Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009. Over 1.8 million people attended the inauguration ceremony in Washington D.C. to witness Obama taking the oath of office to become the first African American president in the nation's history.
This document discusses ceteris paribus (other things being equal) clauses in laws. It argues that ceteris paribus clauses are meaningful and not inherently vague. It provides examples to illustrate how background knowledge allows the determination of what would count as a "disturbing factor" for a given law. The document also argues that laws with ceteris paribus clauses do not need to correspond directly to regularities, but rather can be associated with inference rules that are reliable for their intended purposes. Ceteris paribus clauses allow laws to be qualified in their application and restrict them to certain purposes where they are good enough, even if not strictly true in all cases.
The document discusses several health hazards associated with the ocean, including decompression sickness that can occur in deep sea and scuba divers if they rise to the surface too quickly, injuries from dangerous sea animals like sharks and jellyfish, and risks from lack of oxygen or increased water pressure while diving.
The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects physical objects to the internet. It evolved from RFID technology, where objects receive unique identifiers to automatically transfer data over networks. The IoT vision has expanded to include giving IP addresses to all objects so they can communicate. Future applications will leverage embedded intelligence in smart devices to analyze user interactions at a massive scale. The IoT will form an extremely large and complex system by integrating trillions of interconnected physical objects on a global scale.
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Will the rich domain knowledge from research publications and the implicit cross-domain metadata of cultural objects be compliant with each other? A contextual framework is proposed as dynamic and relational in supporting three different contexts: Reusing, Publication and Curation, which are individually constructed but overlapped with major conceptual elements. A Relations for Reusing (R4R) ontology has been devised for modeling these overlapping
conceptual components (Article, Data, Code, Provence, and License) for interlinking research outputs and cultural heritage data. In particular, packaging and citation relations are key to build up interpretations for dynamic contexts. Examples are provided for illustrating how the linking mechanism can be constructed and represented as a result to reveal the data linked in different contexts.
Modern marketing has created the greatest time in history to start a company. The internet makes all markets more efficient by easily connecting niche buyers and sellers. It is changing shopping patterns so that prospects know more than sales reps from websites, blogs, and discussion boards, qualifying them better and moving the top of the sales funnel up. Traditional outbound marketing like telemarketing and print ads is broken, while new inbound marketing using SEO, paid search, content, and analytics on platforms like Google, blogs, and social media has become more effective.
This document discusses dangerous driving maneuvers like driving under water and going up extremely steep, winding roads that could result in accidents if another vehicle is encountered. While the driving looks fun, it questions if the risks are worth it just for views and discusses how this takes winding roads to an extreme.
This one sentence document contains a repeated word "Shadow" followed by "Effects" that does not provide any meaningful information to summarize. The document appears to be an incomplete link to a slideshare page without any additional context or body.
This document provides a guide for visiting Amsterdam, including:
1. Climate information, noting cool winters and mild summers, with temperatures dropping below 0°C in January/February.
2. Transportation details for arriving by plane, train, or bus and getting around via foot, tram, bicycle, or canal cruise.
3. Suggestions for attractions like the Anne Frank House, Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, and Heineken Experience.
4. Tips for budget accommodations, cheap eats, shopping, nightlife, and cultural events throughout the year.
The Venice Carnival is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy during the period before Lent. It has a history dating back to the 14th century and is famous for its elaborate masks and costumes. During the carnival, there are concerts, parties, and masquerade balls where people dress up in colorful costumes and wear decorative masks.
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The document discusses online community mapping and proposes a model for collaborative geospatial mapping using open source technologies. It outlines how social software tools like wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and tagging can be combined with geographic information systems and open standards like GML and SVG to allow public participation in mapping and sharing of user-generated geospatial data. Mechanisms like permalinks, trackbacks, and RSS/Atom feeds enable social interaction and discourse around geo-located content. Examples show how social software is being used to facilitate collaborative geospatial mapping online.
The Roadshow event at Bradford College in June 2013 focused on demonstrating technology tools that could be used for teaching, learning, and training. Attendees would participate in collaborative scenario planning activities and have time to explore tablets, web-based collaboration and social tools, augmented reality apps, and models of online learning. They would also complete a task by developing ways to address learner needs and present their ideas to the group. The goal was to expose educators to various technologies and digital resources they could incorporate into their instruction.
The JISC Roadshow event provides technology demonstrations and collaborative activities to help participants explore tools for teaching, learning, and training. Attendees can learn about tablets, collaborative web-based systems, augmented reality apps, and models of online learning. The day includes presentations, hands-on exploration of technologies, and a task where participants devise plans to address learner needs using the tools demonstrated. The goal is to help educators consider how to deliver and design online content and courses.
The document discusses several health hazards associated with the ocean, including decompression sickness that can occur in deep sea and scuba divers if they rise to the surface too quickly, injuries from dangerous sea animals like sharks and jellyfish, and risks from lack of oxygen or increased water pressure while diving.
The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT), which connects physical objects to the internet. It evolved from RFID technology, where objects receive unique identifiers to automatically transfer data over networks. The IoT vision has expanded to include giving IP addresses to all objects so they can communicate. Future applications will leverage embedded intelligence in smart devices to analyze user interactions at a massive scale. The IoT will form an extremely large and complex system by integrating trillions of interconnected physical objects on a global scale.
Relations for Reusing (R4R) in A Shared Context: An Exploration on Research P...andrea huang
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Will the rich domain knowledge from research publications and the implicit cross-domain metadata of cultural objects be compliant with each other? A contextual framework is proposed as dynamic and relational in supporting three different contexts: Reusing, Publication and Curation, which are individually constructed but overlapped with major conceptual elements. A Relations for Reusing (R4R) ontology has been devised for modeling these overlapping
conceptual components (Article, Data, Code, Provence, and License) for interlinking research outputs and cultural heritage data. In particular, packaging and citation relations are key to build up interpretations for dynamic contexts. Examples are provided for illustrating how the linking mechanism can be constructed and represented as a result to reveal the data linked in different contexts.
Modern marketing has created the greatest time in history to start a company. The internet makes all markets more efficient by easily connecting niche buyers and sellers. It is changing shopping patterns so that prospects know more than sales reps from websites, blogs, and discussion boards, qualifying them better and moving the top of the sales funnel up. Traditional outbound marketing like telemarketing and print ads is broken, while new inbound marketing using SEO, paid search, content, and analytics on platforms like Google, blogs, and social media has become more effective.
This document discusses dangerous driving maneuvers like driving under water and going up extremely steep, winding roads that could result in accidents if another vehicle is encountered. While the driving looks fun, it questions if the risks are worth it just for views and discusses how this takes winding roads to an extreme.
This one sentence document contains a repeated word "Shadow" followed by "Effects" that does not provide any meaningful information to summarize. The document appears to be an incomplete link to a slideshare page without any additional context or body.
This document provides a guide for visiting Amsterdam, including:
1. Climate information, noting cool winters and mild summers, with temperatures dropping below 0°C in January/February.
2. Transportation details for arriving by plane, train, or bus and getting around via foot, tram, bicycle, or canal cruise.
3. Suggestions for attractions like the Anne Frank House, Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, and Heineken Experience.
4. Tips for budget accommodations, cheap eats, shopping, nightlife, and cultural events throughout the year.
The Venice Carnival is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy during the period before Lent. It has a history dating back to the 14th century and is famous for its elaborate masks and costumes. During the carnival, there are concerts, parties, and masquerade balls where people dress up in colorful costumes and wear decorative masks.
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The document discusses online community mapping and proposes a model for collaborative geospatial mapping using open source technologies. It outlines how social software tools like wikis, blogs, social bookmarking and tagging can be combined with geographic information systems and open standards like GML and SVG to allow public participation in mapping and sharing of user-generated geospatial data. Mechanisms like permalinks, trackbacks, and RSS/Atom feeds enable social interaction and discourse around geo-located content. Examples show how social software is being used to facilitate collaborative geospatial mapping online.
The Roadshow event at Bradford College in June 2013 focused on demonstrating technology tools that could be used for teaching, learning, and training. Attendees would participate in collaborative scenario planning activities and have time to explore tablets, web-based collaboration and social tools, augmented reality apps, and models of online learning. They would also complete a task by developing ways to address learner needs and present their ideas to the group. The goal was to expose educators to various technologies and digital resources they could incorporate into their instruction.
The JISC Roadshow event provides technology demonstrations and collaborative activities to help participants explore tools for teaching, learning, and training. Attendees can learn about tablets, collaborative web-based systems, augmented reality apps, and models of online learning. The day includes presentations, hands-on exploration of technologies, and a task where participants devise plans to address learner needs using the tools demonstrated. The goal is to help educators consider how to deliver and design online content and courses.
This document discusses a mobile learning programme for medical students at the School of Medicine. It implemented a programme where Year 4 and 5 students were provided iPhones to use as learning tools. The programme aimed to allow learning anytime, anywhere through mobile access to medical resources, assessments, and opportunities for feedback from clinical practice. Benefits included retaining learning in clinical settings and timely access to information. Evaluations found students and clinicians saw benefits when used appropriately, though some issues around unprofessional use in front of patients were noted. Overall the programme supported innovative blended learning and improved preparation of lifelong learning skills.
Virtual classrooms offer advantages like simple interfaces and low costs but also challenges such as duplicate titles, single screen sessions, latency issues, and limitations with sharing videos and polls. Teachers must also ensure YouTube links work and videos can be viewed.
The document discusses managing your digital footprint on social media. It aims to identify advantages and disadvantages of using social media professionally and personally, and raise awareness about safe and responsible online behavior. The session objectives are to list social media sites and their benefits and pitfalls, and increase awareness of one's digital footprint and responsible online conduct. It includes discussions of social media use, roleplaying virtual and physical relationships, and recommendations like considering audience and discoverability before posting, exploring privacy settings, and separating professional and personal networks.
The document discusses several educational apps for learning including:
- LUPO Mini Microphone for recording lectures and bookmarking with text or diagrams. Recordings can be emailed or listened to in AudioNote.
- Skitch for annotating photos, screenshots, and asking questions that can be shared on social media. Annotations are saved in EverNote.
- Foursquare for exploring locations, recommending places, and leaving tips. Useful for exploring an area's history through photos overlaid on the screen.
- HootSuite for managing multiple social media accounts from one app. Useful for tracking conversations and measuring campaigns.
- YouCam Makeup for virtually trying on hairstyles by taking your own photo or
The document outlines the requirements and course structure for an education degree program over 3 years. It lists the entry requirements, including teaching qualifications or relevant experience, to gain 120 credits to start. The first year consists of 3 core 30 credit modules in professional practice, improving teaching and learning, and critical education. The second year involves further study in reflexive practice, a major 40 credit study, and research methodologies, allowing students to obtain a foundation, ordinary, or honors degree.
The document provides instructions for an exercise to evaluate the website www.martinlutherking.org for its reliability as an academic source. It asks the reader to visit the site, evaluate aspects like design, reliability, accuracy, authors and owners, and provide any other relevant information for considering it as a source for academic study. It also defines common domain name suffixes and their typical associations, such as .org for non-profit organizations and .edu for academic institutions, to help in evaluating website credibility.
The document discusses evaluating the reliability and usefulness of the website http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/ as an academic source. It instructs readers to look at the web address and search for it on Google to gather information before visiting the site. A Google search description indicates it may be a learning tool, so readers are asked to review the site's design, reliability, accuracy, authors and owners to provide feedback on its potential as a learning resource.
Where Diigo? discusses social bookmarking and its benefits and downsides. The key benefits of social bookmarking outlined are that it allows users to organize, store, manage, search, and share their online resources. However, it also notes some potential downsides such as ambiguity of tags, lack of standardization, mistagging due to spelling errors, corruption from product promotion, spamming, broken or lost links, and public resources being open to all.
Gamification involves using game mechanics and elements to engage users and improve motivation. It can be applied to education through things like achievements, levels, status, and competitive elements to make learning more participative and fun. While not proven yet to improve outcomes, gamification aligns with how many people already learn and engage with media. It shows potential for the future of active learning.
The document discusses using technology to enhance learning in biological sciences education. It describes several technologies including podcasts, lecture capture, interactive voting handsets, and synchronous chat. Research is cited showing that these technologies can increase student engagement, participation, knowledge retention, and academic performance. Students particularly value being able to access audio recordings of lectures for revision. The technologies allow for interactive learning experiences and independent study outside of scheduled class times.
This document discusses publishing e-books through the website Issuu.com, where users can upload Word documents with pictures and hyperlinks to create e-books. It encourages publishing to demonstrate the technology and provides contact information for Kathy Boyer to discuss how e-books could be used.
The document discusses emerging technologies and their application in teaching and learning. It outlines how mobile devices have advanced in the last 5 years and are continuing to replace traditional computers. Tablets and smartphones are growing in popularity and will soon outsell PCs. Educational apps, eBooks, augmented reality, QR codes, and 4G networks are enabling new forms of interactive and social learning that can take place anywhere. However, the document questions whether education is changing quickly enough to keep up with technological developments and prepare students for the future.
The JISC RSC YH Roadshow brings technology demonstrations and collaborative scenario planning activities to teaching staff to encourage innovative uses of mobile devices and applications in courses. The activities focus on learner-centered curriculum design and assessment and showcase how tablets, apps, and web resources can enable social learning, collaboration, interactivity and personalization for students. The roadshow also includes overviews of specific tools like Diigo, mobile learning approaches, video production, and allows time for hands-on experimentation.
The document discusses using students' mobile devices in schools for learning. It argues that banning devices is ineffective since students already use them outside of school. Instead, schools should create policies allowing responsible device use under teacher supervision. Examples are given of how students at Notre Dame High School use devices for activities like science experiments, language presentations, fieldwork, and research. The policy focuses on banning irresponsible use rather than the devices themselves.