Archive for September, 2004

04-09-23

Tags:  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume 89, Issue 2,  Pages 93-182 (October 2004)
Levels of phonological awareness in three cultures Pages 93-111 Catherine McBride-Chang, Ellen Bialystok, Karen K. Y. Chong and Yanping Li

">Cammie’s paper is out.
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04-09-22

Tags: Original URL: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/news/china_0904.html
 
A story featured on the frontpage of Duke´s main website. Ralf is one of the facult supporters.

Duke Students Act on Dream by Helping Rural Schools in China Duke students send more than a dozen voulunteers to rural China to open libraries, offer technology training and teach English
Note to editors: For more information […]

">Dream Project @ Duke

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04-09-22

Tags: Original URL:
Original Title: Gateway Connected DVD Player with Wireless 802.11g Card

The Connected DVD Player is so versatile you can use it to simply play DVDs and CDs.
That´s what Gateway says about its most advanced wireless DVD player, which costs $120 compared to $30 once you can buy at Walmart.

">Wireless DVD players: How advanced they are

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04-09-21

Tags: Original URL: http://www.psych.yorku.ca/ellenb/
 

Ellen Bialystok

Distinguished Research ProfessorDepartment of Psychology

Email:

ellenb@yorku.ca

Campus Location:

Behavioural Science Build, 234

Telephone:

(416)736-5115 (Voicemail)

Telephone:

(416)736-2100 x 66109 (Voicemail)
JUNE - SEPTEMBER 2004  NEWS    
 Bilingualism, Aging, and Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Simon Task
The above article by Dr. Ellen Bialystok, reporting the results of several studies undertaken by our lab, has been the focus […]

">Ellen Bialystok

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04-09-21

Tags: TI: Maturation of Cognitive Processes From Late Childhood to AdulthoodAU: Beatriz Luna; Krista E. Garver; Trinity A. Urban; Nicole A. Lazar; John A. SweeneyJN: Child DevelopmentPD: September 2004VO: 75NO: 5PG: 1357-1372(16)PB: Blackwell Publishing IS: 0009-3920URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?pub=infobike://bpl/cdev/2004/00000075/00000005/art00005

As expected, peak saccade velocity across tasksand accuracy in the VGS task did not change over theage range investigated (Abel, […]

">Oculomotor control mature (way) before 8

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04-09-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040913/full/040913-19.html
 
First heard it on NPR ( Deaf Students Form New Language audio) yesterday. I´ve been suspecious about these kinds of “evidence.” But maybe they finally found somethings …?
 
Surprised nothing shows up today on Language Log

References

Senghas A., Kita S. & Ozyurek A. Science, 305. 1779 - 1782 (2004). | Article |Published online: 16 September 2004; | doi:10.1038/news040913-19
The […]

">Nicaraguan deaf children created language?

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04-09-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/technology/circuits/16tuto.html
 
Although his name is not cited in this article, this is the brain child of
 JR Anderson. see CMU Pittsburgh Area Cognitive Tutor (PACT) Center
 

Software Tutors Offer Help and Customized Hints

Chris Maynard for The New York TimesMATH COACH - Rochelle Brown, left, and Iesha Antonetti, students at Middle School 103 in the Bronx, use […]

">Math CAI success story?

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04-09-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.irobot.com/consumer/product_detail.cfm?prodid=18
 
Me want that! It goes back to its home to recharge, unlike my little boy …

The signature Robotic Floorvac that´s changing the way the world cleans.

Roomba Discovery is leading the way into the next generation of Roombas. With more advancements and improvements, Roomba Discovery features dirt detect, a self-charging Home Base(TM) and an […]

">Roomba Discovery

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04-09-17

Tags: Original URL: http://www.iopus.com/iim.htm
 
Would be useful for searching references in Ovid. The shareware version costs $30

Internet Macros™ is the first HTML-based macro recorder and a Web Scripting Powerhouse™.  Compare features & Buy now View online demos How does Internet Macros Scripting Edition compare to big name capture/replay web test software on the market?   Internet Macros […]

">Internet Macros

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04-09-15

Tags: Original URL: http://www.microsoft.com/office/onenote/prodinfo/sp1/overview.mspx
 
This is old news, but I am still glad that MS is improving ON. A few of the features I´d been looking for (or things they should have done in the first place).

OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 Overview
Published: July 27, 2004
 

Copy notes from a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC or Smartphone. Take notes […]

">OneNote ServicePack 1

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04-09-15

Tags: Original URL: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001453.html
 
Except for the “stenomask”, this is essentially what I suggested to Kevin as a solution to transcribing his stacks of classroom observation video. Assuming a student RA can type 40 wpm, using something like this could improve efficiency by 300%.

An alternative to the special chording keyboards that I wrote about earlier is […]

">Speech-to-text without stenomask

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04-09-14

Tags: Original URL: http://www.lib.fsu.edu/sfx_linker.html
http://library.duke.edu/research/help/getitatduke/
http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/web/resources/sfxfaq.html
 

What if I already have a citation and want to find the full text?The traditional method for finding full text is to search the journal title in the Duke Libraries Catalog which will display electronic and print holdings. You can also enter your citation information into the Citation Linker form that may link […]

">OpenURL, SFX, and GetIt@Duke

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04-09-14

Tags: I have always thought that Spanish is at the far end of “orthographic depth.” But according to the following article, /v/ and /b/ (letters or phonemes?) are apparently the same and children make mistakes in spelling. 

TI: INFLUENCE OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE ON THE INITIAL ACQUISITION OF READING/WRITING: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VERBAL DEFICIT THEORYAU: JOSE RAMOS-SANCHEZ; ISABEL […]

">Spanish spelling ambiguity: [b] and [v]

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04-09-14

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Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!
from http://thinks.com/words/palindromes.htm, is an ept palindrome for Agassi in the 2004 US Open.
 
 

">Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!
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04-09-14

Tags: Original URL: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/index.html
 
A recent post by Chris Corea on Louis Benezet leads to the above website, where I found an unexpected reference to Whole-language in the 1990 NRC book.
 
Why don´t call it “whole-math” instead?

National Research Council, Reshaping School Mathematics: A Philosophy and Framework for Curriculum (Mathematical Sciences Education Board, 1990); pp. 30-31:
Mastery of subject matter […]

">Whole-language for Math?

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04-09-13

Tags: Original URL: http://communities.microsoft.com/NewsGroups/previewFrame.asp?ICP=GSS3&sLCID=US&sgroupURL=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&sMessageID=%253CeOYsDefmEHA.2340@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl%253E 
 
You can tell what I have been doing for fun lately… Micro$oft !!!!

Jeff wrote:

> I downloaded the service pack 2 update from microsoft and
> now many of my programs wont work. When I click them
> they just dont do anything, no error message pops up or
> anything. A couple of my programs […]

">Uninstalling XP SP2

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04-09-13

Tags: Simone Nguyen, with whom I overlapped at UIUC, recently published an SRCD Monograph (69;1) with Susan Gelman and Marianne Taylor, titled “Mother-child Conversations about Gender” (accessible online for SRCD members). With detailed coding and analysis of mother-child conversations in semi-structured picture-book reading, the authors showed clear evidence that by age 2, “[m]other´s linguistic input conveys subtlemessages […]

">Mother, Sex, and Language
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04-09-12

Tags: Original URL: http://www.umich.edu/~chgdwww/faculty/hagen.html
 
also: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jwhagen
 
Met John in the ICP2004 in Beijing, where he told me about his review of articles in Child Development in the past 75 years. Strange enough, his name is not on SRCD website (http://www.srcd.org/about.html#officers), except for a very obscure place (http://www.srcd.org/announcements.html).
 
A little bit of detective work leads to this page: http://www.new.org/cgi-bin/directory/viewitem?465, dated […]

">John Hagen & SRCD
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04-09-11

Tags: I have not followed the ESL debate for some time. Today the term EAL — “English as an additional language” — caught my eye. It was from the title of the article

The early identification of dyslexia: children with English as an additional language Dyslexia (Chichester, England), Volume 10, Issue 3, August 2004, Pages 179-195 […]

">ESL, EAL, and what’s next?

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04-09-10

Tags: Original URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/3828
 
Saved my day in writing the first version of PaperFetch.

Cookies

A lot of webservers use client-side cookies for logging in. Here is some sample code of how to log in to an OpenACS 3.x server:
Login package require http
set login [::http::formatQuery email spammer@hotmail.com\ password fooFoo!]

set tok [::http::geturl \ http://mysite.net/register/user-login.tcl\ -query $login]
[…]

">Tcl, http, & cookies

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