2nd Edition of the Theory and Practice of Online Learning | Virtual Canuck I am pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the edited text Theory and Practice of Online Learning. As the first edition, this one is available in paper copy ($39.95 Canadian) and in PDF for open access download. This is one of the first 6 books produced by the newly launched Athabasca University Press which bills itself as Canada’s first Open Access Press. In the 2nd Edition “every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. The first edition sold the 400 print copies quite rapidly and downloads of the full text have continued at over 4,000 per month totally more than 85,000 since its release in 2004. For more details regarding the motivation for publishing in open access format and to see brief summaries of each of the chapters, interested readers may wish to read my introduction to the 2nd edition
Top 10 Creepiest Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Creepy Edgar Allan Poe. Can you think of a name more synonymous with spine-tingling macabre literature? A master craftsman of prose and poetry alike, Poe dwells in that dark corner of our literary consciousness, along some creaky corridor laden with dust and cobwebs. Hop-Frog published 1849 A dwarfish court jester serves as the titular character of this fiendish revenge tale. The Facts in the Case of M. published 1845 In the mid-19th Century, the pseudo-science of mesmerism was all the rage in the salons of America’s bourgeoise, and Poe made it the central theme of this gruesome short story. The Black Cat published 1843 The narrator and his wife own several pets. The Murders in the Rue Morgue published 1841 C. The Cask of Amontillado published 1846 In some nameless European city in some unspecified year, old Montresor finds himself with a grudge on poor Fortunato, and entirely too much free time to think about revenge. The Masque of the Red Death published 1842 The Fall of the House of Usher
Dev102.com .NET, C#, WPF, Visual Studio Development tools, tips, tricks The Sage Dictionary of Statistics: a practical resource for students in the social sciences: Duncan Cramer, Dennis Howitt: 洋書 内容紹介 `The authors make excellent use of illustrative examples' - Reference Reviews The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics provides students and researchers with an accessible and definitive resource to use when studying statistics in the social sciences, reading research reports and undertaking data analysis. Written by leading academics in the field of methodology and statistics, the Dictionary will be an essential study guide for the first-time researcher as well as a primary resource for more advanced study. This is a practical and concise dictionary that serves the everyday uses of statistics across the whole range of social science disciplines. Designed specifically for students and those new to research, and written in a lively and engaging manner, this Dictionary is an essential reference work for students and researchers across the social sciences. 著者について Dennis Howitt's was a graduate of Brunel University and the University of Sussex. His primary research areas are:
Book Examiner: The top 20 most annoying book reviewer cliches and how to use them all in one meaningless review In 1984, George Orwell created newspeak, a language "whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." While newspeak exists only in fiction (or does it....?) an even more pervasive, destructive language-killer has infiltrated the newspapers, news sites, and literary blogs of the world -- reviewerspeak. The purpose of reviewerspeak is to force every free-thinking book, movie, and art reviewer into the submissive parroting of only a handful of approved reviewer words to describe any item that may come their way. The problem of reviewerspeak is not a new one. The world of criticism has a modest pouch of special words (luminous, taut), whose only virtue is that they are exceptionally nimble and can escape from the garden of meaning over the wall. But how to identify, and avoid, these little balloons of bright sound? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. " X meets X meets X": as in, "Stephen King meets Charles Dickens meets Agatha Christie in this haunting yet rollicking mystery." 15. 16.
Introduction -- Eloquent JavaScript ¶ When personal computers were first introduced, most of them came equipped with a simple programming language, usually a variant of BASIC. Interacting with the computer was closely integrated with this language, and thus every computer-user, whether he wanted to or not, would get a taste of it. Now that computers have become plentiful and cheap, typical users don't get much further than clicking things with a mouse. For most people, this works very well. ¶ Fortunately, as an effect of developments in the World Wide Web, it so happens that every computer equipped with a modern web-browser also has an environment for programming JavaScript. ¶ That is what this (hyper-)book tries to do. I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. ¶ Besides explaining JavaScript, this book tries to be an introduction to the basic principles of programming. ¶ A program is many things. ¶ When a program works, it is beautiful.
Handbook for Academic Authors: Beth Luey: 洋書 This is a useful book, although I think that the title is somewhat misleading. The book covers a very specific topic: the many details of submitting and publishing an academic book. It does not cover writing for peer-review journals and thus will be rather unhelpful for the academics in fields where articles rather than books are the royal road to tenure. What Luey covers, however, she covers very well. Luey covers the details of publishing scholarly books from start to finish, including specific types of books such as textbooks and multi-author collections of articles or essays. I am a professional counselor and coach to junior faculty and graduate students and I'm very glad to have found this book.
Found in Books People have found teeth, money, and bacon inside their books. Be careful what you use as a bookmark. Thousands of dollars, a Christmas card signed by Frank Baum, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a marriage certificate from 1879, a baby’s tooth, a diamond ring and a handwritten poem by Irish writer Katharine Tynan Hickson are just some of the stranger objects discovered inside books by AbeBooks.com booksellers. I recently opened a secondhand book and an airline boarding pass from Liberia in west Africa to Fort Worth, Texas, fell to the floor. Was there a story behind this little slip of paper? Adam Tobin, owner of Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, NY, has created a display inside his bookstore dedicated to objects discovered in books. “It’s a motley assortment,” he said. Used booksellers often take ownership of books that have been in a family or a household for decades or even generations. Eager to learn more, AbeBooks.com asked its booksellers to reveal their finds. Richard Davies
Remote Access Services Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace: Tom Atlee,Yochai Benkler,Thomas Homer-Dixon,Pierre Levy,Thomas Malone,Rt Hon Paul Martin,Hassan Masum,Robert Steele,Mark Tovey,Six-Penny Graphics Feral House Google C++ Style Guide Definition: Streams are a replacement for printf() and scanf(). Pros: With streams, you do not need to know the type of the object you are printing. You do not have problems with format strings not matching the argument list. Cons: Streams make it difficult to do functionality like pread(). Decision: Do not use streams, except where required by a logging interface. There are various pros and cons to using streams, but in this case, as in many other cases, consistency trumps the debate. Extended Discussion There has been debate on this issue, so this explains the reasoning in greater depth. Proponents of streams have argued that streams are the obvious choice of the two, but the issue is not actually so clear. cout << this; // Prints the address cout << *this; // Prints the contents The compiler does not generate an error because << has been overloaded. Some say printf formatting is ugly and hard to read, but streams are often no better.