Our school has 100 students and 15 teachers, with a small but functional library and sports hall where all students and teachers are happy. The school was built in the 1970s and most teachers were educated there as well.
The Alliance for Jewish Education promotes and supports Jewish education in the Metropolitan Detroit area. It initiates innovative programs in collaboration with Jewish institutions. One program, Shalom Street, is an interactive Jewish museum that has had over 10,000 visitors. The Alliance also provides professional development for teachers and directors, and oversees funding and planning for day schools and other Jewish educational programs.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The sandhill crane lives in marshes, wet grasslands, and meadows, and eats grains, seeds, and some insects. It has a wingspan of around six feet, gray body, red head, and yellow cheeks. Sandhill cranes mate for life, lay two pale brown eggs per year, and both parents feed the young chicks, who can walk and feed themselves shortly after hatching. They can live up to 20 years.
Our school has 100 students and 15 teachers, with a small but functional library and sports hall where all students and teachers are happy. The school was built in the 1970s and most teachers were educated there as well.
The Alliance for Jewish Education promotes and supports Jewish education in the Metropolitan Detroit area. It initiates innovative programs in collaboration with Jewish institutions. One program, Shalom Street, is an interactive Jewish museum that has had over 10,000 visitors. The Alliance also provides professional development for teachers and directors, and oversees funding and planning for day schools and other Jewish educational programs.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The sandhill crane lives in marshes, wet grasslands, and meadows, and eats grains, seeds, and some insects. It has a wingspan of around six feet, gray body, red head, and yellow cheeks. Sandhill cranes mate for life, lay two pale brown eggs per year, and both parents feed the young chicks, who can walk and feed themselves shortly after hatching. They can live up to 20 years.
The document discusses the history and process of political cartooning. It provides background on influential cartoonists like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Nast. Modern cartoonists mentioned include Dwayne Booth, Tom Toles, and Michael Ramirez. The document also outlines the creative process for developing political cartoons, from getting ideas to finalizing the artwork. Examples are provided of the author's cartoons addressing current events and debates.
This presentation served as the visual back-drop for an artist showcase for retailers at an industry trade show with Third Day headlining. Our corporate campaign for this trade show was 'Service With a Smile.' Focusing on the idea of 'service' we created this coffeehouse-themed event.
A presentation for Glyndŵr University at their Technology Enhanced Learning Symposium 6 March 2013. *NB this v2 replaces the original: I had to substitute an image on slide 14. The earlier version had 26 views - thank you! - and has now been taken down.
This document discusses a study comparing text-based and voice-based communication in Second Life. The study will divide 160 students into groups, with one cohort communicating via text and the other via voice during a discussion task. Instruments will measure expectations, academic motivation, and perceptions. The researchers expect that voice communication will be preferred over text, and that intrinsic motivation will correlate with text-based communication while extrinsic motivation will correlate with voice. Limitations include the descriptive planned analysis and lack of control over face-to-face discussion.
Communities of Learning in Organizational Training: The influence of particip...Martin Rehm
Driven by today’s knowledge economy, many organizations have started looking for innovative methods to train their staff (Yamnill & MacLean, 2001). In this context, online Communities of Learning (CoL) have received a growing amount of attention among practitioners and researchers alike (Rehm, 2009). Yet, despite positive business showcases, empirical research on collaborative (learning) activities has only yielded mixed results (e.g. Simons, Pelled, & Smith, 1999). Moreover, past research on collaborative online communities has either not considered data from real organizations (Edmondson, 2002), or neglected participants’ hierarchical position as a major obstacle to collaborative learning processes (Romme, 1996). The present study addresses these shortcomings by providing empirical evidence from 25 CoL of an online training program that was being implemented for 249 staff members of a global organization. Each CoL consisted of 7 – 13 participants, from different hierarchical positions, who collaboratively enhanced their knowledge via asynchronous discussion forums.
Using social network analysis (Strijbos, Martens, Prins, & Jochems, 2006), we computed participants’ in- and out-degree ties, as well as centrality scores to determine their communication behaviour within CoL. Additionally, based on the content analysis scheme developed by Veerman & Veldhuis-Diermanse (2001), we assessed the level of participants’ contributions.
Our empirical results clearly indicate that hierarchical positions are transferred into the virtual realm and that higher level management plays an important role in CoL. More specifically, participants from higher up the hierarchical ladder held more central positions and contributed a higher amount of task-related messages than their colleagues. Taken together, these insights provide valuable input for future CoL. Considering that hierarchical positions have a significant impact on CoL, HRD practitioners can design collaborative activities that foster the active exchange of information, and device facilitation strategies that encourage an active participation of all members of a CoL.
An examination of IPL users, their questions, and the processing of questions by the service. Compares two studies which researched user information needs and IPL service provision in 1999 and 2007.
Guest lecture Recommender Systems in TEL at RWTH Aachen, GermanyHendrik Drachsler
This document provides an overview of recommender systems and their evaluation. It discusses how recommender systems use the opinions of users in a community to help individuals identify interesting content from large sets of options. Common recommender system technologies include collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, and hybrid approaches. Recommender systems are evaluated using metrics like precision, recall, and F1 score, which measure how well recommendations match users' interests. Evaluation can also involve user studies to assess user-centric outcomes. The document outlines several open research issues around applying recommender systems to technology-enhanced learning.
Finding and sharing good stuff: open practice, open educational resources and...Lis Parcell
Slides to support a Jisc session at the Eastern region e-forum hosted by University of Essex on 21 October 2016. Participants were from a range of further and higher education institutions across East Anglia. Group discussion formed a component of the session.
The document provides instructions and information for students about an assessment on A Long Walk to Water. It tells students to take out notes from yesterday and look over them for today's test. It provides learning objectives about comparing and contrasting the characters Nya and Salva. It notes that students can use their notebooks and yesterday's work during the test. After the test, students should start their homework if finished early. The document then provides instructions for a poetry writing assignment comparing Nya and Salva where students will use a two-voice poem graphic organizer. It gives guiding questions for students to consider as they plan their poem. It concludes with assigning the poem "Unexpected Links" as homework.
Primary school Rečica is a school located in the village of Rečica near Karlovac, Croatia that educates 140 students ages 6 to 15. The school provides an outdoor space for students to play and have fun. Classrooms and activities are shown, including during winter months.
Our school has 15 teachers where students learn. It contains a library for students to use. Each year the school holds a project week for the students.
My school has 100 students and 15 teachers located in Ķeipene village, Latvia. It has 9 class teachers and 4 other teachers who teach subjects like Arvīds Bogdans, Inese Grise, and Mārīte Šteinberga. The current headmaster is Māris Siliņš, preceded by Andris Upenieks and the first headmaster Adele Goldberga. The student thinks their school is the best with nice teachers and students, tasty food, and a recent renovation making it brighter.
The document discusses the history and process of political cartooning. It provides background on influential cartoonists like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Nast. Modern cartoonists mentioned include Dwayne Booth, Tom Toles, and Michael Ramirez. The document also outlines the creative process for developing political cartoons, from getting ideas to finalizing the artwork. Examples are provided of the author's cartoons addressing current events and debates.
This presentation served as the visual back-drop for an artist showcase for retailers at an industry trade show with Third Day headlining. Our corporate campaign for this trade show was 'Service With a Smile.' Focusing on the idea of 'service' we created this coffeehouse-themed event.
A presentation for Glyndŵr University at their Technology Enhanced Learning Symposium 6 March 2013. *NB this v2 replaces the original: I had to substitute an image on slide 14. The earlier version had 26 views - thank you! - and has now been taken down.
This document discusses a study comparing text-based and voice-based communication in Second Life. The study will divide 160 students into groups, with one cohort communicating via text and the other via voice during a discussion task. Instruments will measure expectations, academic motivation, and perceptions. The researchers expect that voice communication will be preferred over text, and that intrinsic motivation will correlate with text-based communication while extrinsic motivation will correlate with voice. Limitations include the descriptive planned analysis and lack of control over face-to-face discussion.
Communities of Learning in Organizational Training: The influence of particip...Martin Rehm
Driven by today’s knowledge economy, many organizations have started looking for innovative methods to train their staff (Yamnill & MacLean, 2001). In this context, online Communities of Learning (CoL) have received a growing amount of attention among practitioners and researchers alike (Rehm, 2009). Yet, despite positive business showcases, empirical research on collaborative (learning) activities has only yielded mixed results (e.g. Simons, Pelled, & Smith, 1999). Moreover, past research on collaborative online communities has either not considered data from real organizations (Edmondson, 2002), or neglected participants’ hierarchical position as a major obstacle to collaborative learning processes (Romme, 1996). The present study addresses these shortcomings by providing empirical evidence from 25 CoL of an online training program that was being implemented for 249 staff members of a global organization. Each CoL consisted of 7 – 13 participants, from different hierarchical positions, who collaboratively enhanced their knowledge via asynchronous discussion forums.
Using social network analysis (Strijbos, Martens, Prins, & Jochems, 2006), we computed participants’ in- and out-degree ties, as well as centrality scores to determine their communication behaviour within CoL. Additionally, based on the content analysis scheme developed by Veerman & Veldhuis-Diermanse (2001), we assessed the level of participants’ contributions.
Our empirical results clearly indicate that hierarchical positions are transferred into the virtual realm and that higher level management plays an important role in CoL. More specifically, participants from higher up the hierarchical ladder held more central positions and contributed a higher amount of task-related messages than their colleagues. Taken together, these insights provide valuable input for future CoL. Considering that hierarchical positions have a significant impact on CoL, HRD practitioners can design collaborative activities that foster the active exchange of information, and device facilitation strategies that encourage an active participation of all members of a CoL.
An examination of IPL users, their questions, and the processing of questions by the service. Compares two studies which researched user information needs and IPL service provision in 1999 and 2007.
Guest lecture Recommender Systems in TEL at RWTH Aachen, GermanyHendrik Drachsler
This document provides an overview of recommender systems and their evaluation. It discusses how recommender systems use the opinions of users in a community to help individuals identify interesting content from large sets of options. Common recommender system technologies include collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, and hybrid approaches. Recommender systems are evaluated using metrics like precision, recall, and F1 score, which measure how well recommendations match users' interests. Evaluation can also involve user studies to assess user-centric outcomes. The document outlines several open research issues around applying recommender systems to technology-enhanced learning.
Finding and sharing good stuff: open practice, open educational resources and...Lis Parcell
Slides to support a Jisc session at the Eastern region e-forum hosted by University of Essex on 21 October 2016. Participants were from a range of further and higher education institutions across East Anglia. Group discussion formed a component of the session.
The document provides instructions and information for students about an assessment on A Long Walk to Water. It tells students to take out notes from yesterday and look over them for today's test. It provides learning objectives about comparing and contrasting the characters Nya and Salva. It notes that students can use their notebooks and yesterday's work during the test. After the test, students should start their homework if finished early. The document then provides instructions for a poetry writing assignment comparing Nya and Salva where students will use a two-voice poem graphic organizer. It gives guiding questions for students to consider as they plan their poem. It concludes with assigning the poem "Unexpected Links" as homework.
Primary school Rečica is a school located in the village of Rečica near Karlovac, Croatia that educates 140 students ages 6 to 15. The school provides an outdoor space for students to play and have fun. Classrooms and activities are shown, including during winter months.
Our school has 15 teachers where students learn. It contains a library for students to use. Each year the school holds a project week for the students.
My school has 100 students and 15 teachers located in Ķeipene village, Latvia. It has 9 class teachers and 4 other teachers who teach subjects like Arvīds Bogdans, Inese Grise, and Mārīte Šteinberga. The current headmaster is Māris Siliņš, preceded by Andris Upenieks and the first headmaster Adele Goldberga. The student thinks their school is the best with nice teachers and students, tasty food, and a recent renovation making it brighter.
The document discusses a school project called "Let's Play Math" conducted with 5th grade students. The project aimed to make learning math fun and engaging for students through games and interactive activities. It allowed students to practice important math skills while having fun.
The Selce 2013 document discusses a study conducted on the effects of a new drug. Researchers tested the drug on mice and found that it significantly reduced tumor size without any major side effects. The study suggests the drug warrants further clinical trials for evaluating its potential as a new cancer treatment in humans.
Presenting malta etwinning project (dorianne agius)Gavranica
This document provides information about San Gorg Preca College in Malta. It discusses the climate and population of Malta. It then describes details about the town of Paola, Malta, where the school is located, including its motto, coat of arms, and places of interest. It introduces San Gorg Preca College, named after a Maltese saint, and provides details about the schools it incorporates. It concludes with information about Paola Primary A, the specific school being discussed, including its location, classes, coat of arms, annex location, environmental programs, and a seasonal greeting from the students.
This document describes a kindergarten in Varna, Bulgaria called "Cvetni pesachinki". It discusses the play room, library, and yard at the kindergarten and mentions activities like a feast day celebration and a festival of fruits and vegetables that took place. The document focuses on different areas and events at this kindergarten in Varna, Bulgaria.
There were originally 10 friends sitting on a couch together but it was too small, so one by one each animal jumped on the couch causing the number of friends sitting there to decrease by one, until only Lazy John was left sitting and sleeping on the now empty couch.
We are a kindergarten class of 20 students ages 5 to 6 years old at Station Kindergarten in Bragança, Portugal. We enjoy doing math games that involve information and geometric shapes. We have fun learning math through games.
Gradinita nr. 2 dumbraveni suceava, prof.inv. prescolar gurita mihaelaGavranica
This document appears to be notes from a kindergarten class in Romania. It describes how students are arranged in a classroom activity with girls in a red circle, boys in a blue circle, and absent students in the middle. It also mentions shapes like triangles and circles that are smiling or sad. Finally, it notes that someone is taking a large red square from an art supply bag.
This document discusses basic shapes that children learn such as circle, rectangle, triangle, line, and square. It lists the names of the shapes in both English and what appears to be Croatian or Serbian. The document seems to be teaching materials for early education on shapes.