SCY Training Workshop Format and Material
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Authors
Olia Tsivitanidou (UCY), Tasos Hovardas (UCY), Zacharias Zacharia (UCY), Constantinos Manoli
(UCY), Alex Verkade (PRAK), Yuri Matteman (PRAK), Jo Dugstad Wake (UiB), Cecilie Hansen (UiB),
Barbara Wasson (UiB), Isabelle Girault (UJF), Rachel Julien (UJF), Patricia Marzin (UJF), Jaanika
Piksööt (UTE), Margus Pedaste (UTE), Jakob Sikken (UT), Adam Giemza (UDE), Jan Engler (UDE),
Jony Heerink (ST)
Science Created by You (SCY)
(Project number IST-212814)
Date: 09-05-2012
Dissemination level:
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PU
Public
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Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services)
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Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services)
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Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)
© 2012, SCY consortium
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Executive summary
This deliverable includes the material (PowerPoint presentation) to be used for teacher
training. This material provides an insight to teachers about what is SCY and SCYLab about.
Specifically, information is presented about the pedagogical scenarios, ELOs and missions
involved in the SCYLab, as well as a brief introduction to the SCYLab learning environment it
self (e.g., tools, resources). Moreover, information is provided about teaching with SCY (e.g.,
when and how to use SCY, Characteristics and requirements of SCY in the classroom) and how
to become a member of the SCY community and benefit from it. Additionally, some
important technical tips are provided so a teacher that is interested in SCYLab is able to start
with its implementation. Finally, this training material introduces the teachers to the SCY
mini-mission, which aims at familiarizing them with SCYLab.
Preface
This document includes the material to be used in a workshop for training teachers involved
with the implementation of SCY-Lab and its missions in schools. This material is designed for
teachers interested in technology enhanced learning and requires only basic computer
knowledge and skills (e.g., surfing the Web, using word processing software). The goal is to
start from the very beginnings of SCY-Lab both at a theoretical and a practical level.
The content and structure of the training material, and thus the workshop format, was
created through an itinerary research process that involved teachers from different countries
and of varying years of experience. Specifically, the first training material version, which was
created within the SCY development community, was presented to about 130 in-service
teachers through training workshops (pilot studies) at different countries (mainly in Cyprus
and Estonia). Data were collected across all teachers of all pilot studies through the use of a
questionnaire and an interview over the period of two years. The data of each pilot study
were analyzed and used for revising the training material. It took three cycles of pilot testing
to reach to the training material included in this document.
In particular, the first cycle of pilot studies was conducted in Cyprus. We implemented the
first version of the training material, which was developed in the SCY community, in two
workshops with 36 in-service teachers of varying years of experience (from 1 year of
experience through 24 years of experience).
Preface
Data were collected across all teachers through the use of a questionnaire and an interview.
The data analysis revealed a series of changes that had to be made. Specifically, the teachers
requested that:
the introductory theoretical part should be short.
the level of detail should be reduced.
the practical (“hands-on”) part should be much earlier in the workshop.
the emphasis should be on the practical side of the workshop.
the SCY mission used must be short, so that the learners can complete it (teachers were
looking for closure).
the workshop should not take more than 45 minutes.
these is no need to present all the SCY tools (criterion: ease of use).
Given these outcomes, we proceeded with major changes to the training material, which
resulted in a workshop format that combines both theory and practice (see Figure 1). The
second and third cycles of pilot studies, which involved 70 in-service teachers (24 from
Cyprus and 46 from Estonia; all with varying years of experience) and 22 in-service teachers
(from Cyprus and with varying years of experience) respectively, revealed that the revised
training material satisfied the teachers’ needs and met their expectations.
Preface
The latest version of the training material, which is the one that follows this preface, consists of three
parts. It starts with a brief theoretical part, then it proceeds with a practical implementation and it ends
with a more detailed theoretical part (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: The content and structure of the training material of SCY-Lab
The first part of the workshop is a brief introductory part to SCY-Lab. It focuses on what is SCY and SCY-lab
and why using SCY-lab. For the purposes of the latter the emphasis is on the added value that SCY-Lab
brings into a learning situation, such as monitoring and scaffolding student learning.
The second part of the workshop focuses on practically experiencing SCY-Lab and getting a sense of what a
SCY mission (teaching material) is about. In particular, the trainees are instructed to create user accounts
and then run the SCY mini mission, titled “Run for your life.” In doing so, the trainees get a feeling of the
SCY-Lab components (e.g., Learning Activity Spaces, Emerging Learning Objects, SCY-Lab tools) and an
overview of a SCY mission.
Preface
The third part of the workshop returns back to the theoretical underpinnings of SCY. It
includes information that is essential for teachers when using SCY-Lab (e.g., resources for
teachers, information on the authoring tool, SCY teacher forums), information about all of
the SCY-Lab tools, technical information about getting the SCY-Lab running and information
about the steps a teacher must follow to prepare SCY-Lab for student use.
The duration of a workshop making use of the training material included in this document is
about 90 minutes. This could vary, though, if the number of tools presented in the third part
of the training material is reduced. It is suggested to present only the tools involved in the
mission or missions to be implemented.
Hope you have a pleasant experience with SCY-Lab!
The SCY Development Group
SCY Training Material
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Welcome to SCY - What is SCY?
Why SCY-Lab?
The SCY-Lab learning environment
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SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life!
Experiencing SCY-Lab
Overview of a SCY mission: “A healthy pizza”
mission
SCY Training Material
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SCY for Teachers
SCY-Lab features for teachers
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SCY Authoring
SCY-Lab Tools
Technical tips about SCY-Lab
Getting started
Who we are
Welcome to SCY
What is SCY?
• SCY is pronounced as “sky” and is short for “Science Created
by You”.
• SCY is a project that aims to innovate Science Education in
both didactical and technical aspects:
Learning is centered
around the creation of
artifacts, which we
call Emerging
Learning Objects
(ELOs), in
theoretically grounded
learning schemes
called scenarios
SCY  SCY-Lab
SCY-Lab is a
flexible, adaptive and
open-ended digital
learning environment.
Why SCY-Lab?
• Grounded in Inquiry and Computer-Supported Collaborative
Learning.
• It includes learning material (SCY missions) that are highly relevant
to students’ lives and interests.
• As a learning environnent:
 It is easy to install and to use
 It allows a great flexibility both to the teachers and the learners (e.g.,
multiple learning resources and open-ended tools)
 It includes a number of tools that usually do not exist in a single learning
environment
 It supports students’ learning through cognitive and social scaffolds
 It offers the teachers the opportunity to monitor student behavior and adapt
the environment
Why SCY-Lab?
Monitoring student behavior
• Student actions and other parameters that could convey
important information are logged and processed.
• For example, SCY-Lab keeps track of the time spent in
assignments and helps the teacher assess the quality of
produced ELOs, but it is also able to analyze written text.
Why SCY-Lab?
Adaptive learning environment
• Using the collected information, the system can act upon the
learner’s behavior. For example,
 it may adapt to the students learning process by offering
more, less or different instruction in an assignment;
 it may introduce the student to another student in order to
collaborate or discuss; or
 it may inform the teacher when there is a problem.
Why SCY-Lab?
Adaptive learning environment
• In SCY-Lab, the teacher has the opportunity to adapt the
scaffolding settings of the system to a specific classroom
situation or educational strategy.
• For instance, a teacher might want SCY-Lab to provide
maximum scaffolding in case students have never worked
independently before.
Why SCY-Lab?
• Overall, students
 engage in missions guided by a general social problem
 use tools to create ELOs as milestones during their mission
 share ELOs to enhance collaborative learning and facilitate
debate
 become actors in their learning process going freely through
SCY-Lab:
Science Created by Students
The SCY-Lab learning environment
First create a new SCY
account
The SCY-Lab learning environment
To create a new student
account click here
To create a new teacher
account click here
The SCY-Lab learning environment
Fill in the fields to create your
account as teachers
Fill in the fields to create
your account as student
The SCY-Lab learning environment
Enter your username and
password
Το περιβάλλον του SCY-Lab
The SCY-Lab learning environment
Select a mission
The SCY-Lab learning environment
SCY Missions
• In the SCY project, we have developed the following missions:
 Run for your life!(mini tutorial mission)
 Design a CO2-friendly house
 ECO mission
 A healthy pizza
 Forensic mission
• Using the SCY authoring tools, the teacher can tweak these
missions to fit his own specific situation.
Το περιβάλλον του SCY-Lab
The SCY-Lab learning environment
Selecting the tutorial mission
Το περιβάλλον του SCY-Lab
The SCY-Lab learning environment
Select «Start SCY-Lab»
SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life!
• A SCY-Demonstrator tutorial has been developed and is
available for getting used to working with SCY-lab.
• This demonstrator is a mini-mission called Run For Your Life! an actual mission, but much smaller.
• It only takes 1 hour to do this mini-mission.
• When working in “Run For Your Life!”, students and teachers
get introduced to most SCY-features.
• In “Run For Your Life!” learners are introduced to the effects
of energy drinks.
“Run for your life!”
video
SCY-Demonstrator: Run For Your Life!
• The challenge is as follows:
Το περιβάλλον
SCY-Demonstrator:
Run Forτου
YourSCY-Lab
Life!
1. Once in a LAS,
a drop-down
curtain provides
some basic
instructions
LAS curtain
1. The curtain can
be retraced using
the curtain handle
Το περιβάλλον
SCY-Demonstrator:
Run Forτου
YourSCY-Lab
Life!
Mission map
1. The mission
starts with the
mission-map to
guide you through
the process
Mission map/navigation
• The mission map is the
entrance to a SCY Mission.
• This mission map is the
first thing you see when
you login.
• Using the mission map,
students can navigate
through the mission.
• In the mission map, there
are a number of icons.
These icons represent
coherent sets of activities,
so-called learning activity
spaces (LASs). All ELOs are
produced within such
spaces.
Το περιβάλλον
SCY-Demonstrator:
Run Forτου
YourSCY-Lab
Life!
LAS Information window
Close mission-map
1. When placing
your cursor
over a LAS…
2. … a pop-up
window will
provide some
information
about the LAS
Το περιβάλλον
SCY-Demonstrator:
Run Forτου
YourSCY-Lab
Life!
1. Once in a LAS,
a drop-down
curtain provides
some basic
instructions
2. The curtain can
be retraced using
the curtain handle
Το περιβάλλον
SCY-Demonstrator:
Run Forτου
YourSCY-Lab
Life!
Mission map and
Information curtain
video
Το περιβάλλον
SCY-Demonstrator:
Run Forτου
YourSCY-Lab
Life!
• The SCY-Lab digital learning environment
provides the look and feel of a computer
desktop.
• Using SCY-Lab, students can
 navigate through a mission
 open assignments
 browse through previously made ELOs
 use tools to make new ELOs
 communicate with fellow students
Το περιβάλλον
SCY-Demonstrator:
Run Forτου
YourSCY-Lab
Life!
Inside a LAS
Feedback
buttons
Once the curtain is retraced, the
students can start working on
the ELOs. Double click to open.
The curtain can be reopened by clicking on the
curtain handle
Remove ELO
button
Create new
ELO button
Search for
ELOs button
Return to the missionmap by double clicking
on the button bellow
E-Portfolio
button
SCY-Demonstrator: Working with ELOs
SCYDemonstrator
video
• In a learning activity space, a student works by opening
ELOs, working in them and saving them.
• A student can always make more ELOs, search for older
ELOs or throw obsolete ELOs away.
• ELOs can be shared between peers.
Experiencing SCY-Lab
It is time to experience SCY-Lab!
• Create an account and log into SCY-Lab
• Select the mission: Run for your life!
• Use the mission map to move around
• Enjoy!
Overview of a SCY mission:
“A healthy pizza” mission
• This mission aims at actively engaging students in the right
choice of food products offered by their school’s canteen or
cafeteria.
• Students are assigned to create a healthy pizza while
considering the nutritional value of the ingredients, dietrelated health issues and the human digestive system, and
daily exercise.
Overview of a SCY mission: “A
healthy pizza” mission
• The activity sequence of the learning material requires from
students to pass through several steps and create 31 learner
objects (ELOs)
• These ELOs are all created through SCY-Lab’s tools and are
stored in the SCY-Lab platform.
• The final target of this mission was to create a healthy pizza.
Overview of a SCY mission:
“A healthy pizza” mission
Mission map
1. The mission starts with
the mission-map to guide
you through the process
Information LAS
Conceptualization 1 LAS
2. You begin the mission
by selecting a LAS to
work on
Design LAS
Reflection LAS
Experiment LAS
Built LAS
Conceptualization 3 LAS
Overview of a SCY mission:
“A healthy pizza” mission
LAS Information window
Close mission-map
1. When placing
your cursor
over a LAS…
2. … a pop-up
window will
provide some
information
about the LAS
Overview of a SCY mission:
“A healthy pizza” mission
LAS curtain
1. Once in a LAS,
a drop-down
curtain provides
some basic
instructions
2. The curtain can
be retraced using
the curtain handle
“A healthy pizza” mission: Working with pizza
ELOs
Inside a LAS
Feedback
buttons
Once the curtain is retraced, the
students can start working on
the ELOs. Double click to open.
The curtain can be reopened by clicking on the
curtain handle
Remove ELO
button
Create new
ELO button
Search for
ELOs button
Return to the missionmap by double clicking
on the button bellow
E-Portfolio
button
“A healthy pizza” mission: Working with pizza
ELOs
Open ELO
Information
drawers
Minimize
Center
Maximize
Connect two
ELOs
together
Rotate ELO
Stretch ELO
“A healthy pizza” mission: Working with pizza
ELOs
Intermediate/
anchor ELO
Other
ELOs
Opened
information
drawer
Overview of a SCY mission:
“A healthy pizza” mission
Inside a LAS
Feedback
buttons
Once the curtain is retraced, the
students can start working on
the ELOs. Double click to open.
The curtain can be reopened by clicking on the
curtain handle
Remove ELO
button
Create new
ELO button
Search for
ELOs button
Return to the missionmap by double clicking
on the button bellow
E-Portfolio
button
Overview of a SCY mission
Feedback and e-portfolio
• Teachers and students have an online SCY portal page outside
(but linked to) SCY-Lab.
• There they may work on their portfolios and give and receive
feedback among each other.
• From any learning activity space, students can navigate to their
own online portfolio and to the feedback tool.
SCY for Teachers
• The SCY developers have created material for the teacher
which could be found at http://scy-net.eu/web/scycom/whatis-scy.
• On this site, you can:
 access all information about SCY that a teacher would need, such as
information about the missions
 upload, download and comment on educational materials;
 chat and meet with colleagues and with other users;
 communicate with peers on the forum;
• On SCY for Teachers you can also find:
 Teacher’s and technical manual
 News about updated versions of SCY-Lab
• Join the SCY community!
SCY-Lab features for teachers
• Portal page
 As a teacher, you may log into the SCY portal page
(http://scy-review.collide.info:8080/webapp.)
 Here, you may create a new mission based on one of the
missions, or select an existing mission. You may also edit
your personal profile and browse the profiles of other
members.
SCY Portal for
teachers
video
SCY Portal for student
video
SCY-Lab features for teachers:
Authoring
• In the authoring part of SCY-Lab, referred to as SCYAuthor,
teachers may tweak SCY missions to fit specific needs, by
setting parameters, such as the availability of specific
scaffolds.
• All authoring is done online, outside SCY-Lab, through the SCY
portal page on http://scy-review.collide.info:8080/webapp .
• The authoring part is referred to below as the ‘SCYAuthor’
tool.
SCYAuthor
With SCYAuthor, the teacher may
to fine-tune a mission and obtain a
real-time overview of activities in
SCY-Lab as students carry out a
Mission.
SCYAuthor has two views:
SCYAuthor Fine-tune and
SCYAuthor Runtime.
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The teacher uses the SCYAuthor to:
 Create accounts for students and
 Assign students to a Mission (see figure)
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SCYAuthor
The teacher uses the SCYAuthor to:
 Select/specify the default learning goals, criteria and
reflecting questions for a Mission
 Specify which ELOs are required in the students’ ePortfolios
 Adjust scaffolding levels (level of help)
 etc
SCYAuthor
• During the Mission teachers can:
 Define a group of students
 Adjust parameters of the agents
 Adjust tool specific parameters of agents
 Adjust scaffolding level
 View runtime status information
 Author reflection questions for ELOs
SCYAuthor
video
SCY-Lab tools
• Tools support cognitive and social processes (transformative,
regulative, collaborative), according to SCY scenarios and
pedagogical plans, by enabling certain activities and providing
support with agents.
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Data collection tools
Modelling tools
Planning tools
Tools for assessment and reflection
Visualization tools
SCYInterview tool
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The SCY-Interview tool helps learners to design a good
interview.
There are two stages in this process. During the first
stage, the tool helps learners to prepare the interview
where as the second helps them conduct the interview.
SCYInterview tool
video
SCYMapper tool
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SCYMapper creates concept maps representing ideas as
nodes and the relationship between these ideas as links.
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SCYMapper is useful for note taking, new knowledge
creation, idea generation, working out complex concepts
and arguments, and creating shared understandings (when
used collaboratively).
SCYMapper
tool
video
SCYED (Experimental Design) tool
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This tool is an editor that allows learners to write down
experimental procedures as task trees. The experiments
described with this tool are related to a question that the
experiments aim to answer.
SCYED tool
video
SCYData (Fitex) tool
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The data processing tool enables students to process and
visualize numerical data sets.
SCYData tool
video
SCYDynamics (Modeling) tool
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SCYDynamics is a modeling tool that helps create and
simulate graph-based models of complex problems and
phenomena.
SCYDynamics tool
video
SCYUploader tool
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SCYUploader enables students to import external files into
SCY-Lab as ELOS.
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The tool has two main functions: import an external file as
an ELO in SCY-Lab and export an ELO as an external file.
SCYUploader tool
video
SCYePortfolio tool
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The SCYePortfolio
tool is used to save
ELOs and build a
mission portfolio
(i.e., a collection of
obligatory ELOs) to
be assessed by the
teacher.
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The ELOs can be
saved as the mission
progress or after the
completion of the
mission, as part of an
evaluation or
reflection LAS.
SCYePortfolio tool
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Using the SCYePortfolio
tool students can:
 Add ELOs to their
ePortfolio
 Build a mission
portfolio (e.g., CO2
Friendly House
portfolio)
 Submit a mission
portfolio for
summative assessment
 Receive and view the
summative assessment
of their portfolio
SCYePortfolio tool
video
SCYAssessment tool
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SCYAssessment is a tool with which teachers assess submitted
Portfolios (summative assessment).
Mission Portfolio
Assessment screen from
SCYAssessment
SCYAssessment tool
video
SCYLighter tool
• The SCY-Lighter is a Mozilla Firefox extension
for collecting relevant information on the web
and saving it into the SCY-Lab.
SCYLighter tool
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The SCY-Lighter enables learners to gather information from
web sources and thereby gain background knowledge for
working on a SCY mission. With this tool, students can
highlight and collect relevant parts from web sites, add
comments and finally save the data and references as an ELO
to the SCY-Lab.
SCYLighter tool
video
SCYText tool
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This is a simple text editor integrated into SCY-Lab that
students can use for writing and editing text.
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The tool enables students to take notes during the application
of SCY-Lab and to create different text based ELOs – research
questions, hypotheses, inferences, arguments, etc.
SCYText tool
video
SCYChat drawers
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The SCY chat tool allows
learners to communicate
with each other in SCYLab and thereby
collaborate on ELOs.
SCYChat drawer
video
SCYTagging drawer
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SCYTagging is a co-operative tagging tool used by students
to tag ELOs (implicit bookmarking)in SCY-Lab.
SCYTagging drawer
video
SCYFeedback tool
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SCYFeedback is a peer assessment tool with which students
can easily ask for and provide feedback on ELOs as they
work in a Mission.
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Asking for feedback on an ELO involves asking a question or
giving a comment on your own, or your group’s ELO.
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Providing feedback requires selecting an ELO from an ELO
Gallery on which to give feedback.
SCYFeedback tool
Using the SCYFeedback tool students can:
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Ask for feedback on their own ELO
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Receive feedback on their own ELO
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Browse an ELO gallery of ELOs submitted for feedback
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Provide feedback on any ELO in the ELO gallery
SCYFeedback tool
video
SCYSearch
• SCYSearch is a tool that enables students to search the
collection of ELOs in RoOLO to find relevant work by themselves
or by other learners.
SCYSearch tool
video
SCYDraw (drawing tool)
• SCYDraw tool allows learners to create simple drawings, with
elementary drawing capabilities: shapes, freehand drawings,
importing images.
SCYDraw tool
video
SCYSimulator
• The SCYSimulator is a multi-purpose simulation tool that is
able to show and run arbitrary simulations.
SCYSimulator tool
video
SCYDatacollector and SCYFormauthor (for
mobile data)
• The mobile data collecting tool is a means for learners to
collect numerical and multimedia data in the field with their
mobile devices (based on the Android platform) and store the
collections as ELOs in RoOLO.
SCYDatacollector and SCYFormauthor (for
mobile data)
• The form authoring tool is fully integrated into SCY-Lab and
can be used to create forms for data collecting activities. It
can produce and create ELOs as well as log user actions. The
user can use it as a tool for creating form templates as well as
a tool to review the filled forms, i.e., work with the collected
data.
SCY-Lab tools
Why numerous tools and functionalities?
• Communication tools and mutualisation functions to
facilitate students exchanges
• Repository to keep traces of all students activities,
behaviour and ELOs
• Pedagogical agents to analyse traces and provide scaffolds
to students
• Authoring and cockpit tools to configure mission and
pedagogical agents and adapt them during the students
work
• ePortfolio for peer and teacher assessment
For more information on SCY-Lab and its features see the
Teacher manual that is available at http://scynet.eu/web/scycom/scy-manual
Technical Tips about SCY-Lab
Technical requirements
• SCY-Lab will work on computers with operating systems such
as Windows XP/Vista/7 or Mac OS X and 2 GB or more RAM
• A fast internet connection is needed. Wireless connections do
not work well primarily because they are slow.
• You need a recent version of Java (version 1.6 or newer). It
can be downloaded from free at http://www.java.com.
• SCY-Lab runs online.
Technical Tips about SCY-Lab
Running SCY-Lab
• The most recent version of SCY-Lab can be found through the
SCY website http://www.scy-net.eu/ at any time.
Getting Started
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Create accounts for your students.
Enroll your students in a mission.
Edit the level of scaffolding (if needed).
Formulate learning goals or perform other authoring tasks
in the SCY portal page for teachers.
Who we are
• The SCY project team is an international group of around 70
people from 12 different project partners in Europe and
Canada.
• The project partners are University of Twente (NL);
InterMedia, University of Oslo (N); Joseph Fourier University
(F); University of Duisburg-Essen (D); University of Bergen (N);
Fraunhofer IAIS (D); University of Cyprus (CY); University of
Tartu (EST); De Praktijk (NL); Stichting Technasium (NL);
ENOVATE (N); Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (CDN).
• You can reach us on the SCY for Teachers website: http://scynet.eu/web/scycom/what-is-scy. Don’t hesitate to ask any
questions you might have after reading this manual. And, of
course, please share your experiences with us!
For more information visit:
http://www.scy-net.eu/