iBranch is a service that allows teachers to collaborate with students online. It simplifies tasks like giving notices, distributing documents, and interacting with students. Teachers can upload notices, documents, lecture slides, and more to share with students. They can provide these documents to all students or specific batches and branches. Students can access these documents anytime. The service also allows teachers and students to interact through forums where students can ask questions and teachers can answer visible to all. iBranch makes collaborating and sharing information online easy for teachers and convenient for students.
Self-Service User and Course Provisioning at InstructureCon 2014Jon Hays
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The presentation discussed self-service user and course provisioning tools developed at UC Berkeley using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard. The tools allow faculty and staff to automatically create Canvas course sites based on course roster data and import student users from the campus student information system. The tools were built using Ruby on Rails and AngularJS and utilize several Canvas API endpoints. Potential issues addressed including the time required for large-scale user and enrollment updates and the inability to restore deleted courses via the SIS import. Contact information was provided for questions.
This document describes a new method for rapidly expanding populations of human neural precursor cells in culture over long periods of time. The researchers isolated precursor cells from human fetal brain tissue and grew them in culture as floating sphere clusters. Using traditional passaging techniques, which involve mechanically dissociating the spheres, only a 12-fold expansion of cells could be achieved over several months. However, by sectioning the spheres into quarters instead of dissociating them, cell-cell contacts were maintained and cellular trauma was minimized. This allowed for a 1.5 million-fold increase in cell number within less than 200 days. Upon differentiation, the cells formed astrocytes and neurons but no oligodendrocytes. This novel culture method provides
Brazil has promoted digital culture and open source tools as a way to empower citizens and encourage collaborative development of public policies. In 2004, the Brazilian government began several cultural initiatives using the internet and open source technologies to promote progressive change. These initiatives allowed for parallel debates among artists, politicians and specialists and helped establish digital culture as a built-in tool for revolution.
Teams to Improve Functionality and User ExperienceJon Hays
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Session focuses on efforts to tackle local implementation challenges using expertise of Instructional Designers, User Experience Designers, and Developers. We will describe our user research, needs analysis, design, and testing processes. Implications for engagement between Sakai Teaching & Learning and UX communities will also be discussed.
Sakai T&L Show and Tell: Deepening Our EngagementJon Hays
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The document discusses how the University of California at Berkeley shifted its instructional design support from focusing on basic adoption of the bSpace learning management system to providing enrichment services to help faculty innovating their teaching with technology. It describes the changing needs as bSpace adoption increased, and how the support model changed from basic orientation sessions to a Teaching Enrichment Program focusing on areas like peer interaction, assessment, and multimedia. Case studies are provided showing how faculty have used tools like Google Forms, peer review workflows, and online journals to enhance teaching.
The document summarizes popular culture in the Philippines in the 1970s, including martial law under President Ferdinand Marcos, popular television shows, movies, music, sports, and other events. Key highlights mentioned are the declaration of martial law in 1972, popular love teams like Guy and Pip, fashion trends, hit songs from the era, and Margarita Moran being crowned Miss Universe in 1973.
Sakai Learning Capabilities Design Lenses in Action Jon Hays
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The Sakai Learning Capabilities Design Lenses are the product of the collective efforts of educators, instructional designers, and other pedagogically minded individuals who are part of the Sakai Teaching & Learning community. Each Design Lens represents a perspective from which we can envision the learning capabilities of a new Sakai. After a year of development, the Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) embodies much of this shared vision. In this session we?ll focus on what the first release of OAE will deliver from the perspective of the Design Lenses and what learning capabilities our institutions will need to be able to fulfill our short-term and long-term plans. We will reflect on the original Design Lenses and discuss how the Teaching and Learning community can stay engaged with OAE development efforts.
Balancing Privacy and Openness in Sakai's Open Academic EnvironmentJon Hays
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The document discusses balancing student privacy and openness in Sakai's open academic environment. It notes concerns around sharing educational resources, maintaining an open platform, and open participation while maintaining privacy and FERPA compliance. The presenters describe Berkeley's approach of cultivating community while also supporting privacy through policies, risk assessments, and privacy by design principles.
The document discusses the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and how location data can be added to information to enable spatial analysis and mapping. It notes that while GIS tools are now widely available, in the past it was difficult to access map data and software. The document then introduces several web-based mapping and "mashup" tools that allow users to combine their own data with maps and other information without advanced programming skills. These include Google Maps API, Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft PopFly, and Google Mashup Editor.
This document discusses bSpace, UC Berkeley's learning management system. [1] It provides statistics showing that bSpace usage has grown significantly between 2005-2010, with over 3,500 total courses currently. [2] bSpace allows for content management, communication tools like announcements and email, and collaboration features like forums, wikis, and polls. [3] The document recommends understanding your project's needs and using the tools in bSpace that work best.
The document presents quotes from famous leaders throughout history on various topics related to leadership, including Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Akio Morita. The quotes cover subjects such as the importance of education, perseverance, nonviolence, inspiring others, executing a vision, embracing failure, and seeing other perspectives. Each leader's quote is accompanied by their photo and name.
This document summarizes a webquest for 2nd grade students about exploring the deep blue sea. Students are divided into crews and tasked with researching facts about the ocean and its inhabitants using the internet and Microsoft PowerPoint. They record findings in journals and create a fact book presentation. The class votes on the most outrageous facts and best pictures. The winning crew receives a treasure chest to share among the class. The webquest aims to teach students about the ocean while building skills in writing, reading, recording, oral presentation, science, creativity and technology use.
This document outlines a lesson plan for 8th grade students to learn about the Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio, and golden spiral through exploring examples in architecture, art, nature, and the human body. Students will research these concepts over two class periods and then spend three days designing a project, such as a piece of artwork or building blueprints, that utilizes the golden ratio. They will be evaluated based on the creativity, understanding of concepts, and time management demonstrated in their projects.
iBranch is a service that allows teachers to collaborate with students online. It simplifies tasks like giving notices, distributing documents, and interacting with students. Teachers can upload notices, documents, lecture slides, and more to share with students. They can provide these documents to all students or specific batches and branches. Students can access these documents anytime. The service also allows teachers and students to interact through forums where students can ask questions and teachers can answer visible to all. iBranch makes collaborating and sharing information online easy for teachers and convenient for students.
Self-Service User and Course Provisioning at InstructureCon 2014Jon Hays
?
The presentation discussed self-service user and course provisioning tools developed at UC Berkeley using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard. The tools allow faculty and staff to automatically create Canvas course sites based on course roster data and import student users from the campus student information system. The tools were built using Ruby on Rails and AngularJS and utilize several Canvas API endpoints. Potential issues addressed including the time required for large-scale user and enrollment updates and the inability to restore deleted courses via the SIS import. Contact information was provided for questions.
This document describes a new method for rapidly expanding populations of human neural precursor cells in culture over long periods of time. The researchers isolated precursor cells from human fetal brain tissue and grew them in culture as floating sphere clusters. Using traditional passaging techniques, which involve mechanically dissociating the spheres, only a 12-fold expansion of cells could be achieved over several months. However, by sectioning the spheres into quarters instead of dissociating them, cell-cell contacts were maintained and cellular trauma was minimized. This allowed for a 1.5 million-fold increase in cell number within less than 200 days. Upon differentiation, the cells formed astrocytes and neurons but no oligodendrocytes. This novel culture method provides
Brazil has promoted digital culture and open source tools as a way to empower citizens and encourage collaborative development of public policies. In 2004, the Brazilian government began several cultural initiatives using the internet and open source technologies to promote progressive change. These initiatives allowed for parallel debates among artists, politicians and specialists and helped establish digital culture as a built-in tool for revolution.
Teams to Improve Functionality and User ExperienceJon Hays
?
Session focuses on efforts to tackle local implementation challenges using expertise of Instructional Designers, User Experience Designers, and Developers. We will describe our user research, needs analysis, design, and testing processes. Implications for engagement between Sakai Teaching & Learning and UX communities will also be discussed.
Sakai T&L Show and Tell: Deepening Our EngagementJon Hays
?
The document discusses how the University of California at Berkeley shifted its instructional design support from focusing on basic adoption of the bSpace learning management system to providing enrichment services to help faculty innovating their teaching with technology. It describes the changing needs as bSpace adoption increased, and how the support model changed from basic orientation sessions to a Teaching Enrichment Program focusing on areas like peer interaction, assessment, and multimedia. Case studies are provided showing how faculty have used tools like Google Forms, peer review workflows, and online journals to enhance teaching.
The document summarizes popular culture in the Philippines in the 1970s, including martial law under President Ferdinand Marcos, popular television shows, movies, music, sports, and other events. Key highlights mentioned are the declaration of martial law in 1972, popular love teams like Guy and Pip, fashion trends, hit songs from the era, and Margarita Moran being crowned Miss Universe in 1973.
Sakai Learning Capabilities Design Lenses in Action Jon Hays
?
The Sakai Learning Capabilities Design Lenses are the product of the collective efforts of educators, instructional designers, and other pedagogically minded individuals who are part of the Sakai Teaching & Learning community. Each Design Lens represents a perspective from which we can envision the learning capabilities of a new Sakai. After a year of development, the Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) embodies much of this shared vision. In this session we?ll focus on what the first release of OAE will deliver from the perspective of the Design Lenses and what learning capabilities our institutions will need to be able to fulfill our short-term and long-term plans. We will reflect on the original Design Lenses and discuss how the Teaching and Learning community can stay engaged with OAE development efforts.
Balancing Privacy and Openness in Sakai's Open Academic EnvironmentJon Hays
?
The document discusses balancing student privacy and openness in Sakai's open academic environment. It notes concerns around sharing educational resources, maintaining an open platform, and open participation while maintaining privacy and FERPA compliance. The presenters describe Berkeley's approach of cultivating community while also supporting privacy through policies, risk assessments, and privacy by design principles.
The document discusses the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and how location data can be added to information to enable spatial analysis and mapping. It notes that while GIS tools are now widely available, in the past it was difficult to access map data and software. The document then introduces several web-based mapping and "mashup" tools that allow users to combine their own data with maps and other information without advanced programming skills. These include Google Maps API, Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft PopFly, and Google Mashup Editor.
This document discusses bSpace, UC Berkeley's learning management system. [1] It provides statistics showing that bSpace usage has grown significantly between 2005-2010, with over 3,500 total courses currently. [2] bSpace allows for content management, communication tools like announcements and email, and collaboration features like forums, wikis, and polls. [3] The document recommends understanding your project's needs and using the tools in bSpace that work best.
The document presents quotes from famous leaders throughout history on various topics related to leadership, including Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Akio Morita. The quotes cover subjects such as the importance of education, perseverance, nonviolence, inspiring others, executing a vision, embracing failure, and seeing other perspectives. Each leader's quote is accompanied by their photo and name.
This document summarizes a webquest for 2nd grade students about exploring the deep blue sea. Students are divided into crews and tasked with researching facts about the ocean and its inhabitants using the internet and Microsoft PowerPoint. They record findings in journals and create a fact book presentation. The class votes on the most outrageous facts and best pictures. The winning crew receives a treasure chest to share among the class. The webquest aims to teach students about the ocean while building skills in writing, reading, recording, oral presentation, science, creativity and technology use.
This document outlines a lesson plan for 8th grade students to learn about the Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio, and golden spiral through exploring examples in architecture, art, nature, and the human body. Students will research these concepts over two class periods and then spend three days designing a project, such as a piece of artwork or building blueprints, that utilizes the golden ratio. They will be evaluated based on the creativity, understanding of concepts, and time management demonstrated in their projects.