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Here are 392 phylogeny packages and 54 free web servers, (almost) all that I know about. It is an attempt to be completely comprehensive. I have not made any attempt to exclude programs that do not meet some standard of quality or importance. Updates to these pages are made roughly monthly. Here is a "waiting list" of new programs waiting to have their full entries constructed. Many of the programs in these pages are available on the web, and some of the older ones are also available from ftp server machines. The programs listed below include both free and non-free ones; in some cases I do not know whether a program is free. Email addresses in these pages have had the @ symbol replaced by (at) and also surrounded by invisible confusing tags and blank characters in hopes of foiling spambots that harvest email addresses. ... by methods available ... by computer systems on which they work ... cross-referenced by method and by computer system. ... by ones which analyze particular kinds of data. Related:  Skillsets

How-to (GoogleSites) - ePortfolios with GoogleApps developed by Helen C. Barrett, Ph.D. Keeping a Learning Journal The Announcements page type can be used as a form of "blog" or learning journal (sometimes called a learning portfolio), since it allows individual posts, and it is organized in reverse chronological order. The learner can also attach documents to any entry, or can create a link to any GoogleDocs Document/Presentation/Spreadsheet, to another GoogleSites page, or any web page. Create a New Page with Announcements page type.Create a New Post for each entry, to reflect on learning that takes place over time.Use the Insert -> Recent posts Gadget on any page to show a summary of the last few entries (you can indicate the number) -- recommend placing on Home page. At a certain point in time (prior to a parent conference, end of the school year, etc.), a more formal presentation portfolio would be developed, which is discussed below. Authoring an electronic portfolio Create a first page - Introduction & Table of Contents Link to a page

Students don't pursue STEM because it's too hard, say 52% of Americans When Americans are asked why more students don’t pursue a degree in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM), they are most likely to point to the difficulty of these subjects, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. About half of adults (52%) say the main reason young people don’t pursue STEM degrees is they think these subjects are too hard. Policymakers and educators have long puzzled over why more students do not pursue STEM majors in college, even though those who have an undergraduate degree in a STEM field of study earn more than those with other college majors – regardless of whether they work in a STEM job or a different occupation. Yet only a third of workers (33%) ages 25 and older with at least a bachelor’s degree have an undergraduate degree in a STEM field, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. Only 13% of the U.S. workforce was employed in STEM occupations as of 2016, while the vast majority (87%) was employed in other occupations.

The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work (And Why You Should Use It Too) In 1960, two men made a bet. There was only $50 on the line, but millions of people would feel the impact of this little wager. The first man, Bennett Cerf, was the founder of the publishing firm, Random House. The second man was named Theo Geisel, but you probably know him as Dr. Seuss. Dr. At first glance, you might think this was a lucky fluke. Here's what we can learn from Dr. The Power of Constraints What Dr. Setting limits for yourself — whether that involves the time you have to work out, the money you have to start a business, or the number of words you can use in a book — often delivers better results than “keeping your options open.” In fact, Dr. In my experience, I've seen that constraints can also provide benefits in health, business, and life in general. 1. If you’re five foot five inches tall and you’re playing basketball, you figure out more creative ways to score than the six foot five inch guy. Limitations drive you to figure out solutions. 2. Constraints are Not the Enemy

Stanford psychology expert: The No. 1 work skill of the future It’s 9 a.m.: You walk into the office, sit down, fire up your computer and attempt to start your workday. Ping! Everyone is talking about Trump’s latest tweet. You pick up your phone to look at the news notification and answer your text, only to check a Facebook post and then watch a Youtube video. A lack of focus comes at a cost The challenge at work, of course, has always been to dodge things that distract us. The amount of information available, the speed at which it can be disseminated and the ubiquity of access to new content on our devices has made for a trifecta of distraction. What’s the cost of all this? That was true decades ago, but it’s truer than ever today. The most important skill of the 21st century The workplace is rapidly changing, and in the near future, there will be two kinds of people in the world: those who let their attention and lives be controlled and coerced by others and those who proudly call themselves “indistractable.” Email Group chats Meetings Your phone

How to tell if you’re being ‘breadcrumbed’ at work - BBC Worklife Stop breadcrumbing me! Our modern dating vocabulary is making its way into our work lexicon, and it’s bringing more life and colour to the way we describe our experiences. Have you ever been ghosted by a potential employer? Or have you ghosted them? Now, thanks to the latest series of the reality TV show Love Island, we have a new word for an old practice: breadcrumbing. “Breadcrumbing is when you leave little bits of bread for someone. Whether you’re being strung along in a drawn-out hiring process or your existing employer is leading you on, breadcrumbing gives you “just enough” to keep you on the line. “Breadcrumbing is really a modern term for what we used to call intermittent reinforcement, which is one of the strongest ways to develop someone's behaviour,” says B Lynn Ware, an industrial/organisational psychologist and the CEO of a leadership consultancy in California. But what if they’re not actually using it for employee development?

Why Phone Conversations Are Better Than Texting Nevertheless, I’m here today to confess my sins and ask forgiveness from all those whose voicemails I have not listened to. To fully repent, I must make clear what I now know to be the truth: Phone calls are good, actually. One of the best arguments in favor of phone calls will be obvious to anyone who’s ever gone back and forth for three days via email trying to pick a spot for Tuesday’s happy hour. Guhan Subramanian, the director of the Harvard Program on Negotiation, which teaches business- and law-school students the finer points of conflict resolution, argues that spoken conversation accomplishes far more in a shorter amount of time. This difference is what first pushed me back to phone calls. With so many digital avenues now available for reaching someone, the problem with phone calls is not that they’re inconvenient. I’m not advocating a wholesale rejection of texting in favor of speaking. But that itself can come with some drawbacks, according to Subramanian.

How To Stop Checking Your Phone: 4 Secrets From Research Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. If I told you we check our phones 5 billion times a minute you’d probably just shrug and agree. Here’s what NYU professor Adam Alter told me: There’s a study that was done asking people, mainly young adults, to make a decision: if you had to break a bone or break your phone what would you prefer? May I suggest that this has finally gotten out of hand? We’re not looking at the problem correctly. You do not have a short attention span. Have you had multiple car crashes this week because you can’t pay attention to the road? See? That’s not a short attention span. This thing you call “your life” is made of memories. These days we spend so much time trying to get others attention yet the true determinant of our happiness is where we direct our own. We have a “mind control” problem. So what do we do? Nah. Good. Well, I lied. Sum Up

Are we losing the art of telephone conversation? | Zoe Williams Statistics illustrating our addiction to our smartphones come out quite frequently and receive a lot of attention for information so unsurprising; it will come as no shock to anyone that the average Briton checks her phone every 12 minutes. Indeed, I’d like to pick a fight with the blandness of the questions asked in Ofcom’s latest telecommunications report. I wish they’d included: “Have you ever picked up your phone to Google where your phone is?” Or: “Have you ever smashed or otherwise been suddenly deprived of your phone, and wanted to stand in the street howling like a wolf?” The report belongs in the news category “things we already knew, but are worried about, so will continue to pick at like a scab”. Digital natives probably wouldn’t understand a phone call of the olden days; meandering, one-on-one, hours long. The other great disincentive is the voicemail: there’s nobody left on Earth who listens to them, but everyone has a recorded message insisting that they will.

ePortfolio Tools | ePortfolio Review Please add and review the eportfolio system you use at your school, college or university. Below is a list of the eportfolios we are reviewing along with others we felt were worth noting. Please comment on the eportfolio platforms and make suggestions for others we should review. Please indicate which eportfolio category (categories) best suit the eportfolio platform you are reviewing…Showcase, Learning, Career and Course/Program Assessment. Epsilen Showcase eportfolio – no charge Epsilen Environment is the result of six years of research and development at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Like this: Like Loading...

Teaching the Research Process Through Podcasting Instead of an Essay I have to be honest: I’ve often dreaded teaching research papers in my high school English classes. When students would turn in their papers, they would have composition issues that needed to be addressed, and there were so many other problems: questionable sources, MLA formatting mistakes, instances of plagiarism. Often I wouldn’t even know where to start assessing this work, even though these are all skills I consider essential in my classroom. Eventually I came to realize that they didn’t all have to be taught at the same time. I also needed to find ways to help motivate my students to take ownership of their research process because the biggest problem with the papers was their incredible blandness. Choosing and Narrowing Topics I had them form small groups and set them to work discussing topics they might work on. Next the groups created research questions. Using Mentor Texts We listened to several podcasts before and during the research process. What parts of this are interesting?

Evaluating multimedia presentations I don’t like PowerPoint. I’m happy to admit that; in fact I proclaim it loudly whenever I have the opportunity. PowerPoint became popular because it made presentations easy, but I would argue that it makes them too easy, encouraging and enabling presenters to dumb down what they have to say, letting the slides speak for them and condensing complicated arguments into simplistic bullet points from which the audience is continually distracted by a jumble of irrelevant images, sounds, and animations. It doesn’t have to be this way — and if we’re going to use PowerPoint in the classroom, we can’t allow it to be this way. So when you use PowerPoint or ask your students to use it, think carefully about what your educational purpose is, and always keep that in mind. Four rules for multimedia presentations in education When you consider adding a multimedia aid such as a slideshow to your presentation, or ask students to create a multimedia presentation, keep these four rules in mind. 1. 2. 3. 4.

ePortfolio Project Housed in University Writing, the ePortfolio Project is a campus-wide initiative that offers Auburn students the opportunity to create personal websites that: Communicate and showcase skills, experiences, and learningContain diverse artifacts—documents and mediaContextualize those artifacts for potential employers, graduate schools, etc. The heart of the ePortfolio Project is the learning that happens as students revisit and reconsider their Auburn experience for a real audience. Departments and programs are taking up the ePortfolio Project in ways that make sense for their contexts, most often by integrating aspects of ePortfolios into curriculum, mentoring students as they identify goals and engage in reflection, and investigating the connections between ePortfolios and critical thinking. Auburn University supports these efforts by providing grant funding, recognizing exemplary practices, and providing faculty and student instruction.

Formula for success in learning If you have found this place in the vast cyberspace of the web, you are probably not the one to convince that knowledge is power, and that solutions to most problems facing humanity could be found if we were armed with more understanding of how the world works. While knowledge is power, information can be overpowering. An increasing proportion of the population suffers from Information Fatigue Syndrome, i.e. from stress related to being overwhelmed with an unmanageable glut of information. This text introduces you to simple steps toward managing information and toward rock-solid knowledge. No cheap miracles. Just a clear and straight approach based on facts and science. I have been working on the problem of effective learning for 16 years now since, as a student of molecular biology, I first understood how I could greatly change the quality of all my actions were I able to improve the recall of what I studied for exams (and not only). You may find the first three points obvious.

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