This document provides guidance for teachers on how to help more students become proficient readers through explicit instruction. It emphasizes explicitly modeling reading strategies and comprehension skills for students during mini-lessons. Teachers are advised to provide guided and independent practice opportunities aligned with the verbs in eligible content standards. Formative assessment methods like sticky notes are recommended to check students' understanding during reading. The document stresses balancing PSSA preparation with developing strategic readers through a reader's workshop approach and integrated repeated practice of skills.
This document provides an overview of the history and development of the slinky toy. It discusses Richard James, the inventor of the slinky, and his wife Betty James who later ran the James Spring and Wire Company that manufactured slinkies. The summary outlines the slinky's manufacturing process using wire or plastic, its iconic jingle, appearance in the movie Toy Story as Slinky Dog, and various other uses and fun facts about the popular toy over time.
YouTube and Google were used for research and inspiration during planning. A digital camera was used to film shots and iPhoto, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro were used on an Apple computer to develop images, create a stop frame animation, and export the final video. Planning and research were uploaded to a blog using applications like Prezi, Glogster, and 際際滷share and shared via embed codes. Evaluations were created as videos, powerpoints, and texts and uploaded to the blog for distribution.
The document is a collection of short passages related to the topic of motion, including a poem about a girl sliding on a waxed floor and several word problems involving calculating speed, time, distance or characteristics of motion for people or objects in various transportation scenarios such as walking, running, driving or bicycling.
Exploring type-directed, test-driven development: a case study using FizzBuzzFranklin Chen
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An expressive static type system is one of the most joyful and powerful tools for prototyping, designing, and maintaining programs. In this performance-theatrical presentation, I will provide a taste of how to use types, in conjunction with tests, to drive iterative development of a particular program, the famous FizzBuzz problem. We will solve generalizations of this problem, changing and adding requirements, to illustrate the pleasures and benefits of "type thinking".
The Scala language will be used as the vehicle for this demonstration, but the techniques apply immediately to any industrial-strength statically typed language, such as Haskell, OCaml, F#, Rust, and most recently, Swift.
This document discusses collective knowledge systems and how the semantic web can help augment user-generated data. It provides an example of a collective knowledge system called RealTravel, which allows users to share travel stories, photos and experiences. The semantic web can help RealTravel by adding structure to user contributions, enabling data sharing and computation across applications. This includes distinguishing locations, exposing data in structured ways, and integrating tagging data from different sources.
This document provides guidance for teachers on how to help more students become proficient readers through explicit instruction. It emphasizes explicitly modeling reading strategies and comprehension skills for students during mini-lessons. Teachers are advised to provide guided and independent practice opportunities aligned with the verbs in eligible content standards. Formative assessment methods like sticky notes are recommended to check students' understanding during reading. The document stresses balancing PSSA preparation with developing strategic readers through a reader's workshop approach and integrated repeated practice of skills.
This document provides an overview of the history and development of the slinky toy. It discusses Richard James, the inventor of the slinky, and his wife Betty James who later ran the James Spring and Wire Company that manufactured slinkies. The summary outlines the slinky's manufacturing process using wire or plastic, its iconic jingle, appearance in the movie Toy Story as Slinky Dog, and various other uses and fun facts about the popular toy over time.
YouTube and Google were used for research and inspiration during planning. A digital camera was used to film shots and iPhoto, iMovie, and Final Cut Pro were used on an Apple computer to develop images, create a stop frame animation, and export the final video. Planning and research were uploaded to a blog using applications like Prezi, Glogster, and 際際滷share and shared via embed codes. Evaluations were created as videos, powerpoints, and texts and uploaded to the blog for distribution.
The document is a collection of short passages related to the topic of motion, including a poem about a girl sliding on a waxed floor and several word problems involving calculating speed, time, distance or characteristics of motion for people or objects in various transportation scenarios such as walking, running, driving or bicycling.
Exploring type-directed, test-driven development: a case study using FizzBuzzFranklin Chen
油
An expressive static type system is one of the most joyful and powerful tools for prototyping, designing, and maintaining programs. In this performance-theatrical presentation, I will provide a taste of how to use types, in conjunction with tests, to drive iterative development of a particular program, the famous FizzBuzz problem. We will solve generalizations of this problem, changing and adding requirements, to illustrate the pleasures and benefits of "type thinking".
The Scala language will be used as the vehicle for this demonstration, but the techniques apply immediately to any industrial-strength statically typed language, such as Haskell, OCaml, F#, Rust, and most recently, Swift.
This document discusses collective knowledge systems and how the semantic web can help augment user-generated data. It provides an example of a collective knowledge system called RealTravel, which allows users to share travel stories, photos and experiences. The semantic web can help RealTravel by adding structure to user contributions, enabling data sharing and computation across applications. This includes distinguishing locations, exposing data in structured ways, and integrating tagging data from different sources.
The document discusses several topics related to building and marketing websites including pay per click advertising, HTML elements and tags, CSS for styling web pages, and using classes in CSS. Pay per click advertising means advertisers pay each time a user clicks their ad. HTML describes the content and structure of a web page while CSS describes how that content should look. Classes in CSS allow grouping elements to apply common styles.
The document compares Xcode 3 and Xcode 4 to the JetBrains AppCode IDE, noting that Xcode 3 was unstable, lacked version control and unit test integration, and had poor refactoring. It then lists AppCode's features like smart code assistance, navigation, live analysis, Xcode support, refactoring tools, version control and issue tracker integration, unit testing, customizability, and plugins. It concludes by providing information on pricing AppCode at $99 for personal use or free for open source projects.
The Fuelwood Market Chain of Kinshasa: Socio-economic and sustainability outc...Verina Ingram
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The Fuelwood Market Chain of Kinshasa: Socio-economic and sustainability outcomes of the number one household energy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Schure Ingram Kinshasa and Kisangani
The document contains an English test with questions about vocabulary, grammar, and a reading comprehension passage. The vocabulary questions cover natural disasters, words related to boats and the Titanic, and describing a school. The grammar questions involve articles, quantifiers, and past tense verbs. The reading passage is about a 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Lorca, Spain that killed at least 10 people and damaged many buildings.
This document provides a summary of the 2011-12 annual report from SmartBusiness, which is an initiative of the Greater Halifax Partnership that connects local businesses to resources to help them grow. Some key details include:
- SmartBusiness consulted with 251 businesses in 2011-12 and helped create nearly 2,000 jobs. The top reasons for consultation were expanding business operations, accessing Partnership resources, and workforce development.
- Most businesses surveyed rated Halifax's current business climate as good or excellent and expressed confidence that it would continue improving. However, concerns about workforce availability and quality were commonly cited issues.
- Businesses gave high marks to the city's post-secondary institutions and transportation infrastructure but were more critical of taxation, regulation
The document describes the process of creating a music magazine media product. The author learned various skills in using Photoshop and other technologies to construct the magazine, including using layout, colors, fonts, images, and language to target a specific audience of 16-26 year olds interested in indie music. Progressing from an initial college magazine, the author refined their understanding of conventions like grabbing attention, addressing the audience, and representing a particular social group or genre.
Newspapers cannot expect readers to pay for access to their content unless they provide significant quality and value. Most newspapers have become mediocre and are not as good as they used to be. Simply putting up a paywall is not enough - newspapers must innovate, meet community needs, and fundamentally change what they are doing to adapt to the new media landscape. Readers will go elsewhere for news if newspapers do not improve their products and make them worth paying for.
The document discusses 5 topics: the steroid era, open source software, Netscape, informing through technology, and supply chain management. It contains photos related to these topics from Wikipedia, Walmart, Netscape, Google, and wireless internet. The document concludes by thanking the listener.