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Jac Londe

How the brain makes memories: Rhythmically! - 7 views

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brain memories

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  • How the brain makes memories: Rhythmically!
  • "Our work suggests that some problems with learning and memory are caused by synapses not being tuned to the right frequency."
  • "To our surprise, we found that beyond the optimal frequency, synaptic strengthening actually declined as the frequencies got higher."
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  • Their research also showed that once a synapse learns, its optimal frequency changes. In other words, if the optimal frequency for a naïve synapse -- one that has not learned anything yet -- was, say, 30 spikes per second, after learning, that very same synapse would learn optimally at a lower frequency, say 24 spikes per second. Thus, learning itself changes the optimal frequency for a synapse.
  • the findings raise the possibility that drugs could be developed to "retune" the brain rhythms of people with learning or memory disorders, or that many more of us could become Einstein or Mozart if the optimal brain rhythm was delivered to each synapse.
Diana Irene Saldana

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 111 views

www.tagxedo.com

wordcloud clouds Web2.0

shared by Diana Irene Saldana on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
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  • Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
  • Cindy Sheets on 15 Apr 10
     
    word clouds with style. Create shapes with word clouds
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  • kathy adkisson on 09 May 10
     
    "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
  • Karen Wester on 04 Jul 10
     
    Imagine a site like "Wordle" but on steroids - Tagxedo allows you to make word clouds with images. Really cool possibilities as an ice breaker to the new school year.
  • Karen Wester on 04 Jul 10
     
    "Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."
  • mikecolletti529 on 16 Sep 10
     
    Does it only work on PCs...I tried to run this on my mac but can't get past the home page; when I go to create, I am asked to download Microsoft SilverLight, which I do. Then, nothing else happens.
  • Jane on 01 Jan 11
     
    The site allows you to choose or upload an image to go along with the tag cloud generated.
  • Chelsie Jolley on 04 Mar 11
     
    Similar to Wordle but now you can make them into images!
  • Bob Hiles on 02 May 11
     
    Tag Clouds
  • Gerald Carey on 19 May 11
     
    I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'? To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless. How have I got this so wrong?
  • Patricia Lukacs on 19 Jun 11
     
    The site for creating text shapes.
  • Donna Canuel on 20 Jun 11
     
    I genuinely want to ask: what is the educational point of 'word clouds'? To me there are useful as 'word searches' which have to be the almost useless. How have I got this so wrong? Totally agree!
  • Marc Patton on 19 Jul 12
     
    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud
  • Kerri Harris on 19 Jul 12
     
    To Gerald Carey - As an English teacher, word clouds are a great tool. Taking text from literature or even from your own students' writing and placing it in a word cloud builder allows students to find theme words because the words used the most often are bigger than the others. I've used my students' quickwrite entries about a chosen piece of text and shown them that they are all thinking through the literature the same way. It's pretty eye opening for an English class!
  • Diana Irene Saldana on 19 Apr 13
     
    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Jac Londe

Google Correlate - 122 views

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google correlate tutorial data statistics

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  • Jac Londe on 18 Apr 13
     
    A new experimental learning tool. With Google Correlate, you enter a data series (the target) and get back queries whose frequency follows a similar pattern.
Jeff Andersen

The State of Social Media Demographics: 2017 Benchmarks [Infographic] - 42 views

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Social Media Trends 2017

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  • Jeff Andersen on 22 Mar 17
     
    There's quite a bit of information out there to support the claims that people are moving farther away from broadcast television, and closer to the digital realm. And within that landscape, people are straying from their desktops and laptops, and opting to get online via mobile with more frequency. At least, that's what the folks at Nielsen and Google have found in their research. As the latter puts it, mobile devices are no longer "secondary," and people aren't just using them to get online -- they're using them to get social.
Lee-Anne Patterson

Official Google Blog: Adding search power to public data - 0 views

googleblog.blogspot.com/...arch-power-to-public-data.html

google data visualization search

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  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 30 Apr 09
     
    The data we're including in this first launch represents just a small fraction of all the interesting public data available on the web. There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers' salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Reliable information about these kinds of things exists thanks to the hard work of data collectors gathering countless survey forms, and of careful statisticians estimating meaningful indicators that make hidden patterns of the world visible to the eye. All the data we've used in this first launch are produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division. They did the hard work! We just made the data a bit easier to find and use.
Eric G. Young

Minority Use Of Internet: Only 4/10 Regularly Use; Lack Of Access To Computer... - 24 views

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minorities internet use statistics

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  • Eric G. Young on 14 Jan 10
     
    In December 2009, researcher and pollster Cornell Belcher conducted a national survey of minorities and the Internet. The survey reports are being reported by the Center For Media Research, and contain some interesting data. Among the areas of inquiry covered by the survey include minority use of the Internet, attitudes toward the Internet, and obstacles to use of the Internet. Below is a table that shows the frequency of Internet use as a percentage of the minority population.
Melissa Enderle

Monkey Machine - online drum machine - 129 views

www.rinki.net/monkey

drums audio Percussion interactive music music education sound effects

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  • Melissa Enderle on 11 Jan 11
     
    Free web-based program that allows students to experiment with drum set sounds and rhythms. Can customize the selection of drums and cymbals in their virtual drum set, vary tempo and frequency, percussive instrument. Can download as MIDI file.
Chris Bigenho

Google Ngram Viewer - 76 views

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research naisac11

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  • Chris Bigenho on 20 Dec 10
     
    Very cool way to look at the evolution of words and language. Enter a word or phrase, select a time period and language then look at the frequency pattern of that word or phrase as it is distributed throughout the books that have been digitized by Google. A simple search with computer and Computer shows very different results as the tools is also case-sensitive (parts of speech).
Florence Dujardin

Building Stronger Ties With Alumni Through Facebook to Increase Volunteerism and Charit... - 23 views

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Facebook alumni highereducation relationship community weak ties behaviour

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  • Florence Dujardin on 08 Jun 11
     
    This research explores how strength of network ties, as fostered by the use of a social network site, Facebook, (a) influences alumni attitudes toward volunteering for and making charitable gifts to their alma mater, and (b) fortifies consistency between attitude and behavior. After exploratory interviews and participant observation, a survey of 3,085 alumni was conducted for hypothesis testing. Structural equation modeling analysis revealed: First, active participation in Facebook groups positively predicted strength of network ties along 2 dimensions: frequency of communication and emotional closeness. Second, both dimensions of tie strength influenced actual behavior, albeit via different routes. The paper also contributes to attitude change research in showing that strength of network ties can help ensure consistencies between attitude and behavior.
Martin Burrett

High Frequency English Word Bingo - 72 views

www.ictgames.com/...index.html

English EAL esl vocabulary words Literacy games whiteboard resources

shared by Martin Burrett on 01 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 01 Aug 11
     
    A high frequency English word bingo game with a multi-levelled word generator and ready made bingo cards for you to print. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Mark Glynn

(32) (PDF) An Overview and Study on the Use of Games, Simulations, and Gamification in ... - 14 views

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paper 2016 wiggins gamification

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  • Mark Glynn on 24 Oct 19
     
    "This article examines the use of both game-based learning (GBL) and gamification in tertiary education. This study focuses specifically on the use of games and/or simulations as well as familiarity with gamification strategies by communication faculty. Research questions concentrate on the rate, frequency, and usage of digital and non-digital games and/or simulations in communication courses, as well as instructor familiarity with gamification. A survey was constructed with questions emerging from the game-based learning and gamification literature. It was distributed to communication faculty at public institutions of higher education in a southern state. In this context, the author argues that while the term gamification is novel, the approach is not. Based on the results, current gamification strategies appear to be a repackaging of traditional instructional strategies."
anonymous

ABCya! Word Clouds for Kids! - 12 views

www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm

vocabulary comprehension tool wordcloud web2.0

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  • Diana Irene Saldana on 19 Apr 13
     
    ABCya.com word clouds for kids! A word cloud is a graphical representation of word frequency. Type or paste text into the box below and press the arrow button to view the word cloud generated. The appearance of a word cloud can be altered using the graphical buttons above the cloud. It is also easy to save and/or print the cloud by simply pressing a button.
  • anonymous on 19 Apr 13
     
    These Word clouds are easy to use for vocabulary. No account needed. Can be saved as jpegs.
Joyce Johnson

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles - 105 views

tagxedo.com

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  • Joyce Johnson on 24 Feb 12
     
    Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. The following are a few examples to show the versatility of Tagxedo, especially how tightly the words hug the shapes.
meldar

Readers Theater/Language Arts/High Frequency Words/Math/Music and much more for Teachers - 4 views

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readerstheatre literacy

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  • Carmen Pianko on 16 May 12
     
    Readers Theater scripts for elementary
Judith Meyer

Participation Rubric - 132 views

www.siue.edu/partrub.html

rubric

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  • Dallas McPheeters on 31 Dec 10
     
    Always a challenge grading participation in a fair manner. Here is a rubric to help. May be useful to define frequency ranges.
Carol Mortensen

Audio Expert - free online audio editor, converter and recorder - 3 views

www.audioexpert.com

audio converter tools editor recorder free web expert ringtones

shared by Carol Mortensen on 10 Aug 11 - Cached
  • WELCOME AudioExpert is a free and simple online audio editor, file converter and sound recorder. All the standard functionality of an audio editor provides you with an easy way to create a ringtone for your cell phone. You will find AudioExpert useful also as a powerful audio file converter which will allow you to modify the file format of your files, their bit rate, frequency, etc. If your computer is equipped with a camera and microphone, you can use AudioExpert to record your sounds. Main Features: Make use of it to analyse audio files and extract detailed information about the format. Cut or crop audio files in just a few clicks. Merge multiple files into a single audio track. Convert files between all of the popular audio formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, M4A, AAC, FLAC, AU, AMR, WMA, MKA). Record audio off a microphone or another sound device and save it directly to WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, etc. Convert multiple files at once by means of batch processing.
  • Carol Mortensen on 10 Aug 11
     
    Convert, Edit (make ringtones), and merge audio files easily and quickly.
  • Carol Mortensen on 10 Aug 11
     
    Create free ringtone!
Javier E

The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com - 41 views

www.nytimes.com/...edl-17business-t.html

education university business standards group learning

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  • Dr. Mason, who teaches economics at the University of North Florida, believes his students are just as intelligent as they’ve always been. But many of them don’t read their textbooks, or do much of anything else that their parents would have called studying. “We used to complain that K-12 schools didn’t hold students to high standards,” he says with a sigh. “And here we are doing the same thing ourselves.”
  • all evidence suggests that student disengagement is at its worst in Dr. Mason’s domain: undergraduate business education.
  • “Business education has come to be defined in the minds of students as a place for developing elite social networks and getting access to corporate recruiters,”
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  • It’s an attitude that Dr. Khurana first saw in M.B.A. programs but has migrated, he says, to the undergraduate level.
  • Second, in management and marketing, no strong consensus has emerged about what students ought to learn or how they ought to learn it.
  • Gains on the C.L.A. closely parallel the amount of time students reported spending on homework. Another explanation is the heavy prevalence of group assignments in business courses: the more time students spent studying in groups, the weaker their gains in the kinds of skills the C.L.A. measures.
  • The pedagogical theory is that managers need to function in groups, so a management education without such experiences would be like medical training without a residency. While some group projects are genuinely challenging, the consensus among students and professors is that they are one of the elements of business that make it easy to skate through college.
  • “We’ve got students who don’t read, and grow up not reading,” he says. “There are too many other things competing for their time. The frequency and quantity of drinking keeps getting higher. We have issues with depression. Getting students alert and motivated — even getting them to class, to be honest with you — it’s a challenge.”
  • “A lot of classes I’ve been exposed to, you just go to class and they do the PowerPoint from the book,” he says. “It just seems kind of pointless to go when (a) you’re probably not going to be paying much attention anyway and (b) it would probably be worth more of your time just to sit with your book and read it.”
  • “It seems like now, every take-home test you get, you can just go and Google. If the question is from a test bank, you can just type the text in, and somebody out there will have it and you can just use that.”
  • This is not senioritis, he says: this is the way all four years have been. In a typical day, “I just play sports, maybe go to the gym. Eat. Probably drink a little bit. Just kind of goof around all day.” He says his grade-point average is 3.3.
  • concrete business skills tend to expire in five years or so as technology and organizations change.
  • History and philosophy, on the other hand, provide the kind of contextual knowledge and reasoning skills that are indispensable for business students.
  • when they hand in papers, they’re marked up twice: once for content by a professor with specialized expertise, and once for writing quality by a business-communication professor.
  • a national survey of 259 business professors who had been teaching for at least 10 years. On average, respondents said they had reduced the math and analytic-thinking requirements in their courses. In exchange, they had increased the number of requirements related to computer skills and group presentations.
  • what about employers? What do they want? According to national surveys, they want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they’re perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors. Most Ivy League universities and elite liberal arts colleges, in fact, don’t even offer undergraduate business majors.
Katie McClintic

12 Of The Best Vocabulary Apps For Middle & High School Students - - 65 views

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vocabulary apps school

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  • The AWL (Academic Word List) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the world renowned School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand. The list of words were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts.
John Killeen

The Testing Effect | Revunote - 19 views

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memeory testing Chapter 5 Miller multiple choice frequency true-false

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  • John Killeen on 11 Aug 17
     
    Act of answering test questions improves likelihood of remembering material later
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