What Turned Us On? The Best of Fall 2015
To celebrate the end of the fall 2015 semester, the Profweb team sifted through the stats for its web site and social media accounts to identify those publications which stood out for the period from August to December of 2015.
The 5 Most Visited Publications
- Teachers’ Use of ICTs: What Do Students Think? (Laura King)
- Teaching Through Simulation with Second Life (Greg De Luca, Ryan W. Moon)
- Moodle Revisited for Better User Experience and Accessibility (Jean-Sébastien Brouard)
- Becoming an Omnipresent Teacher with Wunderlist (Murielle Cayouette)
- From Gamification to Transmedia Storytelling (Jean Desjardins)
Commentators
- Profweb’s number 1 commentator: Nicole Perreault, Community Leader for the Réseau des REPTICs
- Most active Twitter follower: Alexandre Enkerli, Educational Advisor at the VTÉ
The Publications with the Greatest Visibility on Social Media
- From Gamification to Transmedia Storytelling (Jean Desjardins)
- Robots: Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You (Ryan W. Moon)
A Theme that Stands Out: Games
All throughout the semester, several Teachers and Education Advisors shared their stories with Profweb about experimenting with a playful pedagogical approach that combines learning and pleasure together:
- The College Network Is Getting Serious About Serious Gaming (Ryan W. Moon)
- ClassCraft and My Quest for Student Engagement (Lisa Deguire)
- From Gamification to Transmedia Storytelling (Jean Desjardins)
- On Using Stellarium: “There Is Nothing Wrong with Treating Yourself a Little” (Karine Aeschlimann)
- Teaching Through Simulation with Second Life (Ryan W. Moon, Greg De Luca)
The Most Exotic Real Life Story
- Enseigner le tourisme… depuis le Japon! (Ariane Arpin-Delorme) This Real Life Story about teaching tourism from Japan will appear on Profweb English Edition early in the winter semester of 2016.
The Most Futuristic Article
- Robots: Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You (Ryan W. Moon)
How about you? What were your favourite publications? Please let us know by using the comments section below.
The team at Profweb would like to take this opportunity to wish you an excellent conclusion to the semester and happy holidays! We’re already working on our winter semester lineup of Real Life Stories and inspiring articles. We’ll be looking forward to your next visit, starting on January 11th 2016!
