scholarly journals Teach Astronomy A Comprehensive Online Astronomy Education and Outreach Resource

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Chris David Impey ◽  
Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman ◽  
Anand Patikkal ◽  
Carmen L Austin
Keyword(s):  
Web Site ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Search Term ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Key Innovation ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Astronomical Images

A web site called Teach Astronomy (http://www.teachastronomy.com) has been created to serve astronomy instructors and their students, amateur astronomers, and members of the general public interested in astronomy. The content includes astronomy articles from an introductory level textbook and from the online resource Wikipedia, short video clips, astronomical images, podcasts, and recent news stories. This article describes the technology behind the delivery of those learning resources, which is relevant to the capabilities and limitations of the web site. One key innovation is the Wikimap, a Flash-based tool that presents the visual results of a real-time clustering analysis of hundreds or thousands of text items, displaying the item that best matches the search term and most closely related items. The clustering is carried out in a Lucene index, and it can operate on any database containing items of text. The astronomy content is routinely updated, in some cases daily. Due to the prevalence of smartphones, tablets, and other handheld devices, a simplified non-graphical version of the interface was developed using custom style sheets. Teach Astronomy has a large following of students taking introductory astronomy classes and members of the public with a recreational interest in astronomy. In the past year, there have been 250,000 unique visitors. Currently we are developing a new interface that uses HTML5 instead of Flash to display the Wikimap, an app version of the website for use on smartphones and tablets, and tool to support an instructor and learner community.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATION OF GUITARISTS’ CONCERT EVENTS IN THE CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE LEARNING

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Анатолій Коваленко
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Room Acoustics ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Live Music ◽  
Short Video ◽  
At Home

The article analyzes the possibilities for organizing concert events for guitarists in terms of distance learning. It is highlighted that the introduction of distance learning on March 12, 2020 has made changes in the organization of the domestic educational process; the acquisition of competence, which involves interaction with the audience to convey musical material during a public performance, was threatened. The experience of famous artists in overcoming the creative crisis is analyzed. N. Paganini said that even for one listener he would play with inspiration; G. Gould argued that the artist should be given anonymity; D. Matsuev, after the first concert in an empty hall, said that such concerts are needed primarily for the public, which now forced to sit at home and unable to attend a concert hall; A. Bocelli said that thanks to live music that unites millions of folded hands around the world, we will embrace the pulsating heart of this wounded land, employees of the Lviv National Philharmonic launched a project “Sound of the Lviv Philharmonic”, which is needed for Lviv residents who pay attention to the music heard on the street and musicians who realize their potential in online concerts. The problems of guitarists that arise when working in a music studio are identified. It is established that young performers often do not take into account the issues of room acoustics when organizing concert events. It is generalized that there are several options for the implementation of concert activities of guitarists in terms of distance learning: the organization of a concert in an empty hall with video recording for further placement on Internet sites; audio or video recording in a music studio; shooting short video clips at home (using a phone, webcam, camcorder, etc.), which can be an advertisement for the artist, or a message about the organization of a creative event.

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

scholarly journals The Survival Processing Advantage of Face: The Memorization of the (Un)Trustworthy Face Contributes More to Survival Adaptation

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 147470491983972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunna Hou ◽  
Zhijun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Source Memory ◽  
Survival Processing ◽  
Pictorial Material ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Survival Scenario ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Matched Design ◽  
Survival Experiment ◽  
Facial Trustworthiness

Researchers have found that compared with other existing conditions (e.g., pleasantness), information relevant to survival produced a higher rate of retrieval; this effect is known as the survival processing advantage (SPA). Previous experiments have examined that the advantage of memory can be extended to some different types of visual pictorial material, such as pictures and short video clips, but there were some arguments for whether face stimulus could be seen as a boundary condition of SPA. The current work explores whether there is a mnemonic advantage to different trustworthiness of face for human adaptation. In two experiments, we manipulated the facial trustworthiness (untrustworthy, neutral, and trustworthy), which is believed to provide information regarding survival decisions. Participants were asked to predict their avoidance or approach response tendency, when encountering strangers (represented by three classified faces of trustworthiness) in a survival scenario and the control scenario. The final surprise memory tests revealed that it was better to recognize both the trustworthy faces and untrustworthy faces, when the task was related to survival. Experiment 1 demonstrated the existence of a SPA in the bipolarity of facial untrustworthiness and trustworthiness. In Experiment 2, we replicated the SPA of trustworthy and untrustworthy face recognitions using a matched design, where we found this kind of memory benefits only in recognition tasks but not in source memory tasks. These results extend the generality of SPAs to face domain.

scholarly journals A Sociological Approach to Institutional Communication: The Public Image in Organizational Administration in Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Sandro Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Public Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Time Period ◽  
External Context ◽  
Institutional Communication ◽  
Organizational Administration

<p class="apa">Acknowledging that the external context visibly affects any organization, this investigation seeks to constitute a specific contribution to the study of the importance of public image in organizational administration. To that end, a collection and documentary analysis of news stories from the newspaper <em>O Fayalense</em> on the <em>Asylum for the Disadvantaged Children of Horta</em> [<em>Asilo de Infância Desvalida da Horta</em>], an institution located on Faial Island, Azores, Portugal, covering the time period of 1858 to 1895, is performed. In the presentation and discussion of the results, a comparison is made between two periods that involve a single president because they vary in the type of news stories published (at the level of sources and subjects). It is concluded that the news stories published cover three large types of references, which, given the period in question, vary substantially: factual information (on the celebrations occurring in the asylum, communications about donations received and appreciation of benefactors, or institutional information on the elections of the asylum directorate), praise (regarding the asylum’s mission, operation, or administration), and censures (including responses to external criticism, criticism of previous managements, and stories regarding the asylum’s precarious circumstances). The implication of the study is that the importance of a positive public image, especially a positive image that is supportive of the leadership, should not be overlooked for the organizational administration to have greater chances of success.</p>

scholarly journals Visual technology for the autonomous learning of mathematics

Pythagoras ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 0 (72) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Linneweber‐Lammerskitten ◽  
Marc Schäfer ◽  
Duncan Samson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Visual Technology ◽  
Short Video ◽  
African Context ◽  
Design Production ◽  
The University

This paper describes a collaborative research and development project between the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and Rhodes University in South Africa. The project seeks to establish, disseminate and research the efficacy and use of short video clips designed specifically for the autonomous learning of mathematics. Specific to the South African context is our interest in capitalising on the ubiquity of cellphone technology and the autonomous affordances offered by mobile learning. This paper engages with a number of theoretical and pedagogical issues relating to the design, production and use of these video clips. Although the focus is specific to the contexts of South Africa and Switzerland, the discussion is of broad applicability.

scholarly journals Nan-O-Style – experiments and arts

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Collavo ◽  
A. Lalayev ◽  
S. Angerer ◽  
M. Kraml ◽  
S. Bachner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Special Science ◽  
Surface Layers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
3D Microscopy ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Layer Chromatography

In this project, high school students (aged 16-17) tested various protocols of experiments in nanotechnology and evaluated them whether such experiments could also be performed by middle school students (aged 11-15) or even elementary school students (aged 6-10). Protocols pre-selected and provided by the instructing team consisting of Sciencetainment and the Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg were applied. Laboratory techniques such as thin-layer chromatography, measuring the contact angle by high-resolution 3D microscopy and analyzing and constructing surface layers represented some of the experiments performed. Moreover, students produced short video clips and images and designed photo-collages out of microscopic and electron microscopic pictures. Hence, the school students acquired a number of soft skills during this special science day. 

scholarly journals Organizing A Home Page of the Public Web Site Using the Delphi Method

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Jae Hyung Byun ◽  
Song, Hyerim ◽  
Lee, Gyehwi ◽  
Seo JongHwan ◽  
이기형
Keyword(s):  
Delphi Method ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Home Page ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Pendampingan Pemasaran Potensi Pariwisata Pagaralam Untuk Kawasan Timur Tengah

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Muhammad Walidin
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Study Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Marketing ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Short Video

Community Service with the theme Marketing  the Potential  Tourism of Pagaralam for the Middle East people is aimed to advocate  the public to be aware of tourism and to become independent tourism ambassadors for their own region. The team from the Arabic Language and Literature Study Program collaborated with the community represented by the academic community of the Al-Azhar Islamic Boarding School to develop a social media-based tourism marketing pattern (Youtube). This process begins with brainstorming, composing a narrative text, translating text into Arabic, taking pictures and video, editing, and downloading video to Youtube. The result of the program is the appearance of a short video in Arabic as a form of marketing the potential  tourism of Pagaralam to the Middle East people.

Placing the Nation: The Politics of Spatial Production at Auckland Airport and Wellington Airport

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Promotional Material ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The airport is a site that blurs spatial boundaries. While primarily functioning to move aircraft and passengers between land and air, the airport is simultaneously a complex social institution that mediates the relationship between the local and global, the public and private, and national and international space. This thesis discusses the changing nature of Auckland International Airport and Wellington International Airport as spaces that are produced through a number of historical, economic and political contexts. Using spatial, cultural and critical theory along with concepts from human geography and mobilities research, this study examines each airport as a dynamic, ongoing process of spatial relations. Central to this analysis is the understanding that space, subjectivity and technologies of power produce and reproduce each other on different scales. Drawing upon news stories, promotional material, institutional representations and popular representations of Auckland and Wellington airports, the following thesis will explore the ways in which their spaces have been imagined, produced and used over time.</p>

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