Hello,

I send you this e-mail because you are going to participate in my thesis evaluation. The first task is to fill in the following questionnaire: http://www.encuestafacil.com/RespWeb/Qn.aspx?EID=1423763 It will take less than 10 minutes. Please, fill it in before the 8th of February. Now I give more details about the evaluation. I highly recommend you to read them in order to have a better understanding about the evaluation tasks you are going to do.

One of the objectives of my thesis is to create a community of educators who share their opinions and experiences about the use of ICT tools in their classrooms. This way, when an educator needs to select a tool to support an activity, she can search for tools and find out which ones her colleagues use to support similar activities. 

For this reason, we developed We-Share and U-Seek. We-Share may be used to annotate tools and to provide feedback about their educational use. For example, I can say that I am a teacher of Computers Architecture and I ask my students to use MediaWiki as a collaborative text editor; after that, I read the progress of my students and I use this information to organize debates with them. All the information created with We-Share will be published in the Web. On the other hand, U-Seek is useful to search for the educational tools and the opinions that are already published in the Web. For example, if an educator wants to organize a debate with her students, she may find useful the information I published about MediaWiki. Note that if she uses other search systems (such as Google), it will be much difficult for her to find information about the use of MediaWiki in educational practice.

You will receive three e-mails during this evaluation (this is the first one). The second e-mail will be sent as soon as you complete the previous questionnaire. The third e-mail will be sent on the 15th of February if everything goes alright.

Thank you,
Adolfo Ruiz