Vicarious Learning

Inttranews - Daily News Site for Linguists Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Toronto, Canada (Examiner): A Peterborough mother is speaking out after the local Catholic school board cancelled the interpreter support in junior kindergarten for her four-year-old son who is deaf. Jonah didn't go to St. Patrick's School on Wednesday because...

Mr. Verb Dialects | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

This piece from the Raleigh Public Record reports on work on African-American English in the capitol of North Carolina by Erik Thomas, Robin Dodsworth and others. Thomas is a leading figure in sociophonetics, including important research on the...

Max Design Links for light reading | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Social Inclusion for the Web What Web Designers need to know about EPUB We don’t do workflow – The Digital Divide SVG or Canvas? ?hoosing between the two Taming the Elephant in the Room: Brand Perception and Bias The Apple...

BlogHighEd.org Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

I am attending the CASE District II conference in Philadelphia and I took a bunch of notes in the sessions today and have a number of thoughts and observations. They are in no particular order and rather random but I thought I would share them tonight. It...

dougbelshaw.com/blog Education | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

CC BY-NC-SA Chris KWM You may have missed it, but there’s a privacy debate going on as we enter a new decade.* I wanted to share my thoughts, as I think there’s some confused thinking going on. Usually, when people think of...

The English Blog Britain | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Thousands of young Scots will miss out on places at university because of the rise in applications, reports The Herald. Full story >> VOCABULARY Frenzy or a frenzy is great excitement or wild behaviour that often results from losing control of...

The English Blog News | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Here's the CNN Student News for Tuesday 9th February . Click on the links to see a transcript. Learn about some of the concerns surrounding an Iranian anniversary Examine a scientific study that links soft drinks and health risks Hear about one...

Libraries Interact All sectors | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Live coverage of VALA2010 continues here… VALA2010 – Wednesday

Informal Learning Blog Metalearning | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Getting good at social interactions is vital for social learning. We live in a social world. Every action taken that involves more than one person arises from conversation that generates, coordinates, and reflects those actions. At best, those group actions...

Always Learning Emotions | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

There’s an ad running on TV lately for an online dating service; the young man asks: If your service is so good at matching people, why should I have to join for a whole year? I smile and sigh every time I see this commercial. I want to tell this...

CogDogBlog Blog Pile | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Strange as it sounds, today I had to email my Mom a scanned copy of a copy of my own birth certificate to prove her own birth record. And perhaps the most challenging was helping her decode the email attachment so she could print the record. It goes like...

Britannica Blog Science & Technology | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

What a disappointment! One of the most exciting additions to my garden this year was to be a Black Lace Elderberry .  It was a cost-effective alternative to my favorite Japanese maple ‘Crimson Queen.’ It’s dark lacy leaves, white umbrella-...

Britannica Blog Arts & Entertainment | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Were Bob Marley among us today—physically, that is—he would have turned 65 years old last Saturday, February 6, occasioning these belated well wishes. Marley, of course, was the chief ambassador of reggae and Rastafarianism from his Jamaican homeland,...

Blogs Behavioral Economics | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

In a recent post by Mbali Creazzo , she discussed the gift of letting go. In other words, the gift of forgiveness. We often think of forgiving someone as a gift to them, but as Mbali shared her thoughts, it was easy to grasp the fact that forgiveness is a...

Linguaphiles Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

I'm reading a book by Irish novelist Emma Donoghue, and she used the word "jowlish" as a description for a person's fingers (as far as I remember). I can't find the word in a dictionary and am now wondering whether it's a typo or whether it really exists and...

The Greenbelt Ukrainian | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

No, not us. Though we are, to some degree, Ukraine has us beat hollow. Check out this results map - not quite the old Right Bank/Left Bank divide, but pretty close: ( source ) I'm sorry to see Yanukovych win, but the Orange coalition had trouble almost...

Blogs Neuroscience | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

I invite you to imagine a world without ‘dementia’.  It is not that I have found a cure for all so-called dementias, or discovered a strategy to prevent them in the future.  I am referring to the term ‘dementia’ (from Latin demens , meaning without...

Philosophers' Playground Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

I've been working through Emile Durkheim's classic The Rules of Sociological Method and in one section he works to draw a line between types of acts that are normal and those that are pathological. I don't want to discuss the criterion, but as an example in...

The Scholastic Scribe School's Out | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

So, we over here at The Scholastic Scribe have decided to go with the flow, as it were. We missed 2 school days last week because of snow. The first 3 days of this week have been canceled, as well. Well, you can't expect Our Humble High School to resume...

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... Intermediate English | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Merriam-Webster Word Games is an impressive collection of about twenty different games accessible to various levels of English Language Learners. I’ve placed the link on my website under Word and Video Games . addthis_url =...

doug - off the record Uncategorized | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Habits of the Heart: Human Body Gallery Guide: This is a guide to the activities and displays you will find at the Human Body Gallery at the museum. Click on the numbers to see images and a short description of each of the topics (tags: body heart ...

NYC Educator Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Tammy was having a rough day. She's a handful, even on a good day. To her and her mother's credit, a not-exactly-gentle phone call and conference early in the year largely nipped her bad behavior with me in the bud. But other teachers still complain about...

Blogs Relationships | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

 from Divorce360 Do you like to snuggle up to your honey under the covers, or are you the type who needs your space? Your behavior in bed may be trying to tell you something important about the health of your relationship. "The way partners share a...

The Greenbelt miscellaneous | Tuesday February 09, 2010 |

Er. Yes. Well, the flight into DC Tuesday was cancelled at about 2pm Anchorage time. Delta finally broke down and offered me a way out that involved Alaska Airlines. And a red-eye to Detroit. I'm in Seattle right now, waiting to leave at 11pm Pacific time,...