Based on the agreement among the EMIM consortium members, the official platform for every course provided by the EMIM program is Moodle. Thus many activities took place in Moodle during the Trial-3 course, including Enrolment to the course, and formation of groups in Moodle wiki (every student had access to Moodle wiki in order to choose a group). Different types of information could also be found in the Moodle, such as general information about the course objectives, course outline, course schedule (including the weekly tasks and assessment criteria), and different resources for the course (uploaded documents/articles, list of links). The Moodle discussion forum has been used by a couple of student participants to notify the others about their technical/administrative problems during the course. Every participant of the e-learning course and iCamp members had access to the course in the Moodle environment. In addition to the Moodle environment, a course Weblog in WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) was created to notify students about weekly tasks and other information. Two “super” facilitators from Tallinn University, who were also part of the core research team and co-designers of the pedagogical intervention strategies, had access to the course Weblog to post new posts and organize a Weblog. The other facilitators as well as student participants of the course could leave their comments. The super facilitators created as well as maintained a Scuttle account for bookmarking course-related links and materials with predefined tags. Similarly, the students created their personal Scuttle account to advertise their personal Weblogs with a specific tag predefined by the facilitators, and used the Scuttle to bookmark course-related material with the same tag.

To kick off the course, the students and facilitators had to create their own personal Weblogs. The purpose of the personal Weblog was to introduce oneself and to reflect on learning/facilitation process. The participants could choose whatever Weblog services they wanted to use, or even make use of their previous Weblogs. Nonetheless, the Tallinn University provided a WordPress installed in one of the Tallinn University servers with feedback plugin developed in the iCamp project to make the monitoring of the group work easier.

The super facilitators identified a selection of the iCamp tools that might be useful for the students and other facilitators, who were free to select any of the tools for their personal or group purposes. Specifically, the following tools were provided:

• WordPress for personal and group Weblogs
• WordPress feedback plug-in
• Scuttle for social bookmarking
• Feed-on-feed aggregator for gathering feeds to one place
• Objectspot for federated search
• Doodle for setting up meetings and voting
• Videowiki for creating video-based material, for example introducing oneself
• MyDentity for getting an overview of one’s social network based on the e-mail exchanges
• iLogue special tool for creating a personal learning contract