Mickey Schafer

" The QP-SURF program at UT Southwestern is an intensive summer research training experience which leads to an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of basic answers to current questions at the interface of quantitative science and basic biomedical research. Fellows spend ten weeks (beginning June 7, 2010 through August 13, 2010) pursuing individual research projects in the laboratories of UT Southwestern Graduate School faculty members. Fellows gain experience in modern research techniques, and have a chance to plan and execute an experimental strategy to answer a scientific question. The program introduces students to the sorts of projects encountered during postgraduate research training and leads to an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of basic answers to current questions in the biological sciences. At the end of the summer, fellows present their research in a poster session. In addition to... more... - Mickey Schafer

Hi, Mickey--thank you so much. Oh, we definitely include items for undergraduates. I really try to list as many scholarships and academic prizes in the health sciences at all levels as possible. Got to get kids interested in science and medicine! And I have a diversity.underrepresented category, too. Therefore, your suggestion was perfect and much appreciated. I have listed it here--http://www.scangrants.com/grant... - Hope Leman

"Thomas Friedman announced in 2006 that the world is flat once again. “In the future,” he said, “how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them,”[1] reminding us of a principle that may have faded into the background as we have been pushed by NCLB and other forces toward accountability measured by neatly bubbled exams. Now, at the edge, we need students who know how to think, solve problems, create solutions, share widely, listen intently, and act ethically." - Mickey Schafer

Post is just a blurb about a speaker at a conference, but I thought this quote was relevant -- the emphasis on "how" alongside "what". - Mickey Schafer

"This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers." - Mickey Schafer

"The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a member-based support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope." - Mickey Schafer

Covers many different disciplines but weighted more toward humantieis/social sciences - Mickey Schafer

got this from Holly! "NEW YORK - A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation. Online activities such as e-mail, blogging and frequenting Internet hangouts can even lead to larger, more diverse social networks, according to the study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The study refutes research earlier in the decade suggesting that people's growing embrace of technology has come at the expense of close human connections." - Mickey Schafer

But now I really want a bigger monitor at home. - Mickey Schafer

Personally, am not convinced of some of the assumptions, e.g. "...Both are unfortunate, but are parts of the current culture [reference to sharing early lab results]. Any network that hopes to succeed must adapt to the culture of the community, rather than trying to rewrite it." First, though likely rare, I think there are instances where culture gets "re-written" -- another perspective is that this form of communication provides an alternative to established routes. That is, does not replace them but adds to the diversity of communication means. - Mickey Schafer

Jenny: it might be better to gauge usage based either on features such as address book management or by traffic metrics such as size of audience - Mike Chelen

What do you want to store? Bits and bobs or lots of stuff? I use google doc for bits and prices dropbox is useful as it has an iPhone app. - Jo Badge from iPod

Mickey: flash drives are great for portability, still external hard disks are the best value for the size, for example 500gb for $100 http://www.newegg.com/Product... though online copies are important since a single drive could get lost or damaged at any time - Mike Chelen

omg, it seems almost all of the earth has been destroyed, leaving only a crescent sliver remaining!!1! - Mike Chelen

"Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on Monday, reported that Google spent $30 million on the company." - Mickey Schafer

glad to hear, since my customer satisfaction with google is generally way above that with my phone carrier ;) - Mike Chelen

"In the first years of the millennium, as she was mastering the arcane practice of grabbing onto individual ribosomes—the cellular organelles where proteins are made—with "laser tweezers" to investigate ribosomes' mechanical properties, Hanna had her mind on another audacious goal. "I thought it would be fun to try to communicate science in a way that people would think at the end, 'This is cool,' " she says." - Mickey Schafer

"T his wasn't a mere daydream. Hanna, who is 33 and was born and raised in California, quit her postdoc in 2004, enrolled in the top-flight science writing program at UC Santa Cruz, and was still searching toward the end of that yearlong program for a unique means of scientific expression, when she had an Aha! moment. It happened while she was admiring a drawing of serotonin, a neurotransmitter, in a book" - Mickey Schafer

for the rest of her story, see http://pubs.acs.org/cen... - Mickey Schafer

you'll recognize some of the links b/c they've been discussed here before. I am making no claim at all about the comprehensiveness of the list or my abilities as a page designer:-)!http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users... - Mickey Schafer

Just caught this story on the way home -- audio not available until 3:00 EST (US) -- great conversation with biomedical researcher who was in grad school when he got called to Iraq -- returns with only part an arm, goes into prosthetics research. At end of interview (maybe 7 min in?) makes terrific statement on the lack of open data when the whole thing has been govt. funded -- and has a response to the "economically necessary" argument for propriety, commercial production. - Mickey Schafer

"November 10, 2009 When Marine engineer Jonathan Kuniholm returned to his industrial-design shop after a tour of duty in Iraq, one of his first projects was personal: He wanted to improve on the design of the prosthetics he'd been using since he lost part of his right arm in an ambush near Haditha. Kuniholm and his colleagues founded the Open Prosthetics Project, an open-source collaboration that shares its innovations freely." - Mickey Schafer

"What the survey found was disheartening in itself: 40 percent of teachers reportedly are disheartened, 37 percent are merely content, and only 23 percent of teachers are idealists." - Mickey Schafer

compares well with the general average of 5 in 5 - Mike Chelen

There are some wonderful waves and websites. If you are looking for anything specific please let me know. - Holly Rae, FFer

lol! - Mickey Schafer from email

Got this link from the NSTA's quick-hit list relating to interpreting evidence-based inquiry. Others include http://www.scientificamerican.com/article... and http://www.time.com/time... - Mickey Schafer

"In this connection, the objective of this work was to study the effect of work on a computer on five- to sixyear-old children using computer programs with differently colored backgrounds (lettuce green, blue, black, and gray-purple). The goal of this research was to determine the optimal (among the above) color scheme variants of the DS background for children aged five to six years." [DS = developing software] - Mickey Schafer

the article is an interesting mix of detail and missing detail. There is a reference trail in the paper regarding proper "hygienic" and "physiological" characteristics of computer use by children -- lighting could be in that trail somewhere. - Mickey Schafer

read this in print form while awaiting my h1n1 flu mist -- sooo looking forward to exercising valid excuse to play online! - Mickey Schafer

I'm pretty sure everyone I know has played a bunch of computer games. The others must have died off by now. :) - Steve Koch

Depends how many lives they had, Steve. - Matthew Todd

abstract: This article explores excellence in web-based teaching. Drawing on the views of experts in the field and the perspective of their own years of experience, the authors compiled a list of 9 principles to provide direction in the search for online excellence. The principles include: the online world is a medium unto itself; sense of community and social presence are essential to online excellence; in the online world, content is a verb; great online courses are defined by teaching, not technology. The list is not intended to be an exclusive set of principles or a comprehensive guide to online teaching. Rather it is a collection of important ideas and suggestions for teaching excellence in the online world. - Mickey Schafer

"Therefore, the Fall 2008 print issue is the last hard copy version of CJLT that will be distributed by mail to Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) members. Starting with Volume 35 in Winter 2009, CJLT completes the transformation from dual media to a fully open access journal. CJLT will provide immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. CNIE members will be notified by email as new issues of CJLT are published online." - Mickey Schafer

"With the transition to open access, the CJLT Editorial team is in a great position to consider educational technology research and scholarship that goes beyond the primarily text and graphics rich print medium. While print journals continue to serve the research community well, it seems fitting for scholars in educational technology to chart and explore new Web 2.0 and Web 3.0... more... - Mickey Schafer

"Again, it’s a “why” thing. We spend a lot of time in web search trying to personalize to the individual level and really haven’t got very far. But now people are trying to do things like personalize to the task rather than the individual person, and there’s some interesting things happening there. Spell checks and query reformulations and things like that are very task-oriented rather than individual searcher oriented." - Mickey Schafer

*jaw drops* This is so methodologically ludicrous it makes my head hurt. - D0r0th34

ah, so self-plagiarism would be to include one's prior works without proper citation? - Mike Chelen

I'd be happy for you to use it, Jo! It's the rough draft of part of a "manuscript" I've been working on for too long now. Considering just tidying everything up and dumping it online somewhere to see if it can be of use. For my classes, I do dredge up discipline-specific examples for students to practice on. I pull out individual paragraphs rather than have them look at whole articles -- it's all for practice before writing review papers. - Mickey Schafer

Once in a while, yes--just as FB has recently been stalling a lot. (In my experience, FB is doing much worse than FF.) - Walt Crawford

live tech demos are always a crapshoot - I've been lucky for the most part this term - at least with FF - Jean-Claude Bradley