Collaborative Program Visualization with Woven Stories and Jeliot 3

The novel concept of collaborative program visualization combines individually oriented cognitive tools with a collaborative environment. The concept is based on the socio-cultural constructivism in which collective actions are in the key role. In this context the learning process is acculturation into an established community of practice where the subjective feelings and knowledge of the participants is transformed into commonly accepted knowledge of the community. This process is supported by the environment called JeCo that supports both synchronous and asynchronous collaborative tools. Users of this new platform will collaborate in developing programs and solving together different programming tasks. The platform structure is the result of the union of two already developed tools: Woven Stories, which provides the collaborative environment, and Jeliot 3, which animates the programs.