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A young woman waited at the airport and bought cookies to eat while reading. A man sat next to her and began eating her cookies without asking. Angry but unable to react, she watched as he ate each cookie until only one was left, which he shared with her. When boarding her flight, she discovered her untouched cookies still in her purse. She realized she had been mistaken and felt ashamed for wrongly accusing the man.
The document discusses the benefits of internet forums compared to other communication methods. It notes that forums allow asynchronous communication, give everyone a chance to participate, can include links and attachments, and make discussions trackable. It also includes sample conversations on a student forum about blocking Facebook on the college network due to demands on IT resources.
This document provides recommendations for improving instruction and retention in online courses. It suggests personalizing instruction for students, encouraging active learning, increasing communication, building community, and providing support services. Some specific supports mentioned include orientations for new online students, academic advising, tutoring, writing help, and integrating library services into course platforms. The goal is to increase retention, persistence, and student satisfaction in online courses.
A system to provide healthy competition, friendship, and a guidance system to members of Project Start. By Parsons Design + Management students: Monique Connelly, Ayse Cueto, and Julian Lee
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Inspired by the outdoor community gardens and flower shops near the new MSK facility, this team chose to develop an herb garden system that would create a nourishing and supportive community. The community garden includes selecting and growing herbs, drying herbs, and making herbal sachets and teas while the support network of the service includes partners, volunteers and how to disseminate appropriate information about herbs to patients.
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QS: The Patient-Driven Health RevolutionSteven Dean
This document summarizes a presentation on "Living Well Through Data" given by Steven Dean at Rock Health in partnership with Mount Sinai School of Medicine on October 2, 2012. The presentation discussed how self-tracking of various health metrics can provide insights and help solve medical mysteries. It noted that the Quantified Self movement has grown to include over 70 meetup groups and 10,000 members who share how tracking things like food, exercise, sleep, mood and other factors helped them learn about their health and make improvements.
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The document provides 26 tips for librarians' success in the workplace, labeled with letters from A to Z. Some of the key tips include accepting fellow librarians, being kind, creating a positive atmosphere, encouraging excellence, forgetting past wrongs, hanging out with positive people, insisting on smiling, knowing that work is only part of life, laughing often, moving around daily, reaching out to associates who are struggling, talking about goals, and zeroing in on accomplishments. The overall message is that adopting these behaviors and attitudes can help librarians enjoy their work and find success.
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Miki Aso, Molly Oberholtzer, Athina Santaguida
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1) The document discusses the changing roles of librarians in light of new technologies and an information-driven society. It emphasizes developing competencies and skills to provide quality service.
2) Key competencies for librarians include knowledge of information resources, technology, management, and research. Personal competencies like communication skills, continuous learning, and demonstrating value are also important.
3) To deliver total quality service, librarians must understand customers, package information to meet their needs, promote services effectively, and exceed customer expectations through high performance.
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This document discusses how libraries need to evolve beyond traditional models to meet modern user expectations. It outlines how the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and a Library 2.0 model can help libraries provide information anywhere and anytime to users with a variety of needs and values. The document proposes an "Info Common" approach that focuses on equity of access, personalized service, and flexibility to meet individual user needs.
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The document provides an overview of open access and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Library's initiatives to promote it. It discusses open access declarations, digital repositories, open journal publishing platforms like Open Journal Systems, and UTS's institutional repository and open access publishing platform UTSePress. It addresses the economic sustainability of online journals and roles of different stakeholders in supporting open access policies and implementation.
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The document discusses the empowerment of librarians in the Philippines through various initiatives. It outlines how librarians and libraries are adapting to new technologies and the hybrid model of both electronic and traditional resources. The key initiatives discussed include amendments to laws and licensure exams that expand the scope of librarianship practice and increase the focus on information technology skills.
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Slides from PSFK's Salon on Happiness about the Quantified Self movement and the people involved. Who they are. Why they track and experiment on themselves. Tools and methods they use. And how this all leads to potential happy endings.
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1. Nurses at MSK Brooklyn write welcome letters to new patients.
2. A patient named Helen receives a "Life Essentials" welcome kit upon her first visit.
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6. Jamie Rowley • Counseling
Research
Camp o 1:45-3:30
• New Beginnings
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o 3:45-4:30
• Ages Pack
o School-aged children of all backgrounds Clean-up
o Age separation o 4:30-5:00
o Sex separation
o Separation due to severity of “crime” Group discussion/recap
• Mission Reflection on weekend
o To educate and improve the lifestyles of troubled inner-city youth o 5:15-6:15
• Programs Dinner
o Nutrition
o 6:15-7:00
o Self-esteem
o Drug awareness Ending ceremony
o Team building o 7:30
o Community outreach/volunteer Departure
o Theme programs for “violence”
• Location
o Upstate NY
Kit “Ingredients”
• Funding • Hard-cover “book”
o Government grants o Personalized group t-shirt
o Private sponsorship o Personalized rock
o Fund-raisers o Snack
o Awareness campaigns
• Admission
Apple
o 100 per weekend Carrots
o Referred by a counselor Juice
o Bag inspection o Group based itinerary
o 1 warning while in camp before dismissal Fun pictures and images
Case-to-case basis
• Administration o Group handkerchief for capture the flag
o Volunteers o Strip of leather for bracelet making
o Minimal paid faculty
Training is required
Unpacking
o Based upon child’s “stability” o 10:00
• Transportation Lights out
o Shuttle
o Friday afternoon departure • Saturday
o Sunday evening return
o Ride to location with designated group o 7:30
o Group kit Wake up
T-shirt o 8:00 – 9:00
Activity clues Breakfast
• Rock o 9:15- 11:30
o Group identity
• End Activity 1
o Gift to reflect upon and remember experience o 11:45-12:30
o Month probationary period before re-admission Lunch
Camp counselor meeting to follow up o 12:45-1:30
• Education
o Teacher workshops Group Bonding
o Bi-annual public seminars • Discussions
o Parental education • Counseling
• Research o 1:45-3:30
o Other camps Activity 2
o DARE
o Outward Bound o 3:45-4:15
o Psychology Snack
• Fun o 4:30-6:00
o Mix of fun AND education Education
• Curriculum*
Discussions
o Hour by hour?
o Kit? o 6:15-7:15
o Book? Dinner
• Branding Nutrition education
o Image of camp o 7:30-9:30
o Image of bus
o All-over image
Whole camp activity
o 9:45-10:15
PROTOTYPES!! In rooms
Bunk discussion/reflection
• Can only attend twice o 10:30
• Forced to face alternate consequences if removed from camp
Lights out
• Sunday
• 10/group o 7:30
Intenerary Wake up
• Friday o 8:00 – 9:00
o 5:00
Pick-up at school Breakfast
Group bus o 9:15- 11:30
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Snacks Activity 1
o 7:30 o 11:45-12:30
Arrive at camp
Lunch
o 8:00-9:00
Dinner o 12:45-1:30
Opening ceremony Group Bonding
o 9:15-9:45 • Discussions
Bunk meeting
Discussion
9. Opportunities
We have identified the following camp
experiences as opportunities to be
developed upon:
• Transportation to camp
• Kit
• Introduction to weekend
• Adult Education
• Diverse Camp Programs
• Comprehensive Follow-up
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10. Needs & Features
Need Feature Camper Counselor
To establish
authority
To have structure
To have positive
Bus Ride
peer communities
To learn to trust Kit
Counseling
To feel safe
Camp Activities
To be challenged
Follow-up
To feel needed
To self- assess
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14. Transportation to Camp
Picked up at school Receive kit
Prototyping - Bus
Meet group leader (in
van) for weekend
Ride in customized vans
with group
Group bonding exercis-
es (name group/ create
song/rap)
Meet group leader (in
van) for weekend
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16. PROTOTYPE 1- BUS
Prototyping - Bus
Final Prototype:
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Luggage Rack
Seating
First-aid Kit
Cooler/Refrigerator
First-aid Kit
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Cooler/Refrigerator
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17. Prototyping - Kit
Kit
capture the flag flag
Reclaim t-shirt
leather
rock
journal
juice carrots
apple
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20. Prototyping - Experience
Transportation to Camp
Picked up at school Receive kit
Meet group leader (in
van) for weekend
Ride in customized vans
with group
Group bonding exercis-
es (name group/ create
song/rap)
Meet group leader (in
van) for weekend
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21. Future Development
Follow-up
End of camp
Campers set goal
Take Leather Bracelets as Reminder
2 weeks
Camp counselor visits school to meet
with guidance counselor and camper
1 month • Fund-raisers
• Incorporation of multiple
Reunion meeting
Campers discuss goals/successes
grade levels
Ongoing
E-mail/ Texting support
• Inclusion of private/
Monthly alumni meetings
religious schools
Camper Programs
Nutrition
Drug-Awareness
• Expansion into summer
Friday Saturday Sunday
Self-Esteem Building 5:00 7:30
7:30
Team Building Pick-up at school Wake up Wake up
Group bus 8:00 – 9:00 8:00 – 9:00
camps
Snacks Breakfast Breakfast
7:30 9:15- 11:30 9:15- 11:30
Arrive at camp Activity 1 Activity 1
8:00-9:00 11:45-12:30 11:45-12:30
• Opening camps in other
Dinner Lunch Lunch
Opening ceremony 12:45-1:30 12:45-1:30
9:15-9:45 Group Bonding Group Bonding
Bunk meeting Discussions Discussions
locations and states
Discussion Counseling Counseling
Unpacking 1:45-3:30 1:45-3:30
10:00 Activity 2 Activity 2
Lights out 3:45-4:15 3:45-4:30
Snack Pack
4:30-6:00 Clean-up
Education 4:30-5:00
Discussions Group discussion/recap
6:15-7:15 Reflection on weekend
Dinner 5:15-6:15
Nutrition education Dinner
7:30-9:30 6:15-7:00
Whole camp activity Ending ceremony
9:45-10:15 7:30
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In rooms Departure
Bunk discussion/reflection
10:30
Lights out
22. Limitations
• Ensuring that campers change in a posi-
tive manner.
• Unstable group dynamics.
• Inability for campers to connect with
peers, their counselor, or their group as a
whole.
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23. Bibliography
• A Typical Day.” Eckerd Academy. 20 Feb. 2008
<http://eckerdacademy.org/?gclid=CPPghuuAgpMCFQpMGgodRz7FFg>.
• Fry, Barbara. Telephone interview. 25 Feb. 2008.
• “List of Suspendable and Expellable Offenses.” Grossmont Union High School
District. 7 Mar. 2008
<http://www.mountmiguelhs.org/pdf/Behavior%20Code.pdf>.
• “Programs for At-Risk Youth, Schools, and Communities.” Outward Bound
Discovery. 20 Feb. 2008
<http://outwardbounddiscovery.org/programs.vp.html>.
• “SUWS Youth Wilderness Program.” SUWS. 20 Feb. 2008
<http://www.suws.com/>.
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