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The second lesson using diigo gave me an opportunity to consolidate what had worked well the first time I'd used it with a class and also to try and provide more of a framework to make sure students used the features on diigo to give them a challenging learning experience.
Students were to look at three different websites, each containing a different poem by W.H. Auden. On each site they would be required to highlight and explain a different piece of information from the poem. They would then be required to synthesise the three seperate explanations they had given about the poems into a conclusion on the overall message contained in Auden's poetry, which they would post on the forum on our diigo group's homepage.
Students had one lesson's prior experience of using diigo and got on with the initial part of the lesson quickly. I had to remind them to select the 'share with mr.w's lit group' option when writing their post it-notes, otherwise they would have stayed private on the students' diigo accounts, but this was the only time I had to verbally remind students of something to do with the 'using diigo' area.
The quality of annotations
One thing that's been fantastically exciting about watching my students interact with diigo is the ease at which they engage with writing about the poems I have asked them to look at. The class I teach is not particularly unusual and its certainly not particularly unusual (as other English teachers may well sympathise with), to ask people to have a discussion about a poem they've just read, only to be greeted by hesitant silence, until the teacher encourages and starts teasing things out. Why? I guess poetry can be an intensely personal thing, and I think sometimes our kids find it hard to open up about it.
Here are just a few examples of some of the feedback they left:
Posting in the forum
Students then assembled their various annotations and were required to look at them together. They would find me forum post that (hopefully) gave them clear instructions on what they needed to do to synthesise the informations together into a conclusion about Auden's poetry. Having the forum linked to the main site worked well because students have a 'base' that they can keep coming back to (and easily get hold of the annotations they've got, without having to go back onto the website). If there's anything I'd like to see in the future, its an extension of the group home pages, maybe even a wiki-type level of editing possible to the homepage itself – maybe the creation of different students pages, based on the research they've done?
Time was the only slight problem here – students did work at different rates, one finishing ten minutes early (but I was able to immediately review his post and suggest other areas of discussion) and a few only just finishing. I'd attribute some of this to getting used to the technology, but I will also monitor this more closely in future lessons and see if there is any kind of pattern to it.
Key points to take forward:
- Would be nice to begin to use the posts that have been generated to encourage discussion between students – currently they are sharing bookmarks, but not necessarily the feedback and thoughts they are giving on them.
- Will need to examine more closely how students are finding the timings I am giving on tasks.
- Annotations are encouraging the students to speak their mind more about the poetry – a fantastic plus.


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- 'As a service' environments such as SQL Azure are typically shared environments, which means that the performance of the database is impacted by the behavior of neighboring databases.
The combination of these characteristics makes that any transaction executed against the database may show intermittent exceptions. Usually these exceptions are transient in nature and can be resolved by retrying the transaction. As these exceptions can occur anywhere, they are best dealt with at the generic infrastructure level, using an NHibernate driver.
The NHibernate community has already gone through this exercise and created a driver specific for SQL Azure called NHibernate.SqlAzure. This driver leverages the Microsoft Transient Fault Handling library to ensure reliable SQL Azure connections.
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There are two choices of package for this library.
- NHibernate.SqlAzure. Has the Microsoft Transient Fault Handling library IL-merged into it.
- NHibernate.SqlAzure.Standalone. Has a NuGet dependency on Microsoft Transient Fault Handling.
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K Nayak - Dr
K. Nayak is an eminent Oriya writer well known
for his books like SADANANDABABUNKA SANSAR,
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Shankar Ray - Member of famous Sabuja-Juga poets,
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through numerous poems related to dreams.
Gopabandhu Das - Gopabandhu Das (1877-1928) who is
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his powerful, haunting and visionary work. He explores
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The Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe, to which the local authorities are members came up with various recommendations aimed at ammending the Urban Councils Act (Chapter 29:15). One of these ammendments had to do with the decentralisation of services to allow for councils to gain more autonomy in their operations. The association hopes to share with the service providers their experiences in as far as the act is concerned with a view to fine tuning its proposals for consideration by parliament. A full report of the workshop proceedings shall be made available.
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Agricultural Commodity Survey, Year Ending March 1999
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What is the target population for the survey? (G1)
The scope is all Establishments with an EVAO of $5,000 or above (EVAO, see_>). There are approximately 145,000 such establishments in Australia. Sample size for the 1998/99 ACS is approximately 35000.
Supplementary Surveys
Within the normal $5000 EVAO constraint:
Potatoes, Hops and Tobacco, Summer-growing crops and Cotton Supps: all growers of the Supp commodities .
Bees: all Beekeepers.
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How is the frame for the survey to be obtained? (G2)
Supplementary Surveys - A separate frame is maintained for the Agriculture supps. Association lists and the main ACS survey is used as an updating source.
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What is the type of unit on the frame to be used for the survey? (G3)
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How many units are there on the frame? (G4)
Approx. 145,000
Supplementary Survey Indicators
Potatoes 1280
Beekeeping 1339
Summer-growing crops 6282
Cotton 1115
Hops and Tobacco 127
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What information on the frame about these units will be used for the survey? (G5)
Name and address, telephone
Size (EVAO)
Area of Holding
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In what ways does the coverage provided by the frame differ from the target population? (G6)
Coverage checking is a continual process. Sources of coverage include front-of-form (FOF) information, lists from industry groups, the business register and sharefarmer information from cotton supplementary forms.
The 5 yearly census-survey cycle means that some respondents will not be contacted for a number of years. This is expected to result in a continual degradation of the population frame as the most important source of updating information is the front of form feedback, particularly the sales and acquisitions of land.
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How will the frame be updated for future survey cycles? (G7)
Association lists are sought, and are used wherever possible to upgrade the frame.
The main Business Register updating source is changes in Group Employer registrations. These have limited application in agriculture because many smaller agricultural establishments don't employ staff. An investigation is currently being conducted to determine whether other sources such as registration for sales tax exemption and diesel fuel rebate claimants would be more effective
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DocLab Live: Bloodless – Guided by the Ghost of a Korean Sex Worker 25 Nov 2017 at 17:00
Special presentation on VR installation Bloodless, in which director Gina Kim and guests discuss the influence of American military presence on the South Korean people since 1956.
DocLab Live: Order, Chaos and Everything 21 Nov 2017 at 20:00
Join Jonathan Harris on a secular pilgrimage: from physical reality to the chaos of YouTube, and a digital simulation of consciousness.
Industry Session: Making VR Work for Audiences 20 Nov 2017 at 10:00
Zillah Watson, Commissioning Editor for Virtual Reality at the BBC, on how to make VR work for audiences.
Balloons of Bhutan
A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom.
In Bhutan, happiness is no laughing matter — academics study it, spreadsheets track it, billboards tout it, conferences debate it, and every year, flocks of foreign intellectuals travel to Thimphu to share their ideas about what exactly makes a person happy.
Instead of "Gross National Product", Bhutan uses "Gross National Happiness" to measure its socio-economic prosperity, essentially organizing its national agenda around the basic tenets of Buddhism. Bhutan's fourth king, Jigme Singe Wangchuck, invented the idea in 1972, to give his tiny country some international clout and guard against potential future invasion by its two mighty neighbors (India and China).
Given the seriousness with which this topic is treated, Jonathan Harris thought it would be fun to do something a little bit silly, so in late 2007, he traveled to Bhutan and spent two weeks handing out balloons.
Harris asked people five questions pertaining to happiness: what makes them happy, what is their happiest memory, what is their favorite joke, what is their level of happiness between 1 and 10, and, if they could make one wish, what would it be. Based on each person's stated level of happiness, he inflated that number of balloons, so very happy people would be given 10 balloons and very sad people would be given only one (but hey, it's still a balloon). Then he wrote each person's wish onto a balloon of their favorite color. The process was repeated for 117 different people, from all different ages and backgrounds.
On the final night, all 117 wish balloons were re-inflated and strung up at Dochula, a sacred mountain pass at 10,000 feet, leaving them to bob up and down in the wind, mingling with thousands of strands of prayer flags.
This is the finished story.
Tags Arts, Available Online, DocLab 2011, Interactive, Video
Project detailsYear of development :2007
Created by:Jonathan Harris
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Just as business conditions are at their worst, many people are starting their own businesses.
Some smell opportunity in recession, some feel liberated by a layoff, and others are just looking for some income to get by.
There are no local figures to show exactly how many new businesses have been started, but anecdotal evidence shows interest is strong.
Ten to 12 people attend the weekly basic "starting a business" classes at the Small Business Development Center at Wichita State University.
Bill Ellison, chairman of the local SCORE chapter, is counseling 12 to 15 aspiring business owners a month.
And the local office of the U.S. Small Business Administration saw an uptick in loans going to new businesses in the past six months.
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A December SBA study showed that traditional start-ups fall as the economy falls. But, the study said, the number of people becoming self-employed, often laid-off workers trying to generate income, rises.
The newly self-employed includes Coleen Fountain, who was media director at Associated until she was laid off a couple years ago. She tried to find a job, but didn't want to move.
So, she has formed a company called the Dog Treatery and plans to start selling gourmet hand-baked dog biscuits over the Internet beginning in June at thedogtreatery.com.
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Getting into the business made sense, sounded like fun and keeps her busy, she said.
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