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Digital classrooms and computer coding
Technology plays a central role in the modern classroom. But what are the pros and cons of ditching the chalk and going digital? And do we need to go beyond teaching kids how to use software and get them to learn about the nuts and bolts of computer programming itself? We explore the challenges of using technology in the classroom and pick up on the growing international push for children to rediscover the fun of coding.
Clare Rafferty: I think we need to recognise that our students are part of the world, they're part of the changing world which is driven by technology. We want to provide our students with the skills, the knowledge, the values that will enable them to contribute effectively and responsibly and, importantly, creatively in the online world. And we want to prepare them for the world that they're going to live and work in.
Eben Upton: We're in danger of creating a generation of computer users, people who are very proficient at using software but have very little idea of what goes on under the hood, and we feel that as we've moved away from this kind of 1980s computer aesthetic where you have machines which encouraged you to program, towards either fixed-function devices, like maybe computer games consoles, or to something like the PC which is still programmable but where you have to expend some efforts to go out there and get the tools that you need to program, people's relationship to computers has changed in a very fundamental way.
Antony Funnell: Now, anyone who has kids knows just how central technology has become to the functioning of the 21st century classroom. That's a reality, that's happened. The debate now is about the future, it's about the limits of technology in the school environment and the nature of exactly what we really need to be teaching children about technology and computers.
Hello, Antony Funnell here and welcome to Future Tense.
[Audio of training session]
That's Ringwood Secondary College in Melbourne where teachers are having a training session in the best ways to effectively use laptops and tablet computers. You see, at Ringwood, computers aren't just teaching aids, they're central to the whole endeavour.
Teacher Clare Rafferty:
Clare Rafferty: We are one-to-one, 7 to 12. We have iPads at year 7 to 8 one-to-one, so that means that each student has one, they're their own, they bring them to school, and they have them 24/7. And from years 9 until year 12, students have a MacBook laptop. This year, year 9s have a Mac Pro, and at year 12 they will also, as of this term, have the option of having a loan iPad to use as they wish in class and outside of class.
Antony Funnell: So the classes are digital, that's it, they are completely digital?
Clare Rafferty: Yes, year 7 and 8s we have no textbooks at all. So our teachers and our students are creating, and that's our focus, to create and engage in the content, and our students are taking ownership of that because there is no textbook to tell them to answer these questions, the teachers are teaching them and the students are teaching each other as well.
Antony Funnell: Just take us through an average school day. How does it work? Because for many people, I mean, they know that technology is coming into the classroom, has been coming into the classroom, they may well be surprised though to hear of a class that is completely digital.
Clare Rafferty: In a normal school day, we have a four-period day, so our students would start off with the subject, and in that subject the teacher might teach them a concept, might show them a little video. They might get them to work from a sheet they've created which they've put up in a dropbox that students have access to, and they then create something or work through that sheet, and then they might put it back up to the dropbox for the teacher to assess. They might share their work. In maths, for example, students are creating 'Show Mes' or 'Screen Chomps' which is basically a voice recording with animation that the students have created to explain concepts and test concepts. And then they are sitting what would be their normal test, they might sit that through a Google form, in my case, the students would complete a Google form which is just like doing a multiple-choice test or a fill-in-the-answer test, but they're doing it digitally.
Antony Funnell: And what's the underlying philosophy behind the decision to go one-to-one, as you say, to go digital like that?
Clare Rafferty: I think we need to recognise that our students are part of the world, they're part of the changing world which is driven by technology. We want to provide our students with the skills, the knowledge, the values that will enable them to contribute effectively and responsibly and, importantly, creatively in the online world. And we want to prepare them for the world that they're going to live and work in.
And we also want some semblance of what they are doing at home. After all, at home they're using devices to create and to share and to get online and to collaborate. We want them to be able to do that in the classroom. For us it's about creating, collaborating, communicating and challenging them, and then getting them to share what they've been doing.
Antony Funnell: The kids use a variety of apps. Do they take part in choosing the applications that will be used in the classroom?
Clare Rafferty: Yes, they do, that's part of their willingness to share is because they're empowered to choose how they can present it. The teacher isn't dictating everything, it's a partnership in teaching and learning within the classroom. The teacher might be saying I want you to show me your understanding of this topic and choose an app that is appropriate, or create a comic, and the students can choose how they create their comic. So what we're finding is that students are actually using multiple apps. So they might draw a picture in Sketchbook Express, for example, or a series of pictures, and then put them into Strip Designer, a comic maker, so that they can then tell the story about what's happening. So they'll use multiple apps to actually produce their content.
You know, we've got students who struggled to write a sentence or were not willing to draw pictures, not willing to create a song or sing in front of the class, but put an iPad in their hands and they're off creating their own songs and creating their own music to go with the songs that they are creating about what they've just been learning. My students had to write songs about what the continents were and what the oceans were, and they all went off...I didn't have one student that challenged me about 'I don't want to sing', 'I don't want others to hear my voice', they were all excited about doing it and listening to each others', and disappointed that we couldn't actually get through all of them in one lesson. They just love it.
And so I can think of a couple of boys who struggled to write a sentence on paper, but they'll write paragraphs on their iPads, and they just keep going; I want to write more, I've got more story to tell, I've got more to say.
Daniel Donahoo: My vision is for multiple digital tools in a classroom that allow children to create and produce and guide their own learning, so that means a classroom that has some iPads, some digital cameras, some digital video cameras, and all of those different tools and access to the internet allows them to be self-directed learners. So we have teachers as facilitators of learning, not teachers as fonts of knowledge who are telling children this is what you must know. The technology will allow us to have children who ask questions and find the answers out to those questions by themselves.
Antony Funnell: Daniel Donahoo is the director of the ideas consultancy Project Synthesis. And a significant part of his job involves working with schools and other learning institutions, advising them on the use of technology, the benefits it can bring and also the difficulties inherent in going digital.
Daniel Donahoo: It is a significant trend, and that's probably best led by mobile computing, and if you speak honestly, that is being led by the iPad. There are lots of schools that are...if they haven't begun exploring it and putting up the budgets to actually buy the devices, they're definitely beginning to look at it and trying to make decisions about how they get into that space and how they help students there. And that is happening from primary school onwards, so it covers the broad spectrum of all schools.
Antony Funnell: We've heard about the experience at Ringwood Secondary College and they certainly seem to have put a lot of thought into what they're doing, but how many other schools and colleges are embarking on this path without that level of thought, without that level of preplanning?
Daniel Donahoo: It would be hard to say, and the planning comes differently, so of course some schools will be planning about it just in terms of what they can afford, others are trying to work out what are the best ways to go about this. There is a lot of discussions from some schools about the ideas of bring your own device, so rather than schools investing in the technology, students bring their own devices and have responsibility for managing them and using them as learning tools. So in that space is a lot of different ideas about how this can be best done and best managed by schools to support students' learning.
Antony Funnell: For many schools it's going to be difficult though, isn't it. There are significant capacity issues to take into account.
Daniel Donahoo: The obviousness I guess of how intriguing this is, not just for schools but the teachers...I've been delivering workshops around how to use iPads and what apps to use and those sorts of things, and we're booking out classes and turning people away in large numbers. So there is a demand with people that are interested and there's also a demand from teachers and schools who are saying 'we obviously need to be in this space', because however you want to look at it, whether it's the hype around it or whether it's just the way things are going, people feel that they have a need to know and to understand.
Online video excerpt: Teachers are finding that using different classroom technologies like tablet computers, digital video, iPods and video games are great tools for helping students learn. While there are some naysayers who bring up some negative effects of technology on education, mainly budgetary reasons, using new technologies is the future of the education system. The following reasons...
Antony Funnell: We've talked on this program quite a bit about the idea of techno-determinism, a notion that technology in itself is all you need. From the literature I've read about the digital classroom, there certainly does seem to be a bit of a recognition amongst some of the leading thinkers in this area that staffing is also important, that you have to think of the capacity of the teachers, of teacher training, those sorts of things. Is that the experience that you're coming across?
Daniel Donahoo: Yes, capacity is really important, and even then there is another level down which is how we then think about what that capacity that teachers have actually means. Problems will probably occur if people start to go, well, let's just go one-for-one mobile devices in the classroom and every student has the same device and let's not really give teachers too much training, or what we might teach them is about three or four apps that basically allow you to do maths, which is really no different to doing a maths worksheet on a piece of paper, it's just on an iPad. That doesn't really revolutionise education and it doesn't change the way children work with it.
The work that I do in working with teachers is teaching them about how do you actually think about the technology. The approach you take using technology has to be purposeful. What you want to do first is not say, well, what piece of technology are we using, but what learning are we actually wanting to take place and what do we want students to know. And once we've actually done that, then the teachers can decide, well, this is probably best way to do it. And it might be some newfangled app that does this amazing stuff that supports students to collaborate and work together, or it might still be a pencil and paper. That's the thing that we need to know. We can't be blinded by the fact that it always has to be the technology.
Antony Funnell: That might seem obvious to a lot of people but you're coming up against a digital fetishism, if you like, a desire to have technology for its own sake and to use it for its own sake, are you?
Daniel Donahoo: Well, there's two. That's what the early adopters sort of do, and people like, you know, this is amazing and we have to be in this space and we have to use it. But then what we also come across are people who maybe aren't the digital fetishists but people just going, like, oh my goodness, I don't want to be left behind, I need to know this as well. Some of the challenges are then how will you use that.
So one good example is the idea that…there are a lot of apps out there for iPad which teach children how to do handwriting, and in our workshop we had a big discussion about it. If technology is the future and children are going to be using this more and more, what's the point of teaching them how to do handwriting on the screen? There won't be many instances where they use their index finger like a pencil. So there's a whole discussion about, well, is that the best thing for those students to be learning or do you use the iPad for them to learn about how to manage information or how to explore the web and what that actually means and to think about their roles as a digital citizens and how they do things like digital media literacy. So that comes back to the training stuff we were just talking about. It's like, we can't have these teachers just using their old methods and teaching the things they've previously taught. If they're going to be using technology they need to understand and be able to teach children to become digitally media literate, and that's a very different set of skills and a whole range of things that, if you've been teaching in a classroom for 20 or 25 years, you need some extra support to be able to learn how to teach that to children.
Antony Funnell: And on the Future Tense website you can tell us about your experiences going digital in the classroom. And we're particularly keen to hear from teachers and other education staff; do you feel technology is being pushed on you for its own sake? And how much training and support are you receiving in your school?
Ensuring children are 'digitally media literate' was the phrase Daniel Donahoo used just before. And there's a school of thought that says that that's not just about teaching kids how to use different devices and applications, but also about the very nuts and bolts of computing.
In his book Program or Be Programmed, leading US media theorist Douglas Rushkoff sets out an argument for educating children about computer programming.
Douglas Rushkoff: I'm advocating that we raise people with some knowledge of programming, the same way we think of it as important for kids to know basic math and long division and those sorts of things. I think kids should also understand the very basics of programming, so that when they operate a computer, they don't think of it like a TV set, they don't think of the computer in terms of what it's come packaged with, but they think of the computer also as a blank slate. It's just like introducing kids to reading and writing, you know, you show them books, but you also give them blank pieces of paper where they can write their own words. I feel like those few schools that do teach computers, teach kids not really computers, they teach them Microsoft Office, which is great for creating the office worker of the 1990s, but not for creating the people who are going to build the 21st century.
Antony Funnell: Douglas Rushkoff speaking on this show back in 2011. And since then that call to rediscover the virtues of programming has been gaining ground.
James Curran is an associate professor at the University of Sydney and the director of the National Computer Science School.
James Curran: The idea that ICT has just become so completely pervasive...and essentially the success of IT has been that it's got so friendly and so usable these days that we think just by sitting in front of the machine, you're actually picking up all the fundamental skills. There are two levels to that. One is there are actually more skills that you still actually need some formal learning to acquire, and then I think the second level is to actually become a power user you still need to understand more of the internals of how things are actually working in the computer to fully harness the power of the machine. In the same way that a regular car driver might have some idea how a car works, but if you were to ask a racing car driver, I'm sure they have an extremely detailed knowledge of how the beast that they are driving operates.
Antony Funnell: It's a balance though, isn't it. I mean, you don't want everyone in a school to have an intricate knowledge of programming, but you want them to have some knowledge, don't you.
James Curran: Right, because I think the thing is if you don't have any knowledge then something becomes a black box. And as a black box you can't work out why something goes wrong, it's extremely frustrating, and you also don't know to look for a better way of doing things, and I really think that is part of the secret of having some depth of knowledge in IT, is that if you, for example, find yourself doing something in a very repetitive way, even in Microsoft Word, like deciding, for example, to make every single heading bold one at a time manually, if you've not been trained the right way, you might think that that's an acceptable solution, whereas someone that's got a deeper understanding and more of an understanding of the kind of philosophy behind a lot of the software as well, you're going to look for that better solution, you're going to look for the stylesheet that will allow you to change all of the headings in one go. So that would be very much the ICT skills and productivity tools and of understanding the computer, that really is a level that everybody should be able to get to. Then on top of that you're going to sit more and more layers of deeper technical understanding, heading towards people who will eventually become computer programmers, computer scientists and so on.
Antony Funnell: There is a lot of excitement in the educational sector at the moment about the potential benefits of new technologies in the classroom. But a lot of teachers who are interested in IT don't have a programming background, as you pointed out. What does that do for the education, for the way in which we use technology in the classroom?
James Curran: I think it does two things. So for a teacher who is not actually teaching computing but wants to use computing in another teaching context, for example, elsewhere in the syllabus, English, geography and so on, it limits their potential to create new teaching opportunities using ICT, but I don't think that's such a major issue because there really is a huge number of fantastic resources out there that teachers can already use that other people have developed. So I don't actually think that IT as a teaching tool is really that much of a problem. The big problem is when you've got teachers that are teaching computing as a computer science discipline who don't have a background in IT. And the challenge there then is that if you don't know how to program yourself as a teacher, how are you going to teach your students how to program? And typically what that means is you then fall back on other parts of the syllabus.
So, for example, you might pay more attention to the stages of software development that don't involve programming; requirements analysis, documentation, all of the kind of things that a high school student would find pretty boring and dull and not the exciting bit which is actually writing a bit of code that makes a computer do something that you want it to do. And I think missing that excitement is a really, really huge problem.
Antony Funnell: If there has been a drift away from an interest in IT, in programming, does that mean that there are fewer teachers out there with the necessary skills to take us to the next level, to try and correct the problem?
James Curran: Absolutely, we have a very big problem with the number of teachers right across Australia, and this isn't just an Australian problem by any means, in the UK and the US there is a very similar problem...having enough teachers that have a background in computing, and by which I mean a computer science degree or some industry experience potentially, is a big problem.
So let me take you back to 2001, around the height of the IT boom. At that time, everyone wanted to study IT. So university enrolments were very high, school enrolments in New South Wales, for example, in the information processes and technology and the software design and development courses was the highest that we've ever seen. And typically what would happen then is that a school wouldn't have enough computing teachers to cover those subjects. And the person who would end up being the designated computing teacher in many of those cases would be whoever had few enough other periods that they would be handed the textbook by the principal and told, 'You are now a computing teacher.' And if you were lucky that was someone who was already interested in computing and maybe from a technical background like maths and science, but it could just as easily have been a PE teacher, a woodwork teacher, someone from a completely different area who really struggled to teach the deeper concepts in computing as an academic discipline, and also just didn't have the same level of joy for the subject themselves as well. And I really think in IT there is a nerd culture that is partly about the passion of sharing technology and what you can do with technology with other people.
Nicky Ringland: My name is Nicky Ringland, I'm an outreach officer for the National Computer Science School at the University of Sydney. The Girls Programming Network is an initiative that we started up at Sydney Uni a few years ago, and it's been running since then in a number of forms. We run workshops each term at the University of Sydney and we invite high school girls from Sydney to come along and learn about programming and engage with what computer science and IT had to offer.
So they learn about programming from experts, from current PhD undergraduate students and also from alumni of Sydney Uni who are current professional software engineers at companies like Google and Atlassian. This gives girls a real chance to engage with the subject area and also find out a lot of the possibilities that IT and computer science has to offer in terms of career. They find out that it's more than just sitting in a basement and being frustrated with their computers all day, but actually it's about solving real-world problems that are interesting and challenging and engaging, and that really motivates them to continue studying.
It's also really interesting for them to find out that computer science is a really interdisciplinary field, and the skills that they learn in programming can be used in a variety of different areas, not just in solving pure computational issues and problems but also expanding out to areas like veterinary science or medical research where programming skills are really useful and can lead to solving really interesting problems.
BBC announcer, excerpt: Today, computers are more complex than ever, and we're happy just to do the driving, leaving the maintenance and development to the specialists. But now this tiny device could change all that, it's called the Raspberry Pi and it's a whole computer squeezed onto a single circuit board. It's being developed in Cambridge and is aimed to be simple enough that writing programs for it will be child's play. It's very much a work in progress...
Eben Upton: Raspberry Pi is a $25 credit-card sized computer that has been developed in order to help us teach children to program again, just as children used to be able to in the 1980s and 1990s. The device was launched this month. We've already seen demands for tens and tens of thousands of these things, so we're very hopeful this is going to be a big thing in the developed world and I guess also in the developing world. I'm Eben Upton, I'm one of the founders of Raspberry Pi.
Antony Funnell: It might be small and cheap, but the little Cambridge computer board with the quirky name is already having a global impact. You see, it's one thing to talk about the need for schools to teach children the basics of computer coding, but it's this tiny unimposing machine that could make all the difference. Why? Because it makes teaching programming cost-effective.
Eben Upton: Back in the 1980s children were buying computers or being bought computers by their parents, often not to learn to program on, people were being bought computers to play games on or they were being bought maybe a computer to do their schoolwork on. But what all these machines had in common was you turned them on and they booted into a programming language. The first thing you could do is you could start writing code. And a lot of my contemporaries (I'm in my mid-30s) got their start in exactly that way. They didn't intend to start programming but they were kind of beguiled into it by the system they were using.
And we feel that as we've moved away from this kind of 1980s computer aesthetic where you have machines which encouraged you to program, towards either fixed-function devices, like maybe computer games consoles, or to something like the PC which is still programmable but where you have to expend some efforts to go out there and get the tools that you need to program, people's relationship to computers has changed in a very fundamental way.
Antony Funnell: Tell us about the process of designing and putting together the Raspberry Pi.
Eben Upton: I guess we started this about...I personally have been involved in this for about six years. There's a group of us at the university in Cambridge in the UK, we observed every year the number of people applying to read computer science was declining. So we set out to try and produce a machine which would recreate some of our 1980s ethos but which was at a price...I mean, we picked a price which we felt was equivalent to maybe the price of a school textbook. So we were interested in what we could build for US$25.
And we went through a number of iterations of this. I think the first things we tried to build really weren't very capable. They were in fact a lot like a 1980s computer in terms of the amount of performance they offered. And then gradually, over the last five years maybe, as mobile phone chips have become much more capable, we've been able to get our hands on platforms which still meet the price point but which are much more recognisably a modern computer.
We feel that being able to put one of these computers in the hands of every child, allowing the child to own the machine, is really important. So, you know, we've gone for this device that you can equip an entire class with for $1,000. Obviously they need a mouse and a keyboard, they need some sort of display device, but what we've done is we've designed this so it will plug into a television, either into a modern high definition television or into an old analogue composite television. Certainly what we find in the UK is that those televisions, which is what I used to use as an output device for my machine in the 1980s, those televisions are effectively free. You can go down to the local scrapheap, you can pick up a perfectly good analogue television for nothing.
Antony Funnell: It must have been challenge making something that needs to be open enough for people to adapt it to suit their needs, but also something that's fully functional.
Eben Upton: There's a tension here. If you look at a PC, that's a completely open platform, you can...okay, maybe your graphics card might be a closed device, but in terms of the general-purpose processing, it's a completely open device, you can put an operating system to it, it can run applications on it. But it's expensive. And on the other extreme, if you look at a mobile phone, a mobile phone can be extremely cheap, you know, you go and get a mobile phone for 10 bucks, but it's a completely sealed, closed device that you can't program. So in fact getting that combination of openness and low cost has been extremely challenging, and that was one of the things that took us so long when we were hunting around for components to put in the device.
It is, we believe, an enormously rewarding thing. When we've taken these devices into schools, kids' eyes light up when they see them. They can write a computer game. You know, they're used to playing computer games but they haven't been provided with any avenue to go from being a consumer into being a producer, being a participant. So it's enormously valuable for the children at the time, it's enormously valuable in the medium to long term because it gives them a gateway into a profession or a set of professions.
And this is somewhere where I think we show up how parochial our world view was at the start of this, that we didn't even really see this as a...I mean, there have been initiatives like 'One Laptop per Child', but we didn't even really see this as a developing world play, we just saw this as a thing for the developed world. But when we look at the emails we get, we get a vast amount of interest from the BRIC countries, from Brazil and Russia in particular, a little bit less from India. Comparatively little from China at the moment, although we think that's probably a language barrier issue. And then we see a lot of interest from elsewhere in South America, sub-Saharan Africa, lots of places where people see this as a potentially low-cost introduction to computers for people. If you have a television, this is the thing that bootstraps that up into a productivity machine that you can use to participate in the information technology.
Antony Funnell: And the potential there then is enormous, isn't it.
Eben Upton: Absolutely, this is really something where we really hope that people in the developing world are going to take this and run with it and build a whole ecosystem around it.
Daniel Donahoo: In some ways coding is the literacy behind all the technology that we're talking about, and even if you don't become a computer science graduate and write computer programs for people, the ability to understand how those blocks work and fit together, it may not seem as important now, but moving into the future, understanding how that works will be crucial for people who are working in a whole range of different environments to think about what can be done and what needs to be done and how different programs will work with each other. In some ways, coding becomes a 21st-century skill because it teaches ideas around the way we think and the way information is organised and the way things are put together that give children a whole range of skills and knowledge that they will need moving forward in their everyday life.
Antony Funnell: Daniel Donahoo, and before him Eben Upton from Raspberry Pi.
- Clare Rafferty
- E-Learning Leader at Ringwood Secondary College in Melbourne.
- Daniel Donahoo
- Director of the ideas consultancy Project Synthesis, independent researcher and co-author of 'adproofing your kids'.
- Dr James Curran
- Associate Professor and ARC Australian Research Fellow- School of Information Technologies, Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Sydney. Director of the National Computer Science School.
- Eben Upton
- Executive Director, Raspberry Pi Foundation.
- Nicky Ringland
- Outreach Officer for the National Computer Science School, University of Sydney and organiser of the Girls Programming Network.
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- Antony Funnell
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- Andrew Davies
Comments (9)
soviet :
29 Apr 2012 12:12:08pm
The raspberry pie project is a really cool concept, I'm a tad older than Eben, at 43, and I am of that era that Eben speak of so fondly, my parents bought me my first Apple 2 computer in 1982, I taught myself Basic to an advanced level even going on to learn 6502 assembly language, getting countless hours of fun playing around with and trying to discover illegal op codes for instance. I was a total dork and I really was beguiled into it all, because you had to do as it was an inherent feature of Apple DOS 3.3 at that time.
I still liked to play games like any young dude at that time, but I also like to go and do tricks on my bmx bike, way before freestyling was ever an established sport, my nephew, for instance, can barely ride a BMX bike and not only that, he has a macbook air, complements of his private school (for the money it cost to send him there, they'd want to give he kids the best) and all he does in it is play games or spend time talking S**T on fb, he spends all his time on fb (facebook), when I took him snowboarding last year at perisher he wanted to stay in the lodge all day and spend it on stupid fb.
To be blunt, idiots like my nephew will NEVER be programmers. He like many of his peers, male and female alike, have the attention spans shorter than a plank length (and thats not even a measurement of time) and are obsessed with this, this stupid "socila media" fad. Hopefully fb will go the way of myspace and we will have more programmers :(
Ian Roberts :
29 Apr 2012 12:26:09pm
That's spooky! James Curran's description was exactly what was happening in ICT classes when my boys were at high school recently. Non-specialists teaching from the book focussing on product development life cycles because they couldn't even program a computer to say Hello World"!
Kym Yeoward (Darwin) :
29 Apr 2012 12:32:21pm
I learned SQL programming at uni 20 years ago - only now is my company re we moving to SQL-based systems.
The foundation knowledge I gained them is really helping now.
James :
29 Apr 2012 2:20:49pm
I am a mere user of technology, but I vividly recall sneaking up to the Display TRS-80 at Tandy Electronics, and quickly typing in a program to make it stream various obscenities.
I also remember at school, compiling my stack of Punch-Cards, which were sent to Monash Uni, and then 3 weeks later getting them back, to find that I had made an error on card 115 or so.
The point which I most took on board from this FT, was that School Based Computer Courses are little more than MS Office Tutorials.
Not to take too much away from the Arts Community, but I was shocked to learn that Some High School Drama and Dance Classes, contribute to University Entrance Scores. Something is wrong.
Cindy :
29 Apr 2012 10:10:29pm
Thanks for an interesting and informative piece. I wasn't sure whether to support increased digitalisation at my daughter's school but you make a very good case for the affirmative!
Antony Funnell :
30 Apr 2012 10:13:59am
I think the main message is that technology should be used wisely in the classroom, not just because it's available or being pushed by companies and educators. As Daniel Donahoo pointed out there are lot's of schools struggling to work out how to incoporate new technologies into their teaching.
If you are heading in that direction make sure that you use technology to support learning, not just for its own sake. Computers and digital devices without adequate support and teacher training are no use to anyone and can actually get in the way of learning - a point I note was made recently by Professor Michael Wesch from Kansas State University. Wesch has long been considered the digital classroom guru. He wrote: "My main point is that participatory teaching methods simply will not work if they do not begin with a deep bond between teacher and student. Importantly, this bond must be built through mutual respect, care, and an ongoing effort to know and understand one another. Somebody using traditional teaching methods (lecture) can foster these bonds and be as effective as somebody using more participatory methods."
You can read the whole blog post at this URL -
(PS: the comments are as good as the article. Not always the case, of course, but certainly in this instance.)
simon :
29 Apr 2012 11:11:27pm
the suggestion during the segment that self-directed learning did not occur in classrooms until the arrival of contemporary technology is in error
Rick Warr :
30 Apr 2012 8:59:10am
Thanks for touching on a really important area I believe. Totally agree with the concept of facilitated teaching and fostering excitement and creativity with technology, employing technology but not letting it be the driver.
MangoClownfish :
30 Apr 2012 7:18:55pm
It's one thing to teach kids how to interact with technology, quite another to insist on its use as a preferred format to teach interaction with and comprehension of the world at large. Should educational institutions lock themselves completely into the ever increasingly rapid cycle of purchase, use and obsolescence? In the end that comes back to prioritisation with other needs. Is it more important to have one on one access to the latest iPad, or to meet other priorities such as one teacher, one class, one classroom; interaction with the world itself, and library access to technology? What do we even mean by technology? What is a computer in an art classroom without access to scanners, printers and graphics tablets, or in a science classroom without data loggers and sensing equipment, or a sewing or woodworking studio without access to digital equipment which interfaces with it; or a music classroom without music software? Providing one to one computer or tablet ratios are all very nice at getting governments elected, but awfully arbitrary and expensive. iPads have existed for only two years, and already the original iPad is twice obsolete, all the while the typical classroom doesn't even have a television at all, let alone a display capable of interaction. If the aim is to have one tablet per student, surely we should ask ourselves whether taxing to fund that for every student, with no element of choice, less the cost of bureaucracy to administer it is the most efficient and proper way for a capitalist country (albeit one with a conscience) to put one into every child's hands. Or, is it wiser to provide students with access to technology (digital microscopes, data loggers, digital whiteboards, spectrometers, scanners, graphics tablets, music software, manufacturing equipment, classrooms connected with others etc...) which their privately purchased or library borrowed tablet can work with? I just think that in that regard we're having the wrong discussion.


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Park City Newcomers Meeting and Holiday Party
The Park City Newcomers Club will meet at Park City Community Church, 4501 S.R. 224, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 10 a.m. This meeting is the club's Holiday Brunch Coffee with musical guest the Park City Treble Makers. On Saturday, Dec. 14, the Newcomers Club will host its annual holiday party at the Grand Summit Hotel at Canyons Resort from 6:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. RSVP to Anne Frank by calling 214-714-3939 or email email@example.com . For more information, visit www.parkcitynewcomers.org .
Santa Claus at the Park City Ice Arena
The Park City Ice Arena, 600 Gillmor Way at Quinn's Junction, will host a holiday party with Santa Claus, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, beginning at 5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will include face painting, music by the Jeremy Ranch Fifth Grade Choir, the Treble Makers and arts and crafts.
Park City High School and Treasure Mountain Junior High Concerts
Park City High School and Treasure Mountain Junior High music departments will present a series of concerts on Wednesday, Dec. 11, and Thursday, Dec. 12, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Performances will be held at Park City High School, 1750 Kearns Blvd., on the Eccles Center stage, in the Black Box, the band room, the lobby and music hall. Admission is free.
Peace House Benefit at Riffs
Riffs Acoustic Music, 1205 Iron Horse Dr., will present a benefit concerts with the Riff Raff Band on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. The concert is a fundraiser for the Peace House, a nonprofit organization dedicated to end domestic violence in Summit and Wasatch Counties. The Riff Raff Band is comprised of Riffs Acoustic Music teachers. Light refreshments will be served. Call 435-649-1940 to reserve a seat. For more information, visit wwwriffspc.com and www.peacehouse.org.


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You Should Really Just Relax
In the not-too-distant future, a mad scientist and his
assistant hatch up a diabolical scheme in Deep 13, the
subbasement of Gizmonics Institute. Their plan is to
send an unscrupulous young man into space and force
him to watch some of the worst B-movies ever made
while they monitor his mind in the hopes their evil
experiment will ultimately break his will. A
screening, usually of some abysmally cheesy '50s
science fiction flick, occurs within a theater aboard
the Satellite of Love, with the black silhouettes of
test subject Joel (Joel Hodgson) and his two homemade,
wise-cracking robot friends, "played by" low-tech
puppets Crow T. Robot (Trace Beaulieu) and Tom Servo
(Kevin Murphy). Lined up along the bottom of the
screen, the threesome comments on the bad no,
terrible movies they watch, entertaining each other
(and their audience)with mordant remarks and humorous
references. It's not exactly the strongest of premise
for a television show, but when Mystery Science Theater 3000 debuted on an independent UHF TV station
in Minneapolis in 1988, a new cult series was born.
The show's creator, Joel Hodgson, played the hapless
janitor Joel Robinson, the subject of Dr. Clayton
Forrester's (Beaulieu again) depraved psychological
research. For years Hodgson had made small guest
appearances on Saturday Night Live and Late Night
with David Letterman. His routine was premised on
offbeat timing and an uncanny array of sight-gag
props, such as airbag helmets for motorcyclists and
the cumber-bubble-bund (a sash releasing a nonstop
flow of bubbles to liven up any social engagement).
His big break came when his low-budget TV show drew
the attention of what was then the fledgling Comedy
Channel (now known as the cable powerhouse Comedy
Central). Hodgson's show consisted of the in-theater
screening, intercut with segments on the bridge which
broke up what could be a potentially monotonous
viewing of a bad two-hour movie. (The bridge segments
alone could have constituted a series, with Joel,
Crow, Tom Servo, and ship's caretaker Gypsy [Jim
Mallon], performing witty skits reminiscent of the
Muppet Show's backstage antics.)
As for the "experiment," though Dr. Forrester
continually presents increasingly grueling movies
Hercules and the Captive Women, The Amazing
Colossal Man, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Joel and his robo-pals are never phased, at least not
for long. They always redeem the worst cinematic
experiences by their innovative joking.
As the years rolled by, many of the original cast and
crew left to pursue bigger and better projects,
including Dr. Forrester's original assistant (Josh
Weinstein), that assistant's replacement (Frank
Conniff), and eventually Joel himself, who was
replaced by Mike Nelson (Michael J. Nelson, who was
the series' head writer for most of its run). After
the sixth season, the possibility of the series'
cancellation loomed heavily. In order to boost popular
awareness and to promote the fun of watching with a
group (after all, the show is modeled after friends
commenting on bad movies), the creative team, Best
Brains Inc., decided to release a movie, so that
audiences could watch Mystery Science Theater 3000
in an actual theater and "participate" along with Mike
Nelson, Tom Servo, and Crow. During the opening
moments, Dr. Forrester intones, "By observing, you
become part of the experiment, too."
That is, you watch Joseph Newman's 1954 science
fiction classic, This Island Earth, in which top
U.S. scientist, Dr. Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) very
masculine and very technologically savvy is lured
by Exeter (Jeff Morrow) into a secret alien-run
program designed to save the dying alien planet,
Metaluna, from inevitable destruction. All this is
typical of early Cold War films' xenophobia and
technophobia. Tom Servo immediately picks up on this:
as Meacham works hard in the laboratory, assembling
the alien-provided communication device, Tom announces
in an enthusiastic commercial narrator's voice, "Men
using tools to fix things! Turning them! Twisting
Reason-as-Meacham stiffly recites his own dialogue as
he meets the token female scientist (and love
interest), Dr. Ruth Adams (Faith Dermergue), discovers
the aliens (who resemble white-haired, white men with
absurdly large foreheads), and ends up on Metaluna
where he and Ruth must escape imminent demise by the
alien slave race, known as Mute-Ants (overgrown
insect-like creatures with large exposed brains and
lobster claws). As in any episode, Mike, Tom, and Crow
dissect the movie: "Ah, the script has just arrived,"
blurts out Tom Servo when a postman delivers a
mysterious package to the scientists.
On its own, This Island Earth isn't necessarily bad;
but a halfway-decent movie was probably a necessary
choice if Best Brains, Inc. hoped for cinematic
success. Nonetheless, MST3K: The Movie differs only
slightly from the series, with the most striking
difference coming in the bridge segments. As there are
no commercials to herald, Mike, Tom, and Crow find
other excuses to leave the theater and act out their
individual characteristics: while they watch This
Island Earth, the film suddenly breaks and they exit
to the S.O.L.'s bridge where Mike tries manually
controlling the ship's navigation. Within seconds, he
crashes into the Hubble Telescope and has to dislodge
the expensive device from the hull, using a pair of
remote-controlled robotic arms. After a tense
operation, the repair is a success, but the telescope,
on release, plunges immediately into the earth's
atmosphere, burning as it enters. "Mike broke the
Hubble," they cheer as they return to the theater.
Such disastrous outcomes are typical of Mike's clumsy
exploits. He suffers repeated humiliation at the hands
of his two sarcastic robot friends: Tom, who tends
toward scientific and literary allusions, and Crow,
who has the more childish and pop-oriented
personality. Together the three reflect their target
audience, basically middle-class, male, science
fiction fanatics who'd "get" the occasionally obscure
references to '70s rock bands, B-film stars like Miles
O'Keefe and Tor Johnson, and the oddball humor that
develops from watching decades' worth of terrible
speculative films on classic late night TV movie
The use of the meta-narrative has become something of
a rage in recent times, from Dennis Miller's news
roundups to VH1's Pop-Up Video, mirroring current
desires not to take a given set of roles, information,
or plots at face value, and to undercut assumptions
about movie-watching and self-identifying.
Unfortunately, in 1999 the Peabody Award-winning
Mystery Science Theater 3000, which enjoyed another
three seasons on the Sci-Fi Channel, was canceled
the two-hour show was simply too long for a major
network to finance for its loyal but small "cult"
following. However, the aftershock of this clever
series will reverberate for years to come, breeding a
new generation of critical commentators on popular
culture and forever suggesting that we should sit back
with our friends, watch what we're given with a
sarcastic eye, and really just relax.
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Flames Drop Heartbreaker in Season Opener Versus Drake, 61-59
Nov. 9, 2013
Drake 61, UIC 59 (Final Stats)
CHICAGO - The UIC men's basketball team (0-1) lost a heartbreaker on Saturday night against Drake by a final score of 61-59 in front of 5,245 fans at the UIC Pavilion. The Flames struggled to contain Bulldog guard Richard Carter who put up a career-high 38 points, including 24 in the second half. Senior Hayden Humes' attempt at a last-second finger roll rimmed in and out as the final horn sounded. UIC was paced by junior Marc Brown with 20 points on 6-of-12 shooting, while dishing out five assists.
"The basketball gods said we didn't deserve the win tonight," said UIC Head Coach Howard Moore. "To be honest, we shouldn't let the game come down to one final play like that. Carter has great quickness, but we let him get to the rim way too many times and he stayed in attack mode. We're not where we need to be and tonight was a wakeup call."
The Flames held the lead for most of the first half and went up by eight to start the second period on a Humes' three-pointer. Just then Carter singled-handedly outscored UIC, 14-5, as the Bulldogs grabbed their first lead of the night with 14:28 left to play.
The contest went back-and-forth over the next four minutes until Drake rattled off nine straight points to go in front 50-42 with 8:30 on the clock. The Flames pulled within one at the 1:16 mark after Brown converted a contested layup on the dish from senior Kelsey Barlow . At the opposite end, Drake's Karl Madison sank one of his two free throws to put his squad up 61-59, which proved to be the final score once Humes' last-second attempt fell off the front end of the rim.
UIC left seven points on the free throw line as they shot 10-of-17 compared to Drake's 20-for-23. Carter was perfect from the charity stripe, sinking all 12 of his attempts.
Barlow performed well in his Flames' debut with 11 points and a career-high seven assists. The Purdue transfer also tallied a team-high three steals.
Humes tacked on 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting, while sophomore Gabe Snider recorded a career-high six points, including two threes.
The Flames return to action on Wednesday at home against Roosevelt with tip scheduled for 7 p.m. CT.


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This simple book tries to fulfill a wish that he had - to give something to the church in remembrance of the more than seventy years he and the church were together."
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This week on "The Walking Dead" we got an entire episode focusing on everyone's favorite one-legged veterinarian, Hershel. And though viewers who tuned out during the long, Hershel's farm focused season two might have dreaded that prospect, the episode was actually pretty great. Tense, emotional, and full of plenty of zombie action; here's the best moments from "Internment":
Moments Of Beauty, Dogs Eating Corpses
There may be no better encapsulation of "The Walking Dead" than the first few moments of this episode, which picks up mere seconds after the end of the last. Rick is driving back to the prison, still checking himself out in the rearview mirror; though now you can tell through Andrew Lincoln's excellent eyeball acting that he's deciding how to tell the group he exiled Carol. Interspersed with these silent shots are fall leaves blowing in the wind on a road, and a rotten corpse being eaten by some feral dogs. Silent beauty, contemplation, gross corpses? That's "Walking Dead" in a nutshell.
Rick Redeemed
The big question between last week's episode and this one was: how would the group respond to Rick exiling Carol? Turns out, we didn't have to worry that much. Hershel has an upset, off screen reaction, but Maggie just rolls with it – telling Rick it was a hard decision, but he made the right one. Next week, we'll see if Daryl and Tyreese feel the same way.
Hershel's First Kill
Sure Hershel has killed walkers before, but here he's forced to kill someone he knows from the prison. Actor Scott Wilson (who is excellent throughout the episode) perfectly channels his character's trepidation when he's forced to put down a member of the undead on his own for the first time.
Goodbye Glenn?
Though Glenn was ultimately saved by Maggie and Hershel, were we the only ones that thought the fan-favorite might be killed off when he lay on the floor of the prison, alone, choking on blood? Though we only lost nameless extras tonight, and the super-flu plotline seems to be over, kudos to the show for creating an atmosphere where we honestly believed one of their most popular characters could die.
Carl Is Just Down The Hall
The last few seasons the running joke has been that everyone always wants to know where Carl is at any given point. This episode, we get two of the exact same scene, with Rick calling for Carl, starting to panic, only to find it was just taking Carl a while to walk down a hallway. So problem solved: if you want to know where Carl is, he's down the hall.
Rick & Carl: Professional Rambos
After zombies take down not one, but two fences protecting the prison, Rick and Carl have some father/son bonding time by picking up semi-automatic weapons and blasting a nearly never-ending horde of the undead. Question: why didn't they just do that before the fences came down?
Hershel Vs. The World
Meanwhile, back in the prison it's Hershel versus every non-speaking member of the cast, as one by one the day players die of superflu and turn into zombies. Hershel's own transformation from fatherly doctor into action hero even gets a shout-out from a returning Daryl, and one of the best lines of the episode. "You're a tough sumbitch," says Daryl. "I am," replies a cool, confident Hershel.
Guess Who's Back?
The fences are mended. The infection is cured. Rick and Carl share a quiet moment eating fresh beans from the garden. And like an idiot who has never seen any movie ever, Carl says, "Everything's going to be all right!" The camera slowly pans out into the trees outside the prison, and there lurks everyone's favorite one-eyed villain: The Governor. Is he coming for their precious beans???
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You will need the following items for this spell:
- 1 pink, red or white candle
- Vanilla oil
- Red yarn or string
Candles spells have some pretty powerful magic to them. Especially when you are looking for ''reunite lovers spells''.
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Topping Thursday night's Central Iowa concert calendar are shows from Gungor and The Giving Tree Band. Here are all the details.
Gungor comes to Des Moines on Thursday for a 7 p.m. concert at Wooly's. The Denver-based Christian-tinged alt-rock collective has won a GMA Dove Award and an Independent Music Award and has also collected two Grammy nominations. Led by husband and wife duo Michael and Lisa Gungor, the group has embarked on the spring leg of their "I Am Mountain" tour (named after their September 2013 album release) that included three performances at the South by Southwest Music Festival. Opening for Gungor Thursday will be Robert Gungor's Wilderman. Robert is Michael's younger brother, and Michael also plays in the band. Tickets to the all ages show are $18 and VIP packages are also available.
Thursday's other top show features Illinois roots rockers The Giving Tree Band performing at DG's Tap House in Ames. The eco-friendly band of vegans has played some of the nation's top festivals, including Wakarusa, SXSW, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and others. The band's fifth album, Vacilador, came out in 2012. The show will kick off at 9 p.m., and it will be a 21-and-over event. Tickets for the concert are $10 at the door.
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Episode - 1F12
First Aired - 2/17/1994Offended by the female stereotypes embodied in the new talking Malibu Stacy doll ("Don't ask me, I'm just a girl!", "Thinking too much gives you wrinkles!"), Lisa tries to introduce a progressive alternative. Meanwhile, Grampa Simpson takes a job at Krusty Burger in order to feel young and hip.
This episode contains examples of (YMMV examples here):
- And Another Thing...: When Abe quits the Krusty Burger, he tells his boss, "And one more thing, I never once washed my hands. That's your policy, not mine!"
- Anti-Climax: In-universe for Lisa. Upon taking the new Talking Malibu Stacy home with her, she roleplays a public speech for the doll, narrating, "A hush falls over the general assembly as Stacy approaches the podium to deliver what will no doubt be a stirring and memorable address." She then pulls the doll's string. Instead of something inspiring, however, Stacy gives the utterly vapid statement, "I wish they taught shopping in school!"
- Bottled Cool: Parodied whe Abe sees a Buzz Cola commercial where a group of old people take a drink of the soda and start acting young and hip, ending with the slogan, "There's a little boogie in every bottle." Abe falls for it and starts chugging a can of Buzz Cola that Homer happens to have...only to start crying out for water.Abe: The bubbles are burning my tongue!
- Brick Joke:
- Homer dancing on the giant keyboard at the toy store.
- Homer tries to sway Maggie (who's spelling her name on an Etch-a-Sketch) into playing with a dangerous fort playset that shocks him, cuts him, and launches a missile into his mouth. Later, in the car, we find out that Bart bought the toy (though we never see Bart with it after that point...)
- Stacy Lovell, Malibu Stacy's creator, explains that she was forced out of her own company in 1974, and tells Lisa that the reason was because the board of directors felt that Miss Lovell's ideas weren't "cost-effective." Lisa expresses sympathy for her, believing it to be typical corporate doublespeak and the overall sexist nature of the male-dominated business world. When the new Lisa Lionheart doll is released, only one little girl chooses it. Lisa concludes that her efforts were worthwhile and Lovell mutters to herself "as long as that girl spends $46,000 on that doll."
- Smithers is reveals to be an avid Malibu Stacy collector. At the end of the episode, he's present in the mob of little girls screaming for Lisa Lionheart.
- Stacy states that she had five husbands, each based on famous male dolls and action figures. One of them, Joe, shows up to try and take Stacy back.
- Biting-the-Hand Humor: Fox owns a chemical weapons plant in Syria.
- Burger Fool: Grampa gets a job at Krusty Burger in order to regain his lost youth, only to learn that the good Lord has made people old so they can find fault with everything on Earth.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Homer does this to Abe:Homer: Dad, I love you, but... you're a weird, sore-headed old crank and nobody likes you!
Abe: Consarn it, I guess I am an old crank. But what am I going to do about it?
- The Collector: Waylon Smithers is revealed in this episode to have the world's largest Malibu Stacy collection.
- Lady Drunk: Stacy Lovell, initially.
- Les Collaborateurs: One of the reasons Stacy Lovell was forced out of the Malibu Stacy-company was because she was funneling profits to the Viet Cong, essentially committing treason against the United States.
- Noodle Incident: Lisa once tossed red paint at the executives of the Keebler company. All we know is that Marge also knows about it and the executives were upset over...whatever they did to deserve that (if they did anything at all).
- Poke the Poodle: The people behind Malibu Stacy, feeling threatened by Lisa Lionheart, call in a favour from the President, who vows to deal with the issue personally. The next scene has him drive by the Simpsons house, throw a brick at their door, and drive on.
- Shout-Out:
- One of the talking Malibu Stacy dolls apparently has a voice box that was supposed to go inside a Spider-Man doll ("My spidey sense is tingling. Anybody call for a webslinger?"). This is a reference to an underground group that switched the voice boxes to some talking Barbie dolls and talking G.I. Joe action figures to make a point about sexism in toys.
- Homer on the giant keyboard refers to the Signature Scene from Big, only instead of Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia playing the floor keyboard together as a symbol that there's nothing wrong with adults getting in touch with their inner child, it's Homer performing a Hollywood Tone-Deaf version of "Rock Around the Clock" (and, at the end of the episode, a perfect version of The Simpsons theme) and breaking the keyboard.
- Stacy Lovell's ex-husbands are all (save "Doctor Colossus") based on male dolls and action figures (and Steve Austin).
- Soapbox Sadie: Lisa. Deconstructed when Lisa's campaign for the Lisa Lionheart doll goes bust (but reconstructed slightly when a girl [who looks like one of Lisa's nameless friends in the early episodes, back when she had a small circle of friends instead of being a friendless nerd] buys her Lisa Lionheart doll and Lisa feels that it was all worth it to inspire at least one person) and discussed when Marge points out that she's been protesting against social injustice an awful lot, from making her family march in a gay rights parade to boycotting FOX because the company owns chemical weapon plants in Syria.
- Special Guest: Kathleen Turner as Stacy Lovell.
- Take This Job and Shove It: After Abe has his epiphany at the end of his plotline, he turns to his boss and says, "Mr. Peterson, you can take this job and...fill it!"
- Unexpected Inheritance: Abe starts fearing death after seeing his idol Matlock in person, so he gives the rest of the family his inheritance so he can see them enjoy it. He gives Lisa his lifetime of personal correspondence, but his main gift for the family is a box of mint-condition 1918 liberty-head silver dollars, prompting an immediate shopping trip to the mall.
- Writing Around Trademarks: Malibu Stacy is an obvious parody of the Barbie-franchise.


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Leading the new breed
by Stuart Vose
Carlos Cuellar is helping to lead footballers into the social media age.
Sunderland's Carlos Cuellar is helping to lead the charge as Britain's footballers embrace social media.
Sites such as Twitter have revolutionized the way we communicate and brought fans of professional sports of all types closer to their heroes.
Twitter has quite literally changed the world – how many of us were thinking about the merits of micro-blogging way back in 2006?
A quick browse shows Real Madrid star Kaka is the world's most-followed footballer with 5.3m people following his every move.
Summer signing Cuellar is closing in on 200,000 followers – small fry by comparison – but it's the content he produces which really shows how he has mastered the social media space.
My first day of training, there r a good people in the dressing room I am looking forward to start my new adventure ;)
- @Cuellar24
As well as his Twitter account, the Spaniard also has his own official website (www.cuellar24.com) and Facebook page, both of which are regularly updated.
Football fans love Twitter, particularly when it is used by players to give them an insight into the life and times of the figures they love.
Clubs' players often avoid the limelight but Twitter is helping them to connect with supporters in a new and exciting way.
Cuellar endeared himself with the red and white army soon after joining – a flurry of retweets and personal replies to fans saw to that – and he's kicked things up a notch since.
Images of his travels around the north east are constantly appearing, including a mini tour of the region which featured the defender standing on the sea front at Roker.
Far from being shy and retiring, Carlos seems to constantly have a camera to hand and gives the fans an exclusive peek into his life, tweeting in both English and Spanish.
It's a uniquely personal experience and one which has been embraced across the region and beyond.
Carlos has slotted into a Sunderland squad which is increasingly using Twitter – midfielder David Meyler, for example, has almost 150,000 followers, while a number of other players are also using the site.
There's been a number of examples in the media of players getting into trouble for making comments on Twitter, with several having been fined by the FA.
But, used in the right way, the site's a great tool for players and fans alike – and it's here to stay.


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On my 70 with long ass bg queue times.
Sergeant, from back in vanilla, even tho its not a high rank it was something when i was lvl 50 and didnt knew what i was doing xD
Loremaster, because its a fairly long grind, longer than the Seeker
The professor. Even tho it wasn't very hard to get for me, i still don't see all too many people with it
When your enemies meet death , it is my face that shall greet them.
1: The Immortal
2: Herald of the Titans
3: Vanilla pvp title
I had a blast doing all of these, except after hours of Naxxramas only to have some idiot die on KT
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
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Dominik stood up from his seat and shook his head. There definately wasn't much intel for this mission, but he'd gone in on much less before. Heading out to his quarters, Dominik met up with Amanda in the hallway.
"Dominik, its good to see you. I just arrived, but I here that we're about to head out yet again. What's the story?" Amanda asked.
Viva Mexico!
" Dominik replied in perfectly accented Spanish.
Amanda smiled. "I see that your Spanish is improving. Good; well, I'll go get the files we need for the mission and try to pull up any intell. When do we leave?"
"1 hour; so, you'll have to be quick about it," Domink replied.
"Very well. I'll see you on the plane," Amanda said as she smiled at Dominik. With a quick exchange of kisses on the cheeks, the pair split in opposite directions as they moved down the hallway. Arriving at his room, Dominik slipped inside.
Just inside was his lone equipment crate. Breathing in a bit deep, Dominik knew that he was going to have to fill it up with every last peice of equipment he had. That also meant that there was a lot of cleaning to get done on his weapons. Heading over the gun cabinet, Dominik fumbled around a bit with his keys before he found the right one.
Putting in the key, Dominik turned it while pressing his left hand against a small pad. A green LED came on at the top of the cabinet, and Dominik was finally able to open it. Inside was a slightly disassembled OICW, two SIG P250 pistols, and his trusty Barrett rifle. There was also a large assortment of empty ammunition magazines and boxes of ammunition stored in a section below the main gun area.
Taking the OICW parts first (the 20mm grenade launcher was still unattached to the main rifle component), Dominik carefully set the two components onto a table next to the cabinet. Pulling out a cleaning kit from his pocket that he kept on him at all times, Dominik then got to work on fully disassembling all of his weapons and thoroughly cleaning them as per his custom before a mission.
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Why Regional Coordinators?
Michael Needham, Heritage Action's CEO, explains why we have Regional Coordinators: "For too long, Washington has ignored the voices of concerned citizens, Heritage Action will ensure that lawmakers in Washington represent all Americans, not special interests."The work of repealing Obamacare, stopping runaway federal spending, and limiting over-regulation starts with conservative activists holding their Members of Congress accountable. Regional coordinators recruit and organize those activists, positioning conservatives for policy victories.
The Northeast region covers western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia.
David Hass, Northeast Regional Coordinator
David Haas was the Pennsylvania State Chairman of Young Americans for Liberty, where he worked with students and non-profits to expand YAL's presence on campus. David began his career in politics serving as the Republican Party Committee Chairman of his hometown of Blakely, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Leadership Institute, David has worked on a number of campaigns, including Sam Rohrer's 2012 Senate campaign. Interning for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, David gained valuable experience in the public policy making process, working on numerous projects of the Institute.


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Last month, the Xavier University Jazz Ensemble released "What's up, John?" a compilation of tunes performed by the group under John DeFoor's direction between the years of 2008 and 2010. John passed away in May of 2010, and is far from forgotten (click here for the
Jazz Half May 2010 article).
The CD contains popular numbers played by the ensemble like "Senor Blues",
"Sir Duke", and more. Throughout the liner notes, you will find messages to John from the students that are both heartfelt and humorous. A BIG thanks to Sue Brown-DeFoor for coordinating the effort of putting this fabulous project together. The Jazz Ensemble recently played with the XU Faculty Jazztet in a first-time-ever collaborative performance. Click here to see footage from the show.


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LG Optimus G Pro reaches 1 million sales in South Korea
The LG Optimus G Pro has reached the one million sales milestone in the company's home country of South Korea. It took the phablet about four months to achieve this number of shipments. The Optimus G Pro's first 500,000 sales in South Korea occurred over a period of just 40 days, as we told you back in April.
The Optimus G Pro is LG's first handset to reach 1 million sold in such a short amount of time. The previous LG device to get to the 1 million mark fastest was the Optimus LTE, but it needed three more months to do so compared to the Optimus G Pro. So clearly, Koreans are more and more enamored with LG's smartphones of late. Then again, Koreans pretty much love every new gadget that is released by the country's three major phone makers (count Samsung and Pantech alongside LG), so this is hardly surprising.
Around 8,000 units have been sold in South Korea each day since the device was launched, aside from the launch day when 10,000 devices were sold.
We would be interested to find out how well the Optimus G Pro has been doing, sales-wise, across all territories in which it's being sold, but that's presumably a statistic for another day.


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Thanks for the info. I didn't know that RRA made a lower with an integral magwell. I like that conept, as opposed the the magwell block. The price for this lower looks to be about the same as the CMMG version.
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BillT, nice setup, but MOST important, NICE AVATAR!!!!!! (Why do I have the feeling that you took the picture yourself, rather than pulling it off the web?) LOL.
Gotta second or third the 9mm ar is a Great addition to any ar collection FWIW Aim surplus has Cproducts 9mm 32 rnd mags for 12.99 now
I'd love to have 9mm AR15. Maybe someday.
the 9mm ar is very light, low report and fairly cheap ammo.
JSA has some deals in the 9mm like the $150 CMMG bolts that are ramped for ar-15/m16 type hammers. $105 stainless barrels and $35 9mm mag blocks.
the only little thing i don't like is the plastic mag block , to install it ya have to remove the pin that holds the bolt hold. the tight DSA lowers don't like that at all--LOL
otherwise they are a breeze to shoot--
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i think my 9mm kit ran less than $300 for the top and the mag block-- mags extra--LOL!
i say DYI save $$ and it is easy with the CMMG ramped bolt carrier.


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In case you cannot bear to be away from all things royal this week, Apple has taken care of your obsession. Yes, whether it's your I-Phone or your I-Pad, there is an app for that. In fact there are a couple of dozen apps for that. Since there are only a few days to go until the wedding, it seems a little pointless for even the most die-hard Anglophiles to pay for a royal wedding smart phone app when there are a couple of pretty decent free applications. There are five free Royal Wedding I-Phone apps in this review; two good, one ho-hum and two you should avoid and just save your disk space.
Good choices:
The Royal Wedding 2011 by 2 for Couples, Free, 4.7Mb, rating 5/5 stars by 6 users
This app has five sections and is easy to navigate. The Countdown gives you days and minutes until the ceremony. My favorite part is the News section because it looks so much like Facebook. That gives it a familiar feel, is easy to scroll through the headlines with thumbnail photos to find articles of interest. The Souvenirs section is a fun look at all kinds of memorabilia such as coffee mugs, key chains, and even a red, white and blue Union Jack adorned sofa. The color scheme doesn't match my living room so I guess I won't order it for only $3000. I made an entry in the guest book but was disappointed to see people had downloaded the application in order to write ugly comments in the guest book. If you don't like the Royal Wedding, why take the time to download the application? Finally there is a contest section for daily prize give-aways.
The Royal Wedding by Hello Ltd, Free, 17.4Mb, rating 3.5/5 stars by 11 users
This robust app has nine sections. At that seems to be missing is the one thing every other app has: the countdown clock. Not to worry. I think it would be impossible for anyone on the planet to forget that William and Kate are getting married on Friday, April 29th. This app recounts the royal romance in timeline format. Another section contains two photos albums: one for William and one for Kate. It gives a nice historical perspective listing wedding gifts that range from the crazy to the incredible. Of course there is a section on the beautiful ring, originally worn by Princess Diana and now by Kate. The Dress section allows you to make predictions about Kate's likely wedding gown. The History, the Venue and the Celebration with live news feeds complete this app. This is a feature rich application I think you will like.
Ho-hum Choice:
The Royal Wedding by NBC News, Free, 18.2Mb, 3/5 stars by 14 users
Don't let the lower rating scare you off this app. Most of the reviews were not about the app itself but from people who don't like the royal wedding and who probably had not used the application. This is a pretty decent app with some interesting features. It contains about 300 photos of the royal couple, but if you're already following the wedding this section probably won't break new ground. There are wedding news reports. I liked the royal family tree with biographies to bring the names to life. It also tells us who the major players will be on Friday and how they all relate to each other. There are ideas for royal watch parties and of course you can buy branded products. If you see something you like, this app makes it easy to share via Twitter or on Facebook.
Don't bother:
Royal Wedding Insider by BBC Worldwide Ltd, Free, 118 Mb, 2/5 stars by 73 users
This bloated app is a perfect example of a good idea gone overboard. Not only does it take up too much disk space, it contains a wedding song. It's amusing the first time you hear it. But I agree with review after review that criticizes the song as repetitive and annoying. Many reviewers had technical difficulties with the application freezing or closing unexpectedly. This app contains wedding news from the BBC, a blog, and a clever idea: create your own royal wedding and share it with friends. This application has an etiquette section which will be helpful in understanding some of the more arcane occurrences in the wedding. This application contains videos and some reviewers complain that's where the freeze occurs…could be a memory problem, but another example of trying to do too much in a free app. The final section of this app contains royal facts and figures. For my money (well, this app is free) there are better choices.
WeeMee Royal Wedding Countdown by WeeWorld Inc., Free, 11.2Mb, 2.5/5 stars by 127 users On the plus side, this application counts down to the ceremony by days, hours, minutes and seconds. On the negative side, the only thing this application does is count down by days, hours, minutes and seconds. It does contain the 'world's most popular' avatars according to WeeWorld and they are cute. Spoiler alert: The wedding is FRIDAY, making this application totally unnecessary.
The I-Phone and I-Pad applications will allow you to stay up to date on the days leading up to and during the wedding. The photos in the slideshow are taken of the screen from my I-Phone showing The Royal Wedding 2011.


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City saw a two-goal lead slip against Manchester United in the Community Shield to lose 3-2 in a gut-wrenching derby at Wembley.
Goals from Joleon Lescott and Edin Dzeko had put the Blues in command against the Reds, but Chris Smalling and Nani had levelled the scores before the hour-mark as both sides served up a Sunday afternoon treat for the watching millions around the world.
But it was an uncharacteristic mistake from skipper Vincent Kompany let in Nani deep into injury time as a penalty shoot-out had loomed.
Starting the new season with a Manchester derby at Wembley is a new experience, but one every Blue could get used to, though obviously with a different outcome next time around.Read full match report
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Mark Carlton, Extension Field Agronomist, Southeast Area
Problem Statement:
In past years, the Crop Advantage Series have been held in Osceola and Burlington or Mt. Pleasant leaving a large gap in southeast and south central Iowa. In many cases, farmers had to drive almost 100 miles to attend a Crop Advantage Series.
Programmatic Response:
I proposed to the Agribusiness Education Program that an additional Crop Advantage Series be added at the Bridge View Center in Ottumwa, Iowa beginning in 2008 to meet the needs of growers in surrounding counties. The Crop Advantage committee, state specialists and field staff all agreed to participate in the plan. The first Crop Advantage Series was scheduled for January 31, 2008. County Extension Education Directors jumped at the opportunity and promoted the event in newsletters and through local media. Five Corn and Soybean Initiative partners supported the Crop Advantage by sponsoring select clients to attend.
Almost ninety growers and agribusiness personnel attended the event. Thirty-five growers received their Private Pesticide Applicator certification. Overall, comments from clients were very positive and supportive of bringing the Crop Advantage Series to their area. Several growers commented that they were going to adopt the Maximum Return to Nitrogen recommendation on their 2008 corn crop. One grower commented that using the Maximum Return to Nitrogen recommendation on his 800 acres of corn would reduce his nitrogen cost by $16,000 over the nitrogen rates that he had been applying. One CSI partner said that it was nice to see data from Iowa State University that showed that farmers can still apply phosphorus and potassium and get a good return on their investment.
Clients, state specialists, and county staff all agreed and commented on the quality of the presentations as well as the facilities at the Bridge View Center in Ottumwa.
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