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- george: Very true. Indeed this is what airlines need to do. Thanks for the link, Ez!
- Ezra F: Blackboard is fully aware we run query against the main application tables part of the main application and not just the PowerSight Kit....
- J: Thanks for that. We don’t query against the database apart from the views supplied as part of the PowerSight Kit as I was under the...
- Ez: The easiest way is a SQL query combining trk_person, trk_action, trk_user_action , trk_page, trk_session, and learning_contex t. The...
- J: Saw a demo of Blackboard NextGen at BBWorldEurope and it looked like an improvement. v9 will be the start of Project NG culminating in v10. I...
- J: Most error reports find their way to me after the user has logged out and therefore cannot find out what node they are on. Have you found a...
- J: Interesting. We have not yet had a request like this. Like you we only create new users and not update from our student information system....
- mattl: thank you, exactly the problem i just had and now a solution
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Jun
12
The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child by Thom Hartmann
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Reading the DSM-IV about ADHD sounded to me more like the behavior over a typical boy than a mental illness. Thom theorizes a gene came about which allowed our ancestors to survive an intense period of ice ages. This gene, when triggered, exhibits behaviors teachers find abhorrent in the Prussian style education system of the United States better geared to producing soldiers and factory workers than scientists and creators.
Jun
11
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Darwin’s theory of natural selection opened a can of worms. Matt Ridley adds to the support for the case by attempting to explain: Why sexual and not asexual reproduction? Why males and females? Why do some species switch sexes? Why is human behavior around sex so peculiar?
The arguments are well composed and organized to build the case. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I especially enjoyed how others were interested in borrowing the book to read it themselves.
(Created on Goodreads.com. Inspired to compose my own by the review of Twilight by Jocelyn.)
Apr
28
Free Star Wars eBook
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Book One of the Legacy of the Force series will be offered for free in electronic form starting tomorrow at 9am through the release of the last book on May 13th (two weeks).
Star Wars novels fell into a distant third place to compared to my consumption of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novels. The Pern novels fell just behind Star Wars. These are all series I tended to read at least twice. For me, I stopped reading at the fall of Chewie. It pissed me off so much, I stopped R. A. Salvatore entirely.
I am impressed Del Rey is willing to offer this book for free and in electronic form. It has been 9 years…. Maybe I can get over it and download this book?
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Ezra Freelove
Learning Management System (LMS) DBA, amateur photographer, amateur epistemologistDisclaimer
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