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University of Houston, College of Education has lead a digital storytelling effort that strives to expose instructors and students to the educational opportunities that the technique provides.

Now that the Winter Olympics are all over the news I thought it would be interesting to share this groundbreaking project between the Natural Science Foundation and NBC which uses the global spotlight of the Olympics to make science more accessible and more interesting to students, by showing how science helps athletes in the Olympics. Videos show how physics, math and other sciences can be used to explain speed in skiers or how motion is utilized in cross country ski techniques.

This is interesting and innovative. Talk about a creative way of learning!

Highlighted portions are the focus of the Case 4 practicum.

Awesome! I really like their idea of preservation and conservation. I feel that they are thinking about my grandchildren (I don't even have kids and already talking about grand kids) and really caring about future generations. I really appreciate that especially in a world were we seem to consume everything at a tremendously high pace without worrying about the consequences for us and future generations. I am irritated by the irresponsibility of oil companies and by what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico! Now I read the oil will not be contained and will affect Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and obviously the entire world!

This paper by Lord et al. provides evidence on the benefits of the constructivist teaching and learning approach. The authors show how students in a constructivist classroom environment learn more and are more motivated towards learning than those in classroom with a teacher-centric approach. I thought the constructivist approach was only effective in the social sciences yet this article shows that in the hard sciences it is also effective in increasing academic performance. I just wanted to share this with the group.