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Story Maps

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SPS Projects: Global Issues, 7th Grade Social Studies Contributing Teacher: Shawn Thomas Name of Project: Global Issues Content Area: 7th Grade Social Studies District Goal Strategies Used: Turn an old laptop into a Chromebook-Linux hybrid - CNET Common scenario: You buy a new laptop, thinking you'll sell, donate or hand down the old one... but it never happens. Maybe you don't want to deal with the hassles of Craigslist or Ebay, not to mention wiping all your data, reinstalling Windows and so on. Whatever the case, now it's just taking up space. But it doesn't have to: You can give that old laptop new life. With Linux, right? Wrong!

Further Frontiers in GIS: Extending Spatial Analysis to Textual Sources in Archaeology : Open Archaeology [1] L. Isaksen, ‘The application of network analysis to ancient transport geography: A case study of Roman Baetica’, Digital Medievalist, vol. 4, 2008. [2] J. Baker and S. Brookes, ‘Outside the gate: sub-urban legal practices in early medieval England’, World Archaeology, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 747–761, Dec. 2013, doi: 10.1080/00438243.2013.865330.

vep.cs.wisc The following links will allow users to play with live, running versions of three sample models that we have built and are hosting on our own server. These models are also included with the Serendip installation (which will likely yield better performance). Note: our server might have trouble with heavy traffic--best performance is achieved through downloading the tool and running it locally. Shakespeare_50 This model of 50 topics was built on a corpus of the 36 plays of William Shakespeare. The documents were divided into chunks of 1000 words for the model, and then stitched back together to create full documents. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series) Linguists predict that some 3,000 languages spoken will go extinct within the next century. (Photo: Paul Stevenson/Flickr) Our latest Freakonomics Radio episode is called “Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series).” (You can subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts or elsewhere, get the RSS feed, or listen via the media player above.) There are 7,000 languages spoken on Earth.

2018 Managing 100 Digital Humanities Projects: Digital Scholarship & Archiving in King’s Digital Lab James Smithies, King's College London; Carina Westling, King's College London; Anna-Maria Sichani, King's College London; Pam Mellen, King's College London; Arianna Ciula, King's College London Modelling Medieval Hands: Practical OCR for Caroline Minuscule Brandon W. TimeMap: Time-based Interactive Mapping - Time Map Skip to main content The University of Sydney - Time Map Refine search Faculty of ArtsUniversity of Sydney Lizzie Miles A promotional portrait of jazz and blues vocalist, Lizzie Miles signed "To My darling mother, From Liz." Learn more » Lizzie Miles was the stage name of Elizabeth Mary Landreaux, a blues and jazz vocalist whose career spanned the advent of jazz in New Orleans to its post–World War II revival.

The Source of the Mekong - A River's Tail After more than a year and half of following the Mekong through four countries, we end our journey more than five kilometres higher and nearly 5000km away from where we started at the South China Sea. Writing and Colour Photographs by Luc Forsyth, Black and White Photographs by Gareth Bright, Videography by Pablo Chavanel. About the authors It wasn’t until we turned off the paved highway and onto a roughly graded dirt road that the reality of finishing our project began to set in.

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