Dear all
Thank you to those who reviewed and left feedback on the surveys for
school students. I have worked through and responded to all comments -
feel free to continue the discussion on any specific points.* If you have
not yet reviewed - please do so by the end of today.*
We are now getting ready to send the revised surveys to 4 children, aged
11/12 (2 in the UK and 2 in Ireland) to gauge whether they are easily
understood by our youngest possible students and how we might rephrase
certain items. The latter is a situation I am keen to avoid as we are using
validated surveys and so changes may require re-validation. However, we
will make a decision on whether a) that will be a useful additional task
and b) feasible when we get the responses back from our young testers.
By the end of the week, we expect to have the final versions of the surveys
available to download for those who are planning on administering the
survey via paper. The Qualtrics version should be ready at the same time.
Tasks for you:
1) If you require the *online version* of the survey to be translated,
please let me know and I will prepare the files for translation to be sent
to you.
2) Once you have a translated version of the survey, please take a moment
to find 1 or 2 local volunteers who will read through the surveys to check
that they understand them the way we understand them - as mentioned before
there are many ways in which translation can change the way an item is
interpreted. You need to *note where challenges with translation arise*, at
the stage of initial translation, testing or even out in schools. And we
will report these in the deliverable where relevant.
All the best,
Carina
Dear colleagues
As will be discussed at today's meeting, the pre and post school
intervention surveys have been revised and are available at the following
links:
Pre intervention survey -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CdL0jNxDCyZ9Z7GHAJpV1U8Heqhi8Qz8/edit?u…
Post intervention survey -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fJb5rhck0vLiBEfk8Uc8NIjdUFSRs_PN/edit?u…
Please take some time to review these and provide feedback via comments on
the documents *by Friday 23rd February*. You will note some names and
numbers already in the comments - please feel free to ignore these, they
are references to pre-validated surveys and are for design purposes.
All the best
Carina
Note: Marcelo will be in Mexico from 10-26 March with limited availability due to time zones, etc..
The previously scheduled meeting on 15 March is cancelled and the meeting moved earlier to: Friday 8 March 11.00-12.30 CET (10.00-11.30 UK time) (12.00-13.30 Greece Time)
Dear All
1.The next OMT meeting is on Friday 16 February 13.30-15.00 CET.
- Please let me have any suggestions for agenda items by COB this Monday 12 Feb.
2. Also don’t forget to add any agenda items for the two-day meeting at OU (17-18 April), on this link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FezUMIe_u7FMymLyZ2CFf0s_JElnm2Ro2ykEacW…
Best regards,
Shamim
Dear All
Some information on reporting. Please read carefully with attention to dates.
General
* Our Period 1 (P1) reporting period is 1 September 2022 - 28 February 2024 (18 months).
* We have 60 days to submit the S&T reporting and financial reporting (i.e., 29 April 2024) to the EC.
* The official templates specific to our project for the Technical and Financial reporting will not be available to fill in on the EC portal until after 29 February.
Technical Reporting
* We should aim to have draft, near final versions ready in the week beginning 25 March, i.e., before Easter. This so they can be shared with the expert reviewers a couple of weeks before the review on 19 April.
* I have checked with Angel, our PO, and it is Ok to already start preparing our reporting before 1 March based on this pdf<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HxF4AvymbAQkSX7p5ExLfPdLT79O8n4-/view?usp=…>.
* LNU is preparing templates and detailed guidelines based on this.
* We now expect to share these with you early next week. We are waiting to hear back from Angel on some specific Qs. For example, the threshold for explaining deviations including Person Months (PM) and at what level OU and UCL need to report as they do not receive EC funding.
Financial Reporting (For all partners receiving EC funding: NB unlikely for OU and UCL, except PM numbers)
* The financial reporting cannot be done until the end of Feb.
* Please prepare your finance department to start work on this asap after this date and ensure that you have an assigned FSIGN.
* Please ensure everyone working on the project has filled in timesheets. This is important not only for reporting and claiming personnel costs but also for reporting PM in each WP in the S&T reporting above.
* Costs will have to be filled in on the certificate of financial statement in the portal, and signed by your FSIGN but no audit certificates are required for this P1 reporting.
* More detailed guidelines will follow.
Best regards
Shamim
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Shamim Patel (ACA)
Project Manager | Exten.(D.T.)2 Project
Linnæus University
Office of External Relations
SE-351 95 Växjö | Sweden
M: +46 (0)705 898396 | lnu.se<https://lnu.se/en/>
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Dear all,
I hope everyone is well!
Since school interventions are going to
start in March for most of us, I would like to ask you to update the School
Interventions Plan excel (spreadsheet Y2) with any recent details
about Year 2 interventions. This will help us have a first idea of our
progress towards meeting our target numbers (see spreadsheet
Targets- Plan).
To avoid an email overload, I would
like to propose that each partner designates a person of contact for this
year's school interventions, of course if possible.
Thank you all in advance,
Christina Gkreka (PhD)
Educational Technology Lab (ETL)
Department of Educational
Studies
National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dear all,
During our last OMT meeting we talked about formal reporting of the
readiness level (TRL) of the project technologies.
As WP4 we agreed to follow the guidelines of TRL assessment in the concept
of software development for a Research and Innovation Action
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TRL 3 - Initial script & functions to solve the desired problem.
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TRL 4 - Alpha version of the software tested internally (both
functionalities and process) by the development team.
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TRL 5 - Alpha version of the software functionalities tested by
outsiders of the development team.
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TRL 6 - Beta version of the software functionalities tested by selected
end-user under a control model.
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TRL 7 - Beta version of the software functionalities widely open to
end-users.
As you can see, the defining factor of TRLs 4,5,6 is testing. Educational
tools are mostly in between TRL4 and TRL5, so (as Marianthi mentioned in a
previous mail) please keep asking questions as you use them.
The ExtenDT2 Platform <https://extendt2.com/> is at TRL5, with the
contribution of people from OU and UGhent who sent valuable feedback, and
needs to enter TRL6 as soon as school interventions start.
To complete TRL5 we need a thorough usability testing by you as end-users.
The attached file (named Platfrom_testing) will introduce you to the
actions the end-user is anticipated to complete within the Platform.
*Actions*
a) For TRL5 we need one member per partner to be responsible for the
process and fill in the evaluation sheet. This person will act as
administrator who will create a new institution account and go through the
process described by the required actions of each table.
b) For TRL6 we need the usability testing to be repeated and the respective
tables of the evaluation sheet to be filled in during or after a school
intervention (maximum two interventions per partner).
Please, consider the above and send your feedback for both TRLs timely, be
critical and explain your thoughts in the "comments" column.
Regards,
Filothei
Filothei Chalvatza
BSc, CertEd, MA, MSc
Learning Technologist
Service & Digital Product Designer
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MD
Simple
www.simple-lab.gr
filothei(a)simple-lab.gr
+30 6976782459
Dear All,
I hope you are keeping well.
I would like to inform you that the Exten(DT)2 flyer is on our website under resources page: https://extendt2.eu/flyer/, which any visitor can download. Thanks to Filothei, who helped to upload it on the site.
Best,
Sagun
