This lesson plan is for a 7th grade reading comprehension class on May 25th, 2009. The skill being taught is the use of the Simple Present tense. Students will identify general and specific information and the order of elements in the Present Simple. The lesson will use a CD player, flashcards of city places, and exercise sheets. It will begin with a 10 minute introduction, followed by a 20 minute pre-stage to introduce the Simple Present. A 30 minute while-stage will have students answering questions and creating sentences in the Present Simple. A 20 minute post-stage will have students matching answers and filling blanks. The 10 minute closing will recap what was learned and preview the next lesson.
A presentation given on August 14, 2009 at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver about the new eduCommons 3.2.1-final release, as well as the sustainable community that has formed around this open source, OpenCourseWare software.
The document discusses modeling user context based on personal awareness streams from social media. It defines a "tweetonomy" to represent relationships between users, messages, and extracted entities from messages. A tensor is used to model contexts based on different combinations of entities and indicate concepts that emerge for a given user, location, time, etc. An evaluation with 4 users found higher lexical diversity led to better concept mapping results, and contexts decayed over time as user interests changed. Future work is needed to address ambiguity and merging contexts across users.
The document outlines different levels of collateral materials provided by Opus for marketing their commercial real estate services. Level I provides an overview of Opus and their capabilities. Level II contains product and region specific materials. Level III includes customized project information. Level IV focuses on expertise in areas like sustainability. Level V covers support and service information. Lower levels provide more granular team profiles, presentations and event details.
Connecting College Faculty to Open Content Repositories: Challenges and Oppor...Tom Caswell
The document discusses an open course library project that aims to lower textbook costs for students in Washington state. The project will provide openly licensed curriculum for 81 high-enrollment college courses. Faculty will design the courses, which will be available on an open online platform. The goals are to improve course completion rates by increasing affordability and engaging faculty in open educational resources. Over 400,000 students could save over $40 million annually in textbook costs if 25% of course sections adopt the open materials. Challenges include measuring adoption rates and addressing copyright and technical issues, while opportunities exist to improve course design and accessibility.
This document describes a resume companion called a SoloSheet that provides recruiters and networking contacts with essential information from a resume in a concise format. The SoloSheet includes sections for a positioning statement, summary, work history, career objective, notable achievements, key competencies, and target organizations. The goal is to give contacts an actionable tool to help connect the job seeker with potential opportunities.
This lesson plan is for a 7th grade reading comprehension class on May 25th, 2009. The skill being taught is the use of the Simple Present tense. Students will identify general and specific information and the order of elements in the Present Simple. The lesson will use a CD player, flashcards of city places, and exercise sheets. It will begin with a 10 minute introduction, followed by a 20 minute pre-stage to introduce the Simple Present. A 30 minute while-stage will have students answering questions and creating sentences in the Present Simple. A 20 minute post-stage will have students matching answers and filling blanks. The 10 minute closing will recap what was learned and preview the next lesson.
A presentation given on August 14, 2009 at the Open Education Conference in Vancouver about the new eduCommons 3.2.1-final release, as well as the sustainable community that has formed around this open source, OpenCourseWare software.
The document discusses modeling user context based on personal awareness streams from social media. It defines a "tweetonomy" to represent relationships between users, messages, and extracted entities from messages. A tensor is used to model contexts based on different combinations of entities and indicate concepts that emerge for a given user, location, time, etc. An evaluation with 4 users found higher lexical diversity led to better concept mapping results, and contexts decayed over time as user interests changed. Future work is needed to address ambiguity and merging contexts across users.
The document outlines different levels of collateral materials provided by Opus for marketing their commercial real estate services. Level I provides an overview of Opus and their capabilities. Level II contains product and region specific materials. Level III includes customized project information. Level IV focuses on expertise in areas like sustainability. Level V covers support and service information. Lower levels provide more granular team profiles, presentations and event details.
Connecting College Faculty to Open Content Repositories: Challenges and Oppor...Tom Caswell
The document discusses an open course library project that aims to lower textbook costs for students in Washington state. The project will provide openly licensed curriculum for 81 high-enrollment college courses. Faculty will design the courses, which will be available on an open online platform. The goals are to improve course completion rates by increasing affordability and engaging faculty in open educational resources. Over 400,000 students could save over $40 million annually in textbook costs if 25% of course sections adopt the open materials. Challenges include measuring adoption rates and addressing copyright and technical issues, while opportunities exist to improve course design and accessibility.
This document describes a resume companion called a SoloSheet that provides recruiters and networking contacts with essential information from a resume in a concise format. The SoloSheet includes sections for a positioning statement, summary, work history, career objective, notable achievements, key competencies, and target organizations. The goal is to give contacts an actionable tool to help connect the job seeker with potential opportunities.
This document discusses using semantic graphs from DBpedia to represent topics in social media streams over time. It presents an approach to build time-stamped semantic graphs from DBpedia and use them to enrich tweets with semantic features. These semantic representations are shown to provide a more stable classification of topics across different time epochs, compared to using only lexical features from text. Class-based semantic features alone achieved an average 7% gain over lexical features in cross-time classification experiments. Future work could explore concept drift tracking and cross-epoch transfer learning using linked data.
This document describes a person's weekly activities and family. The person likes to play basketball with friends on Sundays and her brother goes to the cinema with her father. Her mother is a good cook who makes pasta. The person and their family have many friends and travel to Mexico every year.
From Shared To Open: The Evolution of Open Education in Washington StateTom Caswell
The document summarizes the evolution of open education in Washington State. It describes how the community and technical colleges initially shared a student management system and online courses. It then discusses the creation of WashingtonOnline to pool enrollments across colleges. More recently, the state board adopted policies to promote open licensing of digital resources and the creation of an Open Course Library to lower textbook costs and improve student success. The goal is to make efficient use of public funds and increase access to high-quality educational materials.
Una mujer lleva una pistola y una navaja ocultas en su bolso, y se maquilla para ocultar que no durmió bien. Casi nada en su apariencia es natural, ya que usa ropa ajustada y maquillaje para esconder su sed de venganza y las sustancias malvadas que lleva consigo. Ella viaja de pueblo en pueblo bajo el sol agotador, deseando morir en el desierto que tanto ama.
This document summarizes the student's practicum portfolio. It shows the different steps, aspects, and results of the practicum process. It displays the methodology, activities, and lesson plans used during the practicum. The main goals were to create more interactive exercises and activities to help students effectively internalize knowledge.
El documento ofrece consejos para evitar infectar las computadoras con virus informáticos, como no descargar artículos desconocidos, no hacer clic en enlaces sospechosos, y tener cuidado al usar motores de búsqueda y correo electrónico para prevenir que los virus informáticos penetren los ordenadores.
Impact Displays offers a broad selection of trade show flooring for use in trade shows, including trade show carpet, foam and hardwood. Get a comfortable, great looking trade show floor from Impact Displays for your next trade show or promotional event.
Examining the impact of Open Course Library adoption on teaching practice and...Tom Caswell
The document summarizes research being conducted on the adoption of Open Course Library (OCL) materials by colleges in Washington state. The research aims to understand how OCL materials are being used, barriers to adoption, and the impact on student success. Preliminary findings from focus groups and interviews with faculty who adopted OCL materials found that they liked the pre-packaged materials and cost savings, but others faced barriers like materials residing in ANGEL and lack of support. Keys to successful adoption included communities of users, continuous improvement, and connections to authors. The implementation plan proposes building an OER hub, advisory group, workshops, and atmosphere welcoming OER use.
The lesson plan is for a 7th grade class to teach the use of the Simple Future tense. It will begin with an introduction involving role calling, reviewing the date and previous lesson. During the core class, students will learn about the structure and use of Simple Future through a powerpoint presentation. They will complete exercises matching sentences to pictures and filling in blanks using Simple Future. The lesson will close with a recap of what was learned and preview of the next lesson. The overall goals are for students to understand and be able to identify and use Simple Future.
This document discusses open educational resources and Tom Caswell's work promoting their use. It summarizes the Cape Town Open Education Declaration of making education available to hundreds of millions. It outlines Washington's strategic plan to provide online learning tools and its open licensing policy. The Open Course Library project aims to design open courses, lower costs, and engage colleges in open discussions. The first 42 courses were released, saving students over $1 million in textbook costs in the first year.
This document discusses using semantic graphs from DBpedia to represent topics in social media streams over time. It presents an approach to build time-stamped semantic graphs from DBpedia and use them to enrich tweets with semantic features. These semantic representations are shown to provide a more stable classification of topics across different time epochs, compared to using only lexical features from text. Class-based semantic features alone achieved an average 7% gain over lexical features in cross-time classification experiments. Future work could explore concept drift tracking and cross-epoch transfer learning using linked data.
This document describes a person's weekly activities and family. The person likes to play basketball with friends on Sundays and her brother goes to the cinema with her father. Her mother is a good cook who makes pasta. The person and their family have many friends and travel to Mexico every year.
From Shared To Open: The Evolution of Open Education in Washington StateTom Caswell
The document summarizes the evolution of open education in Washington State. It describes how the community and technical colleges initially shared a student management system and online courses. It then discusses the creation of WashingtonOnline to pool enrollments across colleges. More recently, the state board adopted policies to promote open licensing of digital resources and the creation of an Open Course Library to lower textbook costs and improve student success. The goal is to make efficient use of public funds and increase access to high-quality educational materials.
Una mujer lleva una pistola y una navaja ocultas en su bolso, y se maquilla para ocultar que no durmió bien. Casi nada en su apariencia es natural, ya que usa ropa ajustada y maquillaje para esconder su sed de venganza y las sustancias malvadas que lleva consigo. Ella viaja de pueblo en pueblo bajo el sol agotador, deseando morir en el desierto que tanto ama.
This document summarizes the student's practicum portfolio. It shows the different steps, aspects, and results of the practicum process. It displays the methodology, activities, and lesson plans used during the practicum. The main goals were to create more interactive exercises and activities to help students effectively internalize knowledge.
El documento ofrece consejos para evitar infectar las computadoras con virus informáticos, como no descargar artículos desconocidos, no hacer clic en enlaces sospechosos, y tener cuidado al usar motores de búsqueda y correo electrónico para prevenir que los virus informáticos penetren los ordenadores.
Impact Displays offers a broad selection of trade show flooring for use in trade shows, including trade show carpet, foam and hardwood. Get a comfortable, great looking trade show floor from Impact Displays for your next trade show or promotional event.
Examining the impact of Open Course Library adoption on teaching practice and...Tom Caswell
The document summarizes research being conducted on the adoption of Open Course Library (OCL) materials by colleges in Washington state. The research aims to understand how OCL materials are being used, barriers to adoption, and the impact on student success. Preliminary findings from focus groups and interviews with faculty who adopted OCL materials found that they liked the pre-packaged materials and cost savings, but others faced barriers like materials residing in ANGEL and lack of support. Keys to successful adoption included communities of users, continuous improvement, and connections to authors. The implementation plan proposes building an OER hub, advisory group, workshops, and atmosphere welcoming OER use.
The lesson plan is for a 7th grade class to teach the use of the Simple Future tense. It will begin with an introduction involving role calling, reviewing the date and previous lesson. During the core class, students will learn about the structure and use of Simple Future through a powerpoint presentation. They will complete exercises matching sentences to pictures and filling in blanks using Simple Future. The lesson will close with a recap of what was learned and preview of the next lesson. The overall goals are for students to understand and be able to identify and use Simple Future.
This document discusses open educational resources and Tom Caswell's work promoting their use. It summarizes the Cape Town Open Education Declaration of making education available to hundreds of millions. It outlines Washington's strategic plan to provide online learning tools and its open licensing policy. The Open Course Library project aims to design open courses, lower costs, and engage colleges in open discussions. The first 42 courses were released, saving students over $1 million in textbook costs in the first year.