First Bazaar Show-me Day in Cologne, May 15th 2006

The team at the University of Cologne proudly presents the 1st BAZAAR Show-me day. Matthias Kunkel and Carsten Kozianka will provide hands-on experience in creating, exchanging and re-using e-learning materials with Open Source software and tools.

To ensure direct hands-on experience every participant will be equipped with his own computer in one of our local university pools (15 workstations). Due to a great demand for participation from local and regional teachers the event is already fully booked.

Topics:

• From a text file to an e-learning module: Firstly, we are going to demonstrate how to turn a simple text file into an multimedia-enhanced e-learning module – using the ILIAS OS LMS, OpenOffice and a small tool called iLEX. Then we will show how to keep your content from being stuck in a particular system and re-use it in other contexts. This will include the transfer of an ILIAS module to another ILIAS installation, LMS or CMS.
• Using Open Content for education: The increase of content published under so-called “Copyleft” licenses opens up new vistas for education but also causes concern about legal implications. We will explain step-by-step how you can safely copy, modify and redistribute Open Content in combination with your own learning material.

• Creating and formatting WIKI pages: If a WIKI can be integrated into the daily routines of an educational institution – which means that employees are actually making contributions to it – it becomes a powerful tool for aggregating knowledge from staff. To use this unique power of collaborative writing one has to be familiar with the WIKI syntax that we will give an introduction to.

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