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The United States Department of Education published a report over the summer titled, "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning; A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies" (Center for Technology in Learning, 2009). What's interesting about this report is that it confirms what those of us who teach or have taught either distance or online courses already know and moves us beyond what is often commonly believed: that there is no significant difference between online learning and the face-to-face experience.
The report abstract reads as follow:
A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that (a) contrasted an online to a face-to-face condition, (b) measured student learning outcomes, (c) used a rigorous research design, and (d) provided adequate information to calculate an effect size. As a result of this screening, 51 independent effects were identified that could be subjected to meta-analysis. The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. The difference between student outcomes for online and face-to-face classes--measured as the difference between treatment and control means, divided by the pooled standard deviation--was larger in those studies contrasting conditions that blended elements of online and face-to-face instruction with conditions taught entirely face-to-face. Analysts noted that these blended conditions often included additional learning time and instructional elements not received by students in control conditions. This finding suggests that the positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se. An unexpected finding was the small number of rigorous published studies contrasting online and face-to-face learning conditions for K–12 students. In light of this small corpus, caution is required in generalizing to the K–12 population because the results are derived for the most part from studies in other settings (e.g., medical training, higher education). (p.ix)
The report clarifies that it does not address all student populations, as the analysis found most of the significant studies within higher education. Consequently, the report data are only relevant in the specific contexts of the studies analyzed. In general, however, the report supports the notion that there seems to be evidence that it is the learning process that matters more than the technology tools used. Additionally, the overall challenge remains that more studies must be done with a variety of student populations and also that we must continue to explore ways to evaluate learning within technology-rich learning environments.
The report identified several key findings within the studies reviewed, which I will list here and discuss briefly before summarizing what I see as future trends for these kinds of studies.
The report summarized existing literature in the field and established the following:
As the report pointed out, there have been many studies in higher education, rather than K-12, that support the above notions. For those of us who teach online or blended courses, we know this from experience as well: The focus of student success is not on technology or technology tools but their critical use in the progress of the learning process.
Of central importance is the student and the instructional design of the course. Adequately supporting and providing space for the individual learning needs of students through significant time-on-task and varied input of material from a variety of media are vital to the success of the course. Additionally, while technology can be used to mediate the instructional flow and learning process, it does not "teach." Teachers teach, and students learn, and sometimes teachers learn while students teach. In other words, it is a dynamic and constructive process involving all participants and mediated by technology. This is also why it remains such a challenge to fully measure student learning in dynamic environments without innovative assessment designs and the applied use of technology within those assessments.
The report continued by identifying several key findings as listed below and noting the following: "Blended and purely online learning conditions implemented within a single study generally result in similar student learning outcomes. When a study contrasts blended and purely online conditions, student learning is usually comparable across the two conditions."
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The report provides a fairly useful meta-analysis of current studies in the field and cites the reoccurring ideas that emerge to suggest that the amount of technology used or the increase in variety of types does not have influence. Additionally, online assessment tools are not more effective than traditional homework, and providing individual choice to learners is critical. Finally, the suggestion is that discussion guidance is only that; guiding discussion is not necessarily increasing learning. One significant finding is the importance of student reflection: "The clearest recommendation for practice that can be made on the basis of the Category 3 synthesis is to incorporate mechanisms that promote student reflection on their level of understanding." (p. 48)
Generally Effective Instruction My major response to the report is that what constitutes effective instruction remains the same regardless of delivery mode. In that sense "no significant difference" remains intact. That is:
While technology has changed what is possible and how students can be supported and resourced in their learning, the principles of effective instruction never really change. The technology is not what drives learning but simply what mediates and supports the process; therefore, it is vital that professors, instructors and teachers remain focused on the overall process of learning and their own teaching strategies and methods throughout. What has significantly changed is the way in which these effective teaching strategies can be achieved at a higher level using new technology.
Unnecessary Categories One major advance in instruction that does not seem to be reflected in the report but that is a growing reality for anyone teaching distance, online, or blended is that these categories are becoming less helpful. New technology is ubiquitous in nature, and, as such, the lines that divided these modes of delivery in the past are now not only blended but decidedly merged into an integrated delivery. The Internet has not only changed education completely, but it has made so many direct applications and resources available for students that it no longer sits outside the classroom.
No longer should there be a vast difference in experience for students in face-to-face and online simply because the available technology tools can provide, as the report suggested, a more effective way to learn. Technology tools such as Web 2.0 services can also provide students with opportunities for expanding their learning community and for collaboration at a higher level than ever before. As students look simply for relevant and flexible courses of study that work with their program of study and life challenges, not modes of delivery, so instructional design and the study of the effectiveness to learning should reflect that integrated reality.
K-12 Opportunities In the school system the challenge remains to move away from standardized testing and standards-based curricula to a focus on the learning experience of students. As the existing studies would suggest, given how lock-stepped K-12 curricula are, the success of online tools is limited. As teachers and school boards allow more latitude and actual innovation to happen, the more likely online tools will show the same or similar results. As the report suggested, of course, more studies are needed specifically with this population of students: "Educators making decisions about online learning need rigorous research examining the effectiveness of online learning for different types of students and subject matter as well as studies of the relative effectiveness of different online learning practices." (p. 54)
In general, then, much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly. What remains the same is that effective learning can still be measured; however, more studies are required to explore what kinds of measures most effectively capture the learning effectiveness according the learning outcomes as supported with technology use.
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I won't be putting this floor down for another month but so far the look is exactly what I wanted. Feels very sturdy. For the price its a steal. Using in my kitchen.
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We looked on-line for flooring for months. Finally decided on this flooring, but needed to see it in person. We bought it within 5 minutes of being at the store. The flooring hides the dog hair and dirt from shoes. It is very easy to clean up.
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We used product in kitchen.great look but no good with any standing water on it.will have to replace sooner then later.any water left on edges even for short time will swell seams.
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At first, installation was tricky, but then we (2 women & teenage boy) figured out how to handle to get it to 'click' in & rest of room was a breeze. Noticed on installation, however, that at corners, the surface would peel off if you didn't handle just right. This fact alone makes me leery to use it in any other room. I installed it in our guest bedroom with the help of a friend & my son. Was considering putting in my master bedroom, but given its propensity to peel, I'm concerned it will not withstand heavy traffic well. Only time will tell ...
I really like to look of this flooring. It seems to be a good quality. It will be the perfect addition to the mancave.
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I ordered a sample of this flooring (after I bought enough to floor a very large room. I wanted a sample to take with me to paint shop and what not.)on December 14th. After sending e-mails and what not as of January 10th I have not received my sample or a refund. Customer service is slow. As a result, I will probably not purchase products from this store again. Too bad, we need more flooring.
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How will the Tigers handle playing without using a DH?
It's the first interleague game of the season for the Tigers. Normally this is where I make a sarcastic comment about the majesty of the double-switch. I'll refrain though because I think it is cool that the Tigers are playing the Dodgers in LA.
The last time the Tigers went out there Ugueth Urbina got in a fight on the plane and was promptly traded. And then there was the time that Jason Johnson hit a homer and rounded the bases at a glacial pace. And Tony Giarratano hit his only home run. I have no idea why I remembered those things off the top of my head.
Tonight though will feature Dontrelle Willis and Chad Billingsley. Willis was pretty awful his last time out and it was attributed to rust. The rust should be sufficiently removed at this point so there are no excuses for bouts of wildness.
Billingsley's numbers are impressive with nearly a strike out per inning and only 3 homers in 44.2 innings. The OPS splits for lefties versus righties are dramatic at 943 versus 618. Too bad Johnny Damon can't play second base.
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How will the Tigers handle playing without using a DH?
Well Dontrelle is no joke with 8 homers and Porcello is a career .400 hitter. Our offense actually improves
Willis should be hitting fifth.
Check out who sponsors Rod Allen's page at baseball reference.
Inge can't hit or play defense
Well the D-Train looks rustless
Dontrelle put a great swing on that pitch
Oh Willis, how you confound me. One start you look you should be released, next start it's 2003. I think I'm just going to skip your starts an d go to the movies.
I don't see Leland! Sneaking a smoke?
This has got to be the last inning for Willis.
We probably lead the league now in runs given up by hitting batters… No excuse for that.
He makes it a drama every time he pitches.
Willis makes me crazy again.
And, now, he's up to bat!
That was ugly. First two batters out on three pitches and then…… kablooey.
Which means he pitches another inning.
The Tigers need to get some runs.
Hopefully that inning for Willis will be like Bondo's start yesterday. An inning of suckiness wedged between great pitching.
Willis pitches very slow.
Maybe Willis is really a National League type player and we just don't know it yet?
Wild Thing!
I thought that WP was pretty catchable.
the first one was really a passed ball, but they charged Willis with a wild pitch. That second wp was for real…..real wild.
why is Leyland so stupid? Anybody can see Willis has lost it. What's taking so long to yank his butt? This is ridiculous……
Actually, he's about to turn in a QS. I think you can make a strong argument that neither of those runs should have been earned.
His stat line looks about 10x better than his actual performance.
Well, the Tigers can still win it if they start hitting.
Please let this be Willis' last game as a Tiger.
I 2nd that.
Mr. and Mrs. Boesch right there on national TV. Maybe their son can get a hit tonight and he does as I type this.
I know stephen is probably lurking and thinking bad thoughts about Inge.
I Stephen went to watch a movie…and he is still having bad thoughts about Inge, but they keep being interrupted by bad thoughts 'bout Willis…
Me, I'm just upset that we accidentally brought the cardboard bats tonight.
McClendon's fault.
It really wasn't that bad of a pitching performance…
He's done worse. A lot worse.
I don't care to watch worse.
finally Leyland sees the light. Now, can Bonine get us out of this with no damage?
Is it just me or does Bonine resemble Zach Miner?
Zach Miner looks like a rabbit
"The Mop" is in.
We have to score 4 runs in the next 2 inning to win. The Tigers have won games like this.
Here at the stadium its Star Wars night. The Tiger bats are in a different galaxy as was Willis part of the night
Chewbaca was there, too.
Well, you can't win them all, and on a night when they left the bats back at the hotel it really didn't cost the pitching staff much; 5-plus innings is a good day for Willis and the two mop-up guys finished off, so Leyland didn't have to go to the better part of the bullpen.
On the other hand, without the help of the DH, the lineup goes from being the Mendoza Quadruplets (6-9) to being the Mendoza Quintuplets (6-9+2). I see the potential for some lean times ahead when the Tigers are the visitors vs NL teams. We need to get Guillen back soon.
Oh well, Stars Wars night, well that explains…something…
Current or past Tigers–who plays which Star Wars character? Discuss amongst yourselves.
Was at the game tonight, amazing how the first 3-2/3 innings took about 50 minutes and the following 1-1/3 innings took over 50 minutes with the D-Train coming off the tracks.
There were some positives in this game. Worth at 2nd base was terrific. Maggs made some great throws from the OF.
Worth could very well be the best defensive infielder on the team. I think Everett's days as a Tiger should be numbered. Once Guillen is back, Everett should be gone, and Santiago should be the new SS, with Worth being the new back-up 2b/SS.
I have little doubt that Everett's 2nd half slide of last season was no fluke, when he hit .207 with a .535 OPS.
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Everyone has days where they just feel blah. It's not that they are having a bad day. Instead, it's more they have a lack of energy. Today was one of those days for me. After firing up Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place Soundtrack, I found the desire to dance and the direction of my day changed for the better.
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Tips over every time my son tries to pull up and use this as a walker. Has also tipped backwards while already up and walking with the toy, the handle bar smacked him in the mouth. Bloody Lip. Would not recommend this to others.
Cute idea in theory with the alligators that move but not a good design.
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At almost 10 months old this is BY FAR my son's favorite toy. Super well made and very functional and fun. He uses it to get everywhere.
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The wheels have little rubber strips, so this works well on our wood floors - doesn't go too fast. We've had this for about 7 months, our son is an independent walker now, but he likes to play with this still (he stands on it...).
The alligator chompers work perfectly, despite being stood on by a 29 pound child.
I like the little wooden noises it makes, and I am glad I purchased it. Will be using it with our next kid when the time comes.
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Perfect for my cruising child! Purchased this to help my son with walking. After a few days of using it he started standing on his own. Well-made and attractive. Noise level is mellow compared to other walker contraptions.
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Bought this walker after seeing so many positive and glowing reviews on[@]. However, like what the other reviewer on Yoyo.com experienced, one of the alligator stopped chomping after a couple of days. To Yoyo.com's credit, they shipped us a replacement unit without waiting for us to ship back the original one. The replacement unit unfortunately didn't fair much better. After 4 days two of the alligators stopped chomping. This time we decided not to bother sending it back for another replacement. Instead we opened it up and found out that the plastic pieces, which when rotated cause the alligators to chomp and clack, had already fallen off. These plastic pieces were affixed to the wooden axle with some glue that apparently did not last as intended. One has to wonder if quality control has gone out the door or if they changed and botched the internal design of this walker.Very disappointed.This is our first Melissa & Doug purchase. It will also be our last.
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Local fans of John Green's blockbuster young adult novel, "The Fault in Our Stars," are doing their part to make sure the movie's stars come to town.
An online poll at http://thefaultinourstarsmovie.com/tagged/demandourstars allows fans of the seriocomic novel, which is about two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group and fall in love, to vote to have stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff, as well as Green (who also wrote the screenplay for the June release) visit the Twin Cities for a fan event. As of this writing, Minnesota is in third place, behind Florida and Ohio.


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Mad Men so often draws its stories from disappointment and disillusionment that the show sometimes feels unnatural when things go well for our friends at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. On the surface, "At the Codfish Ball" reads as an unusually upbeat episode of the series (The Heinz account is saved! Peggy and Abe are moving in together! Don wins a big award!), but it is in the complicated margins of emotion that this drama often does its best work, and last night proved no exception.
We'll start with the biggest news of all: Yes, the Heinz account has been rescued from the brink of despair. But the lightning bolt moment that saved the day came not from Don or Peggy, not from the recently emasculated Pete, or even from the newly rejuvenated Roger. It came, instead, from Megan.
Is this just a fluke? Did the boss' wife simply get lucky? Probably not, as Megan's instincts proved even sharper than Don's during a fateful dinner with the client. She was gracious (insisting the idea was Don's, not hers), creative, alluring and knew how and when to choose her moment. She was, at the very least, a powerful asset in a desperate play. To his credit, Don recognized and appreciated that better than anyone. Together, they suddenly became the Astaire and Rogers of bean marketing.
But what does this sort of change mean for Don and the rest of the firm? Megan's not exactly an outsider (she does, after all, work at SCDP and sleep with the boss), but she's not "one of the team," either. And so, when Peggy took a moment to congratulate Megan on the latter's remarkable and sudden success, their exchange was fraught with complexity. Yes, Peggy was gracious and enthusiastic, but what else could she have been? In the end, Heinz' success is success for everyone. But it was supposed to be Peggy's success first.
There is also some doubt as to whether Megan even wants to be an advertising prodigy. Near episode's end, her father told her, "You skipped the struggle and went right to the end… Don't let your love for [Don] stop you from doing what you wanted to do."
What is it, then, that Megan wanted to do? The series has never before posed that question of this character and, until her father raised the notion that she has a passion outside of Don Draper, the possibility that Megan would want anything more than Don, some kids and a place in the ad universe had never crossed my mind. Almost to a person, the characters of Mad Men eat, sleep and breathe (and have sex with) their workplace life. The world outside the walls of SCDP is often little more than a startling inconvenience. But now the question has been posed, and neither she nor we can unhear it: What was Megan's life before she and Don crossed paths? Is this where she is meant to be?
Meanwhile, Don experienced his own sort of pyrrhic victory, as the award bestowed upon him by the American Cancer Society (a direct response to his middle-finger ad to Big Tobacco, near the end of season four) turned out to be a cynical gesture. Though Don found himself standing in front of a roomful of people, each of whom was there to celebrate his brilliance, he and we and they all knew that Don's stunt was, in truth, a self-serving act of desperation. And who wants to do business with a guy who would do something like that?
Not surprisingly, Roger had no problem with the implicit amorality of Don accepting an award on the back of betrayal. "They'll be clapping and cheering," Roger told Don, with glee. "They won't know you're a hypocrite." But they did, all they same. And that could be bad news for SCDP.
Other forms of hypocrisy trickled out into nearly every corner of the episode, as Sally, initially so excited to get dressed up like an adult and attend her father's award ceremony, discovered that being a grown-up has a seedy underbelly beneath the wardrobes and makeup. On her way to use the restroom after the awards presentation, Sally happened upon Roger being fellated by Megan's mother—and then watched the two of them sit apart from each other as if nothing had happened. Kids grow up so fast, don't they?
And Peggy, in the only subplot that broke away from the events of the gala, smiled her way through a personal disappointment in her relationship with Abe. After Joan had convinced Peggy that Abe intended to propose marriage, Peggy was momentarily stunned to find the big question he actually wanted to pop was: Can we move in together? As Peggy has always been the independent, "modern" woman of Mad Men, it was surprising she'd be so disappointed by this turn of events, but far less surprising was her mother's very vocal disapproval.
"This boy," Peggy's mom told her, "will use you for practice until he decides to get married and have a family. And it won't be with you."
But Peggy seems prepared to forge ahead anyway, because the alternative, at least in her own mind, is to be lonely. She really is becoming more and more like Don, every day.
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10 obscure Linux distributions (and why you should know about them)
Linux distributions come in all shapes and sizes, and they're aimed at addressing every conceivable need. Jack Wallen introduces a few you may not have heard of that might be worth a look.
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Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenage boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed. A condensed version of the novel was published in serial form in 1950 in Boys' Life magazine (August, September, October, November), under the title "Satellite Scout".
©1955 Robert A. Heinlein (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
My taste differs from kid books to gory horror books.
Entertaining, especially after they get to Ganymede. I love most of Heinlein's juvenile books. They are usually upbeat with a can do attitude and they often emphasis education. TRY IT ON YOUR SLIDE RULE
Written in 1950, besides being dated it is a little politically incorrect. NO SORE HEADS, NO WEAK SISTERS.
Wish we could get that through the head of those today, that always think a theory is the same as proven fact.
This is an adventure story into space. Imagine living on Ganymede and having most of the sky filled with Jupiter. Heinlein explains what the sky looks like, how they gave the planet an atmosphere and how to make the soil fertile. It might have a little too many science facts for some, but I can see how it would get young people excited enough to study science.
"An interesting story about a new world"
I likes the character development and it had a Hemingway - esque emphasis on self reliance and survival on one's own merit
"Classic scifi at its best!"
Likely most would skip this based on the title and miss a great story.
Classic scifi with a twist!
"Outstanding classic"
Heinlein's approach to the characters is fresh and personal
detail of the story itself
Bill the main character
"Back to the future."
I first read Farmer in the Sky about sixty years ago. As I listened to it just now, I realized how much this book, originally published in 1950, and others like it, were instrumental in sparking my lifelong interest in science and space travel.
Robert Heinlein, along with others with names like Asimov, Clarke, Bradbury and Sturgeon was among the writers from the so called "Golden Age." of Science Fiction.
Although much of the science in this book is now dated and obsolete, a lot of it was amazingly prescient. It is about a teenaged boy whose family left Earth to join a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter.
Farmer in the Sky was written for young people over a decade before Alan Shepherd was the first American to "blast off" to the edge of outer space.
I have little doubt that many of the scientists and engineers who made that possible were inspired by books like this one.
"It's heinlein at his best"
this is RAH at his best. It's before he went money hungry and weird. It's a great book for all ages.
"Where is the ending?"
This is a book without an ending. There is no conclusion or explanation for anything.
"Good story, and great performance!"
It's a typical Heinlein Juvenille work.
Space Cadet also by Heinlein
Nick is a master of accents and voices. At one point, I was asking myself---is that the same guy?
"Sentimental journey"
The concept of terraforming and colonizing our solar system. I read this book when I was in my teens - a looong time ago in other words. In my heart I always hoped that these opportunities would be available in my lifetime. How sad that we have the runaway population growth and the hunger that goes along with it, but not the ability to expand our living space - into space.
This was written quite a while ago and in some respects has not aged well. But it was written for a Scouting magazine in the vernacular of the time. The concept is more timely than ever. If Heinlein were writing it now I'm sure he would revise some of the technical details but human nature hasn't changed and the motivations of the characters to be pioneers would be much the same, I think.
Not a thing. He sounds just like Bill should.
I'm the managing editor of the Fantasy Literature blog. Life's too short to read bad books!
"A Heinlein Juvenile"
3.5 stars. Originally posted at FanLit.
I used to be a fan of Robert A. Heinlein???s ???Juveniles??? when I was a kid. I give Heinlein much of the credit for turning me into a speculative fiction lover at a young age.
Farmer in the Sky took me back to my childhood ??? when I loved to think about riding in spaceships while most girls were thinking about riding horses. In this story, Earth is overcrowded and food is rationed, so 16 year old Bill and his father George decide to emigrate to Ganymede, one of Jupiter???s moons. There???s a new colony on Ganymede and they???re struggling to survive as Earth, to ease its population tensions, keeps sending spaceship-loads of new settlers. Terraforming Jupiter???s moons is a difficult and dangerous enterprise, but Bill is determined to succeed by making his own farm productive. The skills he learned in Boy Scouts prove to be helpful for this and other tasks he undertakes to help his new colony.
You can???t get much more exciting than taking a spaceship to Ganymede to build a new colony, so youngsters looking for speculative adventure will surely enjoy Farmer in the Sky. But I think the book is also appealing to kids who enjoy frontier stories such as Little House on the Prairie. In addition to homesteading skills, they???ll learn a bit of science, too.
Though Bill is having a life-changing experience, he???s still easy to relate to. He???s a normal kid with normal kid desires and problems ??? he???s concerned about his Boy Scout uniform and badges, he???s mourning the death of his mother and upset about his father???s new relationship, he doesn???t like girls, and he has to deal with bullies and a few stupid adults. During the course of the story, Bill experiences both triumph and tragedy, and the reader feels them, too.
Brilliance Audio???s version was read by Nick Podehl who does a great job reading stories with young men as protagonists (e.g., Patrick Rothfuss???s KINGKILLER CHRONICLE). When I see Nick Podehl???s name on the cover, I know it???s going to be a great audio production.
A shorter version of Farmer in the Sky was originally serialized in Boy???s Life magazine in the fall of 1950 under the title ???Satellite Scout,??? so that gives you a good sense of its target audience. However, I recommend Farmer in the Sky for both teens and adults who love a good wholesome SF adventure. Farmer in the Sky was published as a novel in 1953 and won the Retro Hugo award.


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Total Drama Island Interactive – A Success Story
Interactive production company Xenophile Media and TV producers Fresh TV joined forces at a very early conception phase to develop an integrated TV and online concept for the animated, tween "reality" series Total Drama Island. Simultaneous with the launch of the series on Teletoon Canada, they launched Total Drama Island – Totally Interactive comprised of 26 weekly online games based on the challenges presented during the weekly broadcast episode of the TV series. The series was a massive hit both in Canada and in the United States on Cartoon Network where it broke ratings records for the network. The budget for the online website was $500,000, and with sales of the series and online component in multiple territories worldwide, the marketing strategy seems to be paying off for the producers and for their distributor Cake Entertainment Ltd. (UK) – in real cash returns and impressive numbers of registered users.
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Distributor Cake Entertainment was involved from the beginning, and was kept up-to-date on the creative material for the interactive project and was even provided with Beta versions to demo at international content markets. Cake placed a value on a licence for the interactive component of one tenth of the value of the television licence in each territory in which the series was sold. They prepared marketing materials and one-sheets/flyers for the interactive project in their sales packages. With an impressive 70% conversion rate in Canada of Teletoon television viewers to registered users, Cake took a successful series and its interactive component to international markets and negotiated both the TV and the interactive deals with international broadcasters.
The first foreign sale of the interactive property was made by Cake to Jetix Benelux – where the TV ratings were phenomenal, followed by major sales to Cartoon Network US and Europe. Then came Jetix UK and Cartoon Network Latin America (where there were 100,000 new registered sign ups each week!) Sales continued with TV3 Catalonia (Spain) and ABC Australia. In most of these sales, in addition to the TV series, broadcasters have only licensed online rights, which means future mobile or other platform rights are still available. The term of the licence for the interactive content was the same as for the television series and after the first broadcast, some of the broadcasters have exercised the right to include the games directly within their own sites.
Despite the distribution success of the property, Xenophile emphasizes that it involved a learning experience for all involved, including distributors, producers and broadcasters due to massive TV ratings in the US, users swarmed the site after each of the first four broadcasts, crashing the servers and requiring a site overhaul and redesign. The unanticipated cost of servicing such a large user group (three million members!) needed to be shared between Fresh, Xenophile and the broadcasters. For Cake, (and distributors in general), television sales are still more lucrative and therefore more of a focus for sales teams though interactive properties such as this not only provide a compelling enhancement to distribution sales at a time when broadcasters are interested in cross-platform properties while revenues in this field are simultaneously growing – especially in the children's sector . In the end, with Fresh TV's financial assistance and Cake's persistence, Total Drama Island – Totally Interactive! paid off, and total gross licence fees for the Interactive website in over 30 territories have exceeded $267,000 to date.
For broadcasters, it has been a challenge to find the internal budgets to pay for the licensing of interactive content. The TV series was the driving force and licence fees often came out of program acquisition budgets, rather than the more limited interactive department budgets. However, TDITI has proven that compelling web content is worth paying for because it generates the kind of traffic that broadcasters want!
All parties involved agree that despite some of the challenges, there is great value in the experience; they are now poised to do to it all over again – with much more knowledge and know-how!
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With licensing deals in place, Xenophile negotiated separately with each broadcaster to undertake the customization, localization, integration and synchronization required, as the project involved large databases and extensive web hosting. Broadcasters were typically responsible for the initial translations and delivery of required audio files, and paid Xenophile for the integration and translation review costs, estimated at $5,000 to $7,000 per territory, for the interactive property. Some broadcasters paid additionally to have the site customized to fit directly within their browser frame and there were also issues related to COPPA compliancy in the United States to consider which necessitated further modifications to the Cartoon Network US site. Synchronization, custom uploading and testing for live launches around the world kept Xenophile staff working 24 hours a day. To promote the website, Xenophile produced an on-air promo for broadcasters. Total revenue generated by Xenophile for these activities exceeds $250,000.
Hosting Revenues
To cover hosting charges, Xenophile developed a formula for clients based on expenses such as estimated hosting costs, balancing web and database servers, the need to support unprecedented numbers of simultaneous users and acceptable caps on user registrations to limit broadcasters' exposure to unbudgeted costs in case the show was an runaway success (which it often was!). Broadcasters paid a few cents per registered user to cover the hosting costs as defined in a pricing matrix. Hosting the website for international broadcasters has generated more than $366,000 in hosting fees for Xenophile.
In all, Total Revenues to date for Total Drama Island – Totally Interactive are approximately $900,000.
Website traffic
There is no doubt that the international success of multi-platform interactive projects is largely dependent on the success of the television series it is associated with as was the case with Total Drama Island. The series was enormously popular on Cartoon Network US, registering the highest viewer numbers ever in its time slot. The final episode attracted an audience of one and a half million television viewers, with up to five million viewers catching repeats throughout the week. At that point, the online property had accumulated three million registered users in the US representing an unprecedented cross-over. But with success, come challenges. It is vital to remember that projects must be designed from the beginning, for big audiences and success. The hosting challenge for TDI Interactive was significant when an estimated 20,000 simultaneous users morphed overnight into 200,000 eager game players online at any one time, causing huge slowdowns across the experience and necessitating a re-design of the database. The moral of the story: engineer from the beginning for success!
Future Revenues
The Total Drama Island interactive distribution experience has cemented Xenophile's international reputation and they now have clients around the world.
TDI Interactive will live on for years and with that opportunity to generate future revenues. For example, a mobile game has been created, Xenophile and their partners at Fresh TV are working on being able to place ads on the generic site in the future, and the games featured in the website can be marketed individually to appropriate game and youth portals.
Total Drama Island – Totally Interactive has proven that compelling online content driven by a hit television series can be a great success domestically and internationally and that success can be translated into significant revenue.


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I was fortunate to have the opportunity as a teenager, to visit many amusement parks during the roller coaster glory days of the 1970s & 1980s
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Ghost Rider, Knotts Berry Farm
The Beast , Kings Island
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After serving 30 years in construction management, what led you to establish the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford?
I observed that information management was the most powerful tool a construction company had to differentiate itself in terms of productivity. Paper drawings and specifications made it impossible to create an integrated approach. More academic work was needed to come up with the right tools for integration.
What is the future of 2-D construction documents? Right now, they're legally required documents of record. Within the next 10 years, 3-D models will become the document of record.
How does 3-D modeling improve jobsite productivity? Accurate geometry leads to greater productivity. All the pieces fit together on site, you can link your designs to off-site fabrication, and fewer problems come up in the field. It's possible, however, to go beyond that using information that's part of building information modeling [BIM], such as what the materials are, how to procure them, and how the building can be managed and maintained.
What should architects do to cultivate a leading edge? Architects would benefit by working collaboratively with contractors who want to use building information modeling. They should get experience using BIM tools not just for design, but also to link to construction.
What is the greatest challenge architects and engineers face in the next decade?
First is to learn how to use modeling tools and reduce the time and cost of making a building by at least 25 percent. There has been no real change in our industry's productivity for the last 50 years. Second is to design buildings that are more sustainable and meet green building goals.
How can architectural education be improved to address these challenges?
There's too much emphasis placed on art and insufficient emphasis on how buildings perform and how they're constructed. I'd like to see architects work with BIM tools from the start of their education.
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Thought Leaders Dambisa Moyo, Alan Blinder, Kishore Mahbubani, Ethan Zuckerman, Fazle Hasan Abed, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Louise Arbour, Peter Morales, and Jonathan Sacks describe what they would like to see happen in the next 100 years. DISCUSS >>
I would love to see in the next century human dignity enhanced across the world, for everyone. At the end of the day, economic growth means you take people out of poverty. Medical advance means you take people out of being powerless in the face of incurable disease. The Web and the Internet and global communication and the falling cost of computing means that you begin to move to ever higher expectations of universal literacy and universal access to knowledge. All of these things enhance human dignity.
I would like to see a prosperous Africa. For me when I say "prosperous" it's where we have enough so we can share the wealth that we have. And at peace with itself, because I think without peace we cannot be prosperous. For me they are interlinked.
I'd like to see China and the United States find a way to live together peacefully, for the United States to accommodate the rise of China, for China to come to trust the U.S. role in Asia.
I want to see a moral and spiritual awakening, and I think it absolutely has to be interfaith. Islam is not going to triumph over Christianity and over all other traditions, nor is Christianity, nor is Buddhism or Hinduism. But we need, based on that realization that we come from a common source and we share a common destiny, to both appreciate who we are and where we've been, our roots, but to learn to appreciate and acknowledge the value of our different traditions and have something emerge which spans those traditions in a real, appreciative, deep way.
If you want to ensure that the next 100 years are much better than the previous 100 years, we must take some really bold steps. One of the boldest steps we can do is to go eventually towards a zero-nuclear-weapon world. But long before we get there, let's cut the numbers down from thousands to the hundreds, from the hundreds to the tens, and that's all you need for deterrence today.
I would love to see the expansion of human empowerment, of human flourishing. I think one of the greatest injustices of our time is that while people are born with ability and values and equality at birth, the distribution of ability to get things done in the world, of education, poverty, war, conflict, movements because of refugee activity—all of that is extremely unequally distributed, fundamentally unjust.
If people want to sit here and say, "In 100 years we'll live in a better world," and they trace the path to how we got there, it really is going to be because technological innovation became the main priority of our political-economic systems and that advancing and spreading those technologies as quickly as possible was not only prioritized but achieved.
It's inevitable that a significant number of authoritarian states will decentralize into regions, into region-states, into micro-states. I think the goal should be, the wish should be, to allow that, yes, there will be many more smaller and smaller entities, but that they have peaceful relations internally and with each other.
In a globally interconnected world, where you have platforms and services that aren't respecting boundaries of physical sovereignty and you have communities that don't map well into boundaries of physical sovereignty, this organizing concept of governance around consent of the governed built around the nation-state—it's not working so well for us anymore. But we don't yet really know what we're going to replace it with.
I see it, on the one hand, as a time of enormous hope and enormous democratization, the ability of people to make themselves heard and pursue their dreams and their talents, but also one of tremendous division if we can't steadily and continually try to keep leveling the playing field.
Diversity is very important for the growth or development of our creativity, innovation. How to maintain these diversified sources of energy is energy security. But for the society, how to maintain these diversified human beings in one community is the key for the success of the growth of the community.
Every individual, organization and state needs to commit to making the planet a better place to live or, at a minimum, to do no harm to others: identify realistic ways to reduce political marginalization, economic inequality, religious intolerance and discrimination while enhancing global economic development and grassroots political participation.
The greatest human misery right now in the world is endured by people who don't have a state or who don't have an effective state or who live in a predatory state. Before we give up on the Westphalian system, before we give up on the nation-state as a political formation, we need to make sure that everybody has one.
I'd really like to see us get globalization right. For me, getting globalization right wouldn't mean that we have stuff from every corner of the world, but would mean that we have people and ideas and opportunities and solutions from every corner of the world.
I hope that we can really make some progress quickly so that the environment that we have still exists.
We have to run democratic societies. The alternatives are undoubtedly worse. But democracy can definitely be improved. It needs to be improved, because all these other problems that we have to solve, especially the big ecological problems, are either going to be solved by crises that produce very, very high costs, or they are going to be solved by democracies getting better at making complicated decisions and coordinating with other democracies.
Hate must be eliminated. We have to change hate to love.
I would like to see us and the whole world get serious about climate change. This planet may be a much worse place to inhabit 100 years from now if we don't start taking serious action.
It certainly has to do with having a range of choice, having reasonably good access to the kinds of opportunities that provide for a dignified life for participation in politics if you want, that make you feel that you can hold your own government accountable.
We are not going to avoid a G-Zero. When you experience a radical imbalance between the balance of power of different actors and the overall leadership structure and institutional architecture of the world, at some point that will crack.
I would advise my dear intellectuals of this age and time and place to give us some good imagination, especially to the young people, that they will have a brighter future than they have, that they should not bring their frustrations and pass them over to the next generations. I think we need people who have a dream, who have an imagination for a better future.
I'd like us to think about making progress in a variable way—that is, that each within our capacities will attempt to realize our joint responsibilities with the resources that we have available.
The emergence of so many people from poverty is in itself intrinsically not just a huge achievement but something that tends to have a momentum to it, and so if we start to think just for instance to retreat for a moment to the purely commercial level, what it actually means to have 2 billion new middle class consumers in the world.
On our current trajectory, I don't think America is going to be making much of a contribution to solving global problems in the next few years. But in the long run something's likely to happen. We can't just extrapolate current trends and say they're going to continue.
I'd love to believe that the next 100 years would be a recognition that war and violence really are things that belong in the past, and that if we achieve a greater equality between sexes, between classes, and a greater opening of opportunity, then we might be able to get ourselves past the terrible destruction that we did see in this last 100 years.
If we don't take steps to stay below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial warming and have more focus on adapting and becoming climate-resilient and having a low-carbon future, it will be catastrophic.
I think if—and I hope it's not going to take 100 years—women were allowed to take their proper place in their own governance, in the control of their own reproductive rights, to take their proper place on this planet—I think we have fallen short, in a sense, by not capitalizing on the contribution and talent of half of the population of the world. To me, this would be a short-, medium-, and long-term investment that would be truly transformative.
A greater appreciation of and more attention given to the multiple identities of individual people, which seems to me to be what the richness of humanity is made up of, rather than what seems to me the excessive stress on single collective identities, which I think are a grotesque oversimplification of the richness and complexity of the human condition and often are very irresponsible and lead to no good.
We'd like to see an increase in the tolerance for different viewpoints and greater diversity. We'd like to see a reduction in poverty, a continued improvement of the life opportunities for more people inhabiting this planet. We would also like to see a reduction in the amount of violence, if possible.
I would like to see greater equality in the world. This equality spreads through everything—men, women, poverty and wealth, also rich nations, poor nations, and how we deal with climate change and the allocation of resources as well.
It has taken 100 years to get women votes, I suppose another 100 years probably to get complete equality. Only in three or four countries in the world you can say today you have gender equality—almost equality—in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, probably. Everybody else is so much behind in equality of genders that I think this is going to be the biggest challenge for the next century to achieve.
I think the real challenge is to find ways of developing productive, satisfying societies that don't produce the environmental problems and don't have a lot of the stresses and strains that we face now. I think that's very difficult, but that's the challenge.
People should stop being just focused on the short term and on immediate interests. If we talk more about democracy, human rights, the rule of law, how to eradicate discrimination and how to bring about more equality so that particularly people living in very, very awful circumstances can look forward to some better environment and to be able to have a fairer share of these scarce resources.
I would say that the most important thing is the transformation of how this world is governed, that we go from governance through negotiations based on bargaining power and parochial interests to a governing of the world that is driven by shared values that are transparently discussed in international discourse in which also ordinary citizens and intellectuals participate.
Another issue which grabs the world attention now is the social injustice issue. You can call this the "Occupy movement" you can call this "99-against-1 movement." Whether we are talking about the liberal capitalism or countries like Russia, there is definitely an unfair distribution of wealth. There must be a way to create a safer place and a more socially just place. So you can call me a moderate leftist, but I really believe in social justice.
Let me rely here on Keynes. When he was asked the same question, he said, well maybe in 100 years we'll be so affluent that economics will not be an important part of our lives. We will devote our times and energies to things that are really important and that's people, art, whatever we feel is important, and these values exist as well. I think we have put too much stress in the past on one value only and that one value is economic prudence or the economic way of thinking.


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There are certain things in the kitchen my kids can do on their own, of course. Getting cereal for themselves is a no-brainer, and the the boys using blender is fine when they want to make
smoothies. I've taught them some microwave basics, too, and of course how to use things like mixers and graters and various other gadgets. The things that are potentially dangerous even when
I am using them are the things that worry me. Over the years, as we've cooked together I've made sure to take time to try to impart safe practices and safety skills, but that doesn't exactly mean
I'm ready for any of them to have free run of things.
When to give your kids freedom in the kitchen is somewhat individual. You know your child's personality best, and how much exposure they've had to various appliances and such. Only you can know for
sure if your child is ready for something. I know that some kids, at a very early age, do quite a lot more in the kitchen, and that's great; I may be slightly overprotective in this realm. When we
all feel comfortable with developing skills and understanding, freedom in the kitchen for the kids will happen - and I know it will happen.
After the blender and the microwave, next for me is the oven. I started letting my boys use the oven at about age 9. Before I gave the official go ahead, I made sure we had good, fairly long oven mitts that will protect arms as well as hands, and a review of how to set the temperature on the oven. Given the frequency with which we now have fresh cookies in the house, this has gone well. While I still prefer they not try to broil things, baking has gone just fine.
We have a gas stove, and that means an open flame - and that made me extra cautious. Building on the skill and confidence developed using the oven, I started letting the boys use the stove a little later. Again, we had a review of safety procedures, and the location of the fire extinguishers. Through the course of intial stove use, we had a few more burned food on the bottom pots, but no burned anywhere kids.
My threshold for using knives is less about age and more about demonstrated motor skills. My older son, now a teenager, started using knives at about 11 or 12 when I saw that he was more adept at
cutting his food at the dinner table. My younger son, for reasons we can't quite figure out, it still, um, less than graceful with the dinner table knife and fork coordination; it won't be until he
can get that down more fluidly that we'll let him use kitchen knives for chopping. My 5-year-old daughter, of course, goes no where near knives.
Like the oven and the stove, knife use has come with lots of skill review, safety procedures and extended supervision. We've made sure our knives are in good repair, and talked about what kind of
knives are good for which tasks. But, still, it's knives that make me the most nervous. My oldest is the only one really using knives so far, and so far, so good. Phew.
Kids under about age 12 need supervision in the kitchen. Only now that my oldest is 13 do I let him have (some) freedom in the kitchen when parents aren't home. While my youngest, at 5, must be completley adult supervised in the kitchen, my older son can help supervise my 9 year old. Eventually, I think they'll all be great home cooks - but for now culinary freedom for my kids will happen a little bit at a time (and the results will be delicious).
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Democratic Aid And The Democratization Of Recipients
"We investigate whether democratic aid flows, which are directed toward the democratization of recipients by covering democracy-related programs and government and civil society activities, affect the future political regime of recipient countries. We introduce a multinomial multivariate logit model and we use 5-yr averaged data covering the period 1972-2004 for 59 democracy aid-recipient countries categorized into three broad classes according to the prevalent political regime. We find strong evidence that democratic aid flows are positively associated with the likelihood of observing a partly democratic or a fully democratic political regime in democratic aid-recipient countries and that this result is robust to the potential endogeneity of democratic assistance."("JEL" D70, F35, C25) Copyright (c) 2009 Western Economic Association International.
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Brunswick Commissioner James M. Brooks, was arrested for obstruction of justice in the death of the 13 month old shot in his stroller.
He also has a six-count indictment claiming he aceepted payment from applicants for city police jobs, liquor licenses and permits. He was said to influence other officials on their behalf. Additionally, Brooks was charged with three counts of violating his oath of office. He also had and two counts of using his position to influence another officer or employee of the city. The quaint and quiet charm of Brunswick has been making international headlines following the death of 13 month-old Antonio Santiago who was shot "between the eyes" in his stroller during a morning walk. Glynn county was inundated with a variety of media houses and affiliates who came to town to follow the story which has since taken on a life of its own. Our Facebook readers and Youtube watchers expressed their views since we first broke the story and have continued to be vocal with as the suspects in the case were revealed to be 17 year-old De'Marquis Elkins and a 14 year-old accomplice. After a manhunt by local authorities, the aunt of one of the teens drove them to the police in her car. Meanwhile, a gun believed to be used in the shooting was recovered. Readers followed along as it was revealed that the baby lost an older brother to violence and the mother of the deceased baby was said to have identified the accused teens via a reporter's cellphone. It was also later learned that a family member of the child was also in law enforcement. Shock rang through the community when police arrested Katrina and Karimah Elkins, the aunt and mother of the 17 year-old suspect for making false statements to law enforcement officials. Another family member attached to the case is the daughter of Sherry West whose has stated that her mother's story "simply doesn't add up". Ashley claimed when her mother spoke to her about the shooting and said "how soon do you think the life insurance policy will send me a check?" Ashley also stated her mother is bipolar and schizophrenic and that she had changed her story on the shooting. Still, as everyone has their day in court, Brunswick will be under close watch as the media continues to follow this drama that hit a little too close to home.


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Baseball is an international game, yet quintessentially American. So what better place to become a U.S. citizen than at the ballpark? It's that line of thinking that has led the Toledo Mud Hens to host an annual Naturalization Ceremony, in which immigrants from a panoply of countries are officially granted citizenship. The most recent such ceremony took place at Fifth Third Field on Monday before the evening's regularly scheduled contest between the Mud Hens and fellow International League avians the Rochester Red Wings. Prior to the words "Play Ball," a far more anomalous declaration was heard from behind home plate: "Hear ye, hear ye, court is now in session." And with that, the Honorable David A. Katz began a brief ceremony that would complete the path to U.S. citizenship. Assembled before him were 20 individuals hailing from 13 countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Venezuela. A disparate group, to be sure, but all united in their desire to become Americans. Katz began by quoting from the Declaration of Independence, of "self-evident truths" and "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." And in recognition of recent democratic uprisings worldwide, he put particular emphasis on the passage that declares "that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it." #ques_include {width:230px;float:right;margin-left:5px;} #ques_content {border-top:1px solid #000000;border-left:1px solid #000000;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;border-right:1px solid #000000;padding-left:5px;} .ques_schedule {margin-top:5px;font-size:11px;} .ques_dates {font-size:11px;font-style:italic;color:#999;} But the right to revolution was on this night superseded by the desire to enjoy a ballgame. Katz soon told the group assembled before him that "On behalf of this government, I welcome you to this country." The pledge of allegiance and national anthem followed, with Toledo's newest Americans welcomed with miniature American flags and handshakes from a group of public-spirited Mud Hens players. Among them was catcher Max St. Pierre, a Quebec native in the process of obtaining American citizenship himself. "I've got about a year to go [until citizenship]. It's a big day for all of them," he said, before putting tongue in cheek and adding, "I've got to find a wife that I can marry out here. That would make it go a little quicker." The Mud Hens have held the Naturalization Ceremony for each of the past three years, inspired to do so after the parent Detroit Tigers held an on-field ceremony for then-third baseman Placido Polanco. "The level of patriotism and pride is astronomical for our community in hosting an event like this, and we are thrilled to be a part of it!" explained Mud Hens manager of promotions JaMay Edwards, who coordinates the event. "Some of them have never been to a baseball game." One such individual was native Bangladeshian Subid Das, a recent graduate of the University of Toledo, who moved to the U.S. when he was 17 and remained in Toledo with an aunt and uncle after his parents returned home. "After two or three months here, I knew I wanted to become a citizen. It's always been my dream to become a doctor," said Das, who will return to school next year to pursue this goal. "[The Naturalization Ceremony] was a meaningful experience. I liked it." But when asked if baseball's role as the national pastime added a deeper layer of meaning to the occasion, Das was incredulous. "I thought American football was America's game!" he exclaimed. "C'mon, you're confusing me." |


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Optoma's new projectors are aimed directly at the custom install crowd. The HD8300 and HD3300 are projectors at two fairly distant price points, but they have quite a bit in common. Both utilize HDMI 1.4 and are compatible with the gamut of mandatory 3D formats and you can even set other modes manually in case you need them. Both offer an RS-232 port, +12V triggers and a VESA 3D port. The new projectors use the company's RF technology and glasses instead of infrared.
The projectors start to separate themselves when it comes to the technology packed inside. While the 3300 offers PureMotion3D and PureDepth, the 8300 steps it up and adds PureColor and PureMotion4D processing. That's one more D, so it's gotta be good! Optoma's HD3300 comes in at a nice low price of $1,999. The 8300, with its 30,000:1 contrast ratio and 1500 lumens brightness, has an MSRP of $4,499. Both will be available later this month. |


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