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A system designed for craft industry users, including students, teachers, and professionals, to access a variety of tasks and resources, fostering creativity, problem-solving, and cultural exchange. Teachers can set up and manage classes, while students engage in tasks through research, discussion, and creation. The system offers a user-friendly interface with diverse materials and tools to enhance learning.
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eCIT System Overview 13th December 2006 Evin McCarthy
eCIT System Ideals • Human oriented approach • Present relevant materials • Encourage uptake of the resource • Focus on tasks and recording results • Provide qualified craft resources
Maintaining the System • One administrating editor • Approves new teachers • Manages task content • Solves unusual problems
Target Users • All based in the craft industry • Students • Teachers • Professionals
Teachers • Set-up by administrator • Manages their own classes • Small knowledge overhead to use eCIT
Task Choices • Chooses from suitable tasks • Themes: • History & Stories Product Development • Problem Solving Entrepreneurship • Handicraft Skills Market Information • Creativity Trends • Culture
Resources • Resource bank to support tasks • Articles and techniques presented as texts and media rich items • Qualified links to web resources • Growing pool of task results, allowing international and cultural comparison
Representing Tasks • Teachers’ task and resource choices ‘build’ city space for students to use • City environment allow story hooks • Tasks have associated ‘short stories’
Working on Tasks • Students step through tasks: • Research, work online, discuss, workshop practice, think, create • Results of tasks: • Notes, images, finished works, additions to resources
System Overview Summary • For Teachers: Light and supportive system for working through a large range of tasks, allows feedback and comparison. • For Students: Engaging content & online space. Step toward exhibiting and critique of own work.