C@vir. A prototype of CSCL pedagogical planner

The idea to apply collaborative learning strategies widely experimented in face-to-face educational setting, lead researchers to think a possible transposition mutatis mutandis also in online social environment. Looking at some of the existing pedagogical planners none of them are specifically intended to support the design of online collaborative learning activities. In this paper we present the software prototype “Cooperative Virtual Agora” (C@vir), a tools to guide teachers through the construction of online cooperating learning sessions that make appropriate, and effective, use of social technology.