Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial
Molecular Expressions: Zoom in from outer space to our solar system, to earth, to Florida, to a park, and a tree, and the leaf, cell, molecular level.
Google Answers: INTERNET PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH
Google Answers: Internet Psychology Research suggests links, books.
Monday, November 14, 2005
LambdaMOO (with LambdaMOO Map) An Introduction -
LambdaMoo information includes links to interactive map, etc.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Internet Archive: Naropa Audio Archives
Internet Archive: Naropa Audio Archives: "The mission...is to enhance appreciation and understanding of post-WWII American literacture and its role in social change and cultural criticism."
Sunday, October 23, 2005
You Had Me At Hello: The Art of the Pitch
Notes from the session at
Third Coast International Audio Festival
October 22, 2005
Panel:
Neil Sandel of CBC’s OutFront Canadians telling their own stories.
Chris Turpin of NPR’s All Things Considered
Julie Snyder of This American Life
Jeremy Skeet of American Public Media
Neil asks: What do you NOT want to hear in a pitch?
Chris: “I’ve got a 52 week series...” or any unwieldy, inappropriate material
Julie: “I write like David Sedaris” or “I want to go and see what happens” – i.e., no plan. And -- sorry -- Julie doesn’t want to go and have coffee with you.
Jeremy: “All Things Considered turned this piece down.” Or “She is not alone. There are many like her.”
Neil: “This is perfect for your show.” Or sucking up.
Neil: Understand: this is a marketing exercise. Hardware customers do not buy a drill bit; they buy a hole in something. Customers do not buy things; they buy benefits. What are you buying?
Chris: Possibilities. The possibility of some great radio. A compelling story. We are also buying some relief for our staff; we run around 100 pieces a week and we have a small staff. We need good independents. We are also buying integrity.
Julie: Same for us. We are glad to see signs of competiency at the pitch, but we do make a point of working with the inexperienced who bring access or some other unique value. We will assign a producer and go out and do it with you.
Jeremy: The BBC has 5 to 10 people, all in LA. We are buying you to beour eyes and ears. We need independents.
Neil: What can people do to make their pitches better?
Julie: Send us a good story. From the first sen6tence. Your resume, your clips, are not required. But Story and Characters especially. Interesting, surprising in some way, in conflict. What is surprising storyline, what is surprising to you. In the pitch, you need to get to it quickly or at least foreshadow it quickly.
Chris Turpin: I want to see clear focus. Show us you have a sense of what to do. It helps if the pitch is nicely written – we take that as a sign that you can do it. A muddled idea, on the other hand, is off-putting.
Jeremy: imagine the lead. How does this fit? What would Ira be saying? Put your mind into what we are thinking. Also check to see if it has been on NPR recently. And don’t bury time facts; if it has to run this weekend we need to know that. Tell us that. Use common sense.
Neil: your process?
Jeremy: we’ll have 40 to 50 pitches in a document, and we meet and go over it on Monday.
Julie: If I like your idea, I try to get the pitch you sent me to a the point where I can in turn pitch it to the 7 other people I work with at our Monday morning meeting. If I think it is good, I will email with you probably a few times to get details. I know what the others will ask. I become your advocate in that meeting. So I am trying to shape it up. If they are going to say your character is unlikeable, or she sounds crazy, or in the end, who cares? I am going to press you for details before I go in so I can respond to that.
Neil: That’s probably the biggest thing, isn’t it? “Why should I care” about this character, this story.
Chris Turpin: We are more informal. I pass it around. I hand it off to the person who is most unlike me in their reactions to things. We are an eclectic program, and I don’t think my sensibility should govern.
Jeremy: In our funding agreement, we commit to 40% of our output coming from independents. 3 of us sit and Yes/No. Then there is a bigger meeting on how to do the story. Yes or Maybe. We will have our questions for you then.
Neil: How much detail is necessary in the pitch?
Julie: A lot of detail is helpful, to me. Anecdotal, narrative detail My pitch to the TAL staff will be anecdotal. I want to know the funny, sad -- the emotional moments help. I don’t mind a long pitch.
Chris: Detail? The amount can vary. It might be ten pages, though I have gone with a 1 line pitch – Iowa – politics and faith – great tape. We want great stories from natural story tellers. Some sense that you understand how you are going to tell it. But really: length of pitch should parallel length of piece. The stakes a lower, too, for a shorter piece. You have a much better chance of actually placing it.
Julie: I want to say something about ambition here. Just because YOU feel overwhelmed by it, don’t NOT pitch it. We might send someone with you, or if it really is clearly too much for you, we would pay you a finders fee and send someone else out to do it, and you would act as their producer.
Jeremy: if you’ve got tape anyway, tell us you’ve got tape. Or you know you’ve got something but you don’t know what it is, can you help me.
Chris: So easy to send files now. It shows us your strengths as a collaborator, that you know how to get good sound.
Neil: Stories set entirely in the past? No opportunity to have scenes unfolding?
Julie: Most of ours are that way.
Chris: Doesn’t matter; if it is a good story, and radio-friendly in the telling, ok.
Jeremy: News is previewed overmuch. The story by the time it unfolds is almost anticlimactic. But you have the ending, and now you can read something into it.
Third Coast International Audio Festival
October 22, 2005
Panel:
Neil Sandel of CBC’s OutFront Canadians telling their own stories.
Chris Turpin of NPR’s All Things Considered
Julie Snyder of This American Life
Jeremy Skeet of American Public Media
Neil asks: What do you NOT want to hear in a pitch?
Chris: “I’ve got a 52 week series...” or any unwieldy, inappropriate material
Julie: “I write like David Sedaris” or “I want to go and see what happens” – i.e., no plan. And -- sorry -- Julie doesn’t want to go and have coffee with you.
Jeremy: “All Things Considered turned this piece down.” Or “She is not alone. There are many like her.”
Neil: “This is perfect for your show.” Or sucking up.
Neil: Understand: this is a marketing exercise. Hardware customers do not buy a drill bit; they buy a hole in something. Customers do not buy things; they buy benefits.
Chris: Possibilities. The possibility of some great radio. A compelling story. We are also buying some relief for our staff; we run around 100 pieces a week and we have a small staff. We need good independents. We are also buying integrity.
Julie: Same for us. We are glad to see signs of competiency at the pitch, but we do make a point of working with the inexperienced who bring access or some other unique value. We will assign a producer and go out and do it with you.
Jeremy: The BBC has 5 to 10 people, all in LA. We are buying you to beour eyes and ears. We need independents.
Neil: What can people do to make their pitches better?
Julie: Send us a good story. From the first sen6tence. Your resume, your clips, are not required. But Story and Characters especially. Interesting, surprising in some way, in conflict. What is surprising storyline, what is surprising to you. In the pitch, you need to get to it quickly or at least foreshadow it quickly.
Chris Turpin: I want to see clear focus. Show us you have a sense of what to do. It helps if the pitch is nicely written – we take that as a sign that you can do it. A muddled idea, on the other hand, is off-putting.
Jeremy: imagine the lead. How does this fit? What would Ira be saying? Put your mind into what we are thinking. Also check to see if it has been on NPR recently. And don’t bury time facts; if it has to run this weekend we need to know that. Tell us that. Use common sense.
Neil: your process?
Jeremy: we’ll have 40 to 50 pitches in a document, and we meet and go over it on Monday.
Julie: If I like your idea, I try to get the pitch you sent me to a the point where I can in turn pitch it to the 7 other people I work with at our Monday morning meeting. If I think it is good, I will email with you probably a few times to get details. I know what the others will ask. I become your advocate in that meeting. So I am trying to shape it up. If they are going to say your character is unlikeable, or she sounds crazy, or in the end, who cares? I am going to press you for details before I go in so I can respond to that.
Neil: That’s probably the biggest thing, isn’t it? “Why should I care” about this character, this story.
Chris Turpin: We are more informal. I pass it around. I hand it off to the person who is most unlike me in their reactions to things. We are an eclectic program, and I don’t think my sensibility should govern.
Jeremy: In our funding agreement, we commit to 40% of our output coming from independents. 3 of us sit and Yes/No. Then there is a bigger meeting on how to do the story. Yes or Maybe. We will have our questions for you then.
Neil: How much detail is necessary in the pitch?
Julie: A lot of detail is helpful, to me. Anecdotal, narrative detail My pitch to the TAL staff will be anecdotal. I want to know the funny, sad -- the emotional moments help. I don’t mind a long pitch.
Chris: Detail? The amount can vary. It might be ten pages, though I have gone with a 1 line pitch – Iowa – politics and faith – great tape. We want great stories from natural story tellers. Some sense that you understand how you are going to tell it. But really: length of pitch should parallel length of piece. The stakes a lower, too, for a shorter piece. You have a much better chance of actually placing it.
Julie: I want to say something about ambition here. Just because YOU feel overwhelmed by it, don’t NOT pitch it. We might send someone with you, or if it really is clearly too much for you, we would pay you a finders fee and send someone else out to do it, and you would act as their producer.
Jeremy: if you’ve got tape anyway, tell us you’ve got tape. Or you know you’ve got something but you don’t know what it is, can you help me.
Chris: So easy to send files now. It shows us your strengths as a collaborator, that you know how to get good sound.
Neil: Stories set entirely in the past? No opportunity to have scenes unfolding?
Julie: Most of ours are that way.
Chris: Doesn’t matter; if it is a good story, and radio-friendly in the telling, ok.
Jeremy: News is previewed overmuch. The story by the time it unfolds is almost anticlimactic. But you have the ending, and now you can read something into it.
Saturday, October 22, 2005
TCIAF: End of the conference.
We are introverts, for goodness sakes! We can't take all this interaction! I am spent; it's been two days only, but oddly draining. I know I'm not like the other children, but it is stressful for me to be among so many. My head plays tricks on me. It is as if I have forgotten how normal people act in large, anonymous communities like this one. Everything I do could be wrong. Of course it isn't. But it could be: that's what tuckers me out.
OrZ
Third Coast Audio Festival 1 Ring Zero concert sing along. Bob Edwards is the tall guy in the middle.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Lynx Viewer
Lynx Viewer is a Lynx (text browser) emulator. You can also download a desktop copy of the lynx browser to install on your local machine.
WAI Resources on Introducing Web Accessibility
Introducing Web Accessibility offers strategies, guidelines, resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Friday, October 14, 2005
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Inventions/Inventors - Imagination - Themepark
Invention at Imagination Theme Park has links and lists of resources.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Pirate Radio: Radio First Termer Wavs
EarthStation1.com - The Radio Sounds Showcase - Radio First Termer Wavs: page of stuff from Dave Rabbit - Vietnam's radio pirate.
EarthStation1.com - aUdIo_WeIrDnEsS! - TV & Radio Broadcast Blooper Audio
EarthStation1.com - aUdIo_WeIrDnEsS! - TV & Radio Broadcast Blooper Audio: includes clips form Armed Forces Radio Vietnam. Their AFVN Propaganda page has more good stuff. They've also got a page of clips from Hanoi Hannah.
Legality in Music Downloading - Is It Illegal
Is it Legal? This About.com page has links to assorted resources including EFF and the RIAA.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Technomanifestos: Central
Technomanifestos looks to be a wiki-ike repository of writings and reviews of writings on technology and society.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
CHNM Essays
The Center for History and New Media includes this list of essays and web sites useful to people who teach history with digital, online resources.
Monday, September 12, 2005
TRANSPUBLISHING
Ted Nelson's alternative to Creative Commons and GNULicensing is Transpublishing, in which quoted materials are displayed on the quoting page, but actually served from their original host server. Nelson argues that this skirts the issue of copyright because the original sits on a server and is never duplicated. Nelson thinks it's an easy concept.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Four Corners with Beth
Well if it's Thursday before classes start, then this Must be the Four Corners Brew Pub and we must be waiting for beers...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Eye Of The Storm
Eye of the Storm is a blog maintained by two reporters from the Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi. They rode out the storm in the newspaper's offices, reporting for work, and keeping this candid account on their own time.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
The Center of Light Holistic Healing Center, Sound Healing Therapies, Alchemical & Shamanic Studies Accomodations Page
Centerof Light Holistic Healing Center has stuff on Jeff Volk, sound healing therapies, etc.
What Kind of Social Software Are You?
Remnants of GNE ... the Game NeverEnding...a project of Ludicorp, where 
Monday, September 05, 2005
Podcasting and the New Media
Podcasting and the New Media by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, posted on TCS: Tech Central Station: considers the legal obstacles to podcasting as an alternative to radio.
TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia
The Faith-Based Encyclopedia by Robert McHenry critiques the Wiki notion. Specifically, he questions the assumptions underlying claims of reliability -- especially the "quasi-Darwinian process" by which, the makers assert, accuracy is ensured. Instead, he says, readers are confronted with internal inconsistencies they are powerless to resolve.
Test Kitties
This is a test. If this were an actual emergency, you'd be instructed where
to turn for official napping instructions. Sugar Baby & Harpo choose to
snooze on the red cushion. This is only a test.
to turn for official napping instructions. Sugar Baby & Harpo choose to
snooze on the red cushion. This is only a test.
Web Worker's Toolbox
Web Worker's Toolbox by Robert Crooks. Glossary; web design and development advice and guides. HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are covered.
Game Studies 0101: Ryan: Beyond Myth and Metaphor: The Case of Narrative in Digital Media
Game Studies 0101: Ryan: Beyond Myth and Metaphor: The Case of Narrative in Digital Media: interesting article about assumptions we bring to narrative, and alternative points of view.
blipstation : hackney girl
BlipStation shows how video and the stories it tells can be different. This is Hackney Girl; watch it not once but more than once and see how it changes. You need the flash plug in.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katrina Wiki: Internet employed immediately to communicate, connect victims, aid, volunteers.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Technorati: Home
Technorati, home of the infamous Top 100 [blogs], is one way to keep tabs on some of what is happening on a part of the web right now.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Jester: The On-Line Joke Recommender
Jester, the joke recommender is a filter that identifies your sense of humor and presents jokes to suit.
Friday, August 26, 2005
UHS: The Longest Journey Hints
Universal Hint System: The Longest Journey will get you over the hump...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Neuromancer
Neuromancer: not sure what this is :o) -- It just popped up some hours after I was scratch-padding NeuroMancer sites.
Neuromancer 2.0: A Game
Neuromancer 2.0: this actually looks kind of interesting -- a game that somehow spins off Neuromancer. I haven't had time to explore it yet, but perhaps a student would be interested.
Technolgy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer
Technolgy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer is a paper written for a college english lit class by Orlin Damyanov (1996) , then a student at American University in Paris.
Neuromancer entry in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Neuromancer entry in WikiPedia is actually a pretty good stimulator. Includes links to the study guide (below) and the paper on Frankenstein and Neuromancer (above).
Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)
Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984): a shallow gloss, but not without its value. I wouldn't base a paper on it, but it may kickstart some thinking for some folks.
MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action
MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action: using the net to make a better tomorrow...
Democracy For America
Democracy for America is the sequel to DeanForAmerica, seeking to channel and redirect the energy of the Dean Internet Contingent.
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained
Kubrick2001, the space odyssey explained? We'll see... Examplke: Flash site.
Monday, August 22, 2005
Exmple Site: Radius
Radius, the restaurant, has a really nice site. See esp. for navigation design, use of type and iconography.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
Ask Dave Taylor!
Tech Support and Business Questions? Ask Dave Taylor! Great articles offering practical how-to tips and advice.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Virtual Reality Treatment
Program for Anxiety & Traumatic Stress Studies: "The Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies is pioneering the use of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in the treatment of a number of anxiety and stress-related disorders, including fear of flying, fear of storms, fear of heights, fear of bridges, fear of public speaking, and World Trade Center-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder."
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Barbara Feldman: Internet Publishing Resources
Barbara Feldman posts resources that help internet publishers, including this page on how to Use Free RSS Feeds on Your Site. See other links there in orange index column to right of her display space.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Total Training presents: The Essentials of Adobe Audition 1.5 with Jason Levine
Total Training presents: The Essentials of Adobe Audition 1.5 with Jason Levine: another little movie with instruction about noise reduction in Audition.
Friday, July 22, 2005
Sothink Web Page Templates
Created to be used with SoThink's HTML Editor, these Web Page Templates can be downloaded and cracked and used with any web editor. Two pages full of thumbnails -- the second (older of the two) links off the first.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
BBC - OpenSource
BBC - OpenSource: "...This site provides information about and links to BBC open source projects. It lists projects developed by the BBC where the source code has been released as open source. The site doesn't cover the many open source projects to which the BBC has contributed, but only those that the BBC has initiated and managed itself..."
Sunday, July 17, 2005
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT's OpenCourseWare home page is a gateway to free course offerings -- but not degrees, dertificates or MIT faculty.
College and University Distance Learning Programs
Inspect online course, degree and other program offerings with Yahoo's list of College and University Distance Learning Programs.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Friday, July 15, 2005
A Pattern Language - Menu of Patterns
A Pattern Language - Menu of Patterns: looks like a glossary of architectural/design principles. I got here from the Bionic Office page at Joel On Software.com.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Dartmouth News Center: RSS
The Dartmouth News Center offers this succinct introduction to RSS feeds, including a long list of aggregators to check out.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging
Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging: a very good introduction to MARC record cataloging system, from LOC.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Tweakheadz
TweakHeadz is a wonderful site for audio newbies -- check his trouble shooting FAQs and other lessons for rank newbies. Clear explanations with pictures --at last, the basics revealed!
Friday, July 08, 2005
RSS Submissions
RSS Submissions: "...A very full, and constantly maintained, list of aggregators that take submissions of feed URLs for their catalogs..."
Thursday, July 07, 2005
JazzPlusPlus Midi Sequencer
JazzPlusPlus Midi Sequencer is an excellent open source application for recording and mixing MIDI sequences.
MarcEdit
MARCEdit is Windows freeware for creating and editing MARC records for the library. The MarcEdit Homepage displays links to software downloads, issues, plug-ins, tutorials, etc.
LiveJournal: Theatre of the Mind's Journal
LiveJournal member Theatre of the Mind's Journal is devoted to OTR and points to podcasts of same.
FlashFavorite
FlashFavorite is a small utility ($18.95 on 7/7/2005) that lets you browse and save embedded .SWF files from the page you are viewing in your web browser. Use this RegNow Order Form to get it.
Podcast Software - The best in their class!
Podcast Software from the person behind PodCasting101.com.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
New American Radio
New American Radio: "Three hundred commissioned and/
or distributed works:
• conceptual new drama
• associational documentary
• language explorations
• sonic meditations
• environmental compositions
• musical explorations
• works that pioneer new
• dimensions in acoustic space
• a primer of radio art-making in America"
or distributed works:
• conceptual new drama
• associational documentary
• language explorations
• sonic meditations
• environmental compositions
• musical explorations
• works that pioneer new
• dimensions in acoustic space
• a primer of radio art-making in America"
Monday, July 04, 2005
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - Fall 2004 Radio Pieces
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - Fall 2004 Student Exhibit includes several pieces for radio.
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
From the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Home Page:
"We try to make something extraordinary out of the ordinary. We seek to capture a moment in the lives of people around us, and to do justice to that moment. To do so, we work long hours at honing our craft. Some people say we're intense. We keep trying. Our shooting might be a split-second off. Our words won't quite describe what we mean. The sound editing will be cumbersome. So we go back to work again. As many times as are needed. There are no competitors here. There is no "right" way of doing things. We try to help each other step beyond the merely good. We don't fit into any neat categories. We combine discipline and imagination, breadth and detail. When we succeed in what we're doing, we sit back for a minute view and listen to what we've created."
"We try to make something extraordinary out of the ordinary. We seek to capture a moment in the lives of people around us, and to do justice to that moment. To do so, we work long hours at honing our craft. Some people say we're intense. We keep trying. Our shooting might be a split-second off. Our words won't quite describe what we mean. The sound editing will be cumbersome. So we go back to work again. As many times as are needed. There are no competitors here. There is no "right" way of doing things. We try to help each other step beyond the merely good. We don't fit into any neat categories. We combine discipline and imagination, breadth and detail. When we succeed in what we're doing, we sit back for a minute view and listen to what we've created."
RSS Workshop - a Tutorial
RSS Workshop is a tutorial on the creation, validation and publication of RSS feeds.
6X6X6 Netscape Color Palette Map
6X6X6 Netscape Color Palette Map: Roll-over color chart includes a small Hex calculator to help web designers specify web-safe color codes.
Two4U's Color page
Two4U's Color page: Files with pages to help web designers specify colors for the web.
How-To: Podcasting - Engadget (vintage)
Read (this vintage page)(How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) - Engadget - www.engadget.com) for instructions on how to make your own Podcast.
Podcasting - Wikipedia (vintage)
This article on Podcasting<, from an iteration of Wiki-Pedia dating back to November 2004, includes a brief historical introduction to the medium, links to assorted podcast sources, and connects also to tools and techniques for making or catching podcasts yourself.
Colonial Williamsburg: Past to Present: Podcasts
Planning a visit to some historical spot -- say, Colonial Williamsburg? Consider subscribing to its podcast(s) before you go. Bone up on the area before you arrive, or reinforce the things you learned there as you drive away.
Friday, July 01, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
PREP workshop on Quantitative Literacy
The PREP workshop on QL brings together higher education faculty in multiple disciplines to discuss and develop ways to integrate numeracy in college curriculum across the board. Last night's opening keynote by Milo Schield helped focus the conversation we expect to have this week. He began by asserting that to persuade others -- students, colleagues, the Institution -- that QL is important, we have to be clear about what students need to know and be able to do.
He cited four core concepts that their approach considers central:
Questions that come up that students should be able to cope with include:
The idea is always to focus on numbers in conext, asking "what are the vulnerabilities of a given statistic?" Sheild suggested that students "take CARE" -- that is -- methodically inspect for Confounding factors, ask how the nyumber was Assembled (what's the data, what's the calculation, how were cases selected), and should understand that they can guard against randomness with a large sample. Finally, students should be alert to measurement Error and/or Bias.
He cited four core concepts that their approach considers central:
- Arithmetic comparisons ("% more than")
- Ratios (percentages, rates, probability, risk/chance)
- Comparisons of ratios ("more likely", "more prevalent")
- Standardizing (comparing apples to apples)
Questions that come up that students should be able to cope with include:
- What is the metric?
- Difference between "percentage change" and "percentage point difference"
- Students should recognize the difference between "the percent of men who are runners" and "the percent of men among runners" -- they should understand which is the pie and which is the slice.
- Students should recognize when a statement containing a statistic or percentage is a prediction and when it is a confirmation of something already known.
- Students whould understand ways in which confounding factors help to create misimpressions. They should learn to spot confounders.
The idea is always to focus on numbers in conext, asking "what are the vulnerabilities of a given statistic?" Sheild suggested that students "take CARE" -- that is -- methodically inspect for Confounding factors, ask how the nyumber was Assembled (what's the data, what's the calculation, how were cases selected), and should understand that they can guard against randomness with a large sample. Finally, students should be alert to measurement Error and/or Bias.
I also learned about something called Simpson's Paradox -- an arithmetic situation in which a comparison can favor one side consistently in "partial" explorations of data, but the other other side can have the best record "overall" -- e.g., two batters -- one has a higher batting average in each of five games, while the other has a higher batting average overall. It happens.
Schield says he thinks the two most important groups to touch with this stuff are people who will go on to touch others -- he focuses on journalists and teachers. Journalism students, and education students or teachers in training.
By September 15 I plan to: develop a module for COM314 that teaches critical use of numbers in news stories. Moreover, I will engineer it so my third year review sessions have this going on, and in that way I can unobstrusively demonstrate both the value of doing this, and a way to do it, to my colleagues in Humanities.
Related Links to check out:
Friday, May 27, 2005
Netfit
Health and Fitness advice from the Netfit health and fitness team includes stuff about exercise.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools
Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools
I published this article in 1996 in John December's Computer Mediated Communications Magazine. It uses theory presented in Reframing Organizations to explore the potential impact of computer-mediated communications networks on the structural, human resources, symbolic and political dimensions of school life.
I published this article in 1996 in John December's Computer Mediated Communications Magazine. It uses theory presented in Reframing Organizations to explore the potential impact of computer-mediated communications networks on the structural, human resources, symbolic and political dimensions of school life.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Monday, May 02, 2005
HOLLYWOOD MATH AND SCIENCE FILM CONSULTING
HOLLYWOOD MATH AND SCIENCE FILM CONSULTING: Gets the numbers and the culture right...
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