Haiku Deck Blows Keynote Out of the Water. Haiku Deck is an iPad app that all students and teachers should have installed on their iPads. Haiku Deck enables anyone to create beautiful slide presentations. It’s so easy to use that when I was describing the app to someone last week I said it was like “Animoto for slide decks.” Like other slide presentation apps Haiku provides templates for creating your presentation. But there are some significant differences between Haiku Deck and other presentation apps. There are two features of Haiku Deck that stand out. First, Haiku Deck intentionally limits how much text that you can put on each of your slides. Second, Haiku Deck helps you find Creative Commons licensed images for your presentations. Haiku Deck has an adequate selection of free templates that should suit all students. Tags: free apps, haiku deck, presentation apps. Social Justice Training Institute. The Institute for Welcoming Resources. Design Action Collective | Will design for change.
Welcome to BorderLinks. Global Exchange | Building People-to-People Ties. Catholics for Choice. Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries. 12 Principles Of Collaboration In Learning. 12 Principles Of Collaboration In Learning Recently on westXdesign–via scoopit–we found an interesting graphic about naming 12 principles of collaboration. Collaboration is among the most-often promoted fluencies of 21st century learning (along with creativity and communication).
However, there are very few frameworks or models that exist to support the development of better collaboration forms. As it is, in many K-12 learning environments, collaboration is limited to teacher-created grouping, or more scattered project-based learning groups that converge on a single project and thus a single goal. The following principles of collaboration (seemingly created for businesses but clearly applicable to learning) push that idea a bit further–with some important emphases on the individual, including: 1. 2. 4. 10. U-Va. MOOC finds high attrition, high satisfaction. Much is made of the gargantuan number of students who sign up for massive open online courses, or MOOCs. After all, that is why they are called massive. Coursera, the Web platform that hosted Zelikow’s MOOC and many others, has drawn more than 3.5 million registered users.
EdX, another MOOC platform, has more than 890,000. But the metrics for Zelikow’s MOOC on global history since 1760 — which The Post in late February featured in a an article on lecture methods and a first-person account on taking a MOOC — suggest that registration numbers are not what matters most. “A large fraction of course registrants never even glance at the course they enrolled in,” Zelikow wrote in an e-mail. These registrants, who can sign up for a class with a mouse click and pay nothing to do so, aren’t necessarily students at all. Of that group, he said, nearly 5,000 earned statements of accomplishment by obtaining a minimum score on the weekly multiple-choice quizzes.
8 Extensions That Make Google Drive More Powerful Than Dropbox. Freebook Sifter - A Resource for Free eBooks. The Engineer and the Global Humanitarian. Engineering is so essential to all aspects of modern life that opportunities abound for mechanical engineering and global humanism to join as a powerful force to tackle critical issues facing this planet. Many engineers serve their communities offering their professional expertise. Now, engineers can also integrate global humanism into their careers, furthering the principle that regardless of political affiliation, religion, or culture, it is the responsibility of every human being to diminish human suffering.
ASME’s strategic partnerships with humanitarian groups provide members access to volunteer opportunities for advocating mechanical engineering while making the world a better place. Volunteering with one of ASME’s partners, such as Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), enables members to find innovative, sustainable, and appropriate solutions for many of the world’s problems. The ineffective use of natural resources hits the poorest the fastest and hardest. Engineers Against Poverty.