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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Alvaro Galvis

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http://eduportfolio.org/ - 1 views

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    Version 3.0 presents a variety of content, facilitates information organization, exchange and search. It also offers multiple levels of protection (public, protected or archived) as well as an interface for group administrators. To learn more about the new features, please consult the user guide. Edu-portfolio.org is free for learners and educators of all levels for non-profit use. Thousands of students, teachers and trainers from more than 60 countries use Eduportfolio. To receive an electronic portfolio, simply register.
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PBL @ University of Delaware - 1 views

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    For more than ten years, the Leaders and Fellows of the Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education (ITUE) have encouraged the adoption of student-centered and active classroom pedagogies-and in particular-the use of PBL in the undergraduate classroom. On- and off-campus workshops are held for faculty and students to enhance their understanding of PBL.
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Academic Leadership Paying students for grades: Is it sustainable and should it be? - 0 views

  • Educational leaders are consistently challenged to find innovative ways to maximize learning outcomes for students. Some of the more recent approaches aimed at improving student achievement that have emerged in public school systems involve paying students cash for good grades, attendance and good behavior. While these financial incentive programs are only a few years in the making, they have been initiated in many places throughout the U.S . The various programs have been developed with slightly different specifications and have been given unique names, but they all entail financially compensating students, many of whom are socioeconomically disadvantaged.
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Blog U.: Basecamp, E-mail and Projects - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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    Will we ever get beyond e-mail as the main tool to manage our project communications? Everyone I know believes that e-mail is a terrible tool to keep track of all the tasks, to dos, milestones, decencies, and people related to projects. We are all overwhelmed by too much e-mail, and therefore likely to miss key communications related to our projects. E-mail makes it difficult to achieve a ...
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Active Learning in Higher Education - 0 views

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    SAGE Journal
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Establishing a PLACE for Teaching Technologies - 0 views

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    PLACE is an acronym created (2009) by Alvaro Galvis to help educators understand and use information and communication technologies. P = Productivity tools L = Learning environment creation tools A = Access to cultural and intellectual capital C = Communication tools E = Exploration tools This web site shares variety of digital resources that belong to each on the proposed categories.
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YouTube - Google Reader in Plain English - 1 views

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    This is a very simple and good tutorial about GOOGLE READER
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So Much Information, So Little Time. Evaluating Web Resources With Search Engines - 1 views

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    THE Journal, 08/01/02
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Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators: A Guide to RSS and More - 0 views

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    Version 2.0, by Quentin D'Souza
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Wikis and Education - 1 views

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    A collection of web sites with relevant information about wikis in education
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Implementing Active Learning Strategies: Tales from Two New Life Science Professors at ... - 1 views

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    By Stuart Grandy, Nichole N. Barger Academic Leadership, The Online Journal Volume 8 - Issue 2 Apr 19, 2010 - 10:20:41 AM We report on the implementation of a range of classroom activities that have been widely advocated in the literature and yet remain less common in the sciences than other disciplines. The practices we use include: 1) seminars, in which students take a lead in discussion of course content; 2) role-playing activities whereby students take on the role of a different person and creatively explore how their perspectives may change; and 3) oral and written self evaluations
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Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning - 1 views

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    A Commentary by the Technology Enhanced Learning phase of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme, London, 2010
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