Patricia Silvana San Martín

Creative monument: Towards mediated educational practices for the socialization of heritage

The purpose of this paper is to present the advances in a research, development and innovation of a project which objective promotes the co-construction of a participatory and non-exclusive socio-technical network for educational purposes around the heritage of “National Historic Flag Monument” Rosario, Argentina. It is intended to configure a device in its social, technical, institutional and textual aspects, enabling the deployment of mediated educational practices for the active appropriation of the heritage, enhancing the creative, exploratory and playful use of Information and Communication Technologies. The methodology of the development of the first prototype called “Creative Monument” has an interdisciplinary character under a socio-technical approach. The instruments and techniques come from the qualitative perspective and software engineering. The regional socio-technical alliance that constitutes the working group is composed of several well-known actors of the city, members of government institutions, research and education. The selected open source content management system is Drupal. The collaborative editing content file was designed from tree interrelated categories: Citizenship Builders, Creative Itineraries and Open Works. The work prospective is focused on having a scalable operational prototype coming from the community participation.

Monitoring and Analytical Evaluation of Interactivity Mediated by a Dynamic Hypermedia Device

This paper describes the first prototype of an integrated tool that assists people in monitoring and analytical evaluation of interactivity, mediated by a Dynamic Hypermedia Device (DHD). To carry out this practice, the basic technological elements are explained, as well as a model which takes into account experiences related to the addition of new components in implementations solved for this kind of framework. Furthermore, it is also explained how the tool articulates the simulation results obtained from a runtime DEVS (Discrete Event System) that integrates the metrics needed for flexible weights. All the technological developments have been adapted to the educational platform MOODLE as well as to SAKAI collaborative environment. To exemplify this development, a use case has been presented providing functional features and details that outline the methodological steps of the model from the final users’ perspective. Thus, an analysis which enables qualitative versatile units in terms of levels of interactivity to the DHD has been achieved.