Posted by Christopher Melba | Posted on 23-09-2011
Over the past few years of activity on the ETD forum, we’ve read many examples of how ICT in education projects have improved and innovated practice, making access to education more modern and accessable. At the same time much criticism has been focused on projects that, despite best intentions, focus first on hardware provision without sufficient consideration of how it will be used to improve learning, effectively wasting the investment.
Many of us have witnessed firsthand this kind of wasted investment—i.e., underutilization of equipment—but how many of us are still around to see the long-term consequences of high-input ICT projects, such as those designed to give every child access to computers, either through large computing labs, mobile laptop stations, or one to one computing?
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Posted by Christopher Melba | Posted on 28-08-2011
One of our forthcoming books recently popped up on ebay. In mid-July, I shipped advance copies of Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe (September 2011) to a variety of trade magazines, music magazines, Kentucky publications, and freelance writers. One of those recipients is selling it, or passed it along to someone else who is selling it.
I understand that unsolicited review copies are often traded for store credit or sold. However, its frustrating when it happens before publication.
The last time this happened (different book, different author), the author purchased the advance copy for his own collection. Thats
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Posted by Christopher Melba | Posted on 24-08-2011
Choices for enrolled agent continuing education courses include a multitude of federal tax topics. This is an opportunity to reinforce knowledge about the important subject of vacation homes. Almost every taxpayer with a vacation property presents a unique situation to consider.
Not only are vacation homes a complex tax matter but also an individual who owns one generally hires a federally licensed tax practitioner. Therefore, efficiency in enrolled agent employment demands familiarity with the tax impact of vacation homes.
The primary consideration for owners of vacation homes is whether they rent the property to someone else during the year.
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Posted by Nicholas Boland | Posted on 26-07-2011
UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute has a led a study on incoming freshman for over 25 years. However, the Fall 2010 study shows that college freshman are coming to school with lower levels of mental health.
Only 51.9% of entering freshmen believe that their mental health is among the top 10% of or above average for all college students. This number has fallen from 63.6% in 1985 and from 55.3% in the 2009 study.
Other key findings in the report demonstrate that first-year college students continue to be concerned about their finances and how to pay for college.
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Posted by Nicholas Boland | Posted on 25-07-2011
If you love video role playing games, then you already know that on November 11, 2011 (which is this year; just a reminder in case youre one of those people who lick windows) one of the biggest RPG franchises in history is rolling out with a new chapter in an award winning series. I am of course talking about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a first person, nonlinear fantasy RPG. Theres going to be allot of marketing hype in the next few months regarding Skyrims release, but you shouldnt pay attention to any of it because Bethesda dosent know how to make a decent game anymore. Here are the top 5 most compelling arguments as to why Bethesda Softworks sucks.
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