Publications

Google Tech Talks
January, 15 2008

ABSTRACT

JoVE: an Open-access library of experimental videos to revolutionize biomedical research and scientific publishing.

Biomedical research has reached a level of complexity that is matched only by the complexity of the living species under investigation. Contrasting the rapid advancement of scientific research itself, scientific communication still heavily relies on traditional print journals. Print journals however, lack the necessary characteristics to allow enable an effective transfer of knowledge, which is significantly impeding scientific progress. Addressing this problem, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE, www.jove.com) implemented a novel, video-based approach to scientific publishing, based on visualization of experimental studies. Created with the participation of scientists from leading research institutions ( e.g. Harvard, MIT, and Princeton ), JoVE provides solutions to the "bottleneck" of the contemporary biological research: transparency and reproducibility of biological experiments. JoVE has so far released 9 monthly issues that include over 150 video-protocols on experimental approaches in developmental biology, neuroscience, microbiology and other fields. To facilitate integration of video into scientific publishing, JoVE has developed a distributed video-production network to assist scientists with filming and editing of their experiments.

As a new type of an online open-access productivity tool for biomedical researchers, JoVE adds to the other ground-breaking trends in the communication of scientific information such as the open-access movement and Google Scholar. The following are example of coverage JoVE has received in the scientific and popular press: Nature, The Scientist and WIRED .

Our presentation should be interesting to Google people who work on video, Google Scholar, biomedicine and science-related subjects.

Speaker: Moshe Pritsker, Ph.D.
CEO, Editor-in-Chief, Co-founder

Dr. Pritsker has developed the JoVE idea based on his deep familiarity with current problems of biological research, acquired through more than 10 years of work in this area. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and an M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Results of his research on stem cells, genomics, bioinformatics and HIV were published in leading scientific journals (PNAS, JBC, Genome Research and Biochemistry) and patent applications. Prior to co-founding JoVE, Dr. Pritsker held a position of post-doctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Help children learn about science by letting them explore their moments of curiosity. Teach children about science with tips from a writing instructor in this free video on writing.

Expert: Laura Minnigerode
Bio: Minnigerode earned a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Mass., and is a credentialed teacher.
Filmmaker: Todd Green

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Ronald F. Ferguson PhD has taught at the Kennedy School since 1983, as well as a participating as a senior research associate at Harvard’s Wiener Center for Social Policy Research.He has also taught at MIT, Brandeis, and Brown Universities. Dr. Ferguson’s publications cover issues in education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development. His research for the past several years has focused on racial achievement gaps, appearing in publications of the National Research Council, the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Educational Research Service, among others. He is the creator and director of the Tripod Project for School Improvement and the faculty chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. Dr. Ferguson attended public schools in Cleveland, Ohio, later earning an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from MIT, both in economics.

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Google Tech Talks
December, 12 2007

ABSTRACT

The mission of the Alice project is to increase and sustain the pipeline of computer science graduates, essential to the growth of technology in a global economy.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment for building animations in the form of stories, games, and web-ready videos. Alice teaches programming. Alice version 2.0 is in common use. Alice 3.0 is in active development with a projected launch date of August 2009.

Alice 2.0 has been very successful and enjoyed an adoption rate of 10% in US colleges and is expanding rapidly into high schools. We expect Alice 3.0 to surpass this mark considerably.

Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate these objects.

Alice 3.0 will also enable teachers and students to work directly with underlying Java code in a Java IDE. The ability to work with code in either drag-and-drop or in Java IDE mode will support an expansion of Alice 2.0’s target populations (previously, high school and pre-CS1) to include CS1 and AP-CS courses. Alice 3.0 is scheduled for alpha and beta testing in a limited number of classrooms during the ‘08-’09 academic year.

http://www.alice.org/

Speaker: Wanda Dann, Alice Director (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dr. Wanda Dann, an active member of the Alice team for the last decade, has recently assumed leadership of the team. She is currently transitioning into a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University from Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ithaca College. Wanda’s research interests include visualization in programming and programming languages and innovative approaches to introductory programming.
With Dr. Steve Cooper and Dr. Randy Pausch, she has published papers on the use of program visualization in teaching and learning introductory programming. Papers have appeared in ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) inroads, the Computer Science Education Journal, and other related publications. She is co-author of Learning to Program with Alice (2006, Prentice-Hall).
Dr. Dann’s leadership as a computer science educator has been recognized in her various roles as SIGCSE Technical Symposium publications editor, special projects chair, program chair, and symposium chair. She is now a member of the SIGCSE Board.

Speaker: Dennis Cosgrove, Research Scientist (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dennis Cosgrove has worked on the Alice system since its beginnings back in the early 1990s when it was a rapid prototyping tool for constructing head mounted display based virtual environments. He played a key roll in designing and implementing versions of Alice which have striven to lower the barriers of entry to 3D graphics and, more recently, to support a gentler introduction to programming.
As the sole designer and implementer, Dennis has enjoyed unchecked, czar-like control over all aspects of the Alice system since the inception of Alice 3 in February, 2006.
Dennis has co-authored academic papers presented at the ACM I3D, UIST, and SIGCHI conferences.
Dennis was selected as the first Computer Science Department “Undergraduate Education Award” winner at the University of Virginia in 1992. He was also selected as a Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science “Outstanding Member of the Community Award,” as well as an University wide “Andy Award” in 2001.

Speaker: Caitlin Kelleher, Assistant Professor (Washington University in St. Louis)
Caitlin Kelleher is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University working with Professor Randy Pausch and spent her undergraduate years at Virginia Tech.
Caitlin joined the Alice project in 1999 when she began as a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon. As part of her dissertation work…

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In this talk, Dr. Margery Mayer and Dr. Ted Hasselbring discuss practical issues relevant for young scholars interested in working with publishers to disseminate their research. Learning Sciences Institute

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A bibliography for college research papers can be written in a variety of styles, including MLA and APA, and the required information includes the author’s name, the title, the publisher and the place and date of publication. Write bibliographies for a variety of formats with tips from an English teacher in this free video on college research papers.

Expert: David M. Harris
Bio: David M. Harris has taught English at Vanderbilt University and elsewhere.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

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The world’s coral reefs are dying. Would you like to know why? And how you can help stop it???

Check out this video now!!!

WWW.CORALSCIENCE.ORG

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Welcome to Engineering Science at Penn State. This student-produced video introduces the Engineering Science major.

If you are interested in, and excel at, science and math and want to use your skills in these areas to research, develop, and design new products and processes in a wide variety of fields then the engineering science curriculum is an excellent choice for you.

Due to the breadth of the curriculum, graduates have many career options, are well-prepared for advanced study, and often become team leaders. The average starting salary for an engineering science graduate is one of the highest in the college of engineering.

http://www.esm.psu.edu/students/prospective/undergraduate/

U.Ed. #ENG06-53 – This publication is available in alternative media upon request. Copyright The Pennsylvania State University 2005

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Last week, we discussed one problem for medical journals: the question of authorship. You would think that all the scientists who took part in a research study would be listed as authors. But that is not always the case. Sometimes there are honorary authors and ghost authors. Honorary authors, also called guest authors, receive credit in a published study but had little to do with designing it or writing the article.

Ghost authors work on studies but are not credited. Sometimes they are paid by drug companies to place articles in journals to support the companys products. One example was described in September at a meeting of international medical journal editors in Vancouver, Canada.

Three researchers at the University of California at San Francisco presented information about a drug companys marketing campaign that included placing research articles in medical journals.

In the nineteen nineties, the drug company Parke Davis paid another company, Medical Education Systems, to produce journal articles in support of one of its drugs. Medical Education Systems worked with authors chosen by Parke Davis to research, develop and write articles for publication.

Editors of the journals that published the studies did not know about the companies involvement.

Another study presented at the meeting was done by editors at the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers questioned authors of nine hundred articles published last year in six top medical journals.

They found that twenty-one percent of the papers published in those journals had honorary authors. Eight percent had ghost authors. Two percent had both.

They compared this to a similar study in nineteen ninety-six. It found that nineteen percent of articles had honorary authors, twelve percent had ghost authors and two percent had both.

The researchers noted the drop in the percentage of ghost authors from twelve percent to eight percent. Annette Flanagin and Joe Wislar said they were pleased about the decrease but had hoped it would be larger.

Some researchers and editors say changes must be made to stop such false author claims. Some have called for journals to identify ghostwritten articles and ban their authors from future publication.

And thats the VOA Special English Education Report.

(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 08Oct2009)

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HorseDream is founding member of the European Association for Horse Assisted Education (EAHAE).

Mission:

The European Association for Horse Assisted Education (EAHAE) is a non-profit platform for information, communication, education, certification, research and publication of every kind of Horse Assisted Education.

Vision:

The vision is to establish and develop Horse Assisted Education as a general form of personal and professional development in (not only European) enterprises, organisations, institutions, societies, and for personal purpose.

Membership:

We understand the EAHAE as an international platform, which has been established in Europe 2004 but which is now a worldwide platform for everyone, who is dealing with Horse Assisted Education in personal or professional development.

The purpose is to work together in and share ideas about information, communication, education, certification, research and publication of every kind of Horse Assisted Education. Everybody, who is already working with horses in educating people and everybody, who wants to do it in future, is very welcome to join us as an Associated Member.

As an associated member you have

- access to the internal area of the EAHAE website
- right to use the EAHAE database with press articles, videos, TV performances,
- right to apply to attend the annual conference of the EAHAE,
- right to apply to attend EAHAE seminars and trainings.

Associated members are allowed to use the EAHAE logo and the phrase ‘Associated Member of the European Association for Horse Assisted Education’ on the own website and in letters, papers or brochures.

The associated membership fee is 75 Euro per year (Jan-Dec).

If you would like to become a Full Member, you have to attend an EAHAE Train the Trainer seminar with one of the EAHAE authorized seminar providers. In the application form, you can fill in country and language you prefer attending the seminar.

Full membership fee is for

- your personal profile on the EAHAE website, linked to the own website,
- using internal EAHAE documents, information, and presentations,
- participating in the EAHAE website award.

Only full members are allowed to use the EAHAE logo and the phrase ‘Member of the European Association for Horse Assisted Education’ on the own website and in letters, papers or brochures.

The full membership fee is 150 Euro per year (Jan-Dec).

The full and associate membership fee for another person, who is connected to a full or to an associate member’s company is 50 Euro.

HorseDream provides this platform for pushing forward the vision, to establish and develop Horse Assisted Education as a general form of personal and professional development in (not only European) enterprises, organisations, institutions, societies and for personal purpose.

Membership of the platform is at the discretion of the EAHAE advisory board. Any member acting in a manner, considered by the advisory board, to be detrimental to the organisation or to the general domain of horse assisted education will result in instant expulsion from the association.

EAHAE does not allow members to be connected with or use techniques connected with Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard) or any sect. Any member found to be in violation of this rule will immediately be expelled from the association.

EAHAE Advisoryboard:

Gerhard J. Krebs, Speaker (Germany)
Victoria Baras (Spain)
Jacolijne Coops (Netherlands)
José Carlos Ferreira (Brazil)
David Harris (England)
Anette Haug (Scotland)
Anita Medekné Kincses (Hungary)
Anne Kühnell (Denmark)
Verena Neuse (Germany)
Sonia Struggia (Italy)
Peter Tester ( Switzerland)
Agata Wiatrowska (Poland)

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