Again the easy thing to measure is the wrong thing. If the student read the material from this ebook has not a thing in a the world to do with the student knowing the material or not. He may have learned it in the past, he may read another book about the subject or hacked the ebook so he could read it on another device.
The danger here is substituting the easy to measure metric "Pages Read" for the much tougher "Material Understood".
THANK YOU! And as a teacher I am going to add that most textbooks are dry, boring, and ineffectual.
Actually that isn't such a bad thought. Set the Corporate tax rate to zero, or legislate that COMPANY profits can not be taxed, but levy taxes against the people that work for that company. I don't think this is a new or original idea, but I felt it should at least be voiced.
If someone knows about any economic sources that comment on these type of policies I would love to look at them.
Most librarians were probably not math majors, and are unlikely to be expert in statistics. But if you can work your way through the book, you may get enough insight into your data to ask good questions from a local Math department. No doubt some graduate student(s) can get a paper out of it, or at least some applied class project credit.
But if you don't understand what it is you are looking for, you probably won't coax them into figuring out what questions you ought to be asking. So start with the book.
While a free version is on the site, support the work by buying a hardcopy for the library;>
I am actually curious as to how many librarians have math degrees. I have only met 2 so far; myself and my former professor back in grad school.
You're not suggesting a complex open-source application that will require intensive work and special skills to implement to solve a basic task? You must be new around here.
I suggest you post your question to the code4lib mailing list. It's going to get you much more informed and practical advice. You might even find some people who already have a good workflow who will share their tools.
-Esme
I shall try exactly that. Thank you for directing to that mailing list!
The library staff is currently working jointly with the school administration to determine what kinds of information we want to look at and analyze. Though it increasingly looks like the statistics we currently collect are going to be analyzed in more and various ways. I just wanted to take the initiative and come to the table with a potential solution in the form of a low cost software package capable of providing that functionality.
That part will probably never change. What I would like to point out would be the money making venture in this. This is probably a low risk way for Boeing to make money. Because wouldn't this be one of the first deployment of a hydrogen powered military vehicle, and I KNOW someone is going to prove me wrong in this. But after this gets into general production and the cost lowers it should be relatively easy for the company to turn around and find other uses for the engine and few system. What OTHER things can we power since there is now an established, low cost, reliable hydrogen power system out there. Since this is Boeing maybe a first application could be civilian aircraft, and then moving on from there.
But my point is I think someone will figure out much more lucrative, noncombat way of utilizing this system.
And if someone really wants to commit murder lack of available weaponry is not going to stop them; just grab a chair or a bat.
Thank you. I don't know if it will make a difference but I just sent them this via that form.
"I was very very disappointed at the recent episode of South Park that you censored. I watch comedy central because of the wide editorial and creative room you give all of the your shows. In trying not to alienate an audience that does not watch Comedy Central you have in effect alienated the current audience that does. I am not happy with what you have done and probably will not be watching Comedy Central in the future. Please have a good day with the new sterilized humor that is starting to permeate the network."
I don't know if anything will even come of it, but I emailed that link to the NYTimes. I will try to keep everyone here on/. appraised if anything does occur. Lets see if the MSM does dig deeper into this. This honestly does sound like something that needs some very indepth reporting to get all the info. All we have is a video, and some text. This really isn't the whole story.
Thank you for stating this. And besides that, I read that entire fucking article, and did not find ANY comparison pictures. Or pictures of any kind for that matter. If I were the editor reading this for inclusion into an academic journal I would send it right back for editing due to lack of appropriate pictures.
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This is the first time I'm a first poster. I love this limelight!
I am in agreement with all the reasons you put forth aside for will power. It is quite different to not have the drive to better yourself.
Because it is worthless.
Again the easy thing to measure is the wrong thing. If the student read the material from this ebook has not a thing in a the world to do with the student knowing the material or not. He may have learned it in the past, he may read another book about the subject or hacked the ebook so he could read it on another device.
The danger here is substituting the easy to measure metric "Pages Read" for the much tougher "Material Understood".
THANK YOU! And as a teacher I am going to add that most textbooks are dry, boring, and ineffectual.
Actually that isn't such a bad thought. Set the Corporate tax rate to zero, or legislate that COMPANY profits can not be taxed, but levy taxes against the people that work for that company. I don't think this is a new or original idea, but I felt it should at least be voiced. If someone knows about any economic sources that comment on these type of policies I would love to look at them.
Data mining with Rattle and R .... http://rattle.togaware.com/
Most librarians were probably not math majors, and are unlikely to be expert in statistics. But if you can work your way through the book, you may get enough insight into your data to ask good questions from a local Math department. No doubt some graduate student(s) can get a paper out of it, or at least some applied class project credit.
But if you don't understand what it is you are looking for, you probably won't coax them into figuring out what questions you ought to be asking. So start with the book.
While a free version is on the site, support the work by buying a hardcopy for the library ;>
I am actually curious as to how many librarians have math degrees. I have only met 2 so far; myself and my former professor back in grad school.
You're not suggesting a complex open-source application that will require intensive work and special skills to implement to solve a basic task? You must be new around here.
I will concur with my colleague above.
I suggest you post your question to the code4lib mailing list. It's going to get you much more informed and practical advice. You might even find some people who already have a good workflow who will share their tools.
-Esme
I shall try exactly that. Thank you for directing to that mailing list!
The library staff is currently working jointly with the school administration to determine what kinds of information we want to look at and analyze. Though it increasingly looks like the statistics we currently collect are going to be analyzed in more and various ways. I just wanted to take the initiative and come to the table with a potential solution in the form of a low cost software package capable of providing that functionality.
That part will probably never change. What I would like to point out would be the money making venture in this. This is probably a low risk way for Boeing to make money. Because wouldn't this be one of the first deployment of a hydrogen powered military vehicle, and I KNOW someone is going to prove me wrong in this. But after this gets into general production and the cost lowers it should be relatively easy for the company to turn around and find other uses for the engine and few system. What OTHER things can we power since there is now an established, low cost, reliable hydrogen power system out there. Since this is Boeing maybe a first application could be civilian aircraft, and then moving on from there. But my point is I think someone will figure out much more lucrative, noncombat way of utilizing this system. And if someone really wants to commit murder lack of available weaponry is not going to stop them; just grab a chair or a bat.
So umm... at what point did that kids need to get off your lawn?
Well honestly isn't this a multi-tiered defense. There is more than just the anti-missile missiles. What about the airborne laser defense?
SSHHHH!! We don't want them to catch on.
Thank you. I don't know if it will make a difference but I just sent them this via that form. "I was very very disappointed at the recent episode of South Park that you censored. I watch comedy central because of the wide editorial and creative room you give all of the your shows. In trying not to alienate an audience that does not watch Comedy Central you have in effect alienated the current audience that does. I am not happy with what you have done and probably will not be watching Comedy Central in the future. Please have a good day with the new sterilized humor that is starting to permeate the network."
I don't know if anything will even come of it, but I emailed that link to the NYTimes. I will try to keep everyone here on /. appraised if anything does occur. Lets see if the MSM does dig deeper into this. This honestly does sound like something that needs some very indepth reporting to get all the info. All we have is a video, and some text. This really isn't the whole story.
Let the inappropriate comments again. But I like it when they touch my monkey. he he he
Why even wait until the April 5th press even? If the treatment is so bad just release it. What can be gained by holding it back then??
The Democrats ran on the platform of healthcare reforms. And they won! By a sizeable margin! This is what we call a mandate.
No, no, no. That is when Congressmen Barney Franks goes on a night on the town with his Life Partner. And I hope they have a great time
Thank you for stating this. And besides that, I read that entire fucking article, and did not find ANY comparison pictures. Or pictures of any kind for that matter. If I were the editor reading this for inclusion into an academic journal I would send it right back for editing due to lack of appropriate pictures.