Saturday, September 6, 2008

Welcome to Britain!

Welcome to Britain!
We do hope that you enjoy your stay. Just been born? Well done, and welcome to the UK, the land of logic. We strive to make it as unpleasant as possible, with as much intrusion into your personal life as... well, as we see fit really. I'll just flag up some highlights, but you really should go over to The Nation Of Shopkeepers for the full manual: the reading of this document is entirely voluntary, by the way, unless you decide not to read it—in which case it is compulsory. And remember! I feel

Know your baseball cap bill of rights

W e have come to the time of year when we remove the video-game controls - by surgery, if necessary - from the hands of our children, and send them back to school.

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Knol

Both students and instructors use the online collaborative encyclopedia  Wikipedia and both are likely to make use of Knol. The new Google site offers short articles on a very wide range of subjects from Backpacking to Malaria to Barbecue Sauces. Net watchers will be looking closely to see if Knol grows at the same pace and to the same scope as Wikipedia. ____JH
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The Knol site has one goal: to help you share what you know.

"The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

Knols are indexed by the big search engines, of course. And well-written knols become popular the same as regular web pages. The Knol site allows anyone to write and manage knols through a browser on any computer."
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BEHAVIORISM

BEHAVIORISM
# BEHAVIORISM is a theory of animal and human learning, that only focus on objectively observable behaviors and discounts mental activities.# Behaviorism is the educational theory that is based on the underlying ideology that has a direct influence on behavior .