Guided Notes in the Pre-Algebra Mathematics Classroom

Students who attend an 8th grade mathematics class in the middle school at my district and who are not placed in an accelerated class, are placed in Book 3 of MathThematics (Billstein & Williamson, 2002, p. 393-466). I have introduced guided notes for the pre-algebra classroom in an effort to increase 8th graders\u27 classroom participation and engagement and to improve content mastery of Pre-Algebra. This study was an effort to understand if the guided notes increase student\u27s level of Pre-Algebra mastery in my classroom. I wanted to find out if guided notes increased participation and engagement compared to those students taking their own notes. Four key themes have emerged from the notes and test data, as well as the student survey and student interviews. They are student success, student focus, notes as a reference, and notes as an organizational tool. Recommendations based on the findings include ways that I should modify the guided notes along with classroom instruction to increase student success in the Pre-Algebra classroom

The role of counselling as a tool in addressing adult students’ need

This paper examined the role counselling plays as a tool in addressing the adult student need. Adult students are faced with challenges, sometimes complex in nature due to the multiple roles they play in life. Coming to education can be scary, the assignments, examinations, sitting in class hours taking lecture notes instead of making money to fend for the dependents, poor study habits skills and exhaustion which impact on their success. Some administrators of adult and non-formal education have for long neglected the application of counselling to their program. The objective of this paper is therefore to highlight these challenges, the role counselling plays in assisting its clients to resolve their needs. Key words: Adult students, Adult education, Challenges, Counsellin

DIPL 4106 NA Human Rights Law and Policy

Human rights is a powerful idea and, hence, a source of numerous controversies. Some controversies, although not all, stem from the fact that human rights is not only an ideal, but also a political tool which different forces try to bend to their own ends. We will look at selected intellectual and political puzzles involved in human rights theory and practice and explore central institutions of the international human rights regime. Endeavor to actively engage the texts. These debates concern essential issues on which you must decide. We will devote most of our time dissecting and debating the readings. Ideally, each of you will be moved on different days to take the initiative in discussing our readings. Hence, read intensively the material assigned each week and be prepared to discuss it in class. Laptops should be used only for taking notes

A Pilot Evaluation Study Using LectureTools to Enhance Interactivity in Classroom-Based Teaching in a Project Management Course

With students’ ownership of laptops and mobile devices increasing, there exists an opportunity to harness their use to support interactivity within the traditional classroom. Two educators, motivated to enhance interactivity in a two-day project management course at a UK university, trialled LectureTools, a cloud-based audience-response system. To assess potential benefits to learning and teaching, as well as identifying accompanying challenges, an evaluation study was carried out comprising a range of data sources. These included observation of a LectureTools-based lecture and a student questionnaire followed by a focus group discussion with a subset of students about their experiences throughout the two days. Interviews with both teachers were also conducted, adding to the evaluation research data and giving them an opportunity to reflect on their teaching practice. All participants recognised the benefits of LectureTools in promoting student engagement, learning and discussion while students acknowledged the distractive potential of having laptops in the lecture theatre. Efforts are required by educators to ensure that the interactive potential of laptops in classrooms to enhance learning and teaching is supported while controlling the potential for distraction. Future research is needed to ascertain the impact of using LectureTools on approaches to learning and teaching

Developing a MovieBrowser for supporting analysis and browsing of movie content

There is a growing awareness of the importance of system evaluation directly with end-users in realistic environments, and as a result some novel applications have been deployed to the real world and evaluated in trial contexts. While this is certainly a desirable trend to relate a technical system to a real user-oriented perspective, most of these efforts do not involve end-user participation right from the start of the development, but only after deploying it. In this paper we describe our research in designing, deploying and assessing the impact of a web-based tool that incorporates multimedia techniques to support movie analysis and browsing for students of film studies. From the very start and throughout the development we utilize methodologies from usability engineering in order to feed in end-user needs and thus tailoring the underlying technical system to those needs. Starting by capturing real users’ current practices and matching them to the available technical elements of the system, we deployed an initial version of our system to University classes for a semester during which we obtained an extensive amount of rich usage data. We describe the process and some of the findings from this trial

Exploring the usage of a video application tool: Experiences in film studies

This paper explores our experiences in deploying a video application tool in film studies, and its evaluation in terms of realistic contextual end-users who have real tasks to perform in a real environment. We demonstrate our experiences and core lesson learnt in deploying our novel movie browser application with undergraduate and graduate students completing a Film Studies course in Dublin City University over a semester. We developed a system called MOVIEBROWSER2 that has two types of browsing modes: Advanced and Basic. In general, students found that the features we provided were beneficial for their studies. Some issues or mismatches arose during the trial. A ‘wish-list’ was drawn up that might be useful for the future system developer. The contribution and achievements reported in this article are on the demonstration and exploration of how advances in technology can be deployed, and media can be accessed in the context of a real user community. Exploring the usage indicates a positive acceptance among students, besides lessons learned that are important for further investigation

Apuntweets: herramienta de colaboración sobre materiales educativos integrada con Twitter

Este proyecto fin de carrera trata del diseño y desarrollo de una herramienta de colaboración sobre materiales educativos integrada con Twitter. Apuntweets (Apuntes + Tweets), así es como lo hemos llamado, es un proyecto de e-learning que permite a alumnos y profesores colaborar en la anotación sobre un material educativo (apuntes de clase, enunciados de prácticas, etc.) desde su creación y puesta a punto hasta su uso en clase y en casa. Se ha diseñado e implementado una herramienta basada en tecnologías web (HTML5, Javascript, PHP) que permite la participación tanto de personal docente como de alumnos en la discusión sobre un material educativo, por ejemplo los apuntes de una clase. Aprovechando el auge de las redes sociales y el microblogging, constará de una capa social basada en la red Twitter, a cuyos servicios se accederá a través de su API (interfaz de programación de aplicaciones). Apuntweets permite que los profesores puedan colgar apuntes de sus asignaturas en este formato y los alumnos, a través de sus cuentas de Twitter o desde la misma aplicación, comenten en ellos, pregunten dudas, las resuelvan entre ellos y con el profesor, ofrezcan alternativas, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This final degree project is about the design and development of a collaboration tool to annotate educational resources integrated with Twitter. Apuntweets (“Apuntes”, Spanish for notes + tweets) is a e-learning project that allows teachers and students to annotate educational resources (class notes, lab session wordings, etc.) from creation and up-to-dating, to interactions in the class or at home. A tool was designed and developed, based on web technologies (HTML5, Javascript, PHP), that enables the participation of teaching staff and learners in discussions about educational resources, for instance the teacher notes of a session. Taking advantage of the social networks and microblogging hype, it will have a social layer based on Twitter, accessing its services via the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface). Apuntweets allows teachers to upload their notes to the tool as a web page, and students can comment on them, ask questions, solve peers problems, offer alternatives, etc. using their Twitter clients or directly from the tool.Ingeniería Técnica en Telemátic

Development of the premixing injector in burner system

The alternative fuel is good attention especially for renewable and prevention energy such as biodiesel. Biodiesel fuel (BDF) has a potential for external combustion. BDF is one of the hydrocarbon fuels. Palm oil Biodiesel is free from sulfur and produced by esterification and transesterification reaction of vegetable oil with low molecular weight alcohol, such as ethanol or methanol. The objectives of this research are design the mixing injector fuel and water-fuel emulsion with air for open burner and analyze the behavior of mixture spray formation between fuel (DF and BDF) and water-fuel emulsion. Premix injector use for external combustion especially open burner system. The disadvantages of BDF are high toxic emissions such as NOx, CO and particular matter (PM) and but it can reduced the performance of burner system. High toxic emission can be solved by using a new concept injector with mixing fuel-water emulsion and air. The additional water for combustion process can reduce the NOx emissions, soot, and the flame temperature. This research focuses the Spray angle, penetration, and flame length with secondary and without secondary air. CPO biodiesel has longer penetration length and spray area than diesel, but the spray angle is smaller than diesel. The different of flame Image between pure fuel and water mix with fuel is the flame color. Water mix with fuel has brightness color and shorter flame than pure fuel