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25 Jul 2014
The risk of a baby in the UK dying on the first day of life is higher than the average daily risk of death until the 92nd year, a study in the BJOG has shown. The study from Nottingham looked at the risk of death on the day of birth, measured in MicroMorts, and compared this with risks at other ages and for a variety of activities. A MicroMort is a figure expressed as the number of one in a million chances of death associated with an activity or event.
Does exercise affect prognosis in coronary heart disease?
25 Jul 2014
Moderately frequent strenuous activity can reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD) but daily strenuous activity may increase risk although not as much as no exercise at all, a study suggests. The study analysed data from a prospective cohort of 1,038 subjects with stable CHD. The majority of the participants were male, over 60 (median 61 years), overweight, current or former smokers and had a history of myocardial infarction and hypertension.
Urgency urinary incontinence the most bothersome LUTS
25 Jul 2014
This study, from Finland, compared the impact of different lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). A total of 3,727 individuals took part, just over half were women. On an individual level, urgency urinary incontinence was the most likely symptom to be rated as bothersome by both men and women, with 30.7% reporting at least moderate bother. It is not the presence of symptoms but the bother they cause the patient that is vital to understand when assessing and managing LUTS. Storage symptoms, particularly urgency and urgency urinary incontinence, are the most likely to cause significant impairment of quality of life.
Women with diabetes at greater risk of CHD than men
23 Jun 2014
A recent large meta-analysis has confirmed that women with diabetes have more than a 40% higher risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) than men. For GPs this is a timely reminder to consider CHD as a high risk in women with diabetes, and to treat risk factors vigorously. This is especially important because routine screening in the healthy population accustoms us to women being generally at lower risk than men using the current CHD risk tools.
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Early endoscopy improves survival in gastric cancer
25 Jul 2014
Gastric cancer often presents late and the mortality ratio remains one of the highest compared with more common cancers. Early diagnosis improves survival in this potentially curable cancer. Dysphagia, weight loss and age over 55 are significant predictors of cancer. All patients presenting with dyspepsia and either alarm features or known conditions that increase the risk of gastric cancer should be referred for urgent endoscopy. Given that the majority of gastric cancer cases occur in people over 55, urgent endoscopy is also recommended in patients in this age group with new uncomplicated dyspepsia prior to treatment, even without alarm symptoms or if the symptoms respond to treatment. [With external links to current evidence and summaries]
Detecting patients with cirrhosis in primary care
25 Jul 2014
Cirrhosis is a condition that arises as a result of chronic liver damage, typically over many years. It is characterised by fibrosis and nodularity of the liver parenchyma. Common causes of chronic liver disease include alcohol, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and chronic viral hepatitis. Nearly half of patients with cirrhosis are asymptomatic. As a result the condition may only be discovered incidentally as a result of abnormalities in liver function tests or imaging of the abdomen performed for other reasons. Alternatively patients may present with signs and symptoms of the complications of cirrhosis e.g. jaundice, ascites, variceal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy or hepatocellular carcinoma. The gold standard test for the diagnosis of cirrhosis remains a liver biopsy.
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Identifying the causes of contact dermatitis
23 Jun 2014
Contact dermatitis results from skin contact with an exogenous substance. It can be caused by direct contact, airborne particles, vapours or light. Individuals of any age can be affected. The two most common variants are irritant contact dermatitis (ICD) and allergic contact dermatitis (ACD). ICD is more common and has a worse prognosis. ICD is a form of eczema and is induced by direct inflammatory pathways without prior sensitisation. If eczema is recurrent/persistent, or occurs in an individual with no previous history of eczema, contact dermatitis should be considered. If ACD is suspected the patient should be referred to secondary care for patch testing.
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25 Jul 2014
The results of abdominal wounds are very bad. One school of thought recommends immediate operation; the other advises no operation at all. Consider what it means to operate on the abdomen. There must be an absolutely first-class hospital and a first-class nursing staff at our disposal for at least 1½ hours, whilst for each case three highly-skilled medical men are needed: an expert abdominal surgeon – a man who can really tackle big abdominal work, a first-class anaesthetist, and the surgeon's assistant. In the end, perhaps one out of three, perhaps one out of five, may recover. It is a terrible thing to have to place a man's life in the balance, when we think we could save it by a great effort. But when there are 50 or 60 other wounded men lying around, and the labour being expended on one may mean lack of attention to the others, it becomes a very difficult question.
Psychological aspects of food idiosyncrasies in infants
23 Jun 2014
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Technology can improve the doctor-patient relationship
25 Jul 2014
The potential for apps and add-ons to smart phones is almost beyond imagination. Patients will be able to download user-friendly health information that will radically change the relationship between doctor and patient to a much healthier partnership model, rather than the teacher/student, priest/supplicant hierarchical model that is still all too typical. However complex and digital and networked the world becomes, human beings will still need to feel safe and cared for. People who are ill will still be frightened, need someone to trust, and need a system that cares. We must never forget that.
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25 Jul 2014
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23 Jun 2014
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25 Jul 2014
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23 Jun 2014
The Practitioner's CPD exercise this month is based on: • Be vigilant for invasive meningococcal disease • Diagnosing and managing peanut allergy in children • Identifying the causes of contact dermatitis. This CPD study pack can be saved directly into your personal development plan folder on your computer or for review in the PDF reader on your tablet computer.
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Membership would be open to all GPs who wish to extend their education in this field beyond that of a standard generalist, not just GPwSIs.
There is also the potential of affiliating the group with the British Association of Urological Surgeons which would allow collaboration between primary and secondary care.
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A case of recalcitrant bacterial conjunctivitis
05 Dec 2013
It is important to be vigilant for retained foreign bodies as a cause of recalcitrant bacterial conjunctivitis, even in the absence of foreign body sensation. A relapsing-remitting history should prompt referral to an ophthalmology department. All patients presenting with a red eye should be asked specifically about contact lens wear, and causes of conjunctivitis other than those bacterial in nature — such as viral and chlamydial infections or allergy — should be borne in mind.
A case of persistent hemifacial weakness
25 Jul 2013
Bell's palsy has a typical presentation of sudden onset, mild otalgia, altered facial sensation and/or taste, with no obvious prodrome. It represents over half of hemifacial weakness cases in primary care. However, as a diagnosis of exclusion, there are a number of key clinical features of more sinister diagnoses that must be considered.


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Sawley Infant and Nursery School
Wilmot Street
Long Eaton
Phone:0115 9732652
Headteacher: Mrs Marie Harral
343 pupils, Mixed
|Unique Reference Number
|Local Authority
|Inspection number
|Inspection date
|20 November 2008
|Reporting inspector
|Geof Timms
This inspection of the school was carried out under section 5 of the Education Act 2005.
The registered childcare, managed by the governing body, was inspected under section 49 of the Childcare Act 2006.
|Type of school
|School category
|Age range of pupils
|Gender of pupils
|Number on roll
|School (total)
|Appropriate authority
|The governing body
|Mr Byron Gillespie
|Mrs Marie Harral
|Date of previous school inspection
|28 September 2005
Date of previous funded early education
|Not previously inspected
|Date of previous childcare inspection
|Not previously inspected
|School address
|Wilmot Street
|Sawley, Long Eaton
|Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG10 3DQ
|Telephone number
|0115 973 2652
|Fax number
|0115 972 0124
|Age group
|Inspection date
|20 November 2008
|Inspection number
© Crown copyright 2008
Website: ofsted.gov.uk
The inspection was carried out by two Additional Inspectors.
Inspectors evaluated the overall effectiveness of the school and investigated the following issues:
Evidence was gathered from: a range of local and national data, the information that the school has on tracking pupils' progress, the school self-evaluation form, the school improvement plan and lesson observations. Discussions were held with the headteacher and staff, a member of the governing body and pupils. Parents' questionnaires were analysed and the school's systems for safeguarding pupils were checked. Other aspects were not investigated in detail, but the inspectors found no evidence to suggest that the school's own assessments, as given in its self-evaluation, were not justified. These have been included where appropriate within the report.
This is a larger than average school. It serves an extended urban area. An average proportion of the pupils is entitled to free school meals. The proportion from minority ethnic backgrounds is below average and very few use English as an additional language. The proportion of pupils who have learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities is broadly average. Most of these pupils have behavioural, social and emotional difficulties or speech and language difficulties. The EYFS is provided through the 130-place Nursery and two Reception classes. The attainment of children when they start in the Nursery varies, but overall it is often below that expected nationally.
The school holds the Basic Skills Quality Mark and the Healthy Schools Award. The school is also accredited with the Derbyshire Personalised Learning Award. There is a privately managed before and after-school club off site. The headteacher has been in post since the start of this term but was acting as headteacher prior to her substantive appointment.
|Grade 1
|Grade 2
|Grade 3
|Grade 4
Overall effectiveness of the school
Grade: 1
This is an outstanding school in every way. All aspects of its work are fully focused on doing the best possible for the pupils. Because of this achievement is outstanding and standards attained are often exceptionally high. Much of the success of the school is the result of excellent leadership at all levels, and consistently so over a number of years. The school is not complacent and is always searching for improvement, innovation and new ideas. The governors enthusiastically describe the passion shown by the staff for the school. One parent wrote that her son says about the school, 'It is like going home.' After spending time at Sawley, it is easy to see why he might feel that.
The pupils make outstanding progress from their starting points. In the latest national assessments at the end of Year 2, the standards in reading and writing were exceptionally high. In mathematics, standards were above average. Standards in science were assessed as broadly average and immediately the staff began investigating why they were not higher than that. Following their analysis, they made improvements to the planning and the collection of evidence to support higher levels. This is already having a positive impact on standards in science. The current quality of the work in all subjects, in lessons and in pupils' books, is of a very high standard, neat and well presented and at levels well above those expected for their age. In particular, creative artwork of very high quality is evident throughout the school.
One of the reasons for the high standards is the improvement made to the planning of the curriculum. Year teams of staff plan together in tremendous detail. They plan themes that interest the pupils, and enable them to make excellent links between subjects. Topics always start with pupils deciding, often through mind mapping and discussions with their teacher, what they already know and what they would like to find out. This personalised approach ensures that the pupils find their work interesting and relevant, and they are very clear about the purposes of their learning. Teachers' planning ensures that key skills are always part of the work. Pupils are fully aware of these, can point them out on displays and know exactly what they need to learn next. This work is creating excellent learners, who are independent but able to work well in groups or pairs. They are being exceptionally well prepared for the next stage of their education. Staff are aware that they now need to review their assessment arrangements to ensure that the progress pupils make in all subjects is as accurately and effectively tracked as it is in reading, writing and mathematics.
All groups of pupils are making equally good progress. The school has developed accurate systems for identifying and providing for those pupils who have particular gifts or talents. The more able pupils are identified in each class, where they often have opportunities to work in small groups with adults on extension and enrichment activities. Those with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties, or who have poorly developed speech and language skills, also make outstanding progress. One parent is so pleased with the way the school provides support for her and her child that she wrote, 'I cannot praise them all enough!'
The links made between subjects extend beyond the curriculum and influence pupils' outstanding personal development. In one example, pupils demonstrated their excellent understanding of how to keep themselves safe from fire by showing how they had learned this while studying the Great Fire of London. In Year 1, pupils showed exceptional enjoyment in making sandwiches, working with huge smiles and great concentration. This also illustrated their excellent knowledge of ways to stay healthy. Their enjoyment is also evident in their high attendance and in the excellent attitudes they have towards school. In particular, they talk about how much they enjoy using the computers. Their behaviour is exceptional both in and out of classes.
The quality of the teaching and learning is outstanding. This high quality is maintained by superb teamwork amongst the staff. Their mutual support and sharing of good practice result in consistently exceptional provision. This is evident in the way that teachers who are new to the profession and to the school are supported. Lessons are challenging and well paced. Resources are of extremely good quality and used very effectively. The teamwork between teachers and teaching assistants is exceptional and has a very positive impact on pupils' learning. The systems for assessing, tracking and recording pupils' progress in reading, writing and mathematics are a major strength. Assessment is used well by teachers when planning lessons for the range of ability in the class and for ensuring that pupils do not fall behind. Their marking of the pupils' work is very successful in helping all learners to understand what they need to do to improve. All safeguarding arrangements are robust and systems for ensuring pupils are safe and well looked after in school meet all necessary requirements.
The school is so successful because of its outstanding leadership. All staff have important leadership roles that they willingly and successfully carry out. They are actively encouraged to show initiative and to try new ideas and they respond with vigour and enthusiasm. In particular, the school improvement team has a significant impact on new initiatives, such as curricular innovation and personalised learning. The headteacher has already demonstrated in a very short time exceptional ability to lead the school through important changes. The school's systems to check its own effectiveness are excellent and firmly focused on improvement and maintaining the high standards. The governing body provides an exceptional level of support and challenge for the school and individual expertise is used very well. Pupils' achievement and the outstanding quality of education make clear that the school has the capacity to continue moving from strength to strength.
Effectiveness of the Early Years Foundation Stage
Grade: 1
The outstanding provision and progress, and exceptional personal development, care and guidance, found throughout the school are also evident in the EYFS. Children start in the Nursery with a range of pre-school experiences. They make exceptionally fast progress because the activities provided for them are well organised and led very well by all the adults in the setting. This is also true for those children with learning or behavioural needs. Excellent use is made of the very good outdoor facilities. This was evident when children were playing the role of garage mechanics; they developed early writing skills and improved their speaking as they telephoned customers to collect their cars. The excellent work continues into the Reception classes. Children continue to achieve outstandingly well so that by the time they enter Year 1, standards have risen to be broadly in line with the national average. The teaching is excellent throughout the EYFS and the provision is outstandingly well led and managed. As one parent said of her child, 'I am particularly impressed at how carefully her ability has been assessed and how closely her lessons match her ability.'
|Any complaints about the inspection or the report should be made following the procedures set out in the guidance 'Complaining about inspections', which is available from Ofsted's website: ofsted.gov.uk.
|Key to judgements: grade 1 is outstanding, grade 2 good, grade 3 satisfactory, and grade 4 inadequate.
|School Overall
|How effective,efficient and inclusive is the provision of education,integrated care and any extended services in meeting the needs of learners?
|Effective steps have been taken to promote improvement since the last inspection
|How well does the school work in partnership with others to promote learners' well-being?
|The capacity to make any necessary improvements
|How effective is the provision in meeting the needs of children in the EYFS?
|How well do children in the EYFS achieve?
|How good is the overall personal development and well-being of the children?
|How effectively are children in the EYFS helped to learn and develop?
|How effectively is the welfare of children in the EYFS promoted?
|How effectively is provision in the EYFS led and managed?
|How well do learners achieve?
|The standards¹ reached by learners
|How well learners make progress, taking account of any significant variations between groups of learners
|How well learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities make progress
|How good are the overall personal development and well-being of the learners?
|The extent of learners' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
|The extent to which learners adopt healthy lifestyles
|The extent to which learners adopt safe practices
|The extent to which learners enjoy their education
|The attendance of learners
|The behaviour of learners
|The extent to which learners make a positive contribution to the community
|How well learners develop workplace and other skills that will contribute to their future economic well-being
|How effective are teaching and learning in meeting the full range of learners' needs?
|How well do the curriculum and other activities meet the range of needs and interests of learners?
|How well are learners cared for, guided and supported?
|How effective are leadership and management in raising achievement and supporting all learners?
|How effectively leaders and managers at all levels set clear direction leading to improvement and promote high quality of care and education
|How effectively leaders and managers use challenging targets to raise standards
|The effectiveness of the school's self-evaluation
|How well equality of opportunity is promoted and discrimination eliminated
|How well does the school contribute to community cohesion?
|How effectively and efficiently resources, including staff, are deployed to achieve value for money
|The extent to which governors and other supervisory boards discharge their responsibilities
|Do procedures for safeguarding learners meet current government requirements?
|Does this school require special measures?
|Does this school require a notice to improve?
21 November 2008
Dear Children
Inspection of Sawley Infant and Nursery School, Sawley, NG10 3DQ
Thank you for the way you made us so welcome when we visited your school recently. You were all so polite and well behaved - we were very impressed. We especially enjoyed talking to some of you. I was very interested to be shown how you take the lead in managing the learning you choose by the four helpful Year 2 pupils who took me on a tour of the school.
The school song you wrote was very good - especially when you sing:
They help us; we do the work, Who helps us? The teachers do. In our school we all try hard, We like learning something new.
I also want to tell you what we found out about your school. Your school is outstanding. There are many really good things about it but here are some.
As your school is excellent, there are not many things it needs to do to improve. One thing is that the staff should find out even more how well you are doing in your subjects, other than reading, writing and mathematics, to make sure they really know how well you are learning.
Thank you again for your help. Keep working hard and enjoy your time at Sawley.
Yours sincerely
Geof Timms
Lead inspector


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I've noticed that you refer to equality quite often in yourdiscussions. Often referring to the Wyoming State motto of "The Equality State"inferring that equality is non-existent in Wyoming. Could you help meunderstand exactly what you mean when you say "equality"?
Not everything is black or white. Never have I implied equality is completely non-existent. If you've been paying attention over the past few years, you'd understand what I mean. However, I'm feeling generous.
First, let's start with Dictionary.com's definition of equality:
e·qual·i·ty [ih-kwol-i-tee]
noun, plural -ties.
1.the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability.
Now with the Wyoming Constitution:
Article 1, Section 2. Equality of all.
In their inherent right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all members of the human race are equal.
Article 1, Section 3. Equal political rights.
Since equality in the enjoyment of natural and civil rights is only made sure through political equality, the laws of this state affecting the political rights and privileges of its citizens shall be without distinction of race, color, sex, or any circumstance or condition whatsoever other than individual incompetency, or unworthiness duly ascertained by a court of competent jurisdiction.
So equality in Wyoming is really for all people. And by all people, Marc, that means folks you and your BFFs may find distasteful. Every other legislative session, I go over the hill to testify against bills seeking to marginalize and discriminate against GLBTQ people in Wyoming. Bills you all testify in favor of regularly. I've heard my friends called diseased, broken, and sick - in a legislative committee! And don't give me any of this "hate the sin, love the sinner" stuff. Even if you believe that, you are still hating one very core piece of an individual. If homosexuality is a choice, when did you wake up and choose to be straight? Could you, personally, choose to be gay? Doubt it.
I honestly don't care that you folks believe America is a Judeo-Christian nation. That's all well and good. However, when you start legislating from a religious book, that's called a theocracy. Iran does it too. The Bible teaches valid moral lessons. So do many other religious books. I used to be Catholic. I'm now an atheist. My moral foundation did not change. Even without God, I still believe it's wrong to kill people, steal, lie, etc.
From one of your articles:
"Gay couples are not lined up at city halls hoping for a marriage license… I have never believed that gays wanted to marry. Their behavior by its very nature is too promiscuous… Gay relationships are for the most part sexually open rather than exclusive… Gays are actively trying to destroy marriage and will take away our freedom of speech and religion in order to do it."
Here's a photo of couples lined up at the Albany County Courthouse last Valentine's Day to receive a marriage license:
So straight couples can enter into a 72-day marriage with a $10 mil. wedding a la Kim Kardashian, then seek a divorce, and God somehow is more cool with that than with any of these couples above getting married. Just for the record, my husband and I have been married for roughly 2.11 Kardashians.
Know what? Let Mrs. Betty Bowers break down "Traditional Marriage" for you:
Another quote from your articles:
Study after study has shown that gay "marriage" undermines the institution of marriage. In those societies where homosexual "marriage" has been tried, traditional marriage is increasingly discarded.
Citation needed. I want a peer-reviewed study endorsed by AMA, APA, or ASA. It's okay, I'll wait. Here's Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. dealing with one cited by conservatives often:
Funny that. So there's no difference between same-sex and opposite-sex families?
I also enjoy that you use "Well, there's not that many of them" as a justification. You've claimed roughly 1.7% of the population is homosexual. So what? Does that justify discrimination? 0.8% of the population is American Indian. Does their low number justify discrimination?
How, personally, has marriage equality kept you from enjoying your heterosexual marriage? If you want to see more of my thoughts, read these two letters.
A Modest Proposal
Same-Sex Bill Same as Past Discriminatory Laws in America
If marriage equality passes in Wyoming, your church can still refuse to marry same-sex couples, much like a Catholic church can refuse to marry Baptists or those who don't want to complete their pre-marital counseling.
Further, the opposition to marriage equality keeps boiling it down to sex and procreation. Is that all marriage is to you folks? Pumping out kids and occasionally sweating up the sheets? I see it as legitimization of a committed, loving relationship entered into by two consenting adults. Trust me, straight people can engage in some freaky, non-procreative sexual activity.
P.S. And about consent - marriage equality is not going to lead to bestiality or marrying brothers and sisters. Your cat cannot consent to a legal contract and legal precedent has validated the state's interest in preventing close blood relatives from marrying - though there's more states where you can marry first cousin than your same-sex partner. Any closer than that, and the courts have said no bueno. Supposedly, marriage between the races would lead to the same outcomes. Didn't happen, but it's just like how expanding voting rights led to hamsters voting, right? Slippery slope, y'know?
And railing about free speech and freedom of religion - no one is going to stop you from proclaiming gay people are ruining America. No one is going to force you to stop believing your chosen brand of Christianity.
Still with me?
As for gender equality, we're somehow the equality state, yet my salary is likely to be 67% of a man's for the same work. I deal regularly in my activism with people like yourself who want to regulate when I can bear children or my choice to not be pregnant - to not bring an unwanted child into the world. Or my choice to use reproductive services period, as evidenced by the nationwide fervor to defund Planned Parenthood.
So in summary, my vision of equality is a state (and a nation) where this debate is unnecessary because full equality for all exists.
I envision a state where my friends don't have to spend thousands of dollars drawing up legal documents to make sure assets are protected in death. A state where, when I travel over the hill, I don't hear my friends' relationships reduced to sex acts, described in disgusting unreality simply to degrade them to a category somehow less than you. A state where my friends cannot be fired from their jobs simply for being gay. A state where their relationships can be acknowledged as marriage. A state where gay or straight doesn't matter, because under the law, everyone has the same political rights regardless of sexual orientation. A state where, if I do the same work as a man, I don't have to hope I'm getting paid in a similar fashion. A state where my uterus is none of your business. Somehow, shrinking government entails making it just small enough to fit in my uterus.
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Social Web/Collaboration
The Wikipedia is a very good example for collaboration. Although the edits are done by individuals, the result is a team effort, a collaboration. Today we will learn about group sizes and team building.
Group Sizes[edit]
Usually, small groups are considered to be of the size of 3 to 20 individuals [1] . Generally one should distinguish between groups
- with 5 or less individuals (primary group)[2]
- with 6 to 20 individuals (secondary group)
The tiny groups are not really groups. They are basically individuals teaming up in pairs. Their advantage is, that their structure becomes clear very fast and they can start performing in a very short period of time.
Stages of Group Development[edit]
For small groups with 6 or more individuals, things get a little more complicated. Before those groups can perform, they have to go through several stages of group development [3]:
- "The Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, who maintained that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow, to face up to challenges, to tackle problems, to find solutions, to plan work, and to deliver results. "
This model has become widely accepted and is the basis for subsequent models.
Some teams reach the Performing phase very quickly, some never. In such cases the Interaktionsprozessanalysis [4] maybe helpful.
Take a quick look at reference [3] to learn what is meant by forming, by storming, by norming and by performing. Later on you should be able to observe how your team goes through those different stages.
Group Members[edit]
Another interesting thing to observe about teams is the role types a team allows for. Every member of a team can belong to one or more of the following role types [5]:
- der positiv eingestellte Teilnehmer
- der Redselige
- der Dickfellige
- der Streitsüchtige
- der Alleswisser
- der Ablehnende
- der Erhabene
- der Ausfragende
- der Vielredner
- der Blocker
- der Zurückhaltende
- der Clown
By allowing or disallowing some of the above role types, the team communicates in which state it currently is. For instance, a team that is in the performing phase, will not allow for a blocker, but since it is in the performing phase has no issue with allowing for the clown.
Hierarchy in Groups[edit]
Raoul Schindler [6] made a couple of interesting observations about groups, which led him to an interesting theory [7]. Assume a group has a certain goal 'G'. This may be climbing a montain, for instance. Then the group members quite often take on certain roles, as Schindler calls them: Alpha, Gamma, Omega and Beta:
- Alpha: is the leader, the one wanting to climb the mountain the most, representing the group against the outside 'enemy'
- Gamma: are the team members that support the goal of the leader, interesting however, is that the Gammas are the decision makers
- Omega: he or she is not really interested in climbing the mountain, i.e. usually objects to the goal of the group, sometimes sympathizes with the 'enemy'
- Beta: they are the experts of the group, e.g. experienced mountaineers, a group does not always have Betas
A group always has an Alpha, and always has an Omega. Further, even more interesting is that as the goal of the group changes, an Alpha may turn into an Omega and vice versa [8].
With what you have learned so for, it now is time to get a little more practical and personally experience some group dynamics. As part of this course you will have to write a chapter in our wikibook. For this you need to form teams of 4 to 5 students per team.
Think of possible ways to form teams such that all topics are covered, and none of the teams are larger than 5 students, and no two teams cover the same topic.
Follow your ideas and form teams. Experience shows that mixed teams (in terms of gender, age, nationality, etc) tend to have a little more difficulty in the beginning, but have overall better performances [source needed].
Team Building Activities[edit]
The following activities help your new team to get to know each other, and experience some group dynamics in action.
Activity: Marshmallow Challenge [9][edit]
Build the Tallest Freestanding Structure: The winning team is the one that has the tallest structure measured from the table top surface to the top of the marshmallow. That means the structure cannot be suspended from a higher structure, like a chair, ceiling or chandelier.
If you want to know how other teams did on the marshmallow challenge, watch the TED video by Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team, (www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html)
Activity: Tower Building[edit]
Reference [10] also has a very nice team building actvity. In groups of 6-7 students you build a tower out of sheets of paper.
Activity: Sin Obelisk[edit]
In reference [11] is more of a detective work, in which the team members have only partial information about an ancient tower.
Tools for Collaboration and Communication[edit]
There are many tools for collaborating. Especially creating documents and managing projects. Tools that have shown to work are:
- Google Docs: creating documents together.
- Teamlab: (http://www.teamlab.com/): is geared towards project management.
- Zoho: (http://www.zoho.com/collaboration-apps.html): take a look at their collaboration apps.
In your team create a common document on Google Docs. Have different members of your team edit it. What happens if two members edit the same document simultaneously?
Wikis are a crazy idea, the first one was started by Ward Cunningham [12]. The most popular wiki is the Wikipedia. Basically it is an online collaboration tool for creating documentation.
- "A wiki is a website whose users can add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor." [12]
For our class project we will write a Wikibook, which is using the same software as Wikipedia (and also using the same logins).
Check out our Wikibook: 'Social Web' (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Social_Web). As you can see there is still lots of work to be done. To get started:
- get a login for Wikibooks or Wikipedia, which is the same. (See the HowTo for details)
- learn how to use Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_Wikibooks
- identify the topics which you and your team are responsible for
- get started with filling contents
Everything you enter into Wikibooks or Wikipedia must be under the Creative Commons license [13]. If you like to see how such a wikibook looks like after a semester, take a look at the book that a previous class created: 'Game Creation with XNA' (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Game_Creation_with_XNA).
Be aware of copyright issues - do never copy and paste! Every article you write can be tracked back to you. If you violate somebody else's copyright, you can be certain that you get their lawyer's call and that will not be cheap!
Ex.1: Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing[edit]
Read the Wikipedia article on Tuckman's stages of group development [3]. Make sure that you identify this phases also in your own experiences with groups. Write about this in your blog.
Ex.2: Group Dynamics[edit]
Read the article 'Grundlagen der Gruppendynamik' by M. Burger [7]. In your team can you identify the Alpha, Gamma, Omega and Beta? Write about what you think of this theory in your blog.
Ex.3: Team Building[edit]
Take a look at the Teampedia [14] and the Sandstone [15] websites. Read through some of the activities. Pick a couple that you feel interesting. In your group then decide on one that seems fun for everyone and go ahead and do it. Again tell us about your experience in your blog.
Ex.4: Creative Commons[edit]
Learn about the creative commons license and rephrase it in your own words. Write what you have learned in your blog.
Ex.5: The new Power of Collaboration[edit]
Watch Howard Rheingold TED talk 'The new power of collaboration' (www.ted.com/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html).
Definition of Coworking[edit]
Coworking is a concept that describes a new style of work coming up all over the world. As you might already mentioned, the term coworking means working together, but it signifies more than just this. Coworking is a new trend that involves a shared working environment, a so-called working space, comparable to an office. In distinction from a typical office environment, coworkers are usually not employed by the same company. Quite often, they don't even practise in the same professional field. The term coworking was first characterised by Bernie DeKoven, an American game designer in 1999 to describe computer-supported collaborative work. Six years later in 2005 Brad Neuberg, a software engineer focused on web technologies, used this term to describe a physical space, which he called "9 to 5 group" before than.
History of Coworking[edit]
It cannot be clearly said, where exactly coworking has its origin. Some say the whole coworking movement started in New York. Because of the horrendous rents there, many people weren't able to afford these for an own office. So they weren't able to rent an office, and they also weren't able to work at home because of various reasons, i.e. they just didn't have enough place to work efficiently or they had their kids at home and couldn't concentrate with all that noise or maybe they just don't want to be at home all day. What to do now? So these people began to think about alternatives of an own office and home office. They recognized that quite a few people had the same problem and they realised that there is only one way for a solution. Like persons who live together in a living community to save money, they wanted to create an office community to save money too.
Others say that it all began in California, more precisely in San Francisco. Brad Neuberg, we already get to know him, organized the first coworking loft with the name "Hat Factory" in the middle of San Francisco. It was a live-work loft and home to three technology workers. During the day it was open to everyone who wants to work in. He was also one of the founders of "Citizen Space", the first "work only" coworking space.
The Coworker's profile[edit]
What kind of people participate in coworking? In 2011 deskmag.com presented the results of the 2nd Global Coworking Survey (661 participants of 24 countries). Here are the most interesting facts:
- Most coworkers are in the mid twenties to late thirties.
- The average age is 34 years.
- Nearly two-third of them are men and one-third women.
- More than half of all coworkers are Freelancers.
- Four of five coworkers began their career with a university degree.
- The majority work in the field of creative industries and new media. Most of them are web developer, programmers, web designer and/or graphic designer. The boundary between these jobs is fluid.
- Other professional fields of coworkers that are mentioned in the survey are journalism, writing, architecture, marketing and PR.
- More than 40% of all coworkers are interested in the concept of Coworking Visa. That allows them to visit working spaces in other cities. One in five already worked at least once in another working space.
Coworking and Web 2.0[edit]
So what is Coworking concerned with Web 2.0? Well, theoretically nothing. Practically everything. Coworkers need a working space to work. If they have one, they are happy. No need of Web 2.0 so far. But most of them work in a team and that team is not in-house. So if they want to collaborate with their teammates, they have to use a medium. And the only one, which is qualified for this, is the Internet with its Web 2.0 features. A famous collaboration tool is Google Docs. With Google Docs you are able to write and edit together same documents in real time with others. Another interesting online service for collaboration is teamlab.com. This service can much more than Google Docs. It gives you the possibility of working together on documents, managing projects, creating blogs and wikis, using an integrated calendar and sending emails directly on the portal. But the best webpage, I think, is zoho.com. It combines all the abovementioned tools and applications and provides even still more to the user, like a chat function, a comment box, a meeting function and a lot more. More than 6 million people are using zoho and the number increases. So if you consider to join the coworking movement keep zoho in mind. You won't regret it.
Related Links[edit]
http://www.coworking.de/ Here is a list of all 72 German working spaces.
http://www.coworking-news.de/ Here you can find current news about the European coworking scene
http://www.coworking-nuernberg.de/ Website of the local working space in Nuremberg
Creative Commons Licence (johannes kiesel)[edit]
Chances are at some point or another one has seen this license on works of some kind on the web. Creative Commons is a non-profit developed out of the collaboration movement on the internet. Since 2001 it has strengthened in numbers reaching a couple hundred million projects/works that are licensed Creative Common. Since it is a non-profit organization, they are not a editor or anyhow commercially involved in their license-holders works. The basic idea behind the CC license is that it replaces the "All Rights Reserved" label, each individual has on their intellectual property. By doing so , people can choose which rights they want to keep and which they are willing to give up in order to create a more voluminous creative mass on the internet. It stands under the Motto to give back from where you took. Everybody can create new out of old and change new to make better.
Lawrence Lessig from the Stanford Law School is said to be the founding head behind the CC spreading a revolutionary idea which was honored by the Prix Ars Electronica for the category "Net Vision".
Originally only available in the United States it has quickly managed to spread all over the world. There are six specific licenses protecting works internationally. Attribution CC BY: This license allows people to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work for personal and commercial use as long as they Credit you in their creation. This is the most common license issued by the CC. Here is a list of the other Licenses issued. For detail visit: creativecommons.
Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA
Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND
If there is a need for specifications due to individual legal issues in certain countries, the CC has developed additions to these six in order to accommodate legal issues that might still be outstanding.
Originally there have been other licenses apart from these six; however, they have either come under fire and have been dropped or they were not used and were therefore abandoned. When licensed by CC one can always give special permissions to individuals using their work under otherwise prohibited conditions. One cannot however, add more CC licensing after they been used by others in order to restrict them due to special interests.
In 2004 the Creative Commons license has entered Germany and fighting a hard battle against the notoriously conservative GEMA, which just recently commented that it will not accept CC licensing for their members. Besides the obvious effect the GEMA has on the web and its content, they also suppress up and coming creatives and musicians that rely on self- marketing and the viral properties of the world wide web. The CC's "Music Sharing license" is nothing else but the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. It's their most restrictive license which basically only allows the the downloading and sharing of the works, but restricts any commercial use or change to the existing peace.
Besides the obvious advantage to small time creatives and common internet users, big industry entities have started to incorporate the CC licensing to share their work and also be able to rely on the work of others. Probably one of the most well known non-profit of modern time, Wikipedia, have changed their GNU license to a Creative Commons one in 2009. Wikipedia fully relies on collaboration on the internet and with its business plan created the most voluminous encyclopedia of modern time. With the help of the mass, articles are kept organized and prove read making it a very reliable source. The Encyclopedia Britannica, most popular one over the past 244 years, was replaced by Wikipedia and has stopped printing as of 2012 and is only available in the 2010 paper form.
Besides Wikipedia, big names such as MIT-OpenCourseWare, Al Jazeera, Google, Flickr and many others have utilized the potential of the Creative Commons license. Even though governments are usually rather conservative and slow on the draw using modern media and their concepts, Whitehouse.gov, the internet presentation of the United States government, have issued photos, press-releases and other documentation with the CC license. More recently William Noel an ancient book curator has revealed the lost Codex of Archimedes. A very important manuscript written by ancient mathematician Archimedes. To make the text readable he and his team spend countless man-hours and used the Stanford particle accelerator. Once the text was readable and they were able to translate and interpret it, he put in online for free under a CC license to be used for any commercial purpose. This adds tremendous value to modern culture. More to the story at: Ted Talks In order to let the internet reach its full potential, it is important that the idea of free collaboration is supported and developed heavily over the next few decades. The Creative Commons have started different projects in multiple categories such as Culture, Education, Science and Government. The hope is that the efforts in each category can improve in content, efficiency and transparency. The economical growth that can come from this is enormous and well worth pursuing.
As the internet is spreading and developing into a huge pool of information it is important to organize and mark your work in a way to gain the most out of your own work and the work of others. All rights reserved is not always the most lucrative way to spread your ideas nor is giving it away without being mentioned or credited. With the CC label one has the ability to customize the the rights they would like to reserve. Your idea might just be the initial spark to something bigger on which you can then add to if you so choose to. Professionals, dilettantes, amateurs, corporations, governments, non-profits and any other group of people or entities can maximize their personal profits using online collaboration.
Social collaboration at the office (Christian Siemer)[edit]
Today Social media is one of the top words in the commercial departments. Every big company talks about Social Media and tries to be a part of it. The budget for using Social Media grows exorbitant, but only few companies know the power of Social Media for the office.
Social Media has an enormous potential for the office which can be used in a lot of ways. Over the years, the main problem at the company is the existing information overload. Just by adding another information channel, will not bring you the answer. Social Media could be much more than only an information channel, which in addition has to be checked by employees every day. This could provoke a stress situation and have an effect on the work habits.
For instance, not having internet in Norway for Christmas is quite relaxing to me. Not checking or answering my mails, not posting on facebook or other Social platforms, is stress relieving and soothing.
But there are not only risks. Social Media has the power to revolutionize the collaboration. The integration of Social Technology is not only making the It-infrastructure available. There is much more strategy and organization to it. It`s inescapable to change how the work is done, to use this technology efficiently. This is a long procedure which needs an integration of Social Technology in the operating process. The problem of the first generation social tools was decoupling the workflow. When the first curiosity was over, the interest of the employees sank immediately. But when the tools were integrated in the process, application and data, the Social technology became an important instrument with four main criteria, as followed.
- Integration with mission-critical applications
- Organization and maintenance of content
- IT management functionality to comply with governance and compliance
- Social analysis
One really powerful application is Wiki, a corporate online collaboration tool.
At the beginning of this topic, we heard a lot about general group phases and group roles. Now, the question arises as to what extent these models can be applied to groups in social networks. I chose the model below to analyze our course Facebook group.
Group of phases: (http://wulv.uni-greifswald.de/2006_mw_gruppen_paedagogik/userdata/Handout%20-%20Rollen.pdf)
Groups go through various stages of development which have a crucial influence on each group situation Depending on the group phase, specific behaviors, actions and interests can be expected. These again co-determine the success of group programs in coordination with the group phase. (cf B. Langmaack)
Phase 1: Arriving – Orientating – making contacts
- Keeping distance and search proximity
- Wishing to remain anonymous and showing yourself
- Looking for guidance, safety and structure
Phase 2: fermentation and clarification
- Developing a social hierarchy (own position is clarified, potential for conflict rises)
- Looking for rules and standards
Phase 3: Passion for work and productivity
- Recognizing similarities
- Effective and energetic work
- Climate of mutual "giving" and "taking "
- Well developed group structure with an established expectation of modes of conduct and secure interpersonal relationships
Phase 4: transfer, graduation and farewell
- Complete the substantive work
- Foreign interests increase
- Review and evaluation
For the Facebook group "Meida Engineering":
The group was founded by first semester students on October 11, 2010, shortly after the beginning of the semester.
Phase 1: Arrive – Orientation - making contacts
There is not yet any clear group goal. For now, efforts are made to call together all the students and discuss a cover image. At first, everyone writes a comment regarding their membership number. For example: "20! I would have found it heaps cooler to be number 21, since that's how old I turned some days ago =)" Basically, everyone introduces themselves to the group. Simultaneously, the same thing happens in class in real life. A joint meeting is the first practical use of the Facebook group. An initial conversation with a total of 35 comments from 10 different individuals begins. The roles, the individual participants are taking, are just as varied and complex as in real life. There are those who say "yes" to everything and subscribe to the previous speaker's opinion. On Facebook this is simply done by clicking on "like". Others try to press forward by making comments like: "the only question is when and where" ... "Beautiful weather, 'whörder meadow', crate of beer?" Then there are those who have a generally negative attitude "it is getting colder and colder though. How about doing it next week?" And finally there are those who try to mediate "That's a good idea although I can imagine it to be quite cold :)" The only thing missing in a conversation online are facial expressions and gestures. The smileys that are used cannot replace them. They are rather used to underline fundamental attitudes towards the topic. "I share this opinion :-)" In other cases the smileys imply that the comment is not meant to be taken too seriously, "The word 'lazy' seems to be perfect for you guys ;-)".
Phase 2: fermentation and clarification
The joint meeting was never successfully organised. Even passing around a piece of paper during class did not work out. So even in real life planning a meeting failed. The first organisational success took place when the Facebook group started to disseminate information such as "According to an email, the PS-course DOES take place" or "Registration for the Exams starts today, do not forget". The closer to exams time the students get, the more comments like this are written: "I still don't understand the exercise for programming... can anyone help me with it tomorrow?" However, instead of making an appointment, there are usually just explanations or solutions attached as comments. That way, all the others that have the same problem can also benefit. Just like in the real world, different characters and personalities with different talents evolve. Some are experts in certain subjects like programming and share their knowledge by posting summaries and solutions, while others take care of organising parties, or keeping an eye on administrative matters such as enrollments and exam registrations. Others make entertaining the group their aim.
Phase 3: passion for work and productivity
Already during the first period of exams, an effective system of cooperation has emerged within the group. Approximately 20 people are actively involved in answering the questions that arise concerning the examination subjects and ask their own questions.
The 4th phase "transfer, graduation and farewell" has not yet begun. It is expected to begin at the end of the course.
The addition of new members is of interest. After the first year of the Facebook group, students from the lower or upper semesters also joined. Overall, the group has a current total of 87 members. However most of them do not actively take part in group events. They are either silent observers or still in the first group stage "Arrive - orientating – making contacts".
A social group within the Internet works in the same way as in "real" life. Groups that meet both on the Internet and in real life become a community much faster than solely virtual groups. In both kinds of groups there will always be outsiders and observers. New members always have to find their own position within the group first and the closer the group already is the more difficult it is for new members.
How to use wikis as online team document collaborations[edit]
Defining a wiki[edit]
A wiki is a web page where users can modify or delete the online content. Anyone can participate, which is both fun and scary. A wiki is different from a blog, because as the owner of this blog I control the content. A blog post is a compilation of thoughts and cannot be edited by anyone directly via the page. When it comes to a wiki anyone can edit or update posts, phrases, or information contained within the wiki.
Company wikis as project collaboration tools[edit]
Wikis are also a great way to share knowledge with a group of individuals in companies of organizations. For example, you can use wikis as project manager where the team can share, edit, and update information. Wikis offer a solution where you can invite your team to make proposed changes to a document as they see it. Once the changes are made, you can approve them or reject them, and even allow group consensus. Wiki is a really easy method to create a book, like documentations. You can collect information's and impressions. It`s the same principle why we write this wiki. If everyone in your team writes some pages you have easily a full complex documentation in short time.
Document collaboration and sharing tools[edit]
When it comes to internal social networks and company collaboration, having an internal social network or wiki can be helpful to employees as well as work teams who are working from home. Often wikis are a piece of an internal social networking platform, where companies can chat, share files, use wikis, and post blogs using a platforms like SharePoint.
As you can see, this collaboration tool allows for multiple users to edit and make changes to a single document or page quickly and easily. Edited changes show on the wiki as yellow highlighted words.
- ↑ Communication in small groups, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_in_small_groups
- ↑ Social group, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_group, Soziale Gruppe, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soziale_Gruppe
- ↑ a b c Tuckman's stages of group development, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman's_stages_of_group_development
- ↑ Interaktionsprozessanalyse, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaktionsprozessanalyse, B. Schäfer, Interaktionsprozessanalyse nach Bales, wwwpsy.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/psychologie_institut_4/ae_schaefer/wintersemester04_05/seminare/hf_gruppe/ipa_bales.pdf
- ↑ C. Loroch, Management für kleine und mittelständische Unternehme, www.loroch.net/files/ubungsskript_management_fur_ingenieure_komplett.pdf p.70ff
- ↑ Raoul Schindler, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Schindler
- ↑ a b M. Burger, Grundlagen der Gruppendynamik, www.aerztezeitung.at/archiv/oeaez-18-25092005/grundlagen-der-gruppendynamik.html
- ↑ Gruppendynamik, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruppendynamik
- ↑ http://marshmallowchallenge.com/Instructions.html
- ↑ The Tallest Tower http://www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=The_Tallest_Tower
- ↑ Der Sin Obelisk, http://www.spielekiste.de/archiv/diverses/komm/komm_004.shtml
- ↑ a b Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
- ↑ Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/
- ↑ Teampedia, www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
- ↑ Sandstone, http://www.sandstone.co.uk/all-team-building-activities/
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I guess they just go together: Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Indians, and Corn Casserole. Corn Casserole, sometimes called Corn Pudding, on our Thanksgiving table is definitely a tradition. It is one of those simple dishes that everyone looks forward to eating.
When you have to bake so many dishes in your oven during the holidays, do not forget about your crock-pot. Corn Casserole works great in the crock-pot. Once it gets done, just turn the crock-pot to warm. It will keep the corn casserole hot and you will not have to reheat it just before serving it. Do not try to cook this corn on high. I have tried it and it will burn around the sides of the slow cooker.
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- 2-14.75 ounce cans whole kernel corn with juice
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- 1 stick of butter, melted
- 8 ounces sour cream
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- Combine all ingredients and add to a crock-pot that has been sprayed with a cooking spray.
- Cook for 3 hours on low or just until it thickens and sets in the middle.
- COOKING ON HIGH WILL BURN the sides.
- I used a 5 quart crock-pot.
- This recipe serves about 16 people. If I am not serving a lot of people I do half the recipe. I have also doubled it for a larger crowd of 30. You will have to adjust the cooking time. It will really depend on the size of your crock-pot.
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Raiding and not raiding shouldn't make a difference here. If anything, not being a raider should make the options even more open to you, since you'll be completely free to pick whatever you want to pick without worrying about whether that playstyle will mesh with any particular encounter.
Your talent choices with the new system are set up so that every choice you make will actually do something tangible and let you change the way you do whatever that tier is designed to address.
I guess you could make a case for throwing random points wherever in the current talent system with the justification that you aren't raiding and thus it doesn't matter, but I've very rarely seen anyone do that in Cata and have it yield anything particularly fun and engaging. Because so many talents are directly tied to damage increases, there's not a lot of room for experimentation, and even if you tried to force points into unusual combinations you probably wouldn't see very much change in the way your character worked outside of the damage fluctuating in weird ways.
With the current system, there's really only three "builds" you get for any particular spec - PvE-suitable, PvP-suitable, or "broken". The revamp just gives you most of the "required" abilities that you had to take anyways to keep yourself from being in the "broken" category, and leaves you with actual customization of how your character is going to play.