This is a summary of events, activities and trainings in Austria. By: Jutta Jerlich, Elisabeth Zistler, Christian Reimers, Thomas Lebzelter The following summary is listed according to the date of the event. Each event is categorized based on its type. Events are designed so that they serve more than one purpose as often as possible. Validation Workshop 28.04.2009-30.04.2009, Gegenstandsportal Conference, Bad Hofgastein Workshop of the COSMOS to implement the COSMOS Portal to the subject oriented portal to the teachers responsible for content evaluation and editorial of the 40 subjects collections published on the Austrian Gegenstandsportal. Contact: Monika Andraschko, EDUHI http://www.schule.at/gegenstand/vis http://www.schule.at/gegenstand 02.04.2009-05.04.2009, COSMOS Workshops during the Year of Astronomy 2009 The year 2009 is the Year of Astronomy, during this time an initiative will offer the 100 hours of Astronomy workshop series throughout of Austria. http://www.astronomie2009.at/ 11.12.2008-13.12.2008, elearning Conference, Eisenstadt COSMOS Workshops and Presentations at the Annual Conference - elearning in the New Europa. The purpose of the elearning Conference in Eisenstadt is to bring educational stakeholders from Austria and Neighbour Countries together. The topic is changing every year according to the new developments in the sector of ICT. Targetgroup: Educational stakeholders of Ministries, Educational Servers Contact: Michaela Schaller, BMUKK http://www.enis.at/elearning-conference Validation Workshop COSMOS Seite 1 von 1
13.11.2008-15.11.2008, Interpädagogica 2008, Graz 11.11.2008, COSMOS Workshop, Wien Annual educational fair alternately being held in Graz,, Salzburg and Linz. The Department V/3, IT-Systems for Education presents all national and international projects. Christian Reimers, Ronald Binder and Manfred Lohr presented the COSMOS tools and educational resources to a broad range of teachers from throughout Austria. Targetgroup: Austrian Teachers of all schooltypes Contact: Elisabeth Zistler, BMUKK; Michaela Schaller, BMUKK http://virtuelleschule.bmukk.gv.at/events-undinfos/interpaedagogica/ COSMOS Workshop Part 2 2 nd Training Session: Training for handling with the COSMOS Tools, COSMOS Scenarios and the COSMOS Portal. 06.11.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#77) ASTROID and COSMOS Content of Meeting: Working with educational szenarios, presentation of links, worksheets, manuals, glossaries, quizes, how to use the COSMOS portal, preparation of materials for teacher training workshops, including interactive PDFs and LaTeX 04.11.2008, Future Learning, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Presentation of the COSMOS to government officials and educational experts by the head of the Department V/3, IT- Systems for Education, Dr. Reinhold Hawle. Contact: Ursula Lindmeier, BMUKK http://virtuelleschule.bmukk.gv.at/events-und-infos/eventkalender/futurelearning/future-learning-2008/ COSMOS Seite 2 von 2
30.10.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#76) 28.10.2008, COSMOS Workshop, Content of Meeting: Discussion and concretion of a working booklet ( Arbeitsheft ) prototype. Working on metatagging of educational content for an upload to the COSMOS portal. COSMOS Workshop Part 1 1 st Training Session: Introduction on working with the COSMOS portal, the COSMOS tools and COSMOS szenarios 23.10.2008-24.10.2008 elearning Didaktik Fachtagung, TGM 23.10.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#75) Präsentation aktueller EU-Projekte unter Mitwirkung bzw. Federführung des BMUKK. Die Projekte, an denen Teams aus einer Reihe von europäischen Ländern mitwirken, haben die gemeinsame Entwicklung, Nutzung und Erreichbarkeit von Lehrmaterialien zum Ziel. Contact: Ruth Sattler, BMUKK http://www.e-teaching-austria.at Content of Meeting: Working with educational szenarios, structuring of learning szenarios and learning modules, introduction into Typo3 COSMOS Seite 3 von 3
21.10.2008, COSMOS Teacher, Graz 16.10.2008 17.10.2008, Inspire KickOff, Wien 14.10.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#74) 02.10.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#73) The teacher training workshop focuses on the "International Year of Astronomy 2009 and its possible activities for educators, teachers and students. The handson activities of COSMOS including the possibilities to create educational materials were demonstrated to the audience hands-on. The practical example workshop: Solarscopes demonstrated observation of the sun for schools Contact: Thomas Lebzelter, Department of Astronomy, During the Inspire KickOff, COSMOS was presented; a video (in german) will be available.targetgroup: Teachers from all schooltypes in Austria, Partner in Germany http://virtuelleschule.bmukk.gv.at/projekteinternational/eu-projekte/inspire/newsberichte/ Content of Meeting: Working with educational szenarios, presentation of links, worksheets, manuals, glossaries, quizes, how to use the COSMOS portal, preparation of materials for teacher training workshops, including structuring of learning szenarios and learning modules, introduction into Typo3 Content: of Meeting: Working with educational szenarios and reworking of content, preparation of materials for teacher training workshops. COSMOS Seite 4 von 4
24.09.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#72) Content: of Meeting: Working with educational szenarios and reworking of content, replacement of learning scenario "Meteoriteneinschläge" on the COSMOS portal, - preparation of materials for teacher training workshops. 12.09.2008, COSMOS: AG Astronomiedidaktik-Workshop ASTRONOMISCHE GESELLSCHAFT Arbeitskreis Astronomiedidaktik Workshop in the framework of the working group Astronomiedidaktik of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Presentation of the COSMOS project to teachers and members of the working group ( Arbeitskreis ) for astronomy didactics of German-speaking countries. Content of the Workshop: - Space Track Schüler führen durchs Universum - COSMOS An Advanced Science Repository for Teaching and Learning - Schülerpraktikumsprojekte im Internet (Einsatz in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit) - Pluto als Planet von 1930 bis 2006 - Die Bewohnbarkeit unseres Planeten - Schülerpraktika und astronomische Forschung - Astronomie aus der Kiste (Arbeit mit einfachen Modellen) Target group: Teachers from the German-speaking region in Europe http://star-www.stand.ac.uk/~ch80/alu/adworkshop2008.html http://www.schule.at/dl/aaul-worksh08100001.pdf COSMOS Seite 5 von 5
10.09.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#71) Content: Creation of learning szenario "Meteoriteneinschläge" using the IMS LD-Standard including creation of meta data in IEEE LOM-Standard, upload of the szenario to the COSMOS Portal, planning and preparation of training workshop based on this practical example, creation of teaching materials 08.09.2008-12.09.2008, JENAM Conference, "NEW CHALLENGES - EUROPEAN ASTRONOMY" COSMOS Project Presentation at the JENAM conference in Contact: Thomas Lebzelter, Department of Astronomy, http://www.univie.ac.at/jenam2008 01.09.2008-02.09.2008, International Project Meeting, Liverpool 3 rd COSMOS Meeting Content of the Meeting: - Presentation of the results from different work packages - Discussion about the implementation and trials phase (Organisation of pilots, definition of the pilot schools and teachers, etc.) - Decision and planning about the Training workshops - Detailed presentation of the functionalities of the COSMOS Portal - Validation procedure and method of gathering data from the pilots Contact: Elisabeth Zistler, BMUKK COSMOS Seite 6 von 6
27.08.2008 09:00-17:00, COSMOS, Meeting Preparation meeting for the International COSMOS Meeting in Liverpool. Main topics of the agenda: strategic planning of all COSMOS activities in 2009, national project presentation Austria; networking with other EU projects. Contact: Elisabeth Zistler, BMUKK 26.08.2008 13:30-14:30, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#70) 22.08.2008, COSMOS, Teacher Training, Graz Content of the Meeting: Szenario translation and resources, VIS subject oriented portal, training workshops, preparation for work group meeting didactics of Astronomy on the 12.9.2008, preparation for COSMOS Meeting, Liverpool, on the 1.-2.9.2008 Hands-on Workshop for teachers inclduing the presentation of the COSMOS FlyPen, the COSMOS MagicBook. Discussion of educational needs and requirements Analysis, presentation of the science educational vocabulary and the tool-box. Information about the implementation of innovative technologies in Austria and the network of educational resources. Contact: Alexander Nischelwitzer, FH Joanneum, Graz 18.07.2008-12.07.2008, COSMOS Team Workshop, Presentation about the activities and events from the Summer School (Herakleon) by Christian Reimers focusing on the use of the COSMOS software tools to create educational learning resources for the COSMOS platform. COSMOS Seite 7 von 7
07.07.2008-12.07.2008, COSMOS Summerschool, Herakleon The Summerschool was organised by EA (GR). Austrian Participants: Ronald Binder, Christian Reimers, Veronika Rüdegger, Marlies Kranebitter Foto: EA Validation Workshop 25.06.2008, ASTROID/COSMOS-Meeting (#69) 29.05.2008, Netdays Austria Meeting im Rahmen des elearning-projektes ASTROID und dem COSMOS-Projekt Content of the Meeting: - Working on the Draft of Learning Scenario "Dunkle Materie" - Preparation for the national conference in (26.- 27.6.2008) - Preparation of Materials for the COSMOS Summer School near Herakleon (7.-12.7.2008) - Work on the Presentation for the 3 rd COSMOS Meeting in Liverpool (1.-2.9.2008) Presentation of COSMOS to all Netdays project participants and teachers. Contact: Karl Lehner, BMUKK http://www.netdays.at 29.05.2008, Schulhomepageaward Presentation of COSMOS to all school headmasters participating in the award. Contact: Karl Lehner, BMUKK http://schulhomepageaward.bmukk.gv.at COSMOS Seite 8 von 8
15.05.2008-17.05.2008, Bildung Online 2008, Hall in Tirol Presentation of the project to a broad range of teachers at the annual Bildung Online in Hall in Tirol. Workshop and COSMOS tool demonstration with interested visiting teachers from Austria and neighbouring countries. Contact: Elisabeth Zistler, BMUKK http://www.virtuelleschule.at/bildungonline Validation Workshop 24.04.2008-25.04.2008, InLOT Workshop, Gmünd During the InLOT Workshop COSMOS was a part of the agenda. Teachers were invited to take part in the COSMOS project and provide existing econtent. Targetgroup: Teachers and pupils Contact: Ronald Binder, BG Gmünd http://www.virtuelleschule.at/inlot 21.04.2008-22.04.2008, COSMOS, Task Analysis Workshop, Linz The main scope of the expert focus group was to discuss the findings on the user profiles and needs to combine them with experiences from similar projects leading to the essential results for the final user needs profile. Based on this outcome a user friendly design of the COSMOS repository shall be sketched. Contact: Astrid Leeb, EDUHI 03.04.2008-05.04.2008, Workshop Gegenstandsportal, Bad Hofgastein Workshop in the framework of regular editorial meeting with the teachers responsible for the subject oriented content published on the Austrian Gegenstandsportal. COSMOS hands- on demonstrations and presentation to the relevant subjects. Contact: Monika Andraschko, EDUHI http://www.schule.at/gegenstand COSMOS Seite 9 von 9
19.02.2008, COSMOS Requirement Workshop Discussion of questionaire, finding of test schools for the implementation of the User needs and Analysis Contact: Thomas Lebzelter, Department of Astronomy, 13.12.2007, COSMOS Workshop, Department of Astronomy, An internal coordination meeting in order to establish a network of astronomers, students and teachers for Cosmos in Austria. Both short and long time strategies within the project where discussed. Contact: Thomas Lebzelter, Department of Astronomy, 04.12.2007, Conference Discovery Days, Linz COSMOS project presentation to educators, experts and political opinion leaders in the framework of the conference about Communication and Science in the Ars Electronica Center in Linz Contact: Elisabeth Zistler, BMUKK http://www.virtuelleschule.at/discovery-day 24.11.2007-25.11.2007, Interpädagogica 2007, Salzburg Annual educational fair held in Salzburg. The Department V/3, IT-Systems for Education presents all national and international projects. Manfred Lohr and Ronlad Binder presented the COSMOS tools and educational resources to a broad range of teachers from throughout Austria. Contact: Elisabeth Zistler, BMUKK http://www.virtuelleschule.at/ip COSMOS Seite 10 von 10