Using Facebook to Engage Iraqi EFL University Students in Learning

Facebook was established in 2004 and has grown up increasable to become not only the most common social networking site in the world but also the most famous social networking tool of the past decade for students’ online learning. Traditional learning models concentrate on the one-way move of information from teacher to student in the shape of lecture and textbook; social application presents flexible space for personalization of learning and in­creased communication between teacher and student. In addition, the student can contribute with each other collaboratively and communicatively in the context of expanding activities and interactions that are unobstructed by place and time. This study attempt to find out the Iraqi University students' awareness of using Facebook in learning EFL. The sample who participated in the study were 150 students in the 2nd year at the Department of English, College of Education for Human Sciences/ Wasit University. Furthermore, results illustrated that students believe their lan­guage skills improved throughout using Facebook, and further, their confi­dence, motivation, manner relating to language learning and improved through their previous experiences. Facebook for learning and teaching because of its unique integrated function that offers pedagogical social. And technological.

RASE: Modeling cumulative disadvantage due to marginalized group status in academia

We propose a framework of Resources, Achievement, Status, and Events (RASE) that allows the many disparate but well-documented phenomena affecting underrepresented groups in STEM to be assembled into a story of career trajectories, illuminating the possible cumulative impact of many small inequities. Our framework contains a three-component deterministic cycle of (1) production of Achievements from Resources, (2) updated community Status due to Achievements, and (3) accrual of additional Resources based on community Status. A fourth component, stochastic Events, can influence an individual’s level of Resources or Achievements at each time step of the cycle. We build a specific mathematical model within the RASE framework and use it to investigate the impact of accumulated disadvantages from multiple compounding variables. We demonstrate that the model can reproduce data of observed disparities in academia. Finally, we use a publicly available visualization and networking tool to provide a sandbox for exploring career outcomes within the model. The modeling exercise, results, and visualization tool may be useful in the context of training STEM faculty to recognize and reduce effects of bias.

May FB ka na ba? navigating students’ visit in social media networks

Without a doubt, social media is the most influential networking tool on the world. This research demonstrates the influence of social media on people's life. It investigates how social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, Linkiden, Multiply, and others manage and navigate the everyday lives of students who utilize these platforms for academic purposes. In the research, descriptive techniques are employed, and the sampling strategy is based on Slovin's Formula. Students were found to regularly use YouTube, Facebook, and other social networking sites. As a consequence, the networks were easy to use, as were the phones they utilized. They often utilize these services to fulfill the requirements of their friends as well as their scholastic responsibilities, enabling them to establish additional friends outside of their nation. Social networking sites, when utilized properly and in moderation, may be extremely helpful to children's scholastic growth and development. Excessive usage may result in addiction and be detrimental to one's health. It was highly recommended that, students could utilize extra educational networking sites such as research gate and google scholar, scribd, and sage to become more educationally oriented and meet academics and professionals in the aforementioned networks.

Social Network for Game of Thrones

Along with growing interest and use, the concept of network analysis has taken a new direction to explore data and facts to find existing patterns. The paper highlights the importance of social network analysis in analyzing and mining useful information from the data across various domains. It provides an insight into need, importance and scope of Social Network Analysis. With the use of Social networking tool like NetworkX, data is being represented in the form of graph or network which is then analyzed in a more efficient way making it easier to study the interactions between different persons in Game of thrones and establishing trends existing in a network. A comparative analysis of various centrality measures such as Degree centrality, Betweenness centrality, Closeness centrality, PageRank centrality is performed to explore the features associated to find the most important character of the series based on obtained results.

Cyber-Security: Dos Attack Outcomes are Dangerous

Dos attacks are an attractive and hot topic nowadays because it is very common for attackers to make a victim and exploit it. In this paper, different kinds of techniques and commands have implemented and contrast for the outcomes of these attacks. By performing, experiments problems are identified. By following experiments, the goal is prevention and mitigation of Dos attacks at large extent by knowing the outcomes of the attacks. For proving the work, different types of experiments are performed on different platforms and observed that Dos attacks are how dangerous to our systems. In this paper, hping3 and syn flooding are performed. Hping3 is used for sending packets in a modified, crafted form. It is the networking tool used by developers to perform a DOS attack. SYN flooding is used for sending so many requests in an insane amount to the server and used all of the resources of the server.

Upsettling Canada in 140 Characters: race relations in the Twittersphere

This paper is a qualitative content analysis of public tweets made during the Indigenous social movement, Idle No More, containing the #upsettler and #upsettlers hashtags. Using settler colonial theory coupled with previous literature on Twitter during social movements as a guiding framework, this study identifies how settler colonial relations were being constructed on Twitter and how functions of the social networking tool such as the hashtag impacted this process. By examining and analyzing the content of 278 tweets, this study illustrates that Twitter is a site where conversations about race relations in Canada are taking place and that the use of the hashtag function plays a vital role in expanding the reach of this online discussion and creating a sense of solidarity or community among users.

Upsettling Canada in 140 Characters: race relations in the Twittersphere

This paper is a qualitative content analysis of public tweets made during the Indigenous social movement, Idle No More, containing the #upsettler and #upsettlers hashtags. Using settler colonial theory coupled with previous literature on Twitter during social movements as a guiding framework, this study identifies how settler colonial relations were being constructed on Twitter and how functions of the social networking tool such as the hashtag impacted this process. By examining and analyzing the content of 278 tweets, this study illustrates that Twitter is a site where conversations about race relations in Canada are taking place and that the use of the hashtag function plays a vital role in expanding the reach of this online discussion and creating a sense of solidarity or community among users.

How to vEGU: networking

<p>This year vEGU21 has flexible networking tools available to conveners and attendees, allowing people to engage and socialise with, and learn from one another in almost any way they wish. Networking is facilitated by three key tools: the Networker community-building platform, the conference Handshake tool, and the Pop-Up Scheduler.</p> <p>This year the Networker will help attendees find, meet, and talk with one another and forge lasting connections. Build your profile by adding in your expertise, social media, contact information and other details; you can even add stickers to quickly showcase your Division, whether you are an Early Career Scientist, and your pronouns amongst other choices! During the Assembly you can find other members with similar interests on the Networker, share your profiles with people you meet at the conference, or start group text chats with other members in your network. The Networker isn’t just for the Assembly either: after building your network at the Assembly members will be able to keep connected and meet others all year-round!</p> <p>One of the quickest ways to build your network during the Assembly is by using the conference networking tool: Handshake. Handshake lets you quickly initiate contact with other attendees in your virtual conference room and share your networker profile or start a text chat.</p> <p>If you want to run your own event then the Assembly’s Pop-Up Scheduler allows you to set up networking opportunities of any kind, from small events focusing on a particular scientific topic to spaces for you to build a community. Perhaps you’ve been inspired by member-led events like the Games Night or Rhyme Your Research and want to explore more ways to get involved in geoscience communication! The Pop-Up Scheduler allows you to do all this and more: simply choose a date, time, and provide a link to a platform of your choice. Once submitted it will be added to the conference programme. You can link to any platform you like: the scheduler is designed to be flexible and meet the needs of the membership, so members should feel free to organise events using platforms from Animal Crossing to Zoom! Unsure which one to choose? Check out our uploaded display materials for inspiration and suggestions.</p>

Using Blueprints to promote interorganizational knowledge transfer in digital health initiatives—a qualitative exploration of a national change program in English hospitals

Objective The Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) Program is a national attempt to accelerate digital maturity in healthcare providers through promoting knowledge transfer across the English National Health Service (NHS). “Blueprints”—documents capturing implementation experience—were intended to facilitate this knowledge transfer. Here we explore how Blueprints have been conceptualized, produced, and used to promote interorganizational knowledge transfer across the NHS. Materials and Methods We undertook an independent national qualitative evaluation of the GDE Program. This involved collecting data using semistructured interviews with implementation staff and clinical leaders in provider organizations, nonparticipant observation of meetings, and key documents. We also attended a range of national meetings and conferences, interviewed national program managers, and analyzed a range of policy documents. Our analysis drew on sociotechnical principles, combining deductive and inductive methods. Results Data comprised 508 interviews, 163 observed meetings, and analysis of 325 documents. We found little evidence of Blueprints being adopted in the manner originally conceived by national program managers. However, they proved effective in different ways to those planned. As well as providing a helpful initial guide to a topic, we found that Blueprints served as a method of identifying relevant expertise that paved the way for subsequent discussions and richer knowledge transfers amongst provider organizations. The primary value of Blueprinting, therefore, seemed to be its role as a networking tool. Members of different organizations came together in developing, applying, and sustaining Blueprints through bilateral conversations—in some circumstances also fostering informal communities of practice. Conclusions Blueprints may be effective in facilitating knowledge transfer among healthcare organizations, but need to be accompanied by other evolving methods, such as site visits and other networking activities, to iteratively transfer knowledge and experience.