Dodging Witches and Wild Boar in Germany - Frugal Traveler - Travel - New York Times Blog A pine forest in the Harz Mountains. Deep in the forests of Germany’s Harz Mountains, twilight is a time of magic. The light turns gray and ambient, and the colors — the green of moss, the brassy gold of pine needles, the violet of the wild blueberry bushes — pop out against the tall, brown, branchless trunks of pine trees. There’s a stillness. The daytime hikers have returned to their villages, and the nocturnal animals have not yet woken. But when you are lost in the Harz, having hiked — as I had — 12 miles through thick pine forests and up 1,000-foot peaks, twilight can be disorienting, terrifying. Also, I was hearing things. Which was, after all, exactly why I’d come to the Harz, a national park almost smack in the middle of Germany that straddles the old East-West divide. From Gdansk, I took a series of four Polish and German trains (85.85 euros, or about $136, at $1.58 to the euro) to Quedlinburg, a medieval German city I planned to use as my base. An antique dollhouse.
Blended Learning Toolkit | Exploring open access in higher education | Higher Education Network Open access is using internet technology to facilitate teaching, learning and research the world over. Photograph: ESA/J.Huart/PA From the use of social media to engage students to tools designed to facilitate record keeping in HE, it would seem the academic revolution will be digitised. But arguably no other aspect of digital holds the promise of the open access (OA) philosophy and open educational resources (OER). With OER, similar tenets apply: academics create, share and allow their teaching resources not only to be used but to be amended, improved, transformed. It also looks as though the benefits of open access in HE could go beyond teaching and research. So far, so good. Following a talk point and a poll, we finally give the subject of open access the consideration it deserves. Join us then and feel free to post any questions or comments below now. This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional. Panel Steve Carson, external relations director, MIT OpenCourseWare
iMovie Review | iPhone Photography App Description Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. OER Commons College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They? - Technology By Jeffrey R. Young Charlottesville, Va. "Camera shy" is not the first phrase that comes to my mind for Siva Vaidhyanathan. An associate professor who focuses on digital media, Mr. But no. Professors across the country are now wrestling with this issue. Those plans raise a lot of issues. So far, most lectures seem to be locked up. Though several colleges run such open-courseware projects, in which they make syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, and other materials free, most of those efforts are still small, and only a few of the open courses include full lecture videos. And though hundreds of colleges have set up channels on YouTube or reserved sections of Apple's iTunes Store devoted to material from colleges, the majority of the public content on those sites consists of marketing material or sports highlights rather than course lectures. Barriers and Fears Mark A. Mr. "People are way more self-conscious about their teaching than you would think," he told me. Mr. What If? Mr.
Academic Productivity » Parkinson’s law and productivity April 22, 200710By shane in Book reviews, Time management New to AcademicProductivity.com? There has been some buzz on the blogosphere about a new book “the 4 hour work week” by Tim Ferriss. I haven’t read the book and am not sure I will, but from the descriptions I have read it appears he has useful things to say about time management. What I found particularly interesting was that it drew my attention to a name for a concept that I was aware of but didn’t have a name for: Parkinson’s Law. The solution to Parkinson’s law is obvious – limit the amount of time you have to do tasks. One problem in this suggestion is that any estimation of how much time a task will take you also face Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law…
Physics Online Homework | Partial Credit Grading | Expert TA Khan Academy iBall Launches ‘Take Note’ Standalone Digital Notepad « CyberIndian Tech iBall, a leading desktop peripherals manufacturer in India had today launched the iBall ‘Take Note’, cordless, lightweight, the first of its kind digital notepad in India. iBall ‘Take Note’ uses the ordinary paper and a ball point pen to write. Beneath the everyday paper used for writing is a unique mechanism to digitally records all the notes, ideas, drawings, and sketches in the pad’s built-in 32 MB flash RAM. The gadget digitally captures and stores everything one writes and draws on a paper, and is not required to be connected to a PC while being used. The captured files can be downloaded onto a PC or a laptop using the USB-2 interface. According to company the iBall ‘Take Note’ digital notepad would prove very handy and easy to use gadget for business executives, consultants, secretaries, sales people, journalists, designers, engineers, doctors, architects, professionals and students who have a lot of notes to take in hurry. Similar Posts:
Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities Free Online Course Materials | About OCW UK | Archbishop launches attack on US Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has launched a stinging attack on US policy, comparing it unfavourably with the British Empire. In a magazine interview, he said the British Empire had "rightly or wrongly" poured energy and resources into administering lands it had taken over. But he told Muslim lifestyle glossy Emel the US had assumed all Iraq needed was a "quick burst of violent action". US officials said billions of dollars had been spent helping Iraqi people. Moral high ground Dr Williams said the US, as the only "global hegemonic power", was trying to accumulate influence and control, rather than territory. He told the magazine the US had lost the moral high ground since the 11 September attacks and needed to take steps including "generous aid" to "the societies that have been ravaged", a "check on the economic exploitation of defeated territories" and a "demilitarisation" of its presence in them in order to recover. 'Billions given'