Archive for April, 2006

06-04-21

Tags:Computing mac OddsnEnds windows
Not only great minds think alike, crappy ones, too. If you, like me, dreams about dual-booting an Intel Mac without having to quit Windoz everytime, be ware. Some happy guy had done this and ended up not so happy. Could have been me.
Hibernation As BootCamp Usefulness Enhancer - OSx86 […]

">Hibernation As BootCamp Usefulness Enhancer - OSx86 Project Forum
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06-04-21

Tags:child development open access Paperville psychology publications statistics
Got this in the email newsletter. Don’t know how they counted, and who has access to their online PDF files. 

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Fathers and Mothers at Play With Their 2- and 3-Year-Olds: […]

">Child Development - Top 10 Article Downloads

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06-04-12

Tags:Computing Powerpoint Research Unicode If the following doesn’t make sense, don’t blame yourself. This post is for myself.
A long standing problem with my solution to converting text to pictures is that the text output file that contains screen coordinates for each word does not support Unicode. This was because I used the old […]

">Text 2 Picture: now Unicode support
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06-04-10

Tags:Education evidence based lesson study math reading
Chris Correa’s post today coincides with our discussion on the No Child Left Behind in Psy145. Although Chris focuses on math and our primary interest is reading, the simple-mindedness of the current trend of evidence-based policy-making is felt everywhere in education research.
Quoting Catherine Lewis, […]

">Local Proof: a way out of the Evidence-based fallacy?
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06-04-04

Tags:Education English Linguistics OT Paperville phonics reading Research Teaching This is perhaps one of those British sayings
Experienced practitioners and teacherspoint out that, …children may appear, some would say,to be ‘barking at print’ without fullyunderstanding what they are reading.Although this is often levelled as acriticism of phonic work, suchbehaviour […]

">Barking at print: the Rose Review
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06-04-04 Steve Ceci: Is tenure justified
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06-04-03

Tags:cognition language Linguistics psychology Sapir Whorf hypothesis
Lila Gleitman gave a talk at UNC-Chapel Hill over the past weekend. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend. Li has a brief note from the talk posted on her blog on Blogger, along with my comment.
Really wish I went. 

">Lila Gleitman’s talk at UNC
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