Ten lessons Despite the lecturer's best efforts, however, it becomes more difficult to hold the attention of the students as the term wears on, and they start falling asleep in class under those circumstances should be a source of satisfaction for a teacher, since it confirms that they have been doing their jobs. There students have been up half the night-maybe all night-finishing problem sets and preparing for their midterm exams. Four courses in science and engineering each term is a heavy workload for anyone; very few students fail to learn, first and foremost, the discipline of intensive and constant work. Lesson Two: You learn what you don't know you are learning. Students join forces on the problem sets, and some students benefit more than others from these weekly collective efforts. Lesson Three: By and large, "knowing how" matters more than "knowing what." To be sure, the content of "knowing what" courses if often the most memorable.
IQNOMY Liquid Internet is the new way of doing business online! How to Identify Top Websites & Blogs in Your Category Flickr / Marcel Germain I often advise new bloggers to identify the top blogs or communities for their target audience, and build relationships with those bloggers. (Don’t see blogging as a competition. It’s a community.) But then the question arises, how do you identify the top websites and blogs in your category or for your audience? Here are free methods and resources you can use. Topsy. With No. 9 in mind, I hope you’ll share your favorite techniques for uncovering the top blogs or sites for a specific category or audience. Writing + Money + Life If you enjoyed this article, then I think you'll love Scratch, a new digital magazine that I founded to help writers learn more about the business side of publishing.
' + booktitle);</script> This section of the Companion Website offers links to sites that give advice and support to student writers. Many of the links below are part of larger sites that are worth exploring more fully. See also the sites that give advice about how best to use a writing center tutorial. Writing Tips This site offers tips and tools for writers on a variety of topics. The Eserver The EServer hosted by Iowa State University is a particularly rich site of information for writers as they brainstorm, research, draft, and develop projects on language, literacy, culture, and virtual communities. University of Missouri-Columbia's Online Writery The Writery is a virtual community for writers based at the University of Missouri-Columbia's learning center. Other Online Writing Centers and Resources The University of Maine maintains a list of online writing centers. Proofreading vs. The Writing Process This page is sponsored by the Writing Center at Cleveland State University Ohio.
What Really Matters to Working Students - Do Your Job Better By Brian P. Hall A student who had attended one of my developmental English courses only six times in 11 weeks stopped me in the hall before class to turn in a paper. I asked if she would be in class that day. Angry that, once again, my class was not part of that "business," I decided to have a candid conversation with my students about why school just doesn't seem that important to many of them. For almost two hours, we discussed attitudes and expectations—theirs and mine. What follows are anecdotes and suggestions in my students' own words—including italicized comments from particular students—that focus on what the majority of them felt were the most important areas to discuss. Managing life and academics. We do understand, as students, that professors want us performing at our academic best and that they have expectations they want met. For example, I was yelled at in front of the whole class. Mutual respect. Motivation is fragile. I stayed in that class and passed. Brian P.
7 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Klout Score Aim high. It's a worthy goal for credit scores, SATs and now, Klout scores. These days, more and more social networkers are looking to boost their Klout rating and show others the power of their social influence. Klout — which provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn – has received much criticism since its inception in 2009 not only for its business model but also for its operating principle. The analysis is executed using data taken from sites such as Twitter and Facebook and measures the size of a person's network, the content created and how other people interact with that content. "I wouldn’t say Klout is the ‘standard of influence’ as their tagline boldly proclaims, but they can measure one thing, and increasingly well: how content moves through an online network and how people react to it," Mark W. Are you below your target Klout score? 1. Do you think Klout scores really matter?
NOTCOT.ORG The Rise of the Social Media Curator The Internet is a mess. There’s so much information out there that it’s a blessing we can find anything at all. Sure, you can ask Google for a hint, as long as you know what you’re looking for. Which is why we need filters. Whether they are posting to a standalone site that brings together the best content of the Web, or constantly tweeting links to the information that you want to see, these curators spend their time as the Internet’s funnel and educate you as to what’s happening in the areas you care about most. Maria Popova is a cultural curator and writer at Wired, the Atlantic and many other publications. When you think about the amount of information on the Internet, a social media curator’s job seems impossible. So while the Internet may seem big and scary, curation is happening all around us. In the future, content curation is going to be an incredibly important part of managing the Internet. by Thomas Samph www.grovo.com @twsamph Connect: Authored by: Thomas Samph
Brain Pickings A Dictionary of Video Game Theory Preface This dictionary of video game theory is a companion to my book, Half-Real. With the dictionary, I hope to provide a resource for students, researchers, teachers, and game players looking for terminological clarifications and pointers to further reading. A list of works cited can be found at the bottom of the page. The dictionary is not intended to be encyclopedic, but takes its starting point from the issues discussed in the book. sign indicates an issue that is elaborated in Half-Real. If there is any term that you would like to see listed in the dictionary, please send me a mail with your request . Jesper Juul, Copenhagen, November 2005. Abstract game An abstract game has rules, but no fictional world. Half-Real, chapter 4. Aesthetic index "The aesthetic index of a puzzle, as it may be called, seems to be inversely proportional to the complexity of its solution or to the obviousness of the pattern, trap, or trick it hides." Half-Real, chapter 3. Aesthetic goal Half-Real, chapter 2. Agon