Maria Barbas Projects

FDTI Project

2009-02-02T14:11:00.000-08:00

Date: Since 2009

Occupation or position held

Coordenator for FDTI Project

With 14950€ finacement

Project
Project for promoting virtual worlds for young students

Explanatory

This Project aims implementing a virtual conference and workshop on Second Life the following March 19th.

This Project aims:

· Dynamize a digital citizenship themed conference

· Dynamize workshopd about the construction of:

Eportfolios

Sl Initiation

Photography in SL

SL Fashion

Machinima and Building in SL

Island "Inovação e Criatividade"

2009-02-02T13:13:00.000-08:00

Date: April 26th and 27th 2009

Occupation or position held

Coordenator for the Island Inovação e Criatividade construction project (DJIJC)

The Financing for the project 25000 Euros.

Project
Island Inovação e Criatividade

Explanatory

The Centro de Competências in CIT at ESE de Santarém (CCESES) and the Coordination for the Master’s Degree in MEC at ESES are hereby presenting, as solicited by the Coordination for the DGIDC, a proposition for group of activities that aim to contribute to stimulate the usage of virtual worlds in educational environments, such as Second Life.

ESES’s contribution will be, namely, by fulfilling the following activities and initiatives, to be developed throughout the Academic year of 2008/2009:

1 – Design and built an Island in Second Life that will gather into a whole:
• Spaces destined to each one of the Centro de Competências (CIT and ECRIE).
• Spaces destined to the Projects for Formação Contínua em Matemática, Ensino Experimental das Ciências and Ensino do Português.
• Virtual Conference Room
• Support Office
• Private Meeting Room
• Social Area
• Involving Structures (gardens, paths…)

2 – Promotion, in connection with ECRIE, of a presentation so that the Departments for Skills and all the other involved entities can came acquainted with the project’s educational dimension and with all the functionalities to implement.

3 – Support in designing the training for the users, material conception and other needed resources.
4– Promotion, in connection with ECRIE, of a presentation for the Departments for Skills and all the other involved entities about the maintenance and management of the spaces and resources. Availability of management resources and training for their usage.
5 – Support for technical and educational usage of Second Life in general, and in the island in particular, trough the Social Area and dinamization of a hands on community.
6 – Technical Support for the acquisition of the island from Linden Lab through DGDIC/ECRIE
7 – Creation of branding elements and production of a promotional video for the project.

Project COMICT

2009-02-02T12:40:00.000-08:00

Date: Since 2008 to 2010

Occupation or position held

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

Project
European Project Leonardo da Vinci – Lifelong Learning Program

Explanatory

Coloborative Work for the development of digital tools for e-portfolios, Life strories and Second Life.

Project 3D Learning - Distance Learning in 3D Virtual Environment

2009-02-02T12:35:00.000-08:00

Date: Since 2008 to 2010

Occupation or position held
Member of the project 3D Learning - Distance Learning in 3D Virtual Environment

Project
European Project Leonardo Da Vinci - Lifelong Learning Program

Explanatory
Invited for External Evaluator

Project Fluids ID

2009-02-02T12:27:00.000-08:00

Date: Since 2006

Occupation or position held
Coordinator for Project Fluids ID

Project
National Project of Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém

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/fluidsid/) 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 maxinima 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 regional and national level). 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 (maxinima) 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 world wide (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.

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Project SLESES

2008-06-03T02:04:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-03T02:01:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-02T18:31:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-31T17:18:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-29T19:00:00.000-07:00

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

Project Poliempreende

2008-05-29T18:51:00.000-07:00

Date: Since 2007 (Approved with unanimity by the CB on Setember 19th)

Occupation or position held
Coordenator for Projecto Poliempreende

Project

Projecto Nacional do Ensino Superior

Explanatory

The companies with strong innovative characteristics areassencial to the transformation of ideas and projects on the scientific and academic world, to have real results, that can be economically profitable on the market, contributing namely to the equality of opportunities between man and women, for protecting the environment and the development/implementation of the information technologies.

This Project aims to contribute to:

The changing of attitudes by the Scholars of the IP, leading them to have on their regular activities the development and application of methods for valorization of the attained knowledge.

- Curricular enrichment, answering the challenge of the Process of Bologna and to the orientation strategy of Lisbon.

- the constitution of new companies with an innovation characteristics and their regional implementation, with growing potential.

Receptor:

- Graduating Students or post-graduating students in the involved IP’s Schools.

- graduated by any degree, at less than 3 years, in the involved IP’s Schools.

- Teachers on the involved IP’s Schools or other individuals, only when they are part of a team mostly constituted by students of the involved IP’s Schools.

Projecto Enlaces

2008-05-29T18:39:00.000-07:00

Data: Desde 2006

Função/Cargo Exercido
Coordenadora do Projecto Enlaces

Projecto
Projecto Nacional da Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém

Explicativo
O projecto que agora apresentamos, e-Portefolio 2.0: instrumento pedagógico de empregabilidade, pretende contribuir para o conhecimento e implementação de uma ferramenta – e-Portefolio – de sociabilidade – WEB 2.0 – que se inscreve numa Sociedade Fluida e Multimodal.
Esta temática justifica-se numa dimensão nacional uma vez que pretende dar resposta à medida apresentada no Plano Estratégico Nacional do Plano Tecnológico, mais especificamente, na terceira prioridade que visa contribuir para a garantia da “coesão social” através da qualificação tecnológica escolar e profissional do cidadão que se movimenta na rede fluida e multimodal da WEB 2.0. Para tal, tentaremos apresentar o “e-Portefolio” como um instrumento capaz de ajudar a promover a empregabilidade e o empreendorismo do cidadão.
Numa dimensão internacional, pretendemos através deste projecto dar proposta às medidas que estão a ser implementadas a nível mundial pelo Europortfolio Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) - EIFEL (Building and Learning Europe) e, no continente americano, pelo “Learning Innovations Forum” (LIFIA) no sentido de criar um e-portfolio para todos os cidadãos até 2010.

Projecto Europeu Sócrates Língua 2 L’ Europe Ensemble

2008-05-29T18:32:00.000-07:00

Date: From 2004 to 2007

Occupation or position held
Member of Project L’ Europe Ensemble

Project
European Project Sócrates Língua 2 L’ Europe Ensemble
Winner Project for Label Européen 2006

Explanatory

The L’EUROPE ENSEMBLE Project is a pedagogical product about the learning of foreign languages, specifically conceived for a target public from 11th to 15th years old. Composed by eight “scripts” accompanied by an audio CD in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Swedish as foreign languages, proposes sequences of activities, with three levels of difficulty, for initiation of a language or consolidation of knowledges. This collection articulates with a Multilanguage site, interactive mean of discovery of languages and cultures. Through a virtual journey through Europe, as motivation for mobility, the use is going to find ways of putting in practice the languages of the countries he is visiting. He will have this possibility, thanks to the CIT, of finding out or consolidate a language on its context opening to other cultures.

This approach, the basis of the linguistics acquisitions is constituted for authentic situations created from cultural supports: more than thematic, it offers “intercultural communication projects”, in relation with the interests of young Europeans.