Web site multi-lingual

The web site is now available in English, Portuguese, Danish, Greek and German. A Romanian version will be added soon.

To change languages use the drop down menu at the bottom left of the site. If a page is not available in any particular language, the site continues to show the English version.

Add comment October 31st, 2006

Project partners meet in Sinaia

On 11 and 12 Ocober the Refelctiive Evaluation project parters met in beautiful Sinaia at the gateway to Transylvania in Romania.

The middle ware engine for creating activities for self reflection was rolled out in public for the first time. It worked almost perfectly with all the partners particpating in creating learning activities.

The partners worked further on the structure and scope of the materials designed to support reflection and self evaluation by teachers and trainers.

It is hoped that the initial development fo the materials will be completed by the end of 2006, with testing to commence early in the new year.

Add comment October 12th, 2006

Middleware engine

The Reflective Evlaution project partners are developing a  series of activities and tools to help teachers and trainers evalaute their activities. More details of these tools can be found in the description of the project and on the project wiki.

The project also aims to develop electronic versions of these tools. At an early stage of the project, it was agreed that the tools should be accessable through the web. This posed a problem. There is a (very) limited software budget for the project. Design and development of web based tools can be time consuming and expensive. Furthermore, project parters have developed some exciting and ambitious ideas for tools.

Two of the partners, Pontydysgu and CRED, are now developing a middleware engine. This is a piece of software designed to assist in the development of the tools.  Following the initial brainstorming of ideas for tools, it has been possible to identify common elements of functionality. Through a friendly (we hope!) user interface, project partners and tool developers will be able to themselves directly develop and test new tools for self evaluation.

The middleware engine is being developed to run on the Joomla platform used for project development and communication. A beta version fo the engine should be available for testing in mid August 2006. The software will be released under an Open Source Licence. If you would like to know more, please contact Graham Attwell.

Add comment August 11th, 2006