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1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

"eXeLearning is an easy to use authoring tool under GPL-2+ to create educational web contents. Installing eXeLearning on Ubuntu: sudo snap install exelearning eXeLearning generates interactive contents in HTML5 and other formats and it allows you to create websites including text, images, interactive activities, image galleries, evaluating rubrics, multimedia clips, games... All the educational materials can be exported in different formats: SCORM, IMS, ePub, responsive HTML website, XLIFF... eXeLearning is available for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Go to https://exelearning.net/ for more download options."

"Teaching climate science & action can seem daunting: for university-level lecturers, teaching to younger children can be quite intimidating. For primary-level teachers, the science and scope can seem too vast and fast changing to cover. For everyone, the content can be overwhelming. As adults, how do we present this topic to children: give them the information they need without crushing them? I decided to face the challenge, and over the course of one rather sleepless night, put together some materials for my 6 year-old son's class. This post summarizes and communicates that experience, in the hope that others can take ideas and inspiration, and will be encouraged to volunteer to teach about climate in primary schools. Teaching and engagement in schools is now part of all of our work, as researchers, academics, parents, activists, advocates, so I hope this idea spreads. The 4-part lesson plan worked quite well: the topics & materials held the children's attention, gave them varied aspects to think about and interact with, and they seemed to come away with deeper understanding. The whole thing took roughly 1 hour. This is doable!"

" Enseña lo menos posible durante una sesión lectiva, es decir, no abuses de conceptos, de la teoría. Si lo haces, corres el peligro de sobrecargar lo que se de denomina la memoria de trabajo o memoria limitada. Coca-Cola se hace omnipresente en American Idol. Haz lo mismo con los conceptos que enseñes. Haz que se hagan omnipresentes a lo largo de una sesión lectiva. Reduce al máximo la enseñanza magistral. Fíjate que la gente recuerda el refresco Coca-Cola sin ni tan siquiera pronunciar el nombre de la marca o publicitarla explícitamente. En muchas ocaciones tienes la sensación de que hablando y repitiendo continuamente lo mismo conseguirás que les quede más a tus alumnos lo que les enseñas. Pero, ¿y si en lugar de repetirlo de forma magistral utilizas otros recursos que hagan que dicho concepto sea omnipresente a lo largo de la sesión lectiva? Y te preguntarás, ¿cómo puedo hacerlo? Aquí van algunas pautas: Usa la pizarra tradicional y la pizarra digital como herramienta para insistir sobre tu producto/concepto. Así el mensaje verbal se convierte en un mensaje complementario. Haz uso de imágenes y que dichas imágenes sean capaces de generar una emoción o un recuerdo especial que conecte con dicho recuerdo. Sírvete de material multimedia como documentales o películas que guarden cierta relación con lo que enseñas. Trabaja técnicas de estudio como el esquema o el subrayado. ¿Conoces el esquema de cajas? Aquí te dejo el enlace por si quieres aprender el método que utilizo en mis clases para elaborar esquemas. Transforma la memorización de un concepto por una historia, es decir, en lugar de memorizar lo que les has enseñado, haz que tu alumno te lo cuente, te haga una historia de lo que ha aprendido y aún más importante, de lo que ha entendido acerca de lo que le has enseñado. Trabaja la asociación de ideas. Esta es otra de las grandes bazas que utiliza Coca-Cola en American Idol. Crea aso