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• You say TESOL and I say TESL, or TEFL, or… Is the English language teaching world a community with identity issues? – Jason Anderson – Teacher, trainer and writer

  When he finally cuts to the chase, Anderson posits, "[T]he superordinate category should not be ‘TESOL’, and definitely not ‘TEFL’, but ‘TEAL’ – Teaching English as an Additional Language," which is exactly what I was thinking when I started reading his post.

  tags: additional languages communication education English English teaching language acquisition language development language education language learning learning TEAL TEFL TESL TESOL languages languaging

• Michael Matsuda - Education Week Leaders To Learn From

  • He never learned his parent’s native language of Japanese, and they never encouraged him to do so. To his chagrin, he didn’t learn Spanish, either. He wants to ensure that students in his district don’t lose part of their cultural heritage as he did.

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• National Languages – Global Markets | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  Excerpt from Chapter 1, The Politics of Language (Phipps & Gonzalez, 2004) Phipps, Alison, and Gonzalez, Mike. (2004). Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field. London, UK: Sage Publications.

  tags: communities cultural hegemony countries cultures diversity education languages languaging literacy modern languages nation-states

  • powerful languages of the world may express national identities, or they may be the medium for the expression of other collective identities distinct from or even in conflict with the nation
  • Absorption and incorporation may be the preferred option for the powerful; for others – the majority, we suspect – the plurality and diversity of human expression, even within the world’s most powerful languages, is what the intercultural approach, moving from language learning to languaging, can both celebrate and encourage
  • It is therefore our task in the next chapter to begin to discover a way forward, to find theory and method sufficient to the task of creating critical dispositions for languaging and being intercultural

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• A Global Approach to Teaching Phrasal Verbs | EFL Magazine

  "The good news is that phrasal verbs are one of the easiest aspects of English, provided you can get your students to make the necessary mind shift. Unlike Latinate vocabulary, as components of a flexible system, they can be GENERATED. It is thanks to their potential ambiguity that they can be used so creatively, forming much of the basis of English humour" (¶7).

  tags: approach grammar movement teaching resources TPR verbs visualization

• TESOL Quarterly Research Guidelines | Ahmar Mahboob, Sue Starfield, and Peter De Costa - Academia.edu

  "This article provides research guidelines for authors intending to sub-mit their manuscripts to TESOL Quarterly. These guidelines includeinformation about the TESOL Quarterly review process, advice on converting a dissertation into a research article, broad introductions to a number of research methods, and a section on research ethics." (Abstract)

  tags: academic writing editing formatting guidelines journals publication venues for publication

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• Japanese English Teachers' Increasing Use of English | JALT Publications

  Murphey, T., & Sasaki, T. (1998). Japanese English teachers' increasing use of English. The Language Teacher, 22(10), 21-24, 30. http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2380-japanese-english-teachers-increasing-use-english

  tags: education English English education English teaching high school Japan Japanese teachers of English JTEs junior high school Ministry of Education

• Academic Publishing: Suggestions from a Journal Editor | JALT Publications

  tags: academic writing advice JALT journals manuscript preparation manuscript revision publications publishing review processes TLT venues for publication

• Advice for Writers: An Interview With Sandra McKay | JALT Publications

  "This is the second article in a two-part series dealing with writing for publication."

  tags: academic writing advice interviews JALT publication TLT venues for publication

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• E-Learning Online Educator Resume Keywords Are Critical to Get Results | Candace Alstad - Davies | LinkedIn

  "Relevant keywords are what help get your resume past a scanner (if submitting your document online), and to the human eye for further review" (¶2, 2016.01.29 [JST]).

  tags: e-learning keywords job hunting online resumes technology techintegration

• How To Cite Social Media In Scholarly Writing

  This TeachThought post sports a table of templates, apparently copyright TeachBytes 2013, for citations [of social media] in both APA and MLA styles.

  tags: academic writing APA attributions citations copyrights MLA scholarly writing social media teaching writing writing practices

• How To Attribute Creative Commons Photos

  This Global Digital Citizen Foundation post sports "a comprehensive infographic that reflects interesting research findings, gives details of Creative Commons licenses and illustrates how to properly attribute CC photos" (¶3, 2016.01.25).

  tags: attributions copyrights Creative Commons graphics how to images intellectual property photos resources

• World University Rankings | Times Higher Education (THE)

  "The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, founded in 2004, provide the definitive list of the world's best universities, evaluated across teaching, research, international outlook, reputation and more. THE’s data are trusted by governments and universities and are a vital resource for students, helping them choose where to study" (deck, 2016.01.25).

  tags: assessment education higher education institutions international outlook research teaching universities world

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• ELT ebook reviewers – ELT ebooks

  "This is a list of bloggers, magazines and groups happy to review self-pub ELT ebooks."

  tags: blogs books groups magazines marketing promotion publication reviews self-publication

• Growth Hacking Your Book Sales - EFL Magazine

  "In many ways writing and creating your own book is the easy part of self-publishing. The really difficult part comes when you start trying to sell it. This is especially difficult for many writers. We are writers not marketing specialists ...." (Peachey, 2015).

  tags: books marketing promotion sales

• Planning Effective Assessment | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  Message Number 1455: "from Chapter 2 – The Essentials of Assessment, in the book, Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education, second edition, by Trudy W. Banta, Catherine A. Palomba. Published by Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand, One Montgomery Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94104-4594."

  tags: assessment continuous departments faculties formative institutions planning summative assessment

  • Although regional accrediting bodies now ask their members to have written assessment plans at the institution level, emphasis in the plans should be on the process and discussion that produce and implement the plan rather than on the document itself
  • Ideally assessment is a component of strategic planning for an institution or department and is part of any new program from the outset
  • Since assessment requires multiple methods, it is not usually necessary to implement every method immediately or even every year. A comprehensive assessment plan should have a schedule for implementing each data-gathering method at least once over a period of three to five years
  • Hersh, R.H., and Keeling, R.P. (2013

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From _The Conversation_: Debunking ... myths about raising bilingual children

Debunking common myths about raising bilingual children

Mark Antoniou, Western Sydney University

By the age of two, children are typically able to say a few hundred words. My son, Alexander, was able to understand almost everything in both languages – Greek and English – but he could say only six words.

Our concerns grew as we watched younger kids overtake his speaking ability. Like many parents, we questioned if we were doing something wrong (even experts can’t escape the fear and guilt that comes with being a parent).

A number of enduring myths surround bilingualism, such as that it causes language delays and cognitive impairments.

However, research shows that raising a child bilingually does not cause language learning difficulties. Any lag in language development is temporary, so parents shouldn’t worry!

Here are some more common myths debunked:

Raising your child bilingually can cause a delay in development

Not true. In fact there are numerous advantages, such as improved executive function (mental planning), metalinguistic awareness (the ability to think about language as abstract units), mental flexibility (processing information adaptively) and creative thinking.

Bilingual children will generally meet developmental milestones within the normal range of language development, but may in some cases be towards the tail end (which was exactly the case with Alexander).

Bilingual children lag behind their peers and won’t catch up

This is a contentious issue, as there is considerable variability within bilingual children. Some children will not show any lag at all.

It has been suggested that a temporary lag may stem from having to accommodate two language systems within the same brain, but these children will catch up within a few months (note that this is not the same as a language delay).

But more research is needed to understand the exact mechanisms that are responsible.

My child will confuse the two languages

False. Although there is some controversy concerning when the languages become separated.
It was long thought that the two languages are fused at first and begin to separate when the child is around five. Recent evidence suggests that the languages may separate a lot earlier than was previously thought.

For example, bilingual children as young as 10-15 months babble differently depending on who they are interacting with (for example, English babbling sounds to the mother, and French babbling sounds to the father).

This suggests that babies are sensitive to who they are talking to from a very young age. This is probably a precursor of code-switching (when bilinguals use two languages within the same utterance).

Five tips for parents raising a child bilingually

1. Be encouraging and patient as you would with any infant, and be aware that a bilingual child faces a tougher task than one learning only a single language.
2. It is very important that both languages serve a functional purpose. Language is, after all, a tool for communication. If the child does not need to use the other language, they will probably stop using it. So, it is important to consistently place the child in situations that necessitate the use of both languages, and ideally with a variety of speakers. Doing so will develop robust speech categories in each language and ensure that they learn to process speech efficiently - which will aid both listening and talking.
3. Many parents worry about the issue of balance, meaning whether a child knows both languages equally well. In the past, it was thought that in order to be truly bilingual you needed to have an equal command of both languages. I conducted a series of studies on very proficient bilinguals and observed time and again that even fluent bilinguals have a dominant language. So, there is little point stressing about a child not having a perfectly equal command of each language because the truth is almost no one does.
4. Parents commonly become concerned when bilingual children mix their languages. Do not worry. This is a normal part of bilingual language development and not a sign of confusion. Even proficient bilinguals mix their languages.
5. If you are concerned about your child’s language development, you should have your child assessed by a doctor and, if necessary, a speech-language pathologist. Bilingual children may present with language delays, just like any other children. If your child has a language delay, early intervention may be required to help them learn their languages.

Mark Antoniou, ARC Research Fellow, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

[Republished with permission (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)]

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• Music and Movement

  "Many of the songs and activities on this website can support pre-school through third grade curriculum."

  tags: activities children education learning movement songs resources websites

• Hap Palmer Music For Children

  This is the website of the musician that Prof. Judy Yoneoka introduced at the January 2016 gathering of the PIGATE teacher development group meeting. Prof. Yoneoka led participants in a variety of activities corresponding to a number of Hap Palmer's songs.

  tags: activities children education learning songs resources websites

• Is The Flipped Classroom Relevant to ELT? - EFL Magazine

  "In this article I am going to outline what the Flipped Classroom is and how it is relevant to ELT."

  tags: activities approaches assessment autonomy behaviorism blended learning Bloom's taxonomy business English classrooms communicative language teaching content EAP ESP ELT flipped flipping higher education homework knowledge transmission learning methodology

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• Studying English in North America: Opening the door to further study – Latin Correspondent

  This article described types of programs and provided examples of programs in Canada (1) and the U.S.(4).

  tags: CEFR courses CPE examinations FCE IELTS North America pre-academic study abroad study skills TOEFL

• Creating a Generation of Innovators — The Learner's Way

  Coutts, Nigel. (2015.12.20).

  tags: Australia blogs creativity education empathy growth mindset imagination innovation metacognition mindsets pedagogy processes problem-based learning role models

  • What is needed is a broad culture of innovation where diverse skills and dispositions merge to offer the best chance of a unique idea emerging and importantly making it to market. Significantly the definition of innovation very much includes the ability to deliver on the imaginative ideas Australians are known for but are presently handing off to international developers to capitalise on. For schools such a definition is useful as it encourages a shift away from vague conversations about creativity and imagination and looks at how these skills can be used in ways that bring about change
  • Innovation requires a pedagogy that values a student focused learning processes over teacher directed transfer of knowledge. Teaching for innovation is by nature messy and imprecise. In the short term results on traditional assessments may not be what we would expect from traditional methods but if we desire to produce innovators this needs to be accepted

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• StudyAbroad | The LLD Project Blog

  StudyAbroad category archives of The Language Learner Development (LLD) Project Blog

  tags: archives blogs categories cross-references

• Viet Nam English proficiency rises in global ranking - Society - VietNam News

  "Viet Nam is ranked a medium-level country along with Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan."

  tags: Asia assessment countries education English speaking populations Vietnam

• EducationHQ Australia - Language is the passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity

  Mullane, Kurt. (2015.12.09). Language is the passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity.

  tags: Australia countries education employment globalization language learning languages mobility marginalization monolingualism multilingualism opportunity prosperity English speaking populations

  • English actually trails Chinese and Spanish as the third most commonly spoken language in the world, just ahead of Bengali, Hindi and Arabic. In 1950 about 9 per cent of the world’s population spoke English as their first language. That figure is now about 5.6 per cent.
  • While the proportion increases significantly when you add speakers of English as a second or third language, we’re still left with around 70-80 per cent of humanity not speaking English. Being a monolingual English-speaker places you firmly in humanity’s minority group.
  • The view that ‘English is enough’ fails to acknowledge that being bilingual or multilingual is an increasingly necessary passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity, particularly in knowledge and services based economies where the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across borders is a prized skill-set.
  • Julie Bishop got it right in 2011 when she suggested language learning could be a "brilliant form of soft diplomacy", strengthening our capacity to work collaboratively in an increasingly interdependent and volatile world.
  • The number of students who discontinue languages study when they have discretion over that decision is very high. The reasons for attrition are complex and varied, but the perception among students that studying a language represents a low value proposition is one of most potent determining factors.

• ld-working-papers: Intro. (Minematsu & Barfield)

  "Through the dialogue that goes back and forth between the writer and reader responders, the readers can experience the developmental process of each exploration, as well as recognize the different and critical perspectives the responders bring to the process."

  tags: JALT learner development working papers

• Learner Development Working Papers – JALT LD-SIG

  Barfield, A., & Minematsu, A. (Eds.). (2014). Learner Development Working Papers: Different Cases, Different Interests. Tokyo: JALT Learner Development SIG. ISBN (online edition) 978-4-901352-44-4.

  tags: JALT learner development working papers

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• 8 Free Mind Map Tools & How to Best Use Them

  Saikat Basu proposed seven features to consider when selecting mind-mapping tools (app's or services): Cost Off- or on-line affordances, General usability, Aesthetics, Template availability, Portability of your work, & Affordances for collaboration.

  tags: aesthetics affordances applications cost free mind-mapping online paid portability services technology tools

• How to Configure Your Mac's Firewall | Macinstruct

  Four-year-old (2011.12.17) instructions and illustrations still serve as a guide for configuration of OS 10.11.1 (2015.12.09).

  tags: configurations firewalls Mac OS X preferences settings

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• Forms of Intelligence | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  This extract from Chapter 3, How students learn in residence halls (Blimling, 2015), focuses on various facets of situated, participatory and experiential learning potentially viable in numerous socio-cultural milieu (TP Message 1451, 2015.12.01). Blimling, Gregory S. (2015). Student learning in residence halls: What works, what doesn't, and why. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

  tags: beliefs diversity education emotions epistemology experiential learning Gardner Howard knowledge intelligences proficiency

  • being knowledgeable and being intelligent are not the same. Being knowledgeable generally refers to having access to information and facts as well as the ability to recall them. Intelligence usually refers to a person’s ability to reason, solve problems, think critically, comprehend subject matter, use language to communicate effectively, construct relationships, employ logic, and manipulate numbers (Gardner, 1999)
  • Learning how to express emotions within a social system is knowledge acquired through social interaction governed by the rules and customs of the culture. One culture may encourage open and intense expression of emotional feelings, whereas another may see that same behavior as inappropriate. The exception is primal emotions, such as fear when confronted by a predator. Emotional expression is a matter of how much or the degree to which one expresses an emotion. Plutchik’s (1980) eight basic emotions include continuums from minimal to extreme expression:
    
      Trust: acceptance to admiration
      Fear: timidity to terror
      Surprise: uncertainty to amazement
      Sadness: gloominess to grief
      Disgust: dislike to loathing
      Anger: annoyance to fury
      Anticipation: interest to vigilance
      Joy: serenity to ecstasy
    
      Combinations of these basic emotions create other forms of expressions. For example, the combination of the emotions joy and trust produce love, while the combination of the emotions anticipation and anger produce aggression (Plutchik, 1980).
  • Experiencing diversity challenges expectations not only by increasing acceptance of different cultural, ethnic, and racial groups but also by enhancing students’ overall psychological functioning (Crisp & Turner, 2011). Pascarella (1996) reached a similar conclusion from the national study of student learning that found that diversity experiences in the first year of college had long-term positive effects on critical thinking throughout college, particularly for white students.
  • Experiential learning creates cognitive understanding and information retention through the transformative process of experience (Kolb, 1984; Kolb, Boyatzis, & Mainemelis, 1999). Siegel (2012) explains that the transformative process of learning through experience “directly shapes the [neurological] circuits responsible for such processes as memory, emotion, and self-awareness … [by] altering both the activity and the structure of the connections between neurons” (p. 9).
    
      Kolb (1984) outlines four stages of experiential learning: (1) concert experience; (2) reflective observations; (3) abstract conceptualization; and (4) active experimentation. Students can start anywhere in the process but return to test their understandings and modify them based on experience.

• Edudemic search results for "digital citizenship"

  20 hits on original or revised articles

  tags: citizenship digital citizenship education educational technology online resources teaching technology

• About the OECD - OECD

  "The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world."

  tags: businesses economics environment global issues governments international labo(u)r policies trends

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• Writer's Peer Support Group | JALT Publications

  • Ogranization
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• Millennium Development Goals | Explore Taylor & Francis Online

  "Established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals were formed to galvanise efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest. Eight goals were defined and twenty-one targets were set to be completed by 2015. / To mark the final year of this programme, Taylor & Francis Group are delighted to be offering free access to selected research related to each of the eight Millennium Development Goals" (¶¶1-2, 2015.11.17). The offer of free access apparently will expire at the end of November 2015 (Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability,¶3, http://goo.gl/zjYrCb).

  tags: child mortality diseases education environment environmental sustainability global issues gender gender equality health HIV_AIDS hunger information communication and technology (ICT) international issues malaria maternity maternal health medicine medical

• Collaboration & Connectedness the Key to Quality Teaching — The Learner's Way

  In this post, Nigel Coutts shared a story of collective teacher development activity that focused on online teacher discussion regarding visual note-making with students. He provided a model for other teachers ready to take the leap into cyber-teacher development–or considering doing so, suggesting: "Most teachers recognise the potential for collaboration between students and the importance of it as a component of a 21st Century education[,] and yet many do not take full advantage of the opportunities they have for collaboration as teachers. Others have found the benefits and willingly share ideas gathered from their personal learning network" (2015.11.01, ¶1).

  tags: collaboration connectedness drawings Duckworth Sylvia illustrations schools sketch-notes sketches students teacher development teachers teaching practices visualization

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• 3 Ways to Become a More Effective Learner

  In this Entrepreneur.com blog post, staf writer Laura Entis recap's learning tips from "Nate Kornell, an associate professor of cognitive psychology at Williams College who studies learning strategies" (¶2).

  tags: learners learning psychology strategies tips

• Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology | Tomorrow's Professor Postings

  Towards the end of this book review Barlow noted: "Many colleges have processes certifying teachers in uses of technology, yet I have heard of none that certifies its technologists in the ways of teaching or in educational psychology."

  tags: books education learning teaching reviews technology

• Measuring English Proficiency in Real-World Situations - Language Testing International

  "The 2012 Guidelines are available online, supported with glossed terminology and annotated, multimedia samples of performance at each level for speaking and writing, and examples of oral and written texts and tasks associated with each level for reading and writing. ESL teachers will be particularly interested in exploring the English Proficiency Guidelines online." (Cutshall, 2015, ¶18, 2015.11.09)

  tags: ACTFL assessment English foreign languages guidelines language proficiency languages resources

• Internet Safety - Disney Privacy Center

  tags: children Disney internet internet safety parents privacy safety

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• geyrhalterfilm - NGF - Population Boom

  Glaser, M., Kitzberger, M., Widerhofer, W. & Geyrhalter, N. (Producers), and Boote, Werner (Director). (2013). Population Boom [Documentary film]. Austria: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion.

  tags: climate change countries documentaries Earth education environment hunger international issues overpopulation population control resources toxic waste

• Embracing Differentiation and Reclaiming Audacity: An Interview with James Hilton | EDUCAUSE

  Hilton explained differences between cooperation and collaboration, and envisioned higher education that could be personalized at scale.

  tags: education information technology leadership management personalization transformation vision

  • One important lesson I've learned about multi-institutional collaborations involves alignment. It's critical from the beginning to not be in a rush. A collaboration needs to have a clearly aligned purpose behind it.
  • Part of the issue here, I think, is that people confuse the word collaboration with the word cooperation. In common language, we use those terms almost interchangeably, but they're very different concepts.
  • Collaborations are hard. They require a lot of energy. They bring huge benefits, but no one should enter into a collaboration lightly. You can enter into cooperation lightly, because it's always good to be cooperative, but you need to be much more intentional about collaborations.
  • A second lesson I've learned about multi-institutional collaborations involves how challenging it is to design collaborations and systems that are adaptive, that respond to the fact that the world is fundamentally a complex system. Whatever you plan, there's going to be a change somewhere down the line, and you're going to have to respond to that change.

• Quantitative Research in Education | SAGE Publications Ltd

  tags: books companion websites education how to quantitative methods research methods

• How to Do Your Case Study | SAGE Publications Ltd

  tags: books case studies companion websites how to research methods

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• MultiBrief: Effectively incorporating technology with English learners

  In this article, Herrmann explains principles to guide the adoption and utilisation of technology to help meet general and specific needs of English-as-an-additional language learners.

  tags: 21st Century Skills English language learning learners learning principles teaching technology

  • Perhaps the first consideration is the instructional purpose of the lesson, and how the technology will enhance that purpose or help students to achieve the goals and objectives of the lesson.

  • Technology, as mentioned earlier, has the power to increase student knowledge and skills in various content areas. Yet another consideration that must be taken into account when working with English learners is how the technology is increasing academic language knowledge and skills. 

     

      It is critical, then, that teachers take into account not only the content goals and objectives for the lesson, but also the language goals and objectives as well as the linguistic demand of the tasks students will need to accomplish in the classroom.

  • English learners need additional instructional supports or scaffolds, including providing students with necessary background knowledge that other students may possess, using graphic organizers, pictures/visuals, demonstrations and realia, and providing redundant information and differentiated instruction based on students' language proficiency level. 

     

      When researching various technology tools, it is critical that we investigate how the tool addresses these principles.

  • The use of technology in the classroom is quickly becoming not only commonplace, but also essential for helping students gain the 21st-century skills they will need to be successful in the future.
  • when implementing technology in the classroom, an important component of instruction is to teach students how to use technology effectively and responsibly. Students may need guidance and instruction on how to use technology appropriately given the task and learning at hand, how to avoid distractions with technology, and how to effectively navigate the digital world.

• How to apply | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

  • not provided in English
  • it may be difficult to understand how to operate the electronic application system
  • grant administrators at your host institution will help you

• Royalty Free Music & Sounds – Year 10 Multimedia

  This post provided "a list of links where you will be able to find royalty free and creative commons based music and sound effects" (¶1, 2015.10.21).

  tags: Creative Commons free media music resources sound effects

• Home - Evaluating resources - Library Guides at UC Berkeley

  "How do you make sense of the quality of resources and evaluate their authority and appropriateness for your research?" This library guide advocates careful evaluation of the suitability, authority, and other indicators of resource quality, and provides pointers to a number of reference works and related websites.

  tags: academic writing guidelines resource evaluation resources research methods

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• How to Create Advanced Firewall Rules in the Windows Firewall

  An illustrated guide

  tags: control panels firewalls operating systems security technology tools Windows

• Mendeley is evolving! | Mendeley Blog

  "Mendeley Profile – your professional public face We continue to refine the look, feel and functionality of your Profile page. This will make it easier for you to complete your profile, and for others to see your professional interests and achievements, at a glance. Over time this will also make profiles more discoverable. We are also extremely excited about the upcoming integration between Mendeley and Scopus – the leading scientific bibliographic database. This will give Mendeley users an easy way to access and add curated metadata about millions of publications."

  tags: Mendeley networking publications research Scopus

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• Emotional Intelligence | What It Is and Why It Matters

  Cherry (n.d.) recapped "Definitions, History, and Measures of Emotional Intelligence" (subtitle).

  tags: emotional intelligence EQ Mayer psychology Salovey

• Guide to Academic and Scientific Publication | LinkedIn

  This post contains links to Kindle and Epub versions of a free ebook.

  tags: academic writing ebooks free publication

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• Medical Alert Systems Comparison - Consumer Reports

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