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PHILADELPHIA - Freshmen Karly Cohen and Missy Schweitzer combined for seven goals, including three in the final four minutes of the game, to lead Temple (3-11, 2-4 A-10) to a crucial 14-12 win over St. Bonaventure (7-9, 1-5 A-10) on Friday afternoon. Cohen netted a game-high four goals and dished one assist, while Schweitzer had three tallies, including the game-winner.

Trailing 12-10 with just under seven minutes to play, the Owls used a huge offensive surge to score four straight goals, kicked off by a quick stick goal by Brittney Hoffman, and take their second Atlantic 10 win.

Hoffman, Ann Stouffer and Allison McWilliams each had two goals, while Ali Incarnato netted one. Stouffer and Incarnato each dished one assist.

The Bonnies jumped out to a 3-0 lead to begin the game but the Owls were not down for long. Ann Stouffer’s free position goal at 16:05 started a four-goal run to make it 4-3 with just over 13 minutes to play. SBU leading scorer Molly Hastrich was responsible for the Bonnies’ next two goals, putting the visitors back on top, 5-4, at 10:29. The teams traded goals for the remainder of the stanza, three of which were scored in the final minute and a half, to make it 7-6 in favor of the Bonnies at the break.

St. Bonaventure made it a two-goal game (8-6) just two minutes into the second half but Hoffman and Stouffer teamed to keep it close with a tally at 2:38. Bona attempted to pull away and put together a three goal run to make it 11-7 at 13:43. After a quick timeout, the Owls regrouped and scored three straight goals of their own, to make it a one goal game (11-10) at 9:28. Danielle Drabin ended the TU run with an unassisted goal at 6:53 to give the Bonnies a 12-10 advantage but Temple refused to quit. Hoffman got it started with an unassisted goal at 6:08 and Cohen tied the contest at 12 with 4:26 left to play. Schweitzer converted a free position attempt for the game-winner at 3:55 and then added the insurance goal with just over one minute to play. The Bonnies furiously fought for possession but were unable to overtake the Owls, who won the game, 14-12.

TU boasted excellent midfield play, with Kelsey Zenuk, Lindsey Colferai and Tracy Zimmer each collecting three draw controls.

Jessica Colucci had eight stops in goal for the Owls, while St. Bonaventure’s Tori Waheibi had 11 saves.

The Bonnies were led by Molly Hastrich with four goals and one assist.

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Krechel Scores 300th Point as LVC Drops Goucher

TOWSON, Md. - Hana Krechel scored her 300th career point to lead Lebanon Valley to a solid 14-6 win at Goucher on Saturday.

The Dutchmen (2-0) had a big first half, scoring four straight goals after the Gophers (1-2) went up 2-0 to take control of the game. LVC used a seven-goal run wrapped around halftime to build an insurmountable lead, holding Goucher scoreless for more than a half hour.

Bailey Benz scored five goals with three assists and caused an LVC single-game record 8 turnovers, while Krechel, who entered the game with 294 career points, scored four goals and three assists to become the first player in program history to reach 300. Mel Modrick also had a hat trick. Erin Reifsnyder and Hannah Khin led Goucher with three goals each.

Goucher scored the game's first two goals, but LVC quickly took the lead as Krechel, Allison McGinnis, Modrick, and Benz tallied within a four-minute span to lead 4-2. Two more goals by Benz and one each by Krechel and Modrick had LVC up 8-4 at the half.

The Valley dominated the second half defensively, holding Goucher scoreless for 20:14 while building a 12-4 lead that would hold up. Erica Ameigh had six shots in goals for the Dutchmen, while Ashley Shaner saved seven for the Gophers.

LVC led 29-18 on shots. Draw controls were an even 11-11, but LVC led 8-1 in the second half to control possession.

The Dutchmen visit Immaculata on Wednesday.

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13513Anderson, MattSt. PaulMNSt. Bernard'sMNMidfield/FORU. of New England
3223Worthy, WilliamBethesdaMDSalisbury SchoolCTMidfield/FORGettysburg
13423Norris, BenGlen RockPASusquehannockPAMidfield/FOUYork
2034UScher, JordanBuffalo GroveILAdlai E. StevensonILMidfield/FOUWestern Michigan
3461Marchassalla, MikeManhassetNYChaminade/Deerfield AcademyMAMidfield/FOROhio State
1336UFreedman, AdamBoca RatonFLWest Boca RatonFLMidfield/FORAlabama
3551Wynn, ShaneOceansideNYOceansideNYMidfield/FOEHofstra
13241Fell, KeithGarden CityNYTaft SchoolCTMidfield/FOUFairfield
20491Fix, WillieAlexandriaVAMaret SchoolDCMidfield/FORBrown
13063Urda, NicholasSimsburyCTSimsburyCTMidfield/FORRIT
3743DiBerardinis, JoeDowningtownPABishop ShanahanPAMidfield/FORWidener
29111Simmons, PeterBoca RatonFLPine Crest SchoolFLMidfield/FOWVillanova
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            E and S are for NLI signers or other formal commitments in D1 and D2.

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After more than 150 million years of isolation the podocarps that dominate the forests of the west coast of the south island of New Zealand have remarkably slow growth rates by comparison to most other forest tree species. The question is, why? In New York, the aging eastern deciduous forests continue to rapidly accumulate carbon. Could this be the result of the high levels of atmospheric N deposition this area receives? When plants are grown in elevated CO2 photosynthesis is stimulated initially but often this enhancement does not last and given time, a strong acclimation to the new growth environment can occur. Is there a reason why some plants acclimate to CO2 and others do not? Plant respiration is often thought of as the processes by which plants loose carbon during the night. How then can we estimate the contribution of respiration to the carbon balance of arctic plants which never experience night during the growing season? Plant cells from leaves of plants grown in elevated CO2 tend to have twice the number of mitochondria and chloroplast as cells from plants grown in ambient CO2. Is there a link between this structural observation and physiological function?

These are a few examples of the type of research questions my lab is currently working on. The objective of this research is to explain processes in plant and ecosystem ecology in terms of the physiological, biochemical and biophysical processes involved. Ultimately we hope to increase our understanding of both the role of the Earth's vegetation in the global carbon cycle and the interactions between the carbon cycle and the Earth's climate system.

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A Lebanon man was convicted last week on five of six drug charges filed against him.

Robert Monroe, 49, of 1248 Willow St., was found not guilty of the most serious charge, possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver.

The jury found Monroe guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess crack cocaine with intent to deliver, possession of crack cocaine, criminal conspiracy to possess crack cocaine, possession of marijuana and criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana.

Judge Samuel Kline scheduled Monroe's sentencing for Aug. 21.

According to court records, police found seven grams of crack cocaine in a vehicle in which Monroe was a passenger that was stopped on Route 72 near Route 117 in Cornwall on July 30, 2012. The crack cocaine had a street value of $700.

Police had received information that Monroe would be picking up crack cocaine in Philadelphia to sell. The traffic stop was made when the vehicle, driven by Patricia Boltz, 34, of 353 N. 11th St., Lebanon, was returning to Lebanon.

Charges against Boltz are pending.

In another trial before Kline, Isaac Hinerman, 32, of 325 N. College St., Palmyra, was found guilty of indecent assault. Prior to the trial, Hinerman pleaded guilty to two counts of simple assault.

The victim of the assault was less than 16 and lived in Palmyra.

In trials before Judge Bradford Charles:

Chase Carignan, 27, of Camp Hill, was found guilty of selling or furnishing liquor or alcohol to minors.

Police found Carignan and an 18-year-old girl in a vehicle at 1221 E. Main St., Palmyra, on July 16, 2012.

Steven Seyfert, 28, of 3695 Hill Church Road, North Annville Township, was found guilty of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana.

Seyfert was charged after he was found sleeping in a vehicle along Mount Wilson Road in South Annville Township on Dec. 20, 2011. His blood-alcohol content was 0.164. Seyfert told police that someone else had been driving the vehicle.

Francisco Wayne, 25, of 403 N. Fourth St., Lebanon, was found guilty of simple assault.

Wayne was charged after he pointed a sword at a woman and punched a wall in the 400 block of Canal Street, Lebanon, on July 27, 2012.

Ronald Kriner Jr., 39, of 157 Angle Road, Grantville, was found guilty of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police found a pipe in Kriner's vehicle during a traffic stop in the 700 block of Gravel Hill Road, North Londonderry Township, on July 19, 2012.

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Saturday, 18 January 2014 11:27

By Columnist Charles Payne

“We have to make sure this recovery leaves nobody behind”

-Barack Obama

In his pitch for yet another extension of “emergency” unemployment benefits, President Obama dug into his typical bag of rhetoric, and in the process underscored why this has been a failed presidency. You see, if this had been a legitimate “recovery” then it would be a tide lifting all boats. On the contrary, it’s been a recovery of the fittest. I’m not talking about rich people weathering the storm, but people who are better prepared for life. This cuts across education, work ethic, and savings to simply adopt an attitude best espoused by the Boy Scout oath or promise:

“On my honor, I will do my best

To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law;

To help other people at all times;

To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.”

Tough times can be debilitating, but fighting through it is the very foundation of success. The longer a person is on unemployment benefits the more their skills erode, the less likely they are to really hit the bricks and the more they become indentured to that check in the mail. Interestingly, there have been calls for people on certain government benefits to be tested for illegal drugs, but a better requirement might be testing for mental acuity; including self-improvement and physical strength. I would add spiritual strength as well, but in a nation of powerful atheists, that would be a non-starter.

But make no mistake; spirituality and faith have played an integral role in the building of the American success story. This point has been observed and acknowledged throughout history; and was immortalized in Max Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism."

Instead, policy and rhetoric continue to portray the typical American as flat-footed, invalided, and incapable of self-determination, because of this system which has them bogged down. The economic train is leaving the station because we have a charming president, but evil forces of capitalism have erected barriers for some while rolling out the red carpet for others. This is simply the exact opposite of what America is, and how it became the greatest country, with the most amazing economy the planet has ever known. It’s an idea and message that seeks a self-fulfilling reality. The more depressed the public, the more he depresses the economy.

Here's the logic:

America has an unfair economic system; there’s no mobility as the rich are hoarding all the resources and opportunities. The only way for economic justice is a government fix that adjusts outcomes, regardless of effort. In the process, it’s being suggested that there is no way you can "pull yourself up from your bootstraps," and that such a notion is a myth. Many of those success stories, large and small, had some component of favoritism involved in the system, which by definition smiles on the fortunate, but discriminates against others.

Is the cavalry coming to the rescue? This battle isn't new, but is actually an extension of a battle that has been fought for years. The drowning American public in need of a savior make the perfect setting for the thrust from the left, which bills itself as the cavalry coming to save the day.

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• St. Elmo Alumni Banquet

    The St. Elmo High School Alumni Banquet will be held May 24 at the St. Elmo High School gym.
    The banquet is open to anyone who has attended St. Elmo school, as well as family members, friends, teachers and support staff.
    Registration begins at 5 p.m., and dinner is at 6 p.m. The cost of the meal is $12.
    Reservations may be made at Fayette County Bank or by calling Laura Feezel, 427-3310. Reservations are requested by May 20.

  • South Central Prom Royalty

    Connor King and Sierra Gunnels were crowned king and queen at the South Central High School prom held on Saturday, April 26.

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    Allyssa Philpot and Jacob Rolfingsmeier were crowned queen and king at the Brownstown High School prom on Saturday, April 26.

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    The Roaring Twenties is the theme for the South Central High School prom, which will be held on Saturday in the high school in Farina.

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  • VCHS Prom

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    This year's prom candidates are pictured. In front, from left, are Morgan Cripe, Brandy Protz, Karlee Brimberry and Kendall Leander. In back are Colton Woolsey, Joseph Meyer, Zac Ricke and Raj Patel.

  • BHS Prom

    Brownstown High School will hold its prom from 8-11 p.m. this Saturday, with the coronation set for 8 p.m.

    The prom candidates are pictured. In front, from left, are Allyssa Philpot, Danielle Austin, Michaela Walk and Mackenzie McClintock. In back are Jeff Taylor, Jacob Behrends, Dustin Lawson and Jacob Rolfingsmeier.

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    Brownstown Community Unit School District #201 received $2,000, along with CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health) curriculum and materials, after deciding to participate in a Coordinated School Health Program.

  • Matthew Sefton receives USAF Academy appointment

    Matthew Brian Sefton of Brownstown has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

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    Kaskaskia College invites new students to attend new student orientation on the main campus.
    The free program is designed to introduce students to information and contacts important for a successful start of their college experience.
    Information about services, activities and classroom success strategies will be included. Students will be given resources they will be able to use throughout their time at KC. Students are encouraged to bring a family member with them.

  • Vandalia retirees to be honored May 1

    The Vandalia Board of Education will hold an appreciation dinner on Thursday, May 1, at Vandalia Junior High School.
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    • Jacquelene Durr, Vandalia Community High School teacher.
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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Where do we find good critiques of learning analytics?

Concepts need strong critiques. In discussing connectivism, for example, I’ve found critical comments from Plon Verhagen, Bill Kerr, Rita Kopp, Frances Bell, among others, to be very valuable.

Analytics in technology fields are growing in prominence, as revealed by distributed computing (Hadoop, MapReduce), techniques and methods (social network analysis, pattern detection, clustering, classification approaches, language analysis), tools (Gephi, R), open data (WorldBank, open government, OECD), and big data. These developments are increasing the attention devoted to analytics for use in business settings (business intelligence) and in learning and knowledge (the focus of our conference and this course).

Jacques Ellul’s Technological Society is the most effective critique I’ve encountered on the shortcomings (and dangers) of a technique-driven society. Technology instantiates technique. And technique rapidly encroaches in all areas of live (standards-based testing in education, citation analytics in higher education (see Thompson Reuters InCites initiates). If it can’t be measured, it doesn’t get attention or funding (yes, feel free to insert “that” Einstein quote about measurement and what counts into the comments).

Where are the critiques of analytics – particularly in relation to learning and education? This missing element was brought to the the forefront in our Friday wrap up conversation in Elluminate…and in a blog post by Martin Weller on the upcoming conference. Scott Leslie initiated a thread in the comments section dismissing learning analytics. I would prefer a substantive critique, rather than a general reaction to the concept, but Scott’s comment served to raise the profile (in my mind at least) of why we need to critique, not only explore favorably, learning and knowledge analytics. I’ve started a thread in the moodle forum – please drop in and voice your concerns with the concept of analytics as applied to learning.

Artifacts of sensemaking

Now that we are nearing the end of week 1 in LAK11, we’re starting to see a few attempts at making sense of the flow of activity in different forums. These sensemaking attempts include: blog posts, summary Moodle forum posts, images, analysis of discussion forum activity, social network analysis, etc. As we progress in the course, we’ll encounter numerous tools for playing with data and text. Creating and sharing artifacts of sensemaking is an important activity in open online courses.

Higher education generally homogenizes learners through pre-requisites or subject streams (programs). Most learners in a course will be at a roughly similar stage – or so the program structure suggests. In reality, learners are a diverse group, even in reasonably small classes. They come to a course with different beliefs, live experiences, knowledge, aspirations, and learning habits. The uniformity of university program tracks masks the differences of learners.

In an open course, participants aren’t filtered in the same way. Participants range from “absolutely new to the topic” to “have written many books on the topic”. As a result, filtering (or forming sub-networks/groups/discussion clusters) happens once the course is underway. The first few weeks are a bit tumultuous – it’s really a sociological and psychological process of identifying yourself to others and positioning yourself meaningfully in the conversation. It’s not unlike attending a conference or a large social gathering – we reveal aspects of ourselves/our knowledge, we offer tentative views/positions to see if they will resonate with others, we begin to connect with those who respond favorably, we gravitate toward those who we find interesting (but not so interesting that we feel no connection), and so on.

One of the primary ways of connecting with others in an open course is through creating and sharing artifacts of sensemaking. These artifacts are resources produced by individual learners (diagrams, summary posts, podcasts, videos) that reflect their attempts to make sense of the course from her/his perspective. Given the diversity of participants, each learner plays a dual teaching-learning role. When our learning is transparent, we become teachers. We have over 600 participants in this course, which means you will connect with others. You will find people at a similar stage of knowledge. You might even find people in your own community. Essentially, we form small sub-networks that connect (lattice-like) to other sub-networks. Novices engage with novices…but simultaneously, they move into expert networks when a topic warrants. This fluidity of interaction across novice-intermediate-expert networks is one of the main points of value in open courses. And one of the main differentiators from traditional courses.

Reflections on Open Courses: Curation, Ombuds, and Concierges

Part of the focus in LAK11 is to explore how we can better use data to make sense of complex topics such as:

  • How students interact with social and technological systems, information, and each other
  • Which patterns of activity on the part of the learner produce the best performance (still largely defined by grades)
  • How knowledge is “grown” as individuals interact with others
  • How individual learners develop their conceptual understanding of a topic
  • How teams solve complex problems (stages of development and group formation)
  • The tools and activities that are most effective in solving a particular problem in a particular context
  • How individual learners “eliminate” unneeded or irrelevant ideas and concepts
  • How learners orient themselves in complex environments – wayfinding and social sensemaking

This list could go on for quite a while – essentially, any activity that involves information exchange and communication in the process of solving a problem or expanding knowledge in a domain is worthy of analysis through the data trails that are left by individuals.

In this course, we will explore various methods for analyzing data produced by learners and numerous tools that aid that analysis. However, it’s worth considering some of the limitations of an algorithmically-defined world of education. Google search and automated news service are poster children of what an algorithm can achieve. The task for Google has not been easy – as soon as any service becomes popular, marketers and spammers aren’t far behind (Twitter/Quora are starting to experience this too, but since they control who access their sites, they are more successful at eliminating noise). Many of the companies that rely on Google for customers find a change in the (Google’s) algorithms for search can have a devastating impact on sales.

Google’s search algorithm has been ruined argues that:

What has happened is that Google’s ranking algorithm, like any trading algorithm, has lost its alpha. It no longer has lists to draw and, on its own, it no longer generates the same outperformance — in part because it is, for practical purposes, reverse-engineered, well-understood and operating in an adaptive content landscape. Search results in many categories are now honey pots embedded in ruined landscapes — traps for the unwary. It has turned search back into something like it was in the dying days of first-generation algorithmic search, like Excite and Altavista: results so polluted by spam that you often started looking at results only on the second or third page — the first page was a smoking hulk of algo-optimized awfulness.

What’s the solution? Well, a return to curation, of course. We trust people more than technology. I have a friend who is a pilot for a major airline. Apparently, it is possible – in certain airports around the world – for certain planes to land automatically without pilot involvement. Most people, however, would likely find it unnerving to get into a plane without a pilot. A fully automated flight?? Never! But…most of what happens during a flight is already automated. The huge number of adjustments that an airplane (autopilot) makes to compensate for turbulence are largely automated. Why do we still like to see a person in the cockpit?

When Google first announced their automated news site, many journalists and news site ridiculed the idea of non-curated news. Overall, it has worked fairly well. But over the last five years, social networks and social media have taken over the web. Google is driven by the mission to organize the world’s information. Facebook is driven by the mission to “help you connect and share with the people in your life”. The two companies are on a collision course: is the future informationally or socially based? Eventually, social bleeds into informational. And vice versa.

Political discussion is a great example of how this works: pundits within the US political spectrum often express surprise at how “the other party’s followers” defy logic as they follow Beck, Olbermann, Stewart, Limbaugh, Maddow, etc. We trust people we like, people with whom we feel a connection or shared concern/identity. Beck or Olbermann are curators – they present their views and spin existing stories within the framework of their beliefs. All social interactions are information. Many information interactions are social.

What does this have to do with LAK11?

Since Stephen Downes, Dave Cormier, and I, first started offering open online courses, we’ve used a variety of techniques to provide “temporary centres”. Social and technological networks don’t have a centre. When we learn in a classroom or in a learning management system (LMS), a central place exists where we can go for readings and discussions. When a course is distributed – such as LAK11 – across Google Groups, Netvibes, blogs, Moodle, Elluminate, Facebook, Twitter – we encounter the problem of how to create temporary centres that will help us to understand what’s happening in the course. I addressed this concern in Activity Streams: splicing information and social relations.

In the open courses I’ve taught with Stephen, we’ve used his OLDaily and gRSShopper software (in addition to Moodle, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life, etc). When participants start the course, they provide their blog feed and any updates on their blog, related to the course, is automatically included in the Daily. Similarly, Moodle discussion topics and the use of the course tag on Twitter are also included in the email. Stephen and I provide some commentary or facilitator posts to the Daily as well. Basically, for course participants, the Daily is a temporary centre, tying together the many strands of activity in the course. Additionally, and one of the biggest benefits of this model, a full archive of course activity – by date – is available for future analysis. Have a look at the archive of CCK08, CCK09, Critical Literacies, and PLENK10. These courses artifacts are ripe for analysis. We just need to decide what types of questions we want answered!

In LAK11, we’ve taken a different approach. We’ve retained similar course design elements to previous open online courses (OOCs – I’m starting to think that M=Massive part of MOOCs is misleading or even off-putting. Plus someone mentioned that in Catalan, MOOC means mucus :)). In LAK11 we have (course links can be accessed here):

  • The Daily (Google Groups)
  • Moodle Forums
  • Course blog
  • Elluminate sessions
  • Facebook groups
  • Conversations on Twitter/Diigo/Delicious – tied together with the LAK11 course tag

…and so on. For those participants who have taken an open course with me/Stephen/Dave in the past, this format will be familiar. What will be less familiar, and a model that Dave and I experimented with in our EdFutures course, is the lack of archive and integration of conversations in other spaces in the Daily email. There are two primary reasons for this:

  1. We want to demonstrate that if someone wants to offer an open online course, they do not need to run their own server or write their own software.
  2. We didn’t ask Stephen if we could run this course on his site

What we gain in our decision to run this course on various sites, using more or less accessible tools, is the demonstration that anyone with an interesting topic/idea and a willingness to experiment can open up a course for a broader audience. About half of the courses that we’ve run over the last three years have been in for-credit programs in a public university. The other half have been focused on professional development without formal university credit. We’re trying to model that open online courses are broadly accessible – for both learning and teaching.

What we lose – and I’m still uneasy about this trade off – is the integrated archive of activity in the course. I still send out a Daily email to the Google group. I aggregate blogs/delicious/diigo/twitter links and commentary on my netvibes page. The problem, however, is that netvibes is rather dumb. It just leaves the content on the page until something new is posted. If you’re tracking activity on Netvibes, you’ll likely encounter much of the same content until it has been updated with new content. Activity is not archived by date.

Making some improvements

With each offering of an OOC, we try to play with one aspect of the course format. In the second year of offering the connectivism and connective knowledge course, we decided to offer a series of “mini-conferences” within the course, in addition to improving the Daily with better distinctions between facilitator posts, Twitter course tag use, and blogs/Moodle. In PLENK, we were more focused on tracking learner activity: how many new participants joined each week, activity in the moodle forum, number of blogs being aggregated, attendees at the live sessions, and so on. For CCK11 (starting on Monday), we’re going to experiment with running the course without an LMS and using only gRSShopper for interaction. In LAK11, one of the key additions seems to be the role of “course ombud” that Dave Cormier is serving.

Dave is basically acting as a course curator. He takes elements of the course that resonate with him and shares his experiences with other participants. Tony Searl is starting to play a similar role by aggregating the course blogs and content based on his interests. Fascinating stuff. In open courses so far, we’ve tried to open up content and interaction. We’re starting to see people create their own Daily and sharing those artifacts with each other.

Back to where we started

Complexity cannot be understood solely through algorithms. Algorithms don’t instill within us the sense of trust that we require to make decisions and act meaningfully. Curation is an important component in the process. Through social distributed networks, as we each try and make sense of that part of the course that resonates with us, the multi-narrative begins to serve as a sensemaking agent. Curation is important – yes, it’s biased, yes it misses contributions, but it’s personal. (I addressed curation briefly in this paper (.pdf), in Curatorial Teaching, and in this short presentation).

While information is growing in abundance and tools and algorithms (data mining, visualization) are being developed as solutions, we can’t overlook the importance of wayfinding and sensemaking in social systems. As we progress in this course – especially next week when our topic is “big data” – I think we need to also focus on the human aspect of data, sensemaking, curation, and trust.

Course Syllabus

The course syllabus for the open online course Learning and Knowledge Analytics is now available:

If you haven’t done so yet, join this google group: LAK11. All updates will be sent to this group.

The moodle discussion forum (free to create an account):

Important links for LAK11

Bookmark this post, it includes important links for the course:

Netvibes Aggregation Page

Elluminate (for Live Sessions)

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Google Groups (The Daily email)


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According to new statistics obtained by LEO Weekly from the administration of Gov. Steve Beshear, tens of thousands of Kentuckians who purchased private health care coverage on Kynect, the new state health benefits exchange, are saving more than $200 each month on their insurance premiums through federal tax subsidies made possible by the Affordable Care Act.

While tracking changes in the total cost of health insurance coverage for individual consumers from before the implementation of the law is a daunting task, these new numbers suggest that ACA critics who accuse "Obamacare" of producing "sticker shock" and "skyrocketing premiums" may be overstating their case.

Kynect officials say that of the 82,795 Kentuckians who purchased a qualified health plan (QHP) through the state exchange, 74 percent of them received federal subsidies to help pay for their premiums. Of those who received such assistance, their average premium was reduced by 74 percent.

The total cost of the premiums for such individuals under Kynect was also remarkably affordable. While their average premium without factoring in federal tax credits was $335 per month, the average tax credit amounted to $257, leaving these individuals with an average premium cost of $88.40. Under the "silver" plan — the most popular among Kynect consumers — the average premium was reduced 79 percent to just over $65 per month.

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While the average premium under Kynect was slightly higher than the federal exchange, this is likely due to Kentucky deciding to expand Medicaid, as many of those low-income individuals would have had a very low premium if they had purchased a QHP. However, for those 26 percent of individuals in Kentucky whose income was too high to qualify for federal tax credits, their premiums remained quite expensive, relatively.

While the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank recently released a study showing that Obamacare had caused premiums to skyrocket by 49 percent — and has been cited heavily by Republican critics of the law — the study was flawed in several ways. First, the Manhattan Institute did not factor in federal subsidies to reduce premiums, which a large majority of those purchasing QHPs on exchanges were able to use and dramatically slash premium costs. Secondly, their study compared apples with oranges in terms of individual health plans. They compared the price of so-called "junk plans" — with little benefits and of little use when faced with a medical emergency — in place before the ACA went into effect with the bronze and silver plans under the ACA that have much more comprehensive benefits.

But even without factoring in federal subsidies, many argue that the increased costs of premiums under the ACA is neither dramatic nor out of the ordinary. A new report by Dr. Jonathan Gruber of MIT found that insurance premiums were already increasing by over 10 percent each year before the ACA went into effect, which would have likely continued to do so without the new health care law. According to the most recent figures from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Kentucky’s average premium on the individual market was $210 in 2010. Assuming a 10-percent annual increase in rates, such premiums in Kentucky could have averaged more than $300 by now, similar to what they currently are on Kynect before subsidies.

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Former Corrie actress Wendi Peters talks to Laura Wild about her return to her home region with latest show

She’s best known for playing Cilla Battersby in Coronation Street, but before she took up the role Wendi Peters had worked in theatre for more than a decade.

Passion: Wendi Peters shows her wrath as Mrs Henderson

Passion: Wendi Peters shows her wrath as Mrs Henderson

Wendi admits that being back on stage for Northern Broadsides show Rutherford & Son is like returning to her roots.

But that she hasn’t ruled out a return to the cobbles.

“This is like me going home, she says, “Like me going back to my roots. I trained mainly in theatre, in musicals and in comedy and drama. I worked in the theatre for 15 years before I got Corrie.

“So its a bit like coming home.

“As much as I love doing telly there is nothing like having that live audience.

“It is one take if it is wrong it is wrong. If somebody forgets their lines you just make it up.”

Wendi plays Mrs Henderson in the production, which is touring the country and will come to The Dukes in Lancaster next week.

“She’s a widower but she likes the odd drink so she is the bit worse for wear drink wise and she is a bit of a battle axe – so it’s blooming typecasting again,” she jokes.

“She is a bit of a con artist this one. She is sticking up for her son.

“Her son has been accused of stealing money from the boss at the factory now we know he has stolen the money but she thinks she can try it on by trying to get the money back which wasn’t hers to start with.

“She takes on the manager of the factory who is the tyrant of the play.

“And she gives him a good run for his money so I get to do a lot of shouting and throwing a shawl around. It is good fun.”

She adds: “It is going really well. It has been received really well the audience seem to really understand it and get it.

“It is a great piece. It is beautifully written piece for an old piece that hasn’t been done very often.

“They really have received it well, had a good laugh at it and lots of gasps. It is great. It is wonderful to hear their reaction.”

Wendi, originally from Clitheroe, but now living in Hertfordshire is looking forward to being on home soil and the tour has given her a chance to catch up with the family.

“It is going to be really lovely,” she says, “I have never played the Dukes and to be honest I don’t know Lancaster very well.

“I think the last time I went was on a school trip that’s a long time ago.

“Mainly from where I live you tend to go to Manchester but you forget there’s great theatres everywhere in Lancashire.”

Wendi is a lover of both the stage and the screen, but says she doesn’t really prefer one over the other.

“I’m one of those people who sits on the fence and says I like whatever I’m doing at the time,” she says.

“I love my whole day when I’m in theatre, I love the preparation up to the show.

“It is nice getting to the theatre and having a coffee and having a chat with everybody, there is a real sort of family feel about it. We are all thrown together on the one play. We are all travelling in the country so we have got to get on.

“There is just a real family atmosphere about it so that is nice.”

But she confesses being away from home can be difficult.

“That is a bit of downside of my theatre work sometimes.

“A lot of theatre work is out on tour and out around the country so I have to think about leaving the family but at least I know exactly where I am and what I am doing with this.

“We don’t work Sundays we don’t work Mondays I always get home on Saturday night and have a full two days at home before I leave off for the next place.

“It is not ideal. But it is my job and it has to be done.”

Although a return to Corrie isn’t on the cards just yet, it is a nice feeling for Cilla knowing the door isn’t closed for good.

“The nice thing I suppose is the character is not dead, she still has family connections there.

“I haven’t caught it these last couple of weeks, but I think my daughter is in trouble.

“There are connections there.

“Never say never. I may want to go back in a few years, I had such a great time there, but at the moment I’m having a lovely time doing lots of different things.”

And she is still in touch with the cast, in particular those who played her family.

“Sam that plays Chesney came to see White Christmas [at the Lowery] and Jenny who plays Fizz, she has opened an restaurant in Manchester called Annies so I went to the opening of that and met her and had dinner.

“Whenever I am in the Manchester area I always make sure we get together.”

So what is next? “I have no idea after this in June what is coming up. That to me is sometimes the nice thing about it. Things can change in a five minute phone call, I’ve done quite a bit of theatre in the last few years so maybe it would be nice to go and some more telly and radio, we will see.

“It would be lovely to do some guest spots in some dramas or something.

“That would be great.”

Is there a particular programme she would like to perform in? “I suppose most actors would say Downton Abbey please or Mr Selfridge, there is nothing particular.

“I would love to do a costume drama or a period drama but not necessarily those two.

“Something very very different from my character in Corrie, I would love to play something that was very much more me and look completely different.”

Rutherford & Son runs from February 19-23 at The Dukes.

To book tickets priced £8-£18.50(concessions a further £2 off, excluding matinees), telephone The Dukes box office on 01524 598500 or visit www.dukes-lancaster.org

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Posted 23 July 2005 - 11:43 AM

I know cycling is not really popular here in the states (though it has definitely become much more popular over the last 7 years), but I still have to comment on Armstrong's achievements.

Tomorrow Lance Armstrong will officially win his seventh consecutive Tour de France. He has dominated this race since his comeback from cancer in 1999.

To try to put this accomplishment in perspective.

In the 100+ years that the Tour de France has been in existence:
5 riders have won the Tour 5 times (including Lance)
2 riders have won 5 consecutive Tours (including Lance)
but Lance Armstrong is the only rider in the history of the Tour to have won 7 times, let alone 7 consecutive times.

It is a record that will stand for a very very long time.

For him to win the French race in this manner would be as if a French baseball team could compete in our World Series, and won it seven years in a row.

It's been killing a lot of French cycling fans to see their race dominated by an American this way, and even worse, a Texan! biggrin.gif

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ha ha. Dont mess with Texas.

Congrats to Lance. He still has to finish things off tomorrow but hopefully the last stage is just that. Sip a glass of champagne and enjoy your ride Lance. You are a hero to many
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I heard last year in Austin they were selling shirts that said something like
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I might have to head over there and see if they're doing that again this year.

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“Company Coming” always calls for special breakfast ideas. Coffee cakes that can be made ahead of time are always better after they have set a while. They are equally good served warm from the oven or left on the kitchen counter to season overnight or just popped into the microwarve for a few seconds.

2 cups flour
1 3/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
3 Tbsp. orange zest
3/4 tsp. ground allspice
1/2 tsp. salt
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1 cup sour cream
1 lg. egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup chopped pecans
2 Tbsp orange juice
2 Tbsp. honey

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together flour and next four ingredients in a large bowl. Cut butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender or two forks, until crumbly. Firmly press 2 1/2 cups crumb mixture onto bottom of a lightly greased 9-inch springform pan.

Stir together sour cream, egg, and baking soda; add to remaining crumb mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour sour cream mixture over crumb crust in pan. Arrange pecans over batter.

Bake for one hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, shielding with aluminum foil after 40 minutes to prevent excessive browning, if necessary. Cool on a wire rack 20 minutes.

Stir together orange juice and honey. Brush over top of cake.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Attorneys in South Carolina say they have fresh evidence that warrants a new trial in the case of a 14-year-old black teenager put to death nearly 70 years ago for the murders of two white girls.

George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person to be executed in the United States in the last century, and attorneys say the request for another trial so long after a defendant's death is the first of its kind in the state.

No official record of the original court proceedings exists; no trial participants are alive, and no evidence was preserved. The law is unclear on whether any statute of limitations would prevent the case from being reopened.

Despite those obstacles, attorneys for Stinney's family will argue at a hearing on Tuesday that the crime that rocked the small mill town of Alcolu in 1944 deserves another look.

"This is a horrific case," defence lawyer Steven McKenzie said. "Whether justice is 70 years old or one year old or one month old, we think justice needs to be done."

The defence filed its motion requesting a new trial in October based on newly discovered evidence. Since then, new witnesses who could help exonerate Stinney have come forward, including a former cell mate who says the teen told him police forced his confession, attorneys said.

The defence also is relying on old newspaper accounts and a few records in state and county archives to make their case to a judge in Sumter, about 20 miles from the town where Stinney was tried and convicted.

Lawyers said they had determined Stinney was convicted solely on testimony by police who said the teen confessed to killing Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7. The two girls disappeared on March 23, 1944, after leaving home on their bicycles to look for wildflowers.

The girls rode a distance of about a mile to a railroad track that divided the segregated town, according to the defence's account of the case in court records.

Stinney and his younger sister Amie were sitting on the tracks as their family cow grazed nearby. Stinney's sister recalls the girls asking where they could find flowers before both pairs of children went their separate ways.

Binnicker and Thames never returned home. A search party found their bodies the next morning in a shallow ditch behind a church. Their skulls had been crushed and the bicycles laid on top of them.

After Stinney told someone he had seen the girls along the railroad tracks, he was picked up by police and held for five days before being arrested, said Matthew Burgess, one of the attorneys seeking a new trial.

"Since he became identified as the person who had seen them last before they died, they decided to arrest him," Burgess said.

The teen's family was run out of town, and his siblings never saw him again, Burgess said.

Stinney's lawyers called no witnesses during his daylong trial a month after the murders, according to the current defence team, and a jury of white men deliberated for only 10 minutes before finding him guilty.

Then-governor Olin D. Johnston refused to grant clemency. Stinney, who weighed just 95 pounds, was executed by electrocution in June 1944.

Solicitor Ernest "Chip" Finney III, the prosecutor who will appear at the hearing this week for the state, said the case was the most interesting one ever to cross his desk. But he said he will argue that no information about the original trial exists to show it had been conducted improperly.

"We're talking about procedures and rules 70 years ago that none of us were around to understand," said Finney, son of the first black chief justice on the state's Supreme Court. "There's not going to be enough evidence to open it up."

Relatives of Binnicker, one of the girls killed, do not want the case revisited without good reason, Finney said.

"If there was strong evidence to support the fact that this young man was not involved, they would not want to see the case remain closed," the prosecutor said. "But they don't want to see it opened for the fact that South Carolina has a bad history in these kinds of cases."

Burgess said a member of the search party that found the girls' bodies has offered new testimony that raises questions about where the crime was carried out and whether Stinney was capable of doing it.

Stinney's sister, Amie Ruffner, now in her 70s and living in New Jersey, will testify that Stinney was with her the entire day of the murders and could not have killed the girls, Burgess said.

She was never asked to speak on her brother's behalf at the original trial.

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"THERE WILL ALWAYS BE a built-in market for unique bridal gifts," asserts accessories designer Elissa Bloom, owner of New York City-based Bloomin Designs. With a background in product development and merchandising—including four years overseeing Bloomingdale's private-label programs—Bloom should know. A self-taught artist, Bloom began designing in her mid-20s before launching a collection of laminated placemats. "I now design an accessories collection that includes coin purses, luggage tags, cosmetic bags, and totes under the 'elissa bloom' brand. Over the years, my gift accessories have been popular bridesmaid gifts," she says, noting that luggage tags, coin purses, jewelry rolls, and cosmetic bags have been the most popular for the bridal market, due in large part to their uniqueness and reasonable price points, with most retailing for less than $50. This fall, Bloom will have exclusive product in 70 Victoria's Secret stores across the country.

"No doubt, couples will continue to marry, so the market clearly is ripe for product," agrees Vela Burke, co-founder of Brooklyn Heights, NY-based illustration and design studio Little Star Soup (husband John Burke serves as the second half of the duo). "But it's a myth that this market sector is seasonal. It's not just about the wedding day. There are so many events that lead up to a wedding, and these events are full of opportunities within the social expressions industry," she explains, adding that Little Star Soup's newest bridal collection, "One Sweet Day," includes shot glasses and novelty pins for the bachelorette party. Other opportunities include servingware, guest books, and photo albums. After spending four years as the art director for wedding Website The Knot, the Burkes set out to create a collection of wedding, shower, bachelorette, honeymoon, and anniversary images, with the paper goods and giftware markets in mind. The result, says John, was "One Sweet Day," which currently is available for licensing. In addition, Little Star Soup already has a number of bridal greeting cards, gift bags, and gift wrap on the market with Great Arrow Graphics, Design Design Inc., and GlitterWrap, all of which can be found in high-end specialty shops throughout North America.

Well-known wedding invitation and scrapbook designer Anna Griffin's first experience in the bridal industry was working for designer Vera Wang. In 1994, Griffin left to launch the business that bears her name, Anna Griffin, Inc., creating one-of-a-kind, handmade wedding invitations. Inspired by her collection of antique engravings and botanical prints, Griffin's elegant design style now lends itself to all facets of the wedding industry. Her most recent wedding ensemble, the demure "Nina Collection," evokes images of times past. Elegant scrollwork, painted flowers, and subtle colors make these invitations perfect for the flurry of events surrounding a wedding. Answering the trend of using color for weddings, Griffin now offers petal pink, robin's egg blue, pistachio green, and vanilla cream in 20-plus wedding invitation designs. Boxes of eight cards range in price from $14.50 to $32. Repped by Courtney Davis, Inc., Griffin's current licensing partners include Tickle, a division of Department 56, for a line of "Wedding Ware," which includes a wedding shower kit, a "decorate-the-car" kit, tote bags, wedding and shower signage, aprons and T-shirts, and other party favors (suggested retails, $2.50 to $50); C.R. Gibson for wedding memory books, guest books, wedding and everyday photo albums, address books, journals, gift bags, and paper tableware featuring artwork from the "Nina," "Claire," "Marguerite," and "Margot Collections" ($4.25 to $36); and Plaid Enterprises for rubber stamps, brass stencils, paper punches, ribbons, embellishments, an idea book, and paper packs featuring the "Nina Collection." Products are sold through high-end gift, stationery, and craft retailers worldwide.

"Our biggest wedding product success to date has been The Wedding Studio product line—an entire suite of do-it-yourself wedding-related papers including save-the-date cards, wedding invitations, and reception menus—sold in more than 900 Michaels stores nationwide," says Griffin.

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"The bridal industry," says artist Dawn M. Viola, repped by licensing agency Frends & Associates, "can be a lucrative business for artists. According to The Knot, $19 billion per year is spent on wedding gift registries alone. That's $19 billion worth of product that potentially could incorporate your artwork." But, she advises, do your homework before taking the plunge. "Take some time to research the industry in depth from all angles. For example, although I began designing specifically for invitations several years ago, the patterns and illustrations I created lent themselves to textiles, ceramics and fine China, cutlery, books, and more. Once you have a good understanding of the industry, begin designing a collection based on your research."

Artists Judy Stead and Maggie Stewart, both repped by licensing agency Del Mar Day, were encouraged by a major party goods manufacturer to develop bridal collections. "The creative director thought their whimsical, yet sophisticated styles were a great match for the type of 'guests' mass merchandisers are trying to attract right now," explains Del Mar Day owner Nancy Fisher. In March 2007, Target will begin selling one of Stead's bridal designs as a paper plate and napkin set, while Stewart's bridal collection currently is in design review with another major big-box retailer. The latter also illustrated a bridal-themed cover for "The List," a gift book published earlier this year by Workman Publishing. Both artists currently are looking to extend their collections into all things bridal, including invitations, gift bags, gift wrap, and favors.

As for other artists looking to license-out their work, "I'd suggest they visit retail stores in their area and familiarize themselves with the styles and palettes of bridal products already on the shelves," says Fisher. "Ask a salesperson which products are their bestsellers, and then submit designs that don't stray too far from what historically has worked for them."

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