Flávia Linhalis Arantes

Recomendações de Acessibilidade para a Equipe de um Software Livre Educacional

In this research, we propose to educate the development team of an AVA for the importance of accessibility requirements. We are going to show accessibility recommendations and how to implement them in an AVA which is still in prototyping phase. Resumo. Nesta pesquisa, procuramos conscientizar a equipe de desenvolvimento de um AVA para a importância dos requisitos de acessibilidade. Para tanto, propomos mostrar as recomendações de acessibilidade e como implementá-las no AVA ainda em sua fase de prototipação.

A study on hybrid frameworks for the development of mobile applications

Nowadays, instant information access is very important and applications for m-learning has gained space. In this paper, we investigate a way to make TelEduc e-learning environment responsive with a mobile application (mlearning). In order do accomplish this goal, we studied two hybrid frameworks to choose the best one.

Notifications in m-learning

In this project we investigate notifications in e-learning environments for mobile devices (m-learning). We describe a mechanism to implement notifications on mobile devices using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), as well as an experiment with FCM.

Desenvolvimento do Pensamento Computacional com Valores da Ética Hacker

A introducao de conceitos de computacao aos jovens e importante pelo seu carater transversal as demais areas do conhecimento. Com o objetivo de estimular o desenvolvimento do pensamento computacional, este artigo apresenta o design e a avaliacao de uma oficina de Scratch realizada no Projeto Jovem Hacker. O Projeto busca maneiras de auxiliar na formacao de jovens tendo como base a etica hacker, importante para orientar os alunos a ter um senso critico e uma etica mais voltada ao compartilhamento de ideias e solucoes de software. A oficina descrita podera ser replicada em outros contextos em que o Scratch for utilizado e o material produzido podera ser reutilizado e remixado em projetos similares.

Scratch – um primeiro olhar

RESUMO : Neste artigo, relatamos a atividade “Scratch, um primeiro olhar”, realizada com o objetivo de registrar as impressoes e as respostas dos alunos ao olhar pela primeira vez para programas em Scratch. Apresentamos uma revisao sobre a caracterizacao da linguagem e do ambiente do Scratch, procurando identificar o que um aluno que nunca teve contato com programacao pode usar para extrair informacoes dos programas. Diferente de outros trabalhos na literatura, destacamos o fato d e os comandos serem escritos na lingua materna dos alunos como um elemento grandemente facilitador para o entendimento dos mesmos por parte dos iniciantes. Os resultados dos experimentos mostram que a capacidade de leitura dos programas e uma grande aliada no entendimento daqueles que nunca programaram. PALAVRAS - CHAVE : Scratch; iniciantes em programacao; linguagem de programacao. ABSTRACT : In this paper, we report the “Scratch, a first glance” activity, conducted with the aim of registering the impressions and the responses of students when they looked for the first time to Scratch programs. We present a review on the characterization of Scratch language and environment, trying to identify what a student who never had contact with programming can use to extract information from the programs. Different from other works in literature, we highlight the commands written in the mother tongue of the students as a great facilitator to the understanding of the programs by the beginners. The results of the experiments show that the ability to read the programs is of great importance in the understanding from those who never had previous contact with programming. KEYWORDS : Scratch; beginners in programming; programming language.

Educational Laptops in Public Schools: First Results of an socio-technical approach

Projects around the world have focused efforts in integrating laptops into schools to be used by children in a 1-1 model. In this paper we present a methodology for this integration based on Organizational Semiotics concepts and artifacts, explored in participatory workshops. We describe a project underway with the active participation of the school community of an urban school in the city of Campinas (state of Sao Paulo), focused on fomenting contextualized solu- tions and processes. The results of the initial five semio-participatory workshops conducted in the school demonstrate the viability of the methods used to negotiate the integration of XO laptops in the school. The results indicate that the methodology contributes to anticipate issues specific to the school context, and think solutions shared among those more directly involved with the technology in the school practices; potentially promoting transformations in these practices.

Aspects of an Open Source Software Sustainable Life Cycle

In this paper we present a literature overview about OSS sustainability, considering not only financial resources, but also community growth, source code and tools management. Based on these aspects, we define an OSS life cycle that may contribute to OSS projects sustainability.