Centre for Teaching Excellence

The School of Education's Neuro-Education Initiative furthers the understanding of how research findings from the cognitive and neurosciences has the potential to inform teaching and learning through research, collaboration, and advocacy. In partnership with the School of Medicine, Kennedy-Krieger Institute, and the Brain Science Institute, this Initiative fosters dialog among educators and brain science researchers to develop joint research projects and magnifies the potential for current findings to enrich educational practice.

Peer Instruction Network is a community for current and potential users of Peer Instruction, an interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University. 

learning design

Every day, scientists, researchers and regulators working in government departments, agencies and laboratories contribute to the health, safety and prosperity of Canadians and their communities.

Yammer is an "institutionally-based" alternative to Twitter. Users must all share the same domain (e.g. "uwaterloo.ca" in their email address) to share updates with one another.

haha when not to use twitter

gps-enabled app for when we go to conferences and need to eat?

A tool for creating online "Jeopardy-like" games. 

mark this is probably old news to you but if I do this I'll be using hashtags for my course

US report but fascinating results

hmmm maybe how not to teach, but interesting nonetheless