Authors@Google: Julie Clow
Former Googler Julie Clow visited Google on May 16, 2012 to talk about her book The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All.
About the book:
We live in a new age of global companies, hyper-access to information, and accessibility to tools that enable us to bring any idea life. Strangely, our workplaces are lagging behind the promise of this open and collaborative world. Most organizations are rule-based, top-down, dreary environments optimized for conformity and little else. The Work Re
Secret Lives of Flowers (Interactive)
In this interactive, take a peek at the colorful world of plant reproduction (asexual reproduction).
The iPhone 5
This five minute video is about Apples iPhone 5 and what may happen in the future. The video can be used for career research and to have students think about the future of these devises and their impact on society.
Rocky Coasts (Interactive)
Tides, currents, shelf slope, and geologic history all influence how coastline features are broken down or built up. However, more than any other factors, wave energy and coastal rock type influence the erosional processes that shape rocky coastlines. In this interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service, learn about sea stacks, fjords, and other features that characterize rocky coasts in some of America's national parks.
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NYIT 2012 Commencement
NYIT's 51st Commencement Ceremony from May 20, 2012.
Congratulations to all the graduates!
Pedagogical text indexation and exploitation for language learning
In this article we present the MIRTO platform -under development at the University Stendhal of Grenoble- and how it addresses common flaws of CALL software. This platform led to another project: the creation of a pedagogically indexed text base. We introduce here the notion of pedagogical indexation, and confront the particular case of pedagogical indexation for language learning with the existing pedagogical
resource description standards, before proposing leads towards the implementation of th
What the iDASH National Center for Biomedical Computing can do for you
By: ucsd_idash Presented by Lucila Ohno-Machado
Spectrometry Explained (Interactive)
In this interactive activity adapted from NASA, learn how scientists use the electromagnetic spectrum to identify materials. Animations illustrate how spectrometers separate light across the spectrum and how line spectra are created. Learn how patterns of absorption and emission lines can be used as fingerprints to identify the chemical composition of an object.
America's First Individualist Anarchist [This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty (1975), chapter 22, "Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Anne Hutchinson." An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download.] Jonesin' for a Soda [This Mises Daily originally ran on Wednesday, September 05, 2007.] The tongue is a discerning instrument; in the hands of a traveled soda aficionado, it is capable of leading to insightful truths about agricultural geopolitics. To those who have drunk foreign sodas, this truth stems from the peculiar yet incontrovertible fact that Ame Doing your best Fostering Cross-institutional Collaboration for Open Educational Resources Production Introduction This unit is about rights and rights claims, and the idea of implementing justice in the international sphere based on the concept of rights. It is agreed by most people that ‘rights are a good thing’ and in many respects they are. However, this unit deliberately takes a critical view. It seeks to examine closely why rights are a good thing and highlights some of the problems associated with rights. In this way, we hope that the sense in which rights are still, ultimately, ‘a 3.4 Sexuality Just as ‘normal’ parenthood was seen as outside the realm of social policy (although framed and supported by it), sexual practices within marriage were widely seen as an essentially private matter. Foucault (1984) argued that while sexualities were very actively shaped by the Victorians through a range of discourses, particularly those of professional, medical and scientific interests, within marriage it was increasingly an area of silence. Up to the eighteenth century matrimonial re 3.3 Deciding what to ask for 5.2 The effects of brain damage Before the advent of ‘brain mapping’, such as by fMRI, it was nevertheless possible to discover something of the part played by different regions of the brain, by observing the problems resulting from brain damage (such as following a stroke). One such area was mentioned in Section 3.2 – the parietal lobe. Damage to a single lobe (there is one on either side) leads to what is called sensory neglect, or sometimes sim 3.4 The ‘flanker’ effect A potential problem for the feature integration theory is the fact that the time taken to understand the meaning of a printed word can be influenced by other, nearby words. Of itself, this is not surprising, because it is well known that one word can prime (i.e. speed decisions to) another related word; the example nurse – doctor was given in Section 1.4. However, Shaffer and LaBerge (1979) found priming effects, even when t 2.6 Summary of Section 2 The results of the visual attention experiments we have considered can be interpreted as follows. Attention can be directed selectively towards different areas of the visual field, without the need to re-focus. The inability to report much detail from brief, masked visual displays appears to be linked to the need to assemble the various information components. The visual information is captured in parallel, but assemb 2.4 Rapid serial visual presentation It has been known for a long time that backward masking can act in one of two ways: integration and interruption (Turvey, 1973). When the SOA between target and mask is very short, integration occurs; that is, the two items are perceived as one, with the result that the target is difficult to report, just as when one word is written over another. Of more interest is masking by interruption, which is the type we have been considering in the previous section. It occurs at longer S
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Legacy fundraising, big-gift seeking are all part of the professional fundraiser's role. This unit will help you to gain the skills necessary to persuade individuals to become donors. How do you change people's ideas about methods of giving, moving them from casual street donations to regular direct debit giving?
