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Book Navigating Hyperspace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Lah
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2021-12-10
  • ISBN : 1666719358
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Navigating Hyperspace written by Peter Lah and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a hurricane that exposes the underlying bedrock—and an occasional hidden treasure—by washing away the accumulated grains of sand, the pandemic blew away the accumulated certainties and securities of the globally connected, digitized society. Suddenly, nothing can be taken for granted: visiting ailing relatives, shopping—or going to church. The internet and, particularly, social networking sites have become the indispensable infrastructure holding our sociability together. The global companies of the digital economy profited handsomely. How about the users of their services? This volume explores how priests inhabit the digital environment of social networking sites, specifically Facebook. The authors looked at how they present themselves, what they publish, and how people engage with this content. The context of the pandemic suggested that we should also examine how digital technology and social media are being used for purposes of priestly ministry. Our hope is that these analyses and considerations will help not just priests but every person at becoming proficient not only in things virtual but also in practicing virtue.

Book Navigating Hyperspace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Lah
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2021-12-10
  • ISBN : 1666719374
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Navigating Hyperspace written by Peter Lah and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a hurricane that exposes the underlying bedrock--and an occasional hidden treasure--by washing away the accumulated grains of sand, the pandemic blew away the accumulated certainties and securities of the globally connected, digitized society. Suddenly, nothing can be taken for granted: visiting ailing relatives, shopping--or going to church. The internet and, particularly, social networking sites have become the indispensable infrastructure holding our sociability together. The global companies of the digital economy profited handsomely. How about the users of their services? This volume explores how priests inhabit the digital environment of social networking sites, specifically Facebook. The authors looked at how they present themselves, what they publish, and how people engage with this content. The context of the pandemic suggested that we should also examine how digital technology and social media are being used for purposes of priestly ministry. Our hope is that these analyses and considerations will help not just priests but every person at becoming proficient not only in things virtual but also in practicing virtue.

Book Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Download or read book Intelligent Tutoring Systems written by Vincent Aleven and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010, cont- ued the bi-annual series of top-flight international conferences on the use of advanced educational technologies that are adaptive to users or groups of users. These highly interdisciplinary conferences bring together researchers in the learning sciences, computer science, cognitive or educational psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and linguistics. The theme of the ITS 2010 conference was Bridges to Learning, a theme that connects the scientific content of the conf- ence and the geography of Pittsburgh, the host city. The conference addressed the use of advanced technologies as bridges for learners and facilitators of robust learning outcomes. We received a total of 186 submissions from 26 countries on 5 continents: Aust- lia, Brazil, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the UK and USA. We accepted 61 full papers (38%) and 58 short papers. The diversity of the field is reflected in the range of topics represented by the papers submitted, selected by the authors.

Book Social Navigation of Information Space

Download or read book Social Navigation of Information Space written by Alan J. Munro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how people deal with information in a computerized environment, looking at what happens when people actively explore information space looking for objects without specific goals in mind. The topics are particularly relevant to the industrial application of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) techniques, especially with regard to teleworking and virtual organizations. This volume will be useful for researchers interested in human computer interaction, virtual communities, and information visualization.

Book Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Download or read book Intelligent Tutoring Systems written by Stefano A. Cerri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2002, held in Biarritz, France, and San Sebastian, Spain, in June 2002 The 93 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 16 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 full paper submissions. The papers address all current issues in the interdisciplinary field of intelligent tutoring systems. The book offers topical sections on agents, architectures, Web, authoring, learning, dialogue, evaluation, narrative, and motivation and emotions.

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  • Publisher : IOS Press
  • Release :
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  • Pages : 3525 pages

Download or read book written by and published by IOS Press. This book was released on with total page 3525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Learning by Effective Utilization of Technologies

Download or read book Learning by Effective Utilization of Technologies written by Riichiro Mizoguchi and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the theme of the use of computers for supporting collaborative learning, this book includes contributions that aim to bridge both research tracks, the one focusing on interactions and the other on contents: the pedagogical use of digital portfolios, both for promoting individual reflections and for scaffolding group interactions.

Book Designing Web Navigation

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  • Author : James Kalbach
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2007-08-28
  • ISBN : 0596553781
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Designing Web Navigation written by James Kalbach and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly rewritten for today's web environment, this bestselling book offers a fresh look at a fundamental topic of web site development: navigation design. Amid all the changes to the Web in the past decade, and all the hype about Web 2.0 and various "rich" interactive technologies, the basic problems of creating a good web navigation system remain. Designing Web Navigation demonstrates that good navigation is not about technology-it's about the ways people find information, and how you guide them. Ideal for beginning to intermediate web designers, managers, other non-designers, and web development pros looking for another perspective, Designing Web Navigation offers basic design principles, development techniques and practical advice, with real-world examples and essential concepts seamlessly folded in. How does your web site serve your business objectives? How does it meet a user's needs? You'll learn that navigation design touches most other aspects of web site development. This book: Provides the foundations of web navigation and offers a framework for navigation design Paints a broad picture of web navigation and basic human information behavior Demonstrates how navigation reflects brand and affects site credibility Helps you understand the problem you're trying to solve before you set out to design Thoroughly reviews the mechanisms and different types of navigation Explores "information scent" and "information shape" Explains "persuasive" architecture and other design concepts Covers special contexts, such as navigation design for web applications Includes an entire chapter on tagging While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich sites serving a business purpose, the principles and techniques in the book also apply to small sites. Well researched and cited, this book serves as an excellent reference on the topic, as well as a superb teaching guide. Each chapter ends with suggested reading and a set of questions that offer exercises for experiencing the concepts in action.

Book Platinum Pohl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederik Pohl
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-01-23
  • ISBN : 9780765301451
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Platinum Pohl written by Frederik Pohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new compilation of short fiction includes a never-before-published Heechee story and other science fiction tales.

Book The Digital Scholar  Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment

Download or read book The Digital Scholar Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment written by Irena Vassileva and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forms and genres of academic communication have changed considerably over the past decades – from standardised ways of producing texts on/for paper to a (less?) standardised way of communication in Web 2.0. Published papers are now available to a greater number of readers, interaction among colleagues can take place in real time via written, audio or visual formats, and it has become much more comfortable for students as well as for those outside the scientific community to access academic information and to contact its authors. It seems, however, that many aspects of academic communication have not yet changed, and its participants – either in the „old“ or in the „new“ generation – are ill-equipped to work within the multimedia context. This volume, therefore, takes a look at academic communication in the multimedia environment, in order to throw light on how these processes are linked to new multimedia affordances, while at the same time encapsulating old genre conventions and participant interaction with the medium.

Book Digital Methods

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  • Author : Richard Rogers
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2015-08-21
  • ISBN : 026252824X
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Digital Methods written by Richard Rogers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proposal to repurpose Web-native techniques for use in social and cultural scholarly research. In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with broader questions. How can we study social media to learn something about society rather than about social media use? Rogers proposes repurposing Web-native techniques for research into cultural change and societal conditions. We can learn to reapply such “methods of the medium” as crawling and crowd sourcing, PageRank and similar algorithms, tag clouds and other visualizations; we can learn how they handle hits, likes, tags, date stamps, and other Web-native objects. By “thinking along” with devices and the objects they handle, digital research methods can follow the evolving methods of the medium. Rogers uses this new methodological outlook to examine such topics as the findings of inquiries into 9/11 search results, the recognition of climate change skeptics by climate-change-related Web sites, and the censorship of the Iranian Web. With Digital Methods, Rogers introduces a new vision and method for Internet research and at the same time applies them to the Web's objects of study, from tiny particles (hyperlinks) to large masses (social media).

Book Advanced IT Tools

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nobuyoshi Terashima
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 1996-08-31
  • ISBN : 9780412755606
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book Advanced IT Tools written by Nobuyoshi Terashima and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-08-31 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a state-of-the-art review of information technology tools for multimedia and its applications. It explores specifically the integration of multimedia applications and the information superhighway. The book is divided into three main parts. Part one discusses innovative applications in the public sector. Multimedia and intelligent systems will have a significant influence in many aspects of the public sector in the future. Part two is entitled Innovative Applications on the Horizon, and is concerned with turning current technological opportunities into real benefits in the future. Part three, Intelligent Systems, deals with systems used for application development, platforms for these systems and intelligent applications.

Book Scattered Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matt Edsand
  • Publisher : Edsand
  • Release : 2020-09-25
  • ISBN : 1393979882
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Scattered Legacy written by Matt Edsand and published by Edsand. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Celeste find those like her before the new war consumes the galaxy? Celeste, the Grekk Empire's former top Envoy, now finds herself with a new purpose: to find the remaining humans hiding across the galaxy. But this involves a journey to old friends and new worlds. Even if Celeste is able to find the humans, the new expanding conflict threatens to embroil her amongst unknown enemies and new alliances. In the midst of her journey, she encounters a shocking secret that will force her to rethink everything about her family. Will finding those like her help Celeste solve the legacy left behind for her? Scattered Legacy is the second soft SciFi novel in the The Forgotten Race series. Start reading Scattered Legacy and get yourself prepared for a non-stop, page-turner of a space adventure. If you like Star Trek, Space Opera and the like, you will enjoy this book.

Book Artificial Intelligence in Education

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence in Education written by V. Dimitrova and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication covers papers presented at AIED2009, part of an ongoing series of biennial international conferences for top quality research in intelligent systems and cognitive science for educational computing applications. The conference provides opportunities for the cross-fertilization of techniques from many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including: artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive and learning sciences, education, educational technology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and the many domain-specific areas for which AIED systems have been designed and evaluated. AIED2009 focuses on the theme "Building learning systems that care: from knowledge representation to affective modelling". The key research question is how to tackle the complex issues related to building learning systems that care, ranging from representing knowledge and context to modelling social, cognitive, metacognitive, and affective dimensions. This requires multidisciplinary research that links theory and technology from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer science with theory and practice from education and the social sciences.

Book Cognitive Support for Learning

Download or read book Cognitive Support for Learning written by Piet A. M. Kommers and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the various aspects of computational support systems for learners nowadays. It highlights in particular those learning aspects that rely heavily upon one's imagination of knowledge and new ideas. The question is how learners may become more effective through the use of highly graphical computer systems that now conquer almost every desk. As an extrapolation of the constructionistic paradigm, learning is seen here as a process of conceptual design. Witnessing the prudent introduction of CADD software (Computer Aided Drafting and Design) it is obvious that users are generally scrupulous to accept the computer in the ideational stages of design. This book presents both existing conceptual techniques and those estimated to arrive in the few coming years.

Book Mapping Cultures

Download or read book Mapping Cultures written by L. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies.

Book Hyperspace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michio Kaku
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-20
  • ISBN : 0198785038
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Hyperspace written by Michio Kaku and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued in new covers, this is the run-away bestseller from one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of the most exciting work in modern physics, including research into the 10th dimension, time warps, and multiple universes, to outline what may be the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything.