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Michele Brown

Constitution of the United States - Official - 2 views

www.archives.gov/...constitution.html

constitution government History

shared by Michele Brown on 05 Jul 12 - Cached
  • Michele Brown on 05 Jul 12
     
     A complete transcript of the Constitution that you can read online. In addition to the transcript, you can view high-resolution images of the original document and learn more about its creation and ratification.
Michele Brown

Declaration of Independence - 1 views

www.archives.gov/...declaration.html

history declaration independence Documents

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  • Michele Brown on 05 Jul 12
     
    Read the full transcript of this pivotal document online, along with interesting historical information surrounding its creation and signing.
James Woods

The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com - 4 views

www.nytimes.com/...the-joy-of-quiet.html

news quiet nytimes

shared by James Woods on 04 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
  • The only way to do justice to our onscreen lives is by summoning exactly the emotional and moral clarity that can’t be found on any screen.
  • MAYBE that’s why more and more people I know, even if they have no religious commitment, seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi; these aren’t New Age fads so much as ways to connect with what could be called the wisdom of old age.
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  • Other friends try to go on long walks every Sunday, or to “forget” their cellphones at home. A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects “exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper.”
  • I noticed that all their talk was of sailing — or riding or bridge: anything that would allow them to get out of radio contact for a few hours.
  • empathy, as well as deep thought, depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural processes that are “inherently slow.” The very ones our high-speed lives have little time for.
  • I’ve yet to use a cellphone and I’ve never Tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day’s writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
  • Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music.
  • For more than 20 years, therefore, I’ve been going several times a year — often for no longer than three days — to a Benedictine hermitage, 40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn. I don’t attend services when I’m there, and I’ve never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it’s only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I’ll have anything useful to bring to them.
  • James Woods on 04 Jan 12
     
    Too much technology?!
Judy Arzt

1968 Exhibit - 6 views

www.the1968exhibit.org

history timelines blogging social studies 1960s

shared by Judy Arzt on 14 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Judy Arzt on 14 Feb 12
     
    Given all the events of the 1960s, this site is a gem for keeping up and finding classroom activities.
Margaret FalerSweany

What's Lost as Handwriting Fades - 52 views

www.nytimes.com/...lost-as-handwriting-fades.html

handwriting

shared by Margaret FalerSweany on 03 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information.
  • When children had drawn a letter freehand, they exhibited increased activity in three areas of the brain that are activated in adults when they read and write
  • When the children composed text by hand, they not only consistently produced more words more quickly than they did on a keyboard, but expressed more ideas.
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  • cursive writing may train self-control ability in a way that other modes of writing do not
  • For adults, typing may be a fast and efficient alternative to longhand, but that very efficiency may diminish our ability to process new information
  • students learn better when they take notes by hand than when they type on a keyboard.
  • writing by hand allows the student to process a lecture’s contents and reframe it — a process of reflection and manipulation that can lead to better understanding and memory encoding.
Kenuvis Romero

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism - Multiple Microvascular and Astroglial 5-Hydroxytryptamine Receptor Subtypes in Human Brain[colon] Molecular and Pharmacologic Characterization - 0 views

www.nature.com/...9590586a.html

shared by Kenuvis Romero on 23 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Physiologic and anatomic evidence suggest that 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) neurons regulate local cerebral blood flow and blood-brain barrier permeability.
  • capillary endothelial cells exhibited mRNA for the h5-HT1D and for the 5-HT7 receptors whereas microvascular smooth muscle cells, in addition to h5-HT1D and 5-HT7, also showed polymerase chain reaction products for h5-HT1B receptors. Expression of 5-HT1F and 5-HT2A receptor mRNAs was never detected in any of the microvascular cell cultures. In contrast, messages for all 5-HT receptors tested were detected in human brain astrocytes with a predominance of the 5-HT2A and 5-HT7 subtypes. In all cultures, sumatriptan inhibited (35–58%, P < .05) the forskolin-stimulated production of cyclic AMP, an effect blocked by the 5-HT1B/1D receptor antagonists GR127935 and GR55562. In contrast, 5-carboxamidotryptamine induced strong increases (≥ 400%, P < .005) in basal cyclic AMP levels that were abolished by mesulergine, a nonselective 5-HT7 receptor antagonist. Only astroglial cells showed a ketanserin-sensitive increase (177%, P < .05) in IP3 formation when exposed to 5-HT. These results show that specific populations of functional 5-HT receptors are differentially distributed within the various cellular compartments of the human cortical microvascular bed, and that human brain astroglial cells are endowed with multiple 5-HT receptors. These findings emphasize the complex interactions between brain serotonergic pathways and non-neuronal cells within the CNS and, further, they raise the possibility that some of these receptors may be activated by antimigraine compounds such as brain penetrant triptan derivatives.
Dallas McPheeters

Job Bank - 32 views

jobsetc.gc.ca/...pieces.jsp

shared by Dallas McPheeters on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Are you verbal/linguistic? Then you make sense out of the world through language and can use words effectively either speaking or in writing. When you make puns and tell stories, you exhibit this intelligence.Learning strategies: read material before going to lectures; take notes of what you hear and read; describe what you have learned to others; listen to what others have learned;write out the steps/instructions to a procedure or experiment;use crossword puzzles, puns and imaginary conversations as memory devices;use your verbal/linguistic knowledge to help you study. For example, if you are taking a course in music, make up a story based on what you hear.
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      Dallas McPheeters on 20 Jul 10
       
      Learning strategies for multiple intelligences. Nice list that can easily be used to create learning activities that span all learning styles in the classroom.
  • rank different items of information in order of their importance
  • predict outcomes
MIchael Heneghan

Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com - 12 views

www.nytimes.com/...02cheat.html

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shared by MIchael Heneghan on 04 Aug 10 - Cached
  • But these cases — typical ones, according to writing tutors and officials responsible for discipline at the three schools who described the plagiarism — suggest that many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed.
  • Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy, of course. But that is the least of it. The Internet may also be redefining how students — who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking — understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
  • “When you’re sitting at your computer, it’s the same machine you’ve downloaded music with, possibly illegally, the same machine you streamed videos for free that showed on HBO last night.”
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  • Ms. Brookover, who works at the campus library, has pondered the differences between researching in the stacks and online. “Because you’re not walking into a library, you’re not physically holding the article, which takes you closer to ‘this doesn’t belong to me,’ ” she said. Online, “everything can belong to you really easily.”
  • Ms. Blum argued that student writing exhibits some of the same qualities of pastiche that drive other creative endeavors today — TV shows that constantly reference other shows or rap music that samples from earlier songs.
ronhustvedt

MN150 : MNHS.ORG - 47 views

www.mnhs.org/mn150

historyday primarysources secondarysources minnesota

shared by ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10 - Cached
  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    Great information about significant events in the 150 years of MN History. Click around and search for good stuff!
ronhustvedt

Prologue | Discovering the Civil War | U.S. National Archives - 33 views

www.archives.gov/...prologue

slavery civilwar historyday primarysources photos database secondarysources

shared by ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    Have a topic related to the U.S. Civil War, slavery or that general time period? This is a great website for you to explore.
ronhustvedt

Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights - 44 views

www.archives.gov/...charters

8thgrade civics historyday primarysources secondarysources photos database documents constitution

shared by ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10 - Cached
  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    A mandatory website for 8th graders but a good one for any topic related to Constitutional debate/diplomacy as well as any connection to the foundation of our nation.
ronhustvedt

Eyewitness - 37 views

www.archives.gov/...html.php

primarysources secondarysources historyday archives database library childlabor civilrights womensuffrage womenmedical germany nixon atomic yalta cubanmissilecrisis johnadams apollo

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  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    Great photos here for some of your topics...
Michele Amato

Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights - 45 views

www.archives.gov/...charters_of_freedom_1.html

primary documents proclamations declarations constitution articles

shared by Michele Amato on 14 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Michele Amato on 14 Mar 10
     
    The site is a government site that has official documents. We are interested in the first documents of our country. The little squares at teh top take you to different documents created when this country was trying to become free from England as well as how our government, laws and procedures were formed after we became independent. 
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