Self Evaluation in Teacher Training

Muna is one of the teachers participating in the Teacher Training in Al-Baraka Schools in Somalia. This is an extraction of her self evaluation of Unit 2, you can read the whole evaluation at the Al-Baraka School blog.
Muna describe her own development as a teacher. She even tells about learning from cooperation with children, parents [...]

Nobel Peace Prize to Internet!

Picture source: Aldred Nobel from nobelprize.org
Nobelprize.org has become more accessible trough social media but when will Internet get the Nobel Peace Prize? We hope that it already will be this year due to the extraordinary impact it has for communication between people, transparency and ways of spreading learning.
Back from summer holidays, we at Nobelprize.org are [...]

Nathan Wolfe’s search for viruses – outwitting the next AIDS

He’s been called the “Indiana Jones of epidemiology”.  By staying two steps ahead and discovering new deadly viruses when they first show up, Nathan Wolfe has a mission: to outwit the next pandemic.
Stopping deadly viruses as they first emerge, passing from animals to humans, and before they infect millions of people is vital. Nathan Wolfe [...]

Mobile Devices will transform education and learning

Ezine has an interesting article about mobile devices trends in education. The author Christopher R G Taylor point out “four trends driving the death of the chalkboard and the coming mobile education revolution”

- Smart phone penetration will hit 82% by 2013
- The App Store is producing an explosion of educational mobile content
- Existing pilots of [...]

Sweden Social Media Camp

This weekend 286 participants social media experts in Sweden meet in the Swedish island, Tjärö for Social Media Camp.
“We’ll meet by a quiet lake, beautiful sea or a red cottage and talk about the social web. Some activities are pre-planned, but the agenda will mostly be set by the participants. Demo your latest project. Start [...]