1. VISH: Virtual Science Hub
GLOBAL excursion
Juan Quemada, WP2 Leader, UPM

2. VISH - The Virtual Science Hub
Public & social
repository of
e-Excursions
connecting schools
with scientific
institutions
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3. VISH - The Virtual Science Hub
Social &
collaborative
public repository of
• e-Excursions
• Resources
• User profiles
(content producers)
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4. VISH Content
Everything in
ViSH is public
(non registered
users):
e-Excursions,
resources &
user profiles
(example:
search “bio”)
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5. e-Excursion
 Web based presentation
 where a slide is a
 Rich media mash-up
 Smart-card
 Quiz
 For virtual & physical classroom
 Can be projected with a beamer
 Like a powerpoint presentation
 Accessible from a smartphone
 Edited only from desktop or tablet
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6. Rich Media Mash-ups components
 Standard content
 Text
 Images
 Videos,
 ...
 Remote access elements
 for e-Infrastructure access
 Cameras
 sensors
 Controlers
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7. e-Infrastructure access
 University of Cambridge (UK)
 Various kinds of electronic microscopes
 Doñana (Andalusien, Spain)
 Cameras, microphones, sensors for wildlife
 SZTAKI (Budapest, Hungary)
 Earthquake equipment, Digital production, ..
 BIFI (Zaragosa, Spain)
 Simulations, e-Equipement, ...
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8. Content
sharing
Registered users can:
• Create* new e-
Excursions
• Clone** and
enrich* e-Excursions
* ViSH distributes with CC-
non-commercial license
** Original authors
recognized via cloning
chain
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9. The Virtual
Classroom
Connects
classrooms
with
Labs
or
classrooms
with
classrooms
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10. VISH Social Network
ViSH supports a
community
of content (e-
Excursions)
producers
1) I can follow
“what others do”
2) Others can follow
“what I do”
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11. My Home
My workspace: 1) 4)
1) e-
Excursions
- network
(followed) 2)
- mine
- recommended
- favorits
2) Resources
- network
3)
(followed)
- mine
- recommended
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- favorits

12. My Profile
What do others 3)
see about me: 6)
1) Followers
4)
2) Following
1)
3) e-Excursions
- network (followed)
- mine
2)
- favorits
4) Resources
- network (followed) 5)
- mine
- favorits
5) Timeline
6) Recomended
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13. Recommendations
 Recommendation of:
 Virtual excursions
 Resources
 Similar users
 Personalized by
 Social context: user interests, role, followers/following
 User context: Current activity
 Location context: language, time…
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14. Technology: HTML5 and Ruby on Rails
 HTML5 (e-Excursion Editor)
 New Web standards for device independent services
 for desktops, smartphones, tablets, TVs, ..
 HTML5 is the future of Web technologies
 Browser support is high and quickly improving
 Ruby on Rails (ViSH)
 Very effective technology for service prototyping
 ViSH is an open software project hosted in GITHUB
 ViSH: https://github.com/ging/vish
 e-Excursion Editor: https://github.com/ging/vish_editor
 Social_stream: https://github.com/ging/social_stream
 ~52000 downloads & +5 social networks created with it
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15. New features
 Clone
 Drafts
 Full integration with MashmeTV: pass one slide, it passes
for everyone else.
 Upload your own avatar
 Themes
 6 new slides templates
 Ipad version
 Flashcards
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16. Mobile app
Image and video upload
into the repository
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17. Learning Object Metadata (LOM)
Title
Title
General
General
LOM
LOM Language
Language
LyfeCycle
LyfeCycle Description
Description
MetaMetadata
MetaMetadata
Technical
Technical
Learning resource type
Learning resource type
Educational
Educational Typical Age Range
Typical Age Range
Rights
Rights
Relation
Relation
Annotation
Annotation Discipline
Discipline
Competencies
Competencies
Classification
Classification Purpose
Purpose Educational level
Educational level
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18. Pedagogical feedback
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19. Pedagogical feedback
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20. Pedagogical feedback
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21. Pedagogical feedback
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22. Future Work
 Federation with existing resource repositories
 LRE (EUN), Open Discovery Space, museums, ....
 Metadata Standards (SCORM , IMS CC, ...)
 Federation with more e-Infrastructures
 API definition & support
 Community support
 Spam control, eEx. or Teacher of the month, .....
 Offline presentation of e-Excursions
 3D, Augmented Reality
 Maybe recording: screencast or sessions?
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23. Thanks