[IAEP] Material for teacher training

Frederick Grose fgrose at gmail.com
Tue May 8 12:27:21 EDT 2012 

*Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl> began this conversation on 04 May
2012 in the [support-gang] mailing list.  It has blossomed to over 25
messages, and we decided to forward and continue it on [iaep] *It's an
Education Project*:

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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:45 PM
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org


Hi everyone,

We are working on setting up a course about ICT4D at the Free University of
Amsterdam (www.vu.nl). The idea is to train the students on this matter,
spend a significant amount of time on education topics and the XO, and with
the best students establish a team to take care of XO deployments.
Progressively, contacts are being established with experts in relevant
topics. We are also in touch with a school in Peru that received some XOs
but no training on how to use them - as a result, they are not used. Our
first goal will thus be to go there and help them making the best out of
their devices.

For this, we need to have some teaching material to be used there and we
also need some material to teach our students, who will in turn teach the
local teachers ;-)
We found some pointer for the former but not much for the later. Would you
have something to recommend?

Besides, it would be handy to have some XOs for the course in Amsterdam.
Shall we make a proposal through the contributor program or is there a more
appropriate way to emit such request?

Cheers,
Christophe


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From: *Jennifer Martino* <jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:52 PM
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Hello Christoph!

We could really use this kind of support in Canada too and we are exactly
on the same page. Should we talk?

@jennifermartino

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From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:02 PM
To: Jennifer Martino <jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com>, "Community Support
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 Ow exciting! We at BE have teaching material and a platform to collect and
create more. Would love to get connected.
Thanks

Elise

Www.whatisbe.com


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From: *James Simmons* <nicestep at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:47 PM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


Christophe,

I would guess you already know about my book "E-Book Enlightenment" but in
case you don't it is here:

http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/

and here:

http://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment

I wrote this book specifically for teachers and students so they could
learn everything the XO can do for them that involves free e-books.  The XO
is much more than an e-book reader, but using it that way might be an easy
way to start.  Nobody questions the value of getting thousands of books for
free.

James Simmons


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From: *Frederick Grose* <fgrose at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:45 PM
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org


On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>wrote:

Consider the resources from OLPC Australia, such as,
http://edu.laptop.org.au/laptop/xo-cert-course

      --Fred

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From: *Chris Leonard* <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:11 PM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
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Christophe,

If you want to talk to some people in Peru about the curricular
materials provided by the government and some explorations of adding
to that set of materials, you should probably reach out to the
Peruvian Sugar community via the somosazucar list (in Spanish is
typically best).

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/somosazucar

As for getting XO laptops, a Contributors Program application or
finding a European XO lending library (OLPC France?) seem like your
best options.

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
wrote:

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From: *Tabitha Roder* <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:26 PM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
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Cc: OLPC Australia list <olpc-au at lists.laptop.org>, c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl


Hi Cristophe

Can I suggest you talk with the Australian crowd? They have some good
resources as they do teacher training and have a Moodle site with some
courses that might suit.

Kind regards
Tabitha Roder
eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer
Cell +64 21 482229
tabitha at tabitha.net.nz
http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/
Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010
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From: *Sridhar Dhanapalan* <sridhar at laptop.org.au>
Date: Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:41 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
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I suggest that you take a look at our One Education programme:

http://www.one-education.org/
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/421124/one_laptop_per_child_australia_set_launch_one_education_program

We _only_ supply XOs for classes who have a teacher who have passed a
training course and earnt a certification. The course is 100% online,
and hence can be completed by anyone in the world.

For further information, fill in the contact form at
http://www.one-education.org/

Regards,
Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
Engineering Manager
One Laptop per Child Australia

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From: *Caryl Bigenho* <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:50 PM
To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t <
support-gang at lists.laptop.org>, Jennifer Martino <
jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com>


 Hi All...

Here is a link to the Sugar Labs Peru site which has many, many resources.

http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/Página_principal

Many years ago (3 or 4?) I downloaded some great teacher training materials
from Mochilla Digital. They included units on constructionism and project
based learning, which really should be considered for inclusion in any
training program for the XOs as many teachers have no experience with them.

Some of the materials got lost in my hard drive crash last year, including
the one with the schedule for a 3-day workshop for teachers that was very
well planned. It included, among other things, having the teachers
participate in projects done via constructionism and PBL to give them an
idea of what they are and how they work. It no longer seems to be
available. However, I do have a pdf of one of the guides covering
collaborative learning and PBL. I will attach it to this email. Of course,
it is all in Spanish, but Christoph shouldn't have any problem with
that! [image:
Open-mouth smile]

Caryl

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From: elise.moussa at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 14:02:11 -0700
To: jennifer.j.martino at gmail.com; support-gang at lists.laptop.org

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From: *Gerald Ardito* <gmanb5 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:21 PM
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Christophe,

I can puy together some materials for this project.
Gerald

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From: *Gonzalo Odiard* <gonzalo at laptop.org>
Date: Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:51 PM
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A place with many resources (in spanish) is:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Recursos_en_espanol

Gonzalo

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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:29 AM
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Hi Elise,

 Ow exciting! We at BE have teaching material and a platform to collect and
> create more. Would love to get connected.
> Thanks
>
> Elise
>
> Www.whatisbe.com
>

Thanks for the pointer. I'm not sure that's the kind of things we need
right now but I'll keep a note on it ;-)

Christophe




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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:35 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


James,

Thanks, I was aware of your very nice book about making sugar activities
but missed that one.
If I remember correctly, Sameer made an e-book server using a plug PC.
Is there any connection between your book and these project?

Christophe

On 4 May 2012 23:47, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Christophe,
>
> I would guess you already know about my book "E-Book Enlightenment" but in
> case you don't it is here:
>
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>
> and here:
>
> http://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment
>
> I wrote this book specifically for teachers and students so they could
> learn everything the XO can do for them that involves free e-books.  The XO
> is much more than an e-book reader, but using it that way might be an easy
> way to start.  Nobody questions the value of getting thousands of books for
> free.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
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From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:59 AM
To: Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>, "Community Support Volunteers
-- who help respond to \"help AT laptop.org\"" <
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 It could be used train teachers.  Look at the quiz platform, content is
open to change by users

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From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM
To: Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>, "Community Support Volunteers
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 Hi Christophe, could you kindly introduce us who don't know you about
yourself, involvement with olpc etc? Thanks

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From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:33 PM
To: Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>, "Community Support Volunteers
-- who help respond to \"help AT laptop.org\"" <
support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


 Quick question, what resources and apps are available for teachers to
learn about using a computer or the internet for the first time? And what
resources are available to them to use as part of the curriculum for
students, the first time?

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From: *James Simmons* <nicestep at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:07 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
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Christophe,

I wouldn't say there is a connection, exactly.  I describe a bunch of ways
to publish e-books including having your own server, and several ways of
doing that.  I think that Sameer's book server used Pathagar, which I
describe:

en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/the-pathagar-book-server/

My book had a working title of "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About
E-Books* (*But Were Afraid To Ask) which is a joke that the target audience
will be too young to get.  I do try and describe everything you could
possibly do with an e-book.  For instance, there is no reason that students
in Peru could not write and publish their own books and sell them on
Amazon, either as e-books or as printed books using CreateSpace.  The
barrier to entry on this is absurdly low.  If more teachers and students
understand the material in my book it could change education.  I say this
not to praise my own work but to point out that there are untapped
resources out there that teachers and students need to know about.

James Simmons

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From: *elise moussa* <elise.moussa at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM
To: James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>, "Community Support Volunteers --
who help respond to \"help AT laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


 Great point James! I will spread the word!

I propose an open conversation for more initiatives like this rather to
talk, explore connections and improve Ed.

Anyone else also interested? We could do this remotely.

Best,
Elise

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From: *Frederick Grose* <fgrose at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org


This support-gang thread from the beginning seems to be a good candidate
for moving to the open IAEP mailing list.

Does anyone object to this?

         --Fred

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From: *Chris Leonard* <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This support-gang thread from the beginning seems to be a good candidate
for
> moving to the open IAEP mailing list.
>
> Does anyone object to this?


For my part, I think moving it to IAEP would be a very good idea.  I'm
subscribed to both as are many of us and IAEP has a somewhat larger
audience and it is publicly archived for the benefit of future
reference.

cjl

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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:34 AM
To: elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com>
Cc: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


Ok, didn't tought about it this way. I was more into seeing how this could
be used for the kids but our first "target" is our students that will train
the teachers...

On 6 May 2012 17:59, elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com> wrote:

>  It could be used train teachers.  Look at the quiz platform, content is
> open to change by users
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ------------------------------
> From: Christophe Guéret
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 11:30 AM
>
> To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT
> laptop.org"
> Subject: Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
> Hi Elise,
>
>   Ow exciting! We at BE have teaching material and a platform to collect
>> and create more. Would love to get connected.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Elise
>>
>> Www.whatisbe.com
>>
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I'm not sure that's the kind of things we need
> right now but I'll keep a note on it ;-)
>
> Christophe
>
>
>
>

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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:46 AM
To: elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com>
Cc: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


Hi Elise,

My name is Christophe Guéret and I'm a researcher working at the Free
University in Amsterdam. The research group I'm in is doing research in
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning techniques, my specific areas of
interest include the publication of Linked Open Data and the related impact
on Development.
In late 2010, I proposed a contributor project named "SemanticXO" whose
goal is to investigate how Semantic Web technologies, and in particular
Linked Data principles, could impact the features of Sugar. Parallel to
this, I tried to bring this as a research topic and got some more
colleagues joining me in this initiative. We now have some visibility and a
small group is busy working on Linked Data for resources constrained
contexts (such as an Internet-less, or almost, mesh of XOs).

You can find more information about SemanticXO there:
* A short video
http://semweb4u.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/1-minute-video-about-semanticxo/
* A presentation of a position paper presented at our biggest SW conference
last year http://videolectures.net/iswc2011_schlobach_web/
* The feature proposal http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Semantic_Web
I'd be happy to flood you with more links about SemanticXO or our other
projects related to ICT4D if you want ;-)

This mail I sent was related to another project for the VU. Beside this
SemanticXO work, we would like to actually do something concrete and help
some schools we are in touch with. We are thus setting up a course to train
students with the goal to have a local team able to take care of
deployments.

Cheers,
Christophe


On 6 May 2012 18:00, elise moussa <elise.moussa at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Christophe, could you kindly introduce us who don't know you about
> yourself, involvement with olpc etc? Thanks
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ------------------------------
> From: Christophe Guéret
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 11:35 AM
>
> To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to "help AT
> laptop.org"
> Subject: Re: [support-gang] Material for teacher training
>
> James,
>
> Thanks, I was aware of your very nice book about making sugar activities
> but missed that one.
> If I remember correctly, Sameer made an e-book server using a plug PC.
> Is there any connection between your book and these project?
>
> Christophe
>
> On 4 May 2012 23:47, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Christophe,
>>
>> I would guess you already know about my book "E-Book Enlightenment" but
>> in case you don't it is here:
>>
>> http://www.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>>
>> and here:
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment
>>
>> I wrote this book specifically for teachers and students so they could
>> learn everything the XO can do for them that involves free e-books.  The XO
>> is much more than an e-book reader, but using it that way might be an easy
>> way to start.  Nobody questions the value of getting thousands of books for
>> free.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>>   On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Christophe Guéret <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> We are working on setting up a course about ICT4D at the Free University
>>> of Amsterdam (www.vu.nl). The idea is to train the students on this
>>> matter, spend a significant amount of time on education topics and the XO,
>>> and with the best students establish a team to take care of XO deployments.
>>> Progressively, contacts are being established with experts in relevant
>>> topics. We are also in touch with a school in Peru that received some XOs
>>> but no training on how to use them - as a result, they are not used. Our
>>> first goal will thus be to go there and help them making the best out of
>>> their devices.
>>>
>>> For this, we need to have some teaching material to be used there and we
>>> also need some material to teach our students, who will in turn teach the
>>> local teachers ;-)
>>> We found some pointer for the former but not much for the later. Would
>>> you have something to recommend?
>>>
>>> Besides, it would be handy to have some XOs for the course in Amsterdam.
>>> Shall we make a proposal through the contributor program or is there a more
>>> appropriate way to emit such request?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>
>>>  _______________________________________________
>>> support-gang mailing list
>>> support-gang at lists.laptop.org
>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:50 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


James,

For instance, there is no reason that students in Peru could not write and
> publish their own books and sell them on Amazon, either as e-books or as
> printed books using CreateSpace.  The barrier to entry on this is absurdly
> low.
>
That's a good point which also applies to students in Amsterdam.
We could discuss how we can publish the material we will build for this
course as a book :)

Christophe





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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:50 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>



 Great point James! I will spread the word!
>
> I propose an open conversation for more initiatives like this rather to
> talk, explore connections and improve Ed.
>
> Anyone else also interested? We could do this remotely.
>
I'm in!


Christophe


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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:51 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
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On 7 May 2012 19:07, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This support-gang thread from the beginning seems to be a good candidate
> for
> > moving to the open IAEP mailing list.
> >
> > Does anyone object to this?
>
>
> For my part, I think moving it to IAEP would be a very good idea.  I'm
> subscribed to both as are many of us and IAEP has a somewhat larger
> audience and it is publicly archived for the benefit of future
> reference.
>

Yes, let's move to IAEP, it also seems the conversation will be better
suited for this list.

Christophe



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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:40 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


Hi Chris,

If you want to talk to some people in Peru about the curricular
> materials provided by the government and some explorations of adding
> to that set of materials, you should probably reach out to the
> Peruvian Sugar community via the somosazucar list (in Spanish is
> typically best).
>
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/somosazucar
>
My Spanish is not as good as it used to be but we should be able to find a
way to communicate, hopefully :)



> As for getting XO laptops, a Contributors Program application or
> finding a European XO lending library (OLPC France?) seem like your
> best options.
>
Ok, we'll go ahead with making an application then.

Christophe



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From: *Christophe Guéret* <c.d.m.gueret at vu.nl>
Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>


Hi,


> Here is a link to the Sugar Labs Peru site which has many, many resources.
> http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/Página_principal
>
>  Many years ago (3 or 4?) I downloaded some great teacher training
> materials from Mochilla Digital. They included units on constructionism and
> project based learning, which really should be considered for inclusion in
> any training program for the XOs as many teachers have no experience with
> them.
>
>  Some of the materials got lost in my hard drive crash last year,
> including the one with the schedule for a 3-day workshop for teachers that
> was very well planned. It included, among other things, having the teachers
> participate in projects done via constructionism and PBL to give them an
> idea of what they are and how they work. It no longer seems to be
> available. However, I do have a pdf of one of the guides covering
> collaborative learning and PBL. I will attach it to this email. Of course,
> it is all in Spanish, but Christoph shouldn't have any problem with that! [image:
> Open-mouth smile]
>
Thanks a lot! So, it seems we should have at least a part about
constructionism and project based learning in our curriculum. Then, our
students will be able to explain what this notions are about to the
teachers and help them create courses that fit these principles. Sounds
good, and we can surely re-use some of the content in that PDF (once we
manage to read it and translate it to Dutch ;-) )

Christophe



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