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Archive for November, 2008

We continue to learn and communicate what we understand for the sake of our own, our family’s, and our friends’ general welfare, safety, comfort, and overall happiness. How do those initiatives flow with what we term “networking”? The Encarta Dictionary defines “networking” as “the process or practice of building up or maintaining relationships, especially with people whose friendship could bring advantages…” Purposeful fact-finding and informative sharing are the hallmarks of effective networking.

I did the following research in tandem with the School of Optometry and the College of Education‘s Technology and Learning Center in the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. As an optometry student with a strong background in audio-visual technology, I was asked to creatively utilize video techniques in order to develop new methods for vision training. This particular project dealt with developing a certain form of 3-dimensional video that is different from the customary polarized method which did not provide enough light, a particular problem found in amblyopic (lazy eye) patients. We are seeking to determine whether or not stereoscopic (3D)…

Having a consistent user environment for the majority of your end users is a fairly obvious concept as an administrator of an institution.  Documentation for achieving this for Windows users is fairly abundant on the Internet even if it is not typically geared toward the interests of an academic admin.  However, Macintosh documentation, to my experience, has been wholly lacking with only some recent articles and posts filling in the void. This post, along with the others in the series, is an attempt to enable the efforts of admins new to Macintosh deployment in seeing Mac OS X as a…

Especially in the current educational climate of No Child Left Behind and high stakes testing, education has become myopic and ahistorical.  We have forgotten why we educate our youth and we have become monomaniacally devoted to schools as college preparatory institutions, even elementary schools.  Well I have news for you…education has multiple purposes and academic learning is only one of them.

Commentary on:Confucius Institutes help promote exchange, co-op between China and African countries, educators from China Culture In 2004, the Chinese government decided to create institutions in countries throughout the world whose goal would be to stimulate the teaching of Chinese and educate people about the Chinese nation. In the space of four years, 271 Confucius Institutes have been established in 77 countries and regions throughout the world. About 100,000 people have taken courses at these institutions and over one million attended cultural events. The latest thrust of Confucius Institutes is on the continent of Africa. Ten of the 21 planned…