Antonio Paules Ciprés

Improvement of students curricula in educational environments by means of online communities and social networks

The school is part of our society, which increasingly uses more and more the social networks. Therefore, we must continue this momentum, not only by using them, but by also guiding the students of its proper use. Thus, most educators working with high and middle level schools are aware of the involvement of young people in social networks, but few of these educators are prepared to deal with them the issue. Experts discuss the risks and benefits of such sites, and the role of schools, to offer a comprehensive approach that addresses the needs of online students. This paper seeks a solution to the complex world of social networking in education, where users can belong to a social network not as such, but as a set of objects that define a necessity. This research work tries to redefine social networking of an online community, where objects that work on the same stage define the team. To do this we propose a school architecture, where objects define the curricular activities, with known characteristics.

Distributed User Interfaces in a Cloud Educational System

Based on the rapid development of technology-enhanced learning, this paper describes the conceptual process developed for the CSchool educational system, which aims to support administration of the educational process by applying Distributed User Interfaces (DUIs) to cloud services. CSchool encourages students, teachers and parents to use new technologies in the classroom. This implementation happens within the entire educational environment, taking advantage of easy-to-use distributed interfaces to facilitate learning-oriented interaction and collaboration between its users. CSchool is part of the “Escuela 2.0” (School 2.0) project designed to support and engage a large number of Spanish schools; it responds to the need to create and facilitate collaborative learning within the educational process.

Mecca access and security control system

Mecca (Makka al-Mukarrama) is a city in Saudi Arabia. For Muslims, the pilgrimage to Mecca is part of one of the fundamentals of their faith, so-called pillars of Islam. Each year, nearly five millions of pilgrims go to the holy city, to perform the Hajj during the Muslim month of Dhu al-Hijjah. The existent of this big number of people in such a small enclosure make the occurrence of incidences happened so often. For this, in this paper we present an access and security control system, to prevent the suffering of these incidences. This is done thanks to the use of ICT, this system will perform image tracking and pilgrims monitoring, to help these pilgrims, and provide them all the needed attention in an effective and technological way.

Applying Gianni Rodari Techniques to Develop Creative Educational Environments

In this article we will conduct a study of the Gianni Rodari School, a technique used in the initial educational levels of pre-schools and primary schools, but in this case for the use in the development of new creative ideas for the college projects, and vocational training subjects. For this we define and justify the essence of creativity as ideas, using a structure that can be stored in the cloud. To validate the system, we present a case study by using abstract concepts of human knowledge in the cloud. The presented work takes into consideration the interaction and collaborative work to promote creativity and the generation of new ideas in a clear and ordered way for the students.

New teaching techniques of mathematics subjects by means of artificial genesis

This paper presents an adaptation of the Brousseau method. The concepts of didactic variations and interactions are introduced by using didactic and a-didactic situations. With the main aim of guaranteeing alumni improvement and evaluation processes, a case study application was development founded on a cloud architecture, which is also based in previous research, curricular organization and interaction processes within the class.

A new way to community services: Communication with administration

In this paper we are going to describe the architecture of community services by mean mobile devices. We opt for a direct communication between the mobile users and server information and where users interact directly from their mobile devices and the cloud system, by leaving a record of the accused and requested data. As result of this improvement in the process, we have a platform that saves costs and time management to users of these services in the instantiation and regular payments to government claims.

Improving User-Insurance Communication on Accident Reports

This paper presents an easy to use methodology and system for insurance companies targeting at managing traffic accidents reports process. The main objective is to facilitate and accelerate the process of creating and finalizing the necessary accident reports in cases without mortal victims involved. The diverse entities participating in the process from the moment an accident occurs until the related final actions needed are included. Nowadays, this market is limited to the consulting platforms offered by the insurance companies.

New teaching methods: Merging “John Dewey” and “William Heard Kilpatrick” teaching techniques

This article shows our research oriented towards improving doctoral theses by publications. This process is justified by John Deweys knowledge theory and various phases of Kilpatricks work. After a theoretical foundation, the research work set the steps in a thesis by publications, which is both validated by members of the scientific community and created from the knowledge of the experience of the candidate in the field of study. Validation of the PhD thesis in this case is found by members of the scientific community in a research validation along publications.

Improving Surgery Operations by means of Cloud Systems and Distributed User Interfaces

Surgical interventions are usually performed in an operation room; however, access to the information by the medical team members during the intervention is limited. While in conversations with the medical staff, we observed that they attach significant importance to the improvement of the information and communication direct access by queries during the process in real time. It is due to the fact that the procedure is rather slow and there is lack of interaction with the systems in the operation room. These systems can be integrated on the Cloud adding new functionalities to the existing systems the medical expedients are processed. Therefore, such a communication system needs to be built upon the information and interaction access specifically designed and developed to aid the medical specialists.

Games-Based Therapy to Stimulate Speech in Children

There are speech troubles that can be a sign of speech disorders or speech sound disorders. Some causes include hearing loss, neurological disorders, brain injury, intellectual disabilities, and so on. It is therefore very important to include the speech therapy as part of the rehabilitation process for affected patients’ phonation. This chapter presents a study on the ways sound creation develops, aiming at creating an application to aid the therapy session. The solution presented is used to improve speech problems through playing games.