Latin Online: Series Introduction Latin is probably the easiest of the older languages for speakers of English to learn, both because of their earlier relationship and because of the long use of Latin as the language of educational, ecclesiastical, legal and political affairs in western culture. Moreover, we use the Latin alphabet, so that the language is read without difficulty. On the other hand, the sentence structure and number of forms require a great deal of attention, since the words of sentences are placed for their emphasis, rather than in accordance with a pattern like that of the English Subject-Verb-Object sentence. Note: this set of lessons is for systems/browsers with Unicode support, but fonts for only the Unicode 2.0 character set (including combining diacritics). 1. The Latin alphabet was taken over from the Greek through Etruscan. English has maintained this order with a few modifications. The chief difference in pronunciation of these letters has to do with the vowels. 2. 3. 4. 4.2 Verbs. 5. Options:
Web's #1 Source for K12 and Higher Education News and Commentary - EducationNews.org The Shower of Love Washes Away All Sin The shower of love washes away all sin. But what is sin? In the past, there was a very simple answer: sin is all that is prohibited by [insert religion here]. The thing is, religions have a way of turning more and more things into sins, don’t they? But what about the things each one of us know is not right. Love washes it all away. But love must be more than just a thought, more than a romantic image, or a preconceived notion, love must become a powerful, flow of emotion and energy that washes over us and through us. Yet your heart contains it all. I would love to hear your thoughts. Yours in the One Heart, Asatar P.S.
2012 Distance Education Survey Results Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community CollegesApril 2013, Instructional Technology Council In Focus: The Year in Review 2013: The Great Recession Continues Recovery from the Great Recession has been slow and elusive. Most campus administrators have survived the worst of the recession, with no further cuts made to their department funding levels, but they have only experienced meager attempts to increase budget allocations. In its recent survey report, the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) noted that, “although enrollment stabilized in 2012, the reduction in state and local support combined with an increase in inflation contributed to a nine percent decrease in state and local support per student in constant dollars from 2011. Participants in this ITC survey reported that distance education enrollments grew by 6.52 percent from fall 2011 to fall 2012. The report outlines the following key events in 2012:
Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard Fried Outlines Hope for Cheap, High-Quality College Degree Among the voices raised in panic at growing college tuition that threatens to price half the country out of a college education, there remains at least one that’s calm and optimistic. Vance H. Fried, who wrote a paper outlining how by the year 2020 colleges could run entire residential programs all without charging more than $8,000 in tuition, sees hope. Fried is far from a crank. He feels that the higher education system in this country is ossified due the fact that it has not had to deal with any kind of competitive pressure in decades. Some commentators worry that tuition-dependent colleges will have to go out of business because they can’t control their costs and low-priced suppliers are going to take away their students. The real kick in the pants to colleges won’t be the stupendously popular massive online open courses. Technology now is improving on these features, beginning to create what Fried calls Online 2.0.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.
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