Special track at ICL conference: TORELL
 | CELSTEC’s Marco Kalz and Hendrik Drachsler are organizing a special track at the ICL conference in Hasselt. The track is called TORELL: Tools and Resources for Lifelong Learning. Contributions are on web services, connectors and other techniques that can be offered through widgets to support lifelong learning and open education. The International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL) takes place in Hasselt, Belgium, 15-17 September 2010 |
How can personal environments, widgets and connectors used to support lifelong learning and open education. This is the theme of the special track TORELL
Personal environments
Internet users increasingly take advantage of personal environments where they can integrate various web services such as YouTube, Delicious, or RSS feeds. Personal environments like iGoogle, Netvibes or Pageflakes act like a container where users can add their most favorite Web2.0 services, rather than browsing to each of them separately. Web services can easily be plugged into the personal environment by using a widget standard.
Widgets
A widget - also called gadget, badge, module, webjit, capsule, snippet, app, portlet, mini or flake - can have many shapes and sizes and runs on different platforms as web or desktop widgets. Especially, web widgets have a broad application area; they can be applied in social networking software like Facebook and LinkedIn but also in Elgg, Content Management Systems like Drupal, and blogging software like Wordpress.
Technologies
Widgets often utilize technologies form areas like text mining, semantic web, ontologies, natural language processing, and other data mining techniques. They support the exchange of ideas, exploration and search of content, annotation or connection of learners and open educational resources (OER). They are suitable to train specific competences, visualize domain knowledge, or combine information from different information providers in a single widget.
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