Teaching in a Digital Age by A.W. (Tony) Bates

I strongly recommend this open textbook «Teaching in a Digital Age – Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age» written by Tony Bates and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The book is available for downloading in PDF

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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El efecto de la práctica en el aprendizaje

Los foros de Moodle Community son una mina no sólo de información y conocimiento sobre Tecnología Educativa sino también de inspiración y reflexion sobre el mundo de la educación. Hoy llegué a través de un tweet a un foro de Moodle donde se abría un Post of the day  con esta pregunta: What does this …

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Post en el blog de Scientix FECYT

El lunes, 9 de Febrero publiqué mi primer post en el blog de Scientix en la FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología). La FECYT es el Punto de Contacto Nacional de Scientix en España. Los embajadores españoles de Scientix colaboramos con la FECYT en la divulgación del conocimiento relacionado con el área …

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Scientix Winter Workshop in La Valleta (Malta) 2015

The second Winter Workshop of Scientix cycle 2 was held in Malta from Friday 30 of January to Sunday, 1st of February. 51 participants, most of them Scientix Ambassadors, attended to this event. The venue was located at the National Curriculum Center of Malta. I arrived to the Network dinner late (about 21 h) because …

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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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