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Building Academic Library 2.0 Academic Library 2.0 Keynote Speaker: Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian Norwich University, Northfield A Conference sponsored by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley Division Once a symbolic bastion of traditional accumulations of specialized knowledge, today's academic library operates in an information landscape grown increasingly variegated and difficult to traverse. Paradoxically, at the same time, data, information, knowledge, cultural production, and scholarship are far more accessible, appropriable, and manipulable than ever before. New media attract widespread attention, more pliable technologies emerge with increasing frequency, and--most importantly--young generations of students and faculty with aptitudes, skills, and expectations borne of a world massively defined by the Internet and its progeny are populating the halls of academe. The convergence of the once distinct technological and social meanings of the term "network" is evident in the rise of communities of remote collaborations among friends, acquaintances, students, and researchers. These developments compel academic libraries to consider how best to apply new technologies to suit users' demands and to satisfy their institutional and educational missions. The Academic Library 2.0 conference will address the phenomenon of academic libraries taking affirmative steps to deploy technologies and services that facilitate users' virtually instant connection to diverse sources of knowledge and information, as well as to help users directly contribute form and substance to those sources. Tags: uc berkeley ucberkeley cal webcast education events |
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Academic Cluster Computing Initiative In October 2007, Google announced that it was partnering with IBM to provide largescale cluster computing resources to undergraduate computer science students along with a creative commons licensed curriculum. Using the cluster and curriculum as a starting point, students have been able to develop some compelling projects. Tags: ibm google academic cluster computing initiative UW mapreduce gfs hadoop |
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"Connected" Part 2: Academic Uses What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day-in-the-life account highlights some of the potential benefits in a higher education setting when every student, faculty, and staff member is "connected." Though the applications and functions portrayed in the film are purely speculative, they're based on needs and ideas uncovered by our research - and we've already been making strides to transform this vision of mobile learning (mLearning) into reality. http://www.acu.edu/mobilelearning http://www.acu.edu/connected Tags: iPhone Connected ACU Abilene Christian University |
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The Academic Working Poor Working in an airport gift shop, standing in line for free cheese, sharing a bowl of soup for dinner... these are the all-too-typical coping strategies adopted by the working poor among the contingent faculty who are now the overwhelming majority of the professoriate. In part 2 of our interview, Cary Nelson discusses the abjection of the professoriate and the role of the AAUP in pushing back against the callous, systematic exploitation of students and faculty by university management. Tags: Colleges universities professors students adjuncts faculty Wal-mart poverty "working poor" AAUP PhD "Marc Bousquet" |
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Twilight of Academic Freedom Cary Nelson describes how the shift to a majority contingent faculty is an intellectual sea change for undergraduates as well as faculty themselves. Tags: Colleges universities professors students adjuncts faculty "academic freedom" AAUP PhD "Marc Bousquet" |
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Librarian's Guide to...Understanding Academic Copyright Prof Weasel struggles to understand the problems with the traditional journal publication system (he'd be better off going open access but he'd never understand it). All while the fat Mr G.Ratt publishers makes the big cheese... Tags: open access copyright academic authors librarian librarians goose weasel rat puppet satire repository repositories |
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Academic Excellence Chapter 2: Creating a New American University series. Produced by Arizona State University. Tags: academic university education |
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Brahms, Academic Festival Overture, Davis Jr High School Orc Performance of the Davis Combined Jr High Advanced Orchestra at their Finale Concert, May 23, 2007 See: http://groups.dcn.org/jhs-orchestras for orchestra information Tags: Davis Junior High School Orchestra |
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Brahms - Akadémiai ünnepi nyitány Brahms: Academic Festival Overture; Danubia Symphonic Orchestra; Domonkos Héja Tags: brahms nyitány overture academic classical |
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Academic Onefile Screencast from Boatwright Memorial Library Brief overview of Academic Onefile Tags: academic onefile library research tools |
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Creationists and Academic Freedom Since the first ads of Expelled academic freedom, or the lack thereof, has been on every creationists mind. Creationists like to think they're being persecuted for their beliefs. They claim this persecution is the reason they haven't done any proper research into creationism. Accompanying the claims of persecution is the claim that we should teach both sides simply out of fairness. This videos seeks to debunk the creationist ideas of academic freedom. The OSC investigation of the Sternberg case: http://www.richardsternberg.org/smithsonian.php?page=letter Richard Sternberg's Website: http://www.richardsternberg.org The Meyer Paper: 'The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories': http://www.discovery.org/a/2177 Tags: creationism evolution academic freedom expelled ben stein schools school education religion science teach both sides |
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Benjamin Netanyahu on the academic boycott This is not Britain's finest hour. Tags: benjamin netanyahu israel politics boycott |
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Wallace Stevens: Academic Discourse at Havana Wallace Stevens: Academic Discourse at Havana Canaries in the morning, orchestras in the afternoon, balloons at night. That is a difference, at least, from nightingales, Jehovah and the great sea-worm. The air is not so elemental nor the earth so near. But the sustenance of the wilderness does not sustain us in the metropoles. Life is an old casino in a park. The bills of the swans are flat upon the ground. A most desolate wind has chilled Rouge-Fatima and a grand decadence settles down like cold. The swans...Before the bills of the swans fell flat upon the ground, and before the chronicle of affected homage foxed so many books, they warded the blank waters of the lakes and island canopies which were entailed to that casino. Long before the rain swept through its boarded windows and the leaves filled its encrusted fountains, they arrayed the twilights of the mythy goober khan. The centuries of excellence to be rose out of promise and became the sooth of trombones floating in the trees. The toil of thought evoked a peace eccentric to the eye and tinkling to the ear. Gruff drums could beat, yet not alarm the populace. The indolent progressions of the swans made earth come right; a peanut parody for peanut people. And serener myth conceiving from its perfect plenitude, lusty as June, more fruitful than the weeks of ripest summer, always lingering to touch again the hottest bloom, to strike once more the longest resonance, to cap the clearest woman with apt weed, to mount the thickest man on thickest stallion-back, this urgent, competent, serener myth passed like a circus. Politic man ordained imagination as the fateful sin. Grandmother and her basketful of pears must be the crux for our compendia. That's world enough, and more, if one includes her daughters to the peached and ivory wench for whom the towers are built. The burgher's breast, and not a delicate ether star-impaled, must be the place for prodigy, unless prodigious things are tricks. The world is not the bauble of the sleepless nor a word that should import a universal pith to Cuba. Jot these milky matters down. They nourish Jupiters. Their casual pap will drop like sweetness in the empty nights when too great rhapsody is left annulled and liquorish prayer provokes new sweats: so, so: life is an old casino in a wood. Is the function of the poet here mere sound, subtler than the ornatest prophecy, to stuff the ear? It causes him to make his infinite repetition and alloys of pick of ebon, pick of halcyon. It weights him with nice logic for the prim. As part of nature he is part of us. His rarities are ours: may they be fit and reconcile us to ourselves in those true reconcilings, dark, pacific words, and the adroiter harmonies of their fall. Close the cantina. Hood the chandelier. The moonlight is not yellow but a white that silences the ever-faithful town. How pale and how possessed a night it is, how full of exhalations of the sea... All this is older than its oldest hymn, has no more meaning than tomorrow's bread. But let the poet on his balcony speak and the sleepers in their sleep shall move, waken, and watch the moonlight on their floors. This may be benediction, sepulcher, and epitaph. It may, however, be an incantation that the moon defines by mere example opulently clear. And the old casino likewise may define an infinite incantation of our selves in the grand decadence of the perished swans. Tags: wallace stevens academic discourse at havana american poetry charles bryant spoken word |
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EMC Academic Alliance Program With Alok Srivastava The EMC Academic Alliance program is a collaboration with leading academic institutions to introduce an information management and storage curriculum. The combination of complex IT infrastructures and enormous growth in the volume of information to be managed is creating a need for highly skilled storage professionals...and, it is continually on the rise. In response, EMC has introduced an 'open' storage technology focused curriculum. With an emphasis on technology concepts, design and management, students will benefit from a course that focuses on applied storage technologies - not on product specifics. Starting with fundamentals, the knowledge and skills acquired will prepare the student to be proficient in planning, designing,administering and managing simple to complex storage infrastructures. This curriculum also supports the Associate level (EMCPA) within the EMC Proven Professional program https://education.emc.com/guest/eaa/default.aspx Tags: engineering computer science oracle vmware ibm netapps sun microsystems |
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Student Academic Conference 2008 Student Academic Conference for Empire State College Students in Syracuse NY Tags: Don't Miss 2008 Student Acadmic Conference |
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Kabardinka Academic Dance Ensemble - K'afa K'afa...from the Introduction of Kabardinka Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik (more) Tags: Kabardinka Circassian Adyghe Dance |
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Oxford Brookes Academic Offering Oliver Reed The Vice President of Academic Affairs for Oxford Brookes Students' Union talks about the proposed Academic Offering from Oxford Brookes University, UK. Tags: oliver reed academic offering oxford brookes students union |
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Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Research Networking Google Tech Talks January, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Topics include: * New applications and apps usage/deployment and the challenges they pose for networks * Network trends in the R&E community. o towards network virtualisation (circuits as a service/light paths provisioned by users or applications on demand) - "Articulated Private Networks" o inter-network control, managing QoS / lightpaths and other performance attributes across network domains o sustainability issues - reducing the Carbon footprint of the network itself and our users Speaker: Donald Clark, Chief Executive, REANNZ (Research & Education Advanced Network NZ Ltd) Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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2007 Los Altos Academic Decathlon Team Los Angeles County Academic Decathlon awards 2007 Today the Conquerors earned medals in the following areas: Top Score in the Team: Andrew Yip - Gold ART- Andrew Yip- gold ECONOMICS- Edward Lu - silver Andrew Yip- bronze INTERVIEW Vanessa Alcala - gold Ariana Smith - gold Brian Yang - bronze LANG and LIT Caren Chang - silver MATH Wilson Feng - silver Caren Chang - silver Andrew Yip - silver Edward Lu - bronze MUSIC Ariyana Smith- bronze Andrew Yip - bronze SPEECH Vanessa Alcala - gold Ariana Smith - gold SOCIAL SCIENCE Andrew Yip- gold TOP SCORING DECATHLETES III Andrew Yip- gold Ariyana Smith -bronze Huge congratulations to Jibin Park, Leo Lopez and all Conquerors!!! FIRED-UP! Rob Tags: 2007 Los Altos Academic Decathlon Team |
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Academic Writer (Paperback Writer parody) For mp3 and MUCH better video (with stereo sound) go to my site: http://magnulus.com/index.php?entry=entry071025-200221 Lyrics: Dear struggling student, when you read my book it will suck your brains out with just a look! It's based on a thousand other books I've read And I reference them all 'cause I am an academic writer Academic writer! I use the biggest words at my command To make it difficult to understand pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico- volcanoconiosis now that is big but nothing for a writer Academic writer! Academic writeeeer (writer!) (writer...) It's got ten revisions give or take a few Then another is out in a week or two! I do this to add a couple more big words And to empty your wallets cause I am a total pompous blighter Academic writer! If I wrote my book to be decipherable Then the consequences would be terrible You'd see that the book could be a quarter the length But I wouldn't make money the way I do if it was lighter ACADEMIC WRITER!!! Acadeeeeemic writer! (Academic writer...) Acadeeeeemic writer! (Academic writer...) Acadeeeeemic writer! (Academic writer...) Acadeeeeemic writer! (Academic writer...) For t-shirts and other cool stuff: http://www.cafepress.com/magnulus (No, I still make no money off it, though a few people have been kind enough to help me lower my DEBT to cafepress lately. You're awesome!) Everything in the song performed by myself using only the built-in microphone on my iMac, my cheap Jaw Harp, 93 pence in change and my own angelic voice. Edited in Garageband. (Then video edited in Final Cut.) Tags: the beatles paperback writer norwegian wood yesterday hey jude jaw harp jew cover parody funny weird freaky magnulus |
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EF Academic Year Abroad http://www.ef.com/year On the EF Academic Year Abroad programme you study languages and academic subjects abroad. The purpose is to gain complete language fluency and get official international diplomas for your career. Apart from languages, students can choose career programmes focusing on Business English, Hotel & Tourism, IT, Media & Art, International Affairs or health & Fitness. Students can also combine their course with professional internships. There's a wide range of programmes at over 40 schools in 15 countries: Study English in the USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, or Malta. Study French in Paris or Nice, France. Study Spanish in Barcelona or Malaga in Spain, in Quito, Ecuador or in Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Study German in Munich, Germany. Study Italian in Rome, Italy. Study Chinese in Beijing or Shanghai, China. Tags: EF learn study English French Spanish Italian German Chinese school university academic gap year abroad sabbatical TOEFL |
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E! True Hollywood Story: It's Academic Disaster ensues when a few seniors find themselves in second place at a pointless trivia competition. Tags: south river it's academic edgewater maryland crofton annapolis pure awesome |
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Think Tank: Sternberg and Academic Freedom Think Tank: Sternberg and Academic Freedom Tags: Intelligent Design Sternberg Stephen Meyer Academic freedom censorship |
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CSPP India Academic Tour You are invited to participate in the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) 2008 India Academic Tour! This will be a 10-day program starting December 29th to January 6th held in Chennai, a city often called the cultural capital of India for its deep-rooted traditions and long heritage. Chennai is an ancient Dravidian land in the extreme south of the Indian peninsula along the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. The India Academic Tour will be an enriching cultural experience and profound opportunity for professional enrichment. India being the seat of alternative healing and spiritual traditions, offers a great setting for an immersion program for mental health professional intent on enhancing cross-cultural and international competencies, particularly with an eye towards better serving the needs of the South Asian communities. Two academic courses will be offered during the program that are closely aligned with the essence of what India has to offer to the world: • Mental Health Perspective in India: Holistic Healing and Nonviolence with Dr. Raji Natrajan-Tyagi & Dr. Jason Platt • Multicultural Self Awareness Development and Process Research with Dr. Leena Banerjee-Brown & Dr. Raji Natrajan-Tyagi The program fee is $2,500 for the 10-days. This fee includes all of your housing, food, lectures, entrance fees to program activities, and transportation within Chennai. The fee does not include your flight to Chennai or tuition for any classes in which you choose to enroll. Tags: psychology india alliant marriage and family therapy counseling social justice CSPP |
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Academic writing skills for the IELTS test This is one of the 350+ videos that are used in our online course. Each video is followed by practice questions and examples, building your skills in all the areas needed for IELTS. Go to http://www.ilsnz.com for more information and to try the free IELTS practice test. NARRATION: In this IELTS writing course you will find a number of different lessons that will help you improve your academic writing. In this lesson, we will look at some of the basic points you need to consider. Let's look back at the bad paragraph you saw at the beginning of this lesson. The first rule of academic writing is that you should avoid contractions such as don't and hadn't. Writing the complete word such as do not is better academically, and also adds an extra word to your word count. The second point for academic writing is that you should avoid using phrasal verbs such as give up. A phrasal verb is created when using a verb and another word together to create a particular meaning. It would be much better in this example to use a word like 'concede'. Academic writing also means that you should avoid emphasising with capital letters or being too direct. Using a word like stupid for example, will definitely lower your academic presentation. You should also avoid emphasising with exclamation marks. Although you may be asked for an opinion in academic writing, you are not being asked to show emotion and your writing should remain formal at all times. Another area in which this paragraph is weak is that the candidate has used the same word twice. You should avoid repeating the same vocabulary as much as possible, either by finding a different word or by changing the structure of the sentence. In this paragraph, for example, instead of using quit a second time, the candidate could have said 'abandon their studies' or were 'unable to continue studying'. The final point about academic vocabulary is to use the most academic vocabulary possible. For example, the candidate has started a sentence with but. Changing this to 'However' would have been far more academic. Another example of poor vocabulary in this paragraph can be seen in the final words - in academic writing, avoid phrases that carry no information such as 'or something' . Tags: ielts writing academic skills |