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“Youth and Media” Seminar
Direcção Regional de
Educação do Alentejo
Portugal
Jorge Mata 03/10/07
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Project outline
Digital School is a initiative integrated on the PRAI-Alentejo, Innovative Strategies and Actions program, approved by the EC on December 02;
DREAlentejo is a Department from the Ministry of the Education responsible for co-ordination on educational politics in 47 local administrative units with 27.323.70Km2 and a 776.585 inhabitants in the south of Portugal.
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Institutional outline
The Regional Department of Education of Alentejo- Direcção Regional de Educação do Alentejo DREAlentejo - was established in 1987.
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Public Educational System
Constituted of more than 530 public establishments of basic and secondary education with several organization typology: vocational schools, secondary schools, basic schools of 2nd and 3rd Cycles, basic schools of 1st Cycle primary integrated Schools (1st , 2nd and 3rd
cycle) kindergarden – 3 to 6 years
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Context
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Geographic area
The Regional Department of Education of Alentejo- Direcção Regional de Educação do Alentejo DREAlentejo - was established in 1987.
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Background
• DREAlentejo promotes digital collaborative media projects since 1996.
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Context
• Important Numbers in Alentejo’s schools:
– Global ratio: 1 PC – 6 Students;– LAN on all the schools;– Broadband INTERNET access;– Servers in 90% of the schools.
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Objectifs
To promote the innovation and the use of the ICT by schools of Alentejo, integrating all the functionalities of the existing software on the market
To promote the willing, the work and the synergies of the schools of our Region by: giving them the tools they need; hearing them and reflecting together.
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Objectifs
To promote the interchange of experiences of all kind between schools, students and teachers of our region and with those of other regions and countries;
To promote the development of collaborative networking on our schools, in order to improve their workflow, as a way of dealing and managing their day-by-day problems and activities.
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The ProjectServices of DREAlentejo
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Portal of DREAlentejo
• News on the hour
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Portal of DREAlentejo
• Updated info of the institution
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Portal of DREAlentejo
• Multimedia promotion of good pratices on the schools
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Portal of DREAlentejo
• Multimedia help-desk
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Portal of DREAlentejo
• Webmail
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Web pages for each school
• Structured information, equal to all the schools, allowing a direct and easy acess to all needed information
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Web hosting
• Web sites, LMS, CMS.
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Escola Digital
A System of Administrative School Management
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Escola Digital
• Open source software developed and licensed by DREAlentejo, free of charge to all schools.
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Escola Digital
• The system is based on the use of a magnetic card, allowing: Control IN and Out of every person that works and
visits the school; The end of the money inside the school; The reservation of the meals for the following days; Real-time stock management of stocks either of the
refectory, or the bar, or the stationery; Each student (or parent), teacher or school worker
has a private access to its own current account; The daily bureaucratic work of filling maps, and
control of money and papers ends, considering that all is done by the software.
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Integrated System of Pedagogical Management and Information
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Prodesis Students
Organization and management of the school’s life of every student;
On-line information of the school activities and work: Documents of study; Training tests; Homework.
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E-Learning and School Support at Distance
Learning Management System
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E-learning e-Learning b-Learning
with video, audio and text interaction; Virtual classroom Web conference (video and audio)
between schools of the same School Area with other schools from any part of the world.
Chat rooms Forums
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Achievements
Non-stop development to a non stop-web
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Main idea
• A Regional approach to IT in Education with European funding allowed:– Innovating by integrating existing technologies
in a coherent view;– An effort to consolidate infra-structures
followed by the action to change the people.
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Where we arrived
• Looking at empowering young people to face new digital challenges: – creating accessibility;– generating digital
awareness;– hosting and supporting new
media projects.
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Where we arrived
• We can now see young people fluently relating with multi media supports.
• Decoding filtrating Web 2.0 applications by integrating them on the teachers online workflow.
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Contacts
• Jorge Mata• Direcção Regional de Educação do Alentejo• Equipa de Apoio à Modernização e Desenvolvimento Educativo• Tel: 00351 266 757 941 • Fax: 00351 266 757 901• E-mail: [email protected]• MSN: [email protected]• Rua Ferragial do Poço Novo, n.º 22 - Apartado 125 • 7002-555 Évora - Portugal
Lat = 38.5796 (38º34'8''), Long= -7.9102 (7º54´6'')• www.drealentejo.pt
• Presentation online:• http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/jmata-15388-drea-youth-media-aer-dreale
ntejo-ostersund-education-ppt-powerpoint/