Presentation of the SCOLLAm Project at the Day of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing EXPIRED

As a part of the Day of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, November 21, 2014., a new scientific projects at FER were presented in the faculty lobby. Project SCOLLAm was presented with a poster through which all interested parties could find out basic information about the project, its methodology and main objectives. Also, the poster presented short overview of our previous work, with some exaples of prototype mobile educational applications, and our views and vision of the future.

CUC 2014 - BoF - What Should we do With Tablets in the Classroom? EXPIRED

As part of the 16th CARNet Users Conference CUC 2014, held in Zagreb from 19th to 21th November 2014., a BoF session on the topic "What should we do with the tablets in the classroom?". The main topis was the use of tablet computers in schools.

SCOLLAm at the "Computer in School XVIII" - IT Training and Increase of the Competitiveness EXPIRED

From 28th to the 30th September 2014, a counseling titled "Computer in school XVIII" was held in Šibenik, Croatia. The theme of this year's meeting was "IT education and increase of the competitiveness." The backbone of the counseling was to debate on the definition of information contents that should be included in the compulsory curriculum of primary and secondary schools.

Presentation of the SCOLLAm Project at FIE2015 Conference EXPIRED

From 21th to 24th of October 2015., we participated in the "Frontiers in education" conference, held in the El Paso, Texas.
The Frontiers in Education Conference is a international conference focusing on educational innovations and research in engineering and computing. This year, FIE2015 brought together over 500 participants from around the world.
The SCOLLAm project was presented trough a paper titled "The experiences of setting up, developing and implementing a mobile learning project in Croatia". The paper was presented by Tomislav Jagušt.
Fore more information about the conference, visit the http://www.fie2015.org/, and the presented paper can be found on the Croatian Scientific Bibliography:
http://bib.irb.hr/prikazi-rad?rad=777233

First In-school Testing of the SCOLLAm inForm Platform EXPIRED

On Wednesday, 16th of December 2015. in Trnjanska Elementary School in Zagreb, we conducted the first in-class test of the inForm, our educational platform. Testing was conducted in one first grade (1a) and in the third grade. The students tried the student-teacher interaction(Q&A) module, Author player module (playing the digital lessons prepared through the Author system), and a collaborative module (the "Group Drawing board").
A day later test was repeated in two additiona classes, in another first grade (1b), and in the second grade. The students' reactions were, as expected, very positive. :)