E-Learning 2.0 – The Latest Technology in Education

Much has been written about technology being used in education – how the use of online applications is rapidly spreading out in traditional classrooms, etc. Before the advent of e-learning 2.0, teachers delivered learning materials and instructions via lectures and assignments. However, the new type of e-learning has brought forth the concepts of wikis, blogs, and social media, to name a few. Teachers in various district schools and colleges have started to explore the potentiality of social media and blogs to conduct classes and courses online.

Social Media

Use commercial social networking websites in schools and libraries to impart education easily and quickly. For example, you can create a profile page on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. to post and share information with large numbers of students and parents. The 2012 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project found that Israel has the maximum number of people using social networking sites (53%) followed by USA in the second spot (50% using social media).

Blogging

Many colleges in particular are using blogs in their classrooms to write and publish learning materials online. Blogs act as a great tool to encourage feedback, critical or otherwise, by allowing readers to add comments to any post, anytime, from home or while traveling somewhere. Many teachers are supporting their students to create and maintain a blog for publishing assignments and project works. It becomes extremely convenient for professors to check or download an assignment rather than to wait for the student to come and submit the work in person.

Podcasting

Podcasting has become a popular technology in learning. Many leading universities in the U.S. have created podcasts to offer free courses over the internet. For example, Boston College created the Boston College iTunes Web Site which provides a collection of lectures that students can load onto their iPods. You can also subscribe to the Georgetown University Forum iTunes Feed Web Site – a weekly radio program that highlights the research and expertise of Georgetown University teaching staff.

Media Sharing

Students can be encouraged to use Flickr, the free photo sharing website to upload and download multiple numbers of education-related photos to use for their schools tasks. You can access the photos and use them in slides, learning coursework, etc. Learners will also get the chance to comment on the uploaded photos to create a chain reaction suitable to share knowledge and impart education much easily and quickly.

Thus, e-learning 2.0 has opened up a range of avenues for both the teachers and students to gain education in a more advanced and updated setting.

Why Religious Discrimination Targets Women

The recent shooting of a Pakistani schoolgirl by the Taliban because of her outspoken views on education for women shocked the world. But it is not that long ago that most women were banned from higher education globally. The view that men alone are worthy of higher office and, therefore, the need to be educated is born of religions that target females for one reason or another.

A hundred years ago one would not have found a female doctor or lawyer and even educators were mostly of the male variety. It took two world wars to show the bigoted fundamentalists and those brainwashed into believing otherwise that women are as good as men. While the latter were sent to the war front to fight it was women who ran industries, built airplanes, organised work forces, grew the food, and demonstrated their worth to those who previously had considered them little more than burdens or a drain on the community.

The challenge made the fairer sex stronger and more assertive. They wanted equality and the right to vote. Slowly they won over those things and as they rose in statue religions took a back seat. It was no longer the role of women to simply run households and produce children. They could now wear pants and demand their rights; at least that is what happened in the western societies.

The eastern regions of countries like Pakistan and those that are now influenced greatly by the Muslim religious code saw no such change. While women may want to be in a situation to excel and show their value in the same way they are handicapped by the strength of the prejudice and discrimination against them.

The world is under the influence of 666 and that is the identity of Constantine who established the Catholic Church that exercises enormous discrimination against women to this day. It is patriarchal in its premise and one of its cohorts, Augustine Dea, was appointed by the Vatican to establish the Muslim religion. This has come to light through a priest who discovered the records in its archives and has gone public with it.

These two major faiths have come from the same source and are of the same ilk. Constantine brought the Islamic religion of Assyria into focus through the religion he founded. That is based on a heavenly prophet or so-called Son of God arriving to teach us that the king is his representative on earth.

For those that don’t know the Pope is king of the church in the style of the emperor. The Vatican’s creation of the Muslim faith is also based on a prophet, Mohammed, who was a real person discovered through an acquaintance and tutored into the role. The motivation, according to the report by a priest who examined archival documents, it was to add credibility to the Catholic claim that Jesus Christ and Mary were real and that the church was founded by the former.

Mary is the real god worshipped by Catholics and the men in that religion are forbidden to adore human females as it would take away from her. The Muslims worship the sun, which is called Mary in the old tradition. ‘Ma-r-i’, in the linguistic research undertaken by me into all aspects of speech, means ‘mother’s powerful eye’. Images photographed inside the sacred shrine at Mecca show the sun and the moon as the chief gods. The Muslim flag is the sun star in the cradle of the crescent moon.

To know that these things are at the heart of the discrimination and terrorism is causing me to speak out. The behaviour of these violent religions is something that needs to be brought up and openly condemned. People do not need to stay ignorant of what the founders of the Catholic Church got up to and what the Roman conspiracy implemented by the one identified as 666 in Revelation 13:13-18 has resulted in.

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If you don’t consistently put good things into your brain, then confusion and lies will clog it up, and they are incredibly hard to get out. Information is a never ending battle: we must be ever vigilant to what we put into our own heads because if we are intellectually lazy, there is a much less likely chance of us understanding anything about the world that we live in, and we will constantly be walking around, observing miseries, and questioning “Why? Why?”, because we didn’t take the time to put good information into our heads earlier on with which we could recall and make associations about the world that we live in and then we could use logic to understand things more clearly and take more appropriate actions.

Without logic, our actions are meaningless, and we will have no idea what we are doing, and confusion will be our companion instead of reason.

Reason is all around us, whether we realize it or not. It is everywhere: it is unavoidable. Why some people accept it while others don’t, especially on very simple issues, is one of the mysteries of the universe that I’m sure I will stew over for a while (stop telling me to “not think about it and just have fun” because thinking IS my fun. I know that a lot of people don’t understand that, but it’s true).

I have spent my whole life wondering why some people are less intelligent than others (as have many others), and I honestly do not know. But those people are no excuse for the rest of us not being able to learn. This is why individual liberty is so important: I have the right to learn even if others do not value education as much as I do.

As I’ve stated before, learning and writing are as natural to me as breathing, and I see a lot of people that say things like “I forgot what I learned in school” and then they complain about how terrible their life is. Would reason not be an appropriate facility to use in this circumstance? Why your life is so terrible? Instead, I see people using faulty logic and their lives get more and more terrible. It seems to me that logic dictates that we must use logic if we wish to understand issues.

There is much vilification of science and logic and reason from religious enthusiasts, and sadly, the only way for these people to break through from this is for God to reveal the truth to them, which I am hopeful of, but in the meantime, the Bible is right: there will be misery in our lives as long as we are here, because of the things that people such as the religious enthusiasts do. There is far too much to discuss to put into this article, but I’m sure I will think about it for a couple of years and then write an article about the subject.

Logic gets a bad rap because of simple things like “Well you can’t see and measure God, so that means science is a lie.” Well, you see, this is one instance where it is important to understand why logic is so important. That is faulty logic. It’s based on the fear of God, but it does not make sense for science to be evil simply because we can measure it but we can’t measure God. I don’t understand how science, which can make our lives happier, is evil, but God, who can also make our lives happier, is good. This is where lies start to entangle truth and make it hard to understand what is true and what is false. Only a divine revelation can explain to us what is true and what is false, and this is why I think that logic is so important. I think that logic is truly divine, in that it explains to us what truths are in the truest sense of the meaning of the word “truth.”

Once again, why some people are not capable of learning certain things or accepting certain truths and do not value learning, I do not know. But I do know that if I am to understand anything about the universe, as is the case for anyone else, then I must value my own education and I must use logic to obtain these truths because logic is as true as can be.

How we know something to be logical when something else is not, and how we can tell if someone isn’t using logic despite the fact that they say they are are topics for many other articles down the road, but I do know that if there are any logical statements to be had in the universe (as I know there are plenty), then we must accept these and use these, and I believe that because these things are so true and so helpful, that we must use our learning and education to learn about more of the logic truths that are in the universe that we might not quite be aware of so that we can add these to our repertoire as well, and our lives will only benefit because of the things that we can learn by using the infinite amount of logic that is out there and is only yet waiting to be discovered.

But we can do none of this if we do not learn, and people will not learn if they do not want to learn. Why I value education while others don’t is a big mystery of the universe, but Ido know that if I don’t value my education, I will not learn, and because I value understanding, I must value my education. Why I value education and why others don’t are subjects for many other articles, but if you want to have any understanding of the universe (as many people say they do as evidenced by all of the questions they ask, which is a good thing), you must do two things: you must accept logic, and you must value your own education enough to learn.

My biggest fear is getting older and to stop learning, like many adults do that never cared about school and just stop learning altogether. That is my biggest fear, and sometimes, it feels like one of those “inevitabilities” that adults talk about, but I’m not quite sure if all of these adults are truthful, despite their good intentions. This is one thing that I want to learn about, and one of the (I would guess to be) infinite number of reasons as to why education and logic are so vitally important if we are going to be happy. Perhaps some people can be happy without those things, but I look at all of the things that these two things can do for people and see that it can grant them happiness, whether or not they realize it (for instance, computers are logic machines, and it required some type of understanding to piece them together, and once that was done, happiness was had by all that use computers), so I know that for at least me personally, my happiness will not come unless I am allowed to use logic for all of the learning that I want to obtain in the world, and I think that many others could follow suit because although it could be argued that “ignorance is bliss”, I know this isn’t true for me because I love education so much, and I would imagine that if more people started following down my path, they would be pleasantly surprised at the things that they learned as well.

So if I can get people to love this as much as I do, that would be a good thing, even though this is not my ultimate cause. My ultimate cause is to learn for myself because it makes me happy, but logic dictates that there are only so many things you can do after you learn something, and one of those things is to share it with the world, which is what I’m doing. Whether or not people care is their own decision, but that is not why I am doing this. I am doing this for my own benefit and because I love it as much as anyone could love anything in the world, and if there is someone else in the world either like that that is reading this or if reading this causes someone else to be like that, that would be a great accomplishment indeed.

Children’s Backpacks – Need Of The Hour

Backpacks have become more than just camping gear, nowadays. They have become part style statement and part hold-alls, which are an integral part of the daily lives of most people. What makes backpacks appealing is the fact that one no longer has to lug around heavy bags in their arms, but has the convenience of putting all their stuff in the backpack and just slinging it on to their backs and get going.

With the wide variety of backpacks available in the market, each with an attractive style and color, backpacks are bound to be a hit with your child. They become your child’s companion, to be taken wherever he /she goes- be it to carry books to school, or toys to play at a friend’s place or even to carry their clothes for an overnight trip to their grandparent’s place. And you don’t even have to worry about the backpack getting torn or damaged as the material used for these backpacks is lightweight and durable and meant for everyday use. Thus, backpacks are not only a boon for your child, but for you as well.

In fact, many mothers now find it much more convenient to even carry a backpack instead of a diaper bag. There are companies who are in fact a step ahead of this change as they designing children’s backpacks, which double up as a diaper bag and adding these to their existing range of products. So you no longer have to juggle around with the baby in one hand and the diaper bag in the other. It gives you the freedom to have your hands free, while still being able to carry all items of need for your baby, on your back. In fact, now you can even choose a backpack in the color that you want, to suit your style and your baby’s needs.

As for the school going children, picking up their backpack on their own, gives them a sense of pride. With the increasing study load and the huge number of books prescribed in schools, their heavy satchels put so much strain on the shoulder and hip of these little children. A backpack thus proves advantageous in carrying school books and other supplies, as it distributes weight evenly on the shoulders and thus does not bend the body in an unnatural position.

The only thing that has to be paid attention to, is the quality of the material of the backpack, so that it can hold up against the wear and tear children usually subject it to. Apart from that one aspect of quality, let your child’s imagination run wild while picking out their backpack in their favorite colors and styles. Let them have fun deciding whether they like the blue backpack with Spiderman on it, or the red one with Winnie, The Pooh!

The older students, especially those in high school have different needs and thus their backpacks cater to those needs as they have separate pockets, specially designed for their cell phones, calculators, ipods and pens. Though the older students may take better care of their backpacks, yet, one must remain conscious of the quality of backpacks even here. With the world becoming so much more technology savvy, laptops have become an integral part of the lives of the youth of today. This is proven by the popularity of laptop backpacks, which have a special compartment for the notebook computer.

Buying children’s backpacks these days in not just a one- minute affair anymore. With the wide variety of children’s backpacks now available, you have to choose your child’s backpack carefully, after ascertaining your child’s needs and thoroughly checking the backpack’s quality. That would ensure not just your child’s satisfaction, but yours as well.

Anti-Aging Skin Products Are Better Than Surgical Procedures For Aging Skin

You may be tempted to take desperate measures to hide your age and any visible signs of aging that have already started to show such as wrinkles, lines and other signs of aging. However, instead of choosing surgical procedures, you can start planning a skin care regimen consisting of the most effective anti aging skin products.

Using anti aging skin products is definitely better than opting for surgical procedures because a surgical procedure has its own pitfalls in its aftermath in the form of scars and uneven skin pigmentation.

Aging is a natural process that cannot be shied away from but you can definitely delay the aging effects like wrinkle formation, sagging skin, etc. by using appropriate anti aging skin products. These products have been proved to provide your skin with the required nourishment so that you can successfully have youthful looks despite your age.

When you age, natural production of collagen and elastin become reduced. These are the two important proteins that are produced by your system to keep your skin firm, elastic and youthful looking.

Hence, when there is a depleted supply of collagen and elastin, your skin automatically loosens firmness and elasticity and that’s why the formation of wrinkles and lines occurs.

Therefore, the anti aging skin products you choose must contain the right formula to induce natural production of collagen and elastin within your skin cells. Improvement in the production of these two proteins will protect your skin from visible aging effects.

In fact, the only effective anti aging skin products contain natural ingredients and medical grade actives that deliver real therapeutic activity. Improving natural elasticity and collagen production is the only effectual way of reducing wrinkles and slowing down your skin’s aging process.

Of course, you should also ensure your anti aging skin products have the capacity to counter the free radicals that are generated when you expose yourself to sun’s UV rays and pollution. These free radicals are highly harmful for your health and especially, your skin. Besides, the sun’s UV rays have been found to accelerate the aging process and the formation of wrinkles and fine lines.

When you use anti aging skin products, you should remember that you cannot expect instant results because natural cell renewal takes time. If you use them consistently they will definitely show good results within a few weeks as the old skin cells are replaced with newer skin cells.

Enjoy Shopping At The Comfort Of Your Own Home

If you are the type of person that does not like going out of the house, dressing up, and shopping at the mall then you should simply do your shopping online. What are the nice things about online shopping anyway? First, you do not have to take a bath, drive your car, and pay for gas anymore. You remove such a big hassle when you are shopping online. Imagine the savings that you will get when you are doing online shopping versus at the mall shopping.

You do not have to waste any water for taking a bath. You do not have to wear any special clothes and look okay at the mall. You save on laundry costs. You do not have to pay for gas for your trip to the mall anymore. You get rid of the oil addiction that many people have. Shopping online is certainly going to save you a lot of time, a lot of money, and a lot of effort. Go online shopping right now and see the many great benefits it has to offer!

Second, when you are shopping online, you will have access to so many discounts and promotions. There are so many great deals that are offered on online stores. If you want to take advantage of these promotions and discounts then you should make it a point to check these online shopping sites everyday.

You should be diligent enough to check out the many deals and offers that these online stores have. If you want to get a great deal then there is a bigger chance that you will get a great deal online versus trying to look for a discount or promotion at a brick and mortar store. If great deals and promotions are what you are looking for then you should certainly do online shopping.

Third, you will be able to do comparison shopping when you are shopping online. You will be able to check out the many different products that are offered over the internet. If you are looking for jeans then you will be able to check out jeans of all shapes and sizes. You will be able to check out low waist jeans, tight jeans or baggy jeans. There are so many jeans available and you will be able to compare them to one another.

Comparison shopping is made much easier online because you do not have to hop from one store to another and use up hundreds and hundreds of calories. All you have to do is switch web page and then you will be able to compare shop already. It is that simple. No more worries about not getting the best deal because you can already compare several products across the internet.

Lastly, you should shop online because you will minimize the risk of getting mugged. When you are in the comfort of your own home, you will not be exposed to thieves. There are a lot of thieves out there in today’s world. Money is hard to make in the world today and these thieves are getting more and more desperate.

If you want to protect yourselves from these thieves and these criminals, then you should do your shopping at home instead. With online shopping, you do not have to go out of the house and risk getting mugged. You will be safe and sound at the comfort of your own home.

Small Business Ideas Where You Can Write!

These days there are more and more people looking for the best internet opportunities to make extra money. Many of those people love to write and would like nothing more than to be a professional writer. Luckily, there is a great way to combine the two.

You may have heard of freelance writing, but maybe you thought you could never get a foot in the door. That really isn’t the case, as there are hundreds of thousands of small online business that constantly need informative and up to date material for their websites. If you already love to write, you might not have thought about how hard it can be for someone who doesn’t write, or who isn’t creative, to come up with this kind of content. That’s why these small businesses will pay you good money to write that content for them. It’s a win/win situation, you get paid to do something you enjoy, and they get the content they need to drive traffic to their web site.

If you’ve decided that a career in freelance writing is for you, one of the first things you need to do is to write a few articles that will serve as an example of your writing. That way, potential clients will be able to tell if your style of writing will work for their company. Freelance writing is also an excellent opportunity to make a steady income, because many clients will come back to you again and again, each time they need new content.

Dream Multimedia’s Dreambox Receiver

The Dreambox 500 is the smallest receiver that was made back in 2005-2006 but have now been discontinued due to the huge amount of Chinese dreambox clones available on the market. DM500 is also the most popular dreambox today. The Dreambox 500 runs on open source software found on various CVS site and compiling an image is fairly easy, the hard part is the programming of extra panels such as the blue button on Gemini Images. Fake dreamboxs are flooding the satellite tv market and you have to be careful when purchasing a dreambox online in the event it could be a fake! Make sure you check it it has the new hologram.

The Second most popular dreambox is the DM800 HD, which is of course Dream Multimedia’s first High Definition receiver on the market and currently the best seller “original” receiver from Dream. A few months after its release it was stormed with bad reviews from people saying problems such as “overheating” or “The graphics interface keeps freezing”, all these failures made it a poor build. The Original DM800 HD costs an average of £299 in the UK, €350 in Europe and $399 in the United States. Clone DM800 HD would be have the price of Original’s.

The dreambox is an easily adaptable satellite TV, cable TV or terrestrial TV receiver which runs on open source and supported by thousands of forums throughout the world, in particular in Europe. There are custom firmware’s such as Gemini, Pli-Images, Nabilosat, Peterpan, oZooN and many more which make it possible for users to install emulators such as CCcam or OSCam to watch encrypted satellite TV by sharing keys through the internet.

Another well-liked dreambox model may be the DM8000 HD, the top of the range dreambox. The DM 8000 supports multiple High definition HD TV standards, including MPEG4/H.264. A better power supply device is actually incorporated that will finally solve all previous PSU-related difficulties for good. The USB 2 hardware port is also included as well as the regular RS232 serial port as well as Fast Ethernet interface. It appears like the front of the box may house a multi-function (ten) greeting card readers to be able to very easily load/access data, photos, mp3 etc. The Lcd display has increased in dimensions to 3,5x five.five centimetres. Open Linux system remains the operating system, however it will likely be packaged within an ‘easier to use form’.

Chiropractic Universities – Teaching Doctors of Tomorrow

Find Chiropractic Universities in the United States and Canada. Candidates seeking to enroll in one of several alternative health courses will find that a number of chiropractic universities offer comprehensive graduate, undergraduate and chiropractic studies.

In almost all cases, chiropractic universities require applicants to have earned prerequisite courses and/or a degree from a traditional college or higher learning institution. As with most academic organizations, chiropractic universities provide intensive clinical training and education. Curriculums vary, but for the Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) Program, students frequently engage in approximately 4,200-5,000 instructional hours, which can be achieved in a four to eight-year time span (depending on part-time and full-time course availability).

While each state differs in licensure requirements, applicants should familiarize themselves with pre-chiropractic and other educational requirements prior to enrolling in one of several chiropractic universities. In addition, common curriculums that are extended through chiropractic universities entail in-depth instruction in anatomy, biochemistry, business, chiropractic skills, clinical nutrition and diagnosis, microbiology, neurosciences, pathology, physiology, psychology, public health, and radiology. Students who have completed all applicable training and internship programs will be able to sit for the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners test. Upon successful completion and passing the exam, students must also (in most cases) maintain specified hours of annual continuing education to retain licensure.

A number of chiropractic universities offer post-doctoral courses in a variety of subjects including applied chiropractic sciences, family practice, neurology, nutrition, orthopedics, pediatrics, radiology and rehab; to list just a few. For the entrepreneur, chiropractic universities allow individuals to become self-employed healthcare providers who often work solo or in small, partner practices.

Students drawn to the fascinating field of chiropractic will find that chiropractic universities not only present course-intensive education and training, but will also discover that this alternative health treatment taught at chiropractic universities is quickly becoming mainstream medicine.

Furthermore, chiropractic universities also enable successful graduates to enter a health care practice, which is definitely on the rise. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment of chiropractors is expected to grow faster than average for all occupations through the year 2014 as consumer demand for alternative health care grows.”

If you (or someone you know) are interested in finding one of several chiropractic universities, let education within fast-growing industries like massage therapy, cosmetology, acupuncture, oriental medicine, Reiki, and others get you started! Explore career school programs [http://school.holisticjunction.com/clickcount.php?id=6634739&goto=http://www.holisticjunction.com/search.cfm] near you.

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Culinary Arts School in Seattle

The food service industry is among the fastest growing industries in the world today. This could be one of the many reasons why people with passion for cooking pursue a career in culinary. But, to be able to get a job sooner after you graduate or to land on a better position, you should be ready to do the job in the real world of culinary arts. How is that possible? Just make sure to obtain a formal education of culinary arts in one of the top credited schools in the country, such as culinary arts school in Seattle which is Seattle Central Community College.

Seattle Central Community College offers culinary arts and pastry programs with intensive, hands-on experience on courses of study which will equip and ready you to carry out a job for professional entry level in the food service industry. The detailed and comprehensive programs are taught by competitive and highly skilled faculty in the schools’ five technologically advanced kitchen facilities. This particular culinary arts school in Seattle invested on the latest kitchen equipment to make sure the students get up-to-date familiarization of the real world in culinary. In other words, modern facilities prepare the students to be ready to keep up in the real kitchen settings.

The two culinary arts programs offered by Seattle Central can provide you a certification which can be completed in just 18 months or Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree which can be obtained in just 19 months course of study. The programs of study are developed from classical techniques by incorporating the contemporary cooking styles and methods of an assortment of international cuisine in addition to seasonal northwest cooking.

The culinary school in Seattle, which is the Seattle Central let the students learn to prepare appetizers, soups, sauces, salads, entrees, vegetables and starches, bread, pastries and deserts, and many more. On top of that, the students will also learn to classify and fabricate meat, poultry, and fish. But that’s not all. Besides cooking and pastry techniques, the program also deals with sanitation, nutrition, management, purchasing, costing, menu development, and combination of food and wine.

Each student of Seattle Central, the best culinary arts school in Seattle, has to accomplish a final project, which is to run one of the two restaurants as the Chef of the Day. This is an effective way to let the students implement their own menu and manage the restaurant for the day. In this project, the students plan the menu, develop and cost all recipes, order their products, assign work stations, book reservations, and settle the day’s sales. The grading system is based on the students’ ability to manage the whole operation effectively and work within food cost guidelines. Now, that’s what you call real exposure! The experience can be tough, but it’s all worth it if you want to be ready as ever!