Dear colleagues, it is a pleasure to announce the new release of CoFFEE software (4.1 version): "The CoFFEE After". It is downloadable at the http://www.coffee-soft.org/ Web site starting from Jan, 22th, and at the Sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/coffee-soft/ now! What's new in version 4.1? 1) New tools Two more tools have been added: - Internet Explorer Tool: allows each student to navigate the World Wide Web through a standard browser. It offers the standard functionalities of a (private) browser, but also the opportunity for the teacher to provide a "follow-me" mechanism. - Document Browser Tool: the Document Browser tool is an HTTP server that allows the teacher to share documents with the classroom; students can open the documents and browse the links that are eventually present in them. 2) Activity indicators The teacher can now monitor the activity level of the students in real time. Close to the name of each student there is an icon indicating the level of partecipation to the discussion (red = low, green = medium, blue = high), based on the number of messages sent in his/her group in the current step. By selecting a student, the teacher can see in details the number of messages sent in each tool and the percentage of messages sent in the group. 3) "Fully anonymous" behaviour In the Chat Tool and the Threaded Discussion Tool the teacher can activate a "fully anonymous" behaviour: in this case teacher cannot see the names of the students and the report (PDF/RTF/HTML) does not bring information about the names of the contributors. The identity is, however, still present in the traces/logs. 4) Hebrew nationalization CoFFEE has been (partially) nationalized in Hebrew language, and (partial) support for right-to-left widgets has been added. Try and enjoy it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luca Tateo Project LEAD - Department of Education Sciences, University of Salerno (Italy) via Rufoli, 23 Ogliara I-84135 Salerno mobile +39.392.5178418, +39.347.5423594 office +39.089.962106 ltateo@unisa.it, network.salerno@tiscali.it Skype ID: luca.tateo lucatateo.blog.tiscali.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~