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DESCRIPTION

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RESOURCES

• TEMS13
  - 220 Nominees for TEMS13
  - TEMS13 Winners
  - Top 50 e-Learning Super Heroes 
• Five Categories of Brainwaves 
• Super Brain Yoga
  - NBC News story
  - Research Report (PDF)
  - SlideShare presentation
  - Instructions
• De-Switch
  - Learn to “De-Switch" Your Brain!
  - Brainwave and Frequency Model 
• Human Vs. Goldfish Average attention spans
• Brain Rules (and Summary) 
• TEST-Learning Framework
• Doubling of Medical Knowledge
• ISA 2012: Malaysia’s Reading Stats
• Speed Reading
  - Speed Reading Level
  - Acceleread (Speed Reading Tool)
  - 8 More Speed Reading Tools 
• Research on Juggling
• Social Curation/Bookmarking Tools 
• Social Citations/Referencing Tools
  - RefWorks
  - Mendeley
  - End Note
  - Citeulike
  - Zotero 
• Online Typing/Keyboard Training Tools 
• Creative Thinking Tools/Techniques

REFLECTIONS

SPONSORS

AWARDS

• 1st Prize = £100 (British Pounds)
• Top 3 will get free (commercial) Listly accounts for a year.
• The nominee with the most votes, wins this special award with bragging rights for one year.

• 1st Prize = £200 (British Pounds)
• Top 3 will get free (commercial) Listly accounts for a year.
• The nominee with the highest score (based on the gamified points system revealed below) wins this award, which is the most prestigious of the two awards, because it takes into account who is voting, besides the number of votes. Also, it requires the nominee to show pro-active professionalism and appreciation of the other participating nominees.

Besides that, we will announce the Top 10 for both awards based on the big Continents in the world (North-America, Europe, Asia, Africa and South-America).  

Please join the fun and vote!

• CLICK HERE to know the reasons for creating this poll (Part 1), and instructions on how to vote (video tutorial).
• CLICK HERE to subscribe to the Twitter List following all the nominees (using Twitter). 
• CLICK HERE to view and update the #TEMS13 Padlet Wall, which is where share something positive about the nominees.

ONLINE AWARD CEREMONY

CLICK HERE to attend (and for details). When? 12 February (2014): 10:00 PM Kuala Lumpur time!

(The 2 award winners and all the e-Learning Super Heroes nominated will be celebrated before my MOOC talk exploring Creative Super Learners.) 

REALITY

Lets face it, polling is really a silly way to decide on who was the Super (e-)Learning Hero of 2013. For example, in a professional learning community, would a vote (of appreciation for someones work) from your Grandmother, or 5-year old son be valued with the same respect as a vote from Stephen Downes? Of course not!  

In general, if you can play the game and be a shameless self-promoter (Been there and done that before...unfortunately!), who wants to win at all cost (of dignity), it is quite easy to get easy votes from friends, students, colleagues, etc. If you are really smart, you could even buy votes to show to the world how great you are. But, I believe none of the nominees in this #TEMS13 list would steep so low for a moment of fame, right?

GAMIFIED SCORING

Well, I still believe that polling can be used to decide the Super (e-)Learning Hero of 2013 in a fairer way. So, here is a gamified scoring algorithm I put together to filter out the wannabes from the real Super (e-)Learning Heroes. What do you think? You are most welcome to suggest improvements, or other scoring items to be included. Please use the comments section below, or tweet your idea using #TEMS13 Twitter hashtag. Thanks!

Here we go:

#TEMS13 Gamified Scoring Algorithm

This is how you check who has voted for who:

Since, Listly has no tool to automate the gamified scoring algorithm proposed, I will have to calculate the scores manually (unless some programming wiz could help me code an automated solution). However, I dont mind doing it to get a fairer and more meaningful result. Though, since I am stuck with a lot of work related activities in January, I will only be able to provide the final results for the e-Learning Super Hero of the Year award on February 12, 2014.

Another way is to set-up a Google Spreadsheet and invite all the Nominees to calculate their own results using the finalized gamified scoring algorithm. If someone is willing to help out with that, or something even more efficient, I am totally open for brilliant ideas!  

NETWORK

Besides being annoyed with all the crappy e-learning related polls out there, the other hidden agenda with initiating the #TEMS13 list was to connect awesome educators around the world from all sectors (primary, secondary, tertiary and corporate sectors).  To cut the story short, we have so much to learn from one another, and in this increasingly disruptive world of learning, we seriously need to communicate and collaborate more to stay relevant.

By looking at the competitive spirit of many of the nominees, I believe #TEMS13 will go seriously viral in the coming weeks. Why? #TEMS13 is clouded with Super (e-)Learning Heroes. And any sane learning professional or educator would want to check out this awesome list, right?     

Here it is:

Top e-Learning Movers & Shakers in 2013

View more lists from Zaid Ali Alsagoff

Have fun discovering some pretty amazing educators in the #TEMS13 list!

So, what does the winner(s) get out of this? Well...

1. British Pounds
2. Bragging rights for one year!
3. Surely their networks will grow.
4. Admiration from new fans.
5. More invitations to give talks and/or facilitate workshops.
6. Etc.

What about a trophy or monetary award (or a digital badge)? Anyone, interested to be or find a sponsor? Or design the digital badge(s) of glory?

Now, is the time for you to show your Super (e-)Learning-hood...Anyone Game on :)

Use of Super Keyword in Java

• Access parent class instance variable.

• Invoke parent class method.

• Invoke parent class constructor.

class parent
{
                int x=20;              
                parent()
                {
                                System.out.println("Parent");
                }

                void show()
                {
                                System.out.println("Parent Show");
                }
}

class child extends parent
{
                int x=30;

                child()
                {
                                super();                                //invoke parent constructor
                }

                void show()
                {
                                System.out.println("Child Show");
                }

                void display()
                {
                                System.out.println(x);                   //print child x
                                System.out.println(super.x);      //print parent x

                                show();                                //invoke child show()
                                super.show();   //invoke parent show()
                }

                public static void main(String...s)
                {
                                child c=new child();
                                c.display();
                }
}                  

• Here both the classes have variable x and method show(). To access variable of child class we simply write x and to access variable of parent class we write super.x.

• Similarly, to invoke method of child we simple write show() and to invoke method of parent we write super.show(). In this way super is also used to remove the problem of method overriding.

• super() must be first line of the constructor. In above example we have written super() in first line of child class constructor to call parent class constructor.

• Super can’t be used in static method.

• By default super is first line of constructor. Super keyword and this keyword can’t be used together in constructor.