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Did you ever hear a student say, "I wish I understood what the professor wanted with this assignment?" Have your students ever asked how you came to a specific grade? Have you felt the need to create more clarity around an assignment, both for your students and/or your TAs who handle grading?
The solution may be to create a rubric for your students—or even with your students—for the assessment of the paper or project.
What is a rubric? A rubric is a tool for assessment that is created by the instructor to articulate clear expectations for an assignment and how it is to be graded. In some cases, it can even be helpful to elicit help from students in creating the rubric because, when students are involved in planning how they will be graded, they take ownership of the assignment and their understanding of what is expected is improved.
The Cornell University Center for Teaching Excellence states about rubrics:
Rubrics help instructors:
- Assess assignments consistently from student-to-student.
- Save time in grading, both short-term and long-term.
- Give timely, effective feedback and promote student learning in a sustainable way.
- Clarify expectations and components of an assignment for both students and course TAs.
- Refine teaching skills by evaluating rubric results.
Rubrics help students:
- Understand expectations and components of an assignment.
- Become more aware of their learning process and progress.
- Improve work through timely and detailed feedback.
So how do you go about making a rubric?
- You can attend the upcoming workshop, "Designing Rubrics" (February 21, 2013) offered at the CTL by the UVM Writing in the Disciplines Program.
- You can go through this helpful tutorial by University of Colorado – Denver.
- You could also email firstname.lastname@example.com to ask for an appointment with one of the Center for Teaching & Learning instructional design specialists who can meet with you individually to assist you in creating a rubric for your class.
Additional Resources:
Grading and Performance Rubrics – Carnegie Mellon
How and Why to use rubrics – Cornell University
Rubric Resource – DePaul University
Examples and How-to's for Authentic Assessments and Rubrics – University of Central Florida/Orlando
Rubric Development -University of West Florida
Grading Rubrics – University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
The recency and primacy effects—long documented phenomena related to the importance of sequence on information recall—evidence that, in short, "Following a single exposure to learning, recall is better for items at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) [...] than for middle items." [1]
This is relevant to teaching and learning because it's in that middle period, when many faculty have come to the heart of their lesson, that students may be least likely to be actively learning.
In the book, Student Engagement Techniques, [2] Elizabeth F. Barkley poses the suggestion that lectures could be shaped around this retention curve by segmenting a class into three parts:
1) Begin the class by diving directly into teaching important content.
2) After 20 minutes or so, have students take a brief break, stand up and stretch, and then conduct the administrative business, i.e., attendance, collection of homework, distribution of graded homework, etc.
3) Finally, transition back into important content for the last part of class. Consider incorporating a "JiTT" activity (Just in Time Teaching Techniques, October 10, 2012) and close the class with a recap of the most important points.
- Primacy Versus Recency in a Quantitative Model: Activity Is the Critical Distinction Anthony J. Greene, Colin Prepscius, and William B. Levy
- A CTL favorite book: Student Engagement Techniques (p.103)
MOOCs are courses that are:
- Massive: designed for large-scale participation by dozens or even thousands of
- Open: freely available with free access to all course materials.
- Online: available through any web browser on any mobile device or computer.
As the MOOC model has gained acceptance it continues to be redefined and changed to suit the needs of learners, teachers, and institutions.
Currently, MOOCs combine the practice of online education with the ideals of open education and open courseware initiatives. They have gathered increasing attention in the past year[1] as the model has been adopted by such well-known universities as MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley [2]. They have even been blamed for the recent controversy surrounding the departure and subsequent return of the President of the University of Virginia. [3]
Where did MOOCs Come From?
The advent of the web provided new opportunities for proponents of distance education. In addition to the ability to provide course materials and communication opportunities online, the web has allowed for experimentation with new pedagogical approaches. In 1999 the University of Tübingen in Germany made videos of its lectures freely available online. MIT followed suit in 2002 with its publication of course materials through its OpenCourseware initiative [4]. Alongside these initiatives, discussions about Personal Learning Environments, or the more colorfully named Edupunk, combined a reaction against the commercialization of learning with a focus on individually crafting one's own learning and curriculum. [5]
Giving away course materials for self-learners was one thing. Giving away access to actual taught courses was another, yet that is exactly what David Wiley of Utah State University did in 2007 when he opened his graduate course on, appropriately enough, open education, to anyone who wished to participate. The term MOOC itself, however, came as a result of a course taught by longtime open education advocates George Siemens [6], of the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University and Stephen Downes [7], Senior Researcher at The National Research Council (Canada). The course was titled "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge" and was offered both to the students at the University of Manitoba who took it for credit and to the over 2,000 students who participated for free. The course content and discussion were made available through a variety of tools such as blogs, threaded discussions using Moodle, virtual encounters in Second Life, and synchronous online meetings. As a result of that course, and with a nod to an older interactive and collaborative technology, the MOO, Dave Cormier, Manager of Web Communication and Innovations at the University of Prince Edward Island, coined the term MOOC in 2008 and created the video that defined it.[8]
Cormier, Downes, and Siemans have continued their experiments with MOOCs, offering a number of courses. In 2011 they brought together over 30 facilitators to offer a 35 week MOOC focused on innovations and directions in online education. [9] As of the writing of this post they are offering a MOOC titled Current/Future State of Higher Education (#CFHE12) to explore the impact of the MOOC model. [10]
Who is teaching them? Where are they taught?
There are multiple online courses calling themselves MOOCs. These are currently taking one of two forms, recently labelled by Downes as cMOOCs and xMOOCs.[11] The original MOOC concept envisioned that an instructor would provide information and encourage participants to share their knowledge and experience, connecting with each other in groups and sub-groups based on their particular interests and expertise. They would take the opportunity to peer instruct and even expand upon areas where the instructor may not have extensive knowledge. In other words, much if not most of the learning experience is derived through meaningful interaction with others in the course. This connectivist approach, or cMOOC, makes use of many of the social networking tools now available: blogs, Twitter, Facebook, discussion boards, etc.
xMOOCs, or those served by new start-ups such as EdX, Coursera, Udacity and Udemy [12] are an effort to formalize the MOOC model. Their service provides the managerial functions necessary for institutions offering MOOCs: account administration, server infrastructure, marketing, etc.
What are the potential benefits of the MOOC model?
- can encourage communication among participants who bring a variety of viewpoints, knowledge, and skills to the course. This serves to create communities of interest along with broadening the scope of the MOOC.
- could inspire people to "try on" subjects that they wouldn't otherwise pursue or even try on education itself.
- can provide multiple ways to engage with course material, encouraging multimodal learning that can address the needs of learners with a variety of learning styles (i.e. Universal Design for Learning or UDL).
- by developing for multimodal learners, could inspire better teaching and use of technologies in general for face to face courses.
Yet MOOCs are viewed with trepidation and skepticism by some who see them as reinforcing the worst aspects of teaching. Those that are designed to simply provide droning lectures followed by auto-graded multiple choice tests are, in the words of Said Vaidhyanathan "taking the worst aspects of college learning as the favored methods of college learning."[13]
And then there are the financial questions. While MOOCs have been and might continue to be used for marketing purposes or to claim cultural capital for those institutions that are the early adopters, there is no doubt they can be expensive to run. They are not yet direct revenue generators. Among many educators that lack of commercial viability is seen as a positive trait, especially for public institutions that, ideally, promote the extension of knowledge as a core value. Those who see commercialism as corrupter are understandably leery of institutions that view MOOCs solely in terms of revenue generation through commercial transactions with students.
Administering several large MOOCs simultaneously has infrastructure implications. Alternatively, outsourcing MOOC administration to any of the several MOOC providers that have sprung up must take into account FERPA policies and the privacy of students.
Among the many questions revolving around the formalization of MOOCs are how faculty will be compensated for teaching them and how universities will credential students taking them. Currently, xMOOCs generally make a point of offering some form of assessment but we are a long way for any kind of standardization that would allow for MOOC credit to travel easily from institution to institution. Then again, "long" is a relative term. When speaking of the evolution of MOOCs that day may come much sooner than expected. Indeed, in the past few weeks the University of Texas has negotiated with Coursera to offer courses that may carry college credit. Meanwhile the State of Minnesota Office of Higher Education has declared that Coursera cannot offer any courses to citizens of Minnesota without that government's consent, an odd proposition given that the courses are free and offer no credit. [14]
How can you learn more about them?
A quick look through the notes below, or a search through The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wikipedia, or even generally via Google or YouTube will net you more than a little information on MOOCs. A more experiential way to learn about MOOCs is to take one. Visit the xMOOC providers or follow Siemans' or Downes' offerings.
1. The Chronicle of Higher Education has compiled a timeline of their articles related to MOOCs at "What You Need to Know About MOOCs."
2. In the May 2012 article "Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses" the New York Times reported that several other universities had jumped on the MOOC bandwagon.
3. While the ouster of President Sullivan was more complex than a simple argument over the adoption of MOOCs, it is interesting to note that almost immediately upon her return to that Office the university signed a deal with Coursera to begin developing MOOCs.
4. Since that time the MIT OpenCourseWare site has continued to be enlarged, reporting 100 million visits by 2010.
5. Educators also see a role for EduPunk and Open Education practices as a counter to the more restrictive and, some would argue, limiting environment of Learning Management Systems like Blackboard, Moodle, etc.
6. This video continues to be the definition of MOOCs as originally conceived, though the term itself is applied to two diverging definitions. In an all too common instance of web irony, and as an example of how quickly the MOOC concept is evolving, this video has been accused of being "inaccurate" by a commenter who apparently did not know Cormier's role in creating the term.
7. While more formal talks by both George Siemens and David Cormier have been recorded, for a more casual discussion about MOOCs by these founders, see the interview with Martin Weller of the UK's Open University at http://youtu.be/l1G4SUblnbo.
8. Stephen Downes has been writing and speaking about issues in education for many years. For example, in this 2009 video he describes Open Education. You can also see his brief introduction to the 2011 "Change 2011 MOOC" which provides his take on how that MOOC will work.
9. The "Change 2011 MOOC" is available at http://change.mooc.ca/index.html.10. As of today, it is not too late to join CFHE12 at http://edfuture.mooc.ca/index.html.
11. In an interview with Downes for her July 2012 article ("Massively Open Online Courses Are 'Here to Stay'"), Tanya Roscorla picked up on his use of the terms xMOOC and cMOOC, so they have now entered the MOOC lexicon. See also the report by Sir John Daniels "Making Sense of MOOCs."
12. EdX is a joint venture created by MIT and Harvard. Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng of Stanford. Three roboticists, Sebastian Thrun, Mike Sokolsky and David Stavens founded Udacity. Udemy was founded by Gagan Biyani, Eren Bali and Oktay Caglar.
13. Quoted from the webinar "Beyond MOOC Hyperbole: Why We Should Support MOOC Experimentation … Critically and Carefully," Oct. 12, 2012.
14. As reported in the Washington Post on October 19, 2012 ("Is Minnesota Cracking Down on MOOCs?"). For a recent recap of other general issues surrounding MOOCs, see Katherine Mangan's "MOOC Mania" in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 1, 2012. In addition, feel free to visit my growing collection of MOOC references at http://delicious.com/hopegreenberg/mooc+MOOC?link_view=expanded
What is JiTT?
Just in Time Teaching, or JiTT, is a model first proposed by Novak, Patterson, Gavrin and Christian (1999) that combines web-based resources that help students prepare outside of class with active learning techniques in the classroom. JiTT has recently drawn attention as a part of a "flipped classroom" strategy, in which students do much of the work of absorbing new information outside of the classroom so that faculty can focus their time in the classroom on those content areas and concepts that students need more help understanding. Flipped classroom strategies also use principles of active learning, asking students to apply knowledge or work problems during class time with the professor and with other students.
JiTT Exercises: Student Prep Helps Faculty Prep Too
JiTT exercises are one way to help students prepare appropriately for these in-class activities. Most JiTT exercises are short, web-based assignments students turn in before class that require them to complete the assigned reading or other coursework. While preparing for class, the instructor quickly reviews the student responses to the JiTT exercise and tailors the class to correct misconceptions, practice applying concepts or explore in areas where student work fell short. At least part of class time is spent reviewing a sampling of student JiTT exercises and/or going over pre-class quiz results. When student responses are on target, in-class exercises can offer students opportunities to further demonstrate and deepen their understanding through exercises that link course materials to real world applications or to other material within the course.
Is JiTT really new?
JiTT has been around since the late 1990's, and a number of studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach. My reaction, on first hearing about JiTT, is that the idea itself is quite a bit older than the web-based medium on which it relies. Faculty in many disciplines have used techniques ranging from reading questions to reaction papers or submission of discussion questions to accomplish the same outcomes: encourage and support students' preparation for in-class activities, and provide information about their level of preparation and understanding to the instructor prior to the start of class. While JiTT may not be, in fact, "something completely different," what is different is that JiTT initiatives, particularly in the STEM disciplines, have focused on larger, content-heavy introductory courses which have traditionally emphasized lecture as the main in-class activity. In addition, the submission of the JiTT exercises through a Learning Management System like Blackboard allows students more flexibility in when they prepare and turn in the JiTT exercises, and faculty more flexibility in how they organize and view the responses. For example, faculty at UVM can use the Test, Assignment or even the Survey tool to collect JiTT responses before class.
What do JiTT exercises look like?
JiTT exercises vary depending on the course level, structure, and staffing. Some JiTT techniques require students to produce lengthy responses on which they receive feedback before or after class. These are appropriate for small to medium-sized classes or classes where the instructor has grading assistance. Other techniques require little or no grading on the part of the instructor, such as automatically graded tests, or a brief sentence or two submitted by each student indicating which parts of the material they would like to review further.
This Carleton College website offers a comprehensive explanation of JiTT methods and has a library of exercises developed for the geosciences.
www.jitt.org is run by Gavrin and Novak, two of the original authors of the JiTT model. It has more information on JiTT as well as guidelines for crafting JiTT exercises.
JiTT across Disciplines
While JiTT is widely associated with STEM disciplines, some recent studies have highlighted its value for social science and humanities courses. For example, Pace and Middendorf (2010) discuss the use of JiTT techniques to develop critical thinking and writing skills in an introductory history course. They found that JiTT exercises promoted a feedback loop that improved student writing for the course, and also felt that it improved the quality of class discussion, as students had an opportunity to develop arguments and opinions in the JiTT exercise, and came to class prepared to debate and discuss the points raised in their classmates' assignments.
Simkins and Maier (2004) tested a JiTT model in an introductory Economics course. While their results show some difference in exam performance between JiTT and non-JiTT courses, they, like many faculty who have tested JiTT techniques, emphasize that students in JiTT courses came to class better prepared and took on more responsibility for their own learning. These factors, as well as the value to faculty of having a better sense of students' understanding of the material and tailoring their teaching accordingly, are difficult to measure. Ideally, they contribute to long term retention of and engagement with course ideas and materials, and in the near term, can also increase faculty satisfaction with their teaching experience.
JiTT: Key Lessons
For some of you, the strict definition of JiTT sets parameters that are too constraining. Perhaps you do not want to use web-based exercises, or you would like to incorporate the exercises into the face to face class time. Maybe you have considered using a student response system like iClickers in your classroom and expect to use responses to iClicker questions to guide how much time you spend reviewing different parts of the material. These activities may not fit exactly with the JiTT models that have been so rigorously tested, but they do retain the "spirit" of JiTT, which is designed to:
- motivate students to prepare material before class so that they can benefit more from active learning techniques
- gather information on their understanding of the material
- utilize that information to improve student understanding, and where possible, apply that knowledge during face to face class time
If these goals coincide with where you would like to head with your teaching, JiTT exercises may give you a jumping off point for redesigning your course to focus less on lecture, and more on active learning experiences for students.
Want to know more?
CTL is offering a three-part workshop on October 16th from 2:30-5:15. You can sign up for one, two or three of the parts.
Here's the link to all three events
All of the events are in 303 Bailey-Howe, starting at 2:30:
- A workshop with Laura Bermingham, a Plant Biology faculty member at UVM, highlighting flipped classroom techniques she uses, including Just in Time Teaching and the Peer Instruction model (2:30-3:30)
- A 1/2 hour video featuring Eric Mazur, a Harvard physicist who is a leader in the flipped classroom movement (3:35-4:15)
- A one-hour workshop with CTL's Hope Greenberg on using different technologies to enhance flipped classroom design or to just bring in some techniques without flipping your classroom completely. (4:20-5:15)
Faculty are welcome to sign up for one, two or all three of these workshops to find out more about what "flipped classroom" "peer instruction" and "just in time teaching" can do for them. These workshops will be of particular interest to faculty teaching large classes or introductory classes that they would like to redesign to have less lecture, and more active learning by students.
Sources cited:
Pace, D. and Middendorf, J. (2010) "Using Just in Time Teaching in History." In Simkins and Maier, eds Just in Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines, and Across the Academy. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing. Pp. 153-162
Novak, G., Patterson, E., Gavrin, A., & Christian,W. (1999). Just-in-time teaching: Blending active learning with web technology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Simkins, S. and Maier, M. (2004) Using Just-in-Time Teaching Techniques in the Principles of Economics Course , Social Science Computer Review, 22 (4). Pp. 444-456.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework, based in cognitive neuroscience, that encourages the design of flexible learning environments to accommodate a variety of learning styles and differences. This post focuses on one of the three core principles in UDL: multiple means of representation.
This means moving beyond textual representation by presenting information and conceptual knowledge to students in a variety of formats, e.g., images, video, and audio. Not only does research indicate that this practice can enhance student understanding and retention of course content, it can also be used to engage students and prime discussion. Students responding to an image, song or movie clip can spark reflection and debate.
Effective use of multimedia in your teaching is non-trivial. It takes time to find the right image or clip and prepare it so that is accessible and available to all students. Fortunately, UVM has some resources to help you every step of the way.
Step 1: Finding Multimedia
There are so many sources of multimedia, and so little time. To help you get started, CTL has collected a list of websites where you can find images and videos applicable to many disciplines. Check out this link for information about copyright, fair use, and using multimedia in your courses, as well.
Additionally, Bailey/Howe Library has several new, searchable databases for streaming media that provides access to licensed documentaries with relevance across the curriculum. Features for some of these databases include synchronized, searchable transcripts, editing capabilities to make video clips, and an embeddable video player that can be used in Blackboard courses.
Step 2: Making Multimedia Accessible
Multimedia used in class or on the web needs to be ADA compliant. Video/audio content needs to be captioned. Captioning not only benefits the deaf or hard of hearing student, but can also benefit students for whom English is a second language, and individuals with learning disabilities (hearing and reading at the same time can improve comprehension). For information regarding captioning services on campus, please see the ACCESS offices captioning website.
Images on the web also need to be accessible and take into consideration not only people with blindness, but also those low vision, color-blindness, or cognitive disabilities. For a comprehensive discussion on effective and appropriate use of images to facilitate comprehension, see Creating Accessible Images on the WebAIM website.
Step 3: Making Multimedia Available on the Web
If you want students to access your own audio/video content on the web, or if the content falls within Fair Use copyright guidelines, use the UVM Media Manager tool to upload the files to your UVM server space, also known as your "zoo space." The Media Manager makes it simple to share your media by broadcasting it, linking to it, or embedding it on a webpage such as a Blackboard course page. See Media Manager directions here.
Another way to add media to your Blackboard (Bb) course is to use the Bb "MashUp" tool. This tool allows you to search YouTube, Flickr, and SlideShare (a site for viewing and sharing PowerPoint-like presentations), select content, and then embed this content directly into your Bb course. While the media content resides on their respective websites, students view the media content without ever leaving the Bb course. View this tutorial on the Bb MashUp tool
Interested in Learning More?
For more information about the Filmmakers Library Online, attend the upcoming CTL Sound (Teaching) Bite on "Teaching with Streaming Media" facilitated by Daisy Benson of the B/H Library, on October 9, 12:00 – 1:00 pm. Visit this page for information and to register.
For more information about the Media Manager, attend the upcoming CTL Sound (Teaching) Bite, "From DVD to Blackboard" on October 3, 12:00- 1:00 pm. Visit this page for information and to register.
In short, one of the principles of Universal Design for Learning is that if you offer students multiple options for exploring content and expressing what they've learned, their experience is richer and more meaningful—and this gives their learning "sticking power."
Google Earth is a free, easy to learn tool and absorbingly fun! It's an exciting option for immersive learning because students can delve into a topic and show their knowledge (and comprehension and analysis) through writing and/or other means while simultaneously building geospatial and technical fluency.
What can students do in Google Earth? They can explore a 3D model of the earth, turn numerous data layers on and off, and zoom in close—in many places to an on-the-street, photographic, 360° view of a place. Most importantly, they can create their own map views in which they placemark physical locations and into each placemark they can:
- add their own written work
- include excerpts from texts
- embed imagery, video, and audio from a website
- include links to sources
If desired, the placemarks can be gathered into an animated tour. Finally, they can save their maps and upload them to Blackboard for assessment or to share with the class.
The project possibilities are nearly limitless, but here are just a few ideas:
- In English or foreign language classes, students can explore a literary work, an author's life or journey, or create a place-based, illustrated, poetry anthology. Example assignments might be to map 10 places from John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, or trace Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway's walk through London, include analysis or reflection of text excerpts and historical photos in each placemark. Include web-sourced audio files where possible, such as the sound of a passing train or Big Ben chiming in London.
- In history classes, students can map events or parts of events, such as wars, diasporas, revolutions, or a single person's lifetime. An example would be to map one Civil War regiment's movements and battles. Embed both historic and contemporary photos of the battlegrounds and include excerpts of accounts from properly cited sources.
- In fine art classes, students can search for compelling views of the planet on which to base works of art. They can capture and print their chosen sources from Google Earth and then submit these with the finished project. Examples might be to create a study of abandoned cities or densely populated areas, or the dynamism of a river, e.g., meanders or alluvial fans, or environmental contrasts or perils.
Interested in learning more?
Attend the CTL workshop on September 25th co-taught by Walter Poleman (RSENR) and Inés Berrizbeitia (CTL).
Contact email@example.com for questions about how the CTL may be able to help you develop an assignment, teach Google Earth to your students, and work with you to develop a rubric for assessing the assignment.
For a variety of resources and a link to download Google Earth, see this page in the CTL Website's "Teaching Resources" area.
Tip #1: Learn names. Jonathan Leonard (CDAE) makes the effort to learn every student's name, even in classes with over 150 students! What's his strategy? On the class roster page he displays the students' photos and, while studying each face, he speaks their names aloud. Over and over. And over. Occasionally he shifts the page arrangement—by changing the row settings to, for instance, three across instead of five—and he keeps testing himself. He admits that it takes several practice sessions, but he claims the effort is well worth it. Students are astonished when he greets them by first name! A large class it may be, but an indistinct mass of anonymous faces it is not. Individuals are being recognized and this, he says, changes the whole game.
(By the way, Jonathan isn't the only one to stress the value of learning names. Every year when the CTL holds a panel discussion with the latest winners of the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award, at least one of the panelists mentions that this practice is vital to their teaching style.)
Tip #2: Get students talking. Sheila Boland-Chira (English) recommends the turn and talk method in any class, but particularly on the first day when anxiety may be running a little high. She asks an evocative question related to the course topic and invites students to turn to their neighbors and talk about it. After a few minutes, she invites volunteers to share their thoughts with the whole group. Not only does the lively buzz change the atmosphere in the room, doing this on the first day lets students know that the class is participatory and that they are going to be challenged to think.
Tip #3 Make personal connections. Char Merhtens (Geology) asks students to come to her office and meet with her individually during the first week or two of the semester, just to say hi and chat for a few minutes. However, because there are 200+ students in one of her classes, visiting with everyone isn't practicable, so she invites only the first-years and seniors, the two groups she feels would most benefit from this (although, for completely different reasons). Char says that this simple social gesture has paid off in countless ways and many students go out of their way to thank her.
Tip #4: It's standard practice to review the syllabus on the first day of class, but a few faculty offered tips to make this ritual more meaningful:
- Before the first class meets, contemplate your schedule again and identify the overarching themes. When you review the syllabus on the first day, share this 10,000-foot view with your students and talk about how the key themes are woven throughout the schedule. This overview provides not only a conceptual map of the course, but a rationale for the work you are going to be asking them to do.
- Make the syllabus review more engaging by including interesting visual elements, e.g., drawings, concept maps, or a humorous cartoon. Consider playing music.
- Use Blackboard's test tool to create a short quiz about the syllabus with multiple-choice type questions (so Blackboard will do the grading for you) and make it a mandatory assignment by the second day of class. Doing this gets them to delve deeper into the syllabus and you can review the stats in Blackboard before the next class, so you can touch upon any murky areas.
Tip #5: Finally, convey enthusiasm! J. Dickinson (Anthropology) offered what might be the most important tip for the first class and every class: that it's crucial to communicate your excitement about what you teach. Even if you're not teaching your dream course, you should be able to muster enthusiasm for it. Foundational or introductory-level courses are exciting when you consider the potential for learning and that you just may spark an interest that has a formative effect on someone's life. Genuine enthusiasm can be infectious.
How do you use your iPad with a projector? For example, how do you project a slide show, make annotations, and display what you type on a screen? Are there other apps that allow for other interesting classroom activities?
You have an iPad, a vga cable, and a projector. Plug it all in and what happens? Not much. You will not be able to see your iPad screen on a projector. That is, you can't just plug it into a projector and have it display, or mirror, whatever you are seeing or doing on the iPad. Instead of building into the iPad the ability to mirror its display, the projection function is available only at the application level. What does that mean for you? You will need to look for apps that include "vga" support, and those apps will display only certain screens in the app. Fortunately, the number of apps that support vga is growing.
Let's start with some simple ones. If you want to display a web page on a projector, Safari won't do it. The options are to use a different browser or another app that includes web browsing capabilities. Both Atomic Web ($.99) and Perfect Web ($2.99) are web browsers like Safari. Perfect Web has several additional features that make it well worth the $2.99. Tabs, hand gestures, and the ability to act like different kinds of browsers so you can display a web page to its best advantage are a few. Try it and you may never go back to Safari again.
Several apps include the ability to browse the web among their other functions. For example, GoodReader and iAnnotate are primarily designed for you to download, read and annotate PDF files but include the ability to display web pages as well. More on those below.
For displaying slide shows? Keynote is Apple's slide show creator, and it does what it does elegantly and simply. However, while you can create and display your slides with Keynote (or import your PowerPoint or PDF files to edit and display) you cannot annotate your slides while projecting a slideshow. There are other apps that can. After trying out several I find myself returning most often to 2Screens ($4.99). This app allows you to call up ppt, pdf, rtf, even docx files and draw or write annotations on them. You can open several documents, then tab back and forth between these documents and a blank whiteboard to write additional notes. Notice I say write and draw, not type. The annotations that you can create with 2Screens are those which you do with a stylus or finger. There is a note feature built in so you can type and store notes in your slideshow. However, these notes are only visible to you–they are not displayed.
Any drawbacks? The annotations made in 2Screens are not saved with the presentation, but you can save a screenshot of each slide with its annotations. Another thing that might take some practise to get used to is the way 2Screens displays your ppt slides. You can choose to have it automatically create thumbnails of all slides. These are displayed to you but not projected, making it fairly easy to skip from slide to slide. Or, you can move from slide to slide by vertically scrolling. The practise part is necessary because you are 'finger scrolling' and so need to line the slides up to the screen as you go. It's not hard, just something to be aware of. So, by all means, create in Keynote, but display and annotate in 2Screens.
If you want to do typed annotations on a slide show the choices are more limited. Infonet Presenter ($9.99) is similar to 2Screens in that you can open ppt pdf files and annotate them. It also lets you open a variety of image and video files, even xls files. You can annotate with finger/stylus drawing but it adds the ability to type in a text box that you draw on the screen. You can collect a variety of files and images, place them in a folder that you then use for a presentation. This is particularly nice if the slideshow is composed of many images; no more having to mess about with PowerPoint, dragging dropping and resizing, when you simply want to display lots of images. Just drag them all into a Librry in Infonet Presenter and away you go. This is a somewhat different approach to presenting material and the app as a whole has some quirks. So, worth a look but may not be precisely what you need.
So how can you project text as you type it? Surprisingly, presentation apps are not the best choice. Instead, take a look at some of the note-taking apps that are available. Some now come with vga support. My favorite at the moment is Noterize ($3.99), but PaperDeskLT ($1.99) is also worth a look.
Like the other annotation apps, Noterize let's you open a variety of file types (ppt, pdf, txt, images or even snapshots of web pages) and then draw or write on them. If you insert a new blank page you can type on that page, or you can annotate a page with a text box into which you can type. There are several fonts and font sizes available as well as a handful of colors. You can even turn on audio recording and attach that recording to your notes. These notes can be exported to Google Docs, Facebook, Twitter, Box.net, Dropbox, Email, or opened in any iPad apps that support "Open In" for these file types. To save a copy of the note with the audio intact, you save it as a pdf+audio file that will be transferred and accessible through iTunes.
PaperDeskLT is a similar product, simpler and less fully-featured than Noterize but contains the basics: text, drawing, audio that can be stored on the iPad or stored and synced with an account at paperdesk. It takes a slightly different approach to vga display: you need to create the notes as a "vga whiteboard" to display them, that is, when creating a new note you can choose the standard notebook or a vga whiteboard. You cannot simply display any notebook that you have created.
Other notable vga apps? Penultimate ($1.99), the handwriting and annotating app is a delight. No typing, but everything else works simply and smoothly. As mentioned above, iAnnotate ($9.99) and GoodReader ($2.99) both have vga display capabilities. Both are wonderful at storing and organizing your files. GoodReader annotations are particularly good because you can send the annotated files to yourself or others by email, with the annotations stored directly on them. Another plus is the way you get files into GoodReader. I find the apps that have to talk to iTunes are just annoying. GoodReader can access files by webdav, through a web browser, by email, etc. And, once the files are in GoodReader you can project them or a simple "Open in" command lets you open the files right in 2Screens for projecting and annotating. Fast. Easy.
And then there is AirSketch ($7.99). All of the apps mentioned above work with your projector by plugging your iPad into the projector itself. AirSketch takes a different approach. You connect a laptop to the projector, fire up a browser on the laptop (must be HTML5 compatible, like Firefox, Safari, Chrome), direct the browser to the address AirSketch tells you, then walk away from the laptop. You carry the iPad around the room and write on the iPad screen from wherever you are. What you write will be appear on the laptop screen and be projected from there. You can open pdf files, open ppt files that have been saved as pdf, or open images and annotate all those as well. Since the display is your laptop, you can even start a screencasting program on that laptop and capture what you are drawing or writing on your iPad as it is being displayed on the projector. The educational possibilities are obvious: project a piece of code, a formula, some grammatical errors or piece of writing, pass the iPad around and have students annotate what's on the screen up front. Have students draw graphs on the iPad and project those. This one definitely deserves a look.
So, there's a quick round up of some of the current vga enabled apps. If you are a UVMer and would like to see any of these in action just let me know. I'd be happy to show them to you (firstname.lastname@example.com). And for a little screencast of AirSketch in action, here you go: AirSketch


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Water plants help Danube meet EU law
Wetlands Day -- Water plants help Danube meet EU law
(February 2, 2006. International Wetlands Day. Vienna, Austria) A new project was launched today to better use natural Danube water plants for reducing water pollution. Danube countries need to reduce water pollution to meet EU water protection legislation, known as the Water Framework Directive, by 2015. This includes non-EU countries sharing the Danube River Basin that voluntarily agreed to meet EU water law.
Danube countries are now making plans to ensure that waters within their national boundaries are clean and protected by 2015. The new project, funded by the UNDP-GEF Danube Regional Project (DRP), will encourage national water managers to use water plants to help reduce pollution and to include such actions in their national plans to clean Danube waters. Outputs from the project will include guidelines and case studies where water plants have significantly improved water quality.
The water plants are located in 'wetlands' -- places where water and land naturally cooperate to protect water, animals, plants and humans. Besides absorbing pollution, wetlands provide numerous other valuable services including helping to reduce the impacts from floods and providing homes for important fish and plant species.
"The DRP encourages Danube countries to value wetlands more in their efforts to meet EU law," says DRP Expert Peter Whalley. "We also hope Danube wetlands will be better protected in the future."
Some 80% of Danube wetlands and floodplains have been lost due to past human activities, from river channelling to making room for farmland. "Danube floodplains are among the most important remaining floodplains in Europe," says Tobias Salathé from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
The DRP is also supporting a local campaign in Vojvodina, Serbia and Montenegro. Its goal is to protect the Zasavica Special Nature Reserve and its wetlands from illegal garbage dumping, tree cutting and hunting.
The Zasavica campaign was launched today on International Wetlands Day as part of the larger International Wetlands Campaign by the Danube Environmental Forum (DEF). DEF is the largest network of Danube environmental NGOs in the Danube River Basin. The DEF campaign will encourage national water managers to adequately incorporate wetland protection into their national plans.
The DRP also continues to fund a project implemented by the WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme to prepare new policies for wetlands rehabilitation and protection. This includes local pilot projects in Croatia, Romania and Slovakia.
Notes to Editors:
What is World Wetlands Day? February 2 each year marks the date of the signing of the Ramsar International Convention on Wetlands in 1971. Since then, each year, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and groups of citizens at all levels have taken advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of wetland values and benefits and the Ramsar Convention.
What is the Danube Regional Project? The overall goal of the Danube Regional Project (DRP) is to improve the environment of the Danube River Basin, protect its waters and sustainably manage its natural resources for the benefit of nature and people. The DRP helps 13 Danube countries implement the Danube River Protection Convention primarily through reducing nutrient and toxic pollution and strengthening trans-boundary cooperation in the most international river basin in the world. Through its partnerships with governments, industry, NGOs and local communities, the DRP provides both technical and financial support. It also ensures, through sophisticated public participation and communications activities, that all Danube stakeholders are aware of relevant issues and can put their concerns into action.
For more information about
UNDP-GEF Danube Regional Project: Contact Paul Csagoly, email@example.com, (tel) +43 1 26060 4722, (mob) +43 664 561 2192, www.undp-drp.org
Zasavica Campaign: Contact Slobodan Mitrovice, Pokret Gorana Sremske Mitrovice, (tel) +381 22 214 300, (mob) +381 63 514 847, email@example.com, www.zasavica.org.yu
DEF International Wetlands Campaign: DEF Secretariat, Monika Chrenkova, (tel) +421 2 654 56 113, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.de-forum.org

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MITHIKA LINTURI causing legal jitters after demanding higher SALARIES for MPs – GITHU MUIGAI comes inNews 02:19
Hon. Mithika Linturi is right, how is it that SRC reduced the salaries of MPs but increased the salaries of its own commissioners including Sarah Serem herself who was originally earning 350k. It seems Serem is into some MPs-belittling-activism just like her comrades at the CIC, led by one Charles Nyachae who earns even worse ominous salary >1.2m which is even higher than that of the President, the senior most State Officer. I believe SRC is an irrational and illogical commission.
linturi resign then we elect those willing to accept the offer is declining.
We all all Amicus Uhurie has never put Kenya first, wonder how he will deal with this- stand with the President or screw the people by siding with the mpigs? Either way,he doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
do these guys know that there are many other people who can do their work well with those little salaries. if they succeed to throw Sarah out we gonna recall sooner than they think.
Linturi cannot imagine how hard it will be to be using 1 million a month and the said is slashed to have million it can't sum up for him.It is new era even if the commission is banned another one will be formed to determine their salaries to unless will get another new constitution or will forget the new constitution and live by the old one.
We are too greedy for money and less for service. You take what you employer has offered or you quit. Who earns enough or will ever? The cap on salaries is always by someone else and not by the employee. In this cae by SRC. If left to the employee, he/she will continue increasing for him or herself to extinction. Parliamentarians start loving your neghbours as your selves.You should be fighting for narrowing of the wide salary margin between the low and upper class, where you belong. First fight for the person earning 5000/= per month. You are earning 100 times more, yet you eat the same ugali which costs the same.
Go to hell ama kauze miraa you are a disgrace to manhood if you feel the salo nikidogo then step down greeeeeeedyy shenzi type.
we are watching you mps. you are not the only ones who can lead this country.
I agree with Hon Linturi,Serem cannot overturn an act of Parliament.She cannot write a circular to change an act of Parliament(though it was selfishly passed)This shows the powers of Parliament.I personally would like the salaries for MPs reduced but I hate the way Kenyans hypocritically condem PMs when they speak about their pay.Lets be realistic guys
Murume, at the time you were applying for this job the salary had already been set and you knew the figures, then why did you go for it? Please stop this crap talk about passing trillion budget.. Do you mean that a cashier who handles billions on behalf of his employer must get a cut with a ratio of the amount receipted? Punguza miti. If u no like the just quit.
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Dear All,
Is there anyway I can use screenshot filter and image overlay filter at the same. I couldn't make it work. either one works not with both following are the option that I have tried
1. mplayer -vf bmovl=0:0:tfifo -vf screenshot tv://
2. mplayer -vf screenshot -vf bmovl=0:0:tfifo tv://
3. mplayer tv:// -vf screenshot -vf bmovl=0:0:tfifo
4. mplayer tv:// -vf bmovl=0:0:tfifo -vf screenshot
5. mplayer -vf bmovl=0:0:tfifo -input file=tfifo2 -vf screenshot tv://
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Back when i first started playing WoW and jumped into my first BG which was of course WSG, there was this guide that that /said what we need to do and took us around the back and showed us how to get to the ally base as quick as possible without being detected. Now that was a longggg time ago (Now i am Sr. Sergent Shobu, okay well i was not that good but still im a sergeant so do what i say!) and my memory fails me so Ive been wondering for a long time was that how everyone experienced it when they first jumped in I.E. was their an NPC early on in the game to show people how things were done or was that just a really nice player showing everyone how to win. (which we did)


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I'm in as usual.
12-2 last year... Lost both games to PITA. :(
Finished in 3rd because Aaron Rodgers conveniently got hurt during the "playoffs".
I will go fix it. Sorry teams.
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In !!
Bring it bitches
Half full, lets get her done.
I'm in this year so you all will not have to worry about who is going to win.
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Terone Johnson scored a season high 18 points, Ronnie Johnson added 15 and Kendall Stephens finished with 11 Wednesday night, leading Purdue past Boston College 88-67 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
The Boilermakers (7-2) have been one of the Big Ten's most consistent teams in the annual head-to-head matchup between the major conferences and proved it against one of the ACC's more reliable teams.
Purdue has won five straight in the challenge. Boston College (3-5) was led by Ryan Anderson with 16 points and Olivier Hanlan with 15 but fell to 6-2 in the conference challenge.
The Boilers took control with an 8-0 run midway through the first half and quickly extended the margin to 16. Boston College never got within single digits again.
Purdue shot 52.2 percent from the field and at one point in the second half had made more than twice as many baskets as Boston College.
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July 27, 2012 at 6pm to July 29, 2012 at 7pm – Tsu indoor practice facility Tryouts July 27, 28, 29, 2012 Location: • July 27 - TSU Performing Arts Building Room 164 • July 28-29 - TSU Indoor Practice Facility Time: • Registration: 8:00am – 9:00am • Clinic: 9:00am – 11:00a… Organized by Band Head | Type: recruiting
March 2, 2013 from 12pm to 5:30pm – The Band Hall - Rollins Stewart Music Center When: Saturday March 2, 2013 12:00PM - 5:30PM Cost to Attend: Free What to Bring: Your Instrument Where: TXSU Band Hall (Houston, TX) Who Can Attend: H.S. Band Members (In and Out of State) For More… Organized by Clarence K. Gibson | Type: band, day, -, recruiting
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Beijing blocks delegates to Lausanne Congress
(NPR) - National Public Radio (NPR) is reporting on the Chinese government's decision to try to deny 230 Chinese church leaders from attending the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, October 16-25, 2010.
Doug Birdsall, Executive Chair of Lausanne, was interviewed in the broadcast. Be sure to listen to this brief, but informative clip.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The godfather of North Dakota's oil bonanza predicts the state's crude production will double to 2 million barrels daily by decade's end.
But billionaire oilman Harold Hamm warned industry officials Thursday that future safety missteps will threaten that.
Hamm is the chairman of Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc. His company is one of the oldest and biggest players in the Bakken.
North Dakota's unprecedented oil boom has been marred in the past year by a massive oil pipeline rupture in the western part of the state and a fiery oil train derailment in the eastern part.
Hamm says the industry is in the "crosshairs'' of anti-oil advocates and it's up to companies to do things in an "absolute safe manner.''


text: Is it possbile to deplete your glycogen stores in one day? I am asking because this past saturday I helped my dad out all day on some construction work. I did this for around 6 hours or so. I was mainly hauling cinder blocks all day. The day before the work I did a refeed. I did my regular cut diet on the day that I worked. I am asking this because as of right now I find myself craving carbs.


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Hadrian´s villa, Tivoli by catarina.berg on Flickr.
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Ancient Roman Aqueduct on Lesvos, Greece, close to the village of Moira. The aqueduct was build to transport water to Mytilene, the capital town if the island.
Archeologikos Choros Romaiko Idragogio.
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Philae in Greek or Pilak in ancient Egyptian, meaning 'the end,' defined the southern most limit of Egypt. It was begun by Ptolemy II and completed by the Roman Emperors. The Temple was dedicated to the goddess Isis, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus. These three characters dominate ancient Egyptian culture and their story possesses all the drama of a Shakespearian tragedy. The god Osiris is murdered and dismembered by his brother Seth. Isis searches for the fragments, collects them together and with her magic powers brings Osiris back to life. They then conceive the god Horus. Osiris becomes god of the under world and judge of the dead - who must answer to him for their deeds on Earth. Meanwhile Isis gives birth to Horus and protects the young god. Later when Horus is grown he avenges his father by defeating Seth in combat.
For centuries the temple complex was the holiest site for Isis worshippers. The temple was officially closed down in the 6th century A.D. by the Byzantine emperor Justinian. It was the last pagan temple to exist in the Mediterranean world. Philae was a seat of the Christian religion as well as of the ancient Egyptian faith. Ruins of a Christian church were still discovered, and more than one adytum bore traces of having been made to serve at different eras the purposes of a chapel of Osiris and of Christ. The Philae temple was converted into a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, until that was closed by Muslim invaders in the 7th century.
Isis is a very important figure in the ancient world. She is associated with funeral rites but as the enchantress who resurrected Osiris and gave birth to Horus she is also the giver of life, a healer and protector of kings. She was known as 'Mother of God' and was represented with a throne on her head. During the Roman period her cult spread throughout Greece and the Roman Empire. There was even a temple dedicated to her in London.
The temple at Philae was nearly lost under water when the high Aswan dam was built in the 1960s. Fortunately the temple was rescued by a joint operation between the Egyptian government and UNESCO. In an engineering feat to rival the ancients the whole island was surrounded with a dam and the inside pumped dry. Then every stone block of the temple complex was labelled and removed later to be assembled, like a giant jigsaw puzzle, on the higher ground of Agilka island. The whole project took ten years and has saved one of Egypt's most beautiful temples from certain destruction.
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Unless they have managed to copyright another name without anyone finding out (very unlikely) it's basically come down to either Mists of Pandaria being the next expansion or the next expansion will be unnamed at Blizzcon. There's no way they will announce an expansion name that hasn't been copyrighted and time is running out fast if MoP is not the expansion. I think the non-expansion ideas all seem to be stretches while it being the expansion seems highly likely.


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Connie Britton, Jill Greenberg Shoot, 2011
- Sarah: You know, when you have kids…if you have kids, there's something you should know. Very confusing thing they don't tell you. You see so much of yourself in them. You see…your ironic take on the world.
- Amber: That one was for me.
- Sarah: You see your smile, your walk, your sense of humour. Whatever. And you think they're you. But they're not you. They shouldn't have all of your bagage, your fears and your insecurity and your life experience because that's not fair. They have their own.
i want one of those shirts!
Maya Angelou
This is it.
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Have you seen any changes in the industry in the issues of race, the issue of being a woman, and now being a woman over fifty?
Oh shit. Miss Alfre went there.
Which is exactly where she should've gone. Where everybody should be, really.
Because a phenomenal debut in a big movie leads to even better roles for white actresses but for black actresses that may be the one and only huge role you get during the course of your career.the only" African " woman. Hollywood will give movies to. is Charlize theron…
*ducking those shots fired*
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"And just like that, the Disney princess facade is,well…fucked."
Bahaha love it. Except mb not so good in front of young peeps in the audience?
But I love it. She's real and she's a grown woman.
Favourite? "So if my arms are fat, who gives a fuck". No one should give a fuck if you don't give a fuck, Demi. No one. <3
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Submerge by Marco Rudy
Submerge by Marco Rudy
I actually put this on Hardlined because I thought my friend Marco could use some more exposure on the internets.
It got featured on the Illustration tag! The plan seems to have worked out well :D
You can check him out on deviantART, he is also the new artist on DC's Swamp Thing, which you should definitely pick up since he is knocking it out of the park, every page.


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Does family policy affect fertility?
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Sept. 17, 2013 - More than 400 business, government and community leaders celebrated the spirit of entrepreneurship at the annual Hispanic Business Initiative Fund (HBIF) Success Stories Luncheon in downtown Orlando.
Sponsored in part by Walt Disney World Resort, the luncheon also focused on the year-round contributions HBIF makes to the community and honored Alfredo and Irma Avila of Deland Bakery, the Estévez family of Galaxy Auto Service, Inc., and Andre Uribe of Power Grid Engineering, LLC. for their success in Central Florida.
With services designed for small business owners, the HBIF is a nonprofit organization that specializes in providing bilingual assistance to Hispanic entrepreneurs who are establishing or expanding their business. The goal of the HBIF is to strengthen the state's economy by providing quality business development and training.
"Disney is a great friend of HBIF," said Christina Pinto, chair of the HBIF board of directors. "Disney believes in what we do, which is helping Hispanic entrepreneurs start or expand their businesses and create jobs that help grow our Florida economy."
For the Success Stories honorees, the HBIF is an invaluable part of their business story. "We feel very proud as Latinos to win this award. It's an example to others who are thinking of starting a business and putting their hearts into their vision," said Irma Avila of Deland Bakery.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts has been a long-time supporter of the HBIF.


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Data and statistics
Suicide prevention Over 800 000 people die due to suicide every year and there are many more who attempt suicide. Hence, many millions of people are affected or experience suicide bereavement every year. Suicide occurs throughout the lifespan and was the second leading cause of death among 15–29 year olds globally in 2012.
Global Health Observatory
WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation
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>800 000persons approximately die from suicide globally each year (one death every 40 seconds).Suicide prevention
2.8%was the median amount of the health budget allocated to mental health in 2011.Mental Health Atlas 2011
Human resources
85 countrieshad less than 1 psychiatrist
per 100 000 population in 2011.


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Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.
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Well, we're a week away from 11.04 so I decided that I would collate the information about Unity on the web and put it into one nice page for everyone to find. Got some more tips you'd like to add? Add them in the to the answer!
We don't use ink to express our opinions any more, which is a shame. If we did, I could start this out by talking about the ocean of ink that's been spilled on Final Cut Pro X over the past couple of days, and how hardly a drop of it has been positive, and how Apple deserves every last speck and…
One of my lovely customers sent me a message today with this link.
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My heart sank a little bit. The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job. They even stole the…
If you're going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I've taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
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Last time we went to visit my in laws, my mother in law shared some pages from her childhood diary. It was great! She revealed little snippets of her life, like what she did for fun,to who's house she went to play and even what she ate. What struck us a hilarious is how often she ate ham. There were several passages where she wrote "we had ham It was good". I figured if a child recorded it in her diary, then it MUST have been really good … Continue reading →
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Community Wide Reading Program
The Community Wide Reading program is bringing the Isle/Mille Lacs Lake community together through a shared reading experience. This program helps promote literacy and build relationships with adults in the community. Residents in the area read the same book at the same time.
The book chosen for the 2010 program is They Named Me Marjorie by Ann Zemke. Older elementary and teens will be able to read the book, Rodzina by Karen Cushman.
Copies of both books are available at the Mille Lacs Lake Community Library for checkout.
Thursday, October 21 at 7:00 pm at the Mille Lacs Lake Community Library will be gathering to discuss the novel, They Named Me Marjorie by Ann Zemke.
Along with reading the book and discussing it with your neighbors you can also do some other events. On Tuesday, Oct 26 at 6:30 at the Isle City Center meeting room, there will be a showing of the documentary, The Orphan Trains. On Wednesday, November 3 at 3:30, older elementary students and teens are invited to come together at the Mille Las Lake Community Library for a discussion of Rodzina by Karen Cushman.
The main event of the community reading program will be an appearance by Ann Zemke, author of They Named Me Marjorie. She will discuss her book at the Mille Lacs Lake Community Library on Saturday, November 6 at 11:00 am.
The Community Wide Reading program is sponsored by East Central Regional Library and Mille Lacs Lake Community Library. All the activities were funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. All events are free and open to the public.


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Severe Weather Safety Tips With James Spann of ABC 33/40
We cannot prevent severe weather, but we can prepare for the worst and know what to do when the going gets rough. In the event of a hurricane, tornado or severe winter weather event, planning and preparation is the best way to ensure you and your family's safety. James Spann, the weatherman at ABC 33/44, will be with us to outlining safety guidelines for all forms of severe to ensure that you and your family members improve your chances of being safe.


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Among so many changes, I shall consider one: the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle. Today we are rather inclined to ignore it; perhaps, in its time, it gave rise to too much inflated rhetoric; perhaps it has been attributed too readily and too emphatically to a process of "humanization", thus dispensing with the need for further analysis. And, in any case, how important is such a change, when compared with the great institutional transformations, the formulation of explicit, general codes and unified rules of procedure; with the almost universal adoption of the jury system, the definition of the essentially corrective character of the penalty and the tendency, which has become increasingly marked since the nineteenth century, to adapt punishment to the individual offender? Punishment of a less immediately physical kind, a certain discretion in the art of inflicting pain, a combination of more subtle, more subdued sufferings, deprived of their visible display, should not all this be treated as a special case, an incidental effect of deeper changes? And yet the fact remains that a few decades saw the disappearance of the tortured, dismembered, amputated body, symbolically branded on face or shoulder, exposed alive or dead to public view. The body as the major target of penal repression disappeared.
—Foucault, Discipline and Punish, I. Torture. 1. The Body of the Condemned
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I'm a feminist because you want to see my body and you want to call me a slut because you saw my body.
I'm a feminist because you want me to cover my body and you want to call me a prude because I cover my body.
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Psychedelic Wall Monday. Conditions today were excellent and international guests and UK hosts returned tired but delighted with their full day.
A vast range of things were done today, from 20km high level walks to new routes. The following were just some of the routes climbed in excellent conditions on Ben Nevis.
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From salad bars stocked with seasonal produce and kosher and vegan menus to artisanal, whole-grain breads and delectable desserts made on campus, Dickinson offers something for every appetite and dietary requirement.
Grab & Go
Grab & Go is offered to the campus community as a quick service option for those with busy schedules. Open daily for lunch and Saturday mornings for travel lunches, Grab & Go affords the opportunity for customized lunches including deli sandwiches, hot entrées, soups, salads, snacks and beverages.


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Looking a tad less confident than he did on TV, former "MacGyver" hunk Richard Dean Anderson, 61, got stuck in a bit of a jam when his car broke down in Malibu on Monday.
Where's a pocket knife and some chewing gum when you need them?
He saved the world a number of times working at Stargate Command, and now look at him!!!
MacGyver looks grumpy. Probably cause he left his pocket knife at home
Man oh Man! Dude needs to get on the diet Snooki is on...
Stuck in a jam? Looks more like he's eaten all the jam & biscuits in all of Hollywood. He's now the size of 2 MacGyvers!
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Looks like he has just given up and not on the car but on life.
This can't be him. no way
Honestly, this pic just makes me sad. Geez what the hell happened?
Where is a treadmill when you need one?
That's what happens when you buy a VW/AUDI
Wow, it has only been a few years since Stargate. He's really plumped up since then.
Ugh I hate seeing pictures like this, ruined in my head forever. Dude.
Overweight of "the stars" often happens when they've made tons of money - probably enough to suit their needs for the rest of their lives, are burned-out on hitting the gym every day to keep that physic for the camera, are sick and tired of getting up at 5 am and working 15-18 hour days, and who don't need the aggravation anymore. I'm just venturing a guess that Mr. Anderson really doesn't care all that much anymore.
Looks like that German engineered product has let him down.
Volkswagen reliability, with an AUDI label and price tag.
Should have stayed with the Jeep you drove in MacGyver.
Oh well, . . . just walk to the nearest Stargate ring and transport yourself home. No big deal.


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Amount per serving
- Calories: 68
- Calories from fat: 63%
- Fat: 4.8g
- Saturated fat: 1.3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Protein: 2.3g
- Carbohydrate: 5.3g
- Fiber: 1.6g
- Cholesterol: 6mg
- Iron: 0.0mg
- Sodium: 208mg
- Calcium: 0.0mg
- 4 cups torn lettuce
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- 3 tomatoes, sliced
- 1/4 cup vinaigrette
- 4 tablespoons crumbled feta cheese
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- Combine 4 cups torn lettuce, 1/2 cucumber, chopped, 3 tomatoes, sliced, and 1/4 cup vinaigrette; toss. Sprinkle each serving with 1 tablespoon crumbled feta cheese; sprinkle with freshly ground pepper, if desired.
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15 Awesome Paper Thanksgiving Turkeys
Sure, the food at Thanksgiving is great. But in our opinion, the real star of this holiday is the terrifying artwork brought home from elementary school art class.
Sure, the food at Thanksgiving is great. But in our opinion, the real star of this holiday is the terrifying artwork brought home from elementary school art class.
Thanksgiving is a time for the family to come together, tell stories, then sit down and feast on some tasty, belly-expanding deliciousness. Turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie are all Thanksgiving staples, but if you want to really spice things up a bit this year, we have some ideas.
These days, most of the turkeys people gobble down are fattened up on farms. They're only pale (under their feathers) imitations of the lean, mean turkeys roaming through the woods of North America
There are tons of things we love about Thanksgiving, like how it's socially acceptable to dress up as a pilgrim in public. (Other people do that too, right?) Obviously boats full of gravy will trump square-buckled shoes every time though. Unless
There's no denying Thanksgiving is a holiday that proves just how awesome Americans are. Think about it-- it's an entire day dedicated to stuffing ourselves with fantastic food, spending time with family and friends and watching football. But what really makes Thanksgiving the ultimate American hol
Holiday travel will bring increased traffic to the American highways this Thanksgiving weekend. However, with many families still simply trying to operate day-to-day on shoestring budgets, people are expected to plan shorter trips to carve their turkeys this year as a means to save money on fuel and other expenses.
There is hardly any such thing as Black Friday anymore. With numerous retailers, like Walmart, opening their doors to holiday bargain addicts as early as 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, other retailers must now either join the circus or risk missing out on frantic buyers with turkey hangovers and itchy spending fingers.
Who's really being punished here? Valerie Rodgers, or the cops she's cooking for? It depends on good she is in the kitchen, we guess. Rodgers was sentenced to cooking Thanksgiving dinner for three cops and a year of probation for reckless driving that resulted in felony charges.
The 14th annual Mission: Thanksgiving will be held Friday, November 16th at Arrow Ford, 4001 South 1st Street in Abilene. This is an amazing one-day event that brings the community together for a common cause: to help the less fortunate in Abilene, with contributions going to Loving Care Ministries. Several items, including clothes, food, sleeping bags and blankets, personal hygiene items and winter accessories, or cash donations will be accepted.
Happy November! Thanksgiving is officially on deck as our next holiday, and with it: awkward family dinners! To help, we're bringing you 15 surprising facts about turkey, so you have something to say to your uncle as he stuffs his face. We know you, though. You're like us -- you need a spoonful of sugar with your medicine. We're happy to oblige with some eye candy, while you learn.
Thanksgiving gives us an excuse to eat as much as humanly possible in one sitting. We stuff our faces with turkey and all the fixings, however, it is very unlikely that we ate anywhere near as much as food eating champ Takeri Kobayashi who devoured 7.5 pounds of turk
I have found some disturbing stuff online. This little parody video is among the tops. It's just :30 seconds long and done in the style of "Ren & Stimpy". Click through.


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To the Editor: I read with interest the recent article by Frederick W. Reimherr, M.D., and colleagues (1) and congratulate the authors for studying the clinically important topic of optimal length of therapy for the treatment of depression.
The value of this contribution is lessened, however, by their failure to address the risks associated with continuation therapy. Other reports of antidepressant continuation therapy (2–5) have included an assessment of adverse experiences, often with comparisons of adverse experiences occurring during acute therapy and long-term treatment. Data regarding adverse experiences are as helpful to the clinician as are descriptions of efficacy parameters.
As the authors mention in their introductory remarks, patients may be reluctant to participate in long-term medication therapy out of concern for side effects. I question how the authors can adequately determine the optimal length of therapy without an assessment of treatment risks and the hope that future studies balance education about the risks involved with information regarding benefits.
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La Bamba - Taking Mexican Cuisine to the next level!
La Bamba is your fun, cheerful, casual Mexican restaurant known for a relaxed dining experience and world-class service. We started our journey in the mid-1980s with chef La Costena's passionate love affair with Mexican and Salvadorian cooking. After twenty years, we are still going strong, with three successful restaurants under our belt that serve fantastic fresh chicken, seafood, and beef entrees recognized by diners as our signature.
The nexus of our greatness springs from the fact that we use the freshest of ingredients to dish up all our culinary creations. La Bamba Mexican Restaurant serves only the choicest seafood and meats, quality beans and rice and our famous tortillas are baked fresh every day. The menu creates a truly enjoyable dining experience and at the core of our offering is homage to authentic Mexican and Salvadorian dishes made from scratch, right in front of you.
We bring energetic, visceral, and a joyful experience in one of America's splendid dining cities!
Our warm and inviting eateries offer classics such as the famous tamales, enchiladas, and cheese papusa. The burritos are massive and filled with crunchy bits of meat, sautéed fresh vegetables, topped with sour cream and guacamole. They don't just sate your appetite but the variety of tasty Mexican flavors is bound to spice up your dining experience. However, if you want to keep it simple then try out our irresistible tacos, which are served with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and different sauces. We specialize in the great Al Pastor Taco, which is a combination of spices, herbs, juices, and a cooking method which gives it a unique taste. Al Pastor Taco is mild, tender with a hint of sweet pineapple that guarantees to satisfy every palate.
Mexican dishes at La bamba are made with the finest ingredients available. Our salsas are prepared fresh all through the day to guarantee the ultimate in flavor. Also, our army of impeccably trained staff flit about creating the most gastronomies Guacamole made with avocados and tamales cooked in the traditional way for the best taste.
These are but a few of the labors we make each day to bring you the real essence of Mexico!
Our food is perfectly appetizing, but the standard Meximerican fare cannot be complete without the delicious beverages. We are famous for our Horchata and Melon, and tamarind drink. Horchata is a refreshing cold drink made of almonds, rice, cinnamon (canella), sugar, and lime zest. This beverage is believed to be a cure for hangovers and is often served at breakfast time in Mexico. So just in case you're looking to quench your late-nightlife thirst on Mountain View's downtown/main-street Castro, drop by at our restaurant, we are open to serve till two in the morning. Apart from this, you can also order our tamarind drink. It is thirst-quenching and has more nutritive value than water or tea, and contains no alcohol or caffeine; you can drink lots of it without upsetting your stomach. Kids love it, and it goes really well with hot and spicy food!
The décor of each of La Bamba restaurants radiates warmth and relaxation. The rustic setting and traditional Mexican touches are charming. Some of the walls are furnished with paintings of that 19th Century and dimmed lighting sets the stage for an intimate dinner. Amenities include full service salsa bar, television, and efficient workers. In fact, our staff is so well organized, fast, and professional that if the line's getting too long, we speed things up by walking that line, taking orders and making sure your order is ready at uncommon speed.
So why go to La Bamba? Because you owe it to yourself to experience real Mexican at least once!
All of our dishes remain faithful to their traditional roots while featuring regional accents and inspired innovation. You'll know exactly what we're talking about once you visit us and order. So what are you waiting for! La Bamba Mexican Restaurant invites you to pamper your senses in an Oasis of strong Mexican flavors and lively fun. Take in the vivacious colors and dramatic ambiance, sip in the famous Horchata. Sample our delicious guacamole - it's authentic Mexican! In fact, at La Bamba we pride ourselves on fashioning a community atmosphere while dishing out unique culinary creations made with freshest of ingredients.
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Philip S.
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This place is hands down my favorite place to go for a carnitas burrito. They also have great pork and cheese pupusas, steak quesadillas, and pork tamales. These are some of the things that I have had there and like along with my burrito.
Megan R.
Mountain View, CA
It is hard for me to find a place that will make the burrito I like, and make it taste right (only rice and cheese). I know that sounds weird but trust me most places make it taste just...
Emily K.
Mountain View, CA
We loved the original La Bamba location for years now and the new location is closer to our house. They have a much larger dinning area and outdoor patio siting.


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Business Ideas in the News / January 23, 2014
Historically, January 24 was both a good day, and a bad day for entrepreneurs. Not only was gold discovered in California and the first Apple Macintosh put up for sale, but the income tax was declared legal in the United States.
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A Terre Haute man will be in court today after a stand off with police yesterday.
Police surrounded a home on the corner of 14th and Elm as they tried to arrest Jeremiah Lamaster.
He was wanted for his possible connection to a stabbing that happened in the 800 block of Locust this past weekend.
Lamaster refused to come out for nearly and hour.
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A breastfeeding mom in Georgia is furious at chain restaurant Applebee's after she says a manager told her that she could either stop feeding her 20-month-old son or she could go into the bathroom to do so. The altercation became ugly and both sides called the police.
In fact, Dawn Holland was in the right. Georgia has laws which allow mothers to nurse anywhere, so the officer who responded to the call didn't even file an incident report. Good on him. But bad, bad, bad on the manager. Seriously, what is the problem with a nursing mom needing to feed her child? And why on Earth do people still think breastfeeding in the bathroom is normal?
One of the first rules of living in the animal kingdom is don't poop where you eat. Duh.
These stories just get more and more ridiculous. It's just a BOOB, people. Look away if it bothers you so much.
More from The Stir: Best Diaper Ad Ever Captures Reality of Breastfeeding in Public (VIDEO)
A restaurant like Applebee's that bills itself as good for families ought to be better acquainted with the state breastfeeding laws. If a breast is really so offensive, then maybe the law would be different. Diners who don't want to see a baby eating could ask to be moved. Or THEY could take their meal in the bathroom? How about that?
Oh wait. No one would even consider asking an adult to eat in the restroom. So why should a baby?
I have been a nursing mom and I can say that sitting on a toilet in a lonely public restroom was depressing. Sitting at my table, under a nursing cover, holding my baby, and talking to my husband was a much more pleasant experience for everyone. Sure, I had a cover. But not all moms can use one. And that's OK, too.
Babies need to eat. And boobs are where they get their food. The next time you find yourself in a chain restaurant thinking about ways to hurt new mothers or offended by the suggestion that we are, indeed, mammals who suckle our young, I have an idea. Take your chicken quesadillas and go to the bathroom. Shut the stall door.
Now you can't see anyone!
Have you ever fed your baby in the bathroom?
I believe that breastfeeding modestly (not having your tata just hang out, lets cover it with a stylish printed blanket ladies!) is fine and I totally support public breastfeeding! But the child was is almost 2, this isnt a newborn or even an infant. This is a toddler! Surely she could have pumped out the breastmilk and given it to him in a sippy cup. I am NOT against breastfeeding and realize its normal to breastfeed a child up past the age of 3. I just find this all fairly crazy on all sides I guess. The restuarant was wrong to ask her to go into the bathroom and to call the cops on her, yes but the child could have been given milk in another way such as a cup.
What was the actual NEED to breast feed him? He couldnt have eaten actual food????????? I mean 20 months really? He had to be BF at that VERY moment. Whatever. I am sooooo sick and fricking tired of hearing these BF stories.
I am a mother of 2 little ones and I never got to breastfeed. however. I don't mind nor care if a mother is breastfeeding in a public place as long as she is being respectful and discreet about it. So there has to be more to the story, cause if she was just whipping it out for all the world to see then yeah I would have been someone to say something to her, if she was being discreet about it then whatever more power to you. Tho at that age I am sorry but she should think about putting her milk in a sippy cup for him. As for going into the bathroom F that I would never feed my child in a bathroom that is just disgusting and needless to say unsanitary.
I don't care what the law is, it wasn't intended to be used as an excuse for people to be rude or inconsiderate. Sure, BABIES need to eat often and it's just damn inconvenient if you can't nurse in public. That is the reason for laws allowing you to do so But, I'm sorry, if your TODDLER can't make it through a meal in a restaurant without your boob in his mouth then something is seriously wrong.
I want to know what happened all together. I want to know how it got ugly. Because she is portraying herself as innocent and she didnt do a thing wrong.
Breastfeeding is great for babies but when a child is a toodler and no longer needs food on demand, I don't see why a mother has to breastfeed while out having a meal in a restaurant. Why didn't the kid just eat food?
Okay first of all mothers of children any age that are still breastfeeding should be allowed to do so with out any adverse action from anyone. Just because her child was almost 2 does not mean she should go to the bathroom to feed that child. It doesn't matter the law states that she can feed her child so she should be allowed to feed that child without the COPS getting involved. I personally will no longer be eating at Applebee's this is just wrong. I do also think that there need to be laws to protect the moms from people that are stupid like this.
I create a special savings account
I put a little away at a time
I cut corners until I can afford it
Save? Who has money to save?
I plan to put it on my credit card and love the benefits of the reward program