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anonymous

Into the Archive | text2cloud - 34 views

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memoir writing multi-media composing

shared by anonymous on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 01 Oct 12
     
    A memoir project involving the discovery of a writer's journals and correspondence. Of interest, perhaps, to writing teachers working with autobiography, memoir, and memory.
kellyknh

Earth | Discovery Kids - 42 views

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earth discovery videos articles

shared by kellyknh on 16 Sep 14 - No Cached
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      kellyknh on 16 Sep 14
       
      Search for weather to narrow Earth topics.
Jennie Snyder

Atul Gawande: How Do Good Ideas Spread? : The New Yorker - 36 views

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Innovation

shared by Jennie Snyder on 01 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly
  • Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the nineteenth century.
  • The first public demonstration of anesthesia was in 1846.
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  • nsisted that he had found a gas that could render patients insensible to the pain of surgery.
  • The idea spread like a contagion, travelling through letters, meetings, and periodicals. By mid-December, surgeons were administering ether to patients in Paris and London. By February, anesthesia had been used in almost all the capitals of Europe, and by June in most regions of the world.
  • On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Morton administered his gas through an inhaler in the mouth of a young man undergoing the excision of a tumor in his jaw.
  • Four weeks later, on November 18th, Bigelow published his report on the discovery of “insensibility produced by inhalation” in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
  • There were forces of resistance, to be sure. Some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty’s designs.
  • Yet soon even the obstructors, “with a run, mounted behind—hurrahing and shouting with the best.” Within seven years, virtually every hospital in America and Britain had adopted the new discovery.
  • Sepsis—infection—was the other great scourge of surgery. It was the single biggest killer of surgical patients, claiming as many as half of those who underwent major operations
  • nfection was so prevalent that suppuration—the discharge of pus from a surgical wound—was thought to be a necessary part of healing.
  • In the eighteen-sixties, the Edinburgh surgeon Joseph Lister read a paper by Louis Pasteur laying out his evidence that spoiling and fermentation were the consequence of microorganisms. Lister became convinced that the same process accounted for wound sepsis.
  • Lister had read about the city of Carlisle’s success in using a small amount of carbolic acid to eliminate the odor of sewage, and reasoned that it was destroying germs. Maybe it could do the same in surgery.
  • During the next few years, he perfected ways to use carbolic acid for cleansing hands and wounds and destroying any germs that might enter the operating field.
  • The result was strikingly lower rates of sepsis and death.
  • Far from it.
  • Surgeons soaked their instruments in carbolic acid, but they continued to operate in black frock coats stiffened with the blood and viscera of previous operations—the badge of a busy practice.
  • hey reused sea sponges without sterilizing them.
  • It was a generation before Lister’s recommendations became routine and the next steps were taken toward the modern standard of asepsis—that is, entirely excluding germs from the surgical field, using heat-sterilized instruments and surgical teams clad in sterile gowns and gloves.
  • Maybe ideas that violate prior beliefs are harder to embrace. To nineteenth-century surgeons, germ theory seemed as illogica
  • The technical complexity might have been part of the difficulty. Giving Lister’s methods “a try” required painstaking attention to detail.
Tracy Goergens

Discovery Education: Web 2.0 Tools - 130 views

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web2.0 discoveryeducation education technology presentation discovery

shared by Tracy Goergens on 26 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online
  • Siri Anderson on 03 Mar 11
     
    This is a simple definition of Web2.0 I found helpful.
Trevor Cunningham

Staff Picks at the explOratorium - 70 views

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science resources tools

shared by Trevor Cunningham on 04 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Trevor Cunningham on 04 Nov 13
     
    Groovy interactive resources. Found this through the Discovery Education Network.
Kenuvis Romero

New Discoveries on Optimizing Memory Formation | Psychology Today - 2 views

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shared by Kenuvis Romero on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • In summary, memory optimization would seem to require one to:Create associations that can serve as memory cues.Place a high value on the cues and their targets.Repeatedly present the cues and replay the initial information. When awake, present the cues in self-test mode. When asleep, even better results would obtain if cues were presented at a level that does not cause awakening during the early night sleep when sleep is deepest and there is little dreaming.
Christian King

On the Run : Detective Games : Investigation Discovery - 12 views

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forensic science crime scene Investigation detective

shared by Christian King on 14 Jan 13 - Cached
  • Christian King on 14 Jan 13
     
    Solve an interactive crime by gathering clues. Each virtual case gets progressively harder and it's a real challenge to solve all the cases.
Deborah Baillesderr

Smart Science New Era in Science Education - 45 views

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science labs education STEM online

shared by Deborah Baillesderr on 06 May 14 - Cached
  • Deborah Baillesderr on 06 May 14
     
    "Smart Science® online hands-on labs provide outstanding science education. Inexpensive and efficient STEM education. Built-in scientific inquiry facilitating student discovery of science. Online hands-on real experiments, not simulations. Online lab reports, easy to write and grade. Archive of lab reports obtained with a simple mouse click. Retention of lab reports and all student work for 5 years. Differentiated reading levels" Wow, pretty impressive and just might be worth the money. Do the lite demo they provide and see what you think.
Kelvin Thompson

Technology Top 10 : Discovery Channel - 85 views

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developing countries mobility mobile cell phone third world social justice

shared by Kelvin Thompson on 30 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • sarah taylor on 01 Nov 10
     
    In all the countries listed it would be a great advantage to have a cell phone, if an individual had enough money to own one. Couldn't it therefore also increase the plight of the poor because of the relationship between the haves and have nots?
Sarah Horrigan

Phil's JISC CETIS blog» Blog Archive » Repositories and the Open Web - 9 views

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NTUEDU NTUSHARE CETIS repositories openlearning openaccess sharing reuse learning education elearning online jisc news

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  • Sarah Horrigan on 25 Feb 10
     
    On the 19 April, in London CETIS are holding a meeting in London on Repositories and the Open Web. The theme of the meeting is how repositories and social sharing / web 2.0 web sites compare as hosts for learning materials: how well does each facilitate the tasks of resource discovery and resource management; what approaches to resource description do the different approaches take; and are there any lessons that users of one approach can draw from the other?
Gerald Carey

When teaching restrains discovery | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine - 62 views

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teaching learning

shared by Gerald Carey on 19 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 19 Jan 11
     
    Worth reading past the initial fluff...
Bob Rowan

Google For Educators - SketchUp - 109 views

www.google.com/...p_sketchup_discovery.html

Computer Class sketchup Google education curriculum Math

shared by Bob Rowan on 28 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Bob Rowan on 28 Feb 11
     
    lessons for students to get started using Google Sketchup, follow-up activites, classroom posters, and a forum to contact other teachers. Also mentions lessons available through Discovery Education
Kalin Wilburn

Discovery Education - Curiosity in the Classroom - 139 views

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curiosity lesson_plans resources lessonplans discovery education science tools

shared by Kalin Wilburn on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Jude Kesl on 19 Aug 11
     
     Check out Curiosity in the Classroom and explore the great resources for teachers, students, and parents.
  • Dianne Hugdahl on 21 Aug 11
     
    This site seemed very interesting and one to explore. Involving parents and inviting them in was a plus for this site. I can see how students would enjoy it too.
Jeff Crews

Discovery Education streaming - Atlas Interactive Map - 106 views

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geography atlas maps unitedstreaming discovery reference interactive history

shared by Jeff Crews on 01 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Jeff Crews on 01 Sep 11
     
    Interactive Atlas of the World
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