Workshop Organization Tool for PostNuke

I finally can announce the release of version 1.0 beta of the TECFA’s Workshop Tool (wTool). wTool is a workshop organization and management module built for PostNuke portals. The organization of a workshop can be considered as a learning event. We at TECFA grounds its orchestration on socio-constructivist principles and we designed wTool as a Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) tool. Its three-step organizational framework is inspired by Laurillard’s (1995) Conversational Framework which requires four steps (discursive, adaptive, interactive, reflexive) to turn learning into a shared information issue. The three sections (your answers, answers by question and answers by author) of the Workshop Tool allow the participants first to enter position statements to be reviewed, then comment and re-articulate them and eventually have a synthesis with a printer friendly output.