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"Since 1995, four years after India opened its doors to free markets, according to India's National Crime Records Bureau, NCRB, nearly 270,000 Indian cotton farmers have killed themselves. The 'Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India,' has placed the death toll for a cumulative 16-year at 256,913 deaths, the worst-ever recorded wave of suicides of this kind in human history. "

Muy interesante herramienta para pasar tablas de datos a visualizaciones gráficas, en vectores y personalizables... "RAW works with tabular data (i.e. information which is possible to record or track in a spreadsheet). There are many ways you can upload your data in RAW: Dropping a plain text file containing delimiter-separated values such as .csv or .tsv. File extension does not matter, as long as you use one of these delimters: comma, semicolon, tab or colon. Copying and pasting your data from a spreadsheet (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, Apple Numbers...) or a text file. This is particularly helpful when you do not want to (or can not) export your data any time you change it or when you want to use only specific columns. Typing your data directly into the text area. While it is unlikely to use this option, it can be useful for editing your data."

A continuación, se adjuntan los enlaces para visualizar las grabaciones de todas las ponencias (en crudo) con Presentación de diapositivas, chat y audio, del Congreso Virtual Mundial de e-Learning. En la mayoría de los casos se recomiendan comenzar a visualizarlas a partir de los 20 a 30 minutos posteriores al inicio del recording y hasta 15 minutos antes del tiempo máximo de la grabación.

"It seems only fitting to explore the role of questions in education by asking questions about the process of doing so. I propose that we start with the customary way of framing this topic and then proceed to questions that are deeper and potentially more subversive of traditional schooling. 1. WHICH QUESTIONS? To begin, let's consider what we might ask our students. The least interesting questions are those with straightforward factual answers. That's why a number of writers have encouraged the use of questions described variously as "true" (Wolf, 1987), "essential" (Simon, 2002), "generative" (Perkins, 1992; Perrone, 1998), "guiding" (Traver, 1998), or "fertile" (Harpaz & Lefstein, 2000). What the best of these share is that they're open-ended. Sometimes, in fact, no definitive right answer can be found at all. And even when there is one - or at least when there is reason to prefer some responses to others - the answer isn't obvious and can't be summarized in a sentence. Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer? Do numbers ever end? Why do people lie? Why did we invade Vietnam? Grappling with meaty questions like these (which were among those generated by a class in Plainview, NY) is a real project . . . literally. A question-based approach to teaching tends to shade into learning that is problem- (Delisle, 1997) and project-based (Kilpatrick, 1918; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Wolk, 1998). Intellectual proficiency is strengthened as students figure out how to do justice to a rich question. As they investigate and come to understand important ideas more fully, new questions arise along with better ways of asking them, and the learning spirals upwards. Guiding students through this process is not a technique that can be stapled onto our existing pedagogy, nor is it something that teachers can be trained to master during an in-service day. What's required is a continual focus on creating a classroom that is about thinking rather

"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures, or simpl

"Lensoo Create turns your Android tablet into a virtual whiteboard with voice recording, video and smooth digital writing. "

"Radiocut is an amazing service that records radio stations from in 24x7 basis, and let you create cuts for an specific station and time. This script retrieves and merges the chunks that compose an audiocut"

"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but

"Crea un guión antes de la grabación. Es recomendable que organicemos nuestras ideas o pensamientos en un guión previo para tener un mapa de ruta de nuestra grabación. Hacer esto evitará segundos de silencio, coletillas o inseguridades. Graba en un entorno silencioso. No hay nada que pueda distraer más en la grabación de un vídeo que escuchar ruidos de fondo como el ladrido de un perro o niños jugando. Practica una o dos veces antes de grabar. Es difícil realizar una estupenda grabación de pantalla a la primera. Con total seguridad, no querrás sobreactuar, por lo que repasar previamente los puntos más importantes de tu vídeo te permitirá grabar con mayor seguridad y tranquilidad. Cierra todas las apps y pestañas. Seguro que queremos que los espectadores se centren en el contenido sin sufrir distracciones durante la reproducción. Pues bien, una buena idea puede ser dejar únicamente abierta la pestaña o aplicación que nos interese, despejando el escritorio de posibles notificaciones. Solo graba lo que necesites. Si el contenido de tu grabación de pantalla solo se centra en una pestaña o aplicación, no hay necesidad de grabar el escritorio por completo. Grabar solo lo que necesitemos nos evitará "ruido visual", así como reducir el tamaño del video. Si usas Screencastify, puedes elegir grabar solo la pestaña actual. Graba usando dimensiones estándar. En general, preferiremos grabar nuestros vídeos con una configuración de 480p o 720p para asegurarnos que se reproduzcan correctamente en repositorios como YouTube, con la finalidad de eliminar las molestas barras negras al lado de los vídeos. Screencastify te permite redimensionar automáticamente la pestaña de tu navegador a valores predeterminados. Además, puedes usar para esto una extensión de Chrome llamada Window Resizer. Adelanta a tus espectadores de qué les hablarás. Antes de meterte de lleno con el contenido, comenta de qué tratará el vídeo y qué van a aprender. Esto les