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= '''Jetpack For Learning Phase 2 Submission'''<br> = | = '''Jetpack For Learning Phase 2 Submission'''<br> = | ||
What is the Cohere Mozilla Firefox Add-on? == | |||
Cohere Mozilla Firefox Add-on, is a tool for learners to make collaborative annotation and mapping of ideas and web resources. With the Cohere Mozilla Add-on learners can: | |||
#collaboratively annotate the web; | |||
#create semantic connections between annotations; | |||
#and engage in online scholarly discussions. | |||
In this submission we will walk you through: | |||
*Installation of the Cohere Mozilla Firefox Add-on | |||
*Some brief video tutorials on the main functionalities enabled by the Cohere Mozilla Firefox Add-on | |||
*Description of the potential impact of this Add-on for learners: At the end of this application we describe three educational scenarios that gives concrete examples of how the Cohere Mozilla Firefox Add-on can enhance learning. | |||
*Description of known issues and future development plan. <br> | |||
=== '''Download'''<br> === | === '''Download'''<br> === | ||
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Then please view [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfLQT8yQ2Y this movie] (YouTube) ([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/movies/installing.mov 15, 728KB high res mov file]) on installing the Cohere Jetpack plugin<br> | Then please view [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfLQT8yQ2Y this movie] (YouTube) ([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/movies/installing.mov 15, 728KB high res mov file]) on installing the Cohere Jetpack plugin<br> | ||
Then [http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/cohere-jetpack.html download] the Cohere Jetpack plugin. <br> <br> | Then [http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/cohere-jetpack.html download] the Cohere Jetpack plugin. <br> <br> | ||
=== '''Using the Cohere Jetpack''' === | === '''Using the Cohere Jetpack''' === | ||
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[http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nsn08.sci.ess.watcyc.capcarbonint/ http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nsn08.sci.ess.watcyc.capcarbonint/] | [http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nsn08.sci.ess.watcyc.capcarbonint/ http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/nsn08.sci.ess.watcyc.capcarbonint/] | ||
[http://www.peopleandplace.net/featured_voices/2008/11/24/resilience_thinking http://www.peopleandplace.net/featured_voices/2008/11/24/resilience_thinking]<br><br> | [http://www.peopleandplace.net/featured_voices/2008/11/24/resilience_thinking http://www.peopleandplace.net/featured_voices/2008/11/24/resilience_thinking]<br><br> | ||
=== '''Educational Senarios: How the Cohere-Jetpack Plugin can help learners'''<br> === | === '''Educational Senarios: How the Cohere-Jetpack Plugin can help learners'''<br> === | ||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKykgBo-zGI ]<br> | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKykgBo-zGI]<br> | ||
==== '''Scenario 1: Making semantic connections between ‘ideas’ '''([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/scenario_1.pdf full pdf of senario])<br> ==== | ==== '''Scenario 1: Making semantic connections between ‘ideas’ '''([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/scenario_1.pdf full pdf of senario])<br> ==== | ||
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Summary and reflections on Senario 1<br> | Summary and reflections on Senario 1<br> | ||
By using Cohere-Jetpack extension Anna could discover and bookmark Ivana’s ideas, and reuse them to create semantic connections between Ivana’s ideas and her ideas. This helped Anna to discover other Websites and ideas relevant to her investigation. By exploiting the description of the type of connection (semantic of the connection) she was also able to identify resources that triggered her critical thinking, since Ivana had labeled them as “challenging” her idea. Moreover from Ivana’s point of view, next time she explored her workspace she discovered a new connection, created by Anna, pointing directly to one of her ideas, and suggesting a new interesting reference to explore. The simple connection that Anna has created has established, from now on, a meaningful link from Anna’s and Ivana’s network of ideas and connections. These ideas and connections can be used by them and by any other learners to enrich their understanding on carbon emissions. In fact any other user navigating that OERs, and with a Cohere-Jetpack add-on installed, will be able to access Anna’s and Ivana’s ideas, semantic connections and Websites directly from the sidebar while they are navigating the Web. <br><br> | By using Cohere-Jetpack extension Anna could discover and bookmark Ivana’s ideas, and reuse them to create semantic connections between Ivana’s ideas and her ideas. This helped Anna to discover other Websites and ideas relevant to her investigation. By exploiting the description of the type of connection (semantic of the connection) she was also able to identify resources that triggered her critical thinking, since Ivana had labeled them as “challenging” her idea. Moreover from Ivana’s point of view, next time she explored her workspace she discovered a new connection, created by Anna, pointing directly to one of her ideas, and suggesting a new interesting reference to explore. The simple connection that Anna has created has established, from now on, a meaningful link from Anna’s and Ivana’s network of ideas and connections. These ideas and connections can be used by them and by any other learners to enrich their understanding on carbon emissions. In fact any other user navigating that OERs, and with a Cohere-Jetpack add-on installed, will be able to access Anna’s and Ivana’s ideas, semantic connections and Websites directly from the sidebar while they are navigating the Web. <br><br> | ||
==== Scenario 2: Engaging in structured online scholarly discussions ([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/scenario_2.pdf full pdf of senario])<br> ==== | ==== Scenario 2: Engaging in structured online scholarly discussions ([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/scenario_2.pdf full pdf of senario])<br> ==== | ||
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''Summary and reflections on Scenario 2'' | ''Summary and reflections on Scenario 2'' | ||
By using Cohere-Jetpack extension Anna, Jack and Rebecca found a way to learn from each other’s work, while caring on with their individual tasks. Moreover the Cohere Jetpack plugin has enabled Anna, Jack and Rebecca to engage in a structured online scholarly discussion on climate change positions. This discussion will surely affect the results of their work in a positive way since they will have been supported, and will have worked not in isolation but in a collaboratively engaging way. Moreover Anna, Jack and Rebecca have directly experienced that there are different world views and positions to consider in their investigation, they have learned also to be self-critical and to defend their positions by basing them on resources and evidence. This scenario gives an example of how the Cohere Jetpack plugin is a tool for learners to exercise their critical thinking and engage in online scholarly discussion.<br><br> | By using Cohere-Jetpack extension Anna, Jack and Rebecca found a way to learn from each other’s work, while caring on with their individual tasks. Moreover the Cohere Jetpack plugin has enabled Anna, Jack and Rebecca to engage in a structured online scholarly discussion on climate change positions. This discussion will surely affect the results of their work in a positive way since they will have been supported, and will have worked not in isolation but in a collaboratively engaging way. Moreover Anna, Jack and Rebecca have directly experienced that there are different world views and positions to consider in their investigation, they have learned also to be self-critical and to defend their positions by basing them on resources and evidence. This scenario gives an example of how the Cohere Jetpack plugin is a tool for learners to exercise their critical thinking and engage in online scholarly discussion.<br><br> | ||
==== Scenario 3:Collaborative Web Annotation with ‘Ideas’ ([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/scenario_3.pdf full pdf of senario])<br> ==== | ==== Scenario 3:Collaborative Web Annotation with ‘Ideas’ ([http://cohere.open.ac.uk/jetpack/scenario_3.pdf full pdf of senario])<br> ==== | ||
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''Summary and reflections on Senario 3''<br> | ''Summary and reflections on Senario 3''<br> | ||
By using the Cohere Jetpack plugin Anna was able to receive help from Michelle to find a definition of resilience, moreover she could discover 6 new sites relevant for the assignment and finally she saved time by reading notes and summaries that Simon posted to the OER pages. Her friends’ notes and summaries worked as a filter of relevant information and she could finish her assignment earlier and better than she could have done by working alone. Finally in her personal working space she has now saved the relevant information she found plus the pointers to other relevant information created, either by her friends or by making a direct connection (i.e. Michelle providing an answer to her question), or automatically suggested by the system, by label matching annotations. <br><br> | By using the Cohere Jetpack plugin Anna was able to receive help from Michelle to find a definition of resilience, moreover she could discover 6 new sites relevant for the assignment and finally she saved time by reading notes and summaries that Simon posted to the OER pages. Her friends’ notes and summaries worked as a filter of relevant information and she could finish her assignment earlier and better than she could have done by working alone. Finally in her personal working space she has now saved the relevant information she found plus the pointers to other relevant information created, either by her friends or by making a direct connection (i.e. Michelle providing an answer to her question), or automatically suggested by the system, by label matching annotations. <br><br> | ||
=== '''Known Issues'''<br> === | === '''Known Issues'''<br> === | ||
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*Ocassional empty tooltip draws | *Ocassional empty tooltip draws | ||
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=== '''Outstanding Development''' === | === '''Outstanding Development''' === | ||
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*When the Jetpack toolbars are available, we will be adding a Cohere toolbar similar to the one on our Cohere Extension.<br> | *When the Jetpack toolbars are available, we will be adding a Cohere toolbar similar to the one on our Cohere Extension.<br> | ||
*We would like to add some form of alerting system to our jetpack when people connect to your ideas, possibly as tweets, taking advantage of the Jetpack twitter api! | *We would like to add some form of alerting system to our jetpack when people connect to your ideas, possibly as tweets, taking advantage of the Jetpack twitter api! | ||
*We want to add a visualisation to the connections slidaber to show a network diagram of the connections listed. We have been experimenting with both an Applet and a Flash movie and hope to get one or the other to work.<br> | *We want to add a visualisation to the connections slidaber to show a network diagram of the connections listed. We have been experimenting with both an Applet and a Flash movie and hope to get one or the other to work.<br> | ||
*We are thinking about easier and quicker ways to create connections maybe using the bookmarks system. | *We are thinking about easier and quicker ways to create connections maybe using the bookmarks system. | ||
*We will add the ability to clear your bookmarks from the jetpack and not just the main Cohere website. | *We will add the ability to clear your bookmarks from the jetpack and not just the main Cohere website. | ||