Presentation at HEA ICS Conference August 09, University of Kent at Canterbury.
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/10th-annual-conf/programme_day3.php
Abstract: "Audio or video podcasts can offer students different ways of learning and can add value by providing access to learning materials ‘on the move’. This paper presents an initial investigation into the use of excel podcasts for undergraduate and foundation level students in different faculties at a single university. The podcasts were shown in lecture and seminar settings and uploaded to an online server for all students to access in their own time; either via a web browser or portable video player such as an iPod. Results for the on-going study were positive with the majority of students using them for developing their understanding of excel and exam revision. Students expressed an interest in having similar supplementary learning materials for other modules. Such conclusions drawn from this study highlight the need to investigate the use of podcasts further in the teaching and learning environment. "
Many online learning platforms offer conceptually "paper based" exercises - online. WIMS and QUICKTOOL are conceptually different as they exploit large language data banks available online such as corpora (eg. the British national Corpus), audio collections (http://shtooka.net/en/), electronic dictionaries (including phonetic dictionaries) etc. Moreover several picture, audio or text files can be attached to the same exercise.
The random function in WIMS allows exercises to be drawn from an exercise bank in random order thus enhancing motivation and learning as the learner rarely comes upon exactly the same exercise again.
The workshop will present some of the specificities of WIMS through a series of exercises intended to help learners improve their professional presentation skills (phonology, the use of rhetorical devices and emphatic structures for persuasion, pausing, etc.) I will also demonstrate how the in-built discussion forum can be used for collaborative writing activities and how to create virtual classes and exercises.
Presentation at HEA ICS Conference August 09, University of Kent at Canterbury.
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/events/10th-annual-conf/programme_day3.php
Abstract: "Audio or video podcasts can offer students different ways of learning and can add value by providing access to learning materials ‘on the move’. This paper presents an initial investigation into the use of excel podcasts for undergraduate and foundation level students in different faculties at a single university. The podcasts were shown in lecture and seminar settings and uploaded to an online server for all students to access in their own time; either via a web browser or portable video player such as an iPod. Results for the on-going study were positive with the majority of students using them for developing their understanding of excel and exam revision. Students expressed an interest in having similar supplementary learning materials for other modules. Such conclusions drawn from this study highlight the need to investigate the use of podcasts further in the teaching and learning environment. "
Many online learning platforms offer conceptually "paper based" exercises - online. WIMS and QUICKTOOL are conceptually different as they exploit large language data banks available online such as corpora (eg. the British national Corpus), audio collections (http://shtooka.net/en/), electronic dictionaries (including phonetic dictionaries) etc. Moreover several picture, audio or text files can be attached to the same exercise.
The random function in WIMS allows exercises to be drawn from an exercise bank in random order thus enhancing motivation and learning as the learner rarely comes upon exactly the same exercise again.
The workshop will present some of the specificities of WIMS through a series of exercises intended to help learners improve their professional presentation skills (phonology, the use of rhetorical devices and emphatic structures for persuasion, pausing, etc.) I will also demonstrate how the in-built discussion forum can be used for collaborative writing activities and how to create virtual classes and exercises.
Leading e-Learning Integration in Higher Education: Challenges and StrategiesCITE
4 March 2010 (Thursday) | 09:00 - 12:30 | HKU | http://citers2010.cite.hku.hk/abstract/3 | Prof. Alex FUNG, Director, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, The Hong Kong Institute of Education | Dr. Elson S.Y. SZETO, Assistant Education Technology Officer, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
JALT 2006 Presentation Sapporo
Technology for teaching narrative writing for large EFL university classes in Japan: videos, a Group Mailing List and Groupware on the Internet
This presentation shows how to enhance language competencies with the use of internet. Practice links are provided for beginners so that they can rehearse listening, reading, lexical, and accuracy skills.
Presentations, Day 1, by Tanya Joosten and Amy Mangrich on Blended Learning for the 1st Annual eLearning Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Topics include discussions, assessment, content delivery, and more. Course demonstrations included as well.
Panel: Case Studies in Online Language Learning with Horizon Wimbaekunnen
This presentation will address the particular challenges of supporting the on-line teaching of foreign language in a Blackboard environment. Four different institutions will discuss how they have leveraged Horizon Wimba and other technologies to support the students and faculty both inside and outside the classroom.
In this talk we present how OER materials are integrated into regular undergraduate curriculum to facilitate flipped classroom design. The Basic Computer Concept at LMS platform of Taipei Medical University is an example. This flipped course is running for 7 years. The lesson learnt is quite significant.
Leading e-Learning Integration in Higher Education: Challenges and StrategiesCITE
4 March 2010 (Thursday) | 09:00 - 12:30 | HKU | http://citers2010.cite.hku.hk/abstract/3 | Prof. Alex FUNG, Director, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, The Hong Kong Institute of Education | Dr. Elson S.Y. SZETO, Assistant Education Technology Officer, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
JALT 2006 Presentation Sapporo
Technology for teaching narrative writing for large EFL university classes in Japan: videos, a Group Mailing List and Groupware on the Internet
This presentation shows how to enhance language competencies with the use of internet. Practice links are provided for beginners so that they can rehearse listening, reading, lexical, and accuracy skills.
Presentations, Day 1, by Tanya Joosten and Amy Mangrich on Blended Learning for the 1st Annual eLearning Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Topics include discussions, assessment, content delivery, and more. Course demonstrations included as well.
Panel: Case Studies in Online Language Learning with Horizon Wimbaekunnen
This presentation will address the particular challenges of supporting the on-line teaching of foreign language in a Blackboard environment. Four different institutions will discuss how they have leveraged Horizon Wimba and other technologies to support the students and faculty both inside and outside the classroom.
In this talk we present how OER materials are integrated into regular undergraduate curriculum to facilitate flipped classroom design. The Basic Computer Concept at LMS platform of Taipei Medical University is an example. This flipped course is running for 7 years. The lesson learnt is quite significant.
Presentation given January 26th, 2011 for Blackboard's Distinguished Lecture Series Titled: Getting Campus-Wide Adoption - Happy Faculty - via Blackboard Collaborate
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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38. Part 2 - Listening activity Flash player was used to play audio. Had the ability to set it to multiple listens for the user. (2 plays in this case)