Archive for January, 2004

04-01-31

Tags: SonyStyle USA - Digital Voice
I bought ICD-P17, which records only at 8k Hz. This one can do 44.1k, 16k, and 8k with its 16M memory. About 1/3 more expensive, and non-expandable. USB1.0?? The directional mic maybe a good thing to have, though. It also has VoA, fast/slow play (without pitch changes), and hi/mid/low mic […]

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04-01-31

Tags: overLIB - Download and Test Directory for the overlibmws DHTML Popup Library
Download and Test Directory for theoverlibmws DHTML Popup Librarymaintained by Foteos Macrides at Macrides Web Services extending Erik Bosrup´s overlib with bug-fixes and enhancements

Copyright Foteos Macrides  2002-2004.  All rights reserved.

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04-01-31

Tags: SCALE Staff

Kathy Sikes, Executive Director
Kathy Sikes joined the SCALE staff in 1998 as Executive Director. She is responsible for supervising SCALE programs, organizational management, fund development and strategic planning. Kathy also participates in curriculum development and training activities with program staff and is committed to connecting SCALE and campus-based programming to national literacy, advocacy […]

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04-01-31

Tags: Smart Eye - if you want reality

Video Based Face and Eye Tracking in Real Time
Smart Eye AB was founded to provide the general market with real-time and completely non-invasive and eye/face tracking technology. Our system “Smart Eye Pro” is insensitive to illumination changes and can be used both during night and day. Depending […]

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04-01-30

Tags: Synergy Search Results
An interesting array of articles on Current Directions in Psychological Science

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Spanking children: evidence and issues
Alan E. Kazdin, Corina Benjet
Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 12, Issue 3, Page 99-103, Jun 2003
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Loneliness and peer relations in childhood
Steven R. Asher, Julie A. Paquette
Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 12, Issue 3, Page 75-78, Jun 2003
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Why people […]

">An interesting array of articles on Current Directions in Psychological Science

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04-01-30

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Celebrating the 2000th post to the blog.
Ok, back to work.

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04-01-30

Tags: movies about intelligence: the limitations of g - Current Directions in Psychol Sci, Vol 12, Issue 3, pp. 95-99 (Abstract)

Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 12 Issue 3 Page 95  - June 2003doi:10.1111/1467-8721.01238

 

movies about intelligence: the limitations of g

James R. Flynn1 

There is a strong tendency for the same people to do better or worse on a wide […]

">movies about intelligence: the limitations of g

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04-01-30

Tags: Marc D Hauser
Marc D. Hauser, PhD, Professor of Psychology
Harvard College Professor
Co-Director of Mind, Brain and Behavior Program
Affiliations: Department of Psychology
Program in Neurosciences
Mind, Brain and Behavior Program
Graduate School of Education
Speech and Hearing Sciences Faculty, MIT-Harvard-MGH

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/hauser.html
 Marc D. Hauser

MARC D. HAUSER, an evolutionary psychologist, is Harvard College Professor, Professor of Psychology and Program in Neurosciences, […]

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04-01-29

Tags: Inquiry Assessment

Portfolios: a collection of information by and about a student to provide a broad perspective of the students achievement. A portfolio contains samples of student work in one or more areas. It may also contain narrative descriptions, grades or other evaluations by teachers and others, official records, student reflection or self-evaluation, responses from […]

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04-01-29

Tags: The Inquiry Page

Welcome! The Inquiry Page is more than a website. Its a dynamic virtual community where inquiry-based education can be discussed, resources and experiences shared, and innovative approaches explored in a collaborative environment.
Here you can search a growing database of inquiry units, and you can also build your own inquiry units. You can […]

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04-01-29

Tags: Bookmarklet for WikiMedia:
javascript:var today = new Date(); var sDate = today.toLocaleString(); var t = http://www.garyfeng.com/wiki2/wiki.phtml?title= + prompt(wiki page:, sDate) +&action=edit;void(window.open(t,”_blank”))
To-dos:

change the sDate format to 2004-1-29 or 2004Jan29, so as to be used as a blog system
figure out how to use the post thing to automatically add contents
but also need to study how wikimedia does the […]

">Bookmarklet for WikiMedia: first shot

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04-01-29

Tags: DKRC Inquiry Technology Listing

Inquiry Page (IP) web site http://inquiry.uiuc.edu — An outreach project for the DKRC, the Inquiry Page project is composed of a diverse, evolving group of educators, learners, professionals and community members. The Inquiry group members have come together to create tools, develop research opportunities, and build social and professional networks for […]

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04-01-29

Tags: WebBibTeX Help

WebBibTeX 

What is WebBibTeX (WBT)?
WBT is a perl script that creates a user interface for gathering and maintaining BibTeX entries on the web.
What is BibTeX?
BibTeX is a program that creates bibliographies for LaTeX.
What are WBTs features?

WBT creates forms for all reference types of BibTeX. It also has two nonstandard additional fields […]

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04-01-29

Tags: DK Projects

Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative
Our work is funded in part by a grant from the Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence (KDI) Program. Our research focuses mainly on the six Applications Technologies (AT) teams of the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance).

Population DefinitionWho are the AT Team members, and how is membership variously defined among the […]

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04-01-29

Tags: Richard N. Aslin

Richard N. AslinPhD, University of Minnesota, 1975
William R. Kenan Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science
Director, Center for Language Sciences
Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging
During the course of development, human infants gather information about the external world without the benefit of an extensive base of knowledge that adults automatically […]

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04-01-29

Tags: Elissa L. Newport

Elissa L. NewportPhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1975
George Eastman Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics
Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences
My primary research interest is in the acquisition of language, and in the relationship between language acquisition and language structure.One line of research focuses on the language acquisition process, investigating how learners go […]

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04-01-29

Tags: Representation of objects and events: why do infants look so smart and toddlers look so dumb? - Current Directions in Psychol Sci, Vol 12, Issue 3, pp. 79-83 (Abstract)

Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 12 Issue 3 Page 79  - June 2003doi:10.1111/1467-8721.01234

 

Representation of objects and events: why do infants look so smart and toddlers look so dumb?

Rachel […]

">why do infants look so smart and toddlers look so dumb?

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04-01-29

Tags: Developing a Cultural Theory of Mind: The CIAO Approach - Current Directions in Psychol Sci, Vol 8, Issue 2, pp. 57-61 (Abstract)

Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 8 Issue 2 Page 57  - April 1999doi:10.1111/1467-8721.00014

 

Developing a Cultural Theory of Mind: The CIAO Approach

Angeline Lillard1

The study of childrens knowledge about minds is an extremely active area of developmental […]

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04-01-29

Tags: Biological specializations for speech: what can the animals tell us? - Current Directions in Psychol Sci, Vol 12, Issue 5, pp. 155-159 (Abstract)

Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 12 Issue 5 Page 155  - October 2003doi:10.1111/1467-8721.t01-1-01251

 

Biological specializations for speech: what can the animals tell us?

J.D. Trout1

Language research over the past 40 years converges on the speech-is-special hypothesis (SiS), […]

">Biological specializations for speech

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04-01-29

Tags: A Better Look at Intelligence - Current Directions in Psychol Sci, Vol 11, Issue 1, pp. 28-33 (Abstract)

Current Directions in Psychological ScienceVolume 11 Issue 1 Page 28  - February 2002doi:10.1111/1467-8721.00162

 

A Better Look at Intelligence

J.P. Das

The Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive (PASS) model is offered as an alternative to the unidimensional conceptualization of intelligence as a general […]

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