Archive for July, 2004
04-07-06
Tags: Original URL: http://goduke.collegesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/070504aaa.html Duke head men´s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has informed the NBA´s Los Angeles Lakers on Monday that he will remain at the university. Krzyzewski has been Duke´s head coach since the 1980-81 season and in 24 years has led the Blue Devils to three national championships (1991, 1992 and […]
Original Title: Mike Krzyzewski Staying
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04-07-06
Tags: Original URL: http://answers.google.com/answers/ Ask a question. Set your price. Get your answer. More than 500 […]
Answer.google.com is another model for a community-based solution finder, but it´s different in its philosophy and business model. It´s fee-based, and has designated “experts.” But it also has a reputation system and allows answered questions to be viewed for free.
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04-07-05
Tags: Original URL: http://education.independent.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=537612 A five-year blueprint for the future of education, to be published by the Department for Education and Skills on Thursday, will sweep away the concept of 30 children in a class all learning the same lesson. Instead, schools will be encouraged to […]
Original Title: Individualism in Education: The U.K.
(By way of Chris Correa).
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04-07-05
Tags: Original URL: http://www.photo.net/frequent-questions
Photo.net was probably the first community website that I knew. Greenspan had writen several articles about his philosophy as well as database-backed websites, which were beyond reach of individual users at the time.
This piece from photo.net FAQ suggests an interesting economy in the on-line community — it was designed (implicitly) to discourages […]
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04-07-03
Tags: Original URL: http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=00042F0D-1A0E-1085-94F483414B7F0000 April 26, 2004 The Myth of the Beginning of Time String theory suggests that the big bang was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting […]
You read about the beginning of time when you run out of time writing a grant? Well, I thought I was just looking for inspirations…
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04-07-02
Tags: Original URL: G. Michael Pressley
http://www.nd.edu/~psych/faculty/pressley.htm
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/handbook/pressley/#author
Original Title: Michael Pressley
Professor and Notre Dame Chair in Catholic Education(Ph.D., University of Minnesota) Educational and Developmental Psychologies119B Haggar HallNotre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-3245/3244 gpressle@nd.edu
Michael Pressley is the Notre Dame Professor in Catholic Education and a professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. He […]
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04-07-02
Tags: Original URL: http://www.nrconline.org/awards.html Oscar S. Causey Award
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04-07-02
Tags: Original URL: http://www.reading.org/dir/ex/hallfame.html Reading Hall of Fame
The Reading Hall of Fame is an independent organization comprising leaders in the field who have been elected to membership by their peers.
Fourteen individuals who had passed away before the founding of the Hall of Fame in 1973 were elected by the group as Honorary Members because of their outstanding […]
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04-07-02
Tags: Update [7/8/2004]: Just spotted a new link on APA´s journal page, which says: Wanted: Old APA Journals! New!
The “old APA journals, New!” is humorous, but at least they now provides a list of missing journals. That´s a good start. Now it´s time to pick up a phone and talk to your nearest librarian.
Original URL: http://www.apa.org/journals/adb/journalswanted.html
First, let´s applaud […]
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04-07-02
Tags: Original URL: http://csr.ed.uiuc.edu/research/LRC/LRCPublications.htm
Need to get this. I am curious — by 2nd grade students in China should have learned PinYin for a year, and therefore the “onset-rime” distinction should be all too familiar, because that´s how PinYin was taught (pretty much, with some glides, etc.). I am surprised that students in both places were not […]
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04-07-02
Tags: Original URL: http://csr.ed.uiuc.edu/pubs/Resources.htm Database of School Chinese In CD-ROM format. A database of 2,570 Chinese characters culled from 12 volumes of Elementary School Textbooks prepared and published by China´s Ministry of Education in 1996. This corpus contains comprehensive […]
Me want this. Although I probably have most of the database, having a clean CD is still good.
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04-07-02
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04-07-02
Tags: I´ve long puzzled at Carver´s Rauding Theory of reading — which is a theory about reading speed and flexibility. The term “Rauding” is obviously coined by Carver, but it wasn´t until today that I found where it came from.
Reading Sticht et al (1984, Chapter 10 of Handbook of reading research, 1st ed) “Listening and […]
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