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1 Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt - Student Centered Wikis. Get your Wikispaces Classroom now: the easiest way to manage your class. guest Join | Help | Sign In 1 Tool at a Time: Build Your Toolbelt Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... Developing Rubrics for Memes.

Now its relatively easy to imagine competencies related to creating 'mashups' and deploying multimedia content to blog stremes. In essence these competencies form the 'Lingua Franca' of the Internet. To interact with any degree of sufficiency on the Net one needs to be able to splash media from one place to another and to generate ones own multimedia and splash it around as you see fit, or as far as your skills let you see fit. Recalling from the previous post that a student could be given the keys to a blog, [username and password] and asked to "Go and grow that meme".

The meme I present in my next post "Chimeric Memes" is as a model for this pedagogical approach. It is basically a primer: What's in a meme Dorris? It discusses and describes this entity known as meme, and attempting to live more, it asks for your [1] attention, [2] consideration, and [3] redistribution. The Red Centre Way has 11 primary points along its 400 odd Km loop. Lets consider our humble meme. Free Online PDF Converter, Batch Convert to PDF, PDF/A or Image, Doc Converter, PDF Printer Driver.

Workshops S2013. Sakai Project | collaboration and learning - for educators by educators. Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology. Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Some students seem to breeze through their school years, whereas others struggle, putting them at risk for getting lost in our educational system and not reaching their full potential.

Parents and teachers want to help students succeed, but there is little guidance on which learning techniques are the most effective for improving educational outcomes. This leads students to implement studying strategies that are often ineffective, resulting in minimal gains in performance. What then are the best strategies to help struggling students learn? Fortunately for students, parents, and teachers, psychological scientists have developed and evaluated the effectiveness of a wide range of learning techniques meant to enhance academic performance.

The authors describe each learning technique in detail and discuss the conditions under which each technique is most successful. Which learning techniques made the grade? About the Authors (PDF, HTML) By Henry L. Wikispaces. Fall2012 548. Fall2012 566. Fall 2012 665. My First Wiki.

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