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nakins

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • “I had to go on a vacation-photo diet,” admitted Laura Zigman, a novelist. “I had this bizarre, voyeuristic habit of scrolling through people’s travel photos online and then feeling like, ‘Why haven’t I walked the Great Wall of China?’ And guilt: ‘I should be taking my son to Spain.’ I don’t even like to travel!”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Zigman, a naysayer, who doesn't even like travelling makes a concession, saying that she was roped into wanting to vacation like many of her online friends, because her friends had done it. 
  • Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and author of “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other,” spoke of the effects. “People pay a psychological price for seeing information about former friends and spouses and colleagues that they really shouldn’t be seeing,” she said. It’s not good for our emotional health and, she said, “it makes people feel bad because they know they shouldn’t look at this stuff — but they can’t help it!”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Turkle is a naysayer, believing that people should not be lookning at other peoples information in the way that they do. She finds that people often have a negative emotional feedback from "creeping" on other's online life because they know that they shouldn't, but she also points out that people just can't help looking at it.
  • “People will post things on my Facebook walls — political statements that are just strange — religious rants that don’t reflect my values,” said Adam Werbach, chief sustainability officer at Saatchi & Saatchi. “I feel like I’ve got to scrub it off like a graffiti squeegee man.” But while other peoples’ unsolicited information can be amusing or annoying, it can also be hurtful.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author seems to be kind of disagreeing with Werbach by making the argument that while in some cases you are able to just remove little things from your online profile, the kind of things you find amusing at the time, there are some pieces of your information that aren't so easily removed online. Therefore, those pieces of information can really hurt someone in some way.
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  • “For most of my life, I’d encounter people and then they’d be gone,” said Caitlin Flanagan, the cultural critic. “You’d have to go to a major library and pore through phone books or hire a private detective to track them down.” Now it’s way too easy. “You can get this instant download and find out their whole life story and download all their pictures,” she said. “But then you’re like, ‘That’s enough of that person.’ ”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Flanagan is a naysayer here. She begins by making the point that before online profiles you would have had to literally search for a person, but now you're able to find them online and instantly get tired of that person. She feels that is "too easy" to find them now and get so much of their life so fast.
kevin buchan

A State Analysis of High School Coaching Certification Requirements for Head Baseball C... - 0 views

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  • Currently, less than 8% of school coaches receive a specific education to coach (Martens, Flannery, and Roetert, 2003). Only 13 states specify that coaches must have a teaching certificate, and all of these states allow exceptions to this rule (NASBE, 2003
  • By 2000, 40% of the states required coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, and 34% required coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • As a result of the lack of the states' initiative of requiring or recommending CPR and first-aid certification for all coaches, in 2003, the NFHS recommended that all coaches (experienced and non-experienced): (1) possess a current and valid CPR and first aid certification and (2) complete a planned systematic coaching education curriculum by 2006 (NASBE, 2003). In addition, the NFHS recommended that even certified teachers serving as head coaches maintain their professional development by completing a minimum of one coaching education course per year during their coaching tenure (NASBE, 2003).
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  • Among the co-ed middle/junior and senior high schools that offered co-ed interscholastic sports (99.2%), 51.7% required their head coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001). In addition, 51.3% and 45.6% of these secondary schools required head coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, respectively (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • Currently, there are 40 states that have adopted, recommended, or required one of two national certification programs (ASEP or PACE) for their respective head coaches (Jackowiak, 2003). Currently, ASEP continues to work with 40 state high school associations to provide coaching educational information for more than 25,000 coaches per year (ASEP, 2006)
nakins

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Colby Hall, as the naysayer, is objecting to the overload of too much information that comes from old friends in Kansas. This naysaying points agrees with the overall argument that Paul is making about there just being too much unnecessary information shared.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author, Paul, is the naysayer. Here she makes an informal objection to the idea the Google spokesman presented, believing the Web already has enough "faces" in "the faceless Web," and not much of what Google Plus members can add will attribute to the Web productively. 
  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer here, disagreeing with the idea that you can hide out online from the people that you are trying to ignore. Instead of just ignoring them, she argues that you can end up searching to find the information that you try so hard to avoid. Because you know that it is still there online.
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  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.” Even if we like a person, we don’t necessarily like — or even “like” — what we find out about them online.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Here, the author and Pam Houston are both naysayers. Houston disagrees in needing to friend the suggest person she could know, because she knows how that person messes with her mood. While the author feels that even when you might actually like a person in reality, the person they are online may not be a person you like, because of what you find out online.
Constance Critchlow

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • The whole system is giving very ambitious people much less chance to reinvent themselves,” said Jaron Lanier, author of “You Are Not a Gadget,” and the change is less dramatic. Who would Bob Dylan end up as, he wondered, if Zimmerman were there with him the whole time?
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      kandice miller on 23 Feb 12
       
      Jaron Lanier is a naysayer, who makes a very valid point. Social media getting into our heads, and not in a good way. It's slowly but surely turning our world into self conscience creeps. Lanier's comment about Bob Dylan makes me think that the reason for his success had to do with the fact that, "he did him." His unique style made him who he was as an artist. Could we be just as unique without the constant thought of what our "friends" on facebook or twitter would think?
  • What does this mean for our own data spills? “Honestly, I’m more worried about people finding out stuff about me,” said Jill Soloway, a comedian and TV writer and producer. “A lot of times I’ll post things like, ‘Let’s organize a hipster Jewish Shabbat!’ and then I think, what if businesspeople think I’m this religious Jewish person now? Something that seems fun and silly to me might seem really weird to a co-worker.
kandice miller

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer. She disagrees that there is an online escape for many, because they choose to find what they are trying to avoid. Even though you can ignore someones updates, you can still get to a point that you crave the information and desire to search it out on their pages. 
  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Houston is a naysayer, she disagrees that a suggest online friend could become an online friend. The anticipated online persona and the person alone would only have a negative impact on her mood for the day.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author here is a naysayer, disagreeing with the information relayed by the Google spokesman. Instead of seeing the information of the Google plus members being well integrated into the Web in a productive manner, Paul finds that it would just be a negative addition adding more unnecessary "faces" to the "faceless Web."
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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Colby Hall is a naysayer here, that agrees with the opening paragraphs of the author, that there is just too much unnecessary things going on online being relayed by friends. In Hall's case, it the "dear" old friends asking you to help out in a ridiculous online game you don't care about.
  • Sure, you can unfollow, unsubscribe, de-link or tune people out. “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,” Andy Borowitz, a humorist, “shared” in an e-mail. “The only equivalent option in the real world is strangulation.”
    • kandice miller
      kandice miller on 23 Feb 12
       
      Andy Borowitz is a naysayer because he is stating the fact that social networks give someone the ability to block another person. Which would get rid of their problem of always having to see what they were doing. 
jared lambeth

Diigo Naysayers - 1 views

1-"Some critics say colleges use technology to scale up" 2-"Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the squad" 3-"So...

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Chris Melendez

The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands NaySayers - 0 views

I can't figure out how to do highlight the article without everyone else highlights on it. . 1. "others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary" 2."expensive burden in an on...

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Greg Graham

Class tomorrow (2/28) - 1 views

If you have a laptop, please bring it to class tomorrow.

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Juan Mayen

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer, Pamela is recognizing that some people might say that this can be amusing or annoying. With Pamela writing this specific passage, this passage helps her expand upon other aspect such as the, "it can also be hurtful."
Kevin Gardner

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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      Kevin Gardner on 23 Feb 12
       
      Here, Pamela Paul is positioning the google spokesperson (who is a proponent of the new type of google search) as a naysayer to her argument that that our ever increasing connectedness to past relationships by way of social media is a curse and not a blessing. She deals with this opposition by mocking the notion of "the faceless web" and asserts that we have the exact opposite problem. She obviously does not take the google spokespersons position seriously because she twists it in her summary with the yellow bikini anecdote.
nakins

The American Scholar: The Decline of the English Department - William M. Chace - 0 views

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  • The number of young men and women majoring in English has dropped dramatically
  • hile the study of English has become less popular among undergraduates, the study of business has risen to become the most popular major in the nation’s colleges and universities.
  • There are several, but at the root is the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with passion, the books they teach and to make a strong case to undergraduates that the knowledge of those books and the tradition in which they exist is a human good in and of itself.
    • nakins
      nakins on 01 Mar 12
       
      This seems to sound like the author's opinion here. This appears to be one of his reasons for the decline of the number of students in the English major field.
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  • Here is how the numbers have changed from 1970/71 to 2003/04 (the last academic year with available figures): English: from 7.6 percent of the majors to 3.9 percent Foreign languages and literatures: from 2.5 percent to 1.3 percent Philosophy and religious studies: from 0.9 percent to 0.7 percent History: from 18.5 percent to 10.7 percent Business: from 13.7 percent to 21.9 percent
  • Increasingly into public, not private, schools.
  • Students in public schools tended toward majors in managerial, technical, and pre-professional fields while students in private schools pursued more traditional and less practical academic subjects.
  • By contrast, private schools have until now been the most secure home of the humanities. But today even some liberal arts colleges are offering fewer courses in the liberal arts and more courses that are “practical.”
  • Yet the “glory years” of English and American literature turn out to have been brief. Before we regret the decline of the literary humanities, then, we must acknowledge how fleeting their place in the sun was.
  • Finding pleasure in such reading, and indeed in majoring in English, was a declaration at the time that education was not at all about getting a job or securing one’s future.
  • Studying English taught us how to write and think better, and to make articulate many of the inchoate impulses and confusions of our post-adolescent minds. We began to see, as we had not before,
  • however: it is responsible for teaching composition. While this duty is always advertised as an activity central to higher education, it is one devoid of dignity. Its instructors are among the lowest paid of any who hold forth in a classroom; most, though possessing doctoral degrees, are ineligible for tenure or promotion; their offices are often small and crowded; their scholarship is rarely considered worthy of comparison with “literary” scholarship. Their work, while crucial, is demeaned.
  • rise of public education; the relative youth and instability (despite its apparent mature solidity) of English as a discipline; the impact of money; and the pressures upon departments within the modern university to attract financial resources rather than simply use them up. On all these scores, English has suffered. But the deeper explanation resides not in something that has happened to it, but in what it has done to itself.
  • English has become less and less coherent as a discipline and, worse, has come near exhaustion as a scholarly pursuit. English departments have not responded energetically and resourcefully to the situation surrounding them. While aware of their increasing marginality, English professors do not, on the whole, accept it. Reluctant to take a clear view of their circumstances—some of which are not under their control—they react by asserting grandiose claims while pursuing self-centered ends.
zjackson1

Male Nurses Defy Stereotypes - 0 views

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