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Moving PDF collections: Adobe Acrobat Organizer and MySQL

Tags:Computing Research Moving to a new computer. The new C drive is a little crammed, so I moved all my PDF files, 4G of them, to D drive. I thought I copied all program perferences to the new user profile, including Adobe Acrobat’s Organizer preferences. If you are like me, reading ...

A Second Look at Reading First: Causation between instruction and test scores?

Tags:Education Teaching Sara Mead took a more careful look at the latest Reading First report on her blog Early Ed Watch. The discussion focused on the curious finding that late-awardees did better than the earlier cohort. A Second Look at Reading First | New America Blogs … researchers found evidence of both ...

Try until we find one that works

Tags:Education NCLB reading reading first Teaching The study of Reading First is not complete, but the early results are not promising. Not at all. If the program continues to do nothing, it should be abandoned. There’s more than one way to teach a kid to ...

Why trust states?

Tags:Education NCLB reading reading first Lots of talks after the news broke that Reading First failed the midterm exam. The final prospect doesn’ look good either. I have more than once expressed my marvel over how everything education is politics in the US. Among the 200+ news stories ...

Reading First is this much effective

Tags:Education NCLB Paperville politics reading first Teaching It’s on the news: Reading First is this much effective. Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report - Introduction PDF: Full Report (1.64 MB) Created under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, the Reading First program provides assistance to ...

Graceful Degradation & Progressive Enhancement - Accessites.org

Tags:Computing Accessites.org has a good discussion on Graceful Degradation & Progressive Enhancement Progressive Enhancement Progressive enhancement became known — at least under that name — in 2003, when Steve Champeon began using it on Webmonkey and during the SXSW conference. It starts at the opposite end from graceful degradation: begin with the ...

Robustness of ANOVA/F-test

Tags:Paperville Research Statstics Teaching I knew F-test is generally robust against violations of normality. I also knew there are a lot of subtleties in this. But I never looked up the sources, until now. This is a good place to start: JSTOR: Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 17, No. ...

Boy or Girl? The Answer May Depend on Moms Eating Habits

Tags:Psy97 Ok, I will file this story under "Teaching", since I do talk about the determination of sex in my Child Development course. But the idea that food intake determines the child’s sex has always been part of the culture belief of Chinese. It’s interesting to read the 200 comments after ...

My new desktop picture

Tags: This is my new desktop picture. Pick yours from the 59 Greatest Galaxy Hits from NASA. NGC 5257, NGC 5258 Arp 240 is an astonishing galaxy pair, composed of spiral galaxies of similar mass and size, NGC 5257 and NGC 5258. The galaxies are visibly interacting with each other ...

Microsoft Word Metadata Viewer

Tags:Computing Teaching Watch List It’s the end of the semester, and final papers are due. As always, some will be late. I have a student emailing me the paper in Word, with a note that he forgot to bring the hard copy to class. In this case a Microsoft ...

Sprout News-reader in Beta

Tags:Computing Watch List Sprout learns your news reading habit and supplies only stuff you like. At least that’s what the beta version says. Looks like some sort of Bayesian learning: Sprout intuitively learns and adapts to your preferences by statistically evaluating your positive and negative feedback The more you use Sprout, the ...

Python audio recording: SDL audio recording

Tags:Computing programming python Research Watch List A couple of years later I am still looking for a way to record audio in Python for my eye-tracking experiments. Eyelink comes with support for PyGame, which is itself a wrapper for SDL. However, SDL does not support audio recording ...

Joomla appliance: rPath Guided Tour

Tags:Computing Watch List rPath has a Guided Tour for their Joomla appliance. Interesting and tempting. Update: Bad idea. You have to regi$ter to get root access, and by default you can’t install modules, components, or other extensions. No PhpMyAdmin. So unle$$.

XSLT is not a programming language

Tags:Computing eye movement Research xml Well, at least not your typical procedual language, in the sense that it doesn’t have an equivalent of the variable, one that you can use to keep a running sum of element values. Say you have: Gadget ...

WordPress 2.5

Tags:Computing Watch List Just a reminder to myself: Need to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 March 29, 2008WordPress 2.5By Matt. Filed under Releases.WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, ...

Scienfomercial: Researcher believes early exposure to the written word can help toddlers read

Tags:Education journalism psy145 reading Teaching Here again is a news story about reading that ends with an advertisement in disguise. Compare this scien-fo-mercial to the poli-fo-mercial. See for yourself how the same tactics were used. Researcher believes early exposure to the written word can help toddlers read A U.S. infant ...

Ask Language Log: Comparing the vocabularies of different languages

Tags:Linguistics paraorthography statistics Mark Liberman offers additional readings for a freshman who has a big ambition Language Log: Ask Language Log: Comparing the vocabularies of different languages If you’re interested in taking this further, here are a few inadequate suggestions: My lecture notes on morphology from Linguistics 001. The Natural Language Toolkit, and the associated book. You might ...

Texas reading Curriculum: Suggested reading list dropped

Tags:Education psy145 Teaching The new curriculum is passed today without the suggested reading list. Here are some of the books mentioned in the March 19 draft. Star-Telegram.com: | 03/25/2008 | New curriculum plan for English includes suggested reading list Suggested readingHere are some of the books that the proposed ...

schizophrenia is a disorder of language?

Tags:Linguistics psychology Back in Sept 2007 Scientific American has an article on the potential evolution advantages of schizophrenia. The claim was that schizophrenia is a language disorder — hmm… It’s No Delusion: Evolution May Favor Schizophrenia Genes: Scientific AmericanCo-author Crespi says that a number of theories have been floating around regarding ...

CommentPress

Tags:Computing Research Watch List Wordpress Time to try this: CommentPress CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on ...