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Cambridge English Penfriends
This website allows schools to connect with one another and give their students the oportunity to exchange cards with each other.
The steps to participate are easy: register your school, complete your profile, find a partner school to exchange cards with.
This is an initiative of Cambridge ESOL, which develops and produces Cambridge English exams – the most valuable range of qualifications for learners and teachers of English in the world. Nearly 4 million people take our exams each year in 130 countries. Cambridge ESOL is a not-for-profit department of the University of Cambridge and part of the Cambridge Assessment group.
Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) Data Challenge launched
The LAK Dataset provides access to structured metadata from research publications in the field of learning analytics. Beyond merely publishing the data, it is actively encouraging its innovative use and exploitation as part of a public LAK Data Challenge sponsored by the European Project LinkedUp, co-located with the ACM LAK13 Conference, Leuven, Belgium (April 2013).
This data represents an unprecedented resource for related research, which will be encouraged by the LAK Data Challenge. A number of incentives and rewards (iPads amongst others) are on offer for innovative applications tackling topics such as:
- Analysis & assessment of the emerging LAK community in terms of topics, people, citations or connections with other fields
- Innovative applications to explore, navigate and visualise the dataset (and/or its correlation with other datasets)
- Usage of the dataset as part of recommender systems
For further details about incentives, submission and evaluation, please see the Website of the LAK Data Challenge.
Les rapports des jeunes à la culture à l'ère des technologies numériques
Dans le cadre des réflexions lancées par le laboratoire d’idées du Forum d’Avignon 2012, l’Atelier BNP Paribas a mené une enquête pour mesurer la façon dont les jeunes générations utilisent les technologies numériques dans leurs rapports aux contenus culturels et à la création, et pour comprendre notamment quels contenus ils créent, partagent et transmettent eux-mêmes.
ReFlex
ReFlex is a tool for learners to record 60-second audio-visual clips of their personal learning experiences, store them on a timeline and share them with teachers, peers and parents.
All recordings by one learner are stored on a personal timeline and are accessible for later review. In addition to the present, learners may also create “time capsule” recordings for the future. Time capsules can only be opened when their set date is reached, and can be used as statements of learning objectives. From the entire pool of recordings, learners can mark important clips by highlighting them. The best way to get an idea of it is to try it.
Futurium
Futurium is the online platform used by the Digital Futures project to facilitate a broad reflection on future European policies. It combines the informal character of social networks with the methodological approach of foresights to engage stakeholders in the co-creation of futures and policy ideas that matter to them.
(wlp)° the world lecture project
The world lecture project – (wlp)° is a video library. (wlp)° is the central platform for delivering academic videos from faculties worldwide. You can find videos according to various criteria: theme, faculty, country, language, institution and others. Its aim is to provide video-lectures, -experiments, courses in different languages and visitors are invited to add videos or to edit the video descriptions.
Methodological portal
Methodological portal emerged in the Czech Republic as the main methodological support for teachers and to support the implementation of general education programs in schools. Its purpose is to create an environment in which teachers will be able to inspire and inform each other about their experiences.
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Jonatan Academy
What if the world went upside down and children could create their own teaching material? This is the philosophy of the dutch project Jonatan Academy. The pupils (10-13 years old) teach other kids how to solve mathematical or linguistic problems by creating videos through Microsoft PowerPoint. They create those movies all by themselves: from choosing a suitable subject to talk about, to writing down a scenario for their explanation and the digitalizing it in PowerPoint. The material is then available for free for all teachers and pupils.
Youth 2.0: Connecting, Sharing and Empowering? Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media
This two-day workshop will investigate a number of relevant questions related to children’s, adolescents’ and emerging adults’ use of social media in general and social network sites in particular.
This international meeting consists of keynote lectures, presentations in parallel sessions and debates by senior and junior scholars. The aim is to offer scholars a platform to present their research and exchange thoughts about their research findings.
The event is centered around four main themes: 'identity construction', 'social relations', 'interests at stake' and 'supporting and empowering'. These topics, but also the keynote presentations and submission guidelines, are summarized in the website and the call for papers.