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Switched On Kids - Where does electricity come from - 1 views

www.switchedonkids.org.uk/where_does.html module 4 assignment
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  • Julie DelPapa on 23 Jul 12
     
    Switched On Kids - Where does electricity come from. Childrens Electrical Safey Website. The Electrical Safety Council Also a resource for engagement in the electicity module
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Energy and Electricity - List 1 of 2 4th Grade - 0 views

www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html module 4 assignment
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  • Julie DelPapa on 23 Jul 12
     
    Energy And Electricity - List 1 Of 2 is available for study with 20 vocabulary, spelling, writing, learning activities and games on Vocabulary SpellingCity.com. The Energy and Electricity - List 1 of 2 word list was created by Vsc Science.
  • Julie DelPapa on 23 Jul 12
     
    I will be using this for vocab activity in my electricty module.
  • alexandra m. pickett on 23 Jul 12
     
    excellent
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Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility? | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • State and local laws that make it difficult — if not impossible — for new competition to emerge in broadband markets should be reformed, according to Crawford. For example, many states make it very difficult for municipalities to create public wireless networks, thanks to decades of state-level lobbying by the industry giants. In order to help local governments upgrade their communications grids, Crawford is calling for an infrastructure bank to help cities obtain affordable financing to help build high-speed fiber networks for their citizens. Finally, U.S. regulators should apply real oversight to the broadband industry to ensure that these market behemoths abide by open Internet principles and don’t price gouge consumers. Should broadband Internet service be considered a public utility like water and electricity? “We treated the telephone industry like a utility and people don’t seem to be surprised by that,” says Crawford. “High-speed Internet access plays the same role in American life. It’s just that these guys have succeeded in making us think that it’s a luxury.”
  • According to Crawford, the interests of cable and telecom giants like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and AT&T, are not aligned with the interests of the public. Those corporate giants are concerned first and foremost with maximizing the profits of their shareholders. And all too often, profit maximization — especially in a market that lacks robust competition — is not consistent with providing the best possible service at reasonable prices.
  • “You let a little bit of competition exist so you can point to it and say ‘Ha, we’re competing!’ But otherwise it’s mostly controlled by one company.”
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  • One of the main themes in the book is the “digital divide,” which refers to the fact that millions of people in the U.S., mostly in the poorest and most rural communities, don’t have access to affordable broadband service, including 2.2 million people in New York City, according to Crawford. “We’re depriving people of basic communications access,” she says. Still, broadband and wireless services have become so important to our business and personal lives that most people are willing to pay up, even in the face of high prices driven in part by a lack of competition in the broadband and wireless markets.
  • Crawford, who has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Michigan, spent a year on the National Economic Council as a top telecommunications advisor to President Obama. In her book, she directs much of the blame for the sorry state of the U.S. broadband market at the federal government. “Instead of ensuring that everyone in America can compete in a global economy,” she writes, “instead of narrowing the divide between rich and poor, instead of supporting competitive free markets for American inventions that use information — instead, that is, of ensuring that America will lead the world in the information age — U.S. politicians have chosen to keep Comcast and its fellow giants happy.”
  • “Truly high-speed wired Internet access is as basic to innovation, economic growth, social communication, and the country’s competitiveness as electricity was a century ago,” Crawford writes, “but a limited number of Americans have access to it, many can’t afford it, and the country has handed control of it over to Comcast and a few other companies.”
  • Crawford argues that the Internet has replaced traditional phone service as the most essential communications utility in the country, and is now as important as electricity was 100 years ago.
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DO ONLINE STUDENTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC TEACHERS? - 0 views

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  • However, few would deny that there is a strong probability that the distancing effect of computer-mediated asynchronous learning will cause many instructors and students to view one another more like extensions of the machines through which they are communicating than as real persons with emotions, aspirations, problems, time constraints and (in the case of most faculty) the very real need for sleep. As overworked online instructors turn to labor-saving shortcuts, such as computer software that can actually grade papers, and are compelled by the financial exigencies of higher education to increase their class sizes to unmanageable proportions, the problem of distancing is becoming increasingly serious [1].
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Libraries Struggle to Close the 'Digital Divide' - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • In the 21st century, high-speed Internet access is almost as essential as electricity. That libraries serve as the provider for millions of Americans isn't something to celebrate. It's a sign that we're in trouble. We're depriving people of basic information access that is central to every policy we care about – including health, education and national security – even though every American should be able to communicate reliably and access information at any time.
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George's Adventures in ETAP640 - 0 views

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  • I’m not sure I really want to, to be frank, but it is a requirement for my ETAP640 course I am taking.
  • value proposition
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      i like "value add"
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      and "due dilligence"
  • No worries, right?  You all and Alex will help me.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jun 12
       
      absolutely!! i'm in!!! my (just a bit eccentric) husband, in an attempt to understand life, the universe, and everything, has been "studying science" for a couple of years now. By that i mean reading-voraciously-everything-he-can-get-his-hands-on. He has asked me more than once if i have any real or imaginary (meaning people i only know online) physics professor friends to whom he can address his many questions : ) (i think this interest -bordering on obsession, is a mid-life attempt to come to terms with his mortal human husk - and i blame his mother for raising a heathen.) Nevertheless, he started with electricity, moved on to biology, then chemistry, the periodic table, physics, quantum phisyics and is now he is trying to teach it to our dog. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2929826.Chad_Orzel Every morning, book in hand, toothbrush in mouth, he gives us the highlights and pointers (me, my daughter and bella his havanese physics student) FYI - he thinks Einstein's little black book - which he read in its entirety- ( twice) on relativity, was over rated. : ) I am extraordinarily intrigued by your course concept and can't wait to see what you do! : )
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Do Online Students Dreamof Electric Teacher? Scorza - 0 views

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  • Joan McCabe on 16 Jun 12
     
    Empathy as a means of efficient and effective online course design and instruction.
  • Amy M on 17 Jun 12
     
    Course reading on balancing student interaction and instructor interaction
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Do Online Students Dream of Electric Teachers? - 0 views

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  • ullet format whenever possible, it
    • Teresa Dobler
      Teresa Dobler on 13 Jun 14
       
      Guidelines need to be clear and specific, but not overwhelmingly wordy
  • necessary to present overly elaborate guidelines
  • addressed to them by name.
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    • Teresa Dobler
      Teresa Dobler on 16 Jun 14
       
      Like in class! Don't address directions to "students" but to "you"
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DO ONLINE STUDENTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC TEACHERS? - 0 views

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  • Maree Michaud-Sacks on 17 Jun 13
     
    prevent desensitization of faculty and students through finding ways to create personal connections
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Do Online Students Dream of Electric Teachers? - 0 views

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  • dopt a conversational tone in online course materials,
  • The best form of evaluation, however, is self-evaluation.
  • confront those same courses as an alien force which threatens to dominate and oppress them
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  • These students, in turn, become desensitized as their instructors begin to appear almost robotic in their provocations and responses (or
  • geographic “distance” necessarily translates into “emotional distance,
  • Jessica M on 19 Jun 14
     
    Role of teacher involvement and relationships in online classes "geographic "distance" necessarily translates into "emotional distance"
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