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Gavan Watson

The Group Rumbler - 0 views

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    Malcolm Sparrow created The GRumbler to help with the frustratingly complex (and inherently mathematical) task of dividing classes of students into small groups for the purposes of group discussions, exercises, or project work--groups which are simultaneously balanced in terms of gender, nationality, experience, or job description (or in terms of any other factors or criteria that course administrators deem important, and around which they want to guarantee optimal mixing).
Gavan Watson

SERC - 0 views

  • The Science Education Resource Center (SERC), an office of Carleton College, works to improve education through projects that support educators. The office has special expertise in effective pedagogies, geoscience education, community organization, workshop leadership, digital libraries, website development and program and website evaluation.
Gavan Watson

Sustainability Education Intensive » About - 0 views

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    The UBC Sustainability Education Intensive (SEI) was launched in 2009 by the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth -  TAG - in partnership with the Sustainability Office (SO) at UBC. The sustainability folks at TAG are committed to offer the SEI annually, to offer support to increasing numbers of post-secondary educators to integrate or enhance sustainability in their course, program or initiative
Gavan Watson

Developing a teaching portfolio | University Affairs - 0 views

  • Teaching portfolios (or teaching dossiers) have become important in the application process, and essential in the promotion and tenure processes, at many universities.
Gavan Watson

Blended Learning Toolkit | - 0 views

  • This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.
Gavan Watson

Howard Gardner, multiple intelligences and education - 0 views

  • Howard Gardner's work around multiple intelligences has had a profound impact on thinking and practice in education - especially in the United States. Here we explore the theory of multiple intelligences; why it has found a ready audience amongst educationalists; and some of the issues around its conceptualization and realization.
Gavan Watson

Picture It Solved - a visual approach to thinking - 0 views

  • The Vee diagram is named for its "V" shape. It provides a structure for an experiment or study, ensuring a strong theoretical and conceptual basis and solid analysis. It is a thorough way of representing knowledge about a subject. It has a central focus question at the top, with theoretical and conceptual information along the left side, a concrete experiment, study, or experience at the point of the V, and analysis and evaluation of the experiment in light of the focus question along the right side.
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