VCom: uma abordagem para modelagem de ambientes colaborativos

Abstract

First generation of web applications was responsible for the popularization of the network and the emergence of the first groups of Internet users. At that time, the web content was little interactive and web sites were limited in the aspects of configuration options and interface of the system. The Users were mere spectators of the actions that took place in the pages browsed, since they could not change its contents. Any additional functionality depended on the work of programming teams. With the advent of Web 2.0, the focus became the collective construction of knowledge. The essence is to allow users to become more active, not only through participation in interactive content generation, but also as the creation of virtual communities. Since then, Internet users are increasingly getting interested in the construction of environments that take advantage of the interactivity, of the authorship and of the semantic retrieval promoted by web, and various technological aspects. From the perspective of computing in education, efforts are noticeable in the production of educational software and virtual environments to support learning, especially with support for authoring tools and interaction such as chat, wiki, blog and forum. The educational activities supported by digital resources has highlighted the lack of flexibility in environments whose modeling is focused on tools, compromising the support for different activities proposed. This work proposes a approach for modeling of collaborative environments, through the design of Communication Vehicles. With these vehicles, it should be possible, to individuals or groups, organize and describe workspaces on the web by defining a set of structural properties. The validation of this proposal is made through a prototype of an editor Communication Vehicles, which provides a range of facilities to design vehicles without requiring the use of textual programming languages.