Second Life is a 3D virtual world where users create avatars to interact and participate in virtual experiences. It is used widely in education for classes, simulations, libraries and museums. Universities and colleges are increasingly using Second Life for educational purposes, with over 130 institutions listed as using it for activities like content creation, lectures, and social learning.
This document discusses the concept of presence in online communication and interaction. It defines presence as the exposure of personal states to others and awareness of others' states through ambient communication. It explores how presence has evolved from features like away messages to status updates. It outlines how presence is used to manage attention, facilitate interactions, and allow self-expression. It also describes how presence information such as availability and location is produced, mapped to semantics, and consumed through technologies like social networks and microblogs.
There are several important factors for an organization to consider when choosing a location:
1) Access to raw materials and resources needed for production. For example, breweries locate near sources of good water.
2) Transportation links, such as roads, rail, ports, to efficiently move goods and workforce.
3) Availability of skilled labor in the local area to fill necessary job roles. Organizations may need to initially recruit from abroad if skills are lacking.
4) Proximity to markets and customers for their products or services. Without demand, the organization is at risk of failing.
East Lothian June Internet Safety Talks SlideshareOllie Bray
The document provides information and guidance about internet safety and responsible use for parents and families. It discusses legal issues around indecent images of children and outlines potential offenses related to taking, possessing, and distributing such images. It also gives advice to help parents supervise their children's internet use and educate them about potential online dangers like sharing personal information or interacting with strangers.
The document summarizes the key events and impacts of the Protestant Reformation that began in 1517 when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses criticizing the Catholic Church. This led to the establishment of Protestant churches not under the authority of the Pope and divisions in Christianity across Europe between Catholics and Protestants. The printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s, allowed for widespread distribution of the Bible and spread of new religious ideas supporting both the Protestant Reformation and divisions in European Christianity over centuries.
Second Life is a 3D virtual world where users create avatars to interact and participate in virtual experiences. It is used widely in education for classes, simulations, libraries and museums. Universities and colleges are increasingly using Second Life for educational purposes, with over 130 institutions listed as using it for activities like content creation, lectures, and social learning.
This document discusses the concept of presence in online communication and interaction. It defines presence as the exposure of personal states to others and awareness of others' states through ambient communication. It explores how presence has evolved from features like away messages to status updates. It outlines how presence is used to manage attention, facilitate interactions, and allow self-expression. It also describes how presence information such as availability and location is produced, mapped to semantics, and consumed through technologies like social networks and microblogs.
There are several important factors for an organization to consider when choosing a location:
1) Access to raw materials and resources needed for production. For example, breweries locate near sources of good water.
2) Transportation links, such as roads, rail, ports, to efficiently move goods and workforce.
3) Availability of skilled labor in the local area to fill necessary job roles. Organizations may need to initially recruit from abroad if skills are lacking.
4) Proximity to markets and customers for their products or services. Without demand, the organization is at risk of failing.
East Lothian June Internet Safety Talks SlideshareOllie Bray
The document provides information and guidance about internet safety and responsible use for parents and families. It discusses legal issues around indecent images of children and outlines potential offenses related to taking, possessing, and distributing such images. It also gives advice to help parents supervise their children's internet use and educate them about potential online dangers like sharing personal information or interacting with strangers.
The document summarizes the key events and impacts of the Protestant Reformation that began in 1517 when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses criticizing the Catholic Church. This led to the establishment of Protestant churches not under the authority of the Pope and divisions in Christianity across Europe between Catholics and Protestants. The printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s, allowed for widespread distribution of the Bible and spread of new religious ideas supporting both the Protestant Reformation and divisions in European Christianity over centuries.
The document provides information about compass directions and their use in navigation:
- It defines the four main compass directions - North, South, East, West - and includes additional directions such as Northeast, Southeast, etc.
- It tells a story as an example of using a compass for navigation, where a grandfather gets lost at sea but uses his compass to find his way back to shore.
- It asks the reader to identify which direction different countries are from London.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses learning ecosystems and their components. It describes how a learning ecosystem consists of various actors, learning services, and niches that afford teaching and learning purposes. Learning flows occur as users participate in networks of trophic chains that transform information to knowledge through the services provided. Communities in learning ecosystems are temporary and can successively change. Both planned and natural communities that emerge from learner-created services can support learning. Maintaining a balance through semi-natural communities that incorporate both teacher and learner contributions can help regulate learning ecosystems.
The document discusses finding and attaining a "good life" and true happiness. It tells a story of a missionary who told a tribal youth he should work to support his family, but the youth replied that nature already provides for their needs. The document then questions whether we were really happy to begin with and says we should ask each other what kind of life we want and what it truly takes to be happy, as happiness may mean different things to different people. It raises issues about the feasibility and costs of attaining the lives we desire.
How to engage students in real open source projectsscottw
The document provides 5 tips for engaging students in real open source projects without requiring coding skills. The tips are to start with soft skills like documentation and testing instead of code; let students choose their own projects; teach students how to navigate a project's resources; encourage students to interact directly with project communities, not just the lecturer; and assess students based on their public interactions like issue reports and mailing list conversations.
This document lists several countries and asks the reader to identify which ones are democracies. It then reveals that India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Australia, and the United States are democracies, while countries like China, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia are not fully democratic. Many other nations are identified as only partially democratic.
The document describes the parts and functions of the lungs. It lists the main parts as the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli. It explains that inhaling involves the diaphragm moving down and ribs moving up, while exhaling is the reverse process. Gas exchange occurs as oxygen passes from alveoli into capillaries and carbon dioxide passes out, via diffusion. Alveoli are specially adapted with their thin, moist walls and rich blood supply around many capillaries.
Idée pour un opérateur de services à la personne et de maintien à domicile.
Projet présenté en 2011 à un très grand acteur français de la Banque & Assurances...
The document discusses several issues faced by the early United States government under the Articles of Confederation, including its inability to raise revenue, enforce treaties, control western lands, and stabilize the currency. While the Articles established a policy for settling western lands, the federal government struggled overall due to the weak powers of Congress and conflicts between states over taxation, debt repayment, and treaty obligations.
This document provides instructions for deactivating the mouse click feature in PowerPoint to advance slides when creating quizzes or games. It explains that to disable the automatic slide advancement, the user should go to the Animations tab, click on the Advance Slide feature to remove the tick next to On Mouse Click. This prevents the slide from changing when clicked, requiring the user to select an answer through a hyperlink or action instead.
A presentation I've giving May 15th for the PACE graduation. PACE is the Program for Acceleration in Careers of Engineering, a science and engineering awareness program in which professionals volunteer their time to work with local minority high school students to help prepare them for technical careers. In this presentation, I detail the journey of Eduardo Padron, the inspiring President of Miami Dade College
This document discusses ideas for cross-institutional knowledge building between universities and enterprises. It proposes harmonizing personal and institutional objectives, maintaining personal contacts across borders, and using visual vocabularies and feedback to build knowledge-rich activity patterns and control knowledge assets. It introduces DiPo, a digital portfolio system for cross-institutional knowledge building through self-reflection, learning, and competence management. The document also discusses engineering innovative learning environments for collaboration through a bottom-up approach to generating niches and activity patterns in an ecological learning design.
The document provides information about compass directions and their use in navigation:
- It defines the four main compass directions - North, South, East, West - and includes additional directions such as Northeast, Southeast, etc.
- It tells a story as an example of using a compass for navigation, where a grandfather gets lost at sea but uses his compass to find his way back to shore.
- It asks the reader to identify which direction different countries are from London.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses learning ecosystems and their components. It describes how a learning ecosystem consists of various actors, learning services, and niches that afford teaching and learning purposes. Learning flows occur as users participate in networks of trophic chains that transform information to knowledge through the services provided. Communities in learning ecosystems are temporary and can successively change. Both planned and natural communities that emerge from learner-created services can support learning. Maintaining a balance through semi-natural communities that incorporate both teacher and learner contributions can help regulate learning ecosystems.
The document discusses finding and attaining a "good life" and true happiness. It tells a story of a missionary who told a tribal youth he should work to support his family, but the youth replied that nature already provides for their needs. The document then questions whether we were really happy to begin with and says we should ask each other what kind of life we want and what it truly takes to be happy, as happiness may mean different things to different people. It raises issues about the feasibility and costs of attaining the lives we desire.
How to engage students in real open source projectsscottw
The document provides 5 tips for engaging students in real open source projects without requiring coding skills. The tips are to start with soft skills like documentation and testing instead of code; let students choose their own projects; teach students how to navigate a project's resources; encourage students to interact directly with project communities, not just the lecturer; and assess students based on their public interactions like issue reports and mailing list conversations.
This document lists several countries and asks the reader to identify which ones are democracies. It then reveals that India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Australia, and the United States are democracies, while countries like China, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia are not fully democratic. Many other nations are identified as only partially democratic.
The document describes the parts and functions of the lungs. It lists the main parts as the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli. It explains that inhaling involves the diaphragm moving down and ribs moving up, while exhaling is the reverse process. Gas exchange occurs as oxygen passes from alveoli into capillaries and carbon dioxide passes out, via diffusion. Alveoli are specially adapted with their thin, moist walls and rich blood supply around many capillaries.
Idée pour un opérateur de services à la personne et de maintien à domicile.
Projet présenté en 2011 à un très grand acteur français de la Banque & Assurances...
The document discusses several issues faced by the early United States government under the Articles of Confederation, including its inability to raise revenue, enforce treaties, control western lands, and stabilize the currency. While the Articles established a policy for settling western lands, the federal government struggled overall due to the weak powers of Congress and conflicts between states over taxation, debt repayment, and treaty obligations.
This document provides instructions for deactivating the mouse click feature in PowerPoint to advance slides when creating quizzes or games. It explains that to disable the automatic slide advancement, the user should go to the Animations tab, click on the Advance Slide feature to remove the tick next to On Mouse Click. This prevents the slide from changing when clicked, requiring the user to select an answer through a hyperlink or action instead.
A presentation I've giving May 15th for the PACE graduation. PACE is the Program for Acceleration in Careers of Engineering, a science and engineering awareness program in which professionals volunteer their time to work with local minority high school students to help prepare them for technical careers. In this presentation, I detail the journey of Eduardo Padron, the inspiring President of Miami Dade College
This document discusses ideas for cross-institutional knowledge building between universities and enterprises. It proposes harmonizing personal and institutional objectives, maintaining personal contacts across borders, and using visual vocabularies and feedback to build knowledge-rich activity patterns and control knowledge assets. It introduces DiPo, a digital portfolio system for cross-institutional knowledge building through self-reflection, learning, and competence management. The document also discusses engineering innovative learning environments for collaboration through a bottom-up approach to generating niches and activity patterns in an ecological learning design.