Talk the Talk: How to Give a Great Presentation — The Open University This hands-on course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to create and deliver confident presentations and speeches. <p>Unable to play video. Please enable JavaScript or consider upgrading your browser. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% This free six-week course introduces the mechanics of effective, persuasive oral presentations, by giving you the opportunity to analyse examples and then create your own. You will find your own examples of impressive presentations, share and discuss them with other students. At the end of the course you will have a powerful presentation you have created and can be proud of, which you can take away with you and present with confidence in your academic, professional or personal life.
The New York Times Upfront | The news magazine for high school Does the Use of Information Technology in Education Encourage Cheating? - Community - Utne Reader In The War on Learning (MIT Press, 2014) Elizabeth Losh examines current efforts to “reform” the use of information technology in education, particularly in higher education. She finds that many technological solutions to educational problems fail because they treat education as a product rather than a process, and proposes six basic principles of digital learning integral to successful university-based initiatives. The following excerpt comes from Chapter 1, “What They Learn in College.” “GMA,” said the woman answering the phone on the opposite coast. Months before, I had written an item on my blog about the existence of online cheating videos, created by high school and college students, that demonstrate elaborate techniques designed to boost examination scores. My story about these academic dishonesty videos on YouTube had been picked up by a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Generational Divides in the Use of Information Technology
Veterinary Laparoscopy - Veterinary Keyhole Surgery May, 1998, From Now On Introduction: The New Plagiarism Could electronic text spawn a virulent strain of student copying? Is cut-and-paste the enemy of thought? Many teachers who work in "wired schools" are complaining that new technologies have made it all too easy for students to gather the ideas of others and present them as their own. The New York Times reports that "cheating is on the rise." (Go to September 16, 1998 article) The New Plagiarism may be worse than the old because students now wield an Electronic Shovel that makes it possible to find and save huge chunks of information with little reading, effort or originality. Is the New Plagiarism any worse than the old? Under the old system of "go find out about" topical research, it took students a huge amount of time to move words from the encyclopedia pages onto white index cards, changing one word in each sentence so as to avoid plagiarism. The New Plagiarism requires little effort and is geometrically more powerful. Level One Research "Just the Facts"
The "Bulte Report" Redux: Canadian Heritage Committee Releases Embarrassingly One-Sided Remuneration Models Study The Canadian government announced its plans for a copyright review in December 2017, tasking the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology with the review. That report has been in the drafting stage for several months and is expected before the summer. In an effort to dampen concerns that Canadian Heritage would play a diminished role in the review, the responsible ministers asked the Industry committee to ask the Heritage committee to conduct a review on remuneration models for artists and creative industries. The formal request asked the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to “call upon the expertise of a broad range of stakeholders impacted by copyright to ensure a holistic understanding of the issues at play.” Rather than providing the recommendations directly to the Industry committee as requested, the Heritage committee and chair Julie Dabrusin, a Liberal MP, chose instead to release its full report today.
What Would A Dog Do: USDA Approves Therapeutic Melanoma Vaccine for Dogs What Would A Dog Do Vical Announces Licensee's Approval of ONCEPT(TM) Therapeutic Melanoma Vaccine for Dogs Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq:VICL) announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted the company's licensee Merial Limited, the animal health subsidiary of sanofi-aventis, full licensure for its ONCEPT(TM) canine melanoma vaccine, a therapeutic DNA vaccine designed to aid in extending survival of dogs with oral melanoma. "The approval of ONCEPT(TM) is a milestone in the cancer vaccine field and a significant advancement for our DNA delivery technology platform," said Vijay B. About ONCEPT(TM) The ONCEPT(TM) canine melanoma vaccine contains a gene encoding human tyrosinase, an enzyme associated with skin pigmentation. ONCEPT(TM) significantly extends survival time following primary tumor removal. About Canine Melanoma Melanoma is a common type of cancer in dogs and is the most common malignant tumor of the dog's mouth and can also occur in the nail and footpad. About Vical
Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and international developments. The content and technology industries affected by copyright and its exceptions, and in some cases balancing the two, have become increasingly important as sources of economic growth, relatively high-paying jobs, and exports. Since the expansion of digital technology in the mid-1990s, they have undergone a technological revolution that has disrupted long-established modes of creating, distributing, and using works ranging from literature and news to film and music to scientific publications and computer software. Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy examines a range of questions regarding copyright policy by using a variety of methods, such as case studies, international and sectoral comparisons, and experiments and surveys.
Inside the African essay factories that churn out university coursework for 115,000 cheating British students every year Kenyan academics are working gruelling 12-hour shifts writing essays for hundreds of thousands of British and American students, a MailOnline investigation reveals. Slaving away in 'essay factories' in Nairobi, the highly educated experts earn as little as a dollar an hour while their millionaire bosses cream off the profits – and cheating Western teenagers take the credit. The essays are delivered anonymously by email, on time and free from plagiarism, with higher prices charged for a 2:1 or a First. For the first time, MailOnline gained access to the secretive firms at the centre of the £100 million industry, lifting the lid on one of the most corrosive trends in academia. James Waitutu Karuri, centre, an essay factory entrepreneur, poses with his staff at his offices in downtown Nairobi, including his full-time chef (left) Freelancers at a workspace in Nairobi where students and academics often go to write essays A communal workspace in Nairbobi popular with freelance essay writers
Veterinary Stem Cell, Stem Cell Therapy for Pets, Adipose Stem Cell Therapy, Platelet Rich Plasma Horses, Adipose Stem Cell Treatment, Platelet Rich Plasma Dogs |Veterinary Stem Cell, Stem Cell Therapy for Pets, Adipose Stem Cell Therapy, Platelet Rich Pl Viral Feminist Campaign Plagiarizes Student art Pomona Lake’s piece (left) and the Terre des Femmes poster (right). Do great minds think alike, or does a new feminist poster series about how women are judged by their appearance and attire rip off a student project on the same topic? A new campaign designed by Theresa Wlokka and Frida Regenheim of the Miami Ad School, Hamburg, for German woman’s rights non-profit Terre des Femmes is strikingly similar to Judgments, a photograph by Pomona Lake (formerly known as Rosea Lake) that went viral back in 2013 (see When Is Artist-on-Artist Theft Okay? Jamian Juliano-Villani and Scott Teplin Duke it Out). Both projects depict a woman’s legs, with gradations indicating how she might be judged based on the length of her skirt. Is she a prude, flirty, or provocative? Theresa Wlokka and Frida Regenheim for Terre des Femmes. Lake took to social media to respond to the Terre Des Femmes work, tweeting to the non-profit that their project was “a really blatant ripoff of my work, FYI.”
Too Narrow to Swim? (ATS Journals) Andrew R. Haas, Marina Ivančić, Kassem Harris, and Michael Renner "Too Narrow to Swim?" Annals of the American Thoracic Society, Vol. 11, No. 9 (2014), pp. 1494-1496. Andrew R. Haas1Marina Ivančić2Kassem Harris3Michael Renner4 1University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Section of Interventional Pulmonary and Thoracic Oncology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2National Marine Mammal Foundation, San Diego, California 3Roswell Park Cancer Center, Section of Interventional Pulmonology, Buffalo, New York 4Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Key Largo, FloridaCorresponding Author: Andrew R. Corresponding author: Andrew R. Accepted August 10, 2014Received May 31, 2014 Copyright © 2014 by the American Thoracic Society Author disclosures are available with the text of this article at www.atsjournals.org.
How the Baby Yoda Crochet Pattern is Making Us Talk About Copyright - Fiberly In those few days the pattern was live, hundreds of people purchased and downloaded it. It was featured on Geekologie, Syfy, and many fiber arts blogs. Some people are saying that the pattern exploded in popularity because Disney has not released “baby Yoda” merchandise for the holiday season. However, I think the real reason this exploded was because of Allison. Since December 2nd, Allison has also removed all images of the Baby Yoda crochet pattern from her social media pages and even the pattern listing on Ravelry. The pattern is no longer for sale, however you can find the original listing here and Allison’s other work can be found here. Since the pattern was discontinued, there has been a scramble for people to get their hands on a copy of the pattern. Naturally, all of this activity has led to a discussion on distribution and copyright. The laws in the USA around copyright are very clear.
Greater Collaboration Urged To Wipe Out Rabies (26.09.2014) Geneva, Switzerland 26 September 2014: An urgent call for more action to wipe out rabies has been issued to mark World Rabies Day on September 28th. The World Medical Association, the World Veterinary Association and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control have urged all countries to implement an effective disease surveillance system to help stop the deadly disease. Rabies causes some 70,000 deaths each year, almost all of them in Africa and Asia and most of them young children. The three organisations have also pressed for closer collaboration between the medical and veterinary professions to spearhead rabies prevention efforts. Today's joint statement makes it clear that eliminating rabies in dogs, the source of the disease in 96 per cent of human cases, is possible. Dr. Dr. Professor Louis Nel, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, added: “Global canine rabies elimination is possible.