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Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/nov/16/1 Tungsten rods with evaporated crystals, partially oxidized with colorful tarnish. Purity 99.98 %, as well as a high pure (99.999 % = 5N) 1 cm 3 tungsten cube for comparison. Image: Alchemist-hp ( Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivative 3.0 (US)’ Licence.) This week's element is tungsten, which has the chemical symbol W and the atomic number 74 .

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Learn open practices at School of Open. Why "open"? Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/

School of Open

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PhD in Googling

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http://www.gaiamind.com/about23.html This is about the synchronicity number 23, and thus about the phenomena of synchronicity in general.

Passionate = self-absorbed =/= interesting

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What You'll Wish You'd Known

January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.)

websites for Educators

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Social Media Policies in Education

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Google Online Marketing Challenge, een kans om SEA te leren.

De bedrijfswereld ziet al een tijd het nut van SEO en SEA in, maar het hoger onderwijs is minder vlug om zoekmachine marketing toe te voegen aan het curriculum. Om hier verandering in te brengen bestaat er de Google Online Marketing Challenge .
Designing a learning-centered syllabus (pdf) Learning-centered syllabus production checklist (.doc) Examples of sections of learning-centered syllabi (doc)

Designing Learning-Centered Syllabus

At this stage of the tutorial, you have set overarching goals, organized content, developed a course plan, selected teaching and assessment strategies, and begun to develop some specific assignments and activities. In this section of the tutorial, you will develop your course syllabus, considering the issues raised below, the list of what could be included in a syllabus, and reading a few examples of syllabi. A detailed syllabus gives students a sense of the nature of the course, what they will be expected to do in the course, and how their performance will be assessed.

Syllabus