A Web 2.0 Personal Learning Environmentfor Classical Chinese Poetry Yiwei Cao 曹怡蔚, Ralf Klamma, Yan Gao 高岩, Rynson W.H. Lau 劉永雄, and Matthias Jarke Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen University Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong Aachen, Germany ICWL 2009 20.08.2009

1. The 8th International Conference
on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009)
Web based
Yiwei Cao
A Web 2.0 Personal Learning Environment
for C
f Classical Chinese Poetry
C
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
Yiwei Cao 曹怡蔚1, Ralf Klamma1, Yan Gao 高岩1,
Rynson W H Lau 劉永雄2, and M tthi J k 1
R W.H. L d Matthias Jarke
1 Informatik
5,
5 RWTH Aachen University
2Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
Aachen,
Aachen Germany
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Information Systems) 20.08.2009
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
I5-CKG*-0809-1

2. Agenda
 Introduction
- Motivations and problems
Yiwei Cao
 Related Work
 CCPLE on the Web 2.0
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao CCP: Classical Chinese Poetry
Rynson W.H. Lau
CCPLE: Classical Chinese
Matthias Jarke - CCP learner community
Poetry Learning Environment
- A data model for CCP
- A systematic poetry abstraction model
- Learning CCP with g
g games
 CCPLE Implementation
- Technologies for the implementation
- Cross platform user Interfaces
 Conclusions and Outlook
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Information Systems)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
Source: http://www.farmer.com.cn/sh/wh/zx/200804/t20080430_389904.htm
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3. Introduction
 Chinese Learning has
g
hàn zì
become a hot topic recently
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma
汉字
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
 Learning Chinese in the context:
g
classical poetry as a guide
 Web 2.0 based personal learning
environments instead of traditional
learning process
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
 T h l i empower llearners the
Technologies h
(Information Systems)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke control of what to learn and how to learn
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4. Motivation and Problems
 Increase of online learning communities and online knowledge
repositories provides a great amount of learning material
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma  80% informal learning ( formal education training) [Cros03]
% g (vs. g) [ ]
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
 Media technologies support language/culture learning [BiTr96, Milt02]
 Web 2.0 technologies and ubiquitous media technologies manage and
promote informal learning: YouTube, Wikipedia
 A large amount of user g
g generated media for learning Chinese online
g
 Only outdated platforms for Chinese language learning are available
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Information Systems)
Software Traditional media Web 1.0
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
I5-CKG*-0809-4

5. Related Work
 CCP Community is typical to reflect the p
y yp principle of Community of
p y
Practice (CoP) [Weng98]
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma
 Personal Learning Environment (PLE) enable learning content
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
management in an effective way [Down07, OlLi01]
 E-Learning 2.0 [Down05]
Matthias Jarke
- Web 2.0 technologies [O’Rei05] and social software [Coat03]
- Learning community [Down07]
 ML
M-Learning [Keeg02, KSC 06]
i [K 02 KSCa06]
- Mobile community [HGKo02]
- Mobile social software [KSCa06]
 Serious games: game-based learning [SKC*08(ICWL’08)]
 Various Chinese input methods [Engb06]
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Information Systems)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
 Support by Unicode – UTF8 [Alve98, IMCR98]
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6. CCP Learner Community
 Novice
- Children and foreigners
Yiwei Cao - No CCP experiences
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
 Reciter Expert
Matthias Jarke
- Children and foreigners, seniors
- Mi ht have understanding problems
Might h d t di bl
 Student
- Having CCP experience Student
S d
CCP Reciter
R i
Community
- Understanding
 Expert
- Researchers
- Sinologists Novice
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(Information Systems)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
I5-CKG*-0809-6

7. A Data Model for CCP in ERD
Content Uploader
En_Title
En Title Upload_Date
p
Title Last_Updater
Source_Code Rate
Last_Update_Date Feature_ID
CCP_ID Feature
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma Opuscule_ID n 1
Yan Gao OPUSCULE n
HAS
1
CCP n
BELONGS_TO
FEATURE
Rynson W.H. Lau
n n 1 1
Matthias Jarke
Author_ID Author En_Author
ASSOCIATES_ 1
WITH
AUTHOR
HAS
PRODUCES n
IN
n 1
DYNASTY
LINK
n
User_ID Dynasty_ID Dynasty
FName Link_ID
Link ID URL
1 m n 1
1
LName USER 1
SUBMITS
n
COMMENT REPLIED_BY
Email n
Username Activity_ Language
L Comment_ID
C t ID Content
C t t Comment_Date
C t D t
Password Count
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(Information Systems)
Native
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Web 2.0 related
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8. 3-Level
3 Level Poetry Abstraction
 Micro scale content  Meso scale content  Macro scale content
 Micro
Yiwei Cao - Individual sentence (3, 5, 7 characters)
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
- Ending with a unique punctuation
 Meso
Matthias Jarke
micro
- Some continuous sentences
meso
- A certain block
 (20% or 50%) of whole poetry macro
 Some continuous sentences ending with “。”
“，” between each two sentences
 Macro
- Whole poetry
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(Information Systems)
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9. The DOM Tree for Poetry Abstraction
 Character and punctuation units
- A minimal unit of a poetry
- Either a Chinese character or a Chinese punctuation
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao
 Sentence unit
- Consists of a certain number of
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
Character Units
- A Chinese punctuation “。”
as ending
 Paragraph unit
- A certain block
- “，” between
sentences and a Chinese punctuation “。” as ending
 Poetry unit
y
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(Information Systems)
- The maximal unit of a poetry
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10. Learning CCPs with Games
Content
C t t
Number of Units 3-Operation for Selection
Filtering
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma micro #Sentences (e g 4)
(e.g. Character permutation
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
#Paragraphs Sentence permutation
meso
diff
(e.g.
(e g 2) Character permutation
Ch t t ti
ficulty
Paragraph permutation
macro #Poetry (e.g. 1) Sentence permutation
Character permutation
Game Settings
g
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11. Technologies for the Implementation
 Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
 Web server: Apache Tomcat
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao  Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
- GWT Tooling
- GWT –Ext is a powerfull widget lib
E i f id library as an extension i
- Ext JS is a JavaScript library
- GWT-DnD as a third party library provides drag & drop capabilities
 Database: Oracle 10g
 Videos from YouTube API
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(Information Systems)
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I5-CKG*-0809-11

12. CCPLE User Interfaces: Web 2 0
2.0
 Participatory and
game-based llearning
b d i
 Rich user experiences
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma  Scoring users achievements
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau  Harnessing collective
Matthias Jarke Intelligence
 Linking user generated
multimedia content
 Data is the next Intel Inside
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13. CCPLE on iPhone
 To enable learner communities to learn CCP en route
 Mobile game-based CCP learning
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma
 Multimedia-based CCP learningg
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
 Software Above the Level of a Single Device
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(Information Systems)
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I5-CKG*-0809-13

14. Conclusions
 A comprehensive model of CCP
p
- Data modeling
Yiwei Cao - CCP at micro, meso and macro levels
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao - CCP operations on paragraph, sentence and character permutations
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
 Based on Web 2.0 concepts and technologies
- U
User-generated CCP content
t d t t
- User-shared CCP knowledge
 Different levels of game based learning for CCP learner communities
game-based
 Platform-independent (the iPhone version) also for mobile CCP
learning communities
 Evaluation results shows
- Game-based learning helps learning Chinese and CCP
Game based
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- Use of different game levels attract attentions of learner communities
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15. Outlook
 Further evaluation across wide user communities
 In the EU FP7 ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environment) project
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma
community
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
- CoP in PLE: to generate impacts across learning communities
Matthias Jarke
- Learning content organization by tagging, rating, feedbacks, scores, and
comments etc
etc.
- Internationalization with multi-language user interfaces
- Serious games with consideration of human computer interaction
g p
 In the German Excellence Cluster UMIC (Ultra High-Speed Mobile
Information and Communication) project community
- Deployment on various mobile platforms (Nokia, Google G1)
- Monitoring learning behaviors of mobile learning communities
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 A web service for Kaixin Net – the Chinese localized Facebook
(Information Systems)
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16. Thank You
 CCPLE: http://vermeer.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:9080/CCPLE/
p
 UMIC: http://www.umic.rwth-aachen.de
Yiwei Cao
Ralf Klamma
Yan Gao
Rynson W.H. Lau
Matthias Jarke
E-learning 2.0?
 ROLE: being kept posted by joining ROLE LinkedIn Group
http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?gid=1590487
 ICWL 2009 at Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendfeed, …
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