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Quality and usefullness of honey
About this event: Food for Talk

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[b]Quality of honey[/b]

It is important not to confuse the texture of honey with the quality. If you feel that the quality of your honey is poor, it will not be the fault of the bee, the problem will lie with whomever processed the honey or poor packaging.

[b]Texture [/b]
In reality there are an infinite variables to the texture of honey, each flower that the bee has visited will create a different texture of honey, in addition to that the processing of the honey also affects the final texture of honey as does the amount of time the honey has been stored.
If you have been in a position to buy honey direct from a beekeeper, you will be able to enjoy honey that has come from specific flowers, your choice of hard or runny honey will be greater. Example of flowers that create texture are heather honey which will set very hard, or clover honey that will stay runny.
Large honey distributors of honey invariably elect to provide blended honey. This way their end product will remain consistent from year to year regardless of the quantity of any species of flower that has been available to the bee.
As mentioned earlier the way that the honey is extracted from the comb or sold in the comb will affect it's final texture, the main variable is how high it was heated to melt it from the honeycomb. The beehive itself if always warm inside and the honey is always a liquid, and when the honey is heated, cooled and skimmed to remove the wax, how fast the honey cools also reflects how thick the honey in the jar is.

Honey is a most useful food product, in both making foods and as a food itself. Many of us are starting to focus on healthier eating habits, better and nutritious foods, and we are more conscience about where we are obtaining our foods – honey is one of the foods and food ingredients that you can trust to meet your all natural needs, with no preservatives needed, honey is going to add to your vitamin and mineral intake!

[b]Usefulness of honey[/b]
Honey is beneficial when you are dieting, watching your weight, and when you are having digestive problems or constipated. Using honey in your daily meals will lessen your stress and improve your sleep. With increased exercise and controlled eating habits, you can lose weight, be in control of your life, and feel better about yourself all around.
we have been telling you, all about the various benefits of using honey in your diet, in your life and for your family in so many ways. Now, in the following pages, you are going to find some easy to use and outstanding recipes that you can add to your recipe book for when you want to try something new, tried, and exciting.

While this is a very short listing of recipes, touching on many of the various ways that you can use honey is what these recipes are striving to show you. If you want to learn to use honey, you can look through your recipe books, convert how much sugar is added to anything, and use honey instead! Using honey is easy when you have just a few minutes to look over your recipes and make that small change.
Honey is one pleasure that is also good for you as well. Learning to cook with and make the best uses of honey in your daily life will include experimenting on your own with honey, replacing other forms of sugar that do not add much more than that sweet taste and calories to your daily eating habits.
Look for your favorite recipes, in your cookbooks, and substitute honey where sugar is called for – and you will be surprised at how much of a difference you can make by substituting just one ingredient for another. You can treat your family to great nutritious meals by substituting sugar with honey.

November 15, 2008 | 5:03 AM Comments  1 comments

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An attempted rape suspect
Related to country: South Africa

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Victim nabs suspect in queue

Thabisile Khoza

Sekhukhune - An attempted rape suspect who was arrested when his alleged victim spotted him standing in the same queue as her at a clinic, appeared briefly in court on Monday.

The 21-year-old man from Ga-Mashegwana village in Limpopo was arrested on Friday.

On Monday, he was not asked to plead to charges of attempted rape and assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared in the Sekhukhune Magistrate's Court.

He was remanded in custody until November 3 for further investigation.

Sekhukhune police spokesperson Constable Dithomo Kgaphola said the alleged victim had phoned police from the clinic on Friday.

She claimed he had attacked her at about 11:00 that day.

"She told us that she fought back and kicked him in the testicles and bit his mouth to free herself," he said.

She didn't report the matter to police immediately as she first wanted to get help at the clinic for injuries to her face.

"When she was in the queue at the clinic, she noticed the suspect join the same queue, so she quickly slipped away and called the police with her cellphone," he said.

Kgaphola said the police allowed the suspect to get medical treatment first for his injuries.

"After the doctor finished examining him we took him to the police cell," he said.

- African Eye

October 15, 2008 | 5:50 AM Comments  0 comments

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An attempted rape suspect
Related to country: South Africa

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Victim nabs suspect in queue

Thabisile Khoza

Sekhukhune - An attempted rape suspect who was arrested when his alleged victim spotted him standing in the same queue as her at a clinic, appeared briefly in court on Monday.

The 21-year-old man from Ga-Mashegwana village in Limpopo was arrested on Friday.

On Monday, he was not asked to plead to charges of attempted rape and assault with the intention to cause grievous bodily harm when he appeared in the Sekhukhune Magistrate's Court.

He was remanded in custody until November 3 for further investigation.

Sekhukhune police spokesperson Constable Dithomo Kgaphola said the alleged victim had phoned police from the clinic on Friday.

She claimed he had attacked her at about 11:00 that day.

"She told us that she fought back and kicked him in the testicles and bit his mouth to free herself," he said.

She didn't report the matter to police immediately as she first wanted to get help at the clinic for injuries to her face.

"When she was in the queue at the clinic, she noticed the suspect join the same queue, so she quickly slipped away and called the police with her cellphone," he said.

Kgaphola said the police allowed the suspect to get medical treatment first for his injuries.

"After the doctor finished examining him we took him to the police cell," he said.

- African Eye

October 15, 2008 | 5:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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RISK VS REWARD
About this event: Food for Talk
Related to country: Nigeria

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Decisions, decisions. Every day we have to make numerous choices. Some can affect us the rest of our lives, while others are relatively insignificant. But whatever the type of choices we must make, the fact remains that WE are responsible, and we must weigh the risk versus the reward of our decisions.
Daily Dilemmas
A typical day begins with the simple choice of when to get out of bed. Then we must decide whether to take a shower, a bath, shampoo our hair, or whether to bathe at all. How to wear our hair and what clothes to wear are other decisions to be made. Shall we skip breakfast or eat, and if so, what shall we have? How will we get to school--ride with our parents, ride the school bus, hitch a ride with a friend or walk? All of these choices must be made.
Along with such obvious decisions facing today's young people are the more serious ones that really can affect lives. One such choice could be whether to study for a test, go out with friends or spend the evening talking on the telephone. We all know which choice should be made, but will it?
Choosing what to wear may seem a mundane decision, but not in today's world of gangs that sport certain colors, brands of clothing and shoes and styles of wearing those clothes. To make the wrong choice and wear "gang" paraphernalia could be dangerous. By the same token, many people judge others by the clothes worn--not just whether the clothes are clean and pressed, but whether they are brand name or generic. A student's acceptance at school can depend on such choices.
How active students are in school also can have a big effect on their success. For example, should they participate in extra-curricular activities such as band, vocal music, cheerleading, debate, football or another sport? The time required for practice can drastically cut into time needed for studying or simple free time for relaxation with friends.
Should students have a part-time job? Here again, the time a job requires would directly affect all aspects of after-school and/or weekend activities, including time to do homework or participate in activities.
Whether to use drugs, drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes are big choices that virtually every student must face. Some go along with the crowd just to belong, but the risk of such behavior can be deadly as well as dangerous to reputations where breaking the law is concerned. Using drugs and alcohol involves other decisions, such as whether to get behind the wheel or even to appear in public and risk arrest. The "reward" of a temporary high means nothing in comparison.
Career Choices
Once students have navigated through school toward graduation, there are even more decisions to be made. Some decide to drop out of school to marry, get jobs or have children. Others go on to college, and there are other major decisions to be made. Where to go? What to major in? Whether to live on campus or commute? Who to have as a roommate or have none at all? What classes to take, how many hours to carry and at what times?
Some of these choices can be made only by the students directly affected by them; others can and should be made after much thought and discussion with parents, counselors and/or friends. But no matter what our decisions, the risk vs. the reward of our choices must be considered. And the overwhelming question that must be answered is quite simply, Is it worth it?

August 19, 2008 | 6:04 AM Comments  1 comments

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Internet Fraud
Related to country: Nigeria

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Auction Fraud

Auction fraud involves fraud attributable to the misrepresentation of a product advertised for sale through an Internet auction site or the non-delivery of products purchased through an Internet auction site.

Consumers are strongly cautioned against entering into Internet transactions with subjects exhibiting the following behavior:

* The seller posts the auction as if he resides in the United States, then responds to victims with a congratulatory email stating he is outside the United States for business reasons, family emergency, etc. Similarly, beware of sellers who post the auction under one name, and ask for the funds to be transferred to another individual.
* The subject requests funds to be wired directly to him/her via Western Union, MoneyGram, or bank-to-bank wire transfer. By using these services, the money is virtually unrecoverable with no recourse for the victim.
* Sellers acting as authorized dealers or factory representatives in countries where there would be no such dealers should be avoided.
* Buyers who ask for the purchase to be shipped using a certain method to avoid customs or taxes inside another country should be avoided.
* Be suspect of any credit card purchases where the address of the card holder does not match the shipping address. Always receive the card holder's authorization before shipping any products.

If you believe you may have fallen victim to this type of scam and wish to report it, please file a complaint with us.

In addition, visit eBay and PayPal for additional security alerts and fraud prevention tips.

July 23, 2008 | 4:48 AM Comments  1 comments

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Technology in Nigeria
Related to country: Nigeria

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INTRODUCTION

Today, two main characteristics differentiate the developed and developing countries. The first characteristic is the numbing gap between the wealth of the two sides; the second is the gap in technological ideas and their impact on the well-being of their citizens. This paper is concerned with the development of ideas about technology and the impact of those ideas on economic and political development in Nigeria. The focus and significance of the paper are: (1) understanding the basic fact that technology is largely about ideas not finished products; (2) that ideas for sustaining appropriate technology in the developing countries in general, and Nigeria in particular, must be based on the building of a stable institutional framework that reinforces the acquisition of ideas about technology; and (3) that accomplishing the above requires concerted effort by the government, the business class and civil society focused on the development and utilization of basic infrastructure such as roads, energy, water supply and rail transportation. As preconditions for appropriating technological ideas from the developed countries, such efforts will result in the entrenchment of the concept of autochthonous technology in Nigeria.

THE ARGUMENT

Since independence, Nigerian policy makers have tended to think of technology mainly in the context of finished products rather than as a set of ideas rooted in the local culture with the set purpose of serving the basic needs of the people. This perception of technology focuses attention on the importation of finished products, and results in the absence of a maintenance culture, a sine qua non to the development of appropriate technology. Although businesses or individual entrepreneurs do sustain a maintenance culture, they are largely concerned with cost-benefit calculations and are less likely to engage in economic activities which are considered unnecessary for the well-being of noncost bearing members. For example, private enterprises are likely to engage in the business of road construction if they can charge tolls for the users; while, private healthcare will thrive if its profit margins exceed the costs of providing such services.

Given that entrepreneurs are self-interested rather than general welfareseeking agents, the provision of such essential infrastructures as reliable energy supply, roads and rail tracks, as well as efficient and stable institutional frameworks necessary for the development of ideas and utilization of technology, rests with the government. Effective technological development requires sustained participation of the government both as a provider of grants and as the custodian of law and order which are indispensable to the formulation of policies that facilitate such appropriations. While it is true that certain government policies benefit only a few individuals (for example, tax reductions for imported cars will benefit those with money to buy the cars), government provision of such public goods as healthcare, well maintained roads, and an efficient public transportation system invariably benefit most people in a given country. Furthermore, government officials can achieve their sometimes narrow objectives of rewarding ethnic and political supporters even more effectively by making certain that public goods are provided efficiently. For example, the existence of an efficient rural healthcare system within the country will benefit all citizens, including supporters of the incumbent regime.

In a notable deviation from its traditional support of neoclassical economic frameworks for economic development in the Third World, the World Bank argues that state capability in promoting efficient collective actions that ensure the maintenance of law and order, public health and basic infrastructure is essential for economic development.1 The Bank argues that state capability means "... combating entrenched corruption, ... subjecting state institutions to greater competition, ... making the state more responsive to people's needs, bringing government closer to the people through broader participation and decentralization"2 of government activities. For Nigeria, an institutional framework that supports education, builds and maintains roads that link the rural to the urban centers, ensures reliable energy supply and promotes the spirit of inquiry is a necessary condition for developing ideas of appropriate technology. However, given inadequate resource accumulation and allocation practices in most Third World nations, a more feasible approach would be one that focuses government policies on the provision of basic infrastructures. This will facilitate effective participation of members of civil society and encourage better utilization of available resources to bring about development of ideas rather than the consumption of already developed technological products from the industrialized nations. Participating in the development of ideas and their consequent usable products will also institutionalize a maintenance culture for developing and sustaining appropriate technology in Nigeria.

July 15, 2008 | 8:41 AM Comments  0 comments

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Perspectives on technology and economic development in Nigeria
Related to country: Nigeria

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INTRODUCTION

Today, two main characteristics differentiate the developed and developing countries. The first characteristic is the numbing gap between the wealth of the two sides; the second is the gap in technological ideas and their impact on the well-being of their citizens. This paper is concerned with the development of ideas about technology and the impact of those ideas on economic and political development in Nigeria. The focus and significance of the paper are: (1) understanding the basic fact that technology is largely about ideas not finished products; (2) that ideas for sustaining appropriate technology in the developing countries in general, and Nigeria in particular, must be based on the building of a stable institutional framework that reinforces the acquisition of ideas about technology; and (3) that accomplishing the above requires concerted effort by the government, the business class and civil society focused on the development and utilization of basic infrastructure such as roads, energy, water supply and rail transportation. As preconditions for appropriating technological ideas from the developed countries, such efforts will result in the entrenchment of the concept of autochthonous technology in Nigeria.

THE ARGUMENT

Since independence, Nigerian policy makers have tended to think of technology mainly in the context of finished products rather than as a set of ideas rooted in the local culture with the set purpose of serving the basic needs of the people. This perception of technology focuses attention on the importation of finished products, and results in the absence of a maintenance culture, a sine qua non to the development of appropriate technology. Although businesses or individual entrepreneurs do sustain a maintenance culture, they are largely concerned with cost-benefit calculations and are less likely to engage in economic activities which are considered unnecessary for the well-being of noncost bearing members. For example, private enterprises are likely to engage in the business of road construction if they can charge tolls for the users; while, private healthcare will thrive if its profit margins exceed the costs of providing such services.

Given that entrepreneurs are self-interested rather than general welfareseeking agents, the provision of such essential infrastructures as reliable energy supply, roads and rail tracks, as well as efficient and stable institutional frameworks necessary for the development of ideas and utilization of technology, rests with the government. Effective technological development requires sustained participation of the government both as a provider of grants and as the custodian of law and order which are indispensable to the formulation of policies that facilitate such appropriations. While it is true that certain government policies benefit only a few individuals (for example, tax reductions for imported cars will benefit those with money to buy the cars), government provision of such public goods as healthcare, well maintained roads, and an efficient public transportation system invariably benefit most people in a given country. Furthermore, government officials can achieve their sometimes narrow objectives of rewarding ethnic and political supporters even more effectively by making certain that public goods are provided efficiently. For example, the existence of an efficient rural healthcare system within the country will benefit all citizens, including supporters of the incumbent regime.

In a notable deviation from its traditional support of neoclassical economic frameworks for economic development in the Third World, the World Bank argues that state capability in promoting efficient collective actions that ensure the maintenance of law and order, public health and basic infrastructure is essential for economic development.1 The Bank argues that state capability means "... combating entrenched corruption, ... subjecting state institutions to greater competition, ... making the state more responsive to people's needs, bringing government closer to the people through broader participation and decentralization"2 of government activities. For Nigeria, an institutional framework that supports education, builds and maintains roads that link the rural to the urban centers, ensures reliable energy supply and promotes the spirit of inquiry is a necessary condition for developing ideas of appropriate technology. However, given inadequate resource accumulation and allocation practices in most Third World nations, a more feasible approach would be one that focuses government policies on the provision of basic infrastructures. This will facilitate effective participation of members of civil society and encourage better utilization of available resources to bring about development of ideas rather than the consumption of already developed technological products from the industrialized nations. Participating in the development of ideas and their consequent usable products will also institutionalize a maintenance culture for developing and sustaining appropriate technology in Nigeria.

July 15, 2008 | 8:34 AM Comments  0 comments

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Child Labour And Preventions
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Among all people in this world, one can think of countless personalities. Some people are nice to other, some people are just mean, some people are shy and some people just cannot wait to "rock and roll all night and party everyday." However, among all these kinds of personalities, we can simply divide personalities into two large categories: introverts and extroverts due to their sources of inspiration.

Extroverted people are born with the talent of making fun in life. They can make a joke about anything they want, making other people laugh until their tears come out their eyes and their cheeks feel pain. These types of people sometimes will be self-centered and wish everybody's attention were on them. Moreover, they will be very glad if you tell them you are having the time of your life around them. With these people around you, the environment really lightens up. Sometimes life becomes easier just by listening to their jokes. Around this type of people, it is not usual to see another person with the same type of personality. Since two "jokers" will keep making fun of things and each other, at the end, it becomes a competition between them, and so it usually will end up as a big fight and they usually will not become good friends. It is more often to see people who love jokes but cannot make good ones by themselves around a fun type person.

Opposite of the out going extroverts, there are quiet thinkers who psychologists like to call introverts. This type of people observes things around them and thinks about them. They are quiet, secretive, and sometimes mysterious because they usually do not say anything that does not belong in the conversation. They can hardly make a joke and even if they tried their best and made one, it would be cold and people around could hardly giggle about it. However, since they are thinkers and observers, they can formulate questions and results easier. They can control the situation around them easier than other people can and they can give great advice if people ever need it. In addition, these people are great with ideas. They can think of many ways to solve a problem in real life and most of them work. If someone insults them, they will not say a thing. They will not curse or use their fist in front of you and make their own day miserable. Instead, they will keep silent and wait. They will wait for their chance and plan for the ultimate revenge. They will become great friends with extroverts because they are great listeners. They can sit by the side of an extroverted person and listen to him or her for hours. These two sets of people are only a handful of different personality types, but overall we have seen an abstract of what extroverted and introverted people are like.

Steps to Prevent Child Labor

Child labor and hunger is one of the principal social illnesses in my country. There are many institutes, organizations, public departments and international organizations like UNICEF whose main objective is to prevent child labor. They have many steps to prevent it and I have some ideas that can help.

First, many children left their homes in a way to avoid the abuse that they are victims of from their parents. To prevent this bad treatment, the government could help give conferences to the parents about child labor and the consequences that it brings. In this way, we can help prevent other children running away from home and living as homeless children.

Another option could be to build homes for those children that are living in the streets. They will be sent to these homes and they would not have to live outside. In this way we can help prevent children from any abuse that they can suffer in the streets. In these homes, children are not supposed to work; they can study and learn a career, and they will get a better job and a future.

Child labor is a very serious problem. Politicians should make laws to prevent child labor and find solutions. Children are our future and we have to take care of them if we want a better future.

June 25, 2008 | 9:54 AM Comments  0 comments

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Encouraging Students to Use Technology
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One of the specific educational goals at many colleges is for students to achieve technological competence, by which is usually meant facility with the tools of information technology. Here are some ideas and techniques that will encourage the achievement of this goal. A particularly attractive factor of these techniques is that most are self-assessing: completion of the assignment by the student demonstrates that the student can use the tool or perform the skill.

1. Require students to use email to send at least some of their homework, papers, projects, comments, questions, or assessments. A useful assignment is to have students write and mail a narrative evaluation of a paper, reading, or class session they completed. Email can be used effectively by requiring students to submit paper topics early in the term. The professor can simply use the reply function to make comments and suggestions.

2. Use email to send students individual assignments or comments and require that they respond to the assignment (even if it means merely printing out the letter or replying to it). Comments about papers, in-class presentations, or current grade status can be sent to students, together with a request for a response. For small classes, unique regular or extra credit assignments can be sent through email only, followed, if necessary, by a brief mention in class ("Did you check your email recently?").

Commentary: Email dialog between professor and student has been discovered to have numerous benefits in addition to making sure the student learns how to use email. Here are some of them:

Students are less inhibited about asking questions, raising objections, or sharing input about the class with the professor. Many who would never speak up in class "come out of their shell" and speak frankly.
Metalearning--a student's awareness of what he or she is learning--increases, as student and professor discuss student goals, progress, and educational philosophy. Increases in metalearning have been closely tied to increases in overall learning. (That is, talking about what a student is learning helps the student learn more.)
Students emailing the professor are getting writing practice, something most of them need. Learning how to put sentences together and how to articulate one's ideas are skills enhanced by practice.
3. Require students to get assignments online. Post assignments or other information on a web page, intranet page, or shared drive folder. Particular sites with pertinent information might be mentioned in class or listed in an assignment or syllabus, with the requirement that students visit them and obtain certain information from them.
4. Use electronic reserves. Instead of photocopying materials for library reserves, put those readings on your class web page for students to read. That way, students do not have to go to the library to read the reserve material, several students can read it at the same time, and you can leave it on reserve indefinitely or update it regularly. The electronic format not only gives students practice in using technology, but it can simplify their use of the material by allowing them to cut and paste quotations with their word processor. (Note: Be sure to secure the appropriate permissions to post any copyrighted material. You may wish to ask for permission to post only to the campus intranet rather than to the Internet at large. Get all such permissions in writing and include a declaration of permission and notice of copyright on each page or document posted.) E-reserves can include documents, pictures, video, audio, or links to materials from libraries, museums, or other sites all over the world.

5. Require students to search the Internet and make use of one or more Internet sources as part of their research assignments. Books, journals, newspapers, magazines, organizational sites, corporate sites, museums, and a host of other information sources provide a truly staggering amount of useful information. (But plan also to discuss source evaluation with your students because some show a surprising lack of caution in accepting as true whatever they find. As part of their research, you might have them locate some articles on the Net relating to source evaluation or direct them to my article, "Evaluating Internet Research Sources".)

6. Require students to make use of one or more articles in electronic form as part of their research assignments. These forms are usually on CD-ROM and include encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, and various abstracts and databases.

7. Require students to find research information through other specified technologies, such as online library catalogs, CD-ROM indexes, microform materials, videocassette sources, etc.

8. Require students to subscribe to an Internet mailing list relevant to the class and to turn in one or more useful postings together with an evaluation of it and the mailing list in general. You might even require that the students propose a posting of their own.

9. Require that all papers be written using word processing software. Require the use of some additional functions, such as headlines or subheads, font changes, drop caps, tables, graphs, inserted pictures, boxes, and so on. Help students to stretch themselves and their knowledge of how the word processor can help them present information in a clearer, more effective way. (Note: Make the requirements specific to the skill you want demonstrated. For example, "Present your data in an outlined table inserted into the text and not attached at the end").

10. Require that students use presentation technology such as overhead projectors, data projectors, presentation software, or VCR's for assigned in-class presentations.

11. Include spreadsheet and graphing assignments relevant to your course material. Remember that spreadsheets will do averages, percentages, forecasting, goal seeking, trendlines, graphing, correlation, comparison charts. A physical education class might have students graph times or scores, a business class might chart stocks. Any class that has several grades (quizzes, exams, papers, homework) can require students to keep their own point scores on a spreadsheet and turn it in from time to time. Comment: Not only will the use of a spreadsheet give students technological skill, but it will increase their number fluency, something needed by many students.

12. Require students to create their own Web pages and to post their papers or reports to them. Not only will they learn to use technology for the dissemination of information, but they will have a lesson in sharing the fruits of their intellectual labors, and perhaps be more motivated by the thought of a larger audience than the professor.

General comment: Many students take to technology avidly. But perhaps a third are less enthusiastic, and, given the chance, will avoid it. Therefore, in order to accomplish the technology-use goal, it is important to (1) make the use of technology required of all students in the class and (2) make assignments and performance expectations clear and specific, so that students know exactly what is wanted. (For example, "You must send me by noon Thursday an email describing your topic and plan of procedure, in at least three paragraphs.") Take a few minutes in class and/or in the form of handouts to instruct students how to perform the skill you want them to exhibit. As with most kinds of assignment, vagueness creates fear and loathing. You may need to take more time now for instruction than you will in a couple of years, when students are more techno-literate. But if every professor trains students a bit more, and if every professor incorporates some of these requirements in each class, students will quickly become adept with the tools of information technology.

June 16, 2008 | 11:22 AM Comments  0 comments

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