshaping the website on the basis of four Product Areas and five Resource Ereas. The four Product Ereas (WLP Manual, WLP Course, WLP Web and WLP Reports) would provide different starting points for examining the work of the WLP project. The joint Resource Areas would present preparatory tools, tutorial tools, case stories and multimedia resources. The fifth Resource Area would contain the Partners' Areas (Piloting forums or Dissemination forums that would serve the partners' purposes).
(See the attached document Website-revision 1)

The subsequent disussion was highly critical led to fundamentally different direction:
  • Firstly, the WLP partners apreciated the proposal and considered that it linked in a coherent way to each other the materials and resources that had been produced in the project.
  • Secondly, the partners pointed out that this overview could only be based on insiders' experience or  evaluators' analysis on the process and the outcomes.
  • Thirdly, the partners' emphasised the necessity to address users' perspective to the producs and resources as the starting point. This would have implications for the opening page, for the architecture and for the navigation.
Therefore, the partners started to construct the proposal for the new architecture from the perspective of users in different national contexts. The main entry to the website should be given via thenational  Partners' Areas. The Partners' Areas should then give further links to resources in national language or to joint resources in English language.

Based on this reasoning, the products and resources should be presented with the help of a box on the left-and side. The tabs of the box should give drop-down menus for exploring the resources under the main heading. This idea for revision was developed together and it reached a high degree of consensuality.
(See the attached document Website-revision 2)

However, when having returned to Bremen I had to work with the texts for the  final product that had not been thoroughly discussed by the project (WLP Course). It struck me that the Learning Areas of the course will integrate some of the resources that had been to some extent disconnected to others. This gave rise to a slight modification to the joint result that was achieved in the Strasbourg workshop.
(See the attached document Website-revision 3)

With this posting I have tried to summarise the progress with this issue and give the starting point for the final steps for transforming the WLP website from a project-internal construction site into a users' website.

Pekka Kämäräinen


Pekka Kämäräinen; 21-November-2006 18:28:09 forum (0)

From Strasbourg to final results 2: The Minutes of the Strasbourg Workshop

22-November-2006

[ WLP Web , Final run ]
The WLP project had its concluding workshop in Strasbourg 9.11.-10.11.2006. As has been indicated, the workshop discussed thoroughly the current phase of the project work. Therefore, this blog entry complements the first report that focused on the website revision. This posting presents the minutes of the workshop.
As has been indicated in the first report, the Strasbourg workshop analysed what has been achieved in the project. This examination was prepared by prior working notes that drew attentin to the attainment of the goals and to the relevance of the results.

In the discussion the partners put a great emphasis to the need
1) get an overall picture of the achieved results and to
2) transform the project-internal thinking on the results towards a user-centred approach.

Therefore, the Minutes of the Strasbourg workshop are very detailed and follow closely the course of the discussion. Also, the conclusions were very closely related to the tasks that the partners took to themselves to bring the proect into the final results. (See the Minutes of the Strabourg workshop as attached dopcument.)

Pekka Kämäräinen



Pekka Kämäräinen; 22-November-2006 17:54:47 forum (0)

From Strasbourg to final results 3: The WLP Manual takes shape

23-November-2006

[ WLP Web , project planning , Final run ]
The two previous postings have presented the discussions at the Strasbourg workshop and the conclusions concerning the development of the WLP Website. This posting shifts the emphasis to the final products that are to be presented as services for the users. The first final product to be discussed in the WLP Manual.
In the original plans the idea of a "WLP Manual" was closely linked to the assumption that the use of the WLP tools and to certain organisational models for partnership cooperation between training providers and and partter enterprises. However, the work of the WLP project has brought into picture a more complex European landscape regarding partnership creation and needs for support. Therefore, the role of the WLP Manual has been reconsidered in the London workshop and I have prepared a draft version on the basis of the London conclusions.

In the light of the above the current version of the WLP Manual is not an extensive guide to the WLP tools (with many examples on the uses of tools). Instead, the revisited concept provides a "brief guide" to the knowledge resources, working instruments and support facilities theat have been developed by the WLP project.

In five pages the WLP Manual covers the following themes:

a) Value of workplace learning and partnership cooperation in different countries,
b) Use of the results of the WLP project in the development of partnership cooperation,
c) Understanding the diversity of partnership concepts and different evolutionary stages,
d) Identifying different patterns for promoting networked learning,
e) Changing role of web-based support for workplace learning and for related piloting,
f)  Use of case stories and multimedia products as means to promote nowledge sharing,
g) Making targeted use of the WLP Course and of related tools and facilities,
h) Conclusions and recommendations for further activities.

The sixth page should contain a list of web links - both to WLP pages and to external resources. This page can be finalised when the necessary changes have been made in the architecture of the WLP website.

In this context it is essential to note that the WLP Manual should be translated into all national languages. Therefore, it is important that the final text will be agreed jointly and that the partners can produce the national language versions.

Pekka Kämäräinen

 


Pekka Kämäräinen; 23-November-2006 10:55:38 forum (0)

From Strasbourg to final results 4: The WLP Course takes shape

23-November-2006

[ project planning , knowledge sharing , Final run ]
The third postings related to the Strasbourg conclusions discussed the WLP Manual. This text of the Manual presented briefly the WLP Course. The posting presents the underlying ideas, the draft framework and the related support tools.
As has been the case with the WLP Manual (see my previous blog entry), the role of the WLP Course has been reconsidered in the light of the experiences of the WLP project. In the original plans the WLP Course was given the task
1) to disseminate the use of WLP tools (notably the Learning Potential Analysis)
2) to facilitate the use of the analyses in partnership-building,
3) to disseminate examples of good practice.

As the experiences of the project have pointed out, the WLP project had to encounter a more complex Europan landscape regarding the creation and further development of partnership cooperation. In this respect neither the "Groundwork tools" nor the web-based support  facilities can be seen as universal keys to successive partnership cooperation.

From this perspective the concept of the WLP Course has been developed with a relatively open architecture that enables local adjustment to the needs of users and to their action contexts. In a similar way the concept makes it possible to use the "WLP Course" either as a basis for an ordinary training course or as a suppot framework for self-directed explorations.

The WLP Course is based on four Learning Areas:
Learning Area 1: Partnership Creation and use of basic analyses,
Learning Area 2: Planning of partnership-based learning arrangements,
Learning Area 3: Support for partnership-based learning activities,
Learning Area 4: Making use of web services and web platforms.

The WLP Course concept is presented and explained with the following documents (see the attachments to this blog entry):
The Introduction document (2 pages, presents nutshell information)
The Framework document (5 pages, outlines the structure and presents the learning tasks for the ),
The Planning tool document (5 pages, presents the underlying pedagogic principles),
The Customisation tool document (5 pages, presents questions and remarks concerning the adjustment of the course),
The Tutorial tools (short documents, to be presented with a later blog entry, support the work on specific Learning Areas).

The general aim of the WLP Course is to promote continuing professional development of teachers, trainers and other interested professionals in the related learning areas. The  learning tasks start with issues that have been discussed in the WLP project, offer a perspective to deepen one's knowledge and open prospects for further learning. In this respect the course links the results of the WLP project to some parallel developments.

I have submitted this blog entry to make the preparation of the WLP Course more transparent (and open for feedback). In the course of the week I try to submit the above mentioned documents as attachments. I hope that the process of giving shape for the WLP Course is completed very soon.

Pekka Kämäräinen


Pekka Kämäräinen; 23-November-2006 13:32:40 forum (0)