Title: "BSUL: Basic Support for ubiquitous Learning"

Day: Friday, June 3, 2005

Time: 10:30-12:00

Location: C03

Organizers: Nobuji A. Saito V., Rosa G. Paredes Juarez, Hiroaki Ogata, Yoneo Yano

Description: In this interactive event we would like to present the BSUL (Basic Support for Ubiquitous Learning) environment for supporting classroom activities with mobile computing devices. We have identified different routine activities that can be supported with web based IT in order to improve the teaching/learning experience and promote the cooperative and constructive creation of knowledge. These activities include: material distribution, students’ response taking, report submission and formation of learning groups. The teacher logins through a laptop computer and the students through a PDA (personal digital assistant) for accessing the environment web site and making use of the proposed tools. As a usage example we will present a small survey with our response tool, and according to the participants answers separate the participants in groups for discussing about the “Heat Island Problem”, a current global warming issue. We will ask our participants to fill in the conclusions of their discussion in our report submission tool, and present their results to the rest of the audience. If possible, we will also like to ask our participants to collect information on the topic from outside the conference room, such as voice and/or video recordings from other people. Click here for a full description.

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