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When We Allow Fear to Overcome Reason by Paul Hill - Boston Globe/Common Dreams On Christmas morning in 1776, upon crossing the Delaware River and securing victory in the Battle of Trenton, George Washington sat astride his horse and issued instructions to his lieutenants. "Treat surrendering prisoners with humanity,'' he told them. "Let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army.'' It is ironic that these words uttered by an American generaNotes from the Fourth IPID ICT4D Postgraduate Symposium 2009, held in the Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom, on September 11-12th, 2009. More notes on this event: ict4d_symposium_2009 . A New Educational Program in Tanzania. A Rought Road to Success Matti Tedre , Tumaini University, Tanzania Project held in Tumaini Univeristy, a University in the Iringa region, to build the B.Sc. Program in IT. A contextualized programme : practical, problem-based, interd

Latest News | News Desk | September 11, 2009 at 1:28 am NEW YORK –For professor Stanford Mukasa, the large number of women in his journalism certificate course–almost all of the roughly 50 students enrolled–at Puntland State University in Garoowe, Somalia, was a rare but pleasant sight.In a country where women usually work inside the home, journalism is a male-dominated field, he said.The program’s current success is all the more gratifying because of its troubled start.A few ye

Distance learning has gone mainstream. The U.S. Department of Education report “ Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning ” states that “on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” Consider the following: In the 2006–07 academic year, 66 percent of the 4,160 accredited US colleges offered college-level distance education courses. In fall 2007, 22 perc

In this beginning-level design tutorial, I’ll show you how to apply a beautiful and super-easy text treatment in Photoshop: the inset text effect . It’s also often called the letterpress effect because it looks similar to text created by a Letterpress printer . Final Result Here’s a preview of what we’re about to create. Creating the Photoshop document 1 Let’s start with the basics: setting up the Photoshop document. Open up Photoshop and create a new document (Ctrl A college education might very well be the best investment you ever make. It is certainly one of the most important. A college degree is essential for the vast majority of careers today. Unfortunately, a good education can carry a high price tag. You should exhaust as many other payment options as possible before taking out large college loans. There are state and federal grants available to almost all students who are planning to attend college. The money you receive in grants does not need t

There are a lot of attractions to see and do while visiting West Virginia!  So explore out the new and thrilling West Virginia attractions while you travel in our great state!  Whatever you enjoy – cities, vast lands, nature, or oceans, the State of West Virginia provides exceptions variety of tourist attractions and activities.  Everyone can find the perfect opportunity to relax and getaway from the frantic pace of daily routine. Tour Idea #1:  New River Park in Beckley in southern West VirCONTACTS: Jenni Terry ALA Washington Office Press Office Prudence S. Adler ARL Associate Executive Director For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries have released a document titled “ Performance of or Showing Films in the Classroom ” to provide guidance on digital delivery of content to the “physical” classroom. According to the associations, the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization David Brooks’ Sept. 8 New York Times column hailed the arrival of National Affairs , a new quarterly magazine that seeks to occupy the same area of the public square vacated by The Public Interest : “the bloody crossroads where social science and public policy meet matters of morality, culture and virtue.” Available online, the debut fall issue features “Getting Ahead in America,” an article that uses 6,000 words and a few charts and graphs to contrast economic equBy Brenne Meirowitz Duquesne University School of Nursing allows graduate students to complete all necessary nursing prerequisites courses online, whether they are working towards earning a nursing degree or certificate.  Nursing degrees or certifications may be complete with little or no on-campus attendance, utilizing the school’s state-of-the-art learning technologies and the Internet.  When compared to on-campus courses, nursing courses taken online are identical in their objectives and People to People Ambassador Programs Expands Social Media Content to Engage Students and Teachers Company extends content to bring travel communities together with shared video, dialog, blogs, photos, Tweets before, during and after travels SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — People to People Ambassador Programs, the leader in global educational travel experiences announces an extension of the company’s digital and social media offerings to better communicate with students and

There’s a fascinating essay on the Zionism of Orde Wingate . Who was Wingate? Traveling through Komemiyut in Jerusalem, at the intersection of Jabotinsky and David Marcus, one will see Kikar Orde . There are Wingate Streets in Be’er Sheva, Tel Aviv and Herzliya as well. In the Carmel Mountains, just south of Haifa, there is the Yemin Orde Wingate Youth Village, which serves hundreds of disadvantaged, at-risk and immigrant children from around the world. Israel’s A digital “white stick” for the visually impaired.The blind and visually impaired often rely on others to provide cues and information on navigating through their environments. The problem with this method is that it doesn’t give them the tools to venture out on their own, says Dr. Orly Lahav of Tel Aviv University’s School of Education and Porter School for Environmental Studies.To give navigational “sight” to the blind, Dr. Lahav has invented a new software tool to help the blind navigate thro

Alabama Byrne-ing .  What image does that conjure up?  Mississippi Burning , perhaps?  The Klan murdering "interlopers," beatings, lynchings, castration ... is that really Bradley Byrne's vision for Alabama in the 21st century? Maybe not, but author Quin Hillyer certainly didn't want anyone to miss the fact that the likely Democratic nominee for governor in Alabama is black .  This is paragraph two: Bradley Byrne, at age 54 already a veteran of 15 years in the front lines of bRobbi Pickeral of The Charlotte Observer :  “Ruby Sutton has a distinct pet peeve when it comes to the subject of her former pupil, Michael Jordan: the oft-told story of how he was ‘cut’ from the Laney High varsity basketball team as a sophomore, spurring him to greatness. ‘Back then, 10th-graders played JV; that’s just the way it was. Nobody ever ‘cut’ Michael Jordan,’ Sutton, who still teaches physical education, said this month, shaking her head as she retold the story for at least the

A final reminder… The call for the September Blog Carnival edition reads: virtual schooling – http://blogcarnival.com/bc/eprof_26744.htmlDescription – This is a carnival that is focused upon the use of online learning and distance at the K-12 level. Please submit items that are related to the field of K-12 education – elementary or high school – and online or blended/hybrid learning. Keywords – K-12 online learning, virtual schooling, cyberschooling, distance education Filed under – education WorkSpeak Up To Look Smarter Than You AreBy Jason Fitzpatrick on September 10, 2009 at 11:30 PM Although you may have committed yourself to keeping your mouth shut unless you absolutely had something critical to add to a business meeting, you may be doing yourself a disservice. Frequent talkers are perceived as more intelligent and competent.Photo by tiarescott.The trick won’t work if you have no idea what’s going on, of course. If you pipe up in the middle of a board meeting by yelling out “We