Archive for September, 2002

02-09-10

Tags: One page 448 R&P cited Woody Allen’s classic quote:
“I took a speedreading course and read War and Peace in two minutes. It’s about Russia.”

">Speedreading: Rayner & Pollatsek (1989)
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02-09-10

Tags: Simply add a link like this to the template: http://152.3.21.199/cgi-bin/mt/index.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=53&blog_id=6

">EditThisStory
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02-09-10

Tags: Should have asked them to read the Rayner et al. (2001) - How psychological science informs the teaching of reading. The first section is a fairly gentle intro do the basic concepts and theories.

">Learning to read: cognitive theories of development
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02-09-09

Tags: The News & Observer: Table of Contents
August 7, 2002 The Chapel Hill News
Language arts
Jonnelle Davis Staff Writer
CHAPEL HILL — When Joseph Kennedy explained to his 5-year-old twin sons Tom and Sam that they were going to participate in a special language program at Glenwood Elementary this year, he got a mixed […]

">jessie on newspaper (but they want $1.95 for access)
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02-09-08

Tags: UIUC Deve Psych Faculty & Students 2001

Front row : Fei-Yin Ng, Xiaobin Zhou, Qian Wang, Grace Cho, Eva Pomerantz (with Anika), Yuyan Luo, Hyun-Joo Song, Peggy Miller, Sarah Mangelsdorf, & Karen Rudolph
Back row from left: Malgorzata Szewczyk, Sarah Schoppe, , Stacey Klingler, Geoffrey Brown, Kevin Miller, Cynthia Fisher, Rene Baillargeon, & Karl Rosengren

">UIUC faculty & grad students

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02-09-08

Tags: ieSpell - Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer

ieSpell - A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer

 

Introduction
ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if […]

">Free IE spell checker

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02-09-08

Tags: Digital Knowledge Access Network To circumvent the legal issues with centrally archiving digital copies of original scientific publication, like ResearchIndex does, why not take advantage of the P2P networking capacities.

Users save their scanned documents in their PC/servers
The user must certify that s/he is has legal right to archive/distribute the documents in the archive.
Users use a […]

">DKAN

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02-09-07

Tags: Open Source Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API

Many people are looking for content Management system. A lot of major
products are already known, but a few of them are incomplete and quite unknown
and could help other developpers by the ideas or the piece of codes they have to
offer. I will […]

">a list of blog/CMS

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02-09-06

Tags: Kluwer Academic Publishers - Reading and Writing

Where this PDF icon appears, , full-text documents in PDF format are viewable using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

October 1998, Volume 10, Issue 3-5

Articles

pp. 155-164  
Cognitive processing of Chinese characters, words, sentences and Japanese kanji and kana: An introduction Che Kan Leong, Katsuo Tamaoka

 

(39.5 K)

pp. 165-200  
Phonological codes […]

">Reading & Writing: A special issue on Chinese & Japanese processing

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02-09-06

Tags: Kluwer Academic Publishers - Reading and Writing

Where this PDF icon appears, , full-text documents in PDF format are viewable using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

October 1998, Volume 10, Issue 3-5

Articles

pp. 155-164  
Cognitive processing of Chinese characters, words, sentences and Japanese kanji and kana: An introduction Che Kan Leong, Katsuo Tamaoka

 

(39.5 K)

pp. 165-200  
Phonological codes […]

">Reading & Writing: A special issue on Chinese & Japanese processing

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02-09-04

Tags: 3. New technology available for instructional pilot projects
From time to time, the CIT obtains donations of new types of computing
equipment or tests new types of software to see if it might be suited for broader use at Duke. Last year, the CIT worked with several faculty members to experiment with uses of wireless hand-held computers […]

">Duke is offering iPODs for faculty!
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02-09-04

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ContentAudit is a free online tool that checks every file on your computer for questionable content. ContentAudit checks your computer for sites, words, and file namesvirtually anything that might be objectionable. When it locates questionable content, it displays the URL, word, or file name in a basic table, highlighting in red those files that have […]

">On-line scanning of files on your PC?

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02-09-04

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ContentAudit is a free online tool that checks every file on your computer for questionable content. ContentAudit checks your computer for sites, words, and file namesvirtually anything that might be objectionable. When it locates questionable content, it displays the URL, word, or file name in a basic table, highlighting in red those files that have […]

">Inviting the big bad wolf for dinner?

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02-09-02

Tags: Venezky has an interesting review paper in the first edition of Handbook of Reading Search (Pearson Ed), which covers much of the early, 1880-1920, research in reading eye movements.

">Venezky & Reading eye movement reseach History
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02-09-02

Tags: The Scientist :: Yet Another Reason to Hit that Snooze Button, Volume 16, Issue 17, Sep. 2, 2002

Yet Another Reason to Hit that Snooze Button
Some researchers believe that sleep helps learning | By Harvey Black

Image: Courtesy of Matthew Wilson, 2002 Cell Press

 NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING, NOT EVEN A … RAT that sleeps while […]

">Sleep!

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02-09-02

Tags: The Scientist :: Plastic in My French Fries?, Volume 16, Issue 17, Sep. 2, 2002

Plastic in My French Fries?
Scientists probe acrylamide in food | By Barry A. Palevitz

Image: Getty Images

Every research scientist knows that discovery often depends as much on happenstance–serendipity–as it does on methodical searching. If a group of researchers from Stockholm didn’t know […]

">Something is backward?

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02-09-02

Tags: BUREAU OF CONSULAR ARRFFA

24.
Q: Can nationals of Mainland China  apply for ROC visas?

A: In accordance with the Statute Governing Relations Between Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area, people traveling with a travel document issued by the authority of Mainland China do not qualify for ROC visas.  However, people from mainland China […]

">PRC passport, ROC visa?

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02-09-02

Tags: United States(Washinton DC)

Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States4201 Wisconsin Ave., N W  Washington, DC 20016-2137, U.S.A.

(002-1-202) 895-1800(20Lines)

(002-1-202) 3630999

(002-1-202) 669-0180 In U.S.A. : 1-202-669-0180

Monday ~ Friday09:00~17:00Saturday 09:00~12:00

 

">Taiwan visa office

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02-09-02

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19. Q: How to apply for visas when invited to Taiwan to participate in an international conference?
A: There are different options for the invited guest to obtain a visa to enter Taiwan: Foreigners intending to participate in an international conference held in Taiwan may apply for visas at an ROC Embassy, Consulate or Mission with […]

">Taiwan Visa

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02-09-01

Tags: Dr. Michael Everson

Everson, M. E. (1986). The effect of word-unit spacing upon the reading strategies of native and non-native readers of Chinese: An eye-trackign study. Foreign Lanuage Education. East Lansing, Ohio, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.
The effect upon selected eye movement parameters of manipulating the spacing between Chinese characters in a Chinese language reading passage was examined. […]

">Michael E. Everson: an unlikly pioneer

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