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cast of characters, lyric poets, especially, must entrance us with their words until we cannot choose by hear. Eager for more, we turn page after page because we find ourselves in thrall to a particular diction. - Nearly everyone can |
come up with a good explanation for why they don't keep up with contemporary poetry, but the main one is simply that reading strange and unfamiliar poems sounds a lot like schoolwork. The language often seems so... high-pitched and bizarre |
or just plain hard to understand. In fact, the best way to enjoy contemporary verse is simply to read it as though you were dipping into a magazine, listening to a news report, overhearing a conversation. Don't make it a |
big deal, simply thrill to the words or story. As the critic Marvin Mudrick once proclaimed: "You don't read for understanding, you read for excitement. Understanding is a product of excitement." Later on, you can return to the poems that |
speak most strongly to you and make them a part of your life. - Memorize the poems you love most. As Anthony Burgess wrote: "The dragging out from memory of lines from Volpone or The Vanity of Human Wishes with |
the twelfth glass is the true literary experience. I mean that. Verse is for learning by heart, and that is what a literary education should mostly consist of." When I was a teenager, I used to walk to high school. |
To pass those tedious twenty or thirty minutes I decided to memorize favourite lines and stanzas from Oscar Williams' anthology, Immortal Poems of the English Language. "With rue my heart is laden... I met a traveller from an antique land... |
We'd rather have the iceberg than the ship...The waste remains, the waste remains and kills...That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea...Our revels now are ended." In all my life no time has ever been better spent. Labels: Writing About Poetry |
QFK - Quest for Knowledge What is QFK ? QFK is the Game Based Mobile Learning (GBML) Platform. It enables development and playing of mobile educational games. Games can be played via multimedia mobile devices (mobile phones, smart phones) or regular internet browser from the desktop computer, using WWW technologies |
only. Players may use additional multimedia devices, such as digital cameras, PDA's, or GPS devices. QFK was developed within the eMapps.com (Motivating Active Participation of Primary Schoolchildren in Digital Online Technologies for Creative Opportunities through Multimedia) 6th Framework Program STREP project. What ... |
on the previously prepared game scripts called Game Matrixes. These are basically game stories (narrative), plots, challenges and belonging multimedia objects that form the game in the platform. There are no technical obstacles to implement any kind of Game Matrix in the platform. Each game consists of multiple mission... |
Each mission consists of multiple tasks that need to be completed by the teams of players. Games are played outside, in the real environment, on different locations and in real time by several teams of players. Each team is divided into two parts: Game Base (part of the team on |
the desktop computer) and Avatars (part of the team on the field). Each game is run by the Game Master who gives additional clues, misguides teams and tracks progress. Communication among players and game master is performed via integrated chat. Players submit their results as text answers, uploaded files (pictures, |
video, audio...), solved puzzles or set of geographical coordinates. Games are played by pupils of elementary or secondary schools. Game Masters are usually their teachers. Games cover topics from different curricula fields. Game stories are interesting, appealing and represent the modern approach to learning. Why Mobi... |
in the QFK platform differ from regular computer games which usually define aims, rules or missions and are played in the pure virtual world. Mobile educational games take the players outside of their classrooms, involve real world and real people, blurred with alternate reality that can be defined in the |
game story. Using modern multimedia devices enable infinite possiblities of communication, social netorking and creation of multimedia content. Players learn through performance. This requires active participation and discovery, analysis, interpretation, problem solving, and physical activity. The educational value of ... |
of educational media with effective pedagogy to engage students in meaningful practices. Mobile Clients: Nokia N70+, Nokia N90+, Sony Ericsson P1; OS Symbian s60+; Opera Web kit Desktop clients: PC with internet access, Browser (FF2+, IE 6.0+) Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana Marko Papić, M. Sc... |
5 Written Questions 5 Multiple Choice Questions - v. to judge or estimate the worth,importance,or valuate of something again. - n. homogeneous liquid mixture. - v. brake-up or bring to an end. - adj. incapable of occurring. - adj. not |
Fifth Grade, Lesson 1: Biodiversity The more diverse an ecosystem is, the more interdependence of species exists within that system. The complex relationships among diverse species are difficult to identify. |
As species disappear or become extinct we begin to see the vital links that exist among species. Essential levels of biodiversity vary among biomes and bioregions. Could an ocelot live |
where you live? Step 1 -- Connect (The Concept to Prior Knowledge) Students will observe the biodiversity in their backyard by connecting the adaptations of the animals in their neighborhood |
to the climate and habitats in which they live in. - Access to schoolyard or nearby park - Paper, pencils - Take students out into the school grounds and look |
for signs of life. - Search for insects, birds, animal tracks, scat, feathers, nests, different types of trees, grasses, soil types, etc. - Make a class list that shows all |
findings in the schoolyard and post it as a visual in the classroom. - Make headings to organize groupings: insects, plants, mammals, birds, etc. - Discuss the Web of Life |
concept. Draw lines that connect one thing to another. Step 2 -- Literature/Discuss (Give Expert Information Book; Ask Questions) Students will learn about the biodiversity of the rainforest and compare |
and contrast with that of their own schoolyard findings. - Book: The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry - Biodiversity list from Step 1 - 1 piece of long string |
or rope - Read The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. Discuss the different perspectives voiced throughout the book. Activity: The Web of Life - Have students stand in a |
large circle. - Each student should choose one of the items from the classroom biodiversity list, making sure everyone represents a different living thing. - Use a string or a |
rope to represent the links between each person. - One person starts by saying the name they chose and, as a class, decide how they are connected to another organism |
in the circle. - The rope is then passed to that organism. - The goal is to finish with a web that is connected to everyone. - This game demonstrates |
the intricate web of life. - Debrief in order for students to see how everything in their backyard, as in the rainforest, is ultimately connected in some way or another |
to their specific environment. Step 3A -- Practice (Math and Learning Centers) Students will come up with their own web of life example. - Access to natural area (i.e., yard, |
park, etc.) - Each student will look for an animal or insect in their own backyard or the schoolyard. - Students will make observations based on the behavior of that |
animal or insect. - Students will come up with their own web of life example based on the observations made and research on the behavior, food and habitat of that |
organism. - Students will make observations that support the theory that all organisms are connected: behavior, food, habitat, etc. Step 3B -- Create (Performance Tasks Related to Standard Indicators) Students |
will demonstrate through writing how all living things interact with their environment in order to survive. - Paper, pencils Students will synthesize their observations of an organism and create a |
story that parallels The Great Kapok Tree. Using their observations as a framework, they will write their own stories to explain who depends on what for survival and why these |
interactions are unique to their environment. Step 4 -- Present (Edit Work/Students Present Projects) Students will practice their oral reading skills. - Story from Step 3B Each student will read |
their story to the class. The Rainforest Alliance curriculum is unique in that it teaches science, math, language arts and social studies essentials while addressing the United States National Standards |
for Learning. These are the standards addressed in the fifth grade lessons. Standard 3: Evaluation Strategies Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate and appreciate texts. |
Standard 1: Reading for Perspective Students read a wide range of print and non-print texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves and of the cultures of the US |
and the world. Standard 4: Communication Skills Students adjust their use of spoken, written and visual language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. Standard |
7: Evaluating Data Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. Students develop an understanding of the structure and function in living |
systems, populations and ecosystems, and diversity and adaptations of organisms. Standard 1: Grades 3 - 5 Students understand the need for measuring with standard units and that measurements are approximations |
and how differences in units affect precision. Standard 5: Technology Research Tools Students use technology to locate, evaluate and collect information from a variety of sources. Standard 4: Technology Communication |
Tools Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences. Standard 5: Environment and Society Students should understand how human actions modify |
the physical environment. Standard 6: Personal and Social Perspectives Students develop an understanding of populations, resources and environments. Fifth and Sixth Grade Resources - Fifth Grade Curriculum - Sixth Grade |
Can Microsoft Save the World? Microsoft Research teams with top scientists to tackle the world's most pressing problems -- and it could turn conventional computing on its head in the process. Three years ago, William Henry Gates III ordered Microsoft Research to launch a Science division. Money was one motive |
-- by staking out a position in the growing field of scientific computing, future profits were insured. Fortunately Microsoft Research doesn't have to turn every dollar and man-hour into marketable products. The Science group has the wonderful freedom to work on the big problems: global warming, disease, the future of |
medicine, the origin of the universe and the creation of life -- those sorts of things. Leading this charge is Stephen Emmott, director of the Microsoft Research European Science Program, an Englishman with some 20 years of experience in science and computing, including a stint at Bell Labs. Emmott's main |
goal is to blend computer science and traditional science, and in the process transform both. "We are at a profoundly important point in time where computer science and computing have the potential to completely revolutionize the sciences," Emmott says. Microsoft doesn't plan to do this all alone. Today 14 Microsoft |
researchers are working with some 40 scientists around the world. Those numbers are rapidly expanding. "Within 12 months, there'll be 30 Microsoft Research Cambridge scientists collaborating with around 80 to 100 scientists worldwide to build new software tools for addressing important scientific challenges," Emmott Th... |
the 2020 Science conference, where some 30 scientists, hailing from nations from Japan to Germany and representing universities such as Stanford and companies like GlaxoSmithKline Inc., gathered. The group produced an 82-page oversized glossy book, "Towards 2020 Science," outlining their goals, technologies and plans. ... |
for research projects, now ongoing, that match Microsoft researchers with their scientific counterparts. "The real benefits come from bringing together people from Microsoft Research -- whether they're computer scientists or computational biologists or computational climatologists or oceanographers -- with people in th... |
things that neither of us could do on our own," Emmott Understanding Life Bit by Bit One of the more interesting Microsoft projects is "Simulating Biological Systems in the Stochastic Pi Calculus." The idea is to create a more scaleable way to track "the behavior of biological systems." One approach |
is to build a so-called Stochastic Pi Machine, a project driven by Andrew Phillips of Microsoft Research. So what does stochastic mean? Well, a stochastic process is one in which there is a certain amount of randomness. This means that computers and scientists can gather data and analyze the process, |
but, due to its random nature, cannot make accurate predictions about it. The Stochastic Pi Machine is designed to simulate and model the workings of biological systems. Using stochastic pi calculus, biological models can be built step by step, where models of small systems are ultimately built into a model |
of staggering complexity -- the type of complexity that matches the reality of biological systems themselves. One peek at the Science 2020 work and you'd swear it was tailor made for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Not the case. While so many of the goals are identical, they are |
two entirely separate "Bill has clearly had input into the overall European scientific program. He launched it last year and has provided input on numerous occasions. With The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation there is no formal link with what we're doing. However, some of the work that we are |
doing clearly has an implication for the areas that the foundation is working in," says Stephen Emmott, director of the Microsoft Research European Nevertheless, Gates' foundation is privately funding projects that could just as easily be paid for by Microsoft Research. While Microsoft Research obsesses over the human ... |
Gates Foundation has earmarked $2.5 billion to fight malaria by building a genetic map of the disease. The foundation is also working with GlaxoSmithKline, a Microsoft Research partner, to test a new vaccine. Beating meningitis is another item on the Gates Foundation's agenda. The foundation, along with the Serum Insti... |
of India, is working on an inexpensive vaccine that works across all age levels and prevents the disease from being passed from person to person. --D.B. Interestingly enough, computers are built much the same way. They start off simple, but through more and more memory, networks, grids etc., increase in |
complexity in an additive way. One of the biggest 2020 goals is fighting disease, a goal shared by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has no formal relationship with Microsoft "It is remarkable to think that it's 2006 and it's not known even how a cell works -- let |
alone how a human works. As a consequence, it's not well understood how to treat disease," Emmott says. "Once we get to a stage where we have the tools for understanding fundamental biological processes, it is only a short step to building the tools and the languages to model how |
disease occurs in those biological systems -- i.e. when something goes wrong or when the system is invaded by a virus." Emmott believes that such an approach could "completely revolutionize how we think of treating disease and how we can identify and discover entirely novel therapies for treating diseases, whether |
they are third-world diseases such as malaria or first-world diseases such as cancer and obesity." Projects are on the way. "We're just getting underway on a project with my team in Cambridge and one of the world's leading mathematical biologists at Imperial College in London to build a global pandemic |
modeling system to predict when outbreaks of diseases will occur -- global outbreaks of diseases from Avian flu to malaria. This will be a powerful tool for agencies such as the World Health Organization, for scientific researchers around the world to be able to use to do their own modeling |
[and] for medical research councils, as well as for interventionist types of organizations like the United Nations," Climate and the environment are key factors in understanding and predicting many diseases. "There's a tremendously important relationship between environmental conditions and outbreaks of third-world dis... |
he says. "Being able to more effectively model and understand, say, climate change and increases in, or changes in, third-world diseases will be tremendously valuable eventually for agencies and foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." The future of science, and in particular fighting disease, lies in ... |
Take molecular computers. These tiny devices, while small enough to fit into a cell, are smart enough to understand inputs, such as whether a cell is diseased, and take actions -- for instance, releasing just the right amount of a cancer drug. In fact, one of the biggest benefits of |
molecular machines is supporting smart drugs, which can be released or held back based on their surroundings. Sensor networks are another example of tiny yet powerful tools. Here, massive networks of sensors can be placed -- say, around a mountain -- that collect information on weather, plant life and trends, |
and help scientists understand the health of the mountain's ecosystem. Through wireless networks, this data can be amassed and scrutinized. AND SCIENCE: A SHORT COURSE This field, also called computational biology, applies math, statistics and computer science to the understanding of biology, in particular the behavior... |
Systems Machine Learning: Here software learns from experience. One technique is Bayesian, a machine learning approach applied Molecular Computer: A computer small enough to fit into a cell. By detecting its surroundings and making decisions, these computers could support smart drugs. Smart Drugs: Drugs that can adapt ... |
-- for instance, releasing their contents if disease is detected. Stochastic: A Stochastic process is "fuzzy." You can collect the data and understand certain trends, but you can't predict precisely what will happen based on past experience. The stock market, especially given the last five years, is a prime example. |
Systems Biology: The attempt to understand how biological components work together. Similar to molecular computers, small, intelligent, adaptable systems could support new artificial immune systems. "Virtual human immune systems should be able to compute the results of host-pathogen interaction, including solutions to ... |
and non-self," wrote Soren Brunak, a member of the 2020 Science Group, in "Towards 2020 Science." The goal? To "compute a specific vaccine design tailored to individuals with different tissue types in the best possible way," Brunak Computational Biology, Energy & Global Warming World health is one area where the |
pairing of computer science and traditional science holds tremendous promise. Future energy is another. New energy sources are important for two reasons: We are running out of fossil fuels, and these fuels, most believe, contribute to global warming. Science, in particular computational biology, could help. With this s... |
scientists can build new tools for understanding biological processes. We could "understand how one of the world's efficient energy converters performs at such a level. There's something like 1.6 kilowatts of energy [from the sun] that falls onto every square meter of the planet every hour. The most efficient converter |
of that energy from the sun into its own energy for a different purpose -- for growth -- is a plant," Emmott says. "It isn't terribly well understood how they make such efficient use of the sun's energy. That's because we don't even know how a cell works, whether it's |
a cell in a plant or a cell in a human." If we fully understood how plants convert energy, we could perhaps "help energy companies and energy scientists mimic that process to build entirely novel technological solutions for new sources of energy that are currently unimaginable today. That's a decade |
or so away but it's worth pursuing," Emmott believes. Every year, humans crank out three times the amount of carbon dioxide that nature's "carbon sinks" absorb. If this keeps up, many scientists believe the planet will be forever changed by global warming, perhaps even doomed. While this problem is not |
on the top of the Microsoft agenda, Emmott's group does hope to help. "Our research efforts around climatology and earth life support systems, of which climate is an important one, are based around working with climatologists, oceanographers and ecologists, and building new computational tools that scientists urgently ... |
"Climatologists are not short of data, so building tools to create yet more data is not urgently needed. What they do urgently need are software tools to model and couple the physical aspects of climate change, atmospheric and oceanographic type of effects, with the biotic -- produced or caused by |
living organisms -- elements of determining climates and climate change. That [includes] the organisms that live in the ocean that are carbon sinks, oxygen producers, regulators of the carbon cycles and regulators of climate, and also the biotic aspects such as forests -- terrestrial sources of carbon sinks and oxygen |
producers. It is currently largely unknown how the two interact -- the physical and biotic components. It is largely unknown what the impact is of the biotic components. It's an incredibly important component but just one that's not understood," Science Gives Back Microsoft is also working with The Sloan Digital |
Sky Survey, and has already helped craft an online astronomy catalog. Physicists and astronomers for centuries have tried to unravel the mysteries of the universe -- yet after all this work our picture is far from complete. "Understanding the universe is a large-scale data-acquisition and data-analysis problem. That is... |
[area] where the standard software tools that Microsoft currently produces, from Web services to database technologies to better acquire, share and analyze large scale data in the science community, can help the science community understand origins of the universe and how the universe works," While science pushes the e... |
computing, computing and Microsoft also "Science is where the real action is going to be for computer science over the next decade. By being at the cutting edge of the intersection of science and computer science, Microsoft will gain remarkable insight as to the key things the company needs to |
do on the broad business and personal computing challenges and opportunities a decade later. They can think of what's happening at the intersection of science and computing as being like Formula One. BMW and Ferrari do Formula One because the technology they need to develop to compete in Formula One |
ends up in any standard family car a decade later -- and its gives them remarkable insights into technical engineering," Emmott says. The 2020 Roadmap is more specific. It argues that by 2015, the work done to build new scientific software frameworks will "radicalize" business computing. And beyond 2020, we |
A partial vocabulary of the Yinikurtira Aboriginal people Petkovic, J. (2007) A partial vocabulary of the Yinikurtira Aboriginal people. IM: Interactive Media (3). |PDF - Published Version | Download (236kB) | Preview *Open access, no subscription required The Yinikurtira people of the North West region of Australia ar... |
to have been a sub-group of the Talandji language speakers, although the exact nature of their connection is somewhat uncertain.1 The Talandji language is reasonably well documented and still has a few living speakers.2 In contrast, the Yinikurtiri language is classified as extinct. 3 Discovering early Yinikurtira word... |
Understanding racism today requires that one understand the subtleties of the language of those who perpetuate it. Please contribute to the glossary in the comments section. I will add confirmed, relevant and accurate tropes to the glossary. Please read the entire article first. Please note the difference between indiv... |
to investigate this subject, which I’ll inevitably be posting on. The following post addresses use of racially prejudiced language and ideas in the context of institutional racism. As a result of the abolition of slavery, then later desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement, and finally the combination of contemporar... |
dramatically, especially over the last 50 or so years. Words that start with N are no longer the haute couture of racists and privilege-denying whites. Although the old words are cropping up in specific places which guarantee anonymity and/or acceptance, the use of subtlety, context, subjective subtext and nuance have ... |
some of these words and tropes, their context, and their meaning. Many of these words are not new to the racist vocabulary, though many of the old words have taken on new aspects or are used in different contexts. This will be a modified open-source project, the only restriction being that the author has discretion ove... |
comments below. All Black Panthers are New Black Panthers- trope. A problem of assumptions and lack of disambiguation. Used by people who have never read a factually correct book or article about the Black Panther Party(BPP). This trope occurs because users are not aware that the BPP were Black marxist revolutionaries,... |
of the BPP, is a Black Nationalist organization. A way for whites to trumpet their ignorance of Black history. See Hoodlums, Hooligans, Thugs. Fear of a Black Planet ensues. Associated with the old-school trope, They All Look The Same To Me. Animal(s)- label. Used in context to describe a person of color. This becomes ... |
white girl and some cops who were attacked by teenagers–most of whom were evidently POCs.) Diversity- word/trope. Used to denote the idea that mixing of the races in culture and relationships is inherently bad. Users of this trope commonly cite any news event that they think proves their racism to be correct. Usually u... |
what happens when Obama introduces diversity into western civilization.” (Apocryphal) Entitlements aka “Entitlement Mentality”- word/trope. The brazen assumption that POCs are lazy and self-entitled. Also negates the fact that many persons who at one time receive social aid are the very people who at another time subsi... |
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