Project SLESES

Date: Since 2008

Ocupation or position held Coordinator for Projecto SLESES

Project

Projecto Nacional do Ensino Superior

Explanatory:

This Project aims implementing a virtual campus on Second Life. It was built in the scope of the Master’s Degree in Multimedia Education and Communication at ESES, but it is now opened to all the student community. It is coordinated by the teachers Maria Barbas e Jean Campiche.

This Project aims:

· Provide adequate training to all the team that belongs to the project (namely in the domains of building and designing in SL, Linden Scripting Language and Machinima),

· Design the Campus for Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém in Second Life (SLESES);

· Implement and program the objects on the virtual campus;

· Conceive and implement promotional videos in SL;

· Conceive and make available help manuals for young residents/visitors of SLESES.

It was made a work team for pluridisciplinary work contemplating some teachers (that must coordinate and dynamize the group to which they belong, these are: Ana Loureiro, António Andrade, Dina Aguiar, Jean Campiche, José Nunes, José Soares e Maria Barbas) and also a vast number of students. This team will conceive, develop and implement all the virtual campus of SLESES.

The team was divided in 5 distinct work groups, made by their needs and specificities inherent to the project. It is important to note that the team was made only with volunteers. Beside the teachers, it counts with students from the Master’s Degree in Multimedia Education and Communication, from licentiate in Multimedia Education and Communication (day and night courses) and from licentiate in Plastic Arts and Multimedia. We will have a team made by 40 elements working so that SLESES fulfills its objectives.

To create and dynamize SLESES, were defined 4 areas/groups:

· Scripting, to program the objects and behaviors of the avatars;

· Building & Design, to build all 3D objects, conceive, design and built new objects and spaces;

· Multimedia (Machinima), to conceive videos and multimedia contents to be showed on virtual world;

· Helpdesk , to dynamize and promote interaction between the school and the virtual campus;

At a posterior phase we will have a 5th team that will be held responsible for the evaluation, implications, influences and potentialities of Sleses on process f teaching-learning. This group will be coordinated by Maria Barbas (aka Rocio Barbasz) and Ana Loureiro (aka Anitia Loire). We will try to understand if, as Wagner says (2007), we can consider that Second Life is “an ideal pedagogical resource” [4].

The projects has also the collaboration of the Center for Information and Documentation (CDI), the Center for Audiovisual resources (CRAV), the Computing center (CI) and the ESES’s Students Association

Project Convergência Interactiva Internacional

Date: 1999/2000

Occupation or position held: Co-coordination in partnership with Marina McIsaac

Project
Project “Convergência Interactiva Internacional” between students of Audiovisual Communication Techniques of the Licentiate Degree for Secondary school teachers - variant on Technological and visual Education and the Students of Educational Media and Computers at Arizona State University

European Project Leonardo da Vinci – Lifelong Learning Programme

Date: From 2008 to 2010

Occupation or position held:
Member of Project COMICT – Enhancing the quality of teaching and learning by training EU schools staff in coordination and management of ICT implementation - COMICT

Project
Projecto Europeu Leonardo da Vinci – Lifelong Learning Programme

Explanatory
Colobaratory work for developing digital tools for e-portfolios, LifeStories and Second Life.

European Project Leonardo da Vinci – Lifelong Learning Programme

Date: From 2008 to 2010

Occupation or position held
Member of Projecto 3D Learning – Distance Learning in 3D Virtual Environment

Project
Projecto Europeu Leonardo da Vinci – Lifelong Learning Programme

Explanatory
Invited for External Evaluator

E-Portefolios 2.0 e históiras de vida: Instrumentos Pedagógicos de Empregabilidade

Date: 2007-2010

Designation of the atributed grade: Post-Doctorate - Fellowship at FCT - SFRH/BPD/44838/2008

Subject :E-Portefólios 2.0 e histórias de vida: Instrumentos Pedagógicos de Empregabilidade

Supervisors:

• Doutor Professor António Moreira, Associated Professor at Universidade de Aveiro
• Doutor Professor Maria Clara Ferrão Tavares, Coordenator Professor with Agregation at Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém
  

Name and type of teaching and training organization: Universidade de Aveiro

Explanatory:

The project "FLUIDS_ID: e-portfolios and life stories - digital contents for social inclusion and employability in RL and SL" questions different representations of final higher education students at national, European and Latin-American level, who seek jobs resorting to accessible and inclusive WEB 3.0 tools, made available to every citizen.

We created a space (http://w3.ese.ipsantarem.pt/fuidsid/) where we identified world experiments that generated good practices of employability, we adapted Kolb´s Experiential Learning Theory and developed the Puzzle Metaphor respecting the learning profiles of the citizen, with DublinCore metadata, where every student can insert e-portfolios and life stories, by selecting a profile of competences, impersonated by an avatar, defined under Kolb´s theory. We underline the fact that this platform will allow the inclusion of personalized videos with the machinima technique (used in Second Life).

We built the prototype in May 2007. It was awarded the 1st prize, and later on the 3rd, at the Poliempreende Competition (respectively at the regional and national competitions). Presently we propose: a) to study the way of rendering this platform inclusive to all citizen; b) to index the various profiles that are part of the platform to companies capable of giving them an employability response; c) to introduce innovative techniques at the level of video (machinima) so as to allow each citizen to build his/her own life story; d) to develop the platform for every student who finishes higher education, projecting its internationalization to Europe and Latin-America, with the goal of including the present study under the policies adopted worldwide :to create an e-portfolio for all until 2010; e) to promote research at post-doctoral, doctoral and master level, including the integration of young graduates in Research Integration Grants