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The most recent news items relevant to all Fisher College audiences are listed below.
Please direct Fisher news- and media-related inquiries to Patricia Allen, Associate News Director.
Aravind Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of management sciences, was recently awarded the inaugural Carol J. Latta Memorial DSI Emerging Leadership Award for Outstanding Early Career Scholar.
At Ohio State to deliver his first major policy speech as the 31st Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler discussed issues ranging from the critical importance of competition in the telecommunications industry to ensuring that the Web remains open to all.
Widely recognized industry leader John Huston explained the ABCs of "ABCs" — angel-backed companies — to graduate students in the Fisher Entrepreneurship Association (FEA) during a recent visit to campus.
George Barrett, chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health, visited the Fisher campus to speak to FisherDirect and MBA students, executives, and academics on a wide range of topics – but the message always circled back to leadership.
Jonathan Elder, a senior at Fisher College of Business, received the prestigious Board of Trustees Student Recognition Award this month from The Ohio State University.
Four students from Fisher's Master of Human Resource Management program won first place in the Carlson International Human Resources Case Competition held recently at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
A mix of MBA and graduate students received an exclusive look into one of the most successful, recognizable fast food chains in the country, as Russ Meyer, chief financial officer at White Castle, visited Fisher as part of the Cullman Executive Luncheon Series last week.
The student organization Innovation Fisher hosted a "Pathways into Innovation Careers Panel" last week – an event that brought together four professionals, including two Fisher College of Business alumni, to speak to an audience of MBAs.
The Executive MBA program at Fisher College of Business has been ranked as a top 10 program in the world by Businessweek, rising five spots to 9th overall.
Whether you are on Wall Street or Main Street, it is tough to forecast the stock market. Most people know it is tough and would offer a wide range of possible outcomes if pressed for a prediction. Not true for financial executives.
Already collaborating with burgeoning entrepreneurs across the university, the Ohio State University Business Plan Competition has established a new partnership with Moritz College of Law.
A visit by a recognized leader in business operations showcased Fisher's holistic approach to business education, as both students and faculty gathered to welcome Georgia Keresty, PhD, vice president of Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), a Johnson & Johnson Company.
Nicole Sillaman, an MBA for Working Professionals student, was awarded the 2013-2014 Dress for Success Columbus Sisterhood Award for her leadership role in developing an innovative mentorship program.
Caroline Whitacre, vice president for research at The Ohio State University, delivered the annual State of Research address — and Fisher College of Business thought leaders, collaborations, and partnerships were well represented.
The Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate honors the memory of the 1982 Fisher College of Business alumnus. Faculty member Itzhak Ben-David serves as the inaugural holder of the chair named for the son of Charles and Lynne Klatskin.
Leaders from 36 universities and colleges from across the United States and Canada will converge on The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business campus Nov. 7-8 for the MBA Roundtable Fall Symposium.
After earning the title of the best graduate student venture capitalists on campus, five Fisher MBA students are headed to Austin, Texas, for the next round of the worldwide Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC).
Ohio State alumnus Tom Wheeler, a 1968 Fisher College of Business graduate, was confirmed by the Senate as chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Read more.
Students received exclusive access to some of the world's most influential business leaders during classroom visits to help kick off the third annual National Middle Market Summit.
During one short weekend, a team of Buckeyes will compete against Wolverines, Boilermakers, Spartans, Hoosiers, Fighting Irish and a dozen other schools in the eighth annual Biz Quiz.
The 2013 Ohio State University Alumni Awards will honor more than a dozen individuals on Oct. 25 for support and service to their alma mater — including business graduates Barbara K. Fergus and James John Caronis.
Retailers in Ohio State's South Campus Gateway district include two successful entrepreneurs, Zach Weprin, co-founder of sushi restaurant Fusian, and Nate Demars, founder of men's clothing store Pursuit, both of whom developed their business acumen at Fisher.
After listening to presentations from students in Ohio State's engineering college and Fisher's energy and sustainability Industry Cluster, Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, offered the students two options: to hear a scripted presentation or have an open dialogue.
Big data will be playing a major role in the energy industry and sustainable business strategy, according to a panelist of five representing gas and utilities, a national research lab, academia and a major technology organization. The group spoke to students in Fisher's energy and sustainability cluster.
Fisher College of Business and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value are partnering to build the body of research on the emerging trend of process improvement in health care.
Christine A. Poon, dean and John W. Berry Sr. Chair in Business at Fisher, addressed the critical importance of collaboration with the global business community as the keynote speaker at an event celebrating the Presidents Cup golf tournament teeing off at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio.
The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) Center for the Public Trust has announced a partnership with Fisher to further advance ethics education among students.
Students in Fisher's Consumer Packaged Goods Industry Cluster received an insider view of product innovation at Procter & Gamble from retired Chief Technology Officer G. Gilbert Cloyd.
Students and their benefactors gathered at the Blackwell on the Fisher College of Business campus last week for the 2013 Scholarship Reception and Dinner, an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the great impact of scholarship support.
More than 200 Ohio public school principals gathered for the capstone event of Executive Principals Leadership Academy, a three-year collaboration between Ohio State and the Ohio Department of Education.
The Public Relations Society of America has named Fisher College of Business a launch school in an MBA-level strategic communications course national rollout.
Center for Operational Excellence (COE) members Cardinal Health and Willow Wood are working to turn the results of a COE sponsored research project into new business strategies.
Jay Anand, Dean's Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Global Strategy, elected chair to the International Management division for the Academy of Management.
After the 2013 INVESTOhio Equity Conference, Fisher students engaged in a private question-and-answer session with one of the keynote executives, CEO Jay Gerlach of Lancaster Colony.
Critical thinking skills and building relationships through the supply chain are among the topics that will be addressed in Fisher's two new Industry Clusters: business analytics and manufacturing.
For more than a year, Ryan Barta, a member of The Ohio State University Marching Band, and his band mate and computer sciences student, Charlie King, have been on a mission to get TBDBITL to go green with iPads. Now, that hard work is paying off.
If one parallel can be drawn from the divergent worlds of fashion and foods, it is this: see-through designs have an ability to whet an appetite.
Michael Bills, who brings with him 25 years of private sector and academic experience, has been named Executive in Residence, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Fisher.
Before stepping foot on the Fisher campus, two of the college's newest students, Megan Holstein, a freshman, and Ganesh Alakke, a first-year MBA, have already blazed business trails in their own right.
John Gray, associate professor of operations in the Department of Management Sciences, received the "Best Reviewer" award from the Journal of Supply Chain Management at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Florida earlier this → Learn more
An anonymous stranger you encounter on websites like Yelp or Amazon may seem to be just like you, and a potential friend. But a stranger on a site like eBay is a whole different story.
More than 1,800 students will receive degrees during The Ohio State University's summer commencement on August 4. The university will also recognize Distinguished Service Award recipients, including longtime Fisher friend and supporter Ruann Ernst.
Successive quarters of strong performance by the nation's nearly 200,000 middle market companies is fueling increased confidence in the national and global economies.
When asked what helped pave his way to career success, Dr. Andrew Thomas, recently named chief medical officer for Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center, singles out the Fisher MBA he earned 13 years ago for his stead ascent.
Ralph T. Greco, formerly an executive with IBM, has been named Director of the Business Analytics Initiative at Fisher and will lead the Business Analytics Industry Cluster launching in the autumn semester.
Sarah Needham is an ambassador of all sorts — in her role as a Peace Corps volunteer representing the United States and as an alumna of Fisher College of Business.
Roy Lewicki, Irving Abramowitz Memorial Professor of Business Ethics Emeritus, received the International Association for Conflict Management 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award.
There was one thing Nicole Sillaman, a 2013-2014 Albert Schweitzer Fellow, knew with certainty: she wanted a master's degree.
Laurence P. Murphy has been named the Carol L. Newcomb-Alutto Executive Director of Executive Education at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.
Timothy P. Keenan recently committed $1 million from his foundation (Keenan Family Foundation) to support technology entrepreneurship and commercialization education at Fisher.


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Do you suspect that poems are buried somewhere deep inside you, waiting to grow? At the Poetry Writing Workshop, which meets at the Albany Library (1247 Marin Ave.) every second Wednesday, Albany poet laureate Christina Hutchins leads exercises aimed at finding those hidden sources of inspiration and nurturing them in a supportive atmosphere. 7 p.m., free. ACLibrary.org
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View successful Licentiate, Associateship and Fellowship distinction panels across all categories. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in The Royal Photographic Society's Distinctions to see the standards required. A chance to meet the President of the Society and Distinctions Department team.
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Great little crappie lure. I have been using these for years. Use them exlusively for fishing brush and other heavy cover. Rubber guard works well. Throw them into a brush pile; let it fall slowly thru the cover. Glide it gently thru the limbs. When you feel the fish take the lure, set hook a little harder than normal to penetrate the guard. Rarely hangs up. I keep a good supply of these on hand in various colors. Wish BPS had them in a little larger size, and had them in blue and chartreuse.
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One of the most well known port cities in India, Kochi which was once known as Cochin is a destination to reckon with. It lies on the western coast of India by the Arabian Sea and the second largest city in Kerala. It is fondly called as the 'Queen of the Arabian Sea' as it was an important spice trading colony since the early 14th century. The Southern Naval Command of India is situated here. Today, it is a bustling metropolitan and hosts the highest number of national and international tourists in Kerala.
Kochi was first talked about in the 15th century, in the books written by a Chinese traveller Ma Huan and Italian voyager Niccolo da Conti. However, it is believed that Kochi existed in as early as the 12th century. In the 16th century came the Portuguese and formed their first settlement at Kochi in India. The Dutch followed suit and soon they had Kochi at their helm which later went to the British.
Kochi is a culturally diverse city as most of India is. People from different communities like Marathi, Malayali, Gujrati, Konkani, Punjabi, Bihari and Jews inhabit Kochi peacefully. Festivals from all the religions are celebrated here with great fervour. The food being drenched in coconut and spice, is very tasty and typically Keralan. North Indian and Chinese cuisine are also enough popular. Apart from food, the Kochiites- as the locals are called show great interest in sports like football and cricket.
Kathakali, one of the oldest theatre arts, is a dance form that originated in the south India. It is popular among the locals and tourists in Kerala. The state has many important Kathakali dance centers in Kochi which render training as well as organize dance recitals. The dance is presented in a group, the theme of the dance is based on different Hindu Mythologies, epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana. The makeup that a Kathakali artist puts on is very elaborate. Kathakali is an integral part of the life in Kochi.
Tourists throng places like the Dutch Palace, the Hill Palace Museum, and the Chinese fishing nets, the Santacruz Basilica, the Fort Kochi beach, the Jewish Synagogue and the Princess Street. The Dutch Palace is located at a distance of just 10 kilometres from Kochi. It was constructed by the Portuguese in the honour of the King of Kochi- Veera Kerala Varma. Subsequently, various renovations were made by the Kings of Kochi, giving it a Hindu feel.
The Hill Palace Museum was once the residence of the royals of Kochi. It has now been converted into a huge museum. There is also a small zoo in the premise. There are spectacular paintings from the collection of the royal families of Kochi and Travancore. The Hill Palace Museum is the largest museum in southern India and it has more than 500 artefacts on display in 16 different galleries. The royal crowns and crown jewels are what can catch your attention. There are strict security rules in this area. There are five gardens and two resting grounds in the building premise and also a small deer park here. Apart from the Hill Palace Museum there are four more museums that can be visited- the Museum of Kerala History, the Indo Portuguese Museum, the Indian Naval Maritime Museum and the Parikhsheeth Thampuran Durban Hall Art Gallery.
The Chinese fishing nets are fixed installations which are operated from the shore. They are used for a unique way of fishing. They are set up on teak and bamboo poles that are held horizontally by mechanism that lower them into the sea. Over six fishermen operate a single net, which stretches 10 meters in height and 20 meters over the water. Tourists come to see the nets being operated.
The Santa Cruz Basilica is one of the oldest churches in India. It signifies the heritage of Kerala. This cathedral was built by Francesco de Almeida in 1505. He was the first Portuguese Viceroy. The cathedral was used as an armoury in 1663 when the Dutch conquered Kochi. It was destroyed later on in 1795 upon the invasion by British. A granite pillar that survived the destruction has been kept on the south-eastern corner of the Basilica today.
The beautiful beach of Fort Kochi is a hub for those who love adventure sports. Catamaran sailing, kayaking, canoeing, parasailing, scuba diving, wind surfing and snorkelling can be enjoyed here. The beach is lively and vibrant, making you perk up for sports.
Built in 1568, the Jewish Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in India. The prosperous trading Jews are known to have first built it. It was rebuilt by the Dutch as it was partially destroyed in a war in the year 1662. The synagogue also bears a clock tower which was added late in 18th century. The tiles of the synagogue are delicately hand painted and have been imported from China. They are estimated to be some 200 years old and the most astonishing thing about them is that no two tiles bear the same design. Generous presents given to the synagogue over a period of time include a Belgian chandelier and five golden and silver crowns. The scrolls of the Old Testament are seen the moment you set foot in this pristine place.
The Princess Street is popular amongst tourists because it boasts of many western cafes and most importantly it exhibits European architecture at its best. As you walk your way through the crowd, you will find a lot of shops and galleries. An evening stroll on this street can be refreshing.
Rural culture can be observed up close at the eco friendly village made here. They are specially designed to exhibit exotic culture of Kerala without disturbing the natives. The Kambalangi Intergrated Tourism village and Mastyafed Milky Way Aqua Tourist village are some of them.
There are not a few reasons why Kochi tops the list of Kerala's most visited tourist destinations. A holiday at Kochi may still surprise you in some or the other way!!
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Kochi is one of those destinations which will give you long lasting, refreshing memories. Famous as a port, Kochi has a different aura. The beach, the cathedrals, the streets full of people and the museums filled with amazing artefacts is how Kochi can be defined. The vibrant culture of Kochi and the sumptuous cuisine of Kerala make a visit to this place enjoyable.
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Born from a conflict eons old, some say the people of Braugh never had a chance. What was intended to be a celestial prison for two warring Gods has become home to a numerous and diverse populace. From the ashes of a great war, the people of Thallorand have rebuild their cities, culture and industry with great respect to their past and an eye on their future. The Age of Lords Campaign Setting h... [click here for more]
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Food and Drug Safety: Potential Solutions
Experts explore solutions for food and drug safety including stronger sanctions against organized crime, increased surveillance and...
Speakers: Caroline Smith DeWal, Director, Food Safety Program, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Aline Plançon, Head of INTERPOL-IMPACT Project and Head of Medical Products Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime Unit (MPCPC), INTERPOL, France
Michael Robach, Vice President, Corporate Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs, Cargill, Inc.
Greg Simon, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Policy, Pfizer Inc.
Presider: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
January 31, 2011
Experts explore solutions for food and drug safety including stronger sanctions against organized crime, increased surveillance and monitoring of facilities, and better inter-country communication.
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The Federal Public Defender in Boston confirmed Bill Fick from that office was in the hospital for the first appearance and confirms he will represent the defendant, at least for now.
The initial appearance did not constitute an arraignment.
Tsaranev has the option throughout the process to not speak with law enforcement.
A magistrate will preside over the next two or three appearances, but the case will eventually be referred to a federal district judge.
Federal grand juries are sitting at all times in Boston, so Tsaranev would face formal charges from an indictment. Such a preliminary hearing would be presided over by a federal judge.
A number of pre-trial negotiations would then start, including possible negotiations for a plea deal. If no deal can be reached, a criminal trial would commence.
That raises another potential issue: Whether to hold a trial outside of Boston because of the enormous publicity and possible community anger at the crimes.
Possible trial venues could be in the western part of the state, in Worcester or Springfield, or possibly out-of-state in neighboring Rhode Island or New Hampshire.


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Jari Askins
She was given little chance of defeating House Speaker Todd Hiett in the race for lieutenant governor four years ago.
Some polls indicated she was trailing Attorney General Drew Edmondson by double-digits just days before the Democratic gubernatorial primary this year.
And a recent statistical analysis by Nate Silver's progressive FiveThirtyEight blog and the New York Times suggests she has only a five percent chance of knocking off Republican nominee Mary Fallin in the race for governor.
Yet, Lt. Gov. Jari Askins, 57, has defied the odds so far -- and her streak of upset victories is leaving more than a few GOP insiders nervous heading into the Nov. 2 general election showdown.
"Anybody that would underestimate Jari Askins in this race would be foolish," veteran Republican political consultant Neva Hill noted during a recent Political Junkies luncheon in Oklahoma City, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Political Communications Center.
No matter the result, the 2010 governor's race is historic because Oklahoma will elect a woman as the state's chief executive for the first time.
It's not a ground-breaker regionally or nationally -- neighbors Texas (Ann Richards) and Kansas (Kathleen Sebelius, Joan Finney), for example, elected women in recent decades. But it is believed to be only the third time in U.S. history that both major party nominees are female -- although New Mexico's major party nominees this year are women, too.
Furthermore, the outcome of the governor's race could well determine Oklahoma's long-term political landscape -- given that next spring lawmakers will be charged with the once-a-decade task of redrawing legislative districts based on the latest Census figures.
If Republicans capture the governorship and maintain their majorities in both houses of the Legislature, they will be able to impose a redistricting plan that tightens their party's grip on power and further pushes Democrats to the margins. If Democrats can get Askins elected, it gives them power to influence the new district maps because the governor has veto power over the Legislature's reapportionment plan.
"If Fallin wins, a united government is going to make it a slam dunk ... a strong Republican dominance for the next several years," says Dr. John Wood, a Rose State College political science professor.
"Democrats rightly are putting all their eggs in Askins' basket because even if they have a miracle and pick up a (legislative) seat or two, it's still going to be a very dominant Republican presence and Democrats don't have a prayer to block some of the extreme measures that might come out of the Legislature."
Askins and Fallin arrive at this gubernatorial showdown with similar political biographies -- both served in the state House and as lieutenant governor. Both are from smaller, rural towns -- Fallin from Tecumseh and Askins from Duncan. (For more on Fallin, check out "The Race Is On" in the Feb. 18-24 issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly.)
A University of Oklahoma graduate, Askins nearly became the first female House speaker in state history -- she would have been chosen had Democrats not lost control of the House in the 2004 elections.
Two years later, when Fallin opted to seek the state's 5th Congressional District seat rather than a third term as lieutenant governor, Askins won state's No. 2 post in an upset over Hiett.
In addition, Askins spent eight years as a special district judge in Stephens County, was the first woman chairman of the state Pardon and Parole Board, later served as executive director of the Pardon and Parole Board and as deputy general counsel to the governor.
It's a resume that Askins contends puts her in a unique position to help lead a state with a struggling economy, increasing unemployment and widespread poverty -- and almost certainly facing a $1 billion-plus budget hole in the 2011-12 fiscal year.
"Times are tough," she said in a recent interview, during a campaign stop in Muskogee. "We knew when we got in this race that the economy was going to be weak, would not have recovered.
"My background, my experience in appropriations, my willingness to work with anybody who's got a good idea to get things done means that I have the skill set that I think the state needs now.
"I'm a decision-maker ...
Askins first must convince voters to promote her into the decision-making position. So far, in what is widely viewed as a strong Republican year, Askins is a decided underdog to Fallin, according to the polls. Just last week, a Rasmussen poll reported 60 percent of the 500 likely voters surveyed preferred Fallin, compared to 34 percent for Askins -- up from a 15 percentage point Fallin advantage last month. Even, so most political analysts expect the governor's race to be a battle to the end.
Both candidates are dealing with discontent in their party's ranks -- Fallin with the Tea Party, ultra-conservative crowd that supported state Sen. Randy Brogdon in the primary and Askins with the Democratic Party's small, but energetic liberal wing.
Some of those who supported Brogdon have said privately they aren't sure they will back Fallin -- they consider her a Johnny-come-lately to their don't-tread-on-me brand of conservatism. Will they vote for Fallin anyway? Or will they skip the race altogether?
Askins' problems with the more liberal wing of her party are on such issues as abortion -- she's pro-choice. Will progressives vote for her anyway? Or will they sit out the race? It's evidently not a slam-dunk decision for some liberals -- several, for example, declined to comment publicly on the race for this story.
Brogdon publicly endorsed Fallin -- but it took more than a week after the primary for him to do so. The delay, he said, was merely a matter of him taking vacation after a hard-fought election, but some political insiders wonder if it was a signal he's not entirely sold on Fallin.
Askins, by contrast, was endorsed almost immediately by Edmondson, a sign that unity is especially important for Democrats, reeling from a series of electoral setbacks in recent decades that saw Oklahoma transformed from a dominant Democratic state to one of the nation's most reliably red, Republican states.
Democratic leaders argue that while there may be policy disagreements, Askins' election is essential to thwart the worst excesses of a GOP majority whose agenda is driven by corporatists, social conservatives and anti-government activists.
Askins makes that case herself, but perhaps more subtly: "Even if we create new jobs, we don't see an improvement in the economy for several years, so the budget decisions that are going to have to be made are going to be extremely difficult.
"It's going to require someone who has a really good feel for the state, for the government process, and that's me ... I've been a director of a state agency. I understand what state departments and agencies are going through with these types of budgets. So that familiarity with these type of budgets, and that familiarity with the mechanics of government, how to make things work, is very different from my opponent."
Askins is clearly popular with her former legislative colleagues -- from both parties. Every time she was introduced the last four years to formally gavel open a joint session of the Legislature, lawmakers from both sides routinely gave her long, loud standing ovations.
In fact, her former Democratic colleagues in the Legislature are widely credited with helping pave the way for her upset victory over Edmondson in the July primary -- a secret weapon of sorts that exploited already established grass roots political groups.
For example, in McCurtain County in southeastern Oklahoma, with the help of state Sen. Jerry Ellison, D-Valliant, who served with Askins in the House, Askins racked up a 1,500-vote margin over Edmondson -- she won by 1,494 votes statewide.
Another reason that political experts give Askins a chance at pulling the upset: She is widely viewed as a terrific retail campaigner, meaning she is personable and engaging at events, visiting one-on-one, shaking hands, connecting with voters.
She often is among the first to arrive at an event and among the last to leave, usually not until she has visited with everyone who wants to visit with her. On her recent campaign stop in Muskogee, she delivered a speech opening a women-in-agriculture conference, then spent time chatting individually with those in attendance. Though time was running short -- her next event was across state in Perry -- she even went back into the convention hall to locate some attendees who wanted their photo taken with her.
"My ability to win statewide office four years ago and my ability to make it thus far in the governor's race has been two-fold," she said. "First, there are so many people from Duncan or who went to college with me that still live in Oklahoma, they live around the state, and these are people who knew me before I ever was interested in politics or elective office. And these are people who support me and I've heard them tell their friends that I'm the same now as I was when they knew me in high school or when they knew me in college. And I find that very gratifying because I want to be the same person.
"Secondly, having served 12 years in the Legislature, I developed working relationships with men and women across this state, some of whom are still in the Legislature, others have term-limited out and they saw how hard I worked in the Legislature, they saw how I was given the responsibility to negotiate difficult issues and they know that I will always work to find a solution. So I appreciate people who have worked with me in government that are very supportive."
Askins possesses another potentially significant advantage: personal wealth. She's loaned or given her campaign more than $1 million, not quite half the $2.356 million her campaign has raised overall, according to her latest report, filed in early August. "I'm pretty fortunate I'm a saver," Askins told KTOK Radio in Oklahoma City, "and for years I have saved my money."
Both Fallin and Askins have downplayed the fact that one will become the first woman elected governor -- both asserting they just happen to be women running for the state's highest elective office.
"I'm not running because I want to be the first woman governor -- that's not it," Askins said. "However, I recognize that our race is historical.
"To me, what I hope that means to the young girls in our state is that whether you want to be a ballerina, whether you want to be a medical doctor or a classroom teacher or an elected official, if you work hard, you have a chance to reach your dream. That's how I think of the historical significance."
The campaign so far has played out without much vitriol between the candidates themselves. But the Republican Governors Association lobbed a Molotov cocktail recently when it began airing TV spots that attempted to portray Askins as a Barack Obama-style liberal.
Some political analysts suggest the ads reflect GOP unease over the race. The ads were widely denounced by editorial writers, including at the state's largest newspaper, the arch-conservative Oklahoman, and even by Republicans, all of whom pointed out it's laughable to suggest Askins is a liberal. Liberals shook their heads, too -- one blogger noting that if Askins really were a liberal, she would have gotten the blogger's vote.
Askins' campaign responded quickly, running an ad that portrayed the RGA spot as typical Washington-based "cookie cutter" politics -- a way to not only play on anti-Washington sentiment in Oklahoma, but also to not-so-subtly point out that Fallin is a sitting member of Congress.
"It was no secret what kind of campaign they would run against me and that was to try to take everything bad that they perceive happening in Washington and blame it on candidates in Oklahoma," Askins said. "That is designed to frustrate and depress the electorate so that they stay home.
"We're trying to run a campaign to let Oklahoma voters know this is where my heart is. This is where I've always wanted to work. These are the people that I care about. This is always going to be my home. And I care about it not just now but I care about what it's going to be like 25 years from now."
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Mayor Don Ness will hold his 'Mayor's Night' event with Duluth citizens at City Hall on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 starting at 5:00 p.m. and continuing until each person has a chance to speak with the Mayor. The meeting will be held in the Fourth Floor Reception Room, which is Room 405 of Duluth City Hall.
'Mayor's Night' events are scheduled on the last Tuesday of each month at City Hall, to give citizens regular opportunities to meet with Mayor Ness and senior city staff. Citizens can come to the Reception Room to sign in starting at 4:30 p.m. Meetings with the mayor will be on a first come/first served basis. All citizens taking part will have an opportunity to meet with the Mayor, though the presence of larger numbers of citizens may mean slightly shorter meeting times.


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This year, your second grader's language skills will grow exponentially. Simple sentences fall by the wayside as compound sentences with irregular past-tense verbs (e.g. I went to the fountain and drank water.) and descriptive words take your child's writing to the next level. While the Common Core Standards are rigorous — young writers are expected to use information from "provided sources" to answer questions and to conduct "shared research and writing projects" — remember that this year your child will be building skills in gradual, steady progression, starting with a new facility with words.
All that sounding-it-out practice is about to pay off! After years of rhyming and practicing high-frequency and sight words, your child has learned a lot more than you may realize about the rules of spelling — and this year she'll show you exactly what she's learned.
Gone, for the most part, are the phonetic spellings with missing vowels between consonants — "ct" for "cat" and "trk" for "truck", for example — that characterize "invented spelling." Instead, your child will show fluency in irregular plural nouns (e.g. mice and feet), easily use and spell the past tenses of irregular verbs (e.g. hid, sat, told), begin to understand the concept of root words and how the meanings can be modified with a prefix (e.g. happy/unhappy and write/rewrite) or suffix (e.g. addition/additional and clear/clearly) or as part of a compound word (e.g. lamppost and playground).
Your child will also more easily recognize tricky spelling patterns (think cage versus badge and boy versus boil) because of all the work she's done to learn phonemes and the conventions of spelling. But now when your second grader is confronted with a new word, in addition to using root words and context to figure out what it means, expect your child to look it up! This year, both dictionaries and glossaries become common tools of the writing trade. You'll find your child challenged to use both regularly — especially for weekly spelling tests. (See our weekly second grade spelling lists for examples.)
What are G&P? Why, grammar and punctuation of course! Second graders learn to use handy new language tools this year — starting with apostrophes to show possession (e.g. Matt's dog) and create common contractions (e.g. isn't and don't), commas for greetings and closings when writing letters (e.g. Dear Mom, and Love, Isla), and capitalizing the first letters of holidays, products, and geographic names.
Your child should also learn to use new and increasingly precise words to express herself, including collective nouns (e.g. the group, the class), reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, ourselves), and adjectives and adverbs to add detail in their writing. But adding detail isn't enough: your second grader needs to learn how adjectives and adverbs are different and choose between them based on what they're modifying (e.g. "The small horse ran quickly" – the adjective small modifies the noun — horse — and the adverb quickly modifies the action — ran.)
To put these tools to the test, your second grader will be challenged to write — and rewrite — simple and compound sentences to show what she's learned about language, grammar, and structure.
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Under the Common Core Standards, second graders should build on the three kinds of writing they've been improving on since kindergarten: opinion, informative, and narrative writing. Opinion and informative writing will likely start with kids reading one or more books and responding to what they've learned. In an opinion piece, your child should introduce his topic clearly, state his opinion about that topic, give a few reasons to support his opinion using linking words (e.g. because, and, also) to connect his reasons and opinion, and then write a full sentence or a few sentences to conclude his opinion.
In informative writing, your child should introduce his topic clearly, use facts and other information — such as definitions — to write a few clear, well thought-out points about his topic, and then write one or more sentences in conclusion.
Writing a narrative is essentially telling a story, and your child's story may be inspired by books, experiences, or pure imagination. Your second grader's story should describe an event — or a series of events — using details to describe the characters' actions, thoughts, and feelings. In addition to careful use of descriptive verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, your second grader should use sentence order, verb tense, and temporal words (e.g. after, following, later) to clearly put the events in order. At the end of a second grader's narrative writing, there should be some sense of the story coming to a close. (Hint: not just by tacking on "The End.")
Strong writing means not stopping after the first draft — a lesson your second grader is likely to learn through experience this year. Don't be surprised to see your child spending more time on a single piece of writing — creating a first draft, revising, and editing.
Once a first draft is turned in, the teacher or other students will go over it with your child. They may ask questions about the work to elicit details or facts that could be added or clarified, prompt your child to find more information on the topic, make sure your child's word choices convey what she means, make sure there's an introduction and a conclusion, and help organize the order of events in the story. Using all these questions and suggestions as guidance, your child will do a revision — adding, reordering, and refining the content.
After one or more revisions, the teacher will likely help your child with the final edit — focusing on spelling and grammar, capitalizing proper nouns, making sure nouns and verbs are in agreement, and checking that periods and question marks are used correctly. These steps — doing a first draft, revising one or more drafts, and editing the final piece — help second graders learn that gathering and recalling information, organizing their thoughts, strengthening and clarifying their ideas, and improving grammar and presentation are all essential to the writing process.
When your child is working on a writing assignment at home, it may be tempting to correct spelling and grammar errors or make other suggestions, but it's a good idea to talk to the teacher before you jump in. She may prefer to see your student's unvarnished effort so she can work with your child to get it right as part of the learning process.
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Reading a series of books about wetlands and writing a report — individually or as part of a group. Answering questions about habitats by recalling information from a specific book. Recording observations about an experiment. Sound like second grade work? Under the Common Core Standards, kids learn to do research, and, when asked, answer questions drawing on what they've learned. In their writing, this means that kids will pull information from provided books, websites, class presentations, and other sources to form their opinions, arguments, and narratives. When they add this information, they should be able to recall where they learned it.
Working with peers is a skill emphasized in the Common Core Standards, so your child will likely work on at least one group project. She'll also be expected to give other students feedback to improve their writing drafts by adding details or facts and making sure information is presented in the correct order. The standards also call for students to work together and with the teacher to "use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing." In some cases this will mean typing and printing a report — but don't be surprised if your second grader's work is published as part of a class blog!
Despite what you may have heard, the Common Core Standards don't do away with handwriting — but neither do they spell out specific benchmarks beyond printing the alphabet in kindergarten and first grade. The standards acknowledge that your child still needs to know how to write legibly — and that means penmanship matters. The standards also say that, with assistance from a teacher, kids need to use digital tools to produce and publish their work, but no specific typing skills are outlined until third grade. What does this mean for handwriting, cursive, and typing? That's a great question to ask the teacher.
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Play/download podcasts and videocasts (podcasting streams) in XBMC?
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check out xpodder @ xbmc scripts, does the job very well. :agree:
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hi!! if there's a way to download a xml video feed to xbmc? for example i subcribed to a videocast named digitallife tv and they have a variety of video format feeds: wmv,h.264,mpeg4,xvid how can i download these feeds to my xbmc video drive? do i need a rss script? if someone know how it is done please let me know!!! thanks!!
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2006-02-03 22:39
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i'm also real intrested. anybody a idea?
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2006-02-13 23:08
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i think video and audio podcast (videocast) will be a revolution of the way we listen to music, audio contents and video.
it will permits the born of amateur televisions and the ability to play interesting and completely new contents on our tv! it would also be nice to use some tv archives, like bbc one (http://www.bbcmotiongallery.co.uk/customer/index.aspx). it would be a great revolution, i think, to play all the things we want, when we want, without spots, and without filters. the technology is available: videocast, podcast, rss feeds, search engines, media players, but now they are not connected together and easy to use in our big televisions (personal computers are limitative and unconfortable to use with video). maybe xbmc will be the connection? i should also pay for this service. it would be a great feature to add to xbmc, and i would like also to pay something to support the audio/video podcast feature in xbmc. please please please, it would be very nice to add this feature! thanks for your great work. |
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2006-02-13 23:27
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there's a script call xpodder, you can use it to read rss feeds and stream the embedded files, only down fall you can't download it permantly to your harddrive with this scripts, if some could add that it would be excellent, something similiar to the quicktime script. i use this to watch dl.tv
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i would also be very interested in finding out if anyone can do this. i watch lots of vid-casts and listen to podcast. it would great if i could watch/listen to them on xbmc.
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yes, someone really needs to build something like
http://www.feederreader.com or democracy player into xbmc. this would be a freaking revolution!!!! isn't democracy written in python? i would cancel my cable asap!!! fabian. |
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2006-04-05 20:25
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try urlpaster its on xbmcscripts
its a xbmc script and a pc app you paste the url in the pc app and it starts playing on xbmc its gr8 if you cant find stuff with other scripts |
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2006-11-17 04:08
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What about a feature to let XMBC collect and manage podcast subscriptions, play and save them within XMBC?
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could be done via Python scripting, just noone has done it yet...
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Here are 12 things you should know about today's action.
1. If wages had kept pace with productivity gains, the minimum wage would be over $16
an hour.
Corporate profits have soared. Workers are producing more, but they're not sharing in the
Productivity and the minimum wage generally increased at the same rate from 1947 to 1969,
during this country's postwar boom years. Using a conservative benchmark,
economists Dean Baker and Will Kimball determined that the minimum wage would
be $16.54 today if it had continued to keep pace with productivity.
The strikers are asking for $15 an hour.
Baker and Kimball, Center
for Economic and Policy Research)
2. The average fast food worker makes $8.69 an hour.
jobs pay at or near the minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour. And an estimated
87 percent of fast food workers receive no health benefits.
Berkeley Labor Center)
3. The
million per year.
That's a 237 percent pay increase over last year, when he was paid a "mere" $4.1 million. Presumably health benefits are also included.
4. McDonald's cost the American taxpayer an estimated $1.2 billion in public
assistance per year.
In other
words, taxpayer money is subsidizing this large corporation's profits - at the
expense of American workers.
Employment Law Project)
5. McDonald's made $1.5 billion in profits last quarter.
That's up 5 percent from the previous year.
6. The 10 largest fast food companies cost taxpayers an estimated $3.9 billion in
government health assistance and $1.04 billion in food assistance.
Republicans are demanding cuts to government health and food programs. With all the talk of
deficit reduction, it's surprising that no one has pointed out that a great way
to lower expenditures would be by ending these backdoor subsidies for highly
profitable corporations.
Berkeley Labor Center)
7. These 10 companies earned $7.4 billion in profits last year.
also paid out $7.7 billion in dividends. Meanwhile ...
Employment Law Project)
8. Fast food workers are more than twice as likely to be on public assistance.
25 percent of American workers receive some form of public assistance - which is a
disturbing figure itself. For fast food workers that figure was 52 percent.
And it's
not just part-time work that's causing the problem. More than half of full-time
fast food workers receive some form of public assistance.
University of California, Berkeley/University of Illinois study; UC
Berkeley Labor Center)
9. Most of the workers who would be affected by this wage change are adults.
We also
hear that it's not necessary to raise the minimum wage, especially for fast
food workers, because most of them are "kids" working a few hours
each week for pocket money. Think of this as the "malt shoppe" argument. But it's
not true. Most low-wage workers are adults. Nationally, adults make up 88
percent of the workers who would receive a raise if the minimum wage were
increased to $10.10 per hour. In locales as distinct as New York State and
Albuquerque, New Mexico, that figure rises to 92 percent.
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Fiscal
Policy Institute, New
Mexico Voices for Children/Fiscal Policy Project)
10. Over 7 million children live in minimum-wage households.
And many
of these workers are parents. Seven million children - nearly one
American child in ten - feels the effects of low wages.
data from the National
Women's Law Center)
11. This strike is targeting large employers.
percent of low-wage workers are employed by organizations with 100 employees or
more. Thursday's strikers aren't targeting mom-and-pop operations. They're
striking against some of America's largest corporations.
large? McDonald's employs 707,850 people. Yum! Brands (better known as Pizza
Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC) employs 379,449 people. Altogether these 10 companies
employ 2,251,956 people.
workforce for these ten companies is greater than the populations of Nebraska,
West Virginia, Idaho, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Montana,
Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming,
states which hold 28 seats in the United States Senate. Shouldn't these
fast-food workers have a voice of some kind too?
Employment Law Project, US Census Bureau)
12. There's probably a rally near you.
There's an easy-to-use website to help
you find one. There's also an online
workers' strike kit, for fast food workers who want to take action.
As 2013 comes to a close a survey was taken. "What promise are you making to yourself in 2014?"
Most people said things like finda a new job, read more books or volunteer more. But 2% of respondents said they planned to get their boss fired! Wow! Even if I felt like that I would never admit it!
Residents of a neighborhood in Trabuco Canyon are vowing to fight an official order teling them to remove an interlocking display of Christmas lights that have been hung from house to house.
The residents say that the intricate display of lights has been a tradition in the neighborhood for at least five years.
Now they are being told the lights must be cleared by Dec. 4 because they are an obstruction and aviolation of the county code.
more: http://ktla.com/2013/12/01/county-orders-removal-of-christmas-lights-in-o-c-neighborhood-residents/#ixzz2mRKzNvLy
This is a pizza stone. Who uses a pizza stone? That's what pizza delivery is for! Well, this was the worst gift I ever got. And it was from somone I was in a relationship with. Loser.
Bryce Brites is only 20 months old. He just became the youngest professional
football player on the planet.
This past week, Bryce signed with Belgian club FC Racing Boxberg, based near
his home city of Genk, after
impressing coaches with his "highly unusual" talent and "incredible" ball control.
The club's coach commented on the bizarre deal after it
was completed, saying it was the obvious choice due to Bryce's talent.
'His ball control is incredible for somebody of his age.'
I am not sure what this signing will earn young Bryce,
but he is already making more than my 19 YEAR old! Gotta have a talk with my son.


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So I was casually looking at my computer's clock when I noticed the date. It's been a month since I moved to Seattle. I felt compelled to write about it. It's been a big month.
I'm living with some very good friends I met at NAU, Matt and Roxy Hornbeck. As soon as I got to Seattle, Matt and Roxy took me to a rehearsal for quiet's production of "Pick-Up Artist: The Musical". For those of you who don't know what quiet is, it's a non-profit multi-disciplinary arts community. And for those of you not familiar with the show, Matt wrote it for his master's thesis in sociology. After a few days of tagging along to rehearsals, Matt asked me if I play the bass. Knowing what was coming next, I simply said, "Not yet."
So I started learning how to play the bass. I learned the show in the two weeks before we got into tech week. Once tech week started, it became clear that there wasn't anybody with the time, or else the experience, to build the set. So in the few days before we opened I built three platforms. Along with having very little help, we also had the wrong screws, and the paint didn't take to kindly to drying with it being cold and dark outside. It finally got done by final dress. Read more…


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Title IX is entering its 40th year, yet questions remain about the interpretation of the law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity that receives federal funding.
The NCAA Convention educational session "Title IX: The Latest Developments and Trends" served as an update and refresher course for some Thursday morning.
The audience was reminded about the three-part athletics compliance test universities and colleges can use to show they are in compliance (proportionality to undergraduate enrollment, history of expansion for the under-represented sex and accommodation of the interest and ability of the under-represented sex). Institutions must comply with at least one of the three tests.
The audience also was reminded that under Title IX, discrimination on the basis of sex includes sexual harassment, rape and sexual assault.
Panelist Adele Rapport, chief attorney for the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, said a recent study of sexual assaults on college campuses showed that 20 to 25 percent of women are victims of rape or attempted rape during their time in college.
She added that nine out of 10 of college sexually assaulted victims knew their attacker. At least 50 percent of sexual assaults against college students included the use of alcohol or drugs by the perpetrator or victim.
In 2011, the Office for Civil Rights sent a letter regarding the sexual harassment and sexual assault. The letter guides schools about whether they are compliant with OCR expectations.
The panel also stressed that schools designate someone on campus as the Title IX coordinator. That designee should likely be housed in the Equal Employment Opportunity or human resource offices.


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eLearning Papers: Call for articles on Mobile Learning open until November 19th
While learning has always expanded beyond the walls of the classroom, the proliferation of devices and applications, which have greatly expanded when, where and how information can be accessed and stored, brings this issue to the fore. How have such devices had an impact in learning, and what role may they play in the future? This issue hopes to showcase practical examples and generate serious reflection on an emerging topic.
Today's youth are growing up in a world very different from the world their teachers or parents knew when they were young. Where and how they learn is changing as mobile learning and social networking become part of their every day life. Ubiquitous access to social media, tools and knowledge resources is taken for granted, while passive teacher-directed work dominates life at school.
Open, social and participatory media have significant potential to transform learning and teaching. They offer numerous ways to communicate, collaborate and connect with peers. The range of free educational resources and tools is rapidly increasing. Cloud computing has enabled free or inexpensive access to applications that were once available only to those who were willing to pay premium license fees.
The gap between the potential and actual use of technology in education is a paradox. eLearning Papers seeks to facilitate the sharing of innovative and creative uses of technology to support learning among its readers. The upcoming 32nd issue focuses on mobile technology applications and their potential to enhance learning within the broad spectrum of education and training. Papers are welcome on any aspects related to the use of open, social and participatory media, cloud computing or mobile learning. Some suggested focus areas are listed below.
- How do mobile devices enhance learning and creativity?
- Mobile learning and creative classrooms
- OER for mobile learning
- Mobile learning management models and strategies
- Learning design for mobile learning
- Mobile learning platforms, devices and operating systems
- Authoring tools and technologies for mobile learning
- Content design and development for mobile learning
- Platform specific applications for learning
- Augmented reality in education
- Mixed reality and mobile devices supporting learning
- Mobile devices and schoolwork, in classrooms and beyond
- Mobile devices supporting performance and learning at work
- Low-tech mobile learning, e.g. the power of SMS
The article submission deadline is November 19th, 2012. The provisional date of publication is December, 2012. For further information and to submit your article, please contact: email@example.com
Guest editor: Prof. Dr. Martin Wolpers, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT
Digital Learning Congress broadcast live TODAY
The Digital Learning Congress is the biggest meeting devoted to the technology industry and to the digital knowledge management in business in Central Europe. The event takes place today, and many of the sessions will be broadcast live throughout the day.
The Digital Learning Congress is for anyone who is interested in how technological progress is changing the field of learning and company development. It covers topics such as market trends, mobile devices, augmented reality, gamification, social media and WEB 2.0. tools in digital management.
During live webcast you will be able to hear and see: Wayne Turmel (the United States), Charles Jennings (Great Britain), Filipe Carrera (Portugal), Miłosz Brzeziński, Piotr Koźniewski, Artur Kurasiński and many other experts in the field of digital learning. There will be a panel discussion with representatives of Google Poland, Microsoft Poland and Motorola Solutions Inc., who will talk about the future of business organizations.
The broadcast will be in English and Polish. On the website of the Digital Learning Congress you will find the full schedule of events and the live streaming broadcast.
Newly published eLearning Papers explores Personal Learning Environments
Learning does not just take place in the classroom. Almost any place or situation has the potential to be a learning opportunity, especially with the help of mobile devices. Issue #35 of the E-Learning Papers sets out to explore the exciting new terrain of Personal Learning Environments.
The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) approach sees learning as ubiquitous and learner-centred. Learners autonomously select their information streams and make comparisons or connections between various sources of digital and non-digital building blocks of knowledge. Such an approach challenges many of the conventional models of education and the traditional roles of teacher and student.
This issue of the E-Learning Papers, edited by Ilona Buchem and Tapio Koskinen, includes four in-depth research articles and four reports on experiences from the field. Under the broad banner of PLEs, the topics covered in the issue range from the use of personalized badges to recognize learning to the gamification of social learning, to future perspectives of place-based learning in smart cities. The findings and insights of the articles in this issue demonstrate the rich contribution of the PLE approach to the opening up of education.
Developing PLEs to support work practice based learning
The paper describes research and development of a mobile, work-based Personal Learning Environment being piloted in the construction and health sectors. It examines a number of critical issues, particularly: the nature of learning and the application of knowledge in the workplace, interactions with physical artefacts, and the way new knowledge is developed and shared within and between organisations.
Register for a free ticket to Digital Learning Congress 2013 (places limited to 500)
500 free tickets are available for the upcoming Digital Learning Congress, a conference devoted to the technology industry and digital knowledge management in business in Europe. The event is targeted at people responsible for the learning and knowledge management within an organization, employee engagement and motivation, or mobile communication systems. Registration is now open.
This edition of the Digital Learning Congress will be held on December 9th 2013 in Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw. It will consist of four thematic panels concerning topics from the areas of:
- Webcast & Webinars
- Mobile Learning
- E-learning Environment
- Gamification & Social Learning
The Congress will also host "Short Talks," a series of short and inspiring lectures dedicated to the issues of self-development, social learning, useful mobile apps and tools contributing to the process of studying, augmented reality or WEB 2.0 and WEB 3.0 technologies. The Short Talks will be broadcast online.
Over 40 subject experts from Poland and abroad are lined up to speak at the Congress. The speakers list includes: Wayne Turmel (the United States), Charles Jennings (Great Britain), Filipe Carrera (Portugal), Ilona Buchem (Denmark). Among Polish experts there will be: Piotr Peszko from Motorola Solutions Inc./2EDU.pl, Rafał Zaorski from Escola/Etendard Group, Adela Rużyła-Wrzeszcz from Orange Poland, Agnieszka Jóźwiak from Clickmeeting, Bartłomiej Postek from Funmedia, Rafał Salomonik from P4.
The full programme is available online with the complete lineup of speakers.
The organisers of the Digital Learning Congress are: Nowoczesna Firma S.A., Management Observatory Foundation and several partners of the projects: Webinar2learn and E-business Mobile Training. This project has been co-financed from the European Commission funds under the Lifelong Learning Programme.
Admission is free (first 500 tickets) but attendees must register in advance.
MEDEAnet webinar "Mobile Learning"
MEDEAnet will host a free online seminar on the use of mobile devices for education.
Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have changed the way we communicate and become an integral part of our daily life. Using mobile devices in a learning context - mobile learning or m-learning - carries great potential for enriching education. But what has to be considered if you want to use smartphones and tablets in education and what are the concrete benefits and advantages of m-learning? During this one hour webinar you will have the chance to get introduced to this interesting topic. This session will help you to understand the possibilities mobile learning is offering and how it can be used in a fruitful and educationally valuable way. This webinar is aimed at educators, teachers, trainers and media producers interested in mobile learning.
The speakers in this session will be Prof. Tania Jadin from University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and Serge de Beer, Technology coach, LearningTour, The Netherlands.
Moving through time and space - Learning history on the move
Mobile devices enable students and other non-professional historians to decode edificial remains, symbols etc. through giving access to additional information.
In other words, mobile devices enrich reality: They reveal the historical value of topographic places and surfaces. This article delivers ideas for inquiry- and design-based learning with mobile devices. The authors try to develop a concept for mobile learning in history lessons focusing the aspect of mobility to pass the borders of the school classroom for learning history outdoors. Mobile history learning is product oriented. Students create different and innovative forms of collaboratively generated products like geocaches or digital stories. These products help to initiate the discussion about history between peers but can also be seen as important elements of social participation and commitment when using social networks for historical learning. Furthermore mobile history learning lets students understand public debates on history, politics, culture, memory and identity.
Easing access to digital libraries with m-DSpace
There are currently a lot more mobile phones than computers in the world, including in developing countries.
Thus, considering the challenges faced in these countries in accessing print-based publications and also their existing challenges regarding accessing ICT resources such as computer and Internet, mobile access to digital libraries might be a good alternative. This paper features the design of an application for easing the access to DSpace-based digital libraries, using user-centered design approach. Such application integrates mobile, web and desktop interfaces, aiming, on one hand, to provide alternative mechanisms for accessing such libraries in developing countries, using mobile devices, and on the other, to facilitating the usage of digital libraries in educational contexts.
The ritual and the rhythm: interacting with augmented reality, visual poetry and storytelling across the streets of scattered L'Aquila
Mobile smart devices and augmented reality applications may exemplify access points to navigate a city, to detect different layers of reality, to offer different narratives of the urban geography and to explore the real environment.
It may represent an emotional journey where familiar places are represented through unusual perspectives. A sliding between reality and virtuality, an invite to participate and discover public spaces. "Street Poetry in augmented reality" exhibitions are urban paths to engage people (e.g. students, citizens, tourists etc.) with art and smart technologies while performing something. In this article, the format "Emotional Mapping of Museum Augmented Places" (EMMAP) is discussed using the evaluation of the trial that was implemented in L'Aquila (Italy).
Application for Android to learn foreign languages
Fiszkoteka.pl is an educational portal that converts the flashcard learning method (i.e. with little pieces of paper bearing information on both sides) into a multimedia online experience.