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This book confirms the significance of social capital as an analytical tool, while challenging the basis on which current policy is being developed. It offers a wealth of evidence on a topic that has become central to contemporary government; provides a detailed empirical investigation of the relationship between social capital, knowledge creation and lifelong learning; relates the findings to wider policy debates; questions the dominant theoretical models of social capital; and confronts the assumption of many policy makers that the obvious solution to social problems is to 'invest in social capital'.The book is aimed at researchers in education, policy studies and urban studies, as well as those concerned with an understanding of contemporary policy concerns. It provides readers with a detailed analysis of relevant evidence, as well as a trenchant critique of current conceptual and policy preoccupations.
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A student who proudly parades around campus with their CU hoodie with a big Bible verse on the back? Or a rugby player who has a cross marked on his wrist strapping? Maybe it's just the person who gets up before everyone else to read their Bible and pray?
Whatever it means to be radical, Hudson Taylor was it. A chemist's son from Yorkshire who became a student in London, unremarkable in looks and not very elegant in speech. Yet this passionate disciple of Christ was determined to take the gospel to China's unpioneered inland provinces, and he grew into one of the most significant missionaries of all time.
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Policy on Use of School of Dentistry Facilities for Special Events
With the opening of Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, there has been demand from students, faculty members, other university organizations, and groups outside of the school for use of this space for a variety of events. In response to this demand, we found it necessary to set policies for the use of this facility.
CDE Events and Classroom Requests
- Faculty requests for classrooms for teaching purposes are handled in the usual manner by contacting Academic Affairs.
- Groups wishing to use the facilities for Continuing Dental Education (CDE) courses should contact our CE Department (919) 537-3400.
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- Only events or functions that support the academic mission of the School, or at the discretion of the Events Planning Committee, will be permitted and supported within the School of Dentistry's physical complex.
- Use of meeting/event space within the School of Dentistry complex including Koury Oral Health Sciences Building ("Building") is typically available only for units housed within the School of Dentistry. The School's Event Planning Committee ("Committee") will make final determinations about special requests for use of the building. All users of the Building must agree to abide by all relevant University policies, including those relating to matters of safety, parking, liability, non-discrimination, non-disturbance, civil obedience, use of University grounds, and food, beverage and alcohol use.
- The Building is not intended for social events, non-university or non-School of Dentistry fundraisers or programs conducted for personal financial gain. On occasion, the Committee may allow dental-related organizations, such as the North Carolina Dental Society, dental study clubs, or professional dental specialty affinity groups (e.g., Tar Heel Endodontic Association, North Carolina Society of Periodontists) to use the Building for social events or continuing education programs run by the school's CDE Program.
- School of Dentistry events take precedence over those of any outside agency, and unscheduled school activities arising more than one month in advance of a reservation might occasionally require a cancellation. Accordingly, reservations may be considered guaranteed only within one month of scheduled time.
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- Smoking indoors is prohibited as is smoking outdoors within 100 feet of university property.
- Food is not permitted inside Kirkland Auditorium. Water is the only beverage permitted. Food is permitted in seminar and case study rooms.
- Excessively noisy or disruptive events will not be permitted.
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- Events held in the evenings and weekends will incur additional expenses that must be paid by the group holding the event. A minimum payment of $1,000 to the School of Dentistry is required to cover expenses associated with the set-up and breakdown of equipment, janitorial services, and lighting and security costs. Sound reinforcement or any audio visual equipment needs should be arranged through Union Production Services, (919) 966-1329. Delivery of extra tables, chairs or trashcans can be arranged through Housekeeping, (919) 962-6586.
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GLENDALE, AZ - SEPTEMBER 26: Brett MacLean #39 of the Phoenix Coyotes duringthe preseason NHL game against the San Jose Sharks at Jobing.com Arena on September 26, 2009 in Glendale, Arizona. The Coyotes defeated the Sharks 2-0. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Phoenix Coyotes forward Brett MacLean is in intensive care at a Canadian hospital after the team says he suffered a ''cardiac emergency'' during a pickup hockey game. Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney says the 23-year-old MacLean received CPR on Monday night at the rink in Owen Sound, Ontario. He was taken to a hospital by ambulance, then transported by air ambulance to Knight University Hospital in London, Ontario where he was admitted to cardiac ICU. Maloney says no other information was available Tuesday. MacLean was a Phoenix second-round draft pick in 2007. He played 13 games for the Coyotes in the 2010-11 season. He was claimed off waivers by Winnipeg last Oct. 5, then waived by the Jets 23 days later. Phoenix reclaimed MacLean and assigned him to AHL Portland.
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Malèna is a 2000 Italian romantic drama film starring Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro. It was directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore from a story by Luciano Vincenzoni.
The film is set in Sicily in 1940 during World War II just as Italy enters the war. Malena's husband, Nino Scordia, who left to join the military is presumed dead. Malena tries to cope with her loss, as the town she has moved to tries to deal with this beautiful woman who gets the attention of all the local men, including the 12-year-old Renato. However, in spite of the gossip, she continues to be faithful to her husband. Renato becomes obsessed with Malena and starts fantasizing about her. Renato continues to watch as she suffers from grief. Malena is shunned by the townspeople who begin to believe the worst about her, simply because of her beauty. She visits her father, an almost deaf professor of Latin, regularly and helps him with his chores. When a slanderous letter reaches his hands, their relationship suffers a catastrophic blow. In the meanwhile, the war worsens. The village is bombed and Malena's father is killed. The wife of the local dentist takes Malena to court, accusing her to having an affair with her husband, but Malena is acquitted. Court is told that Malena is being harassed for being beautiful as other ladies feel insecure and threatened by her. The only man Malena does have an innocent romance with, an army officer, is sent away. After her acquittal, Malena's lawyer Centorbi, using her unpaid legal fee as leverage, forces himself upon her while Renato peeps in from outside her house. Malena's poverty finally forces her to become a prostitute. When the German army comes to town, Malena gives herself to Germans as well. Renato sees her in the company of two German officers and faints. His mother and the older ladies think that he has been possessed and take him to church for an exorcism. His father however takes him to a brothel; Renato has sex with one of the prostitutes while fantasizing that she is Malena. When the war ends, the women gather and publicly beat and humiliate Malena, who leaves for Messina. A few days later, Nino Scordia, Malena's husband, returns looking for her, to the shock of all the residents. He finds his house occupied by people displaced by the war. Renato tells him through an anonymous letter about Malena's whereabouts and the fact that she always loved only him and all the rumors about her cheating were not true. Nino goes to Messina to find her. A year later, they return. The villagers, especially the women, astonished at her courage, begin to talk to "Signora Scordia" with respect. Though still beautiful, they think of her as no threat, claiming that she has wrinkles near her eyes and has put on some weight. In the last scene near the beach, Renato helps her pick up some oranges that had dropped from her shopping bag. Afterwards he wishes her "Buona fortuna, Signora Malena" (good luck, Mrs. Malena) and rides off on his bicycle, looking back at her for a final time, as she walks away. This is the first and only time they speak to each other in the movie. As this final scene fades out, an adult Renato's voice-over reflects that he has not forgotten Malena, even after the passage of so many years. He says, according to the English subtitles, "Of all the girls who asked me to remember them, the only one I remembered is the one who did not ask." (the original Italian literally translates to "I have known many women who have told me, 'remember me,' and I have forgotten all of them. Still today, it's her, the only one I have never forgotten")
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moving Voices was a large scale youth led volunteering programme for 16-25 year olds across the South East of England, funded by v. We provided over 4000 new opportunities for young adults to get involved, get their voices heard and develop new skills through dance. The project was particularly aimed at young parents and people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in the South East.
Some major successes included young people designing their own project website; project managing a community dance stage at a public event for an audience of 12,000; setting up youth dance committees; and choreographing for community carnival groups. We increased the number of volunteers working with our organisation from under 10 to 116.


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At the age of 17, Hélio Gracie stepped into the ring for the first time in Rio de Janeiro against a professional boxer named Antonio Portugal.
Hélio won this match via arm lock in approximately 30 seconds. This fight was the first of many victories that Hélio would have against opponents from around the world.
Under the tutelage of his brother Carlos, Helio went on to become a national hero in Brazil. Some of his astonishing feats include the longest fight in history: a three hours and forty-five minutes non-stop brawl with no rounds; and his fight against World Wrestling Champion Wladek Zybskus, who weighed 280 lbs.
Another amazing performance by Hélio was his brilliant fight against Kato, World Jiu-Jitsu lightweight champion. The fight ended in a draw and Hélio asked for a rematch. The second match, held at Ibirapuera Arena in São Paulo, was a very technical fight.
Hélio defeated Kato with a chokehold from the guard position. His victory brought glory to Brazil and international recognition to Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.
Upon defeating Kato, a challenge match was set between Hélio and the world open weight champion, Masahiko Kimura, probably the best Judo fighter that Japan has ever produced.
This historical match took place in 1955 and was held at Maracanã Stadium, which at the time, sat 200,000 people. Hélio was 42 years old and weighed 140 lbs. while Kimura was 34 years old and weighed 195 lbs.
Masahiko Kimura boldly stated that if Helio could last more than 3 minutes, he should consider himself the winner. Helio fought Kimura for 15 minutes before being caught in an arm lock. Fearful of having his brother's arm shattered, Carlos threw in the towel.
Tremendously impressed with Hélio's technique, the Japanese masters invited Helio to come to Japan and teach. Respectfully, Helio declined.
Helio also challenged boxing greats Primo Carnera and Ezzard Charles, and world champion Joe Louis, to matches to compare styles. They all declined. Throughout his career, Hélio defeated fighters from several different styles in order to prove the superiority of Jiu-Jitsu as a martial art.
An example of courage and determination, Helio became a national hero in Brazil. After a lifetime of combat, he still teaches the art and has the same determination to live jiu-jitsu as his lifestyle. He is recognized world wide as the father of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.


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While many people register for big ticket items, small items, such as clothes, makes a much more affordable price point for those who would like to buy baby a new gift.
Keep selections modest. People will be more inclined to buy items off your registry if they aren't extravagant (Time to cross off that $30 Organic Onesie!). Register for basics in each size, up to 12 months.
3. Check out free websites
Freecycle- Place a wanted ad, and while you are there, why not list some things you don't need as well! Save the Earth by 'freecycling!'
Craigslist- Regularily check the free section- items move fast here. You can create a wanted ad, however, freecycle will provide better results.
4. Clothing Swap
Attend or create an event! Invite all other moms to bring their baby clothes and swap them out. Choose a safe location, such as a public park.
This is the perfect opportunity to swap some of the free clothes you have been given. Remember, just because it is not your taste does not mean someone else won't love it!
5. Barter
Know someone who has awesome baby clothes that you would love? Offer to exchange something they need for clothes.
Consider your talents: Do you garden, bake, or babysit? Carefully leverage your talents- your closet (and possibly wallet!) will be full in no time!
6. Exchange
Keep tags and gift receipts (if possible) for all new items.
Take stock of what you already have in each size. Does your baby really need 20 newborn outfits?
Weed out the excess and exchange for clothes in the right season and size.
7. Contact Charities
If your situation is especially dismal, contact local charities. Do a quick web search to see what is available in your area.
Another good place to start is a local church. They may have resources within the church, or at least be able to point you in the right direction.
How is your baby's closet looking now?! What was your favorite score, and which method worked the best for you? Please leave a comment below!
This article was previously published Sept 2013.


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Aristobulus († after 301 BCE): Macedonian officer, biographer of Alexander the Great.
Aristobulus' account of Alexander's conquests, which he started to write during the Indian campaign (according to Lucian), is now lost but it was (together with a biography by Ptolemy and the Indikê by Nearchus) among the most important sources of Arrian's Anabasis, our main source for the career of the Macedonian conqueror. Aristobulus' work is also quoted by other authors, but there are indications that not all quotations are authentic. This source, therefore, remains a bit mysterious.Yet, we can be confident that Aristobulus was among Alexander's greatest admirers, because when there are more than one stories about the same event, Aristobulus usually gives the kinder version. For example, all authorities agree that Alexander was a heavy drinker, but Aristobulus explains that this was merely because he loved to be with his friends. And when a drunken Alexander killed Clitus, Aristobulus says that it was Clitus' own mistake. Another example: Ptolemy writes that Alexander ordered Callisthenes, who had criticized him in public, to be crucified, and Aristobulus says that the man died in prison. It is likely that the motif of pothos was introduced to the Alexander literature by Aristobulus. Pothos means 'longing', and this was believed to be a good way to describe Alexander's inner drive. So, our sources mention that Alexander was longing to cross the Danube, untie the legendary knot at Gordium, build a city in Egypt, go to the oracle of Ammon, visit Nysa, capture Aornus, sail the Ocean, or see the Persian Gulf.
The word -or its Latin translation ingens cupido- became a standard description of Alexander, and perhaps one of the attractions of the idea was that pothos could also signify a desire to die: pothos was the name of the flower that Greeks placed on someone's tomb. An author who had used this word, could leave Alexander's behavior during battles and sieges and his drinking habits unexplained. Like his ancestor Achilles, Alexander had chosen to be famous and die young.
Aristobulus may have lived in Alexandria, published his memoirs of the Persian campaign at the age of eighty-four, and died in Cassandra in Macedonia after 301.


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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Actual Conversation I Had Yesterday
Rest assured, I asked our faculty council president if they did indeed want "feedback," or were we supposed to fawn all over the plan or keep our mouths shut. She said, "we are expected to give our feedback on this stupid plan for Big Brother to have full control." I knew that I was in.
Now before anyone gets their knickers in a bunch about, "but shouldn't all sections of a course be the same? Is it right that one teacher is going off on one thing and another is going off on another and what about the old deadwood?" First, most of your stereotypical deadwood -- if they exist -- won't use a word processor, much less teach an entire course online. Second, we aren't talking about ensuring that everyone teaching the U.S. history survey includes the American Revolution, or World War II, or anything like that. We are talking EXACTLY THE SAME.
According to this plan, a Team Leader -- who will get the dubious title of "coordinator," but actually will be acting like a combination of a chair and Big Brother -- will design the course. She (and, at our school, we have far more "shes" teaching than "hes" teaching) will write all of the assignments, write all of the exams, make up all of the lessons, choose ALL of the readings (not just the textbooks, but also the supplemental readings, the online resources, and so forth), and generally create her own class from the bottom up.
That's not the bad part. That's what everyone does. No, the bad part is that, in order to save on the cost of training new faculty for the online platform and in order to save on the cost of paying the faculty extra to design their course -- an argument for which I would have much more sympathy if the online learning department was actually paying for that instead of failing to inform anyone that faculty are supposed to be paid for that (a long story that ends with everyone in the meeting pissed off because they were bilked out of about a full semester's worth of pay by the online learning department -- but I digress -- the bad part is that any other faculty teaching that class will now have to use that very same class and will have absolutely NO authority or power to change even a word on the syllabus.
Maybe I'm being unfair. The non-designing instructors CAN change things, they just have to go to the designing instructor. The designing instructor then calls a meeting of the "team." The team then debates the change. Then, if the change is accepted, everyone must adopt the change. A year later.
This is how the consultant explained it. "The coordinator will design the course, set everything up," she said. "The other instructors on the team will still be doing just what teachers do. They will have contact with the students and they will grade assignments."
Already pissed off because I had only moments before found out that I was supposed to have been payed not double, but quadruple what I was paid for developing four separate courses, I said, "that's not what a teacher does. That's what a t.a. does."
"No," she said, "you still grade and meet with students."
"I also design my own course," I said. "This is the online equivalent of me going to a new teacher and saying, 'here are my lectures, my assignments and my tests. You have to use these and you can't do anything new or different.'"
I continued, "We have highly talented, highly educated, highly experienced people working for us -- even as adjuncts! I don't want to make them my t.a.s I don't want to lose the unique perspective that they bring to their classes. For instance, we have an adjunct who can teach the Civil Rights Movement using popular music and hip hop. He can weave the history of hip hop through his entire course. He can't do that under this plan. You are killing the creativity and intellectual expertise that makes these courses interesting to teach or take."
"Well, he can still do that," she said. "He'd just have to go design his own course."
"But you wouldn't pay him to do that," I said, "so where's the incentive? Where's the incentive to teach any of these courses, aside from being desperate for the money and maybe a line on the c.v.?"
"Well," she said, "he could get around the designed course by e-mailing students directly or using the discussion boards."
"A teacher shouldn't have to 'get around' anything in their own course," I said. "What we are talking about here is academic freedom."
A chemistry professor, who has had to teach in this way, jumped in and slammed the whole program herself. "All I did was grade," she said. "I only had student privileges in the course site. I'm the teacher! I've been a teacher for 25 years!" Then, she went into great detail about how this whole plan deteriorates the quality of teaching.
Other faculty in the meeting proposed the idea of an adaptable template. A template course set up in order to have the flexibility to assign someone an online class at the last minute, without freaking them out with the prospect of designing a whole class from scratch; but allowing that new instructor to change as much, if not all, of the class as she goes along. I'm cool with that. Heck, I have a vested interest in that what with my trouble in being the only person at our campus who can teach online. The faculty council president is in the same position in her own department. We aren't unreasonable, but we also know a stupid idea when we see one.
The biology teacher who proposed this might as well have said, "and then let us pass out joints and cocktails to everyone." The consultant looked horrified. At least she put the ideas in the notes to take back to Big Brother (the flexible template, not the joints and cocktails -- although that would be cool, too).
That, or she wrote, "Trouble makers at the hippie campus. Schedule for extermination."
By the time she left, we had eviscerated this whole plan, and proposed solutions to the gaps left by that evisceration. The consultant was not happy. I supposed I'd be unhappy, too, if I had spent many hours in many committee meetings revising many drafts of this proposal that now lay bleeding on the table.
Of course, in those meetings, I would also want actual educators who had actually taught actual classes online more recently than ten years ago (as opposed to sitting on so many committees and holding so many special assignments and administrative positions that they hadn't seen the inside of any sort of classroom since the 1990s). I would also want to actually ask actual faculty about their actual concerns, rather than anticipate them, and be aware of -- oh, I don't know -- academic freedom and the fact that there is some level of individual intellectual and creative innovation in the job of teaching. We don't all just grade papers, you know. That's like thinking all a librarian does is check books out; or all a tech person does is load software onto computers.
One last thing. One of the driving forces behind this plan has to do with the cost of training and development, as I mention above. Setting aside the fact that the online learning department has exhibited ethics so bad that they border on criminality in regard to paying for this training and development, I wanted to see a cost analysis of this whole scheme. You know, an assessment of their outcomes.
How much did the development of this draft plan cost? How much will implementation cost? How much has the usual course of training and development cost during this same period of time? After all, the online learning department will only pay for the development of a limited number of courses in any one discipline as it is. If the difference between the current practice and the development and implementation of the new plan favors the current practice, how long until the new plan has recovered the difference? In other words, is all of this b.s. going to actually be worth it, or are they just throwing that "cost" explanation out in order to shut us up -- it is the budgetary equivalent of "OMG will no one think of the children!" or "family values!" In other words, it's the sort of thing you really can't argue against, especially in a budgetary crunch.
Much like that Fellowship Coordinator who is slandering me without evidence (because she deleted it herself), there was no evidence available to us on the cost of this thing.
As the Church Lady would say: "isn't that conveeeenient?"
16 comments:
- mebrett said...
I wish I could say I was shocked and appalled that anyone would treat educated, intelligent professor-types like automatons. I am, a little, but this whole attitude of treating all activities like a for-profit business seems to be endemic.
I will keep my fingers crossed that someone, somewhere along the line gets a Clue, just in case. Good luck!
- 1:22 PM, December 09, 2009
- annieem said...
Ah, Clio, what a treat to read about your successful coup. So much here to think about, to write about, to share with our negotiations team as we discuss the increasing pressure for more online classes, but too many papers to grade right now.
I'm actually signing up for Delicious.com right now so I can save postings like this to reread later (though yes, I miss the lightening fast response period of blogs).
- 1:51 PM, December 09, 2009
- Clio Bluestocking said...
Mebrett: I know! It's like business is the ONLY model for institutional behavior. Yeah, we need money to function; but not all of our functions have to do with making money. It's also a bit ironic that the business model is seen as so infallible in the midst of a great depression.
Annieem, thank you! I'm not sure that I would call it a coup, but I would say it was a stand for integrity against this top-down (in an allegedly shared-governance institution), anti-intellectual system.
It's not that I'm opposed to online education in general; but it isn't the cure-all for some of the ills that are used as the reasons to turn to online education.
Unlimited space in the online environment does not mean all students or teachers should be shoved into it. To teach online correctly, you actually need to take more time than you do for any other class, including English comp. In fact, online pretty much turns every class into English comp. Theoretically, that could be good given the poor writing skill of many of our students. The more writing they do, the better, right? Practically, however, that means that, to make it work well and not burn out your instructors -- to ensure that you give the students the best education possible-- you need smaller classes.
Similarly, not all students are prepared for online. They aren't as comfortable as you would expect in an online environment. They don't -- or won't -- get the concept of "online discussion." Or they don't have the discipline to do the independent work each week without having to be told by the teacher every other day. Or they really do think it is like a correspondence course in which they just turn in the assignments as they wish and get stamped as "passed" whenever they finish.
Also, many students are not fully aware of their physical and temporal limitation. So many online students take online classes because they have full-time jobs, full-time families, and full-load class schedules. If an online class is done well, it could even mean that there is MORE work than in a regular class, not less. Being able to work on a class at any time during the day from anywhere you happen to be does not mean that you are able to.
Then, not all classes are suited to online. I shudder to think that there are medical types of courses being taught online. I suppose they don't do clinical or laboratory sections online; but, still, what's there to stop administrations from saying "hey, you know what would be cool? The students buy the equipement and do the i.v. sticks or combine the chemicals or dissect the frogs at home!" Not just science, but what about speech, or theater, or art, or a whole host of other subjects that really do just work better in person?
So, to say "online classes means more students get served" (ugh: "served") is just foolish for the proponents.
- 4:01 PM, December 09, 2009
- feMOMhist said...
ok well I realized today, end of semester, that I left of Gettysburg address so you know, maybe the historians do need that pre-fab thing :) IMHO those darn consultants always come up with what big brother has always hinted they want. We had "stratgic" consultants last year who cost in the six figures. Nice use of funds.
- 5:15 PM, December 09, 2009
- Clio Bluestocking said...
feMomhist, I've done the same thing. In fact, I'm about to leave off the Gettysburg address tomorrow morning, if I'm not careful!
Oh, yeah, 6-almost-7-figure consultants have made themselves know here more than once. Indeed, today I just learned of a Goal Attainment Program. How much, pray tell, did that cost? Again, I think we should just remarket ourselves -- we are no longer professors but Educational Consultants specializing in various fields of Learning Attainment. That should be worth at least 6-almost-7-figures, right?
- 5:27 PM, December 09, 2009
- feMOMhist said...
ok well now I don't feel so stupid. And really if there is anything the beasties MAY have learned about Lincoln (other than the false information that he started the Civil War to end slavery) it is the GB address.
We are now meant to convey our "learning objectives" directly to the consumer, oh I mean the"Student." So for their resumes I wrote "analyze, assess, and apply information." That about encapsulates the marketable skills of the historian, right?
- 5:39 PM, December 09, 2009
- Feminist Avatar said...
In UKland, one of the justifications for universities existence is that you show that new research is informing teaching. In fact, that is how courses for learning and teaching are assessed- is new research filtering through? And the idea is that the people teaching should be putting their research into teaching. Without this, they wouldn't need academics to do the teaching- they could employ teachers.
To me, this kind of straightjacketed course removes this possibility and devalues your labour! I think it's time to get Marxist on their ass! Strike.
- 6:48 PM, December 09, 2009
- Clio Bluestocking said...
FeMOMhist, "analyze, assess, and apply" -- we also collect, right? We are veritable private investigators!
Feminist Avatar, that sounds so...so...civilized! That's exactly the point that was lost on this consultant and on a lot of other consulting type of task force people hired or assembled by the upper administration. It's what makes a university different from grade school. It's what makes a person with a PhD in a particular field different from a person with a bachelor's degree in education. It's, whether they know it or not, what the students are paying for when they attend college. How can we convince the students that they are purchasing the opportunity to be educated by people intimately and deeply engaged with their subject if the very people who run the college don't even understand that?
- 9:54 PM, December 09, 2009
- Susan said...
Funny, I had a more amicable version of this conversation last week, as online education is perceived as the silver bullet that will save money. So the idea is to invest lots of money in developing courses, and then put them in a resource bank. And my comment -- to which the colleague who was "consulting" agreed, was that "None of us ever change our courses, right? There are never new ideas or interpretations?"
- 1:17 AM, December 10, 2009
- Clio Bluestocking said...
Susan, so then, the stereotypical dead-wood-with-old-yellowed-notes-from-1963 would be the MODEL for college education, except now he would be online.
You've gotta wonder if people who come up with these ideas are really thinking them through! Or are they simply distracted by the "shinyshiny" of any and every technology that will save the world that they sorta forget certain realities.
- 5:45 AM, December 10, 2009
- RPS77 said...
I can easily understand the frustration of having a situation where the higher-ups say that they want your "input" but are then distinctly unhappy if you actually say anything critical of the plant that they have already chosen.
Grading and teaching entirely from a pre-prepared script is what I did back in the days when I was a TA. The fact that I wasn't any good even at that was one of several clues that I might not be cut out for an academic career.
The flexible template sounds like a good solution to me.
- 9:21 AM, December 10, 2009
- profacero said...
OMG. I'd say a whole lot if I weren't in such a crunch but the point about turning professors into TAs is really key.
Can you develop this into something for the Chronicle -- I mean, seriously ... ?
- 9:26 PM, December 10, 2009
- bitternsweet said...
Yea Clio! Way to fight the good fight!
We fought a similar battle at Unnamed U., and lost. The corporate honchos succeeded in convincing the administration that their little plan to produce many, many online sections of core classes to help a certain sector of students (from the sciences) more quickly & easily progress towards graduation -- even if it meant that those core courses were watered down and taught by severely underpaid/overworked TAs (actual TAs in this case) -- was an awesome one. Here, the admin. were swayed by the promise of an endless revenue stream and pedagogical values/academic freedom be damned.
So, it's a good thing that there are lots of folks standing up with you against this plan -- but be on the lookout for a covert work around. I suspect that Consultant has an agenda of her own.
- 10:20 AM, December 11, 2009
- Ink said...
Is it just me, or does anyone else worry about a secret plan for completely computerized online teaching in the not-so-distant future? First, design the every-class-the-same template. Second, implement of Scantron for grading all work. Third, fire the profs altogether!!!?
- 12:19 PM, December 14, 2009
- Bavardess said...
Huh, it never occurred to be before now how much additional writing is required of students doing courses online. And on your first comment above, Clio, even the language used - 'serving customers' by 'delivering education' - makes the whole thing sound like one big McDonalds operation. I guess that is their plan, but it is a terrible one.
- 5:10 PM, December 14, 2009
- Dr. No said...
Aarrgh! That's CRAZY annoying...passing you a cocktail and joint for reals now...
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One sunny spring day I took my kids on a tour of the local red light district and indicated to them a sex worker. I said 'that person is a prostitute, you must never ever disrespect her.' I cannot properly describe my pride as they proclaimed that they certainly never would do so.
I have played / trialled pretty much every MMO there is and I can tell you that every MMO host has a common fault in their philosophy. They believe that we want a world that is simple and predictable. That is what our pathetic simpering politicians think we want. Human inclinations are far more tribal, we care for our own and fear the unknown. I can not wait for the belated epiphany of the MMO creators when they give us the gratifiying gritty world that we fantasize about as we do the daily office grind lol.
Working your way up to becoming THE hero following a quest ant-trail has been done to death and is obsolete. It's time to take it to the next level. Modern programing can cope with it. It's time to make MMO's a truely personal experience. Everyone is different and we need a personal fantasy journey for genuine gratification. If an MMO creator wants to take that next bold step they need the courage to enter that unknown land where the complex nature of human interaction leads the game.
Tribes may grow or diminish. Tribes can own a territory and receive it's income and defensive benefits. A tribe's progress can affect the world.
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Firstly I'd like to state the obvious: "You can still go out and do X, Y, Z in real life for the ultimate experience.", the ultimate game so to speak.
Secondly I COMPLETELY agree that this is the future of MMOs. Player driven games like EVE Online (though you may not like it) are MUCH MUCH MUCH more interesting to me then the conventional "You are the hero, go grind quests so you can get 1337 stuff later on"'
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Originally posted by Deleted User
So much of the game is centered around forced grouping that soloing is not an option, major design flaw in my opinion.
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I play games to get away from the "gritty" world. While I do think that games can be more dynamic and less repetitive, I dont want them to be ultra realisitc. Games, unlike painting, has never been about recreating the world we live in. Its about creating a world we dont live in.
Fair comment! In my post I said that everyone is different and want different flavours of experience, to me the current MMO's have too much "sugar" in the mix. In a fantasy world you should be able to choose how bitey the experience can be.
For example if you choose the street life of a rogue it should have a very different feel than a paladin. I haven't found a non-mud that has this quality.
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Originally posted by KingBilleh
Oh yes, I understand what you mean. In that case I agree with you for the most part.
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Originally posted by KingBilleh
this wont really happen in an MMO, probaly the best case scenario is what blizzard has tried to do with phassing where the towns and what not change as you quest and progress but thats about all the affect you can really have on the game world in an mmo. It would be near impossible for you to see me yet we are in 2 very different worlds that have changed based on our play.
What you need to do is forget people for a while and welcome NPC's into your life. Single player RPG's are the one true place where you can really interact affect and change the game world based on your play including how npcs interact at the mere sight of you be you a good or bad player or perhaps your there landlord or perhaps there hero it could be anything but only in a single player rpgs can you really get the immersive feel that you want..
My advice to you is simple, order skyrim from direct2drive preload that mother and get ready for this friday 00:00:00 EST 11/11/11 Its gonna be epic and it has everything you want sans the human beings :P
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This too shall pass...
The op worries me (and no I won't say why since there is nothing to be gained from a discussion that is really a personal thing). But a game is really not meant to give anyone a reason to exist (or dream about)and as far as a know most are meant to be money-making enterprises which tends to mean they are built to draw in as many as possible which tends to make them nothing like what the op wants. I have played games (been awhile) that we're of that ilk and I liked them alot but they ended up being forced to change for more mass appeal.
All that being said: I'd love a game like the op dreams about as my kids are grown and gaming is about all I do now. My advice to the op is to live your grit filled life, raise the kids right and please run for office if you dare.
(and stay out of the bad parts of town with them..I could tell you a few horror stories about those sex-workers that would make you afraid to take them back just to see folks in a lifestyle filled with fear and loathing to stay alive and solvent).
UO,EQ (best mmo's). Been in lotro for almost 7 years mostly in pvp as a lovable spider: Mummy
Originally posted by the420kid
Great comment! It was the work of Bethesda Game Studios that inspired my post. In "Oblivion" mobs and npcs interact with and respond to each other (sometimes with hilarious results). But even though they have the IQ of an amoeba you at least get the feeling of a living, dynamic world.
I dont see the world needing to change due to your influence (like burning down villages) so much as your personal experience with intelligent quest givers and original quests. The IRL equivalent is that you say hi to a passing man in a suit on your suburban street. Perhaps he is a mafia hitman who has just fulfilled a contract. You and he both see the same street however your world perceptions, motivations and plans are very different. In Oblivion I think there was only one "find 20 of these herbs there" quest and even then you are mislead as there are only 2 plants at that location.
I'm not even playing an MMO at the moment. I cant look and another questgiver that stands in the same place staring into space for all eternity telling endless hordes of bored gamers to fulfil their destiny by killing 20 boars.
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Originally posted by KingBilleh
I am feeling you, I currently am playing no mmorpg's just battle field 3 while I await 11/11/11 :)
i think the big problem is an mmo can only go in one of two directions.
sandbox style like eve online. or quest style like wow.
that's it.
with sandbox, the devs just have to give you a blank killing field and dust off their hands and if you're not having fun, that's between you and the creative side of your brain.
the quest style is the one everyone hates because it encourages grind. boring grind. kill ten rats.
kill ten more rats.
kill fifteen rats.
oh, here's a difficult quest: kill 100 rats.
we all love oblivion. we all want an mmo like it. but, do we REALLY?
does anyone remember the warlock in wow? remember how you had to do a zillion quests to get your nightmare steed? and remember the rogue's little quests through the syndicate? slight dipping of toes into what gw2 is referring to as a personal story. and it was a great idea. it really was.
UNTIL everyone wanted to be maxed, like, right NOW.
speed won out and there were complaints. complaints the quests were too hard. no one was doing the instances required to get the ingredients to get the steed. complaints that, as a <insert class here> i should be able to do those rogue quests too. and why is THEIR quest more fun than mine? that's not fair. we want to do ALL the quests without having to reroll. and that guy's reward is better than mine! it's not fair! we want our cake and their cake, too!
that's what it's like.
personally, i think an mmo based on oblivion would be too much for me. i would be too happy. i would never have to google "boobs" again to be happy.
but the vast majority of gamers are never interested in the quests. they're not interested in the journey. all they want to know is: what's at endgame and how quickly can i get there to be doing it, too?
and THAT is why devs don't waste their time, in my opinion. because they know if they spend three years setting up a wonderful system to fully immerse you in your CLASS, everyone will still want to skip it, power level and stand at the top of the mountain demanding raider-style lootz fast and now.
shame, really. i think it should be more about the adventure. so here's a wacky idea: delete levels altogether. make it about the journey, not the destination.
Originally posted by headphones
Wow thankyou for your thoughful reply. Your sinopsis of the current state of MMOs is inspiring.
Let me take us back to the industrial revolution. Goods were manufactured to be suitable for the general consumption of the newly financially empowered working class. One size fits all or else go and get stuffed.. As Henry Ford said they can have the model T Ford in any color as long as it is black.
Factories were designed and build to manufacture one product only.
Years later in the eternal corporate quest to make more revenue from consumers led to research into psychology and they identified a dozen or so consumer personality types. The innovation of robotics allowed factories to produce a range of products from one plant to appeal to each of the psychological types thus making products which will appeal to the majority of the population.
Hey, all im saying is I can't wait for the inevitable equivalent inovation in MMO programming.
Kingbilley have you by any chance tried EVE online? I think you might like it... plenty of "grit" and it's mostly (and I mean really) player driven. You can be a rogue, pirate, miner, merc, professional poker player (im not kidding), scientest, explorer, trader, you name it, in EVE you can probobly do it.
If you're looking for a fantasy themed game like this (that is to say on a planet haha) I don't think Skyrim is the answer you're looking for.
TES games and the like, while a marvellous achievement, get boring to me fairly quickly as im fighting against (or with) some heartless algorithim. If Skyrim had even a limited multiplayer it would be much, much more appealing IMO.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly that human interaction in games provides the unpredictable and often delightful responses that a npc cannot be reasonably expected to provide for at least 12 years from now.
Yeah ive played Eve twice now. Both times I was excited and entralled with the potential and both times my subscriptions ended because of grind fatigue. A lot of potential there, expecially with their recent attempts to address the major fault of having no actual avatar. Im not impressed with the introduction of the Item mall considering that it is already a pay-monthly type deal. In 3 or 4 years I have no doubt it will be a great game. The reason for my post was for discussion of the lack of originality and innovation among the current/existing MMORPGs.
The thing about EVE online is it's heavily focused on politics, economy, player interaction (etc).
I cancelled by subscription a while ago my (acc is only like 2 months old, im still heaps new haha) as I was looking at EVE in the wrong way—it's not really a fully combat focused MMO or whatever. A lot of the game in EVE is metagaming, intrigue, etc... which interests me at the moment, so ill be resubbing in a few days time (you can just pay by the month so I don't have to commit or anything).
Ill definately play other games like Starcraft 2 when I want to have 1 on 1 "twitch skill" battles (which are awesome) and stuff...
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What do I think? I'm kind of confused. You want an increased personal story in a MMO.
Personally, I want a MMORPG to be massively multiplayer... rather than massively singleplayer.
edit: Felt the need to elaborate. I agree there should be more options. However, that would be part of it being multiplayer rather than singleplayer.
Personal story would be part of overall story - the overall story of the living world we'd all be playing in. At times, personal stories would come into conflict - at times, they could benefit each other. But it is an MMO, if it is just a bunch of people exploring personal stories that do not affect anything else in the game - why is it a MMO?
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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I utterly agree with you. Based on the captions you wear on your post I think we are actually more or less of the same opinion. I don't expect the game world to change every time I sneeze, nor the complex destiny path possibilities of, for example, the classic Japanese game Princess Maker however I dont think you could honestly tell me that it is impossible for the MMORPG programmers to create a more in-depth experience than is currently available and with the ingame choices you make affecting your fate. I want a less linear and predictable path for the sake of immersion and replayability. And also much more interactivity with the environment. Currently we are meant to admire and be grateful for the art design but "dont touch the artworks" like a museum or something:
Half the doors cant be opened, trees cant be climbed or cut down, rocks cant be picked up, windows cant be broken, mobs are invulnerable, fires cant cook or burn things, river water cant be drunk, flowers cant be picked, items on tables are superglued in place, taverns are empty and souless, walls and signs and paper cant be written on, animals march back and forward over the same ground and dont chase each other, weather has no actual effect, you usually cant just sit down on the ground, you cant direct the gaze of your avatar for RP, emotes systems have not evolved in 7 years, there are no contagious diseases, you can still cast spells and fight without penalty whilst ON FIRE, pets dont care about you no matter how you treat them, player guild made "towns" can only be made on a preset grid and with preset limitations, hidden doors and passages are very rare and the existing examples are woeful, small wearables like rings etc dont appear on your avatar, dont start me on crafting...
As you say MMORPGs are about human interaction and the crowd dynamic but I dont believe the potential of this has been anywhere near explored as deeply as their technology and obscenly massive income allows. It's about the developers taking some risks and surrendering a little control to AI and their customers actions.
"Heroes are about character - not gear" and "i miss the MMORPG genre..." both say to me that you feel something is missing. If you or I could define exactly what needs to be done we would be rich lol. The big MMORPG developers ARE rich and can put a bit of that dragon's horde of gold into research and development instead of bonuses for the directors.
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I disagree with the premise because it's built on the argument that every player wants the same kind of experience in an MMO. They don't. The different genres of games and more importantly, people, can attest to that. The post assumes that developers just have money to burn like wood and also is a reflection of their woeful misunderstanding of business. But I digress.
A fact that no one can deny is that MMORPGs are games made for the express purpose of putting us into situations that our lives don't reflect. Depending on our mood, we generally want to escape "real" life and immerse ourselves in another world. There may be elements of the game that we want life like in content but the general idea is that we want to get away to be some place else. It's not simply a lack of creativity by developers, it's a lack of understanding by gamers, some who are never satisfied. There's always a complaint around every corner. It's not to say the devs should be exempt from criticism. It is to say that it's a game and therefore it will be different strokes for different folks. Like it was suggested, you're probly not looking for an MMORPG. You're looking for a single player experience.
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@KingBilleh, I do agree that the personal story and options are missing. I think back to my time in SWG (pre-NGE) - I played a Bothan Smuggler that ran a shop. That's not your average thing to do in a MMORPG by any means. Even when I started EVE back in '05, I took the skill Black Market Trading with the idea of being a smuggler again. It is a skill that most players probably have never heard of because it was taken out of the game. The way I could play the game back when there were only 12-14k people playing was a world of difference compared to when there were 30-40-50k or more.
The more "massively populated" EVE became, the less my personal story could exist.
That was kind of the gist of one part I was stating - how other players can affect that personal story . . . but if they do not, well - then it is not really a MMO, is it?
On the other hand, we see certain games trying to sell us a "personal story" - when it is little more than just another form of rails. I see it as kind of false advertising - even though some are definitely fine with it.
Personal story to me...would be my story - not my side-story.
Playiing that Bothan Smuggler...running the shop. Personal story. Playing the Trader/Smuggler in EVE. Personal story.
What I see companies offering - well, it's like taking the bus to the train station...meh.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
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I dont think you read my post properly at all!. It's all about the individual. So many replies seem to suggest that to ask for innovation is an attack on capitalism somehow. In fact it is the opposite. Modern internet markets in other fields such as DVD and Book sales have realised the potential market of catering to the tail end of the consumer-wants bell-curve. Blockbuster movies try to capture the middle of the bell curve to make the most money but at the same time recieve well deserved critisism for sacrificing depth of story for the sake of a quick buck - making their hard efforts datable and historically dubious.


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Although Duxelles were traditionally used in old-fashioned recipes like Veal Orloff, today it remains a way to add mushroom flavor to dishes that will benefit from this complex taste. For example, several spoonfuls of Duxelles is a perfect base on which to place fillets of white fish, like sea bass, which are then wrapped in parchment paper and baked.
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Verbal abuse is used as a technique to gain and maintain emotional control over your spouse. Does your husband use name-calling, swearing and other forms of condescending speech? By doing this he is convincing his partner that she is unworthy of better treatment. In most cases the husband is highly manipulative and refuses to take on personal responsibility for the difficulties in the marriage. Most women eventually silently accept this flaw in their husband and end up living in an abusive marriage for years.
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Automated homes, drones, interactive art installations– XBee can be found nearly anywhere. And, more and more devices are using XBee to connect to the cloud. Connecting a device to the Internet should be simple, that's why we built the XBee ZigBee Cloud Kit. With an XBee ZB module and an XBee Gateway, it's easy to connect your robot, vehicle, sensors, or anything else to the Internet.
Maybe you want to build a mesh network to monitor the health of your garden or perhaps, you have a top secret idea for your business, but you're unsure where to start. Here are a few examples to help familiarize yourself with the XBee ZigBee Cloud Kit and go from idea to prototype and transform your imagination into reality:
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Potentiometer's are ubiquitous when it comes to building with electronics and they make great starting point when familiarizing yourself with new technology. Here, we'll connect this analog input to the cloud, so you can view the values on your Heroku-hosted dashboard. Potentiometers can be used for setting a level, determining an angle or just as a simple user interface adjustment. Nicknamed "pots," these components are variable resistors. With a simple twist you can alter the amount of voltage that flows out through their center pin.
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Want to control the light in your room from where you're sitting? If you answered yes, this example is a great place to start with the XBee ZigBee Cloud Kit. Remote control of a button is perfect for projects that require user input, or anyplace you need to detect a change in device state. One you've built your circuit, you'll be able to view the status of the button and control it from your web interface.
Temperature monitoring is another great starting point with analog sensing. In this example we use everyone's favorite temperature sensor, the TMP36 low-voltage linear sensor, which is included with your kit. After you've built this simple circuit, you can view the temperature on the dashboard.
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GI100MGY will be on the air from Belfast lough During the weekend 14th. / 15th. of April - MGY was the Callsign of the Ill-fated ship RMS Titanic, which had been launched in Belfast in May 1911. The GI100 is a very special prefix, kindly allocated to the "Project WhiteStar" special event team by Ofcom, the UK regulator. We plan to be active all modes, 80m - 10m, with a 2 minute station silence at 01:47am on 15th April, the exact time when the vessel sank, in memory of all those who lost their lives that night. On the evening of 14th/15th, most operation will be on CW.
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The son of the 11th Earl of Pembroke, Sidney Herbert became a Conservative MP in 1832 and was rapidly promoted under Peel's successive administrations. War secretary at the opening of hostilities in the Crimea, he was largely responsible for Florence Nightingale, a personal friend, going to Scutari. Although forced to resign in February, 1855, Herbert remained an active promoter of military reform until his early death. This portrait was painted just after his first term of office as war secretary in 1845-6. He is depicted in private dress standing before a landscape which is likely to represent Pembrokeshire. Given by the sitter's son, the Earl of Pembroke, 1912.
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PORTLAND, Ore.— In support of aid efforts following the recent earthquake in Japan, the Portland Timbers and American Red Cross have teamed up to play host to an awareness night on Sunday, April 17, at JELD-WEN Field as the Timbers take on FC Dallas. The American Red Cross will also be collecting donations during the club's U.S. Open Cup play-in match on Tuesday, March 29, at the University of Portland's Merlo Field.
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