Dariem Garcés Urquiza

Website:	Linkedin Profile
Occupation:	Private Teacher
Other roles:	Life-long Learner
Nationality:	Cuban
Languages:	Spanish, English
Country:	Cuba
Email to User:	Catdemian
Skype address:	darkath9

My name is Gladys Gahona. I am a mexican private teacher of Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. In 1977, in order to economically support my studies, I started teaching math at a secondary school. In 1981 I graduated in chemical engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), in Mérida, Yucatán, México. During the last years of my university studies, I worked at UADY at the former Planning Department (today General Coordination of Planning and Institutional Assessment) where I had the opportunity to be assitant of several educational researchers, working in collaborating projects along with several mexican and foreign universities. In 2002 I graduated in Technology Management at UADY.

Although my professional formation is oriented to engineering, productivity, business and technology management, I've loved teaching since ever. My job (AF Centro, in Cancun, Q.Roo, México) consists on tutoring and providing counseling and student support services to learners of secondary & early tertiary level, helping them on homeworks, or preparing them for examinations. There is a special group I love to work with, adult people. They are confident and enthusiastic learners, they always give the best of them.

The knowledge I have gained in teaching/tutoring comes from my personal experiences and self-studies. I've also been a self learner in computing, web programing, ITC and web 2.0 platforms and tools. Since last November I have had the privilege to meet Nellie Deutsch who has become an inspiring mentor to me on improving my English language as well as moderating live online conferences, facilitating online courses, and integrating technology into education. Now I dedicate my professional life to my two passions: teaching and learning, particularly learning by doing and learning by "helping". =)

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My Role as a WikiEducator

Promoting upcoming workshop

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Collaborative Learning
March 22 - Apr 2, 2010

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EL4C31	WiZiQ Meeting
	Copyrighty Law in Education Saturday, October 24, 2009 12:00 GMT
Check your time	JOIN US

From WikiApprentice to WikiArtisan

Nov 24, 2008. Enrolled to eL4C15. Gaining knowledge, friends, self-confidence on talking and writing in English. Thank you Patricia and Nellie. You both are amazing people.

Nov 25, 2008. WikiNeighbour... this means visiting stars and talk with them :). Here is the link for the new user creation log: new user.

Nov 28, 2008. Wikiapprentice 2. This is getting more interesting. Keep going. (Sometimes I talk to myself.)

Dec 5, 2008. Wikibuddy. Ok let's work harder in my road to become a WikiMaster =)

March 17, 2009. WikiArtisan. Thank you Anil. Oh yes, this is a very significant milestone for me =)

My EL4C15 Workshop

At my Log of the EL4C15 Workshop page you will find the instructions for each day, tips, key points, reflections and activities I developed.

Why WikiEducator?

WikiEducator..

is a self-organizing community and complex learning ecosystem.
is a content development platform for open educational content and resources (OERs)
is a values-based community focused on freedom and openness
uses free and open source software
provides free hosting and technical support
offers free wiki skills training
is your strategic partner
has an innovative Value Proposition and Publishing model
supports you in facilitating stakeholder engagement
offers global, national, regional and local opportunities to support community development and growth and sustainability of your project(s) AND community-of-practice

WikiEducator projects & resources I closely follow

The Wiki Prayer

“Grant me the serenity to respect pages I should not edit,
the courage to edit the pages I should,
and the wisdom to know the difference."

Collaborative Projects

Logo	Name	Comments
	English-Spanish Translation Team for WikiEducator spanish instance	Translators English-Spanish Needed.
	Math Glossary	Active. 10 contributors :-)
	Math Tables and Formulas	Active
	Help Page: LaTeX SYMBOL TABLES	Active
Logo pending	Developing the WikiLatinos Node	Active
	MATEMÁTICAS. GUÍA DE ESTUDIO CENEVAL (Spanish)	Pending to be moved to spanish instance
	Workshops in WikiEducator
	Workgroup: WikiMaster
	Workgroup: WikiEducator Workgroups
	Workgroup: Learning Design
	Teacher Mentoring and Support Service
	Book Chapter: Facilitating Online Workshops
	Book Chapter: Wikis and WikiEducator
	Conectividad Latinoamericana
	History of Mesoamerican Art

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My Causes

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My Testing Laboratory

This account will be used for some testings and tutorial developings: User:Einstein

Welcome to my Testing Laboratory
My Sandbox	Various Templates	Pedagogical Templates	Flash Simulations	Tables
Math Projects	Audio and Video	Special Characters & LaTeX	HTML and CSS	Transclusion & Substitution
File extensions	Be aware	Miscellaneous	L4C	My Sandbox 2
Images	Quizzes

My Professional Interests

Mastering English language as a way to gain opportunities to reach more learners on my teaching subjects.

Building my capacities for developing e-learning programmes and courses.

I'm interested in OER projects, hope I can soon join experts on collaborative jobs.

Offering my capacities on translating WikiEducator content to Spanish language.

Develop original content in spanish language using all I know about Web 2.0 resources & technologies.

I'm targeting to be a WikiMaster, so I have a long way to walk.

Mastering [math]\mathrm{L\!\!^{{}_{\scriptstyle A}} \!\!\!\!\!\;\; T\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X} \,[/math] in order to create high quality science books.

My areas of expertise

I am Chemical Engineer by professional formation. Worked in engineering from 1981 to 1983, when I had to quit, responding on "mother nature calling" (got high risk pregnancy). So it marked the end on my proffesion (chemical engineer) activities.

Postgraduate Diploma in Technology Management. 2002

I am teacher by vocation. I consider myself as a permanently self-learner on this activity since 1976. I started teaching Maths to kids on a secondary school. At that time I started working in Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, as assistant on several educational researching activities and colaborative jobs with people from different countries. Later, I started a private teaching small institute.

About computing topics, I'm a self-learner:
- I've been using several applications:
  - MSDOS
  - Windows on all versions (except Windows Vista)
  - Microsoft Office
  - Adobe Suites (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash CS3, Illustrator, Photoshop, Audition, Premier, etc.)
  - Web development (HTML, CSS, Newbie in PHP/MySQL)
  - Open source apps. (Open Office, Mozilla, Audacity, VirtualDubMod,
  - Software for business management
- And some Web 2.0 technologies & resources
  - Blogging
  - Networking on Xing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Hi5, etc.
  - Now I'm discovering Ning
  - Image's sharing networks like Flickr, ImageHack, Picassa Google
  - Paper's sharing networks like SlideShare, Scribd, WiziQ, AutorStream
  - Media sharing networks like YouTube, TeacherTube, GoogleVideo, Blip.tv
  - Addicted to WikiEducator
  - [math]\mathrm{L\!\!^{{}_{\scriptstyle A}} \!\!\!\!\!\;\; T\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X} \,[/math] initiated, that means learning, learning, learning...

Reflection

I do love maths, chemistry, physics and teaching. I had excellent professors supporting me, most of them I still remember and honor. I'm certain it is one of the main reasons.

My Publications

I have published:

Guía para el Monitoreo de Patentes

My role as private teacher

Related to my job I've produced several flash videos and papers. Some of them are:

ASESOR MFQ VIDEOS	SOLVED EXERCISES AND STUDY GUIDES
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	*Matemáticas. Ejercicios de ecuaciones lineales (pdf)
	*Matemáticas. Ejercicios de ecuaciones lineales 001 (ppt)
	*Aprende a elaborar tus guías de estudio (ppt)