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EdTechTeacher, co-founded by Tom Daccord and Justin Reich, is a wonderful edtech consulting and training organization. Among many things that it does, ETT sponsors conferences, workshops, and leadership seminars. They are perhaps most well known for their Teacher iPad Summits held each year in Boston and San Diego
ETT's website hosts many resources, this Scoop focuses on their outstanding (and growing) collection of video tutorials (185 strong as of today...March 30, 2015). You may find the library on Vimeo (just click on the headline or the image above).
Each video provides a professionally produced demo/explanation of how to use some the the latest and greatest apps and techniques. Recent examples include "Pop up Video with Explain Everything," "VideoNot.es Tutorial," "Snagit Video Tutorial," and "Kaizena Video Tutorial."
All of this material is free. What a generous contribution by these wonderfully talented and creative people!
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Mozilla has recently kicked off two exciting new planning projects to help in- and out-of-school educators identify and teach digital-age skills, and to prototype badges with clear learning and achievement outcomes related to those skills. Mozilla is working with an advisory group drawn from the Mozilla community, industry, higher education, policymakers, and others to ensure the content and evidence is grounded in real-world application. Finally, Mozilla is making sure to document lessons learned for broader reach and information back to interested stakeholders.
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15 Rules of Netiquette for Online Discussion Boards [INFOGRAPHIC] - Online Education Blog of Touro College
"Netiquette" refers to rules of etiquette that apply to online communication.
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Here are good ideas presented in a light graphic fashion. A written version of the 15 Rules is found below the infographic.
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Since its inception, Google Drive has been a source of excitement for innovation-minded educators. However, as with any new teaching technology, you may find yourself thinking "it sounds intriguing, but will it really make a difference?" In regards to Drive features like audio feedback, the answer to that question is an unequivocal yes. Aside from offering convenience and helping spare teachers from endless amounts of typing, the addition of voice commenting brings with it profound benefits to the learning experience as a whole. Below, you'll find five compelling reasons to give it a try, as well as a simple guide on how to get started.
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I bought Minecraft for my 7 year old son and asked him if he needed help with it. "No, I just looked it up on YouTube." We all know that YouTube is a great source for tutorial videos. Did you know that YouTube is the #2 search engine? Students are very likely to look up information on YouTube, it has become part of their culture. Here are 5 things you can do with YouTube:
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Great list of suggestions that are all well explained. Very convenient to have all 5 suggestions in one place.
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Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating concepts, processes, procedures, and principles, rather than just remembering facts (rote learning). It is most often used when designing educational, training, and learning processes.
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This is a nice chart to share with your teachers.
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Assessment AS Learning - Trend #8 of the 10 Trends to Personalize Learning
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Join us in #plearnchat with educators around the world to discuss these important questions about Assessment AS Learning.
When working with digital image files, it is essential to know the differences between each one, so you know when to use them. The main difference between files formats is how they are used when designing for the web and the outcome they produce. One produces highly optimized simple graphics, another is used for most images, and the third option is used for complex graphics, gradients and transparency.
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If you want to encourage your students to start taking advantage of the many technology tools available to them, here are a few examples of the types of productivity and learning apps that can support them in their studies.
Good list. Lots of new ones to me. -JL
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What will happen to legacy higher education providers when the ownership society ceases to exist? We are in the midst of a reordering of our material world, a shift away from owning to renting, buying to consuming. How will this shift impact higher education?
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Learn how Lime App by Vipaar uses augmented reality to make it easy to help friends, family, & coworkers over video chat.
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A very interesting app that enables users to engage in two-wide video conversations and give help to one another by using hand gestures. This written description does not do justice to the app, so this post links to a 71 second video demonstration. It is definitely worth watching. The app is free for individual use.
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Kristen Baker's curator insight, March 18, 10:56 AM
This could be useful in so many ways--especially helping teachers with their technology at a distance.
Creating your own images is also an excellent tactic for re-purposing text-only content into enticing images. Here are some examples: Turn quotes into an interesting slideshow, post an event announcement on a pretty picture, place stats onto eye-catching graphs, give a blog post title some pizzaz, create an infographic about the history of your biz, create a catchy, custom featured image for a video, etc. The possibilities are endless.
To help you create images that get BuzzFeed-worthy engagement, here are 13 of our favorite and easy-to-use visual content creation tools....
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ffeog's curator insight, March 13, 4:38 AM
A picture speaks a thousand words - some good resources here for visual content and creation to add a visual dimension to your messages, which tend to perform much better for opens and clicks than text alone.
Carlene Kelsey's curator insight, March 25, 10:22 AM
Content is shared in many forms. These tools make it pretty easy to get creative.
Michelle Gilstrap's curator insight, March 25, 3:14 PM
Good article to help anyone wanting to create better content.
I don't usually comment on articles in "closed" journals, but making an exception in this case. I hope you can find it in a library data base, or one of the authors uploads it to a public site or you can "rent " it from Wiley for 48 hours for $6! The article:
"The growing adoption of open educational resources (OER) has identified the need for easy-to-use authoring platforms for the development and delivery of openly licensed digital content. Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar on authoring platforms that support faculty authoring and adaption of open educational resources and institutional delivery of these resources."
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The 10 trends above underlie my prediction that indie ebook authors will capture at least 50 percent of the U.S. ebook market in next seven years. Go ahead, call me crazy or delusional. I don't mind....
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Chris Simon's curator insight, March 29, 5:15 PM
Ho Ho ! ;-) Les 10 raisons pour lesquelles les auteurs autoédités prendront 50% des parts de marché du ebook à partir de 2020. Un article de Mark Coker (Smashwords) de 2014, plus que 5 ans pour vérifier ;-) !
For many years, Ohio State University -- like lots of peer institutions -- had an understanding with its faculty: the institution might claim intellectual property rights to innovations, inventions and patentable research, but scholarly works belonged to professors alone. Now a new draft intellectual property policy is threatening that agreement in the eyes of some faculty members.
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Stanford President John L. Hennessy on Information Technology and the Future of Teaching and Learning
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The "unbundling" of degrees that many are predicting -- where students assemble the learning they want, offered in person or online, by one or more institutions to earn credentials -- is something that Hennessy predicted was the future of continuing education and professional education. "Online technologies will dominate this marketplace," he said. And this will include many professionally oriented master's programs, he said. But he rejected the idea that this would be or should be the future of undergraduate education.
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Tony Guzman's curator insight, March 23, 12:52 PM
This video shares a lecture from Stanford President, John L. Hennessy. During his lecture he eludes to the "unbundling" of degrees. Thoughts?
Ashley Jessica Beard's curator insight, March 26, 9:04 PM
A talk regarding the importance of education and how technology will improve it and make the learning experience better.
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The new & contemporary Jorum website is available now: new Themed Collections; simplified navigation; browsable content, and an improved Support section
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Sensing the excitement from online education tools like edX, Google has just unveiled a (very beta) version of its own course building software. If you've ever wanted to run your own online courses, this might be worth your time.
The Americas Society and Council of the Americas invited me to discuss scalable innovative practices for education with experts and leaders dedicated to advancing and shaping the political, economic, social and cultural agendas of the Western Hemisphere. The purpose was to take what works in New York City and bring it to other education systems.
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Kul tävling med kartor. Måste använda detta med mina elever.
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It would be easy to imagine yourself at the end of the world. The fog is so heavy it rains a stream of constant moisture on your face, the waves so wild they crash dangerously on the rocks below and the shoreline so untamed it makes you gasp just to stand on the edge. We've made […]
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Towards evening we arrived at Cape disapointment on the Sea Shore. went over a bald hill where we had a handsom view of the ocean"
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Whenever I'm out in the boonies I'm inspired to photograph. Something about the wide, open desert and the way it glows golden in the early morning & late evening light makes it particularly gorgeous. Who can resist those long shadows? Or that warm hue? Or just the sheer magnitude of space and view? I never […]
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Having churned your brains to mush with some heavy posts on health and medical, I figured I would allow you a reprieve with some light and easy stuff today. After all Paul is away, the mouse is all alone and you know what I'm like in these circumstances. Much to everyone's disappointment (I'm sure) I've […]
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Oh, animal spirits! they've been moving the Nasdaq Composite consistently higher for months now: It ended this week up 12% for the year, closing in on the 13% return of the Standard & Poor's 500. Much of the Nasdaq's gains arrived in the last two weeks amidst some very frantic trading and eye-popping moves.
The Nasdaq's performance has even edged out the S&P's since Feb. 21, returning 7.9% to the S&P's 7.5%. I went to my calendar to check what happened on that Wednesday to prompt this period of outperformance.
The rather humble events of that midwinter day give little indication of the rally to come: Dell (ticker: DELL) had just modestly beaten earnings expectations; Microsoft's MSFT -0.74462890625% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD40.655 -0.305 -0.74462890625% /Date(1427835600151-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 33361246 AFTER HOURS USD40.66 0.00499999999999545 0.012298610257040954% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1525973 P/E Ratio 16.262 Market Cap 333524875512.958 Dividend Yield 3.050055343746157% Rev. per Employee 728656 More quote details and news » (MSFT) next version of Windows, Windows Blue, was rumored to be reaching a "half-way" mark to becoming available; and semiconductor tool vendor Synopsys SNPS -0.2154243860404998% Synopsys Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD46.32 -0.1 -0.2154243860404998% /Date(1427835600230-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 814438 AFTER HOURS USD46.32 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 167264 P/E Ratio 28.072727272727274 Market Cap 7134150094.26209 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 223999 More quote details and news » (SNPS) had also beaten earnings expectations.
Not exactly bracing stuff -- certainly nothing that should propel the Nasdaq from laggard to leader amidst the backdrop of bad news to come. And that was some very bad news, indeed.
Last month, research firms IDC and Gartner reported the first quarter of this year saw the worst decline in personal-computer shipments in years. Dell, moving through a battle to take itself private, released data indicating that challenges in both personal and enterprise computer sales were much tougher than anyone on the outside thought.
Meanwhile, some technology companies reporting either very early in the season or on an offset fiscal calendar gave an early indication that selling to corporations is tough at the moment, perhaps in part because of the U.S. sequester.
There was F5 Networks FFIV -0.2776331771646712% F5 Networks Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD114.94 -0.32 -0.2776331771646712% /Date(1427835600153-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 737417 AFTER HOURS USD114.94 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 22418 P/E Ratio 25.771300448430495 Market Cap 7379493313.48389 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 466455 More quote details and news » (FFIV) warning on April 4 that its March-ending quarter was weaker than expected because telecommunications operators were spending less and U.S. federal government spending was "down significantly."
Amazingly, technology investors took all of that and shrugged it off, even as a tepid earnings season proceeded to produce revenue just in line with expectations or, for many companies, less than the Street was hoping for.
There was Intel INTC -0.6039415130324222% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD31.27 -0.19 -0.6039415130324222% /Date(1427835600176-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 30858823 AFTER HOURS USD31.27 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1239640 P/E Ratio 13.029166666666667 Market Cap 148094722167.969 Dividend Yield 3.0700351774864085% Rev. per Employee 523618 More quote details and news » (INTC) on April 16 delivering revenue merely in line with expectations, and missing on the bottom line by a penny. Google GOOG -0.730032788073112% Google Inc. Cl C U.S.: Nasdaq USD548 -4.03 -0.730032788073112% /Date(1427835600087-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1518528 AFTER HOURS USD548.1 0.100000000000023 0.01824817518248175% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 65149 P/E Ratio 27.041297192738327 Market Cap 375259048808.941 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1228170 More quote details and news » (GOOG) and Microsoft followed on April 18, both missing revenue expectations. A few days later chip-maker Texas Instruments TXN -1.4051724137931034% Texas Instruments Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD57.185 -0.815 -1.4051724137931034% /Date(1427835600752-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4607474 AFTER HOURS USD57.185 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 297806 P/E Ratio 24.82849947898576 Market Cap 60734234130.8594 Dividend Yield 2.378246043542887% Rev. per Employee 420766 More quote details and news » (TXN) just barely beat expectations; Apple AAPL -1.5351744876157316% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD124.43 -1.94 -1.5351744876157316% /Date(1427835600323-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 40410221 AFTER HOURS USD124.53 0.0999999999999943 0.08036647110825364% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1680332 P/E Ratio 16.657295850066934 Market Cap 724773401250.228 Dividend Yield 1.5108896568351684% Rev. per Employee 2153110 More quote details and news » (AAPL) topped consensus estimates when it reported April 23, but not by wide margin, and the outlook for this quarter was lousy. Amazon.com AMZN -0.66472676793294% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD372.1 -2.49 -0.66472676793294% /Date(1427835600307-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2354772 AFTER HOURS USD372.64 0.539999999999964 0.14512227895726956% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 151350 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 172797290233.667 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 577469 More quote details and news » (AMZN) followed two days later and -- you guessed it -- missed revenue estimates.
Facebook last Thursday delivered a mere 1% outperformance in first-quarter revenue, just $20 million above what had been modeled for the company.
Perhaps the pinnacle of an earnings season with little to write home about was fiber optics component maker JDS Uniphase JDSU -0.15220700152207% JDS Uniphase Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD13.12 -0.02 -0.15220700152207% /Date(1427835600302-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1797368 AFTER HOURS USD13.12 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 56392 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 3052827141.34007 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 340647 More quote details and news » (JDSU), which last Wednesday missed quarterly revenue and profit estimates and forecast this quarter's results well below expectations as well.
BUT A FUNNY THING HAPPENED amidst all this. JDS's stock actually rose sharply in late trading upon that grim report, and rose fractionally the next day. And many of its tech brethren have surged as well, despite the rough earnings landscape.
Apple, down 15% for the year, is up 11% since its April 23 announcement that it will more than double its dividend and share repurchases to $100 billion over three years. Microsoft stock is up 22% since Feb. 21 and 16% since its earnings report.
Intel, likewise, is up 18% since Feb. 21 and 9% since its earnings report. Even more striking were some double-digit jumps in just the last week alone. Tiny networking vendor Procera PKT 2.0652173913043477% Procera Networks Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD9.39 0.19 2.0652173913043477% /Date(1427835600122-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 166528 AFTER HOURS USD9.39 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2644 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 195011523.834686 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 367868 More quote details and news » (PKT) surged 27% on Friday in response to the company announcing the night before it had marginally beat revenue expectations.
Internet recommendations site Yelp YELP -0.0844059928254906% Yelp Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD47.35 -0.04 -0.0844059928254906% /Date(1427835785236-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1913348 AFTER HOURS USD47.35 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9147 P/E Ratio 94.7 Market Cap 3529737353.33478 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 139261 More quote details and news » (YELP) jumped 27% the day after reporting a similarly modest beat. Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices AMD -0.7407407407407407% Advanced Micro Devices Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD2.68 -0.02 -0.7407407407407407% /Date(1427835600281-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6857237 AFTER HOURS USD2.68 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 167779 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2084329812.6616 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 567629 More quote details and news » (AMD), which labors in the shadow of Intel, saw a 36% rise last week despite no news whatsoever.
Sure, there are tangible signs of hope, including Friday's better-than-expected jobless claims data, and the dip in the jobless rate.
And there was the less-bad data point, also Friday morning, of nondefense capital-goods orders rising 0.9% in March, with shipments up 0.5%. I say less-bad because the Bureau of Economic Analysis' report still said that computer orders were down 26%, year over year, for the three-month period ending in March, and electronic components orders were down 9.5% in that time.
SO WHAT IS DRIVING SHARES higher amidst all this mediocre -- or downright bad -- news? It appears to be little more than frantic buyers chasing returns as the Dow worked its way up to a record 15,000 on Friday.
A whole host of guests on CNBC Friday trumpeted the return of technology as a desirable sector; one pointed out that $53 billion of inflows have come to stock mutual funds in the last 17 weeks.
Altaira Wealth Management's Ralph Acampora had a one word answer in his stint on the cable channel, when asked about what to buy: "Tech!" he said, enthusiastically, adding that semiconductors were especially worth looking at.
The technology sector's glorious springtime even roped in the fixed-income crew, with both Apple and International Business Machines IBM -1.3339890576012787% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD160.5 -2.17 -1.3339890576012787% /Date(1427835697804-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4104966 AFTER HOURS USD160.74 0.240000000000009 0.14953271028037382% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 150402 P/E Ratio 13.375 Market Cap 158642053802.49 Dividend Yield 2.7414330218068534% Rev. per Employee 244455 More quote details and news » (IBM) able to lure buyers for bonds yielding less than those stocks' dividends.
All of which makes one wonder what, if anything, is tangible. The massive unleashing of cash by Apple, and by IBM's announcement April 30 of a $5 billion repurchase authorization, and the 12% increase in its quarterly dividend, has reminded investors of the financial firepower of the group.
Then, too, the results at Intel and Microsoft were significant, even if both companies remain weighed down by a lousy personal-computer market.
Microsoft's Windows division, excluding special one-time revenue recognition items, was basically flat with the prior-year period, not as disastrous as might have been implied by market data. Its other lines of business, morevoer, turned in decent results.
The conversation started to turn as people looked beyond the PC market. For instance, analyst Mark Moerdler with Bernstein Research, who rates Microsoft shares an Outperform, noted last week that Microsoft's revenue from "cloud computing," where Microsoft hosts software for a fee rather than selling it outright, is approaching as much as $2.6 billion.
If true, that would make the company suddenly the second-biggest cloud-computing company behind momentum darling Salesforce.com CRM -0.05983545250560957% Salesforce.com Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD66.81 -0.04 -0.05983545250560957% /Date(1427835758828-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3973847 AFTER HOURS USD66.7 -0.109999999999999 -0.1646460110761862% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 57824 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 42157108459.4727 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 335849 More quote details and news » (CRM).
Intel's revenue in the same quarter actually declined, but by Thursday morning of last week, the market was looking forward, not backward. Intel named chief operating officer Brian Krzanich, a 31-year veteran, to replace CEO Paul Otellini, who steps down May 16.
Given that Otellini's departure amidst a severe PC slump had cast a pall over the company, hope has sprung forth that Krzanich can lead Intel to make inroads in the market for chips that go into smartphones and tablets, where the company badly trails Qualcomm QCOM 0.667828106852497% Qualcomm Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD69.34 0.46 0.667828106852497% /Date(1427835600775-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12676242 AFTER HOURS USD69.301 -0.0390000000000015 -0.05624459186616671% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 359030 P/E Ratio 14.415800415800415 Market Cap 114380488422.021 Dividend Yield 2.422843957311797% Rev. per Employee 861470 More quote details and news » (QCOM), Nvidia NVDA -2.5384257102934327% NVIDIA Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD20.925 -0.545 -2.5384257102934327% /Date(1427835600155-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8232823 AFTER HOURS USD21.1 0.175000000000001 0.8363201911589009% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 699119 P/E Ratio 18.355263157894736 Market Cap 11505402142.456 Dividend Yield 1.6248506571087216% Rev. per Employee 507315 More quote details and news » (NVDA), and others.
I'm delighted to see both Microsoft and Intel get their due for the things going right with the rest of the business.
BULLS EXPECT THE PC MARKET to rebound in the latter half of year, a perspective I view as wishful at best. The momentum in sales of tablets and smartphones continues to push out any return to growth for the PC business.
But at the same time, valuations are attractive for both: Intel trades for just 12 times next year's projected earnings, Microsoft for 11 times, and that's not counting their enormous cash balances.
The same goes for much of tech.
The lack of any top-line outperformance in many of the reports I've mentioned suggests there is vulnerability across numerous subsectors of technology, while valuations are reasonable.
Apple, of course, trades for 10 times fiscal 2014 projected earnings, not counting its cash. JDS Uniphase and its brethren such as Infinera INFN 1.3395157135497167% Infinera Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD19.67 0.26 1.3395157135497167% /Date(1427835600560-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2063499 AFTER HOURS USD19.67 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 48536 P/E Ratio 178.8181818181818 Market Cap 2537803684.61754 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 446876 More quote details and news » (INFN) and Ciena CIEN -0.4639175257731959% Ciena Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD19.31 -0.09 -0.4639175257731959% /Date(1427835762557-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2521964 AFTER HOURS USD19.31 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 55419 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2262784342.09641 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 442501 More quote details and news » (CIEN) fetch above-market multiples, but some of that reflects depressed estimates that could improve with the slightest sign of a pickup in spending.
The sum total, then, of these furious recent weeks of buying technolgy stocks is that investors will likely not go away in May; they will likely stay. Cheap valuations, tons of cash, rising payouts, and low expectations should continue to power tech's gains through the summer months.
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The hiss of a Coleman, the echo of splitting wood, marshmallows toasted over the campfire, the smell of pine and soil and a tent nestled under swaying boughs -- to me, these are rites of summer.
For the inexperienced, however, or for families with young children, tenting can seem more of a sticky, smoky, uncomfortable ordeal than a vacation. Instead, many opt for camping trailers, fifth wheels or motorhomes.
In 2006, 14 per cent of Canadians owned RVs, according to a study by industry association Go RVing. Nearly half were families with children. And that's not counting the rental market. With bigger, more comfortable options gaining popularity and fewer kids exposed to old-school roughing it, I wondered: Will tenters eventually become an endangered species?
"More and more, there's a huge urban population. There's been a decline or levelling off in camping (nationwide)," says Gloria Keyes-Brady, interpretation co-ordinator with Parks Canada. "There seems to be pretty solid RV camping, but tenting camping... has declined."
This trend, and a recent Parks Canada study, has led to a new pilot program at national parks this summer. Different campgrounds are testing yurts, trailers and teepees. At Jasper National Park, Keyes-Brady is co-ordinating a cottage-tents pilot.
"We thought, 'What a great way for Canadians to connect to nature,' " she explains. "But it's a big expense to buy a tent and all the equipment and then test out whether you like it or not. So this way, people can try it out."
Admittedly, introducing my own toddlers to tenting seemed daunting, despite the fact that I've tented since my pre-teens. But there's something essentially primitive in the experience of lying in a sleeping bag listening to the forest's nightly rhythms, or relying on a fire for heat. The cottage tents presented a good way to ease our family into it.
Arriving near suppertime after a long drive with the kids, turnkey accommodation is immediately welcome. The cottage tents, pitched at Jasper's Whistlers Campground in late fall 2009, combine the convenience of drive-up lodging with tenting's down-to-earth ambience. With canvas walls, wooden frame and flooring, the tents resemble outfitter's shelters. Each is furnished with bed frames and mattresses, electric lights, small baseboard heaters and basic outdoor cooking gear, and sleeps five to six adults. No setup necessary.
Instead, we strike out for firewood. Three-year-old Aidan spots elk poop, ravens and interesting rocks along the way.
We come to a small stream with several logs forming a makeshift bridge. Aidan is thrilled. He holds my hand and crosses. I follow, then hold out my hand to Heather, carrying our one-year-old daughter Sierra in a baby carrier on her back. The logs sway and dip as we walk. The ease of it all is a little overwhelming.
"I need to start a fire to feel like I'm actually camping," Heather says. This sense of glamour compared to the average tenting experience has led to the term glamping (for glamour camping), though usually it refers to something a little more upscale, with butlers and five-star chefs.
Jasper's cottage tents are a little more economical and DIY. At $78.50 a night, including site fee and fire permit, there's no turndown service. But parks staff will give cottage-tent users an orientation, demonstrating how to safely use a camping stove, store food and build a fire -- essentially, providing a guided, entry-level introduction to tenting.
With the basics covered, our days rush by, throwing rocks into nearby Athabasca River, hiking at Pyramid Lake and picnicking at Centennial Park -- an excellent find for young families, tucked away on one of the town's back streets. In the evenings, the alpine cool chases us into our sleeping bags, where we whisper stories to the kids and listen to the night settle around us.
Something about the thinness of tent walls instils a sense of camaraderie and familiarity among fellow campers. We're all in it together, rain or shine. With only fabric separating us from the wilderness beyond, tenting draws us closer to nature in a more profound way.
"That type of camping is such an activity in itself -- setting up the tent, making a fire, cooking outside... All those things are pretty traditional Canadian experiences," says Keyes-Brady.
In the rush of daily living, Keyes-Brady suggests, there's also something to be said for the laid-back pace of camping.
Families aren't connecting as much as they'd like because lives are so busy, so camping allows people to not only connect with nature in a safe environment, but also, it's a family activity. There's something for everybody to do around the campfire.
As for the future of the cottage tents, park staff will decide at the end of the 2010 season whether the program will continue. But early bookings are promising, with weekends filling up fast.
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Reservations can be made by phone at 1-877-RESERVE or online at www.pccamping.ca.There is a $10.80 fee per booking.
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Recently, fluorosilicate glass (FSG) has received much attention for application in microelectronics manufacturing due to its low dielectric constant and stable gap-filling ability. Although FSG films have been demonstrated as potential inter metal dielectrics (IMD) for sub-micron devices, integrating a stack of two fluorine doped silicon oxide film deposited on a high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDP-CVD) system for gap filling and a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system for throughput has not been fully investigated. In this research, an excellent and exceptionally stable process was demonstrated for a stack of HDP-CVD FSG and PECVD FSG layers. Cracks that result from multi-level metal technology were eliminated when higher compressive stress PECVD FSG film was implemented as a capping layer. An 11% capacitance reduction was achieved when comparing a stack of FSG films to undoped silicon oxide. No problem occurred for photo, via etching and chemical mechanical polishing of FSG film. The FSG layer stack's via resistance (Rc Via) as well as a full HDP-FSG scheme is comparable. These results are very promising for the integration of FSG films as inter metal dielectric for devices.
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In situ electrochemical measurements were performed for Al and Ti disks in various slurries during polishing and static conditions. The electrochemical results obtained from the corrosion potential drop of Al polishing have verified that the maximum removal rate of metal CMP can be achieved when the removal rate of the surface oxide was equal to its growth rate. However, Ti polishing did not exist maximum removal rate. The effects of H2O2%, pH values and pressure on the Al and Ti polishing behaviors were explored by using potentiodynamic scan. The corrosion potential drop was found to be a good index for polishing removal rate. The corrosion potential drop changed with increasing H2O2% for Al polishing and there existed a maximum value. But the corrosion potential drop increased with increasing H2O2% for Ti polishing. The pH value had different effects on Al and Ti polishing. Higher pH values gave higher Al removal rate but lower Ti removal rate. The Al polishing showed more pressure sensitive than Ti polishing did. The galvanic current was measured for Al/Ti polishing. For slurry with 6 vol.% H2O2 and pH=4, the abraded Al electrode obtained a negative current, which implied Ti oxidation was enhanced.
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Shallow trench isolation (STI) is extensively used as the isolation method beyond 0.18 μm generation. This study explored the formation of circular defects in high-density plasma (HDP) STI deposition. Circular defects were caused by the burst flow of silane reactive gas. The defect maps were coincident with the silane flow field. Fourier transform infrared and secondary-ion-mass spectroscopy data exhibited that the silane-burst flow formed a silicon rich oxide (SRO) film. This SRO film existed between the STI oxide and liner oxide. The circular defects were easily found using optical microscopy (OM) for STI with SRO film. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy photographs show that these defects include bubbles and concavities. When SRO fully covers the liner oxide, bubbles easily form by delamination between SRO film and liner oxide. This correlates with the high tensile stress produced by the SRO film. Besides this, higher STI deposition temperatures yield more bubbles. When SRO discontinuously forms on the liner oxide, the concavities were induced by the variation of STI deposition rate on SRO film and liner oxide. The surface charge difference between the SRO film and the liner oxide is the driving force for the generation of concavities. © 2003 American Vacuum Society.
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This paper investigates the monitor and elimination methods for the circular defects in high-density-plasma shallow trench isolation (HDP–STI) deposition process. The optical measurement method can monitor the circular defects in early stage. When the thickness of silane-burst film exceeds 7.8 nm, the fit-error can alert the circular defects. The oxynitride/oxide composite liner can eliminate the circular defects. Besides this, the oxynitride/oxide composite liner can also improve the breakdown strength of the STI oxide. The breakdown strength of the STI oxide increases, respectively, 375 and 30% in the wafer center and edge. The uniformity of the STI breakdown strength was reduced from greater than 200% to less than 10% using the composite liner. The traditional N2O plasma treatment for stabilizing the oxynitride film is harmful in the HDP-STI process. The N2O plasma treatment shows the worst circular defect performance.
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Jennifer Lawrence, Lorde wow at 'Mockingjay, Part 1′ world premiere
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Jennifer Lawrence looked stunning in a Dior gown, while Lorde straightened her trademark curly locks at the world premiere of the second-to-last film in the "Hunger Games" series, "Mockingjay, Part 1″ in London on Monday night. The rest of the cast was also on hand, including Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson.
Lorde curating 'Hunger Games' soundtrack
Pop star Lorde has landed the honor of curating the album soundtrack for the next movie upcoming "The Hunger Games" saga.
The singer will hand pick the artists she wants to appear on the accompanying musical project for director Francis Lawrence's "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1," and the teen will also provide the first single from the disc.
She says, "Curating the soundtrack for such a hotly anticipated film was a challenge, but I jumped at the chance.
"The cast and story are an inspiration for all musicians participating and, as someone with cinematic leanings, being privy to a different creative process has been a unique experience. I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people."
The soundtrack for "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1," starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, will be released this fall, ahead the film's premiere in November.