Building Bridges between Academic TribesMartin Rehm
The document discusses building an online group blog called SHARE-IT to facilitate knowledge sharing across academic disciplines. A survey of 18 researchers found generally positive attitudes toward contributing to and using the blog. Respondents anticipated the blog would strengthen relationships and help others. However, some expressed concerns that contributions may be too generic or that open accessibility could disincentivize sharing. The authors propose addressing such issues and expanding the blog's target groups and comparative research to help knowledge sharing.
The document discusses several social media marketing campaigns for television programs and recruitment efforts:
1) The E4 Skins campaign built an engaged community on Myspace prior to the show's launch through exclusive previews, parties with the cast, and user-generated content which helped boost viewership.
2) For the second season of Skins, the campaign focused on rewarding existing fans and increasing awareness through webisodes, premiering the first episode online, and digital street teams to spread content.
3) A Royal Marines recruitment campaign featured a Bebo profile of a real marine to educate potential recruits through conversations, achieving over 1,100 friends and 65,000 views.
4) Sofia's
The document provides an overview of common operations that can be performed on lists and maps in Groovy. It demonstrates how to create, add/remove elements, iterate, sort and transform lists and maps. It also covers closures, optional parentheses/semicolons, and multi-variable assignment in Groovy.
This document discusses the history and evolution of Eclipse usage at eBay over multiple versions. It describes how eBay transitioned from Perl and C++ to fully using Java for its architecture. It then discusses how Eclipse was customized through plugins, wizards, and editors to improve developer productivity for tasks like managing dependencies, working with data access layers, and service-oriented architecture. Key individuals who helped advance Eclipse usage at eBay are also recognized.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
In Croatia, several Christmas traditions are observed:
1) On St. Lucia's Day (December 13th), wheat is sown as a symbol of life for Catholics.
2) An Advent wreath is used as a symbol of eternity and faith in God, with a candle lit each Sunday for family prayers.
3) St. Nicholas brings gifts on his name day if children are good, while Krampus brings birch branches if they are bad.
Comparing Communities of Learning: Incoming Bachelor Students & Working Profe...Martin Rehm
The document compares communities of learning (CoLs) between bachelor students and working professionals taking an online economics course. It hypothesized that working professionals would contribute less often but more elaborately, participation would be positively skewed, and informal communication would be higher for bachelor students. The course was conducted on Blackboard with discussion forums. Results found bachelor students were more focused on self-image while professionals were more critical of the course. Both groups benefited from CoLs, but facilitation was important. CoLs can be effective across different target groups using a neo-apprenticeship style of learning.
Building Bridges between Academic TribesMartin Rehm
The document discusses building an online group blog called SHARE-IT to facilitate knowledge sharing across academic disciplines. A survey of 18 researchers found generally positive attitudes toward contributing to and using the blog. Respondents anticipated the blog would strengthen relationships and help others. However, some expressed concerns that contributions may be too generic or that open accessibility could disincentivize sharing. The authors propose addressing such issues and expanding the blog's target groups and comparative research to help knowledge sharing.
The document discusses several social media marketing campaigns for television programs and recruitment efforts:
1) The E4 Skins campaign built an engaged community on Myspace prior to the show's launch through exclusive previews, parties with the cast, and user-generated content which helped boost viewership.
2) For the second season of Skins, the campaign focused on rewarding existing fans and increasing awareness through webisodes, premiering the first episode online, and digital street teams to spread content.
3) A Royal Marines recruitment campaign featured a Bebo profile of a real marine to educate potential recruits through conversations, achieving over 1,100 friends and 65,000 views.
4) Sofia's
The document provides an overview of common operations that can be performed on lists and maps in Groovy. It demonstrates how to create, add/remove elements, iterate, sort and transform lists and maps. It also covers closures, optional parentheses/semicolons, and multi-variable assignment in Groovy.
This document discusses the history and evolution of Eclipse usage at eBay over multiple versions. It describes how eBay transitioned from Perl and C++ to fully using Java for its architecture. It then discusses how Eclipse was customized through plugins, wizards, and editors to improve developer productivity for tasks like managing dependencies, working with data access layers, and service-oriented architecture. Key individuals who helped advance Eclipse usage at eBay are also recognized.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
In Croatia, several Christmas traditions are observed:
1) On St. Lucia's Day (December 13th), wheat is sown as a symbol of life for Catholics.
2) An Advent wreath is used as a symbol of eternity and faith in God, with a candle lit each Sunday for family prayers.
3) St. Nicholas brings gifts on his name day if children are good, while Krampus brings birch branches if they are bad.
Comparing Communities of Learning: Incoming Bachelor Students & Working Profe...Martin Rehm
The document compares communities of learning (CoLs) between bachelor students and working professionals taking an online economics course. It hypothesized that working professionals would contribute less often but more elaborately, participation would be positively skewed, and informal communication would be higher for bachelor students. The course was conducted on Blackboard with discussion forums. Results found bachelor students were more focused on self-image while professionals were more critical of the course. Both groups benefited from CoLs, but facilitation was important. CoLs can be effective across different target groups using a neo-apprenticeship style of learning.
The document discusses a woman named Maria Ptak. In 3 sentences or less, it does not provide enough contextual information to generate an informative summary. The single word "autor:" followed by a name does not convey meaningful details about the topic, scope, or key points.
Through its Innovation World program, TeliaSonera provides a platform for testing new mobile services with end users and partners. Innovation World allows users to try services for free, provide feedback, and influence future offerings, while partners can evaluate services and potentially partner with TeliaSonera. The program aims to more quickly commercialize innovative services that are proven with end users.
The document contains posts from three people discussing a school group. Marthinus Hadipranoto praises the group for always being energetic and having fun together, especially when cheering. Aldian Salim jokes that he is happy to know the group and calls them great. Tara Mega signs off from posting more, saying the important thing is they were happy and it was enjoyable, welcoming the others to their school.
This tutorial explains how to play a game that allows users to sign up for a free account, choose a difficulty level between 1 and 28, and then play a game at the selected level. After finishing the game, users can check their score and review their progress before playing again.
The document lists various hypothetical scenarios that represent extremes of human traits and behaviors. It provides examples of what would epitomize secrecy, laziness, craziness, forgetfulness, stupidity, honesty, suicide, and dehydration. Each scenario is meant to be an absurd or nonsensical situation that takes the trait to its illogical limit.
The document proposes developing a system called SHAC-M+ using near space balloons (PSBs) and a tethered mast system (TMS) to provide continuous covert communications coverage for submarines and other maritime assets in littoral waters. The PSBs would be deployed from submarines, aircraft, and surface ships to act as temporary satellites, while the TMS would allow submarines to communicate at speed and depth. The TMS is a basic concept involving a tethered mast and communications equipment that could provide persistent communications, ISR, and maintain stealth for submarines operating in blue waters and littorals.
The document proposes improvements to the Gauteng freeway network in South Africa, including upgrading freeways to 4-6 lanes per direction, improving interchanges, adding auxiliary lanes, and cross road improvements. The projects will be financed through open road tolling without physical toll plazas to minimize delays. Construction is scheduled to begin in May 2008, be substantially completed by May 2010, and finish in October 2010, with toll operations commencing then. Challenges include availability of skills and materials, traffic risks, and potential impacts on construction costs.
This document summarizes Hendrik Drachsler's presentation on the future of learning analytics. The presentation covers reflection on learning analytics to date, an overview of academic research in the field, examples of existing learning analytics tools, and a look toward the future of learning analytics including increased transparency, intervention capabilities, expanded use of educational data, and new technologies like augmented reality in the classroom. The goal of learning analytics is to identify patterns in educational data to improve the learning process.
Jude's Drafting Table The Strawberry Questionsixteen.wiishes
This document discusses two probability questions involving the arrangement of strawberries pinned to a wall.
Part I asks for the number of arrangements if five leafed strawberries remain together. There are seven possible arrangements.
Part II asks for the probability of selecting a leafless berry with a green pin followed by a leafed berry with a yellow pin, without replacement. A tree diagram is constructed to calculate the probability as 1/2.
This document provides glimpses into the lives of SMU graduates from 2009 through brief descriptions and messages from friends and classmates. It highlights each graduate's personalities, accomplishments, talents and the impact they had on others during their time at SMU. The graduates are remembered fondly for their kindness, humor, leadership abilities and the memories they helped create.
This document provides various statistics and facts about social media usage among youth:
- 60% of Blackberry owners check email in bed. 2/3 of online users are on social networks.
- Asian youth have on average 96 contacts on their mobile, 87 IM buddies, and belong to 4 social networks.
- The average number of friends youth have is 107, with 54 offline friends and 13 close friends.
- 76% of youth belong to at least one social network. Friendster and MySpace were early dominant networks while Facebook and Twitter now lead.
- Social networks started for specific audiences but are maturing to support mass communication across interests and demographics.
- Emer
The document discusses a woman named Maria Ptak. In 3 sentences or less, it does not provide enough contextual information to generate an informative summary. The single word "autor:" followed by a name does not convey meaningful details about the topic, scope, or key points.
Through its Innovation World program, TeliaSonera provides a platform for testing new mobile services with end users and partners. Innovation World allows users to try services for free, provide feedback, and influence future offerings, while partners can evaluate services and potentially partner with TeliaSonera. The program aims to more quickly commercialize innovative services that are proven with end users.
The document contains posts from three people discussing a school group. Marthinus Hadipranoto praises the group for always being energetic and having fun together, especially when cheering. Aldian Salim jokes that he is happy to know the group and calls them great. Tara Mega signs off from posting more, saying the important thing is they were happy and it was enjoyable, welcoming the others to their school.
This tutorial explains how to play a game that allows users to sign up for a free account, choose a difficulty level between 1 and 28, and then play a game at the selected level. After finishing the game, users can check their score and review their progress before playing again.
The document lists various hypothetical scenarios that represent extremes of human traits and behaviors. It provides examples of what would epitomize secrecy, laziness, craziness, forgetfulness, stupidity, honesty, suicide, and dehydration. Each scenario is meant to be an absurd or nonsensical situation that takes the trait to its illogical limit.
The document proposes developing a system called SHAC-M+ using near space balloons (PSBs) and a tethered mast system (TMS) to provide continuous covert communications coverage for submarines and other maritime assets in littoral waters. The PSBs would be deployed from submarines, aircraft, and surface ships to act as temporary satellites, while the TMS would allow submarines to communicate at speed and depth. The TMS is a basic concept involving a tethered mast and communications equipment that could provide persistent communications, ISR, and maintain stealth for submarines operating in blue waters and littorals.
The document proposes improvements to the Gauteng freeway network in South Africa, including upgrading freeways to 4-6 lanes per direction, improving interchanges, adding auxiliary lanes, and cross road improvements. The projects will be financed through open road tolling without physical toll plazas to minimize delays. Construction is scheduled to begin in May 2008, be substantially completed by May 2010, and finish in October 2010, with toll operations commencing then. Challenges include availability of skills and materials, traffic risks, and potential impacts on construction costs.
This document summarizes Hendrik Drachsler's presentation on the future of learning analytics. The presentation covers reflection on learning analytics to date, an overview of academic research in the field, examples of existing learning analytics tools, and a look toward the future of learning analytics including increased transparency, intervention capabilities, expanded use of educational data, and new technologies like augmented reality in the classroom. The goal of learning analytics is to identify patterns in educational data to improve the learning process.
Jude's Drafting Table The Strawberry Questionsixteen.wiishes
This document discusses two probability questions involving the arrangement of strawberries pinned to a wall.
Part I asks for the number of arrangements if five leafed strawberries remain together. There are seven possible arrangements.
Part II asks for the probability of selecting a leafless berry with a green pin followed by a leafed berry with a yellow pin, without replacement. A tree diagram is constructed to calculate the probability as 1/2.
This document provides glimpses into the lives of SMU graduates from 2009 through brief descriptions and messages from friends and classmates. It highlights each graduate's personalities, accomplishments, talents and the impact they had on others during their time at SMU. The graduates are remembered fondly for their kindness, humor, leadership abilities and the memories they helped create.
This document provides various statistics and facts about social media usage among youth:
- 60% of Blackberry owners check email in bed. 2/3 of online users are on social networks.
- Asian youth have on average 96 contacts on their mobile, 87 IM buddies, and belong to 4 social networks.
- The average number of friends youth have is 107, with 54 offline friends and 13 close friends.
- 76% of youth belong to at least one social network. Friendster and MySpace were early dominant networks while Facebook and Twitter now lead.
- Social networks started for specific audiences but are maturing to support mass communication across interests and demographics.
- Emer