Scientix

RE: Inspire for teachers and students

2012-01-19T19:52:57Z

Tsetsa Tsolova Hristova:

Inspire is very interesting project with modeling of processes. It is very useful for teachers.Students liked this project very much too!

I agree: I have used many simulations from the Inspire project and my students love working with them. One big advantage is that the main keywords for each suggested activity are in many languages, including Catalan!

RE: Students with different abilities

2012-01-19T19:48:08Z

Biruta Pjalkovska:

I would like to admit - if the link doesn't work, just copy it and paste in the URL line and the questionaire will open ...
And I really need your opinion, it will help me a lot.
Thank you!

Hi Biruta
I tried to see your questionnaire but it was not available. Did you cancel it already?

RE: Let's introduce ourselves - ας συστηθούμε!

2012-01-19T19:45:30Z

Erika Dubinska:

Hello,

My name is Erika and I am teaching at Balozi secondary school in Latvia. I will also be attending the Scientix conference 2011 and I am looking forward to meet you all!

Erika

Hola Erika

el meu nom és Andreu i faig classes a un Institut d'un petit poble de Catalunya. Totes les classes les fem en català.
Malauradament no em vaig assabentar de la conferència de Scientix al 2011, però espero poder participar en alguna altra conferència europea en el futur.

RE: Letter to Municipality: AN EXCELLENT IDEA THAT WORKS!

2012-01-19T19:41:48Z

Andreu Català:

I have a very good example of the effects of addressing municipalities. An association called Cel Fosc (Dark sky),
http://www.celfosc.org
they use to follow that procedure, by writing letters to the local giovernment responsibles and suggesting them to turn off lights or modify the lamp designs. In fact, it is called an association against luminic contamination.

Per cert, aquesta associació "Cel fosc" s'inicia a Catalunya i ha tingut difusió també al País Valencià. He trobat aquesta pàgina que en fa referència:
http://lacurie.org/jornades/xiii-jornades-de-laefiq-curie/

RE: POGIL and Spice Webinars

2012-01-19T19:39:06Z

Àgueda Gras-Velázquez:

Hi Andreu,
...
PS. Als forums de Scientix es pot emprar qualsevol llengua, aixi que no dubtes en emprar el catala com demanaves en un altre post Animem als mestres a comunicar-se en qualsevol llengua i emprar Google translate o semblant per entendre el que diuen els altres!

Moltes gràcies, Àgueda! No sabia que es podia fer servir qualsevol idioma en aquests fòrums.
Per altra banda, trobo aquesta iniciativa de les comunitats de pràctica ben interessant i espero que es mantingui i creixi en el temps, tant en continguts com en nombre de participants!!!!

RE: POGIL and Spice Webinars

2012-01-10T14:16:22Z

A very good link!! In POGIL they offer Webinars, for example...

HSPI Webinar: Course Structure and Alignment with Standards
Thu 02/16/12
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Lancaster, PA 1 Day Public Presentation This webinar will cover how POGIL activities can fit within your overall course structure.

Are there plans about webinars in the Spice community?

RE: Assessement of skils

2012-01-10T14:13:23Z

Albert Simago:

Andreu, I would very much like to contsct informally that colleage that you mention, as I am planning to set up an assessment research project. Could you please pass me his or her email?

Sure,please write to me and I'll pass the email to my colleague. I am stil trying to convince him to register in the Spice Community, and he is almost convinced ;)

My email:

andreucatal@gmail.com

RE: science and technology

2012-01-10T14:08:40Z

Valeria
I also find the following reference of great use in the classroom:

Central European Center for WOmen and Youth in Science: The objective of CEC-WYS is to empower woman and young scientists in Central Europe and to contribute to achieving gender equality in R&D.
URL:
http://www.cec-wys.org/html/

RE: Assessement of skils

2012-01-09T15:59:31Z

I know of a colleague that keeps all those records when he is designing an educational research experiment. Maybe we need some incentive to keep track and analyse those data. But it would be a very good idea indeed!!!

RE: Natural Sciences_New GPs

2012-01-09T15:57:11Z

And what is the procedure to follwo if I wish to use them?

Also, I would need them in Catala, as only that language is used in SMT classes in my high school. Thank you!

RE: Letter to Municipality: AN EXCELLENT IDEA THAT WORKS!

2012-01-09T15:54:29Z

RE: Assessment

2012-01-09T14:15:53Z

What do you think about identical pre and post questionnaires to measure changes in learning?

I have read that some international tests are developed that way, and the tests are passed first day in the course and later on at the middle of the semester. Is there any such test for the secondary-school community???

RE: spice in Portugal

2012-01-09T14:13:29Z

Yes, and as the proposal said, use spoons, pieces of (bottle) glass, etc. Anything is useful.

And this reminds me of a Cuban physicist who gave a talk/workshop once in a meeting, and he used any reflected light as a SOURCE of light. He did some nice experiments that way!!!

Erratum list

2012-01-09T14:10:57Z

I just joined the Community and found an erratum here:

In page
http://spice.eun.org/web/spice
It reads:
Take part to interesting discussions about innovative education practices, partecipate to CoP!

should say: participate

I dont know if here is the place to report it...