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Teaching union head dies

Teaching union head dies 05/22/2004 02:18 PM
The general secretary of the country's second-largest teaching union, Eamonn O'Kane, dies in London.

Teaching union head O'Kane dies

Teaching union head O'Kane dies 05/22/2004 04:53 PM
The general secretary of the country's second-largest teaching union, Eamonn O'Kane, dies in London.

Union warning on Rover deal

Union warning on Rover deal 04/02/2005 12:56 PM
The leader of a car industry union vows to fight any compulsory job losses included in a deal to save Rover.

Rail union set for Labour warning

Rail union set for Labour warning 01/26/2004 11:06 PM
The UK's biggest rail union is expected to be given a final warning by Labour about breaking its party rules.

New Union Coordinator Software from
Union Built PC, Inc.

New Union Coordinator Software from
Union Built PC, Inc. 06/28/2004 03:21 AM
Union Built PC, Inc. releases software for calendar and meeting scheduling, with the ability to track, store, and report the new LM 2 categories specified by the Department of Labor (DOL). [PRWEB Jun 28, 2004]

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go 11/19/2003 01:41 AM

This email to the css-discuss mailing list does a great job of describing the confusion and frustration that still confronts traditional web developers who are only just starting out on the road to mastering CSS. When you've "got it", it's easy to forget how much of a paradigm shift it is away from old school table methods. Here's an extract:

Step Eight.

Just when you think you're settling down into a slow and steady learning curve, this is about when you start getting emails from everyone who uses your site describing all kinds of variations on your layout as it has been interpreted by their varying browsers and platforms. This stage is the most important of all, the one where you realize that CSS support is far, far more random than any HTML workarounds that you've been dealing with for the (insert personal experience here) years you've been making web pages.

(Excerpt from an email from a user of one of my sites: "the new color and stuff on the homepage looks good, except on my computor [sic] some of the pages are cut off at the bottom and have big gaps in them")

Maybe a good analogy to make here is one with Linux: both are great in principle, but if you aren't comfortable with what you are doing you can run in to a whole bunch of problems. I wouldn't recommend anyone who is still on the CSS learning curve to move a big commercial project to pure CSS, just as I wouldn't suggest a Linux newbie start hosting their own internet facing server.

At any rate, it's obvious that we as a community still have a long way to go in creating useful resources for people who want to make the switch to CSS.

Unorthodox Teaching Aid

Unorthodox Teaching Aid 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Blogpoly: From Monopoly to Blogpoly

“It is just a game. It is fun to use the board to lay out the Blogosphere Ecosystem. It helps me to think and learn about blogging culture by transforming the original game into this version. I had to think about which company and enterprise to choose and set up first on the board. The space is limited, so I picked well known names in blogging industry. Besides the private properties, there are two public utilities--the water works and the electric company. Then I thought of ‘Wikipedia’ and ‘Creative Commons’, and then a few more, making ‘criminal’ into ‘spammer’, ‘free parking’ into ‘free hosting’. ‘Chance’ and ‘community chest’ become ‘comment’ and ‘trackback’. Fun -- yes? There is not much difference for me transforming the game than writing a poem, using similes, metaphors and symbols.” [littleoslo, via Boing Boing]

This is a nice, visual representation of bloggy and social sites/services. It could serve as an interesting conversation piece in training classes, especially tech CE events.

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics 11/18/2003 06:59 AM

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Neural Network Teaching Aid

Neural Network Teaching Aid 05/25/2004 02:44 PM
Initiation

New: Teaching Music with Reason

New: Teaching Music with Reason 05/06/2004 10:07 AM
Propellerhead Software's Teaching Music with Reason combines a specially adapted version of its Reason music application with lesson-based materials for teaching music creation.

Teaching the Test in Texas

Teaching the Test in Texas 12/03/2003 12:14 PM
Teach ing the Test
As a student at Jefferson Davis High here, Rosa Arevelo seemed the "Texas miracle" in motion. After years of classroom drills, she passed the high school exam required for graduation on her first try. A program of college prep courses earned her the designation "Texas scholar." At the University of Houston, though, Ms. Arevelo discovered the distance between what Texas public schools called success and what she needed to know. Trained to write five-paragraph "persuasive essays" for the state exam, she was stumped by her first writing assignment. She failed the college entrance exam in math twice, even with a year of remedial algebra. At 19, she gave up and went to trade school.

This doesn't look good for our new, unfunded, "Leave No Child Behind" education bill. Smells like another bait and switch to me.

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps 04/19/2004 01:29 AM
New York Times Apr 19 2004 5:53AM GMT

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching 05/14/2004 04:50 AM
BBC May 14 2004 9:03AM GMT

Teaching History With Videogames

Teaching History With Videogames 08/08/2004 07:05 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 8 2004 11:07AM GMT

Teaching Nanotech to Swim

Teaching Nanotech to Swim 07/24/2004 11:09 PM

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“One of the cultural icons of nanotechnology is the image of the surgical team from the 1966 science fiction movie, Fantastic Voyage, motoring along through the bloodstream of scientist Jan Benes. Everyone knows the image is about as closely related to real-life nanotechnology as Jurassic Park is to genomics-still, it’s hard to shake. The scene, and others like it have inspired a generation of researchers to pursue technologies that may one day deliver cancer-fighting drugs…

Teaching Kids How to Invest

Teaching Kids How to Invest 06/28/2004 09:44 AM
Your kids have time on their side, so give them a head start in investing.

Teaching an old Walkman new steps

Teaching an old Walkman new steps 04/19/2004 09:37 AM
CNET Apr 19 2004 2:15PM GMT

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software 09/06/2004 01:59 AM
Project team forming

Teaching educators about free software

Teaching educators about free software 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
I was shocked when the middle school principal told me he could not accept free software for his journalism program; that all he was allowed to use was fresh-from-the-box commercial software. "It's school district policy," he said. "We can't even bring software from home now. It's because of the licensing. There are big fines for using unlicensed software. We can't risk it." This was an educated man, a fine teacher and administrator, but he knew nothing about the licensing terms under which Linux, OpenOffice, and many other fine programs are distributed. Neither, apparently, did his superiors in the school district administration. We need to teach them.

Teaching Robots to Herd Cats

Teaching Robots to Herd Cats 04/21/2004 04:48 AM
Rescue crews would love to have dozens of tiny robots swarm disaster sites to aid in finding survivors. There's just one problem: The robots don't play well with each other. So researchers are programming teamwork into electronics. By Michelle Delio.

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
In 1992, I graduated from the Clarion Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University, the famed six-week "boot-camp for science-fiction writers." It was an amazing experience: my instruction from the likes of Damon Knight, James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy Kress and Kate Wilhelm forever changed me as a writer and a person.

Therefore, it is a stupendous honour to be able to announce that I will be returning to Clarion next year, as part of the 2005 roster of instructors. My co-instructors will be Joan Vinge, Charles Coleman Finlay, Gwyneth Jones, Walter John Williams and Leslie What.

Clarion is in transition this year, as funding cuts at MSU will require a change of venue. Here are some details:

Among the options being considered are moving the workshop to another university or becoming an independent non-profit organization, along the lines of Clarion West. In either event, Clarion is likely to leave its long-time home in East Lansing and is actively soliciting suggestions for new location(s) and offers from organizations or groups willing to host the workshop. “I think it’s past time for Clarion to make a transition to a new venue and a new structure,” said Board Member James Patrick Kelly. The Clarion Board is calling on alumni and friends of the workshop to volunteer to help with the transition. “We need to work on fundraising, communications, and administration,” said Kelly. “We’re encouraging people who believe in Clarion to get involved with everything from putting together our newsletter to helping choose the instructors and lots in between.” To that end, the Clarion Board of Directors, which currently consists of Matheson, Kelly, Kate Wilhelm, Maureen McHugh, Karen Joy Fowler, Tim Powers, and former Clarion director Tess Tavormina will be looking to reconstitute itself and expand its membership.

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Home teaching 'needs more checks'

Home teaching 'needs more checks' 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
Children taught by their parents should be subject to greater scrutiny, a union has heard.

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands 07/19/2004 04:27 AM
Lessons via satellite are helping students keep up with their education in the island nations of the South Pacific.

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant?

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant? 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
Maria is an assistant teacher in Statistical Interference at the University of Auckland according to a new press release from the University. It also describes some of the unique attributes of Maria. First of all, it claims she's a virtual, artificial intelligence entity "with a vocabulary of 203,000 words, a repertoire of 106,000 grammatical rules and 118,000 rules of logical interference, Maria is capable of conversation at quite a complex level." Whe she's not teaching, Maria apparently hangs out on the Internet with her other virtual friends phishing for credit card numbers. Feel free to visit them and have a chat. I decided to interview Maria and find out if she's really as smart as the story claims.

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson 11/12/2003 01:22 PM
The Berklee College of Music is encouraging anyone to grab and trade clips of the school's music lessons on P2P networks. The school also wants to stimulate debate about the future of the music industry in the digital world. By Katie Dean.

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
As part of the celebration of International Women's Day, our friends at faq-mac.com have published an interview with Reyyan Ayfer, a teacher of Computer Science at the Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), who talks about teaching, opportunities for women at the university, and the hardware and software used...

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour 04/19/2005 08:48 AM
stas writes "While planning vacation and teaching engagements I've discovered that I'm going to do a trip around the world in about 80 days :) During the trip I'd like to offer free mod_perl tutorials/talks to Perl monger groups in the areas I'll be in....

National Taxpayers Union & National
Taxpayers Union Foundation - Press

National Taxpayers Union & National
Taxpayers Union Foundation - Press 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
Study By National Taxpayers Union & NTUF: Every Democrat Presidential Candidate's Platform Would Raise, Not Lower, Federal Budget Deficits .. increase the federal deficit .. all worse .. spending

ntu.org/main/press_release.php?PressID=549&org_name=NTUF
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"Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania
town "

"Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania
town " 03/30/2005 03:21 AM

Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens
(washingtonpost.com)

Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens
(washingtonpost.com) 03/14/2005 05:36 PM
washingtonpost.com - WICHITA – Propelled by a polished strategy crafted by activists on America's political right, a battle is intensifying across the nation over how students are taught about the origins of life. Policymakers in 19 states are weighing proposals that question the science of evolution.

Another copyright experiment: U Maine's
teaching commons

Another copyright experiment: U Maine's
teaching commons 12/18/2003 02:13 AM

In another experiment with alternatives to copyright , the University of Maine 's Still Water new media lab launched a digital material commons . The Pool contains student- and faculty-created work, which may be freely used and shared:

The Pool emphasizes distributed creativity, a concept similar to a cluster computer for the media world. Users can dive into the Pool and search for visuals or audio tracks to use with their own projects, find collaborators to work with or ask for feedback from their peers.
Contributors also can propose a concept for others to implement, or respond to invitations to explore, debug, re-edit or remix existing works.

( Wired News )

Teaching High School Biology from
TeachersDomain.org

Teaching High School Biology from
TeachersDomain.org 02/01/2005 08:51 PM
Teachers' Domain Professional Development introduces Teaching High School Biology at www.teachersdomain.org/courses, an online course designed to provide new strategies for teachers to excite students about science and facilitate students' learning using multimedia and other interactive technologies.

Teaching History In Schools With Video
Games

Teaching History In Schools With Video
Games 05/27/2004 12:11 PM

Teaching plan 'not tested enough'

Teaching plan 'not tested enough' 08/20/2004 04:23 AM
A scheme to improve teaching at primary schools has had a "limited impact", a report says.

Teaching Information Architecture to the
Design Student

Teaching Information Architecture to the
Design Student 09/18/2002 09:24 AM

Scholarship, teaching, new media, and
copyright conference

Scholarship, teaching, new media, and
copyright conference 06/17/2004 11:28 AM

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is holding a conference this weekend on the growing copyright problems facing scholars using digital media. "Knowledge Held Hostage: Scholarly Versus Corporate Rights in the Digital Age" examines the overlap of creative use of technology with (often inadvertent) copyright infringement.

Questions to be addressed include the following:

What justifies fair use in a scholarly context?

Is there a viable alternative to fair use in the academic environment?
What are the fair use issues and needs raised by different scholarly media (for example, print, film, digital media, databases)?

Do different kinds of institutional arrangements (large vs. small school vs. professional society, classroom vs. library) raise different fair use issues and needs?

The event is also sponsored by Rice University 's Connexions project .

Improved Teaching Skills and Trends in
Technical Education

Improved Teaching Skills and Trends in
Technical Education 12/02/2003 06:30 AM
NetLib Dec 2 2003 5:21AM ET

Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning
with Digital Resources

Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning
with Digital Resources 06/22/2005 02:48 AM


Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources
http://w ww.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_6/index.html

Web-Wise 2005: Teaching and Learning with Digital Resources. Web-Wise 2005 brought together library and museum professionals, educators, and other experts to discuss the best ways to integrate digital resources in the classroom. This special issue brings together papers presented in February in Washington, D.C. on many recent developments in the integration of digital content into educational practices. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

Turning Jukeboxes Into Teaching Aids: A
Chat With Tracy Futhey

Turning Jukeboxes Into Teaching Aids: A
Chat With Tracy Futhey 08/11/2004 04:41 AM
Behind the Duke University's initiative is Tracy Futhey, chief information officer and vice president for information technology. Gadgets can't make poor teachers great, the West Virginia native says, but they can improve the educational experience. By Jonathan B. Cox, News Observer (via MyAppleMenu)
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