...Leadership Styles and School Effectiveness Labels: Change Management Research Proposals, Leadership Research Proposals, Strategic Management Research Proposals, Travel Research Proposals Introduction The human mind is like a mine bestowed with billions of innovative seeds, and every one of those seeds can grow a fruitful tree of new inventions. At home, the education of a newly born child starts from the lap of a mother, for whom it is an obligatory privilege to look after her child. Education starting in the dark-age has been transformed as it has passed from mind to mind and race to race, based on spiritually traditional ways of learning, observations, and experiences. The acquisition of knowledge began with the informal learning process at home to formal learning in institutions or schools. In this way, knowledge was progressively traveling down different paths and in different ways through human minds. In recent years, the advent of new technologies from photocopying machines to computer programs, optical scanners, and telecommunication networks has contributed to knowledge transformation. Moreover, today, the dominance of digital technologies and distorted media information has set the stage for the human mind to be idle. It can be thought that the idleness of mind is not due to insufficient or a lack of information and ideas for knowledge development but rather the inevitability of creating multiple choices and overloading us with information. Here, the ramifications...
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...Informatics and Emerging Technology in Healthcare Judi A. Gentes Franklin Pierce College Health informatics is relatively new with increased interest during the 1980’s and has expanded rapidly over the past couple years (Dalrymple,2011). It is a multidisciplinary field that uses health information technology to improve healthcare with the combination of higher quality, higher efficiency and new opportunities. All of which are designed to improve the overall effectiveness of patient care. Health informatics tools promote patient care that is safe, efficient, effective, timely and patient centered. The ANA Online Journal of Issues in Nursing identifies seven emerging technologies that will change the practice of nursing and three skill sets nursing will need to develop to acquire and use these emerging technologies. Table 1. Seven Emerging Technologies that Are Changing the Practice of Nursing | Technology | Benefits | Challenges | Genetics and Genomics | The majority of disease risk, health conditions and the therapies used to treat those conditions have a genetic and/or genomic element influenced by environmental, lifestyle, and other factors therefore impacting the entire nursing profession. | Many nurses currently in practice know little about genetics and genomics and lack the competence needed to effectively counsel and teach patients in this regard. | Less Invasive and More Accurate Tools for Diagnostics and Treatment | Non-invasive and minimally invasive...
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...no longer be profitable. For keeping and improving Stihl's brand equity, I strongly suggest: First of all, create a informative, highly functional Web sites, personalize notification and a mechanism for capturing and responding to customer feedback; Second and the huge move, create a new brand not only sell tools but also providing excellent home improvement experience to house owners and their families; Third, introducing new products that add style, technology and color to the mix in home improvement centers and mass merchants, for commercial buyers, using the web-site only. New brand, New products & New channels There are some unique characteristics of the new generation, such as: "want challenges" and " give me info, but I call shots". Also, "The present research takes an ethnographic perspective and considers the experiences and understandings of a set of families in one urban community as they attempt a variety of home improvement (do-it-yourself or DIY) projects. Although cultural and institutional representations of home improvement are found to be helpful, they frequently fail to capture the complexities of actual home improvement projects" (Goodsell, 2008)....
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...Skip to main content. Subscribe to the Houston Chronicle | Shopping | Classifieds | Obits | Place an Ad | La Voz Register | Sign In ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Chron.com Local Directory Bottom of Form * Home * Local ------------------------------------------------- In Local * ------------------------------------------------- Neighborhoods * ------------------------------------------------- Houston & Texas * ------------------------------------------------- Traffic * ------------------------------------------------- Weather * ------------------------------------------------- Education * ------------------------------------------------- Politics & Policy * ------------------------------------------------- Election 2013 * ------------------------------------------------- Chronicle Investigates * ------------------------------------------------- Obituaries * ------------------------------------------------- Staff Blogs * ------------------------------------------------- Reader Blogs * ------------------------------------------------- Columnists * ------------------------------------------------- Opinions & Editorials * ------------------------------------------------- La Voz (Español) ------------------------------------------------- Neighborhoods ...
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...encountered problems with communication and access to the loan account. After researching the topic extensively, we came to the conclusion that although the contract may be one-sided and possibly even unethical, it is legal and enforceable. From the viewpoint of the buyer (or leasee, since this is sort of like a lease-to-own contract) this is a relatively good deal because it allows buyers with poor credit, such as mine at the time, to go ahead and buy a home then work on repairing their credit while they live in it. The downsides to this contract are that the buyer has little or no access to the account information. They cannot speak with the bank about the account, and cannot access it online without assistance from the mortgage holder. While they are paying on the mortgage, they are paying off the balance but the equity they are building belongs to the mortgage holder and there is no guarantee they will ever get it back, even in part. From the viewpoint of the homeowner, they get an increased opportunity to sell their home in a difficult market. However they have the additional responsibility of keeping tabs on the mortgage, which will remain in their name until the new buyers refinance. The situation is not ideal for either party, and in our case and I suspect many other both parties are looking to move immediately. In this situation, the homeowner and real estate agent have found a way around the traditional lease-to-own contract that allows them to keep complete control...
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...Multiple Intelligences Name Course Instructor Date Multiple Intelligences Gardner recognizes 9 types of intelligences or learning styles. These are crucial to recognize within the learning environment for optimum success. Acknowledging a learner’s intelligence(s) can provide a more successful knowledge transfer while making use of technology has made it even simpler to include the intelligences into a single learning subject. Verbal-linguistic intelligence means these types are generally good with words and speaking (NIU, n.d.). Talents existing in rhythm, music, and sounds are common with this learning style (Lever-Duffy, 2011). These types may prefer to listen or have information set to a beat or music. Logical-mathematical intelligence types may possess a grasp on logical and numerical concepts and abstracts (NIU, n.d.). Concepts in logic are a strong-suit of these learners. They may also excel in the mathematical careers. Spatial-visual intelligence types visualize concepts mentally (NIU, n.d.). They may think in pictures as well (Lever-Duffy & McDonald, 2011). These learners can manipulate things in their minds such as numbers. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligences learn through hands-on and physical activities (NIU, n.d.). Their skills reside in controlling body movements or memorizing by doing (Lever-Duffy & McDonald, 2011). This can include writing, building, and physical manipulation of objects. Musical intelligences may produce and/or...
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...century are telegraph communications, photographic technologies, and personal computers that were on the rise rapidly. Today’s culture grabs distinct technologies to share tasks and resources, in short terms, media convergence (Lule 2012). A main advancement that paved the way for other infrastructures is telegraph communication. This level of work made a way to make it easier to communicate that according to Lule (2012), communication was no longer linked to the physical transportation of messages… Suddenly, information from distant places was nearly as accessible as local news. Lule (2012) also described how those telegraph line turned into thier version of the World Wide Web. Using telegraph communication led into the advancements in wireless communications. That improvement made a smooth transition into radio, television, and other broadcast Medias. Not long after this advancement, this allowed media networks, for example, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to dominate the airways (Lule, 2012). Once these inventions and new methods were constructed, they immediately took part in American homes. With radio and televisions shows emerging the 19th-century home was beginning to embrace the fact that media was taking a part in American life. While media technologies were advancing with the telegraph and wireless new ways of living, photographic technologies was rapidly rising as well. As mentioned previously...
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...Technology is binding the world of work and the world of home in ways that redefine what is means to be in each. Some changes are dramatic, others are subtle, but the changes are experienced in the mundane activities of everyday life. To begin this presentation I will tell you a story. This story may not reflect your own lives, but I imagine some details will have a familiar ring to them. John is a middle-aged product development manager at a high tech company in Silicon Valley. He bemoans the fact that he no longer has the kind of personnel support he had even 10 years ago. While he shares an administrative assistant with several other managers, he is now expected to handle his own communications, create his own presentations and manage his own time and financial budget. After all, he now has a PC to improve his productivity, and interactive on-line calenders to manage his time. The nature of his work means that he is in constant contact with engineers, the general managers above him, and his counterparts in different sites in his international company. He has more contact, and more in common, with his counterpart in Taiwan than the person in the next cubicle. He tries very hard not to take too much work home with him, preferring to work late on site, but the international nature of his work means he is on the phone at midnight and at dawn. He is grateful for E-mail and voice mail since they can fit his schedule. Realistically, he thinks...
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...How Mobile Computing has Changed Training John R. Jones Ashford University – INF103 Instructor: Mark Johnson How Mobile Computing has Changed Training The growth of mobile technologies has created numerous opportunities for learning and training development. Because mobile learning or mLearning allows for immediate access to materials, instantly collaborating on and discussing content enhances the learning experience. mLearning can also be used with other modalities to enhance on the job training, providing the learner with just-in-time tools and references. History of Traditional training is conducted in a classroom style environment with a number of students being taught at the same time in one location. With the introduction of synchronous virtual training, students could be all over the country or world; sitting in their offices or home to complete training. However, the training is still conducted with all the students attending a class at the same time. Similar to what is used at Ashford University, asynchronous training allows the student to develop new skills on their own timeframe and at their own pace. “The evolution in education and training at a distance can be characterised as a move from dLearning (distance learning) to eLearning (electronic learning) to mLearning (mobile learning).” (Keegan, Desmond 2002) Mobile training or mLearning allows a learner to use a mobile device to access training content, complete training modules or games and collaborate...
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...town or village near you. Like all estate agents, the company will sell and rent homes for their clients, arrange mortgages for buyers and provide other services. In this assignment you will: • compare business documents used by three different companies • look at different methods of communicating information and the technologies that support them • create documents/communications for Mags Estate Agents. Task 1 – to be handed in on or before……………………………….. Estate agents use many different types of documents to communicate with buyers and sellers. You should collect (or your teacher will give you) two different documents from each of three different estate agents. For example you may collect an information sheet from each estate agent and then visit their website. Study the documents carefully and then write a report that describes and compares the documents. You will need to consider these points when describing and comparing the documents: • What is the purpose of each document? • How is each document laid out? • What is good and what is bad about the way each document is presented? • How does the presentation of similar documents compare? • What is good and what is bad about the way each document is written (the style of language used)? • How does the writing style of similar documents compare? • Do documents from the same estate agent use a house style and how is this demonstrated? • How well does each...
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...Technology is binding the world of work and the world of home in ways that redefine what is means to be in each. Some changes are dramatic, others are subtle, but the changes are experienced in the mundane activities of everyday life. To begin this presentation I will tell you a story. This story may not reflect your own lives, but I imagine some details will have a familiar ring to them. John is a middle-aged product development manager at a high tech company in Silicon Valley. He bemoans the fact that he no longer has the kind of personnel support he had even 10 years ago. While he shares an administrative assistant with several other managers, he is now expected to handle his own communications, create his own presentations and manage his own time and financial budget. After all, he now has a PC to improve his productivity, and interactive on-line calenders to manage his time. The nature of his work means that he is in constant contact with engineers, the general managers above him, and his counterparts in different sites in his international company. He has more contact, and more in common, with his counterpart in Taiwan than the person in the next cubicle. He tries very hard not to take too much work home with him, preferring to work late on site, but the international nature of his work means he is on the phone at midnight and at dawn. He is grateful for E-mail and voice mail since they can fit his schedule. Realistically, he thinks...
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...heart’s desire.” --ISABEL BRIGGS MYERS [1] MBTI Basics: The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C.G. Jung understandable and useful in people’s lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. [1.1.] A Short Guide to the Development and Use of MBTI: Below is a short guide to identify your type; ask yourself Favorite World: Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or on your own inner world? This is called Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I). Information: Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? This is called Sensing (S) or Intuition (I). Decisions: When making decisions, do you prefer to...
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...INTRODUCTION Project Context Technology has developed so much that it is almost crucial to have electronic device at home. Our life has gotten so used to having technology around us that we can’t imagine our lives without them. However, while having electronic device at home could be comfortable and handy at times, it could also have negative effect on children, and especially on teenager’s parents usually buy computers for their children’s educational resource. But teenagers, who always seek fun activities around the, use computer to play game, chat with friends and to catch up with the latest gossip on celebrities, and before they know it, they are addicted to computer. Computer can cause teenagers to be physically, mentally ill, and the more the child spends more time on computer, the more he loses time to focus on his academics, and time to communicate with his/her family. Technical is a good tool if we use its own advantage, but it would be the worst if it is used to own disadvantage. Purpose and Description of the Project The purpose of this study will provide information about students in ISU-R who are engaged in the use of computer. This show cases the statistic of students who are spending their time in online/offline games, social networking, chatting, researching or simply browsing the net. This further shows how many percent of students in ISU-R are addicted in computer. Objectives of the Project The study on the Online Survey on Computer Addiction Among...
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...Republic of the Philippines Cavite State University Don Severino De las Alas Campus Indang, Cavite COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY In Partial Fulfillment of ITEC 55: Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) Baby Dolphin’s Social Learning Network for the Elementary Department of Philippine Christian University Dasmarinas Campus Submitted to: Edilberto O. Solis Jr. Instructor Submitted by: Bansale, Joseph B. Mendoza, Jennina L. Vega Blessed Joy A. Date submitted: September 30, 2013 I. Introduction Background of the Study Learning Management System (LMS) is responsible for “learning” activities. Online learning tasks can be performed at any time or place provided they have Internet access. Online learning environments thus differ significantly from traditional learning environments, where teachers and students must meet regularly at a specific place and time. Online learners become more free, flexible and convenient in time and location of learning. The Philippine Christian University (PCU) elementary school had truly gone a long way it had when it first opened in 1971. Today, it boasts of considerable increase in number of pupils and teachers, as well, thus fulfilling the dreams of the founders of the institution. Indeed, it is a legend turned into reality! Elementary Department indeed is pride and big assets of Philippine Christian University as a whole. Just like any other school...
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...The Internet has become a real breakthrough of the 20th century. Information and computer revolution prepared the basis for the profound social changes, and today these transformations touch upon all the levels of the society – social structure, economic life and labor relations, politics and education. Covering all the sphere of life, global network has become an integral part of a modern man, without which human existence can no longer be imagined. Indeed, a man of the 1960’s wouldn’t probably believe being told that it would be possible to instantly connect with any person on the planet, or to access any information accumulated by mankind, staying at home. Half a century ago, letters were written with a ballpoint pen, people spoke only by phone, and contacted through telegraph for urgent messages. Today the rate of information transfer from one point to another planet gives the opportunity to learn the news almost instantly, overcoming thousands of miles, not only from the network media, but also from each other. In addition, the huge amount of information contained in the network, makes it possible to gather almost limitless knowledge (Brockman 52). Many people have forgotten when was the last time they took a dictionary or encyclopedia from the shelf, because one can find the answer to any question on the Internet; for this same reason, public libraries have moved to background (Brockman 3). Although, people still mostly prefer a hard copy of fiction just as they did 60...
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