Don’t forget the e of ePortfolios

For some years now, the Colegio Apóstol Santiago of Vigo (Spain) has had a Mahara ePortfolio available to students and teachers of the secondary school. Our Mahara is linked to Moodle for single sign-on. I started to use Mahara to introduce my students (and myself) to the concept of ePortfolios. The goal was to create …

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Scientix Workshop: How to embed remote and virtual labs from Go-Lab

On Saturday, 30th of May I conducted a Scientix workshop in Santiago of Compostela. That day the Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI) organised a one-day event for teachers to share good practices in teaching STEM. The program of the day was available here (PDF). My Scientix workshop was one of the six simultaneous …

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Why are so many of our teachers and schools so successful? John Hattie at TEDxNorrkoping

Interesting talk of Professor John Hattie in Sweeden. He talks about key factors for improving student’s achievements at Schools What surprised me the most, was the amount of topics listed which hardly affect the student’s achievement although most people think that they actually do it. You can also listen an interview in a BBC chanel …

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Scientix at Moodlemoot Spain 2014

From 19-20 of December 2014 Barcelona held the national moodlemoot conference (#mootES14). Participants from all the Spanish regions shared with foreign visitors two productive days in Barcelona. This year, the program  (PDF) included a broad selection of trending topics related to educational technologies. For the first time Scientix program was presented in a moodlemoot.  As …

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Mi Práctica Deportiva durante el año 2014 y … algo más

Estos son los datos de mi actividad deportiva que registré a través de la aplicación Endomondo durante el año 2014. Este año, a diferencia del resúmen del año pasado lo presento con gráficos. ¿Qué tiene que ver esta entrada con los temas sobre los que habitualmente escribo (STEM, Scientix, Tecnología educativa..)? Me temo que tendrás …

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e-assessment: Interesting data about typing versus handwriting in exams

Surfing the web looking for some e-assessment references for my next task in the subject of ‘Researching method in e-learning‘, I arrived to an Australian project called Transforming exams. There I found a PDF paper titled ‘e-Exams: 2014 UQ Trial outcomes‘ with interesting data about two interesting issues: One is the reasons given by students …

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