Thursday, March 11, 2010
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| This tool provides file sharing functionalities. A repository stores files that can be shared between the teacher and the learners. Learners too can upload files and submit them to the repository. The teacher then decides whether to share them or not. | 
The Repository |
| The positionometer |
| This tool lets the learners position their opinion about a question, posed by the teacher during the lesson, along a scale that can be configured on a range of 2 to 10 values. Learners can change their position as long as the positionometer is on. They can either do so in private mode (with only the teacher seeing all the votes), shared mode (with all learners seeing each other's shifting positions), or anonymously - i.e. sharing with their peers their opinions, but not their names (although th teacher always knows...) |
| This tool simply lets the learners see who else is in their group. It's also possible to configure it so that it shows who was in a leraner's group in a previous step. In that case, those who were not in the learner's group will be coloured differently. | The Presence tool |
| The Chat tool | The chat tool is unique to each group within the classroom and can support group coordination on a meta-task level, e.g. discussions about tool usage, or in combination with turn-taking enabled tools, for group members to discuss a topic while one of them is writing. |
| The Quick Communication tool opens in a pop-up window - learner's interface |
With the quick communication tool, which is always present in the teacher's CoFFEE Controller and the learner's CoFFEE Discusser, teachers and individual learners can communicate discretely. |
| This tool is a simple private space to keep notes. The learner can, for example, paste previous contributions into this tool, edit and develop them and copy to the current step. | The private Notes tool |
The Graphical tool and Threaded Discussion tool can also be configured for individual use. It's also possible to place, side by side, a personal and a shared version of the same tool, to allow learner to elaborate their contribution for themselves before sharing it with their classmates. |