ConfChem Conference on A Virtual Colloquium to Sustain and Celebrate IYC 2011 Initiatives in Global Chemical Education—The Global Experiment of the IYC2011: Creating Online Communities for Education and Science

The Global Experiment, Water: A Chemical Solution, was one of the flagship activities of the International Year of Chemistry (IYC). During the virtual colloquium of the spring 2012 online ConfChem conference, the main results of this year-long experiment were presented and discussed online for a week. Some of the main conclusions of the virtual conversations relate to the benefits of creating online communities of people sharing similar interests, the use of online educational platforms to gather massive amounts of data, and specific questions about the development of this IYC initiative. The activities of the global water experiment (GWE) were designed by a team of experts and the protocols are available online on the GWE Web site. The results were shown in one interactive world map that allowed students to learn about data visualization, validation, and interpretation. The feedback obtained from the participants of the GWE and later by the contributors of the virtual colloquium was very positive. Many participants asked specific and technical questions about the development of this experiment, while others excitedly endorsed the convenience of these large open-access activities to promote chemistry worldwide. The estimate is that over 2 million people took part in the GWE during the IYC. This communication summarizes one of the invited papers to the ConfChem online conference: A Virtual Colloquium to Sustain and Celebrate IYC 2011 Initiatives in Global Chemical Education, held from May 18 to June 29, 2012 and hosted by the ACS DivCHED Committee on Computers in Chemical Education and the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education.

Análisis de la página web del canal Antena 3: oferta de contenidos, interactividad y redes sociales

Antena 3 es una de las cadenas de televisión más importantes en España y es la cadena española pionera en la apuesta por las nuevas tecnologías. Por ello, es de interés analizar su web para determinar su oferta de contenidos y las herramientas utilizadas para interactuar con sus públicos identificando, además, el uso que hace de las redes sociales. Con este objetivo, se realiza un análisis cualitativo del sitio web centrado en analizar veintiuna variables focalizadas en los campos descritos (contenidos, interactividad y redes sociales). Estas han sido establecidas a partir de la combinación de parámetros formulados en la propuesta de análisis de webs de televisión de Codina, Aubia y Sánchez (2008) y los indicadores de interacción descritos por Rodríguez-Martínez, Codina y Pedraza-Jiménez (2012). Gracias a ellas, es posible determinar la carencia de Antena3 en la gestión de sus perfiles sociales y en la interactividad generada mediante la comunidad virtual que conforma a través de su espacio web. No obstante, estas variables también justifican cómo, a pesar de esto, antena3.com es un espacio en el que la cadena pone a disposición del usuario una completa y bien organizada oferta de contenidos apostando así, por la difusión de estos a través de Internet.

Experiences with free and open courses using on-line multimedia resources

This paper analyzes the learning experiences and opinions obtained from a group of undergraduate students in their interaction with several on-line multimedia resources included in a free on-line course about Computer Networks. These new educational resources employed are based on the Web2.0 approach such as blogs, videos and virtual labs which have been added in a web-site for distance self-learning.

Open educational resources: the role of OCW, blogs and videos in computer network classrooms

This paper analyzes the learning experiences and opinions obtained from a group of undergraduate students in their interaction with several on-line multimedia resources included in a free on-line course about Computer Networks. These new educational resources employed are based on the Web 2.0 approach such as blogs, videos and virtual labs which have been added in a web-site for distance self-learning.