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Scriblio MATC Project Final Report

[From Scriblio » Scriblio MATC Project Final Report]

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Scriblio is a word press opac. In short it is a tool for libraries and other project that are interested in combine word press functionality with accessible catalogs. It looks like an interesting attempt.

More Expensive Placebos Bring More Relief

By BENEDICT CAREY

[From More Expensive Placebos Bring More Relief - New York Times]

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classic… people think they should benefit more, thus they do.

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this is brilliant.

A colleague brought up the recent inquiry on technology in the classroom here which led to my general use of high technology in the classroom as found below:

me:

10:33 way back when i started teaching

10:34 my colleagues introduced me to the most handy bit of kit

10:34 it’s called a codex

10:34 it is a collection of paper bound at the edge with glue or other means

10:34 now quite amazingly… you’d think that this bit of technical kit, well, it’s useless.

10:35 but people have appropriated it and filled it with all kinds of things, pictures, drawings, and words

10:35 some people have even taken the explicit step of ordering these things, pictures and words in a way that apparently is intended to convey meaning

interlocutor:

10:36 well that’s crazy

me:

10:36 and i’m like ‘holy cow!’

10:36 you mean someone

10:36 has gathered all their knowledge on a topic

10:36 and put it in a codex

10:36 and students can get hold of this thing

10:36 isn’t that dangerous?

interlocutor:

10:36 HORRIBLY DANGEROUS

me:

10:36 i mean what if it tells them how to skip class

10:37 or worse, how to fold their graded assignments in to lewd origami?

interlocutor:

10:37 I’m shocked and apalled

me:

10:37 but then i saw one of these things, and tried to use it in class

10:37 and OMG

10:37 the students that could read and spent time reading it…

10:37 their performance improved dramatically

10:37 no more did they just have to reiterate what i said before

10:38 though that is always appreciated, and some still strive for that

10:38 they could actually ‘interpret the meanings’ in the codex and occasionally you find one or two that will combine those meanings with other meanings and actually teach me something

10:38 man… that’s scary

10:39 but it adds a new exciting edge to the classroom

10:39 so… technology in the classroom, it’s great!

interlocutor:

10:41 I dunno

10:41 it sounds…dangerous

me:

10:42 well, I have to admit that it is actually slightly less dangerous than having the students re-enact the lessons of history with pointed sticks and rocks, though that was all in all very learning intensive on many levels

Red and Black Day

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The Virginia Tech and Blacksburg communities are invited to participate in Red and Black Day to show solidarity for Northern Illinois University.

For more information, visit the event sponsor

[From Event]

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red and black day in support of Northern Illinois University sponsored by Hokies United. If you are a Hokie, show some support for our colleagues and students. There will also be a candlelight vigil in the burg.

The Symposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems was held in UNESCO headquarters in Paris, 16-18 January 2008. it provided a venue of discussion on the basis of Professors’ Johann Mouton and Roland Waast studies on knowledge and research systems of 52 low and middle-income countries. About 130 experts were invited to compare and exchange knowledge and views on the methodology and the quality of the country reviews. [From Symposium on Comparative Analysis of National Research Systems]

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this is the second symposium on this topic, and these reports are interesting reading.they cover the arab, african, south american and asian systems.

Please distribute broadly as appropriate-jh

Call for Submissions deadline March 1, 2008.

Information on Internet Research Degrees and Research Programs.

In the International Handbook of Internet Research (Springer, 2008),
we intend to include two appendices. This call includes information
for each submission. Internet research is broadly conceived in this
call, so if you have material that you think will fit, please submit it.

Appendix 1 will be a listing of Research Degree Programs, that is
programs that offer either an Master’s or Doctoral level degree
relating to internet research. We intend to include as many programs
as we can collect within editorial discretion and space limitations.

To have your degree program/s included in this listing, please send
the following information:
Name of Program:
Departmental home/s of Program:
University/Institutional home of Program:
Address of Program:
Short description of Program (250 words):
Listing of contributing faculty working in internet research:
and other pertinent information to be included at editor’s discretion.

Appendix 2 will be a listing of Major Research Centers/Institutes in
the field of Internet Research. Inclusion in the list will be at the
editors’ discretion, but we will strive to be reasonably inclusive
given space limitations.

To have a Center included in this listing please send the following
information:

Name of Center/Institute:
Institutional home of center/institute:
Address of center/institute:
Short Description of Program (250 words):
Listing of fewer than 10 research topics/keywords:
Listing of leading members of the center/institute:
Listing of founders of the center/institute:
Listing of recent research projects/publications (up to 5
bibliographic citations with up to 50 word descriptions which may be
edited because of space limitations):
Listing of affiliated research centers as appropriate:

Please submit this information to: handbook08@gmail.com with the
subject ‘degree’ for degree programs and the subject line ‘center’ for
research centers. The deadline for submission is March 1, if you need
more time, please contact us at the address above.

Thank you,
Handbook Editors
Jeremy Hunsinger
Matthew Allen
Lisbeth Klastrup

12345Next Results for “Situationist International”

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a bunch of situationist international videos.

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[From This Week at Eyebeam: Free Media Workshop | MIXER | Call for Residents + Interns]

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eyebeam was something that i wanted to get involved with in nyc, but i had not yet found the time.

a sophisticated network visualization of the 297 most visible & influential websites, the “core US political webosphere”. the sites are divided in 4 categories: Conservative, Independent, Mass Media & Progressive [presidentialwatch08.com (map view) & presidentialwatch08.com (trends view)|thnkx Guilhem] [From information aesthetics]

this is a pretty nifty system.