User:Mallium

I am a computer engineer from Chile. I studied In Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia and since 2004 I work there teaching Programming Courses (POO using Java) and some team development and general purpose workshop courses for computer engineer program. With the dream of being a researcher and a professor, I started my PhD studies in fall 2011 in Information Science at University of Pittsburgh.

My interests are many. Generally speaking, I want to improve educational practices and learning experiences using social technologies, specially in those areas difficult to teach and assess and those which involves high level skills like critical thinking, metacognition and reflection, argument building, team work, etc. Since 2008, I participate in a group of researchers and teachers in the project Kelluwen aimed to face the use of social web tools in secondary and high education for improving communication skills.