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Issue No. 31, Spring 2014
- Emerging Technologies for Online Learning 2014 Conference
- MERLOT Awards 2014
- MERLOT House Cup Award
- MERLOT, Learning Pod and Open Textbooks
- Journal Of Learning and Online Teaching (JOLT) - Current Issue now Available
- Peer Reviewer Incentives
- GRAPE Camp Summer 2014
Emerging Technologies for Online Learning 2014 Conference
The Sloan-C/MERLOT ET4OL Conference was held at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, April 9-11. This was our fifth year in partnership with the Sloan Consortium. This year's Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium brought together 700+ onsite and 1,000+ virtual attendees representing 47 states including D.C. and 23 countries. If you weren't able to attend, you can still gain access to over 60 presentations, including keynotes through a Virtual Package: ET4OL Virtual Recording Package or call 781-583-7561. The Virtual Recording Package is available for both individuals and institutions. Next year's symposium will be held at the Sheraton Dallas from April 22-24, 2015. Mark your calendars now! You can sign up for conference updates at http://sloanconsortium.org/conference/2014/et4online/conf-updates. You can watch the keynote address here-- Keynote Address - Jim Groom-A Domain of One's Own. MERLOT's own David Wicks (Seattle Pacific University) chaired the conference.
The MERLOT Leadership Team met prior to the conference on Tuesday, April 9th. Gerry highlighted MERLOT communications, including Leadership Council meetings, editors' monthly calls, From the Vineyard, and The Grapevine, as well as social media. We discussed growing MERLOT's peer reviews in both large and small groups. Barb Sperling shared new elements of the MERLOT site, including Member Profile and Materials pages and new Wizards. You can expect to see those by June. Rick Lumadue and Cathy Swift shared the new asynchronous GRAPE Camp that they developed. Small groups then discussed Affordable Learning Solutions, Adoption Strategies for OER and MERLOT, Using Peer Review, and MERLOT's Technology Services. You should be seeing some of the results of these discussions in the near future.
MERLOT Awards 2014
Our annual awards ceremony was held on April 10 in the conference ballroom. Awards were presented for Learning Materials, Service, and Use of MERLOT.
MERLOT Awards: Exemplary Learning Materials
The MERLOT Awards program recognizes and promotes outstanding online resources designed to enhance teaching and learning and to honor the authors and developers of these resources for their contributions to the academic community. Awards for Exemplary Online Materials are presented to authors of peer-reviewed learning resources. The awards honor the authors and developers of these resources for their contributions to the academic community by conferring theMERLOT Classics Awards. Each Editorial Board selects an outstanding peer-reviewed learning material in its discipline to receive the Classics award according to program criteria.
Authors wishing to have their learning material considered to receive the Classics Award must first contribute the material to MERLOT. Once the material is submitted it needs to be peer-reviewed by the Editorial Board, which may take several months. Materials are only considered for the award when they are catalogued in the disciplines for which there are Editorial Boards. Editorial Boards make their decisions regarding the Classics Award in November for award at the Emerging Technologies Conference the following Spring.
Classic Award Winners – 2014
Virtual Cell Animations - Drs. Phillip McClean, Alan R. White, Katie Reindl, and Ms. Cristina Johnson, North Dakota State University
This supersite contains 20 different animations—each starting with a first look overview and a more in-depth view using static images. Each also has a flash animation with a voice-over narration. By walking through the still images and movies, viewers can easily choose between either studying a specific step from one of the processes or taking a more immersive look at the process in its entirety
Accounting 211 – Mary Ann Mengel, Dr. Lolita Paff, Amy Roche, Penn State University, Berks
This interactive tutorial is an excellent example of a collaborative project that results in an interactive tutorial and practice exercises. As part of a hybrid course redesign, the staff of the Center for Learning and Teaching met with an accounting professor to identify problematic accounting concepts and to develop an appropriate instructional approach. Using a fictitious company, Cup of Joe-Pa, the purchase of supplies is explained and the resulting entry recorded. There are touches of humor and an available script for the hearing impaired.
Health Sciences
Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases – National Institute of Health Office of Science Education
This site explores factors associated with disease emergence and re-emergence and considers the human activities that can increase or decrease the likelihood of outbreaks of infectious diseases. Students play the role of epidemiologists looking for clues to solve the case of a mystery disease, watch simulations of herd immunity and the impact of vaccination program, and assign limited funds to three proposals to address a major infectious disease.
The Big History Project – David Christian, Macquarie University; Andy Cook, The Big History Project
This multidisciplinary online course covers the major events in the development and history of the earth in one unified story covering 13.7 billion years. The Big History Project is a joint effort among teachers, scholars, scientists, and their supporters, bringing the ideas of big history to life, providing students of all ages with unique views into different fields of knowledge.
Exploring J. S. Bach Mass in B Minor – Tim Smith, Northern Arizona University and Helmuth Rilling, Conductor, The Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
This site provides a photographic facsimile of the manuscript of the Mass in B Minor by J. S. Bach as well as a recording of the work by Helmuth Rilling. In addition to the score and recording, the site provides the text and translation, 200 "cuepoints" in the score which link to additional information and media on Bach, the Mass in B Minor, performance practice of the era, and the form of the Mass as well as other historical information.
Waves: An Interactive Tutorial – Kyle Forinash, Indiana University Southeast
This is an online interactive tutorial with 32 short modules, each built around a Java simulation. The modules use questions and student-centered activities to challenge the user to interact with the simulations and explore the physics. The coverage is extensive, including different types of mechanical waves and light and many of the physical properties that students find the most difficult to grasp. The use of multimedia is simple, but instructive, providing immediate feedback.
The Psych Files – Michael Britt, Marist College
The website contains a variety of podcasts and videos exploring specific topics in psychology, using a conversational, interactive tone. There are over 200 different audio or video presentations covering all major divisions of psychology. The presentations are not geared as lectures, but rather as interesting informational overviews and/or tips to make learning psychology easier. The Psychology Editorial Board members use this exceptional resource in their classes, providing current content in a contemporary, media-driven format that students enjoy and that they learn from.
Teacher Education
Blendspace – Amy Lin, Blendspace
Blendspace is an online presentation tool that allows users to collect various types of media from across the web and present the resources as an interactive grid or playable slideshow. Original content can be blended with videos, images, simulations, and full webpages. Each resource can be annotated with text, or in the Pro version, with audio narration. The Board reported, "There are very few tools that we come across that can be used in classrooms of all disciplines and levels without customization…this tool stands apart from the rest. It is ready to be used by instructors and more powerfully, by students."
World Languages
Spanish Proficiency Exercises – Orlando R. Kelm, The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish Proficiency Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speaker of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish. The Board noted, "World Languages always strives to find the best in the wide variety of learning materials that we have in our collection. This recipient has been a generous contributor to technology-enhanced language learning materials available free on the web. While we recognize his work in Spanish Proficiency Exercises, he has done great work in Portuguese as well and is deserving of recognition for his OER contributions to our field."
MERLOT Awards: Application of MERLOT – Institutional Stewardship
Application of MERLOT award recognizes those who demonstrate leadership in the use and application of MERLOT. Institutional Stewardship award recognizes efforts to promote MERLOT at an institutional level. MERLOT seeks to identify models that can be used to sustain support for MERLOT and that demonstrate the value of MERLOT. The recipient of the award (individual or group) will have exhibited an outstanding example of stewardship in spreading the use of MERLOT throughout the campus or system.
Two winners were selected this year – MEITAL/MAOR(accepting the award, Eli Shmueli) the consortium of Israeli universities that partner with MERLOT and INACAP,MERLOT's first formal international partner, which integrates MERLOT's services into 28 campuses in Chile.
MERLOT Awards: Application of MERLOT – Innovative Use of MERLOT
The Innovative Use of MERLOT award is given to an individual, department, or program that demonstrates novel, comprehensive, or creative usage and/or application of MERLOT materials and services. Nominees must provide evidence of an impact on students that can be demonstrated through qualitative or quantitative research or anecdotal evidence. The impact on learning is valued above the impact on student interest. The MERLOT Editors' Council will determine the winner(s) of the award.
Rick Lumadue, Texas A&M-Commerce. Rick has integrated MERLOT GRAPE Camp Peer Review training into the Global eLearning Program for all students to complete and receive certification as a MERLOT Peer Reviewer. Also, student developed web pages using MERLOT Content Builder have provided a great resource to help measure the programmatic student learning outcomes of the MS Global eLearning Program.
In addition, Rick has developed over 200 MERLOT web pages and 20 MERLOT websites. Many of the websites are fully developed online courses that provide free open education resources, including embedded presentations, files, and companion iBooks, which he has co-authored. Rick has also made use of affordable learning solutions materials by assembling relevant, low cost e-Textbooks using McGraw-Hill Create. Rick has collaborated with Cathy Swift to develop an updated version of asynchronous GRAPE Camp.
MERLOT Awards: Service to MERLOT – Distinguished Service
MERLOT recognizes the outstanding contributions that individuals make to the growth and development of MERLOT. This leadership is rewarded in several ways.
The Distinguished Service award is reserved as MERLOT's highest honor. The recipient of this award demonstrates the vision that brings MERLOT members together to create the MERLOT Community and our services. Recipients of this award have exemplified, through their vision and leadership, the highest values MERLOT holds. The recipients of this award are selected by the previous five winners. This year's winner is Cathy Swift.
2014 – Cathy Swift – Editor of the MERLOT Business Editorial Board and retired Director of Academic Partner Services for MERLOT
Cathy has been a member of MERLOT since 1999. She retired from teaching at Georgia Southern University in 2006 and became a member of the MERLOT Management Team. She developed GRAPE Camp for training peer reviewers and continues to facilitate it.
Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire
Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire award recognizes individuals as Peer Reviewers Extraordinaire for completing fifteen or more Peer Reviews during a year. This year's recipients included:
|Editorial Board
|Jim Bidlack
|University of Central Oklahoma
|Scott Cooper
|University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse
|Juville Dario-Becker
|Central VA. Community College
|Michael Plotkin
|Mt. San Jacinto College
|Cathy Swift
|Riz Klausmeyer
|Baylor University
|Renee Aitken
|Faculty Devel.
|Northcentral University
|Jane Harris
|Faculty Devel.
|University of North Carolina-Greensboro
|John Prusch
|Faculty Devel.
|Excelsior College
|Ray Purdom
|Faculty Devel.
|Beverley Ferrell
|Health Sciences
|Carol Edwards
|Info. Technology
|Kaplan University
|Irene Knokh
|Info. Technology
|University of Michigan
|Julie Evey
|University of Southern Indiana
|Catherine Honig
|National Louis University
|Bruce Bennett
|Teacher Education
|Grand Canyon University
|Doris Dickerson
|Teacher Education
|Shorter University
|Loretta Driskell
|Teacher Education
|Colorado Mountain College
|Angela Gunder
|Teacher Education
|Northern VA. Community College
|Elaine Lawrence
|Teacher Education
|Jane Moore
|Teacher Education
|David Wicks
|Teacher Education
|Seattle Pacific University
|Esperanza Zenon
|Teacher Education
|River Parishes Community College
|Laura Franklin
|World Languages
|Northern VA. Community College
MERLOT House Cup Award
The Biology Editorial Board was the winner of the 2014 House Cup, given each year to the most productive Editorial Board. The Biology Board completed 176 individual reviews, 82 composite reviews, 545 editors' reviews, added 474 materials to MERLOT, and made 20 member comments!
The top five boards for productivity in 2014 included Biology, Business, Health Sciences, Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
MERLOT, Learningpod, and Open Textbooks
MERLOT has helped professors find and review open textbooks for years. Now, through a partnership with Learningpod, they're helping professors do more with these texts.
Learningpod is an online question bank with more than 48,000 questions on a variety of topics and exams. These questions align directly to some of the most popular open textbooks on MERLOT, in particular the OpenStax College textbooks.
Learningpod allows professors to assign question sets and track student progress for free. Professors can also customize assignments to match their individual courses. This supplementary practice engages students and provides a missing piece in open textbook adoption.
To get started using Learningpod with your open textbook, find your topic on Learningpod.com. Want it done for you? Learningpod is offering personal support to professors using MERLOT. Fill out this form and they'll assemble a custom workbook just for you.
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) - Current issue available
Vol. 10, No. 1 of the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT at https://jolt.merlot.org/) has been published and is available online. The contents of the issue are listed below. In this issue you will find 12 research papers and case studies.
JOLT now has an RSS feed so that one can be updated easily when an issue is published. The RSS feed can be found at the bottom of the homepage.
Did you know that you can also search JOLT when you are doing research having to do with teaching and learning? Just enter your search term in the box, and find JOLT articles that are related to your search.
JOLT also welcomes new reviewers. For more information about the journal and to view the Guideline for Authors, visit https://jolt.merlot.org/guidelines.html.
Peer Reviewer Incentives
In an effort to build the collection of Peer Reviews in MERLOT, we have offered a $50 gift card to a reviewer each month during the year, beginning in March.
Congratulations to Esperanza Zenon, River Parishes Community College of the Teacher Education Board who was the winner of the March incentive. The winner of the April incentive was Sandra Ridings of the Health Sciences Editorial Board. Sandra is an educator at Flinders Medical Centre in Henley Beach, South Australia. Both recipients chose Amazon gift cards. Each month a name will be drawn from the reviewers who complete individual and composite reviews that month.
GRAPE Camp 2014
To become a Peer Reviewer for MERLOT, individuals must be an instructor in an institution of higher education and have:
- Expertise in the scholarship of their field
- Excellence in teaching
- Experience in using technology in teaching and learning, and
- Connections to professional organizations in their discipline.
MERLOT has developed training for Peer Reviewers to ensure that they become familiar with MERLOT's Peer Review processes. MERLOT Management conducts GRAPE Camp (Getting Reviewers Accustomed to the Process of Evaluation) to train Peer Reviewers on a regular basis. GRAPE Camp consists of a series of three one-hour workshops online, one per week. In these webinars, participants will:
- Develop an understanding of MERLOT
- Learn how MERLOT evaluates Learning Materials
- Conduct a group review
- Complete an Individual Review
- Learn how to use the Workspace tool, and
- Introduce participants to the Editorial Board of their disciplines.
The webinars include people from a variety of disciplines and is archived so participants can review the material as needed. For information about GRAPE Camp, contact Cathy Swift.
GRAPE Camps are scheduled for 2014 in:
- June, Tuesdays (3, 10, 17) at 11 AM Eastern/8 AM Pacific
- July, Wednesdays (2, 9, 16) at 11 AM Eastern/8 AM Pacific
- August, Tuesdays (5, 12, 19) at 5 PM Eastern/2 PM Pacific
Winter GRAPE Camp graduates include:
|Anabela Maia
|Eastern Illinois University
|Hwangli Lu
|Health Sciences
|Ashford University
|Kimberly Koonce
|Plant World, Inc.
|Andre Padillo Oviedo
|The University of Texas Pan American
|Dawn Kerr
|Health Sciences
|Texas A&M-Commerce
|Michael Williams
|Health Sciences
|SUNY Downstate at Bay Ridge
|Camille Freeman
|Maryland University of Integrative Health
|Buddy Ethridge
|Faculty Development
|Louisiana State University
|Fang-Yu Chow
|Health Sciences
|San Jose State University
|Danielle Solano
|California State University Bakersfield
To register for any one of these sessions or to sign up for asynchronous sessions, please complete the short form questionnaire.
If these times don't work for you, you can also participate asynchronously by completing the questionnaire above and indicating that you want to do it asynchronously. You can also participate in the discussions about GRAPE Camp in MERLOT Voices.
Update on the MERLOT Community
Affordable Learning Solutions at Fresno State
Arun Nambiar, Editor of the Engineering Editorial Board reports that he has been using affordable learning solutions at Fresno State.
Dr. Nambiar is one of nine faculty members who have eliminated the use of textbooks in their classes. He adopted materials from MERLOT, saving students over $325 in the three courses he teaches.
Indiana State University Scott College of Business Faculty Recognition Award
Susan Moncada, Associate Editor for Business, was awarded the prestigious award. At the awards ceremony, her contributions to MERLOT as Associate Editor for Accounting were acknowledged along with assessment endeavors for the college.
What's new in MERLOT?
By now we hope that you've had a chance to look at and use MERLOT II. We thought we'd talk about some of the features and functionality you may not know about. To start, from any page in MERLOT II, you can see a HELP link. This is an exciting new feature that didn't exist in MERLOT previously. From any page in MERLOT, if you click the help link, you will get context sensitive help. There is also information about MERLOT, MERLOT technologies, Partnerships and benefits or even our Peer Review process. All of this can be accessed separately at https://info.merlot.org. If you can't find what you are looking for, simply search the help section to find specific information.
There is also an entire section about Create materials with the MERLOT Content Builder at https://info.merlot.org/merlothelp/index.htm#create_materials_with_content_builder.htm, News and Information at https://info.merlot.org/merlothelp/index.htm#news_information.htm.
If you want information about completing your profile or to better understand how to connect with other MERLOT members, all that can be found in MERLOT help too! There is so much information in MERLOT and help to get you started and keep you going. And there is always the MERLOT Webmaster to ask questions if you can't find what you need. Just email email@example.com.
MERLOT Survey - Tell us what you think!
Since the release of MERLOT II back in October, we have had many positive comments about the new design. If you have a few minutes, we'd appreciate hearing what you think of the website. From the MERLOT home page, click the SURVEY tab on the right side of the page to complete the survey.
Social Networking and MERLOT
MERLOT has a Facebook page and we'd love for you to "Like Us."
You can also follow our Tweets on Twitter at http//twitter.com/merlotorg.
MERLOT also has a Linkedin account. Make sure you join us and network with other MERLOT Users.
Sloan-C International ALN Conference
Driving Innovation with Online Learning
October 29-31, 2014
The 20th anniversary edition of the Annual International Conference on Online Learning will be held this year at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The conference tracks include:
- Faculty and professional development and support
- Institutional strategies and innovations
- Leadership, values, and society
- Learning effectiveness
- Open, global, mobile learning
- Student services and learner support
- Technology and emerging learning environments.
Quality Matters Conference
Save the Date! September 29 - October 1, 2014
The Quality Matters annual conference will be held September 29 - October 1, 2014 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace. Monday, September 29 is a day of pre-conference workshops. There are several new workshop offerings this year. The conference begins with a welcome reception. Conference sessions begin 8 a.m. Tuesday, September 30 and conclude Wednesday, October 1.
Who Uses MERLOT?
Here is what is in the MERLOT Collection as of May 15, 2014:
Learning Materials – 44,953
MERLOT Members – 122,720
Materials with an Editor Review – 18,050
Member Comments – 11,926
Personal Collections – 19,946
Learning Exercises – 1,459
How many searches were done using our web services in the first quarter of 2014?
- Basic Searches: 39,745
- Advanced Searches: 27,689
How many people visited MERLOT in in the first quarter of 2014? 152,941
How many page views were viewed in in the first quarter of 2014? 1,309,763
The top 10 countries that visited MERLOT in 2013:
1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. India
5. Phillippines
6. Israel
7. Australia
8. Chile
9. Spain
10. Brazil
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When visiting Clark's family, I was accused of bringing healthy recipes into the house. While his little sister was overjoyed at the prospect of taking in better substance, his mom, little brother, and eventually father, were not as thrilled.
This morning was the first morning since we've been in our new apartment that Clark and I were able to sit down to a breakfast together. So, I decided to make it special.
We have a debate in our household: pancakes vs. waffles. I am more of a pancakes person myself. Clark prefers waffles. Since this was his first morning to a sit down breakfast, I caved and made his preference... but not without a price! Now that we're home, healthy is officially taking over. Not to mention it's important for baby to be getting the right nutrients.
While these waffles are healthy, they still taste amazing. Odds are you could get away with making them, not tell your guests or partakers what they're made with, and nobody would guess that they are healthy... other than the blueberries found within them!
- 1 C Unbleached, All Purpose Flour
- 3/4 C Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 TBSP Baking Powder
- 2 TSP Wheat Germ
- 1 TSP Sugar
- 1/2 TSP Salt
- 1 3/4 C Skim Milk
- 3 TBSP Vegetable or Canola Oil
- 1 Egg
- 2 Egg Whites
- 1 1/4 C Blueberries (frozen or fresh, but I always prefer to use fresh!)
- In a large bowl sift or mix together the flours and baking powder. Add the wheat germ,sugar, and salt and mix in following these supplies if you are sifting.
- In a smaller bowl, combine the milk, oil, egg and egg whites. Whisk together passionately. Then add the wet ingredients to the larger bowl with the dry ingredients. Whisk all of this together.
- Add the blueberries. I use 1 1/4 C because I thoroughly LOVE blueberries overpowering my waffles. If this is not the case for you, use 1/2 C to 1 C.
- Follow the directions for a lovely waffle maker that you have!
This recipe should make around 5-8 standard sized waffles with the waffle maker. Bon Appetit!

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In January 2012 Robert Safian posted an eye-opening article for FAST COMPANY titled "This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier of Business". When I recently read it, it resonated with me because it so closely defined my ideas of what the 21st Century Librarian must be like in order to – not only survive – but thrive in the library's ambiguous future.
As I have stated too many times to count – "21st Century Librarians create 21st Century Libraries" – and that begins with a 21st Century librarian mind-set. (21st Century Library Paradigm – More Evidence and The 21st Century Library is More:)
Safian has done an expert job of describing and explaining the future and what it requires from individuals to not only survive – but thrive. Through interviews with several Gen Flux members, he has painted a compelling picture of the future of those who will thrive in business, but his observations and conclusions can be applied to librarianship equally as meaningfully.
Look at the global cell-phone business. Just five years ago, three companies controlled 64% of the smartphone market: Nokia, Research in Motion, and Motorola. Today, two different companies are at the top of the industry: Samsung and Apple. This sudden complete swap in the pecking order of a global multibillion-dollar industry is unprecedented. Consider the meteoric rise of Groupon and Zynga, the disruption in advertising and publishing, the advent of mobile ultrasound and other "mHealth" breakthroughs … Online-education efforts are eroding our assumptions about what schooling looks like. Cars are becoming rolling, talking, cloud-connected media hubs. In an age where Twitter and other social-media tools play key roles in recasting the political map in the Mideast; where impoverished residents of refugee camps would rather go without food than without their cell phones; where all types of media, from music to TV to movies, are being remade, redefined, defended, and attacked every day in novel ways – there is no question that we are in a new world.
Any business that ignores these transformations does so at its own peril. Despite recession, currency crises, and tremors of financial instability, the pace of disruption is roaring ahead. The frictionless spread of information and the expansion of personal, corporate, and global networks have plenty of room to run. And here's the conundrum: When businesspeople search for the right forecast – the road map and model that will define the next era – no credible long-term picture emerges. There is one certainty, however. The next decade or two will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The most valuable insight is that we are, in a critical sense, in a time of chaos.
To thrive in this climate requires a whole new approach … [b]ecause some people will thrive. They are the members of Generation Flux. This is less a demographic designation than a psychographic one: What defines GenFlux is a mind-set that embraces instability, that tolerates – and even enjoys – recalibrating careers, business models, and assumptions. Not everyone will join Generation Flux, but to be successful, businesses and individuals will have to work at it. This is no simple task. The vast bulk of our institutions – educational, corporate, political – are not built for flux. Few traditional career tactics train us for an era where the most important skill is the ability to acquire new skills. [Emphasis added.]
In addition to shining a spotlight on the inadequacies of our current SLIS curricula to develop librarian leaders for the future, the 21st Century skills that I have been advocating through numerous Blog posts include:
• Business Acumen
• Cloud Computing
• Crowdsourcing
• Customer Targeting
• Digital Discovery
• Discontinuous Thinking
• Gaming
• Likenomics
• Open Innovation
• Planned Abandonment
• Subject Matter Expert in 'Community'
• Social Networking
• Value Added
I have also been advocating that the external environment – technology advancement, education reform, and societal changes – has changed so drastically that business as usual will not keep libraries relevant or even alive.
That still doesn't discount the way mobile, social, and other breakthroughs are changing our way of life, not just in America but around the globe. And in the process, these changes are remaking geopolitical and business assumptions that have been in place for decades. This was not true in 2000. But it is now. Chaotic disruption is rampant, not simply from the likes of Apple, Facebook, and Google. No one predicted that General Motors would go bankrupt – and come back from the abyss with greater momentum than Toyota. … Digital competition destroyed bookseller Borders, and yet the big, stodgy music labels – seemingly the ground zero for digital disruption – defy predictions of their demise. Walmart has given up trying to turn itself into a bank, but before retail bankers breathe a sigh of relief, they ought to look over their shoulders at Square and other mobile-wallet initiatives. Amid a reeling real-estate market, new players like Trulia and Zillow are gobbling up customers. … "All these industries are being revolutionized," observes Pete Cashmore, the 26-year-old founder of social-news site Mashable, which has exploded overnight to reach more than 20 million users a month. "It's come to technology first, but it will reach every industry. You're going to have businesses rise and fall faster than ever."
Within the librarian profession we tend to rely on the past for perspective. We try to play it safe when making decisions about what to collect, what to program, how to deliver services, etc. That time has passed and especially in this rapidly changing future, we can not resort to some outdated playbook of "We've always done it this way." and expect to survive.
Susan Peters, who oversees GE's executive-development effort, "The pace of change is pretty amazing," Peters says. "There's a need to be less hierarchical and to rely more on teams. This has all increased dramatically in the last couple of years."
Executives at GE are bracing for a new future. The challenge they face is the same one staring down wide swaths of corporate America, not to mention government, schools, and other institutions that have defined how we've lived: These organizations have structures and processes built for an industrial age, where efficiency is paramount but adaptability is terribly difficult. We are finely tuned at taking a successful idea or product and replicating it on a large scale. But inside these legacy institutions, changing direction is rough. From classrooms arranged in rows of seats to tenured professors, from the assembly line to the way we promote executives, we have been trained to expect an orderly life. Yet the expectation that these systems provide safety and stability is a trap.
"The business community focuses on managing uncertainty," says Dev Patnaik, cofounder and CEO of strategy firm Jump Associates, which has advised GE, Target, and PepsiCo, among others. "That's actually a bit of a canard." The true challenge lies elsewhere, he explains: "In an increasingly turbulent and interconnected world, ambiguity is rising to unprecedented levels. That's something our current systems can't handle.
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Fact is, CFD and wind tunnel tests are complementary, and they don't necessarily produce the same results. When discrepancies do occur, explains Smith, "there would be quite a bit of assessment to determine what should be the right answer, why is one giving a different answer than the other. I wouldn't say that either one is automatically accepted."
Up to the Boeing 777, maybe 25% of an aircraft design was produced with CAD—drafting for the most part, no 3D. The 3D solids modeling was used for special studies. For instance, Boeing used solids modeling to figure out a problem with the landing gear in the mockup for the 767. The 3D model showed that the tool holding the landing gear was twisting a "tiny bit."
For the 777, some systems and subsystems require special-ized modeling—and mockups. One mockup was for the 777 nose to check critical wiring. A second mockup, an "iron-bird," was a complete working physical prototype of the aircraft's internal dynamic systems. This proved out the integration of electronics and hydraulics, which were simulated separately though not integrated with the 3D solid modeling tools.
Designing and simulating the 777 consumed about 2,200 workstations linked to a four-IBM mainframe cluster in Puget Sound, plus four more mainframes in other locations, and 3 terabytes of data. This work validated the tooling and assembly plans for approximately two million parts, a validation that usually occurs once assembly begins in the plant. The work paid off for the Boeing 777, resulting in these benefits:
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- 50x improvement in assembly tolerances for the fuselage
Regarding that last item, the fuselage is 200-ft long. Alignment was off by 0.023 in.—about the thickness of a playing card—while for most other airplane parts in previous aircraft the alignment is to within a half inch of each other. Likewise, the wing tip on that very first Boeing 777 out of production was off by 0.001 in. By comparison, the wing tip on the Boeing 747 was off by 4.0 in.
That first Boeing 777 out of production flew. It went through flight test. It was then refurbished and delivered to a customer. It was the next five or so airplanes out of production that went through non-destructive tests, such as jet engine checks for particular aircraft models under test. Also, there were structural tests that bent and flexed the wings and cabin, and pressure tests that compressed the cabin—numerous fatigue tests that run through an enormous number of cycles to both simulate actual performance in service, such as takeoffs and landings, and to show the state of the aircraft after 20-plus years of use. Boeing's modeling methods have been so good that the FAA has accepted them in lieu of certain physical destructive structural tests on finished aircraft.
"A number of differences exist in the nature of cars and airplanes," concludes Smith. Physical size is one. The shape of the product and its function is another. The operating environment is third. Think about this: If your car's engine stops while you're driving, you can pull over to the side of the road and call for help. "That doesn't really work in an airplane," says Smith. "Airplane products are designed and built to pretty incredible standards—standards that would not be cost effective in the auto industry."
Agreeing with Smith is Kevin Mixer, research director for automotive and heavy equipment industries at AMR Research (Boston, MA). Mixer points out three other differences between the two industries. First, a plane is not mass produced like an automobile, so a different set of manufacturing constraints apply, as well as simulating those constraints. For instance, aircraft rework tends to occur at the end of production, not in the midst of it.
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Last, Mixer points out, while some of the automotive companies are trying to move closer to the Boeing aircraft-design/simulation model, they can never get to that point strictly speaking. Airplanes, Mixer says, "are much more tool, more utilitarian, than cars." Cars have those elusive qualities of fashion and image. "You can't necessarily simulate how people are going to react."
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Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has between 200-400 billion stars, of which our Sun is only one. The scale is unfathomable, and yet we are no where near understanding the immensity of the universe surrounding us. Our galaxy is just one of approximately 30 galaxies that make up our Local Group, and just as our solar system is made up of great and complex orbits, so is the Local Group. The entire structure slowly revolves around its centre of gravity which is located somewhere in the 2.5 million light years that separates its two largest galaxies: the Milky Way, and M31, also known as the Andromeda galaxy.
Every star we see, up to 10,000 in Earth's greatest vantage points, is within our own galaxy. Why can't we see them all at night? Due to the artificial light generated that you are most likely using to read this. Light pollution blocks out most of our spectacular nocturnal displays and stars, and there is one particular light that is of huge intellectual significance. In the Northern hemisphere, the constellation Cassiopeia can be seen in Autumn and Winter. Shaped in a "W" between the Little Dipper and the North star, (and located more precisely at 0h43m, +41 degrees 16' for the amateur astronomer,) the entire galaxy of Andromeda is just visible to the naked eye as a smoky ball of light below the right most "V" of the "W".Credit: historyoftheuniverse.com
The light from this seemingly tiny smudge travelled ~2.7 million years to reach our retinas, emanating from our closest major galaxy. Andromeda is by far the largest member of the Local Group, with around 1 trillion stars, (over twice that of the Milky Way, the second largest.) The diameter of the disc is 200,000 light years across, also twice that of the Milky Way. Its spiral shape has a skeleton of interstellar dust clouds, two beautiful arms composed of starlight, and a double nucleus at its centre; evidence of its merge with a smaller neighbour only tens of millions of years ago. The double nucleus is made of two dense knots of stars, with 5 light years between them. The true centre of Andromeda is a super-massive black hole of 30 million solar masses, probably caused by an immense super nova, (the death of a star.)
The first force human beings enquired into and understood was gravity, and if Newton taught us anything, we know that the apple will always fall to the Earth from the apple tree. Larger and more massive objects exert a higher gravitational pull that smaller bodies are unable to resist. Our own planet Earth was accreted and formed from smaller planetesimals that attracted each other and then collided. These planetesimals were in turn, formed from the pull of smaller clumps of matter towards each other, and so it continues, down to a sub-anatomical level. Gravity is the weakest of the known forces, but the most pervasive, and similarly, this same force is what pulls the Milky Way and Andromeda together until they must inevitably collide and fuse.Credit: Seth Jarvis, 2009
No-one panic just yet. Although the two neighbours are being drawn together at 120km/second, they won't collide for another 5 billion years. Once they are close enough for their spiral arms to touch, it will take approximately 900 million years for the nuclei to fuse and form the centre of a new galaxy, consisting of almost 1.5 trillion stars. It would be a truly spectacular sight, to view our Local Group from its gravitational centre, and our orbiting doesn't end there. The Local Group id part of the Virgo Super-cluster, an even larger gravitationally bound family of more than 100 galaxy clusters. We don't know how long it takes for the Local Group to rotate once around the Virgo super-cluster, but we know that Super-clusters are also bound together, forming galaxy filaments, or great walls. We are part of the Pisces-Cetus Super-cluster complex, and beyond that, who knows?


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|Day-to-Day Reproducibility of Prostate Intrafraction Motion Assessed by Multiple kV and MV Imaging of Implanted Markers During Treatment.
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|PMID: 22019244 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher
|PURPOSE: When one is performing online setup correction for prostate positioning displacements prior to daily dose delivery, intrafraction motion can become a limiting factor to prostate targeting accuracy. The aim of this study was to quantify and characterize prostate intrafraction motion assessed by multiple kilovoltage (kV) and megavoltage (MV) imaging of implanted markers during treatment in a large patient group. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Intrafraction motion in the sagittal plane was studied by retrospective analysis of displacements of implanted gold markers on (nearly) lateral kV and MV images obtained at various time points during the treatment fractions (mean, 27 per patient) in 108 consecutive patients. The effective prostate motion in a fraction was defined as the time-weighted mean displacement. RESULTS: Prostate displacements in the sagittal plane increased during the fraction (mean, 0.2 ± 0.2 mm/min). Forty percent of patients had a systematic (i.e., appearing in all fractions) effective displacement in the sagittal plane greater than 2 mm. Observed effective population mean-of-means (μeff) +/- systematic (Σeff) intrafraction motion (μ(eff) ± Σ(eff)) was 0.9 ± 1.1 mm and 0.6 ± 1.0 mm for the anterior-posterior and superior inferior directions, respectively. Corresponding random motion (σ(eff)) was 1.2 mm and 1.1 mm. Mean effective prostate motion in the first 5 fractions was predictive for mean effective displacement in the remaining fractions (p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: For a large subgroup of patients, the systematic component of intrafraction prostate motion was substantial. Intrafraction motion correction prior to each beam delivery or offline corrections could likely be beneficial for the subgroup of patients with significant motion. The systematic component is well predicted by measurements in the initial fractions.
|Theodore F Mutanga; Hans C J de Boer; Vinayakrishnan Rajan; Maarten L P Dirkx; Luca Incrocci; Ben J M Heijmen
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Want to know who's cool? Patrick Chirico, the designer behind Build Your Block. For one, he has a dapper looking dog and you've gotta check out his DIY home garden for urban spaces. Oh, and he makes sweet pillow scenes too…that we already knew. Enjoy the Q&A!
What about Brooklyn do you absolutely love?
All types of food morning, afternoon and night; the architecture and bridges; the people and fashion; the smorgasbord of style, history, and culture.
Have you lived anywhere else?
I'm from Northern, NY. Watertown to be more specific which is polar opposite of the responses above, but I still love it.
Describe your typical work day.
Well I run two companies full time and most of my day is taken up with WrecordsByMonkey, which is a interior and jewelry company that makes everything from vinyl records. I send emails and work on projects and new designs. Then my afternoons, nights and days off are spent slaving over emails and orders for Build Your Block and trying to glue everything together.
Please share five things/people/places that inspire you.
My environment, My fiancee, godmother, family, and friends. The 5 boroughs of NYC, Erte, found objects/ old things/ well crafted items.
What advice would you give aspiring designers?
Failure is a part of success and don't be afraid to work 80hour weeks! Be yourself, and stay determined. Time management.
Do you collect anything? Tell us of your treasures….Any prized possessions?
Just about everything. I'm sure dirt could be one as long you explain it to me properly. Well I've had coin, marble, and rock collections since I was like 8, but I more recently collect small art pieces, handmade books, hand blown glass marbles, tops, and sculptures.
Finally, what is next for Build Your Block?
By Fall we're going to release Philly and San Francisco. The goal is to expand into more major cities as the company expands. We'll also be continuing to add to our NYC buildings with a few more pillowcase sets, and getting a barber shop, coffee shop and auto place.
Thanks Patrick!
Check out all of the Build Your Block pillow options. You know your bed needs a little street scene.
I enjoy wood paneled station wagons, German food and senior citizens (I am 80 years old at heart). Nearly every weekend I am taking photos at other people's weddings and I have a blog of my own (but I don't update it often enough). I love to paint, sew and knit. Check out my DP Staff profile on Hatch.


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At first it was overwhelming and challenging, which I knew it would be to start. We got through those difficult first days, and it became a wonderful experience. The period of thrush were a painful time, but we fought through and I'm a better person for it. Everything since then has been, to use one word, beautiful. I love the bond that we have, and breast feeding makes me feel so connected to my role as his mother. Things have certainly changed though, and nursing a baby is definitely very different from nursing a toddler.
I would like to say that the fact that Max can sign for milk has really made life better. Knowing what he wants before he gets fussy is amazing, and I can tell that he loves the power of communicating that to me. This is definitely a huge change from his early days as a baby, as he can actively explain his needs. Watching for him to root around was easy as well, but this is just different. I love it.
So what do we know about toddlers? Well, they're toddling. Max does not want to just sit/lay there to eat. He's all about moving around and getting comfortable or just keeping himself moving. Here are some examples of new nursing positions:
- Side-lying in the crook of my arm, so I can act as a pillow as he falls asleep.
- Downward-facing-baby. Yup, you got it. He likes to nurse with his legs straight and his butt in the air (while I'm laying down). How does he manage to swallow? I have no idea.
- Sitting at the bar. Yup, I'll be on my side while he sits up and just bends over. Sometimes he will ONLY nurse in this position. This is sometimes accompanied by another typical bar activity. He fills his mouth with milk and then lets it all out on me. Why? I have no answer for that either. He thinks it's hysterical though, and goes back for more. Boot and rally, right?
- Laying perpendicular to me. Perpendicular? How does that work? Well, I'm laying down, he lays with his head next to me, but his feet are as far away from me as possible. Then... he tilts his head back as far as he can and latches. Really? Yes, really. He actually starts from a regular side-lying position and just wiggles his legs further and further from me, while never unlatching. Tricky kid.
- Laying ON me, belly down. Yes, he will be latched and pull his body over mine, and just lay there with one leg on either side of me. Lots of wiggling accompanies this, but he enjoys it.
- Laying on me, belly UP. What? Yes, that's right. BELLY UP. He starts with the laying on me face down and somehow manages to roll over. So he's laying on me, facing the ceiling, with his head turned so that he can still nurse. Weird duck.
- Baby rolls. No, not the cute rolls on their legs. Actually rolling. Nurse five seconds while turning slightly, until the neck won't turn anymore, unlatch and complete the turn and relatch. Repeat. Yes, this happens. He thinks it's funny! Silly kid.
Although it's not a position, he does another funny thing. He will pull his head back, look at the nipple, and go "ahhh!" as he opens his mouth, as wide as it will go, and leans his head in for more. It cracks us up!
All of this is hysterical to me. He actually nurses through me laughing at him. He's a little goof. He will stop sometimes and look up at me, with a huge smile, and just giggle with me. It's great. Sometimes Daddy is there to giggle with us. These fun memories are the best. I wouldn't take back a single moment of this awesome experience.


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For soon-to-be spouses on a budget, a wedding can seem like an incredibly difficult and expensive thing to pull off. The traditional church wedding can cost thousands of dollars—depending on where you live, the average wedding costs anywhere from $27,000 to $65,000! These sums are astronomical when you consider the underlying commitment more important than all the bells and whistles, but many people grow up daydreaming about their wedding day, so it's also important not to skimp on the details if a fancy ceremony will make you happy.
If you don't want a courthouse ceremony but you also don't want to be in debt for the first few years of your new relationship, you can consider a DIY (Do It Yourself) wedding. Some people incorporate a few DIY elements while others go the whole way to plan and prepare the wedding and avoid the costs of a traditional ceremony. Here are tips you can follow to save money by doing it yourself.
1) Look at Cheaper Dress Options
Rather than selecting the most expensive gowns and tuxedos, shop around and see if you can find cheaper options. Some people have their best man wear a great suit instead of renting a tuxedo, while others shop at thrift stores to turn up bridesmaid dresses. For example, you could give your bridesmaids guidelines about their dresses by telling them to look for a dress in a pastel color that is about knee-length or a jewel-tone red or purple dress that is floor-length, then let them choose the exact style and dress. This adds an element of fun and lets the bridesmaids choose dresses that will look good on them rather than opting for the same style as the others are wearing. Bride's dresses can be found very inexpensively at sample sales or off the rack, or you could try looking at local dressmakers if you have unusual proportions.
2) Choose an Unconventional Bouquet Option
Whether you're planning on one bouquet or two dozen, fresh flowers add up quickly. If you don't happen to know a florist who will give you a good deal, look at other options. Consider picking out an arrangement from your own—or a friend's—garden. Fall-themed weddings could incorporate a handmade bouquet of autumn leaves, for instance, while fairytale weddings could involve bouquets made from ornamental butterflies or fairies. You could even use dried flowers, which tend to be much more affordable.
3) Consider a Different Venue Than Your Top Choice
Sure, your dream venue might be the fanciest church in your city, but it's difficult to book these kinds of venues and they often cost much more than you're expecting. Instead, look at less conventional choices such as local botanic gardens, public parks, or campgrounds. See if anyone you know has a lakefront property you could use or ask around for unconventional wedding locations. People have gotten married underwater, in haunted castles, or in public parks—why not you? Work with the venue to choose dates and remember, if it's outdoors, you'll need to be fine with the possibility of rain or figure out ways to cope with it (such as purchasing canopies on the day before the wedding if the forecast is gloomy).
4) Look for Unusual Centerpiece Ideas
Rather than buying the same kind of centerpieces as everyone else, look for unusual ideas such as having everyone bring an object of some particular kind to be judged, making your centerpieces something that can be broken up into individual favors, or making your own by shopping at thrift stores for unusual vases and putting dried flowers or other arrangements inside. Just avoid centerpieces with live animals like fish, however—the noise will scare them, and even short-lived breeds should have a lifespan of up to five years after the ceremony!
5) Look at a Friday Or Sunday Wedding
Most people want to get married on Saturday because it seems like the easiest day to get everyone to come to the ceremony. Fridays and Sundays are less expensive, and if you can have an evening wedding in the middle of the week, it will be even cheaper. Many venues want to rent out their space on these rarely-booked days, so they're willing to give you great prices if you don't insist on a Saturday wedding.
6) Consider Halving Your Invitation List
If it sounds like a lot of people are on your invitation list, consider halving the number. You don't have to be exact, but the exercise will make you stop and think about who really needs to come along. Save the coworkers you barely know the hassle of having to come to an event where they don't know anyone and cut down on the worry about how you will find childcare by sticking to adults only and inviting only your closest friends and family. The rest of the family can always see the photos anyway! Make it clear to everyone that you're having a very limited guest list so it isn't an extravagant affair and nobody will feel left out.
7) Make Your Own Wedding Cake or Talk to Friends Who Bake
Most people know someone who bakes a lot. If that isn't you, talk to your friends and family and see who might be willing to bake a wedding cake. It doesn't have to be the most elaborate creation you've ever seen—it just has to be tasty and look pretty! Baking your own wedding cake can be an exercise in fun and creativity, but make sure you do as much preparation ahead of time as possible.
It's sensible to arrange your wedding in a way that doesn't break the bank. Wedding-related debt can add stress early in a marriage, so the best way to start your new union off right is by being smart about your spending. Incorporating DIY elements into your wedding or even arranging the whole thing yourself is a great way to save thousands of dollars, or even tens of thousands of dollars, right off the bat. All this money saved could go towards several years of vacations together or even a down payment on your first home together!


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