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Professional Development
Upcoming Fall 2015 workshops
In Spring of 2015, the Professional Development Committee sent targeted surveys to Faculty and Staff. Question asked: What SLO and ASSESSMENT topics would be of interest to you for professional development opportunities?
The most requested topics were:
- Effectively using different types of assessments, e.g. embedded assignments, pre/post tests, portfolios, surveys, and using rubrics
- Measuring the affective outcomes and what to learn from it
- Portfolios—assessment that is good for the student!
- How to leverage technology to assess student outcomes
In response to these requests the following workshops for Fall 2015 are being designed:
Data Analysis Series
Interpreting disaggregated data - How to understand it and what to do about it.
For the first time, many units will be looking at disaggregated assessment data with an eye toward analyzing achievement gaps across different student groups. In this workshop, CCSF Research Analyst Dr. Laura Lara-Brady will discuss current data collected on how our students, especially under-prepared students, perform at CCSF and offer suggestions for how to interpret the data collected last Spring semester. Topics will include:
How do I interpret disaggregated assessment data?
Do I have enough data to form valid conclusions?
What are some of the various methods for detecting achievement gaps?
What are proven support strategies (improvements) at CCSF that boost student success?
Workshop offered three times this semester on:
Tuesday, September 22: 4-5 PM,
Monday October 5: 1-2:30
Wednesday October 14: 3-4:30
Boosting Outcomes: Assessment Tool Series
Using various assessment tools, including surveys, focus groups, and rubrics to richly improve student interaction.
"Using Student Voices: How focus groups, interviews, and student surveys can help you close the loop" on Tuesday September 15 from 4-5:30 pm
"Using Rubrics to Teach and Assess" on Thursday October 22 from 3:00-4:30 pm
"The RP Group's "Student Success Factors": Learn Research-based Strategies for Improving Student Outcomes" on Tuesday November 10 from 4-5:30 pm
"Using Rubrics to Teach and Assess" on Thursday November 19 from 4-5:30 pm
Technology Workshops
Student ePortofolios Using LiveText
The Culinary Department has led the charge on student ePortfolios and assessment. Come learn how your department can create both a rich assessment tool and a valuable resource for students.
Monday September 28 from 2:30-4 pm
and repeated on
Wednesday October 21st from 2:30-4 pm
Classroom Assessment Techniques to Improve Student Outcomes
Still being scheduled
Recent Spring 2015 Workshops
"Disaggregating Made Easy : Examview (and other possibilities)"
Click on link above to view presentational material for ExamView
Held on April 16, from 2-4 in MUB 388.
You filled out that professional development survey and we listened!
Join fellow faculty members as they share how technology has eased
evaluation of student learning outcomes and improved outcome
attainment. Chemistry Chair Roger King will demonstrate ExamView,
which is a test writing and scoring program that easily produces
disaggregated student results. With ExamView it is a simple task to
link regular classroom exams, quizzes, lab report, etc to specific
SLOs, and summarize individual student results at the end of the
Also, iClickers are used by faculty for both formative and summative
assessment of student learning. Wanna see if the students are on
track? Want to easily assess an outcomes without scantrons and battles
with broken copiers? Sheri Miraglia, from Biology, will share her
experiences using iClickers, both the device and app. Find out how you
can check out iClickers for your classroom and use them
Finally, all faculty can enhance teaching and learning and ease assessment reporting burdens by using key components of Insight. Ed Tech Chair Cynthia Dewar will demonstrate the possibilities.
FORUM: SLO Assessment Activities & New ACCJC Standards!
Click above to see presentational materials.
Held on April 17th from 3-5 in MUB 140.
Not sure what's going on? Asking yourself, "When and where do I report data for my CRNs, Courses, Programs, and Service Units?"
Thinking, "I heard I have to enter data for every student, but I don't understand how that's done?"
If you are confused, it's completely understandable. The Standards concerning assessment have many moving parts. Join the Accreditation Steering Committee for a forum on SLOs and the 2014 ACCJC Accreditation Standards. The focus will be primarily on the requirement for disaggregated student outcome data but will cover the following:
1. Why new ACCJC Standards require student level data
2. The kinds of analysis and details are needed for course/program/unit improvements.
3. Timeline, deadlines, and requirements over the next three semesters
4. Where to locate resources so you can successfully navigate CurricUNET (scheduled to go live for assessment reporting on April 15th).
Bring your questions to the forum. There will be lots of time for Q & A.
Past Workshops
Work shops sessions:
SLO BASICS: This SHORT COURSE teaches effective design of SLOs & PSLOs, how to assess, and use data to make meaningful change and report results by the next deadline.
Ongoing Drop-In Help Labs
For CurricUNET
Seek guidance on:
- SLOs -- refining them, assessing them, analyzing data, considering course or program improvements, and reporting those both in the Aug 31/Jan 31 reports as well as in the annual program review documents.
Program Review -- Linking SLOs to program impacts, resource
requests, and improvements
Course Outlines -- Updating them to ensure currency, and
getting them through the Curriculum Committee
- Department/Program web pages -- Updating them to ensure currency and making them usable by your faculty, staff, and students
Notable Presentations and Readings
Cox, Rebecca. "It Was Just that I Was Afriad": Promoting Succees by Addressing Students' Fear of Failure. Community College Review (2009) 52-80.
Diego Navarro's presentation at Strengthening Student Success Conference. Measuring the Affective Domain, Oct 10, 2014.
Student Service Assessment: Why Student Surveys are Not Enough
Daniel Fusch, Director of Publications & Research June 14, 2013
Future suggestions for brown bags or workshops
- Making Assessments Authentic -- bring your assessments and work with others to refine and improve them, so they can provide more useful data in a sustainable way with existing resources
- Developing Video resources -- a review of a variety of
video-making tools available for developing additional resources for
training, classroom, and more. Tools reviewed will include Jing,
Camtasia Studio, YouTube, PowerPoint and more
survey of survey tools -- what's out there? -- A review of tools
such as Google Forms, Moodle, Turnitin, Survey Monkey, Scantrons,
Formsite.com, and more
- Using Standardized Forms to
Communicate Results -- a review of online CCSF forms and
department-specific and customized forms used across the college to
aid coordination
- Making Outcomes Valuable Workshop -- bring your outcomes and work with others to refine and improve them, so they can better guide your service, course, or program
- Coordinating course SLOs across multiple instructors
- Assessing Programs -- take II -- what we can learn from CTE departments


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Apple partnering with Broadcom for high-speed Wi-Fi in new Macs
Apple is partnering with Broadcom to bring super-fast Wi-Fi to its 2013 Mac lineup. The newest addition to the 802.11 group of wireless networking standards, 802.11ac allows for high-speed wireless connections on the 5 GHz band. Products utilizing 802.11ac have only recently started appearing on the market, primarily wireless routers.
The primary purpose of this standard is to dramatically increase the speed of network connections, improving on the 802.11n standard, as The Next Web's Matt Brian writes:
802.11ac is often referred to as 5G WiFi, offering faster throughput, higher capacity, wider coverage and improved power efficiency. Products offering 802.11n connectivity (found in most consumer electronics) provide connections up to 450 Mbps with three antennas, while 802.11ac equivalents start at 450 Mbps for one antennae and are capable of almost tripling its predecessor with 1.3Gbps throughput via three antennas.
Most home internet connections don't even reach 450 Mbps yet, and as such 802.11ac will facilitate faster communication between devices, rather than accommodating faster internet connections, at least for the time being. This means that features like AirDrop and AirPlay would be in for a major speed boost on newer Macs. Interestingly, current 802.11ac chipsets are geared more towards smaller devices like smartphones and tablets, meaning that iOS devices with super-fast Wi-Fi might see the light of day in the near future.
Source: The Next Web
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State: Vt Health Connect is on trackBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | July 26,2013MONTPELIER State officials say the ground-up construction of a new health care bureaucracy is on track for its Oct. 1 debut, when the launch of Vermont Health Connect will change the way about 100,000 Vermonters purchase health insurance.
Assurances from Cabinet-level administration officials Thursday came as they made public for the first time an outside review that identifies numerous risks associated with the creation of the online health care exchange, including delays that could cost the state some federal funding.
But Mark Larson, commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, says the concerns highlighted in the new report have been resolved or are on the verge of being so. And Vermonters, according to Larson, will soon enjoy the fruits of an enterprise into which nearly $200 million has already been poured.
We are on track for a successful launch of Vermont Health Connect, Larson said. Were on track to offer Vermonters health coverage in an accessible, straightforward way starting Oct. 1.
The health care exchange is a product of the federal Affordable Care Act and offers consumers an online portal at which theyll be able to conduct side-by-side comparisons of competing health insurance plans and enroll in the policy of their choosing.
While federal law requires all states to have an exchange, the Shumlin administration and the Legislature have chosen to make it a centerpiece of the health insurance marketplace and ensure its widespread use by requiring individuals and businesses with 50 or fewer employees to purchase their insurance through it.
The same outside consultant that wrote the critical report, BerryDunn, said the scale of the health care exchange and the integrated eligibility project accompanying it is an unprecedented undertaking for Vermont.
Larson on Thursday said the state will fulfill its pledge to have the exchange apparatus in place by October. And he said the focus now is on making sure Vermonters know how to use it. A first batch of 172 exchange navigators finished their training last week and will now help individuals and businesses make their way through the maze of options available to them.
In its search for navigators, Larson said the state has looked to established organizations running the gamut from the Vermont Chamber of Commerce to the Association of Africans Living in Vermont so as to tap into existing networks through which information can be transmitted.
The state will spend $2 million on contracts involving 250 navigators and $6 million on paid media in its bid to get the word out to Vermonters.
Peter Sterling, director of the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security, one of the organizations that won a navigator contract, said the use of existing groups to conduct grass-roots outreach is a sound strategy for optimizing consumer enrollment in the exchange.
You cant wait for low- and middle-income people to come to you. They will not do it. Their lives are busy, they have other things going on, Sterling said. So the fact we have a navigator effort thats community based, and meets people where they normally congregate, that is the key to success in getting people to enroll.
Aside from offering apples-to-apples comparisons of competing insurance plans, the exchange will also offer eligible Vermonters substantial financial help, mostly in the form of premium assistance and federal tax credits. An online subsidy calculator, available at http://healthconnect.vermont.gov/tax_credit_calculator, will tell residents exactly how much they can expect to pay for insurance in the exchange.
The development of the exchange hasnt been without its challenges. Cost overruns forced the state to seek an additional $42.7 million from the federal government, a request that was fulfilled earlier this month. At a hearing Tuesday, key lawmakers expressed concern about the mounting costs and the extent to which Vermont taxpayers would be left holding the bag when the flow of federal money subsides.
The BerryDunn review pegs total costs for the exchange and integrated eligibility projects over the next five years at more than $427 million. Larson and Robin Lunge, the director of health care reform for the Shumlin administration, said they agree with that estimate, and that federal contributions will limit state obligations to $18 million a year a figure lawmakers Tuesday warned Larson they would hold him to.
The BerryDunn consultants wrote in their report that the nearly $500 million enterprise will not result in a tangible positive return on investment in the first five (or 10) years after deployment. Lunge, however, said the benefits of the new system arent necessarily captured in a conventional return-on-investment equation.
How do you do return on investment for consumer experience? Lunge said. You cant quantify the consumer experience into dollars and cents, and both with integrated eligibility and Vermont Health Connect, a big component is improving the ways Vermonters access health coverage.
Larson said its important to note that the investment is being underwritten mostly by the federal government.
We want to reinforce the fact that we are very, very appreciative of the fact that the federal government is making a substantial investment in all of these projects to make the investment by Vermonters very, very modest, to be able to achieve these very important goals, Larson said.
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Bachelor 2013 Live Results Blog — Sean Lowe Picks His Final Four
Sean Lowe is finally giving the ladies' hearts a break on this week's episode of The Bachelor meaning the nubile young lasses get to wear their bikinis in non-freezing water for once. Yes, that's right childrens, it's time for the annual migration from bitchy Bachelor Mansion to bitchy tiki hut somewhere in the islands of the world.
In The Bachelor Season 17 Episode 7, Sean takes Catherine Giudici, AshLee Frazier, Lindsay Yenter, Lesley Murphy, Desiree Hartsock, and Tierra LiCausi to the Virgin Islands (enter hilarious joke here). From what we've seen and heard, it's not only going to be the most ridiculous shitfit in Bachelor history, there are also terry cloth strapless dresses involved (wasn't there a recall on those in 2005?).
So break in your new purple clogs, pump up your glamour muscles, and start hashing your tags: we're ready for this tropical thunder to clap its way into our lady hearts, one deflowering at a time.
Part One: Swim For Your Supper
"How many times do you get to fly into St. Croix on a seaplane?" Um, it's not really on our bucket list, but we'll take it.
The ladies arrive in their printed knitwear and the girls are all "these rooms are gorgeous, oh, I want to see Sean too." Way to keep your eyes on the ball, lady.
"I'm not friends with girls who like my boyfriends," Tierra says and she's all about her private space, so she rolls a cot into the living room. Her logic is amazing.
The date card arrives and it's a 1-on-1 with AshLee to get "carried away." AshLee repeats the phrase like eight times so we know she understood.
Tierra sings a beautiful ditty called "the cougar's back in town." And, um, those are all the words. If the villain thing doesn't work out, maybe #Tierrable has a future in songwriting. But back off T-bag, Ash is 32. Jesus was 33 when he finally did something memorable.
"Once she let me blindfold her in Canada..." how many times have our best dates started out like that? Spoiler alert: always. Cue Sean Lowe shirtless and a catamaran. They jump into the water and it's a metaphor. We know, because AshLee tells us like six times.
"Do you think AshLee's going to talk to him?" Yeah. Um, yes Lindsay. We do. "I want to roll away her roll away into the freaking ocean." Yenter for president.
Sean and Cougartown reach shore and already Sean is asking about Tierra, which is just how we would want to spend our small amount of alone time. "The second y'all change y'alls plans, it's gonna be a different story. She's going to be pouty pants." Some of those are words, and clearly Sean has changed his tune about wanting to hear the dirt. So, good on him for that.
Back at the hotel, Tierra hopes Sean has "saved something special" for her. Tough, T, he's already walked that walk. But lucky for her, the girls are "jelly belly" because she gets the 1-on-1.
"But being attacked by bugs and my makeup dripping off" is not Tierra's idea of fun. #totalwasteofmakeup. She always has a glass half full of Visine, huh?
On SeAsHlEE's date, he can't imagine "anything going wrong." He threatens to meet her family and she gives him that "uh oh the producers told you" face we've become so fond of. So, what's her secret? Surprise! "I just want to breeze through this" Ash says. Cue hedge words and segues.
Well, here's the secret: fifteen years ago, she got married. "I'm like crazy about you," she says, because that's relevant. "So you were a married high school junior? That's, uh, young." Well, you're a born again 29-year-old, so...
"AshLee is... special" Sean's cutaway tells us, after she told him yelled about her love for the blond eyebrowed one. "I tell you I love you, I mean it," she confirms. Five dollars if "I know you do" is not the response you'd want... us too.
Part Two: The Elephant in the Bikini
"Is Tierra the sweet girl I thought she was or is she not so nice like everyone says?" Let's spend a day finding out the answer to that.
"I'm hot, I'm gross, I'm thirsty, but my heart is with Sean." We're not sure who wins in this scenario.
"I know you like soap and body lotion" subtext: because you're a girl, right? "He knew me so well." Again, girl. "He bought me the most incredible things that a guy could buy me on a first date." Really? Nice shell necklace and eighties bracelet. What's next? A scented candle?
Back at the compound, AshLee reveals that she told Sean Tierra's darkest secret: she doesn't say good morning. Can you imagine how annoying AshLee would be at 6am? All that earnestness and bright eyes? Not before coffee, B.
Sean confronts Tierra about being a total bitch to everyone. Then they go to a sugar mill (did we hear that right??).
"I have so many feelings for this guy." Wait, who? You're talking TO SEAN, Tierra. It's okay to use the first person. "I don't feel like I was being distant, but I guess I was." #survivalinstincts
It's awkward. Let's go to the house. The group date is Catherine, Des, and Lindsay and they all seem to take it well.
Tierra seems to be either really drunk or terrible at reading cue cards. "I am falling for you? I hope you know that? I hope you, uh, take that... into consideration." Whatever, Sean's type apparently includes all the ones who like, uh, body lotion.
Part Three: Sean Knows Girls _____________
Because he's not looking for love so much as a punch in the junk, Sean goes and polaroids all the girls' morning faces. But you guys, Tierra and the bugs! See, it's not all love and roses (cue singing "the more you know" rainbow).
"I can't wait to show the women the sunrise." What would our gender do without you, Lowe? "We are going to be the first four people to see the sunrise in the US." Just us and the nineteen camera people who also had to get out of bed for your trickster ways.
Real talk: even though all these girls wish they were on a 1-on-1, this is the best group of people you could be in a Jeep with on this show. Although seriously, it would be way better if things A) didn't start at 1am and B) you didn't take the girls to a SUGAR MILL. Little known fact, Sean's type is girls who like sugar mills.
[AshLee and Tierra pretend to be stoked for Lesley and her date card. "TIME" AshLee chants (BRAINS, we think)]
We'd love to say a lot more about this group date, but all they're doing is running around an island and it looks great, but boring as shit. Seriously, you couldn't have brought back Amanda Meyer to spice this up? That girl hates sunsets/rises.
Sean tries to drown Catherine, but there are no paramedics around, so let's hope his BMI is in check. Good thing for her shoulders that he's been keeping up on his manscaping routine.
"I didn't know if I should keep the girl in the wedding dress on the first night, but now I'm crazy about the girl in the wedding dress. I like her." Lindsay, Sean. Her name is LINDSAY.
Catherine tells Sean that her dad is in China and won't be on the hometown date she's already planning. The short of it is he tried to kill himself in front of Catherine and her sisters. Yikes, and you led with the tree death story? She's totally calm about it all, even though she's shaking. "I think Catherine sees..." don't say it Sean. Don't. Say. It.
["I feel like the only negative in the house has been Tierra." Well, that and the fact that 25 of you get sent home...
AshLee and Lesley are engaging in their afternoon tea drinking and shade-throwing activities. Obvi, T overhears this and yeah, we'll say it, if we were her, we'd take off our hoops and throwdown. You are a little bit forgiven for the meltdown we know is coming.]
Back on the date, Des has the best bikini bod and she cries about how happy her parents are. "Today was fun and it wouldn't have been nearly as fun if you three hadn't been here." Subtext: you three combined are the perfect woman.
Sean remembers her name finally, so Lindsay gets the rose because she is fun.
Remember how the point of the date was to be all figurative and "start and finish the day together with the sun" like how it rises and falls on their love? How it is the east and these three beauties are the sun? Well... "We can't see the sun at all." #publicschoolgeography #planningfail
Part Four: Sean's Pink Shorts Live It Up
"These 1-on-1s can be so glamorous, so I just want to do something low-key." Uh, we need Sean to get a dictionary stat because you and Des hung out at a tent and Selma avoided your kiss in a trailer park.
"Who will I be meeting in Arkansas?" We're not sure if Lesley's response has anything to do with the question because she's talking about a lake house and hold on we need more wine because they're matching pink bottom clothings right now and it's too much.
"So far today there hasn't been a lot of kissing." You already used up your 3 minutes and sixteen seconds, dude, and she was not impressed.
"I like how you smile with your eyes at me," Les says. Somewhere Tyra Banks is cackling. #smize #bachelor
Their date is boring and Lesley doesn't tell him she loves him. So, good luck, lady.
Part Five: The Other Woman
Sean's sister Shay shows up to real talk his eyebrows into oblivion.
"The only one I could possibly question would be Tierra." Finally. That's like saying "Lindsay Lohan might not be a great role model."
Tierra calls AshLee out and Ash is all "I don't know what she's talking about." We do, because we've been watching.
"I'm not going to sit around in a group and talk high school stuff." Guess she's never going to find out if she ends up in a mansion, apartment, shack, or house. We have a guess.
["What was your only advice? Don't end up with a girl no one likes." Good call, Shay.]
Tierra tells AshLee that all the girls talked shit about her. When Ash confronts the girls, Tierra's eyebrow inches up defensively. "I know though in my own skin that I'm not rude!" AshLee acknowledges the cameras in the room: "Can we just re-roll tape?" Right??? There really should be a replay button. Throw in your bikini top to challenge a call. #footballreferenceyourewelcome
Sean comes to introduce Shay to Tierra. Cue crying. "I came here so you could meet somebody." We hope it's a pilot.#bachelor #packyourknivesandgo
"I hate confrontation like this." Yeah, normally she likes the kind that comes with a knife fight.
Tierra's forehead and eyebrow and dress can't handle the pressure and they all collude to make her ugly cry. Sean cares so much about her that he finally says those words we've been waiting for. No, it's not "I think you're really special." Cue the fireworks and street dancers: "I think you should go home now."
Obvi she doesn't want to say goodbye to the other girls. We've been told this is the biggest meltdown in history, but Tierra crying alone in a maxi dress just seems like a Tuesday in her world. "He doesn't want me here." Good, she does understand normal things.
"Nobody will take my sparkle away." Not till marriage, anyway.#tierrasparkle #bachelor. Somewhere Taylor Swift is waiting for a phone call and songwriting collaboration.
Part Six: When Jersey Dresses Are Formal Wear
Sean tells the girls that Tierra went home and they're all relieved until they realize they're wearing jersey dresses even though he suited up. But before they can panic about that, Sean tells the girls he already knows who is going home. Let's see: Lesley didn't open up at all but AshLee fought with Tierra. Who's going home?
Oh look, Chris Harrison and his full suit are there. What has he been doing? Reading contraband on Tierra's cot?
Rose ceremony time: Des gets the first rose and Catherine gets the second. Just as we suspected, Les and Ash are on the chopping block. AshLee gets the last rose.
"This rose to me tells me I can trust. I can't describe the overwhelming love I have for him. This is my husband. And love does conquer all." Read: "Who's next? I'll take you all down.'
Lesley gets cut, and that's dumb. She and her curtain dress leave. "If he doesn't want Lesley, I don't know why I'm here," Catherine sobs. "She has more in common than I do." Yeah, we thought so too.
So, Sean will be traveling home with the girls: that means Seattle with Catherine, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri with Lindsay, somewhere in Texas with AshLee, and Marina Del Rey with Des. Good luck with the scary army dad, Sean!
That's all for us tonight. Now time to pluck our eyebrows like Tierra in honor of our fallen friend. #hisloss #justjoshing.


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Progress made on iPhone 4S, iPad 2 jailbreak
An untethered jailbreak for Apple A5 chipset powered iOS devices (namely iPhone 4S and iPad 2) has finally been achieved according to pod2g's most recent blog entry. He updated his blog yesterday stating he had hit a stumbling block but would update us today again. He's kept true to his word and let us know today that he's overcome the cache issue and achieved an untether.
OK, figured it out, the A5 cache is not a problem anymore. I sorted it out by doing the untether in a single thread and by flushing all the dcache then all the icache in a row at a strategical point of the process.
Saurik helped with launchd boot process so they're one step closer to a stable jailbreak. Props to pod2g and saurik for all their hard work. I can't wait to jailbreak my iPhone 4S as soon as a tool is updated and released. Anyone else jumping for joy at this news? I know I am! Check the source link for all the details.
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Progress made on iPhone 4S, iPad 2 jailbreak
Would it be a good idea for Tipb to start a donate $ to the jailbreakers fund? I know there are ways to donate to the actual individuals out there, but for the novices that don't know who these guys are (or who to donate too, or are intimidated by their names), I think it would be helpful if Tipb (whom we trust) would start some type of link or something.. Your thoughts?
i'd take a buggy tethered for the 4S since that means they found a bootrom exploit ;)
Pod2g already has an untethered jailbreak for all A4 devices, it just hasn't been released yet. It'll probably get released all at once
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Can you just consolidate all this into one article? Posting separate articles on every little step of the untether is kind of unnerving. I'd really rather see a big headline when the untether is released.
Now if everyone would stop blogging about the progress and just goto pod2gs iOS blog than the Internet will be filled with less trolls and make it easier for us to find a link when it has finally been released!
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Every new MMO should have LFG tool. I just hate searching for a groupe through chat. It's tiring and time consuming.
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It is cross server dungeons that destroy the community.
No regular dungeon finders just add more chat in the main town and that doesnt really affect the server community, but when you play with other players from the same server you get to know people and at least I tends to do other stuff with people I like.
In a cross server dungeons you play with people you probably never will see again and that means you wont get to know people on your own server.
I never really had problems finding groups, not in GW2 or any other MMO but I see that dungeonfinders can be useful.
Originally posted by CalmOceans
Well, I use LFG all the time, and always communicate in the party. And my "friends" list is usually completely full.
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Originally posted by Corehaven
Imo the automated LFG systems are more scapegoats then the actual reason. Taking the excample from the poster below you.. during WoW wotlk the people looking for group wherent the most social to begin with, there wasnt all that much chatter, unless (just like in LFG system queueing) you brought it in yourself. What it DID remove (in wow) was having 4 group members complain that they didnt get a summon to the instance by the 1 and only person who DID go to the instance, which.. already was a problem since vanilla, people preffered to sit in their respective cities and wanted the warlock and 2 others to goto the instance.
Personally I have yet to run into quiet groups, they may start out as such but with half a comment its not hard to get people to open up.
Im sure tthe more automated systems make some impact but not that much, people rever back to EQ but overlook what arguebly is a much bigger reason for the more-social grouping there. Not the endless hours of LFG in open channels, it was more the slower pased combat and actual downtime. Waiting for mana , waiting on pulls to actually arive.
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Originally posted by CalmOceans
Spot on imo, LFG system take away alot of the community aspect in games and because of that the community suffers.
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Nope. What ruins it is if difficulty is trivialized. In the case of WoW, having the raid finder does ruin the community mostly out of the fact that it demotes guild play which those raids are MEANT to be done with. It detracts from those elements so in a way you could say it does.
The thing is though, its up to the player to talk in a dungeon.
The difference between me shouting in chat "LFG Dungeon DPS" and clicking a button to queue up for one is just me being obnoxious in chat. Really, I don't care waht dillusion people have spamming in chat for a group does NOT promote social interaction. Its up to the players doing that interaction after getting in a group.
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Originally posted by Alberel
I talked crap in /group chat back in Vanilla/TBC when there was no LFG. Then I talked crap in /group chat after there was the LFG. It's true that LFG might discourage people to speak in the chat but from my experience every time I've tried to strike up a conversation in a group people would usually reply :D I have added a lot of people as friends from LFG parties. So it's quite possible to talk to other people when you're using the tool. No one is stopping you (but yourself?). I think the problem was not with the LFG tool. I think the problem was with the difficulty of the instances. In Vanilla (looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong instances) and in TBC heroics (ultra difficult compared to now) the difference was that a dungeon could take you hours to finish. So people will of course talk and especially so when they wipe. I think that LFG is perfectly fine. I don't miss spamming LFG in the chat. I think if instances took way long than 20 min, e.g. 1-2 hours and people wiped, they would talk.
To sum up, LFG = great, have instances which are longer and more difficult AND make it so people don't want to leave a group once they've joined. 15-30 min penalty is a joke. Go for 6 hours :D
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Originally posted by Corehaven
You bring up a good point in orange, a GPS may make reaching the destination easier however it also has a trade off. Is an edventure/trip realy thay exciting when u know exactly how to get there and told exactly what to do every step of the way??? I find using a GPS makes a trip much less memorable than not having the direction and going into the unknown even though u may get lost once or twice and may be a little slower to get there but is that realy a bad thing??? You never forget that one time you get lost trying to get somewhere.
GPS simply give u 1 direction u can go while not using one can leave you on an adventure that you may not forget, sure it may be a little slower but its definetly the one i prefer to take. (GPS is a good way to describe questing in games after WoW aswell, All those quests i did in WoW i havant remember a single one but i can remember that one epic adventure i took trying to get from Qeynos to Freeport in Everquest may of took longer but was definetly worth it)
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From my WoW experience, there's two kind of LFG: one that groups you with people from YOUR SERVER, and the other that doesn't.
When you're randomly grouped within your server (like WoW during WotLK) the system actually work because you meet people that you see again and again, even outside the dungeon. I made lots of friends this way! It's also a nice way to recrute people for your guild. It works because if someone is a douche, it will be known on the whole realm and he will be ignored fast.
Of course the problem is with the second kind of LFG. When you're grouped with people you will *never* see again.
It's like arguing that a GPS makes it harder to reach your destination.
GPS makes it easier. Know what people did before GPS? They got out of their car and aksed people directions, they socialised, I have shown many foreigners directions, I communicated and actually one of my friends is someone who I helped with dirctions.
In Everquest the world was huge and you often needed directions, often times I walked along with people for over 20 minutes just to show them some place. Hell, in Everquest half the challenge was making it alive to the group.
Nowadays people sit in some LFG queue like a stupid robot on a production chain, waiting for their number, to get transported into some dungeon and to complete their stupid dungeon and get out without saying a word. I would rather work on an actual production chain than be one of those WoW zombies.
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I suggest a diffrent LFG system.
This one sucks it indeed destroys what little community forming there is. I don't even say a word inside a dungeon anymore. That is also because dungeons anrt random. Your doing the exact same thing evry time and i only can get pissed off at the many retards doing less DPS then me the Tank.
So i suggest 2 things. open world dungeons with lots and patrols and traps. youl have to be on your toes in there or you will wipe your group by overpulling things.
And for the LFG system. Instead of this push a button and join a random player thing. they should just simply make a list. U want to do a dungeon? then u just simply put yourself on that list wich tells other player your name class spec and lvl. People can pick u up from there. u don't have to wait for hours because people youl be picked out from that list. and if you are a retard the community wil punish you by not giving you invites because hey they can see your name.
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Originally posted by Loke666
It's both, cross server is just way worse. Vindictus has a dungeon finder that doesn't work cross-server and no one, I mean no one says anything to other people. You can play in that game with 5 other people for 30 minutes without a single person having said anything. You can say hi and not a single person will say hi to you back, no one says a single word.
You don't need to talk to other people if grouping is trivial, you don't need to engage with other people, you're now a factory worker with premade chores, you click the LFG button, you get automatically ported into some dungeon with strangers, you finsish the dungeon while keeping your mouth shut because who cares about making friends, you finsih your job and you're done. The only thing that matters in those games like WoW and Vindictus is your stats, no one gives a damn who you are, you're just another number on the automated LFG factory worker list.
In new MMO I am lucky to even talk to another person, hell I am lucky if someone even says hi to another person instead of rushing by them because time counts, gotta get those uber leet stats and that gearscore so everyone can see how uber I am, since friends don't exist in those games, you're just a means to an end. In EQ half the time was spent talking to other people, socialising, in new MMO you need to practically beg to get a stranger to even say hi.
Originally posted by HeroEvermore
I agree.
LFG is just a tool. You don't have to use it if you don't want to.
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While they certainly don't promote socialization on any way, I think LFG tools are just a solution to broken game mechanics which were anti-social in the first place.
People rarely talking in groups has nothing to do with how they joined the group rather it is directly related to the fact the gameplay not only doesn't provide time for or encourage it, but actively discourages it in many ways such as being inefficient to do so.
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
That's a terrible cop-out and you know it, or you never experienced what old MMO were like.
I tried Guild Wars after playing Everquest and the difference was night and day.
I could walk up to a person in pre-luclin Everquest and before I could reach my keys I would have a person throwing buffs on me and saying hi.
In Guild wars it felt like I was thrown into a world where people lost their ability to communicate, no one said anything. I couldn't believe it and thought it was some fluke. But I saw this pattern in more MMO, I saw it in WoW, I saw it in Vindictus, I saw it in FFXIV, I saw it everywhere.
The exception to this rule was Vanguard, people didn't communicate nearly as much as in EQ, but they communicate much more than in games like guild wars.
Communication stands and falls from game design.
Here is an example of Everquest. People sitting next to each other, talking to each other, trading things, making groups.
Does this happen in new MMO? No Sir, it does not. In new MMO you join the factory chain called the LFD dungeon seeker and complete your meaningless dungeon, and you keep using that tool because it's far easier to just be a little robot than to actually make friends, because if you had any friends you wouldn't join the LFD. Socialising be damned.
Originally posted by CalmOceans
Well, that's all up to to the people, Some people like spending hours in game just chatting. some pople just want to play the game.
Also, a lot of people are using Skype, Teamspeak or Mumble to communicate, which is far better then typing, especially in the middle of a fight.
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Originally posted by Emrendil
It's not up to the people, people haven't suddenly changed so dramatically in 10 years time that we went from everyone socialising to everyone being reclusive zombies.
It's the game design. If you don't give people the right incentive, right tools and right environment to socialise you will have no socialising.
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Originally posted by Emrendil
i cannot use teamspeak or mumble with random people. I'd actualy would have to communicate with them to give them or get their details wich doesn't happen because we diddn't even say hi remember?
It's not that people has changed. There are more kinds of people out there, Some people prefer this, some people prefer that.
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November 08, 2013
The Sahara wasn't always a desert. Trees and grasslands dominated the landscape from roughly 10,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago. Then, abruptly, the climate changed, and north Africa began to dry out.
Previous research has suggested that the end of the African Humid Period came gradually, over thousands of years, but a study published last month in Science says it took just a few hundred. The shift was initially triggered by more sunlight falling on Earth's northern hemisphere, as Earth's cyclic orientation toward the sun changed. But how that orbital change caused North Africa to dry out so fast–in 100 to 200 years, says the study–is a matter of debate.
October 28, 2013
A recent slowdown in global warming has led some skeptics to renew their claims that industrial carbon emissions are not causing a century-long rise in Earth's surface temperatures. But rather than letting humans off the hook, a new study in the leading journal Science adds support to the idea that the oceans are taking up some of the excess heat, at least for the moment. In a reconstruction of Pacific Ocean temperatures in the last 10,000 years, researchers have found that its middle depths have warmed 15 times faster in the last 60 years than they did during apparent natural warming cycles in the previous 10,000.
July 01, 2013
Nearly 25 years after an international ban was placed on ivory, African elephants are being slaughtered at a rate that could bring about their extinction this century. By allowing the trade of ivory acquired before 1989 to continue, the ban put the burden on law enforcement to distinguish between legal ivory and poached. Now, a new method for dating elephant tusks, described in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could make it easier to enforce the ivory ban and save the African elephant from extermination say researchers. The method might also be applied to endangered rhinoceroses and other wildlife.
May 29, 2013
During the last ice age, when thick ice covered the Arctic, many scientists assumed that the deep currents below that feed the North Atlantic Ocean and help drive global ocean currents slowed or even stopped. But in a new study in Nature, researchers show that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climates.
March 20, 2013
Scientists examining evidence across the world from New Jersey to North Africa say they have linked the abrupt disappearance of half of earth's species 200 million years ago to a precisely dated set of gigantic volcanic eruptions. The eruptions may have caused climate changes so sudden that many creatures were unable to adapt—possibly on a pace similar to that of human-influenced climate warming today. The extinction opened the way for dinosaurs to evolve and dominate the planet for the next 135 million years, before they, too, were wiped out in a later planetary cataclysm.
August 03, 2012
Human civilization arose during the relatively balmy climate of the last 10,000 years. Even so, evidence is accumulating that at least two cold spells gripped the northern hemisphere during this time, and that the cooling may have coincided with drought in the tropics. Emerging research on climate during this Holocene period suggests that temperature swings were more common than previously thought, and that climate changes happened on a broad, hemispheric scale.
October 07, 2011
The Hudson River that explorer Henry Hudson sailed some 400 years ago had no power plants on its shores. No trains, bridges, factories or houses. Those innovations changed the river, leaving a legacy of PCBs, sewage and other pollutants. But pollution is just one way that humans have transformed the river. A small way, it turns out.
September 15, 2011
The seas are rising, as they have during past periods of warming in earth's history. Estimates of how high they will go in the next few thousand years range from five meters, putting greater Miami underwater, to 40 meters, wiping most of Florida off the map. "The range of estimates is huge to the point of meaninglessness," says
, a climate scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
April 06, 2011
The eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland in 1783-84 set off a cascade of catastrophe, spewing sulfuric clouds into Europe and eventually around the world.
February 23, 2011
We may think of the Pacific Northwest as rain-drenched, but new research led by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh shows that the region could be in for longer dry seasons, and is unlikely to see a period as wet as the 20th century any time soon.
December 22, 2010
In the first project of its kind, scientists are drilling deep into the bed of the fast-shrinking Dead Sea, searching for clues to past climate changes and other events that may have affected human history back through Biblical times and before.
November 03, 2010
Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air. Some suspect that extended "volcanic winters" from gigantic blowups helped kill off dinosaurs and Neanderthals...
September 07, 2010
Expanded irrigation has made it possible to feed the world's growing billions—and it may also temporarily be counteracting the effects of climate change in some regions, say scientists in a new study. But some major groundwater aquifers, a source of irrigation water, are projected to dry up in coming decades from continuing overuse, and when they do, people may face the double whammy of food shortages and higher temperatures.
June 25, 2010
Scientists still puzzle over how Earth emerged from its last ice age, an event that ushered in a warmer climate and the birth of human civilization. In the geological blink of an eye, ice sheets in the northern hemisphere began to collapse and warming spread quickly to the south. Most scientists say that the trigger...
May 27, 2010
Some of the worst droughts to hit North Africa in the last 900 years have occurred recently—in the late 20th century—according to an analysis of tree rings that has provided the most lengthy and detailed climate record yet for this sub-tropical region on the Mediterranean.
Ocean Drilling Expedition off Antarctica May Predict Ice Sheet's Response to Warmer Global TemperaturesMay 04, 2010
New results from a drilling expedition off Antarctica may help scientists learn more about a dramatic turn in climate 34 million years ago, when the planet cooled from a "greenhouse" to an "icehouse" state. In just 400,000 years – a blink of an eye in geologic time – carbon dioxide levels dropped, temperatures plunged and ice sheets formed over what was then the lush continent of Antarctica.
April 21, 2010
The seasonal monsoon rains in Asia feed nearly half the world's population, and when the rains fail to come, people can go hungry, or worse. A new study of tree rings provides the most detailed record yet of at least four epic droughts that have shaken Asia over the last thousand years..
March 29, 2010
Decades of drought, interspersed with intense monsoon rains, may have helped bring about the fall of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilization at Angkor nearly 600 years ago, according to an analysis of tree rings, archeological remains and other evidence.
March 29, 2010
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has awarded the 2010 Milutin Milankovitch Medal to Professor Emeritus Jim Hays "for his pioneering, fundamental and continuous work on the reconstruction of Cenozoic climates and for his Science 1976 seminal paper on the astronomical theory of palaeoclimates." In the latter, Hays, along with colleagues John Imbrie and Nick Shackelton, proved that the timing of major ice ages is controlled by variations in Earth's orbit around the sun.
February 04, 2010
Scientists aboard the research ship the JOIDES Resolution recently drilled two kilometers into Earth's crust, setting a new record for the deepest hole drilled through the seafloor on a single expedition.
December 14, 2009
Selected posts from a continuing series of essays and interviews from LDEO scientists on the prospects for a global climate-change treaty.
June 18, 2009
Researchers have reconstructed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years in the sharpest detail yet, shedding new light on its role in the earth's cycles of cooling and warming.
April 09, 2009
Four current and former researchers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will receive honorary degrees from their alma mater, St. Lawrence University, this spring. The degrees will be awarded at May graduation to paleoclimatologist Peter deMenocal; engineer Dale Chayes; paleoceanographer Miriam Katz; and oceanographer Richard Fairbanks.
January 06, 2009
But Global Warming May Have Helped Override Some Recent Eruptions
Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics—but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures
July 15, 2007
July 15, 2007 - The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio on the state of the natural environment.
Lamont's own Associate Professor Peter deMenocal is one the climate change experts interviewed in the film.
May 14, 2007
A study released on May 11, 2007 provides some of the first solid evidence that warming-induced changes in ocean circulation at the end of the last Ice Age caused vast quantities of ancient carbon dioxide to belch from the deep sea into the atmosphere. Scientists believe the carbon dioxide (CO2) releases helped propel the world into further warming.
August 07, 2006
Each year nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. Now, the first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in Antarctic ice has shown that this amount has remained largely constant over the past 30,000 years, a finding that could help refine efforts to understand the timing and effects of changes in the Earth's past climate.
New Study of Glacial Retreat Shows that Much of the World Emerged from Last Ice Age at Nearly the Same TimeJune 08, 2006
The end of the recurring, 100,000-year glacial cycles is one of the most prominent and readily identifiable features in records of the Earth's recent climate history. Yet one of the most puzzling questions in climate science has been why different parts of the world, most notably Greenland, appear to have warmed at different times and at different rates after the end of the last Ice Age.
May 26, 2004
Two centuries since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the human population has increased six-fold, and economic activity an estimated fifty-fold. The sheer number of people on the planet and the intensity of economic activity are having profound effects on the long-term global climate, threatening to disrupt vast biological, geochemical, and social systems in future decades. This is fact.
December 18, 2003
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside and Columbia University have found evidence of the release of an enormous quantity of methane gas as ice sheets melted at the end of a global ice age about 600 million years ago, possibly altering the ocean's chemistry, influencing oxygen levels in the ocean and atmosphere, and enhancing climate warming because methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.


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It seems to me that a bike is like a girlfriend. You drape your body across it, align your bones and sinews with it. And either it feels right or it doesn't. I rode the bike for 15 minutes and liked it: I felt more relaxed on it and found it a little easier to rein in. Better yet, I sensed that it liked me. Most of the other bikes I'd tried seemed poised to reject me like an unwelcome organ transplant.
I decided to rent the Cannondale for a day. Sort of a second date. First you meet for coffee. Now it was dinner and a movie. But when I went to pick the bike up, the previous renter hadn't returned it.
With some unexpected time on my hands, I decided to drive over to a shop in Newington. In the movies, this is the moment when the lead character turns, hands in pockets and whistling a lonely tune, and walks off the subway platform, only to bump into Gwyneth Paltrow.
That's what happened to me, except Gwyneth had a high-modulus carbon-fiber frame and Shimano shifters and a compact drivetrain. In Newington, a guy named Dave sent me out on a Felt Z5.
"Go down the alley, through the lot, take a left, a right, a right, and you can go up the hill that leads to the old children's hospital," he said. I did, and it was love. I rode up and down the hill several times. It was kind of a nasty-looking ascent, but it felt like nothing. I took a third trip up, just to show the climb how little I thought of it.
"Spread the word to the other hills," I told it. "You guys are not the boss of me anymore."
I tried another bike brand, just because they had one. Then I took a day to "think it over," but who was kidding whom? It turns out that Jim Felt was destined to build a bike ideally suited to a middle-aged left-handed Irish-American writer with a penicillin allergy. When I went back for a fitting, Dave's colleague Jeff put the bike on the trainer and watched me pedal for a while. "This doesn't happen very often," he said, "but I wouldn't change anything."
Why this one? It seemed like the best of both worlds, striking a pleasant balance between comfort and power. I thought I could make it go fast, but also felt I could keep it under control. Sort of.
A couple of days later, I made a point of riding past the place I knew the cool kids would be after finishing a 60-mile ride. Mark, their leader and man of few words, looked me up and down.
"Man got himself a Felt," he said.
Ralph, who speaks to bikes in their own language, murmured approvingly.
I wobbled off hopefully but uncertainly into the sunset. It's a better bike than I am a bicyclist. I've got some catching up to do.
Next month, our novice begins the getting-to-know-you part of the relationship. Will he continue to fall for the new bike--or just fall?