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European learning resource community LeMill

Hans PõldojaTarmo Toikkanen

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http://lemill.net

What is LeMill?

• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources

• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE

• Learning Mill

Designed for teachers

• Scenarios

• Design sessions

• User stories

• Prototypes

Design session results

• Teachers are looking for something else than raw text material

• Learning resources can be divided to content, activities and tools

Learning resources

Web page

Presentation

PILOT

Exercise

Progressive inquiry

Advanced editing features

Embedding

• YouTube

• Google Video

• Google Maps

• SlideShare

• ...

Media pieces

References

Simple licensing scheme

• All resources created in LeMill are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license

• Media pieces can be also under Creative Commons Attribution license, GNU Free Documentation License or in Public Domain

More than content

• Methods

• Tools

• Collections

• Teaching and learning stories

LeMill as a social software

• Linking people by location, skills and interests

• Groups for collaborative authoring

• Group forums

LeMill in numbers

Members

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11 27 30 40 65 97173 173

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344396

450524

597 618695

798

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1720

Switzerland1

Venezuela1

Turkey1

Australia1

Peru1

France1

United Kingdom2

Romania2

Brazil2

Netherlands2

Germany2

Norway2

Cyprus3

Greece3

Colombia3

China3

Slovenia5

United States6

Italy6

Canada7

Belgium8

Spain17

Poland23

Austria29

Czech Republic35Finland

40Lithuania58

Georgia64

Hungary99

Estonia305

No country specified1047

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Visitors from Czech Republic

Web pages

0

175

350

525

700

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49

95117

161

190213

259276

290

373

595

657

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ru4

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Collections

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7081

98108

118

147160

212

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352

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Other resources

PILOTsExercisesMethodsPresentationsToolsReferencesForum threads

LeMill competition in Estonia

LeMill competition in Estonia

• Organized by Tiger Leap Foundation in November–December 2007

• 32 teachers submitted their teaching and learning stories

• Two first prizes: “Pronaunciation of r-letter” and “Media”

Future plans

Future plans

• lemill.net will continue to be a free service after the end of CALIBRATE

• The development will continue and feedback is welcome

• New features: Powerpoint and Word import, personalized homepage

• ...

Thank You!

• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee

• tarmo.toikkanen@taik.fi