Emerging Writers Institute - Education Unlimited Emerging Writers Institute creative writing camp is a two-week summer writing program for teens. Rising 10th-12th graders experience a unique curriculum designed to develop and support students’ imaginative writing across literary genres. This creative writing summer program encourages students to challenge themselves technically and artistically through guided daily writing workshops, one-on-one instructor evaluations, group editing sessions, and creative presentations of their work. Moreover, the participants in the program will be uniquely positioned to profit from the literary culture of the San Francisco Bay Area. What makes our summer creative writing programs at Stanford University, Yale University and UC Berkeley distinctive? A curricular emphasis in expressive writing as a process, rather than in rules or formulas. Students select a major focus area called a Writer’s Block. "I learned to be true to my own voice and write about believable, developed characters."
College Open Textbooks - College Open Textbooks summer programs Open Source Textbooks - IAE-Pedia Introduction We are all used to the idea of free public lending libraries. Benjamin Franklin helped to get this idea started in the United States well over 200 years ago. Moreover, the idea of free public schools for all is well accepted. Thus, it is not too great a leap to have a vision of education and educational materials being made available free to people of all ages throughout the world. Free education could (should) be a birthright for all. Of course, we have a very long way to go in achieving such a vision. The Internet and rapidly improving telecommunications access and facilities throughout the world have brought a new dimension to the idea of universal, free education. Of course, we have to think more carefully about the meaning of "free." In addition, it costs to access the Internet. Finally, there is the cost of the devices people use to access the Internet. See: Straumsheim, C (11/4/2014). Quoting from this document: Developing Free Educational Materials June 28. 2010. None.
LIFE Center: News March 5, 2014 LIFE Center leads a delegation Science of Learning Centers to an international convention in Shanghai In fall 2013, the LIFE Center, under the leadership of PI Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D., was awarded a Science of Learning Activities grant (SMA-1352991) to support the participation of U.S. researchers in an international gathering of scientists, educational practitioners, and policy makers. The U.S. researchers who participated, as keynote speakers and discussants, represented Science of Learning Centers funded by the National Science Foundation. Over the six days in Shanghai, four events were held: (1) Science of Learning Symposium on March 1; (2) Education Roundtable at East China Normal University on March 2; (3) Dialogue on Science of Learning on March 3-4; and (4) International Forum on Science of Learning and Innovation in Education on March 5-6. A photo gallery! July 2, 2013 June 14, 2013 LIFE Center PI and Director Patricia Kuhl interviewed on NPR Science Friday March 2010
O'Reilly Open Books Project O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright--over the years. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors. Perhaps a book was outdated enough to be put out of print, yet some people still needed the information it covered. Or the author or subject of a book felt strongly that it should be published under a particular open copyright. Maybe the book was written collectively by a particular community, as in the case of our Community Press books. But there's more to making Open Books available online than simply adopting an open license or giving up rights granted under copyright law. We're happy to have partnered with two innovative nonprofits, Creative Commons and the Internet Archive, to solve the licensing and digitizing challenges involved in bringing Open Books to readers. Donate to Creative Commons and the Internet Archive:
How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations This tutorial describes how you can embed videos from YouTube, Facebook and other Flash videos into your PowerPoint presentation slides. You can insert YouTube videos in your PowerPoint presentations in two ways. You can either “embed” the Flash video in the slide itself or you can link to the YouTube video from the slide that will auto-play when the presenter clicks on the video link. Which approach should you follow? Embed YouTube Videos Directly into PowerPoint This is the recommended option if you are sure that the presentation venue will have good Internet connectivity. You simply have to type the URL of the YouTube video and follow the wizard to embed the YouTube video player in your current PowerPoint slide. Play YouTube Videos in PowerPoint without Internet The only problem with the above approach is that it streams live YouTube videos and thus an internet connection is required to playback the video during the slideshow. Get Videos from Google Docs into PowerPoint
A First Course in Linear Algebra (A Free Textbook) Open-Source Textbooks Instead I am concentrating recommendations and examples within the undergraduate mathematics curriculum, so please visit the Open Math Curriculum page. If you are linking to this site, please use that page for a broad list, or link to linear.pugetsound.edu specifically for the Linear Algebra text. Thanks for your help publicizing open textbooks. This page contains some links to similar open-source textbooks. Free Textbooks Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications, by Thomas W. Freedom Some thoughts on open-content, intellectual property, open-source software and books.The Economy of Ideas An essay on intellectual property, copyright and digital media. Sources of Open-Content Textbook Revolution Careful capsule descriptions of free textbooks in many disciplines. Licensing Open-Content Free Software Foundation GNU licenses, popular for software projects.
SearchReSearch Wikibooks Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America? The tech sector is set to grow faster than all but five industries by 2020. Out of those fields, half of which are related to healthcare, tech pays the best with an average salary of $78,730, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If technology is the future, however, we are doing a woeful job of preparing our kids for it. Computer science is the only one of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields that has actually seen a decrease in student participation over the last 20 years, from 25% of high school students to only 19%, according to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics. (MORE: Reboot the School) Meanwhile, tech companies are so desperate for talent that — in the face of a worker shortage partly due to the H-1B visa cap — a company is planning to build an 1,800-person floating city for foreign entrepreneurs in international waters off the coast of San Francisco. Why the disconnect? Why isn’t computer science a core course? Tech Repair