Inspecting Everyday Mathematics: Reexamining
Culture-Cognition Relations
Reviewed Works:
- Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics, and Culture in Everyday Life by Jean Lave
- Culture and Cognitive Development: Studies in Mathematical Understanding by Geoffrey B.
Saxe
European Business Culture and Practice, VSM 94 Values Survey Module 1994 Questionnaire (original)
Values Survey Module 1994 original questionnaire concerning employment
College of Fine Arts Alumni Hall of Fame
19 Alumni are recognized for their career achievements. James E. Major, dean of the College of Fine Arts serves as emcee for the event.
A influ?ncia do usu?rio sobre a apresenta??o visual da informa??o na web: o caso do layout adaptativ
Ahead of the digital environments expansion which follows the principles of the web 2.0, one can notice a growing opening for user's participation. The proposal of this research is to reflect on how this scenario of participation is strengthening a social structure capable of actively acting not only in the production of digital content, but also in the form of this content presentation. From a survey of cases and a theoretical review, this paper aims to analyze two different types of user?s inf
Economic Growth: What Factors Matter?
Part of a series of worksheets covering Mathematical Case Studies for Economists from Nottingham Trent University. They are downloadable in Word format with embedded links. They can be adapted, printed and/or put in a Virtual Learning Environment. A booklet giving guideline answers for the task questions is available on request from the Economics Network.
Measuring inequality: Using the Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient
Part of a series of worksheets covering Mathematical Case Studies for Economists from Nottingham Trent University. They are downloadable in Word format with embedded links. They can be adapted, printed and/or put in a Virtual Learning Environment. A booklet giving guideline answers for the task questions is available on request from the Economics Network.
CIPR Guest Lecture Carl Christopher, Sponsorship & Content Manager
Leeds Business School opened the fourth year of its CIPR guest lecture series in great style, with Carl Christopher offering a fascinating insight into his vast experiences in the communications industry. The lecture, which took place on Monday 5 October 2009, was the first to be held in the new state of the art business school home, the Rose Bowl. Carl's experience includes working with major organisations such as Kiss FM, New Musical Express (NME) and Sony Computer Entertainment UK (SCE UK). H
Socializing the knowledge transfer problem
A central issue in acquiring knowledge is its appropriate transfer beyond the contexts and contents of first acquisition. In contrast to dominant "common elements" transfer theory, an interpretive perspective is developed, according to which "appropriate transfer" is a concept socioculturally rather than objectively defined. "Elements" perceived by the thinker as common between the current and a prior situation are not given in the nature of things but "read in terms of the thinker'sculturally-i
Acids and Bases: Kitchen Chemistry
In this interactive activity from the ZOOM Web site, search for chemistry clues and experiment with acids and bases in a virtual kitchen.
Technologies for Creative Learning In this week's Pogue's Post, David Pogue covers the rise of do-it-yourself software from Google's App Inventor to MIT's own Scratch. The possibilities for both teaching and learning open
16th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2010
In this year's Sixteenth Annual Lions Oratory Competition, student representatives from the ANU Colleges competed for the perpetual Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash.
The objective of the competition is to give an opportunity to students to master and excel in the art of oratory by reading widely on subjects dealing with human values.To create interest in the study of the lives of great women and men who, often at enormous personal sacrifice, realise outstanding achievements whic
Leaping Beauty- 1960's Version, Fractured Fairy Tales
Animated Video- The original fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty is changed to the new tale of Leaping Beauty. Beauty steps on a witch's toe, and the witch changes her into a bore who talkes everyone to sleep.  Having bored everyone in her village with all of her talking, she is banished to the forest with the wild boars. Her spell is finally broken when her prince, in the forest hunting wild boars, accidentally kisses her! Everyone lives happily ever after, except the witch. Narrated by E
FACES: Dr. Donald Boomgaarden (Loyola University)
Dr. Donald Boomgaarden is Dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts at Loyola University in New Orleans. A DMC alumnus, Dr. Boomgaarden recently returned to perform at Del Mar College and shared some thoughts on his experience at the College.
One Falls for Each of Us: The Prototyping of Tragedy
Brenda Brathwaite delivers her talk at the Art History of Games Symposium on February 6, 2010 in the High Museum of Art's Rich Auditorium on the campus of the Woodruff Arts Center, in midtown Atlanta. The symposium was presented by Georgia Tech and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Incorporating 20,000 wooden figurines, incense and dozens of leather hides, Brenda Brathwaite's latest game is One Falls for Each of Us. Currently in development, it is the fourth game in the Mechanic is the Me
Keynote Panel Discussion: John Romero, Christiane Paul, Harvey Smith, Richard Lemarchand
Keynote Panel Discussion at the Art History of Games Symposium on February 6, 2010 in the High Museum of Art's Rich Auditorium on the campus of the Woodruff Arts Center, in midtown Atlanta. The discussion was moderated by Ian Bogost. The symposium was presented by Georgia Tech and the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Materials hosted by SMARTech, Georgia Tech's institutional repository, ‪‪http://smartech.gatech.edu/.
Carnegie Mellon in Silicon Valley - Academics
Recognized for its world-class education in arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and innovative leadership, Carnegie Mellon is consistently a top-ranked university. CMU in Silicon Valley offers a unique learning opportunity for working professionals and those interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. The learn-by-doing methodology that students are exposed to provides them with the hands-on skills that make them sought after competitors in the software industry. P
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art - 39th Annual Florida Watercolor Society Exhibition - PSA
http://www.youtube.com/user/StPetersburgCollege
39th Annual Florida Watercolor Society Exhibition
September 12 - November 7, 2010
Currently on display is the 39th Annual Florida Watercolor Society Exhibition. The show is juried by water media artist Carrie Burns Brown of the National Watercolor Society. The exhibition includes 100 artworks selected from more than 650 entries from artists throughout Florida.
The Florida Watercolor Society is one of the largest and finest watercolor societies i
The Legend of Granny Heitz
UPDATE: Includes archival video footage of the Granny Girls on the sidelines of a Matador football game and other small changes. (This re-edit was shown at the 2010 Matador Hall of Fame, where Granny was inducted posthumously as CSUN's #1 fan.)
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ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
A biographical tribute video for Dorothea "Granny" Heitz, produced for the Volunteer Service Awards by the California State University Northridge Alumni Assocation.
Directed, adapted for the screen & edited by Krishna Narayanamu
Coming Soon: Valley Performing Arts Center
In anticipation of the VPAC's opening in January 2011, this video blends construction footage (shot March 2010) with artist renderings of the completed center.
Produced as a web exclusive video for:
http://www.northridgemagazine.com
For more info on the Valley Performing Arts Center, visit:
http://www.valleypeformingartscenter.com
directed, shot and edited by Krishna Narayanamurti
written & produced by David Mascarina and Brenda Roberts
executive producers: Vance Peterson, Gailya Brown, Ligei
Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization, Spring 2004
This course is mainly focused on the quantitative aspects of design and presents a unifying framework called "Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization" (MSDO). The objective of the course is to present tools and methodologies for performing system optimization in a multidisciplinary design context, focusing on three aspects of the problem: (i) The multidisciplinary character of engineering systems, (ii) design of these complex systems, and (iii) tools for optimization.
