An easy to use online meeting application, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Typically a meeting is pre-booked by a registered user and a url, containing a unique password for the meeting, is returned by the Flashmeeting Server. The ’booker’ passes this on to the people they wish to participate, who simply click on the link to enter into the meeting at the arranged time.
Published in Chapter:
Acer: European Schoolnet Pilot Netbook Project
Séraphine Francoise Altamura (Istituto Superiore Statale Vittorio Gassman, Italy), Alessandra Cannelli (Istituto Comprensivo Largo Castelseprio, Italy), and Roberta Maria Delle Monache (Istituto Magistrale “S.Rosa da Viterbo”, Italy)
Copyright: © 2013
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2122-0.ch008
Abstract
The idea of one-to-one computing (1:1C) with instructional material tailored to the individual learner is not new. However, a continued adherence to the “broadcast model” of learning where the teacher directs the whole of a lesson is holding this approach back. Concepts like “one-computer-one-child” (OCOC) have been in existence since the start of the century, but new one-netbook-one-child policies are making this system more affordable. Other concepts, such as eTwinning have also existed since that time, and a more possible today with affordable network coverage. The chapter presents a case study into a European Union funded programme, called the Acer-European Schoolnet Educational Netbook Pilot Project (AESENPP) which seeks to implement eTwinning and a OCOC policy that takes advantage of blended learning approach alternating different activities, in the form of an online or offline approach that is supported with interactive pen. Six countries participated in AESENPP, with schools interested in exploring how this approach can have an impact on the processes involved in teaching and understand and documenting how learners and teachers can use netbooks in various educational contexts. The chapter describes how three Italian teachers from three schools in Rome and Viterbo are explaining how they coped with this challenge and what the outcomes of their experimentation are. As the experiment is still in action, the Italian teachers decided to give only evidence of their positive experience.