Monday, November 19, 2012

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Monday, October 29, 2012

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The World Of Soccer Podcast - EP1 (ENGLISH)

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Monday, October 22, 2012

La fórmula de escuela del Bronx para tener ocho ex alumnos con un Nobel



Robert J. Lefkowitz, que salió de la Bronx High School of Science, ganó el Nobel de Química 2012.
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El premio Nobel de Química 2012 obtenido la semana pasada por Robert J. Lefkowitz, por sus “estudios sobre los receptores acoplados a la proteína G”, fue recibido con especial alegría por los estudiantes de la escuela pública donde el científico estadounidense cursó su enseñanza secundaria en Nueva York. Y no es para menos. Con el galardón de Lefkowitz, la Bronx High School of Science ya suma ocho ex alumnos ganadores de un Nobel de Física o Química desde 1972, más que cualquier otra institución de educación secundaria en Estados Unidos.
“Bronx Science ha superado a Australia y ha empatado con Noruega, que también tiene ocho premios Nobel”, escribió el establecimiento en su página de Facebook, mientras el canciller del Departamento de Educación de Nueva York, Dennis Walcott, reconoció el logro del científico y su escuela secundaria. “Quiero felicitar a Robert Lefkowitz, el último ganador del premio Nobel, quien se graduó de la Bronx High School of Science. Este es el octavo graduado de Ciencias del Bronx en ganar un premio Nobel y refleja la educación de primera calidad que se ofrece en nuestras escuelas “, dijo orgulloso Walcott.
Fundada en 1938, la Bronx Science se encuentra ubicada en el sector de Bedford Park, en el noroeste del Bronx, y a menudo es considerada la principal escuela “imán” de ciencias en Estados Unidos, por su especialización en este ámbito. La admisión es por un examen abierto a todos los estudiantes de 8° y 9° grado en la ciudad de Nueva York. De los casi 30.000 estudiantes que rindieron el examen de ingreso en septiembre de 2011, sólo 1.044 fueron admitidos. La actual matrícula es de 3.017 alumnos. Como la mayoría de los alumnos de las escuelas públicas de Nueva York, los estudiantes de este establecimiento son hijos de inmigrantes, la primera generación que nació en Estados Unidos, según consigna la BBC.
En la entrada principal del centro, junto a la vitrina de los trofeos, hay un póster con las fotografías de los galardonados. De los ocho Nobel obtenidos por graduados del Bronx Science, siete de ellos corresponden a Física: Leon N. Cooper (1972), Sheldon L. Glashow (1979), Steven Weinberg (1979), Melvin Schwartz (1988), Russell A. Hulse (1993), H. David Politzer (2004) y Ray G. Glauber (2005). Esto le valió a la escuela la designación por la Sociedad Americana de Física como “sitio de interés histórico en Física” en 2010.
Bajo el lema del filósofo John Dewey: “Cada gran avance de la ciencia es consecuencia de una nueva audacia de la imaginación”, la Bronx Science recibe la misma ayuda pública que otras escuelas de la ciudad de Nueva York, pero tiene un programa especial para la ciencia. Según la BBC, el establecimiento ayuda a los alumnos a encontrar un mentor científico y un laboratorio profesional para proyectos de investigación en las materias de biología, ingeniería, informática y ciencias sociales. “Investigan de verdad, descubren cosas nuevas y en muchos casos los hallazgos que hacen se publican en revistas científicas”, relató la doctora Jean Donahue, asistente de la dirección para ciencia. Es el caso de Amanda Elyssa Ruiz, quien está realizando una investigación sobre inmunología. “En mis experimentos estoy simulando el efecto de una proteína sobre la leucemia aguda en el sistema inmunológico”, comentó la joven de 17 años a la cadena británica.
Pero esta escuela secundaria del Bronx no sólo es conocida por su sólida formación en ciencias. Entre sus ex alumnos también se cuentan seis ganadores de premios Pulitzer. Uno de ellos fue el redactor de los discursos del presidente Richard Nixon y uno de los más influyentes analistas políticos de la historia reciente de EE.UU.: William Safire. El fallecido autor y columnista de The New York Times obtuvo el galardón en 1978, en la categoría comentario. En tanto, el ex editor ejecutivo de este último periódico, Joseph Lelyveld, ganó en la categoría general de no ficción en 1986, por su libro sobre el Apartheid, “Mueve Tu Sombra: Sudáfrica, Blanco y Negro”. Por su parte, el periodista de The Washington Post, Gene Weingarten, se hizo acreedor al premio en la categoría artículo escrito en 2008 y 2010.

Valerie Reidy: "Inspiramos a nuestros estudiantes a investigar"

Directora de la Bronx High School of Science
A su juicio, ¿cuáles son las razones del éxito de su escuela, que cuenta con ocho ex alumnos ganadores del premio Nobel?
El éxito de la escuela se basa en nuestra filosofía de enseñanza y de aprendizaje. Inspiramos a los estudiantes a investigar sobre el mundo que los rodea haciendo preguntas importantes acerca de los fenómenos que observan. Los motivamos a descubrir las respuestas a estas preguntas y, finalmente, les exigimos crear soluciones que tengan aplicaciones de amplio rango. Nuestro lema: investigar, descubrir y crear. Tenemos estudiantes inteligentes, motivados y profesores que son expertos en sus áreas de contenido. ¿Qué más podemos esperar?
¿Cómo es el proceso de selección de los estudiantes?
Todos los estudiantes son admitidos, sobre la base de su puntuación en una prueba única y estandarizada. El examen es administrado a los alumnos de 8° y 9° en octubre y puntuado por la compañía que escribe la prueba.
¿Cuál es la proporción de estudiantes de origen latino en la escuela?
La escuela fue fundada en 1938 con un cuerpo estudiantil que fue principalmente de primera generación (Europa del Este), cuyos padres creían firmemente en “el sueño americano” de que la educación y el trabajo duro los llevarían hacia la movilidad. Nuestros estudiantes son asiáticos (62%), latinos (7,1%), blancos (25%) y afroamericanos (4%), muchos de primera generación, cuyos padres creen en este mismo sueño.
¿Los alumnos pagan algún tipo de matrícula o arancel mensual?
Esta es una escuela pública y es gratuita para todos los residentes de la ciudad de Nueva York.
¿La Bronx High School of Science recibe el mismo apoyo público que otras escuelas en la ciudad de Nueva York?
Estamos financiados por la misma fórmula que las otras escuelas. No recibimos ningún tipo de fondos federales que se asignan a las escuelas que califican para fondos del Título 1.

EL MUNDO: Miles de personas asisten al funeral del jefe de inteligencia libanés asesinado en Beirut



El atentado del viernes, donde también fallecieron otras siete personas y más de un centenar de heridos, incrementó la tensión en Líbano, dividido entre partidarios y detractores del régimen sirio de Bashar Assad.

21/10/2012 - 09:41
Miles de libaneses de todas las partes del país acudieron de foma multitudinaria a la capital, Beirut, para asistir al funeral del jefe de los servicios secretos Wissam al Hassan, asesinado en el viernes junto a siete personas más al estallar un auto bomba.

Muchos de los asistentes vestían de negro y portaban fotos del funcionario fallecido y durante la marcha hacia el centro de la ciudad corearon consignas anti sirias. Está previsto que las honras fúnebres se celebren en la tarde de hoy. El Ejército libanés extremó las medidas de seguridad.

En la explosión de un auto bomba el viernes en el barrio cristiano de Ashrafiye resultaron heridas además 126 personas. Según algunos analistas, el atentado iba dirigido contra el general Al Hassan, próximo al movimiento antisirio del político opositor Saad Hariri. Es por ello que muchos
consideran que los responsables del atentado están en Damasco.

El asesinato quiebra a su vez la frágil paz en Líbano. El sábado hubo protestas multitudinarias en las regiones dominadas predominantemente por sunitas. Los manifestantes pedían la dimisión del primer ministro Nayib Mikati.

Tras el ataque, los manifestantes salieron a las calles y bloquearon carreteras con neumáticos incendiados, e incluso se con tiroteos, sobre todo, en la ciudad de Trípoli (norte), en Beirut y en otras áreas.

El atentado del viernes, donde también fallecieron otras siete personas
y 126 resultaron heridas, incrementó la tensión en Líbano, dividido entre partidarios y detractores del régimen de Bashar Assad.

Ayer, el primer ministro libanés, Nayib Mikati, dejó en el aire su dimisión a la espera de que el presidente, Michel Suleiman, lleve a cabo consultas con los líderes políticos participantes en la mesa de diálogo nacional.

La oposición libanesa, agrupada en la coalición antisiria 14 de marzo, había pedido en la víspera la dimisión inmediata de Mikati, a quien responsabilizó directamente de lo ocurrido.

Mikati destacó que "hay un vínculo" entre el atentado contra Hasan y el caso del exministro libanés Michel Samaha.

La Justicia libanesa acusó el pasado agosto a Samaha y al jefe de la Seguridad siria, Ali Mamluk, de planificar atentados contra líderes políticos y religiosos en el Líbano, según una trama que fue destapada por el propio general Al Hasan, quien también había dirigido otras investigaciones sobre ataques a personalidades antisirias.

EL MUNDO: Tripulación de fragata argentina retenida en Ghana sigue en puerto a pesar de anuncio de evacuación; Destruyen refinería clandestina de las Farc en el sur de Colombia


Ayer la Presidenta argentina autorizó la evacuación de la tripulación de la fragata, entre los que se cuentan 15 chilenos. La nave está retenida en el puerto de Tema desde el 2 de octubre.

  21/10/2012 - 10:13
Fragata Libertad. © AFP
Fragata Libertad.
La tripulación de la fragata argentina Libertad, que está retenido en el puerto de Tema en Ghana desde el pasado 2 de octubre, sigue en el puerto a pesar de que ayer la presidenta argentina Cristina Kirchner, anunció la evacuación de todos los ocupantes de la nave, según informa la agencia AFP.
El barco ha estado detenido en Ghana debido a la demanda del fondo especulativo NML, con sede en las Islas Caimán, que reclama más de US$370 millones a Buenos Aires.
La tripulación está compuesta por 326 personas, en su mayoría argentinos, pero también cuenta con ocho marinos de Uruguay, 15 de Chile, y otros procedentes de Brasil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Sudáfrica y Venezuela.
El canciller argentino, Héctor Timerman, anunció ayer que la presidenta había decidido evacuar "en forma inmedianta a la totalidad de los tripulantes argentinos y no argentinos, dejando a bordo únicamente al capitán y a una dotación mínima para atender a la fragata mientras permanezca detenida en el puerto" de Tema.
Además agregó que "la presidenta ha instruido al canciller a trasladarse en forma inmediata a la sede de la ONU donde el lunes a las 10 horas se reunirá con el presidente del Consejo de Seguridad", dijo el ministro en una declaración leída en la sede gubernamental y transmitido por televisión.


Destruyen refinería clandestina de las Farc en el sur de Colombia

Los hallazgos se dan en medio del proceso de paz entre la guerrilla y el gobierno del Presidente Juan Manuel Santos que fue instalado formalmente el pasado jueves en Noruega.

 21/10/2012 - 16:35
Una refinería clandestina perteneciente a la guerrilla de las Farc, en donde se hallaron 35.000 litros de petróleo, fue destruida hoy por el Ejército de Colombia en zona selvática del departamento de Nariño (sur), cerca de la frontera con Ecuador, informaron fuentes castrenses.

Según el reporte militar, "la refinería ilegal pertenecía a terroristas de la cuadrilla 'Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre', de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia que opera en esa zona del país", conocida como Palpis.

Al parecer, la planta petrolera era "utilizada para el hurto y procesamiento de crudo del oleoducto Trasandino" que opera la Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos (Ecopetrol), y que transporta el combustible desde Ecuador hasta el municipio colombiano de Tumaco.

El Ejército encontró en el lugar una torre de destilación, 10.480 galones de petróleo, y decenas de metros de cables y mangueras plásticas.

Esta es la segunda refinería ilegal destruida por las autoridades en la última semana, después de que el pasado 16 de octubre fuera ubicado un centro artesanal similar en zona rural del municipio de Barbacoas.

Los hallazgos se dan en medio del proceso de paz entre las Farc y el gobierno del Presidente Juan Manuel Santos que fue instalado formalmente el pasado jueves en Noruega por los delegados de ambas partes.

Estudio confirma que la Vía Láctea se mantiene en constante cambio



Una nueva investigación asegura que todas las galaxias espirales están sufriendo variaciones todo el tiempo.

21/10/2012 - 16:00
Hasta ahora, se pensaba que las galaxias espirales habían alcanzado su estado actual hace billones de años. Sin embargo, un estudio que analizó cientos de galaxias reveló que varias de ellas, como Andrómeda o la Vía Láctea, han continuado cambiando, de acuerdo a NBC News.
"Los astrónomos pensaban que las galaxias del universo cercano habían llegado a su estado actual hace cerca de 8 billones de años, con poco desarrollo adicional desde entonces", dijo Susan Kassin, astrónoma del Centro de Vuelo Espacial Goddard de la NASA, en Greenbelt, y líder del estudio. "En vez de eso, la tendencia que hemos observado muestra lo contrario, que las galaxias han estado cambiando sostenidamente durante este período".
En los pasados 8 billones de años, las fusiones entre galaxias, tanto grandes como pequeñas, han disminuido. De la misma forma ha disminuido la tasa de formación de estrellas y la disrrupción asociada a las explosiones de supernovas. Ambos factores pueden haber jugado un rol en la nueva tendencia, dicen los científicos.

Friday, August 17, 2012

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EDUCATION AND INNOVATION: Report urges Canada to double down on foreign students to fuel innovation




Students at a York University English Language Institute (YUELI) class, which provides non-credit ESL courses for international students who want to go on to undergraduate and graduate programs


Canada should double the number of international students studying here by 2022, a new report commissioned by the federal government says.
The task force responsible for the report, headed by Western University president Amit Chakma, wants Ottawa to boost the number of international students from about 239,130 to 450,000 in 10 years – from kindergarten through Grade 12 and post-secondary institutions – without taking away seats from Canadians.
The 122-page report entitled International Education, a Key Driver of Canada’s Future Prosperity, released on Tuesday, makes a connection between attracting international students and filling labour market shortages.
Calling the report’s recommendations ambitious, Dr. Chakma said he anticipates most of that recruitment will go to the growing economies of Western Canada.
“Our larger institutions may not have as much capacity to take on [additional] international students ... because they already have been recruiting aggressively, but there is a lot of potential room in our northern institutions and Western provinces,” Dr. Chakma said.
International students spent a total of $8-billion in Canada during 2010, up from $6.5-billion in 2008.
“There aren’t too many sectors that have shown that degree of growth, especially during the economic recession,” said Paul Davidson, president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.
The Conservatives put aside $10-million in their 2011 budget for the advisory panel on attracting the top young talent globally and catching up with countries such as the United States, Britain and Australia.
But aside from the immediate boost to the economy, international students are often seen as prime candidates to immigrate, with the established Canadian credentials and work experience for successful application. Even if these students return home, the panel report said, their ties to Canada might develop into business opportunities and diplomatic relations, and generally raise Canada’s profile abroad.
The University of Alberta’s international student population has already doubled to 10 per cent for undergraduates, and president Indira Samarasekera says there is room to grow.
“Especially in Alberta, parents like to hear that the return on investment is almost immediate with so many job opportunities,” she said.
The competition was already fierce for international students.
Countries such as India and China – Canada’s top suppliers of international students – are trying to reverse the brain drain. In 2011, India increased higher education spending by 30 per cent while the Chinese government aims to enroll 500,000 international students by 2020, twice the number it now hosts and more than it sends abroad.
“It’s dangerous to rely on international students to bring in income for Canadian universities, especially since India and China are expanding rapidly,” said Dru Marshall, provost at University of Calgary. “We might not always have access to those students.”
Paul Davidson, president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada also said the costs of marketing abroad and ensuring international students’ needs are met once they arrive in Canada will likely offset much of the potential revenue generation for cash-strapped universities.
Both, however, said the real advantage is in exposing young Canadians minds to other cultures.
That’s why the task force also recommended creating 50,000 opportunities per year for Canadian students to go abroad for study and cultural exchanges. About nine in 10 Canadian students go to university in their home province.
Other countries are also trying to buck that trend. Over the next four years, the Brazilian government will spend $2-billion to help send more than 100,000 of its best students to universities globally to help forge future economic ties. Canada will receive about 12,000 of them, the second-highest total of all recipient countries.
The panel, however, shied away from asking Ottawa to commit to a dollar figure on international education investments, saying individual provinces and institutions will have unique needs.
Ottawa will consider these recommendations and possibly incorporate them into a global commerce strategy due in 2013.
Dr. Chakma said Western is prepared to earmark $1,000 and raise another $1,000 from alumni and donors per travelling fellowship, if Ottawa also commits $1,000.
“Unfortunately, the strategy ignores the skyrocketing costs faced by international students,” said Adam Awad, national chairman of the Canadian Federation of Students.
Many recruiters say that while Canada has a generally positive name abroad, they have difficulty articulating exactly what its brand is. And considering that education in Canada is primarily a provincial jurisdiction, developing a national brand is a challenge.
Some provinces, such as B.C., have already announced province-specific plans to recruit international students. Even so, Dr. Chakma said a “united front” is needed. That’s because research indicates that while students will always seek out well-known schools like Harvard, Oxford and McGill, most choose their international education destination based on a country’s reputation.
“Several university presidents went to Brazil, and while we were all promoting our individual institutions, we got much better access and coverage because it was a Canadian mission under a Canadian banner,” Dr. Chakma said.
Ms. Samarasekera agreed, adding that “people get confused when you talk about provinces with international students.”
“It doesn’t mean anything to them ... students don’t necessarily want to go to California or Massachusetts; they want to go the United States,” she said. “We need to do the same for Canada.”

Thursday, August 16, 2012

UNO News Net: MEDIA MONOPOLIES: CRTC approves sale of sport television channels owned by Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) to BCE and Rogers Communications

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740 ESTRELLAS CREADAS CADA 12 MESES: Científicos descubren uno de los cúmulos de galaxias más grande del universo



En el grupo de galaxias, apodado "Fénix", se han estado creando a una gran velocidad alrededor de 740 estrellas cada año.

16/08/2012 - 09:27
© X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/M.McDonald; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M.McDonald; Optical: AURA/NOAO/CTIO/MIT/M.McDonald; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
 
Un equipo estadounidense de científicos ha descubierto un enorme cúmulo de galaxias, una de las estructuras más grandes del universo, a unos 5.700 millones de años luz de la Tierra, al que se le atribuyen varios nuevos récords cósmicos de importancia.
El Centro Harvard-Smithsonian de Astrofísica dijo en una nota de prensa que las observaciones del cúmulo, que ha mostrado un ritmo prodigioso de formación de estrellas, podrían obligar a los astrónomos a replantearse cómo evolucionan en el tiempo estas estructuras colosales y las galaxias que albergan.
Conocido oficialmente con el nombre de SPT-CLJ2344-4243, el coloso ha recibido el apodo de "Fénix" por el pájaro mitológico que volvía de entre los muertos.
El mote se debe en parte a la constelación en la que se encuentra. Pero Michael McDonald, miembro de la cátedra Hubble del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts, dijo que la figura del fénix también es una buena forma de ver esta última maravilla astronómica.
"Mientras que las galaxias del centro de la mayoría de los cúmulos llevan miles de millones de años dormidas, la galaxia central de este cúmulo parece haber vuelto a la vida con un nuevo brote de formación de estrellas", dijo McDonald, autor principal del estudio sobre el Fénix, que apareció en la edición del 16 de agosto de Nature.

UN RITMO "ENORME"
Basándose en observaciones del observatorio de rayos-X Chandra de la NASA, el telescopio del polo Sur de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencia de EEUU y otros ocho observatorios, los investigadores señalaron que el centro del cúmulo está relacionado con la creación de unas "740 masas solares" o estrellas cada año.
En comparación, el cúmulo Perseo forma estrellas a un ritmo unas 20 veces menor.
"Esto es simplemente un ritmo enorme", dijo Marie Machacek, astrofísica del Observatorio Astrofísico del Smithsonian. La experta explicó que se cree los cúmulos grandes como Fénix albergan miles de galaxias, y aún hay mucho que aprender sobre lo que ocurre dentro de ellas.
Desde hace tiempo se asocian los agujeros negros supergigantes de la galaxia central de un cúmulo con ritmos bajos de formación de estrellas, ya que inyectan energía al sistema e impiden el enfriamiento de gases necesario para la creación de las mismas.
Sin embargo, los investigadores dijeron que la "enorme producción de estrellas" del Fénix, donde nacieron unas dos estrellas al día, sugiere que el agujero negro de su galaxia central no ha interferido con un flujo de frío extremadamente fuerte.
"Se están formando estrellas en el cúmulo Fénix al ritmo más alto jamás observado para el centro de un cúmulo de galaxias", afirmó en su nota de prensa el Centro Harvard-Smithsonian de Astrofísica
"El objeto es también el productor de rayos X más potente de cualquier cúmulo conocido y está entre los más grandes. Los datos sugieren además que el ritmo de enfriamiento de gas caliente en las regiones centrales del cúmulo es el mayor jamás visto", añadió el texto.

A DREAM JOB IN AN MIT RESEARCH LAB: MIT's laboratory environment through a four-week January course called 5.301 Introductory Lab Techniques




Each year, groups of MIT freshmen are introduced to MIT's laboratory environment through a four-week January course called 5.301 Introductory Lab Techniques.
In January 2012, a film crew followed 14 students as they struggled to complete experiments required in the class. The stakes are high—students who pass the class are guaranteed a job in an MIT research lab.
This fall, MIT OpenCourseWare will share videos that follow these students as they face the challenges of learning chemistry the MIT way through a unique series called ChemLab Boot Camp.
The episodes will be released each week starting in September, and announced on the ChemLab Boot Camp e-mail list.

Watch the ChemLab Boot Camp trailer.
The 2-5 minute episodes, shot in a style that mixes the geek fun of open educational resources with the immediacy of reality TV, brings viewers closer to the experience of being an MIT student than ever before. The videos follow the students as they try to master lab techniques such as growing crystals and synthesizing antibiotics. The videos are part of a broader effort at MIT funded by The Dow Chemical Company to foster interest in science and engineering careers.
If you'd like to receive updates about each episode, please sign up for the ChemLab Boot Camp e-mail list or you can like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. We hope you'll enjoy this unique and engaging series.

The MIT OpenCourseWare Team

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

UNO News Net: Streaming the Olympics: A game-changer for online video: 2 billion pageviews and 159 million video streams

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UNO News Net: REAL VICTORIA'S SECRET BEAUTY: Some untouched (read: not Photoshopped into pore-less oblivion) photos of VS star Doutzen Kroes have just surfaced online and unlike all those "stars without makeup" tabloid stories, this time, the truth isn't ugly at all.

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UNO News Net: UKOK, THE SIBERIAN PRINCESS: Milenarios tatuajes de la Dama del Hielo

Saturday, August 11, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 SEX AND SPORT: Sex can actually benefit an athlete before competing, sports official says

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 SEX AND SPORT: Sex can actually benefit an athlete before competing, sports official says

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TRACK AND FIELD: Usain Bolt corona su leyenda olímpica con oro y récord mundial en la 4x100

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TRACK AND FIELD: Usain Bolt corona su leyenda olímpica con oro y récord mundial en la 4x100

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TRACK AND FIELD: Caster Semenya knew she’d blown her first Olympic final by starting out too slowly, got Olympic silver

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TRACK AND FIELD: Caster Semenya knew she’d blown her first Olympic final by starting out too slowly, got Olympic silver

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012 LIVE FROM MONTREAL: Carolina Wozniacki defeated Aleksandra Wozniak to get a pass to semifinal, 6-4, 6-4, while in Toronto Djokovic-Tipsarevic restarted after two rain delay 3-2

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012 LIVE FROM MONTREAL: Carolina Wozniacki defeated Aleksandra Wozniak to get a pass to semifinal, 6-4, 6-4, while in Toronto Djokovic-Tipsarevic restarted after two rain delay 3-2

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012 SATURDAY AUGUTS 11 AFTERNOON SESSION UNDERWAY!!!

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012 SATURDAY AUGUTS 11 AFTERNOON SESSION UNDERWAY!!!

UNO News Net: WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL FINAL LIVE: Brazil won Gold Medal in 3-1 sets to World No. 1 United States

UNO News Net: WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL FINAL LIVE: Brazil won Gold Medal in 3-1 sets to World No. 1 United States

UNO News Net: WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL FINAL LIVE: Brazil won Gold Medal in 3-1 sets to World No. 1 United States

UNO News Net: WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL FINAL LIVE: Brazil won Gold Medal in 3-1 sets to World No. 1 United States

UNO News Net: MEN'S SOCCER GOLD MEDAL AND CRAZINESS IN MEXICO: Elated Mexicans celebrate football win over Brazil

UNO News Net: MEN'S SOCCER GOLD MEDAL AND CRAZINESS IN MEXICO: Elated Mexicans celebrate football win over Brazil

UNO News Net: MEN'S SOCCER GOLD MEDAL AND CRAZINESS IN MEXICO: Elated Mexicans celebrate football win over Brazil

UNO News Net: MEN'S SOCCER GOLD MEDAL AND CRAZINESS IN MEXICO: Elated Mexicans celebrate football win over Brazil

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WOMEN'S FIELD HOCKEY FINAL: Las Leonas no pudieron con el poderío holandés

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WOMEN'S FIELD HOCKEY FINAL: Las Leonas no pudieron con el poderío holandés

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

UNO News Net: PROVINCIAL SOCCER: Ontario Cup Quarter-Final Round Set For August 11-12

UNO News Net: PROVINCIAL SOCCER: Ontario Cup Quarter-Final Round Set For August 11-12

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WRESTLING: Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh has won bronze in the 48-kilogram category at the London Olympics; In the bronze medal match Huynh defeated Isabelle Sambou of Senegal. Huynh won by winning the first two rounds

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012 MEN'S IN TORONTO: Wednesday August 8 Order of Play; Wozniak defeats Hantuchova and the rain last evening

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012 MEN'S IN TORONTO: Wednesday August 8 Order of Play; Wozniak defeats Hantuchova and the rain last evening

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Adam van Koeverden and Mark Oldershaw have always shared plenty in common, Now they’re both Olympic medallists. On the day that saw Oakville’s van Koeverden win silver in the K-1 1,000 metres, his fourth career Olympic medal, Burlington’s Oldershaw claimed his first such honour

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Adam van Koeverden and Mark Oldershaw have always shared plenty in common, Now they’re both Olympic medallists. On the day that saw Oakville’s van Koeverden win silver in the K-1 1,000 metres, his fourth career Olympic medal, Burlington’s Oldershaw claimed his first such honour

Sunday, August 5, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 100 MTS RACE: The Bolt with the Jolt did it again, lightning striking at back-to-back Olympics, the defending and once again 100-metre champion, golden in Jamaican green, fastest man on the planet, not only burnishing his aura but setting an Olympic record

UNO News Net: LONDON 100 MTS RACE: The Bolt with the Jolt did it again, lightning striking at back-to-back Olympics, the defending and once again 100-metre champion, golden in Jamaican green, fastest man on the planet, not only burnishing his aura but setting an Olympic record

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL: Dominican Republic glide into quarter-finals

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL: Dominican Republic glide into quarter-finals

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TRACK AND FIELD: Olympic 100m final: Can Usain Bolt make history?

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TRACK AND FIELD: Olympic 100m final: Can Usain Bolt make history?

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TENNIS GOLD MEDAL FINAL: Murray swept nine consecutive games, breaking Federer’s serve four times in a row, and won 6-2, 6-1, 6-4; Venus and Serena Williams won Olympic gold in the women’s doubles.

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 TENNIS GOLD MEDAL FINAL: Murray swept nine consecutive games, breaking Federer’s serve four times in a row, and won 6-2, 6-1, 6-4; Venus and Serena Williams won Olympic gold in the women’s doubles.

Saturday, August 4, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada’s Jessica Zelinka improved to eighth overall in the women’s heptathlon to put herself into medal contention at the London Olympics.

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada’s Jessica Zelinka improved to eighth overall in the women’s heptathlon to put herself into medal contention at the London Olympics.

cUNO News Net: LONDON 2012 FIRST CANADIAN GOLD MEDAL: Rosannagh MacLennan won Canada’s first gold medal of the London Olympics on Saturday, taking top spot in the women’s trampoline at the North Greenwich Arena

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 FIRST CANADIAN GOLD MEDAL: Rosannagh MacLennan won Canada’s first gold medal of the London Olympics on Saturday, taking top spot in the women’s trampoline at the North Greenwich Arena

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WOMEN'S TENNIS FINAL: Serena Williams routs Maria Sharapova for gold

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 WOMEN'S TENNIS FINAL: Serena Williams routs Maria Sharapova for gold

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012: Roger Federer se baja de Toronto tras alcanzar final olímpica en Londres; Rafael Nadal no jugará en Toronto por lesión a las rodillas

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012: Roger Federer se baja de Toronto tras alcanzar final olímpica en Londres; Rafael Nadal no jugará en Toronto por lesión a las rodillas

UNO News Net: CANADA’S WOMEN SOCCER AND THE REAL FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SCENE LOOKING AT CANADA 2015 WORLD CUP

UNO News Net: CANADA’S WOMEN SOCCER AND THE REAL FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SCENE LOOKING AT CANADA 2015 WORLD CUP

Friday, August 3, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 SWIMMING: Michael Phelps summoned magic one more time in his final individual Olympic swim

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 SWIMMING: Michael Phelps summoned magic one more time in his final individual Olympic swim

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Jessica Zelinka's strong shoulders will be carrying some extra weight heading into Saturday's heptathlon final at the London Olympics

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Jessica Zelinka's strong shoulders will be carrying some extra weight heading into Saturday's heptathlon final at the London Olympics

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada’s Jessica Zelinka got off to a strong start but faltered in the second event of the women’s heptathlon at the London Olympics today

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada’s Jessica Zelinka got off to a strong start but faltered in the second event of the women’s heptathlon at the London Olympics today

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada’s Jessica Zelinka got off to a strong start but faltered in the second event of the women’s heptathlon at the London Olympics today

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada’s Jessica Zelinka got off to a strong start but faltered in the second event of the women’s heptathlon at the London Olympics today

CYBERCLASSROOMTV GLOBAL PROJECT: Indiana University is conducting a study titled, "Collecting Stories of Extreme or Informal Learning"



MIT OpenCourseWare supports research in the field of open educational resources to help us and others better understand the value of the materials we publish. Please help further the cause of OER research by responding to the short survey described below.
Sincerely,
The MIT OpenCourseWare Team

A message from Dr. Curtis Bonk:
My research team and I from the Instructional Systems Technology Department at Indiana University are conducting a study titled, "Collecting Stories of Extreme or Informal Learning." This study explores how people learn (and teach) with technology in unique and nontraditional ways. One strand of this research is on the use of open educational resources, OCW, and popular learning portals like MIT OpenCourseWare and the MIT OpenCourseWare Highlights for High School. My team believes that users of the MIT OpenCourseWare Website as well as the MIT OpenCourseWare Highlights for High School are ideal participants for this study and invite them to take our survey.
Across this research, we hope to find out more about how online technology can motivate someone to learn outside of traditional educational settings. Participation will mainly entail responding to a set of online survey questions. A few of the survey respondents will be asked to participate in follow-up online interviews and focus group discussions. Our goal is to collect stories of how informal and extreme forms of online learning significantly impact or changes someone's life. Such stories might offer inspiration to other people. Your Web resources and programs have been highly successful in facilitating learning for a large number of people. We are fairly certain that some of these individuals have unique stories and learning experiences to share.
The survey link is below. Individuals must be at least 13 years old to participate.

The Extreme and Informal Learning Survey - MIT OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources: http://www.surveyshare.com/s/AQAM4CC
After clicking on the above link and agreeing to our informed consent form, participants will complete 26 survey questions. Next, they will be asked if they want to answer a series of open-ended items. If they answer "no," the system will take them to the end of the survey for a few final quick questions.
Thanks so much for any support you might lend to our research project. Please do not hesitate to ask us any questions that you may have.
Sincerely,
Professor Curtis J. Bonk, Ph.D.
Department of Instructional Systems Technology
Indiana University, School of Education: Room 2238
201 N. Rose Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-1006
Email: cjbonk@indiana.edu
Extreme Learning Website: http://www.extreme-learning.org/

UNO News Net: DIGITAL MEDIA BUSINESS: Rogers Radio Stations #1 In Online Traffic Across Canada

UNO News Net: DIGITAL MEDIA BUSINESS: Rogers Radio Stations #1 In Online Traffic Across Canada

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

UNO News Net: World Top Tennis Starts in Toronto 2012: ROGERS CUP LIVE! TO BRING TENNIS TO THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN TORONTO

UNO News Net: World Top Tennis Starts in Toronto 2012: ROGERS CUP LIVE! TO BRING TENNIS TO THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN TORONTO

OPEN COURSEWARE PROGRAM AND CYBERCLASSROOMTV PROJECT: Current Events in Context: Higgs Boson





Current Events in Context: Higgs Boson
Installation of an optical alignment system. Image by delaere.
Five decades and millions of hours of research might seem like a long wait, but for the group of physicists who discovered evidence of the Higgs Boson particle earlier this month, it was a mere blip in cosmic time and well worth the effort.
Finding conclusive evidence of this subatomic particle puts the finishing touches on the single most likely explanation (excluding gravity) for how the universe operates, called the Standard Model. Although further review of data is required, the experiments conducted at the famous European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), found a particle matching the predicted mass and behavior of the elusive Higgs Boson.
The Higgs Boson is the missing seventeenth particle in a working model of subatomic relations between a group of sibling particles with exotic names like quarks, leptons, and gluons. The forces and energies that interact between these particles are what determine the set of behaviors observed in all matter.
While it's clearly time to pop the champagne, researchers speculate that the discovery may be a mixed blessing. As they start to sift through the experimental data and better understand the properties of this potential Higgs Boson, they will likely discover details that unravel earlier theories. But for all those physicists who love the thrill of the chase, that just means more research, which can't be all bad.
If you want to brush up on your quantum theory, OCW has published several courses that cover the Higgs Boson:
8.324 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory II
8.325 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III
8.811 Particle Physics II
New Courses
2.086 Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers
7.345 Non-coding RNAs: Junk or Critical Regulators in Health and Disease?
21F.315 Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Contemporary French Society
Supplemental Resource
Leadership and Empowerment: Resources from Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT)
Updated Courses
6.005 Elements of Software Construction
11.014J American Urban History II
11.129 Educational Theory and Practice I
12.540 Principles of the Global Positioning System
17.433 International Relations of East Asia
21A.226 Ethnic and National Identity
21A.350J Cultures of Computing
21F.040 A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society
21L.448J Darwin and Design
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Highlights for High School
This past weekend, a huge asteroid flew by Earth at a distance of 3.2 million miles, well beyond the orbit of the moon. The asteroid was the size of a city block. Space enthusiasts were able to watch all of the action online during a live webcast of the event.
If you're interested in all things thing related to space, we highly recommend you take a look at our Chandra Astrophysics Institute course. Here you can learn about supernovas, black holes, and colliding galaxies.
> See the Chandra Astrophysics Institute course
OCW in the News
OCW has been selected as one of the "Best Free Reference Web Sites" for 2012 by a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is part of an annual series initiated by the MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web.
The OCW site is one of 26 other websites to be recognized this year by a committee of member librarians from across the United States. Selection criteria include the quality, depth, usefulness and uniqueness of the content, as well as the ease of accessing the information. MARS noted that OCW content was "amazingly rich" and "a great resource for self-improvement and for college students who would like extra guidance … in parallel courses."
> Read more about the award
Views from Supporters
"I'm from Pakistan and my college offered very few courses. I started using MIT OCW in 2006 and just learned by myself, specially advanced mathematics courses like Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Analysis, and so on.
After graduating from college with excellent grades, I got a scholarship to go to LSE for a Masters in Economics. While there, I learned a lot and realised how much more there is to learn.
Yesterday I finished my 1st year of PhD in Economics at Boston University. I will be taking some classes for real at MIT in the next few years.
All through my educational journey, the MIT OCW has been an invaluable source to supplement my classroom learning. I hope to become a regular supporter of this noble cause."
-Talal, Student, Pakistan
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Caster Semenya rightly chosen to bear South Africa's flag at opening ceremony

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Caster Semenya rightly chosen to bear South Africa's flag at opening ceremony

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Sex and gender issues in competitive sports: investigation of a historical case leads to a new viewpoint

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Sex and gender issues in competitive sports: investigation of a historical case leads to a new viewpoint

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada will send one of its largest track and field teams ever to the London Olympics — but leave one its biggest stars home

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada will send one of its largest track and field teams ever to the London Olympics — but leave one its biggest stars home

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man and face of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, vows to make a dramatic statement

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man and face of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, vows to make a dramatic statement

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada has managed just three gold medals in each of the last four hot-weather Olympiads

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Canada has managed just three gold medals in each of the last four hot-weather Olympiads

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: Olympic silver and bronze are as good as gold

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: Olympic silver and bronze are as good as gold

Monday, July 16, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: A TV feast of Olympic proportions

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: A TV feast of Olympic proportions

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 COUNTDOWN: Yeny Contreras: Las antiguas cicatrices de la hija de Bruce Lee

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 COUNTDOWN: Yeny Contreras: Las antiguas cicatrices de la hija de Bruce Lee

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: HOPE SOLO - "Hay mucho sexo en la Villa Olímpica"

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: HOPE SOLO - "Hay mucho sexo en la Villa Olímpica"

UNO News Net: Stephen Covey, author of 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,' dies at 79

UNO News Net: Stephen Covey, author of 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,' dies at 79

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Muslim Olympians’ difficult choice: Fast for Ramadan or follow athletes’ di

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Muslim Olympians’ difficult choice: Fast for Ramadan or follow athletes’ di

Thursday, July 12, 2012

UNO News Net: TV BROADCASTING AND LIVE MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES: Judge lets startup relay live TV to iPhones in NYC

UNO News Net: TV BROADCASTING AND LIVE MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES: Judge lets startup relay live TV to iPhones in NYC

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: Desde poleras del Ché Guevara hasta balones: las prohibiciones de los JJOO; Los países de América Latina que nunca han ganado una medalla olímpica

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: Desde poleras del Ché Guevara hasta balones: las prohibiciones de los JJOO; Los países de América Latina que nunca han ganado una medalla olímpica

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Former Olympic triathlon champion Simon Whitfield will carry Canada's flag into the opening ceremonies at the London Olympics

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Former Olympic triathlon champion Simon Whitfield will carry Canada's flag into the opening ceremonies at the London Olympics

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO: IT’S A NEW ERA. NOW, WE MUST COMPETE TO WIN BIG!

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO: IT’S A NEW ERA. NOW, WE MUST COMPETE TO WIN BIG!

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO: IT’S A NEW ERA. NOW, WE MUST COMPETE TO WIN BIG!

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO: IT’S A NEW ERA. NOW, WE MUST COMPETE TO WIN BIG!

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: When Canadian swimmer Julia Wilkinson bought the lucky green sports bra, that’s all it was. Another sports bra.

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: When Canadian swimmer Julia Wilkinson bought the lucky green sports bra, that’s all it was. Another sports bra.

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: IOC meetings prior to and during the London 2012 Olympic Games –Information for the Media

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: IOC meetings prior to and during the London 2012 Olympic Games –Information for the Media

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012: JIM COURIER, MARTINA HINGIS, AND LORNE MAIN TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ROGERS CUP HALL OF FAME

UNO News Net: ROGERS CUP 2012: JIM COURIER, MARTINA HINGIS, AND LORNE MAIN TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ROGERS CUP HALL OF FAME

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO 2012 Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup 2012 Winners, Ukrainian Team Takes Top Place

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO 2012 Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup 2012 Winners, Ukrainian Team Takes Top Place

UNO News Net: NEWS AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES 2012: Executive Summary: 2012 RJI Mobile Media News Consumption Survey

UNO News Net: NEWS AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES 2012: Executive Summary: 2012 RJI Mobile Media News Consumption Survey

UNO News Net: MOVIE REVIEW: Midnight’s Children by director Deepa Mehta, based on the celebrated Salman Rushdie novel

UNO News Net: MOVIE REVIEW: Midnight’s Children by director Deepa Mehta, based on the celebrated Salman Rushdie novel

UNO News Net: PAN AMERICAN LATIN JAZZ 2012: unique one-day event in Canada that will celebrate the culture of the Americas on Saturday, July 14 at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto

UNO News Net: PAN AMERICAN LATIN JAZZ 2012: unique one-day event in Canada that will celebrate the culture of the Americas on Saturday, July 14 at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO N2012: New Technologies, New Capabilities, all New at WPC

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO N2012: New Technologies, New Capabilities, all New at WPC

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

CYBERCLASSROOMTV GLOBAL PROJECT: Salman Khan and his famous YouTube lessoons






Fifth-graders at eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the decimal sign two places to the left," the instructor says. Pens scribble across notebooks.

Seven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California--both groups of kids are learning by watching online...

The Flipped Classroom - the same as our Cyberclassroomtv Global Project - is turning homework and class tiem upsdie down.

- New Math, The Khan Academy by the numbers: 3,250 videos

- 600 million exercises completed (more than 2 million per day)

- 15,000 classrooms in which Khan Academy is used in some form

- 5,000,000 unique users per month

- 160,000,0000 videos watched since 2006

- 234 countries and territories where Khan Academy is used.

Funds

- It started with $ 10,000 donations in Salman Khan PayPal account by Ann Doerr, wife of Silicon Valley venture capital John Doerr, then she gave another donation of $ 100,000

- Bill Gates gave a Microsoft grant of 1.5 million

- Google gave a donation of $ 2,000,000

- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings followed with $ 3,000,000

- Irish entrepreneur Sean O'Sullivan gave $ 5,000,000

The process of the Flipped Classroom is similar to our Cyberclassroomtv Global Project, but it goes further with K-12 education, University education (original content and Open Learning Consoritium course curriculum for 15,000 courses worldwide), and we will expand it in all main 15 international languages to start.

For more information on how to get involved with CyberclassroomTV Global Project, please email us to:

Email: juancarloscordero@yahoo.com, juancarloscordero@cyberclassroomtv.com


UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: The Magnificent Seven -- Where Are They Now?

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: The Magnificent Seven -- Where Are They Now?

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 - United States Polo’s Olympic uniform retails for more than US $1,000

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 - United States Polo’s Olympic uniform retails for more than US $1,000

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS: Hope Solo tests positive for prohibited substance, gets public warning

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS: Hope Solo tests positive for prohibited substance, gets public warning

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Photographer harshly criticized for ‘shoddy’ USA Olympic portraits

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Photographer harshly criticized for ‘shoddy’ USA Olympic portraits

UNO News Net: FITNESS AND IT XBOX TECHNOLOGIES: Burn Calories on Kinect, Track Them With Kinect PlayFit

UNO News Net: FITNESS AND IT XBOX TECHNOLOGIES: Burn Calories on Kinect, Track Them With Kinect PlayFit

UNO News Net: MWP CONFERENCE IN TORONTO: Upcoming Windows Milestones Shared with Partners at WPC; Microsoft Announces New Cloud Opportunities for Partners

UNO News Net: MWP CONFERENCE IN TORONTO: Upcoming Windows Milestones Shared with Partners at WPC; Microsoft Announces New Cloud Opportunities for Partners

UNO News Net: MSN Music and Justin Bieber

UNO News Net: MSN Music and Justin Bieber

UNO News Net: STEVE BALLMER AT MWP CONFERENCE OPENING: "CHANGE IS HERE – IT'S A NEW ERA"

UNO News Net: STEVE BALLMER AT MWP CONFERENCE OPENING: "CHANGE IS HERE – IT'S A NEW ERA"

UNO News Net: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AND WIND POWER: Argentina plans biggest wind project with $3-billion China loan

UNO News Net: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY AND WIND POWER: Argentina plans biggest wind project with $3-billion China loan

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO 2012'S KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

UNO News Net: MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE IN TORONTO 2012'S KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

UNO News Net: CANADA'S TENNIS SUCCESS 2012: FILIP PELIWO CROWNED CHAMPION AT WIMBLEDON

UNO News Net: CANADA'S TENNIS SUCCESS 2012: FILIP PELIWO CROWNED CHAMPION AT WIMBLEDON

UNO News Net: CANADIAN TENNIS SUCCESS 2012: EUGENIE BOUCHARD CROWNED CHAMPION AT WIMBLEDON

UNO News Net: CANADIAN TENNIS SUCCESS 2012: EUGENIE BOUCHARD CROWNED CHAMPION AT WIMBLEDON

UNO News Net: NEW MEDIA AND PUBLISHING: Newsosaur: A Digital Publishing Model That Works

UNO News Net: NEW MEDIA AND PUBLISHING: Newsosaur: A Digital Publishing Model That Works

Monday, July 9, 2012

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Your guide to Team GB: Every British athlete competing at the London 2012 Olympics

UNO News Net: LONDON 2012: Your guide to Team GB: Every British athlete competing at the London 2012 Olympics

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CIENCIAS: Telescopio Hubble capta imagen de una estrella moribunda

La estrella U Cam se está acercando a la etapa final de su vida y el Hubble logró captar este momento.

09/07/2012 - 16:43
Estrella moribunda captada por el telescopio Hubble. Estrella moribunda captada por el telescopio Hubble.

Una nueva imagen entregada por el telescopio espacial Hubble de la Nasa, que se encuentra desde 1990 observando el espacio, captó la imagen de una estrella que se está acercando al final de su vida.
La estrella Camelopardalis (o U Cam) está situada en la constelación de Camelopardalis (La Jirafa), y es una estrella de carbono, un tipo raro de estrellas con una atmósfera que contiene más carbono que oxígeno.
La Nasa, que destacó la imagen en su galería del día, señala que la U Cam libera cada ciertos miles de años una cáscara de gas, que comienza a fundirse. El gas expulsado en esta última erupción es visible como una burbuja de gas tenue que rodea a la estrella, la que es perfectamente esférica, algo inusual ya que este es un fenómeno que suele ser irregular.
Además, la agencia espacial detalló que la U Cam es mucho menor de lo que aparece en esta imagen del Hubble. De hecho, la estrella cabría fácilmente dentro de un solo pixel en el centro de la imagen, dice la Nasa.