ENG: This is a collection of tweets to support the Scientix Social Media Campaign in order to let STEM teachers know about the repository of resources available at Scientix portal.
ESP: Colleción de tweets de apoyo a la campaña de Scientix en redes sociales para dar a conocer la enorme cantidad de recursos disponibles sobre #CTIM (en inglés STEM) en su portal.
Poster XXVII ENCIGA
The program of the Conference is avalaible as a PDF : programa_XXVII_congreso_de_ENCIGA
A book in PDF with Conference presentations: Libro_Guia_XXVII_Congreso
This post is about my first presentation of Scientix at a regional event as part of the task 2 required for National Scientix Deputy Ambassadors. All the relevant digital documents and evidences are included here to help in dissemination of Scientix goals.
An storify version of my attendance to the XXVII Edition of ENCIGA Conference as a Scientix Deputy Ambassador. The Conference was held in IES As Barxas in Moaña (Spain) from 20-22 of November 2014:
Below it’s the presentation used at ENCIGA to talk about Scientix project:
Encuesta a los asistentes a la moodlemoot australiana para conocer su opinión sobre el diseño de la próxima MootAU15. Los resultados de la encuesta publicada por Michael de Raadt, Moodle Research Director en el siguiente documento en Drive:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bRHmMO0d-Vw07JcoBoPL2909Ny54wckEsmxsoWjB9KE/edit?usp=sharing
The 2nd Scientix Conference took place in Brussels from Friday, 24 to Sunday 26 of October. The Conference brought together 598 participants from all over the Europe. Although most participants were STEM teachers, there was a significant number of researchers and other profiles related all of them with STEM jobs.
Plenary Session with Amber S. Gell, a NASA Rocket Scientish
All the Scientix ambassadors were invited to participate with the condition of helping the EUN staff to organise the event. They divided some of the events tasks into us and we did our best to accomplish our job. My job consisted on being in charge of (support) the round table 2 where five specialists in Open Educational Resources (OER) debated about «Quality Standards in Educational Resources» and how to engage teachers to share their resources under non-restrictive licences.
I was on charge of supporting Round table 2 about «Quality Standards in Educational Resources»
The program of the Conference was full of keynotes in parallel sessions, workshops and round tables. In addition there was an area for stands where all the current STEM projects financed with EU funds showed their works. Another two rooms were allocated for a exhibition of posters. Plenary sessions brought us three amazing speakers: Prof. Mariano Gago, Ewald Breunesse and Amber S. Gell. They delighted us with their particular experiences in STEM topics. All the EUN staff did an excellent job designing the event.
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It was really difficult to choose the the parallel sessions and workshops to attend because almost all the topics were interesting. More than once we had to run from a room in the ground floor to another in the eighth floor to arrive on time for the next session. As always, one of the best things in this kind of events is the chance of networking. Time to chat with experts, colleagues, other scientix ambassadors, people from your own country, EUN staff, etc. I met and talked to dozens of participants about different issues and it was probably the best of this kind of events in my opinion.
Me with a microphone helping in a Workshop led by Daniel Aguirre and Ascension Muñoz about «Use of Augmented Reality (AR) in Education»
Along those days I had the opportunity to meet for the first time, Miguel Angel Queiruga, the other Scientix Deputy Ambassador for Spain who had attended to different Scientix 2 kick-off event than Daniel Aguirre (The Spanish Ambassador) and me. We all took a picture with Carlos Cunha, the Scientix Ambassador from Portugal. Part of the Iberian team of Scientix Ambassadors are in the picture below.
Iberian Ambassadors for Scientix
The number of Spaniards participants was 48. It represents a 8% of the total. We couldn’t take a picture all together but at least we took this on Friday, 24.
Galicia, my homeland, was represented by 7 participants most of us STEM teachers. Not all are in the picture below and Rafael Montero, the third from the right, came from Asturias but in spite of that he was kindly invited to join us for a picture in front of the official Scientix photo-call showing proudly our certificates of attendance 🙂
There was also time to go to the downtown in Brussels and taste some of the famous Belgian beers. As you can see in the picture Rafael Montero shows the beers that we (Ascensión Robles, Daniel Aguirre y Ramón Eijo, Rafael Montero and me) drank ‘a votre santé’ 🙂
Have a look a the storify timeline of tweets about the #ScientixConf to find more interesting moments:
This is a short list of URL with links to tons of applets in Java, HTML5 and flash to learn STEM subjects but especially Physics. Most of these applications can be run online through a web browser so it’s not needed to download and install. Feel free to suggest more to complete the list.
Scientix. The community for STEM education in Europe
Now a short list of other sites or web pages that show a list of links to other similar resources. Their lists include some of my previous links and many others but I couldn’t check if they’re still available online.
Although not all of them are under a fully unrestricted Creative Common license it’d be unfair no to thanks the institutions and authors who are sharing online their learning resources with all of us.
A guide to starting a STEM blog and how this can help young people, research fellows and business professionals to get noticed in their field and further their career is available at Why Every STEM Professional Needs a Blog.
As a Scientix Deputy Ambassador let me tell you that you can find more valuable resources to teach STEM subjects in 8 EU official languages in the Resources sections at Scientix website.
Keep Sharing!
This post collects relevant facts from my attendance from 12-14 of September 2014 to the Scientix 2 – Cycle 2 Teachers’ panel kick-off 2 held at EUN headquaters (Brussels) .
There I’ve been nominated as National Scientix Deputy Ambassador (SDA) for Spain from September 2014 to April 2015. 48 STEM teachers from all over the Europe attended to the this meeting where we recieved
In addition to attending to some workshops led by Scientix ambassadors about trending Edtech topics, new ambassadors received instructions to enlarge our knowledge about the EUN and the Scientix project in particular. Agueda Grass-Velazquez, the Scientix manager told us all they were doing and show us the different sections of the Scientix portal. A extensive list of tasks was given to new ambassadors to be carried out from September 2014 to April 2015.
The meeting gave me the opportunity to meet a group of wonderful teachers engaged in disseminating The Scientix initiatives. I hope I could also help them to spread out Scientix in my own country.
Today I found via Tony Bates a web page titled Implementing e-learning: a toolkit for training organisations. with useful infographics about e.learning topics. The first infographic represents the well-known ADDIE model and it’s interactive.
Tony Bates was questioning in a blog post the validity of that model for small e-learning projects. The blog post is titled: Is the ADDIE model appropriate for teaching in a digital age? It’s also valuable to read the openbook which it’s being writing by Tony titled «Teaching in Digital Age‘. For those who don’t know him, I must say that Tony Bates is one of the main e-learning gurus recently retired from his academic and research activities.
This year I had not only to study the ADDIE model in the current Master Degree in Education and e-Learning which I’m doing at UOC but also design a fictitious e-learning deployment based on that model.
This week I looked at this presentation from Lorinda Bruce, ASV eLearning Development Officer Scott Westray | VCE English Teacher Gilson College Link to this presentation: http://goo.gl/lL1ubQ