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Dede is a Harvard Education professor writing about the online gap. One big point he makes is how some experienced teachers have a more difficult time "unlearning" things and that it is easier to know nothing and learn new things than to unlearn and learn a new thing. He implies how some school's have focused on workshops too much on things such as classroom management and other social political issues when more online training would be appropriate. He even made a video about unlearning in particular, about 3.5 minutes long.

Within the book are various models for various fields on how implementation of all kinds of curriculum can incorporate online material in effective ways. His strategy to get around the gap is to have training paid for teachers in which they take a class which relates to a project that they would incorporate in their class. e-Mentoring for Student Success (eMSS) is an example which incorporates Science and online courses that is used from the book. eMSS plans on integrating mathematics, but this has not been done yet. Many of the programs mentioned seem to have most of a focus on Math, Science, and English. History is mentioned in a few programs at least, but as these programs are pretty new, some programs may not have a lot to offer for your curriculum type. It is a good read to show you some things that are out there that be used to integrate with online learning.

This book is an excellent resource for those interested in Online Searching. I am a graduate student in Library Science and have found this book to be a valuable tool for learning to use online databases, such as Dialogue and Lexis-Nexis. Very helpful. I recommend this book for academic librarians and others interested in internet searching.

As a computer geek recently turned anthropologist, I have been frustrated by much of the material I encounter that deals with aspects of the online culture. I have grown to have very low expectations of academic papers as well as books, so it was a surprise and delight to encounter ONLINE SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS.

Here is a set of authors and an editor who understand virtual life; who niether glamorize nor minimize the impact. Cases and research are presented clearly, and it's easy for a relative novice who wants to research social aspects of the internet to understand the processes and pitfalls. Various approaches (including lurking) are presented in a clear and understandable style. Best of all, there's a chapter on how to do and survive the IRB review and on the ethical considerations that researchers need to be aware of.

The book is both well written and well edited (if you're picking this book up and don't have a background in either anthropology or social sciences, you'll want to read this one with your browser open to get quick definitions of some of the specialized words.)

The geek in me was relieved to find that the authors actually understood the terminology and the environments they are dealing with. This has been a huge bone of contention of mine (my current pet peeve is writers who use "cyborg" for "avatar" or "persona") in the recent past, and the tendency to just "name things without finding out if they already have names" is one of the things I find most aggravating about many of the articles in scholarly journals.

So, kudos to the editors and authors! I highly recommend this one.

This book was well thought out and is easy to read. Author Derrig-Palumbo took the time to do great research and wrote it well. The foreword by Dr. Ellis is fantastic. Great way to learn how to expand my practice.

Good way to help the environment and enjoy your life at the same time. Also see this book titled, "World Ventures, Wayne Nugent, Mike Azcue, Dan Stammen, Robert Oblon, Wes Melcher, Marc Accetta".

In planning a trip to Africa, this Online Travel helped make the experience easy and fun! On one page I found ALL the major airlines serving Africa (including websites & 800 numbers). Simple to use, including ample space for taking notes. Gives a great outline of all the countries of the world (so many I had never heard of!) and a quality selection of their truly creative websites. Bon voyage!

Online Web Design is an excellent first book for newcomers to web design and for those who have a little knowledge of the topic but need more skills. Chapters compare good and bad web sites and what makes them so, point out ways to add interest to a web site, and even tackle the basics of content and marketing. From design basics to coding challenges, Online Web Design is filled with important advice.

Actresses over 50? Then there are two female characters who are the main protaganists in that era, in this book. This novel must be made into a film. We need to know about the two related females who made history in World War 1 and then in WWII and was there to see the independance of the Gold Coast. A treasured story of espionage, music and cultures set in the two world wars. Let this synopsis tell you more:
Operation Oboe

Synopsis

At first glance, Operation Oboe would appear a historical novel. Delving deeper, however, it is much more: it is validation of the past. It is a window through which we can view a time when ordinary people had the courage to do extraordinary things in exceptional circumstances.

It is a story that Miller Caldwell always felt that he should tell, about his brave Aunt Fleur and her niece Vera, in order to record forever their courage and heroism during the two Great Wars.

Miller skillfully recaptures events in 1914 when, in Germany at the outset of the First World War, a young Scottish girl who happened to be visiting relatives when the war was declared is smuggled out of the country by courageous sympathizers. Vera flees for her life but what of the fate of her Aunt Fleur and her other German relatives?

Aunt Fleur survives the experience of war in Germany under house arrest and goes on to give birth to a son. During traumatic times in her life, not least the death of her husband, her love of music sustains her and her precious Oboe is always her trusty companion.

With her son grown up and absorbed into Hitler's Nazi youth, Fleur finds that she is offered both a challenge and an exciting opportunity to travel. This venture leads her on a fervent journey to the African Gold Coast, where she finds herself in the midst of the Second World War acting undercover as an anthropologist.

Her assignment is named "Operation Oboe", thus initiating what will become an incredible mission of both diplomatic importance and personal enlightenment.

To record historic events and the lives of people that have shaped history for future generations, is a wonderful thing to do and Caldwell has recounted this particular story with an attention to detail that has obviously come from extensive research.

His prose and descriptions of colorful places are delightful and poignant moments are so sensitively expressed that I have to admit to at times being moved to tears.

So as I close the cover of Operation Oboe and heartily recommend it to you as an exciting, edifying read, I am left with this one thought: If Operation Oboe was to be made into a film then I wonder who would play Fleur? Perhaps, Kate Beckinsale or Kate Winslett?

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This study guide is well-researched and an excellent reference for new educators. The guide is aligned to Oklahoma's outlined guidelines and standards for professional educators, and it provides specific information for the skills creating each competency. Written by teachers, this guide covers topics including how to manage a classroom, how to motivate students, how students learn, how to grow as an educator, and more. Whether used for a new teacher just entering the classroom or as a reference during your teaching career, this book is a must-have for teachers!

For reasons that I am not quite sure of I nicknamed Joyce Collin-Smith to 'Miss Marple of the Occult'. Perhaps it was because, like Agatha Christie's famous figure, she has got on in her years, but has retained a very sharp wit? Or perhaps even more because she is very much to the point in a similar kind and gentle, but firm, fashion? Or was it because she has found out things that many others, in spite of hearing from them, have not really discovered?

The Pathless Land is written in an 'unobtrusive' way. One of my first impressions was that Joyce Collin-Smith is not selling me any of the ideas she is writing about. She says it herself by asking the reader to test her knowledge and not to believe. This approach had an interesting effect on my reading of the book - I started to make discoveries myself!

The book is full of the writer's own discoveries, which she openly wants to share with the reader - as her friend - and she has a lot to share. Joyce Collin-Smith's search with the questions 'who am I?', 'what am I supposed to be doing?' and 'what do I want?', which she writes in the first paragraph of Chapter One, led her into contact with many teachers of the way. She got deeply involved with the different teachings, and when she had learned what was taught, she managed to get out of the teacher-pupil situation and was able to go on her journey in the 'pathless land', where no other man than each of us in ourselves is the master.

Her online book 'Call No Man Master' was an autobiographic book. 'The Pathless Land' contains the results of a lifetime's search for truth.

It is a beautiful book!