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Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers
No full textThe Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers contain the professional and personal records of archaeologist, journalist, and author Samuel Dorris Dickinson
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster with academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster and academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Portrait of Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011 /
No full textTitle from nformation supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Podcast photograph of author Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Fabry Perot-Type Interferometer
No full textDesigned by Dr. Samuel Stratton, first director of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), this interferometer played an important role in early work on wavelength measurements at the NBS. It was used by Irwin G. Priest for measuring the wavelengths of neon lines in 1912-the first precision wavelengths published by NBS. Portions of the original interferometer are missing. Aspects of the interferometer described and pictured by Albert A. Michelson in his book "Light Waves and Their Uses" (1903) are similar to aspects of this Fabry-Perot Interferometer, designed in 1907 by Dr. Stratton. It appears that Stratton combined the system of mechanical motion peculiar to a Michelson-type interferometer with the Fabry-Perot arrangement of mirrors.11 x 36 x 9 c
Samuel Oshimi-John
No full textabstract: Samuel was nine years old when he left his village because of the fighting and bombing around his village.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 30Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the "Lost Boys Found" oral history project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Developing and using a learning design toolkit
No full textThe contributors to this symposium are currently involved in the DialogPlus project in which staff at two universities in the UK and two in the USA are collaborating to share elearning resources in the subject domains of Physical, Environmental and Human Geography. The project, currently in its third year, is funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the USA's National Science Foundation (NSF). The development period of the project finishes at the end of January 2006, after which there will be a two year embedding phase. In order to support teaching staff in designing and sharing learning activities, project members in the School of Education and the Learning Technologies Research Group at the University of Southampton have developed an online Learning Design Toolkit. Three main strands underpin our approach. These are firstly to research, understand and apply what is going on in the learning design field, particularly evolving standards in the areas of sharing digital resources, interoperability, searching, re-purposing, permissions. Secondly, to work closely with teaching colleagues to analyse their methods, when creating or re-purposing resources, and be guided by their requirements. Lastly, to enshrine good practice within the toolkit, such that it will guide and support teachers in as they create, modify, and share teaching and learning resources.The elements of a learning activity have been defined and taxonomies adopted or developed for learning and teaching approach, learning outcomes, tasks, tools and resources. These have been modelled in the toolkit's database and are used both to guide teachers as they create or re-purpose learning activities and as potential metadata for other practitioners searching for resources. The toolkit has an adaptive interface to offer appropriate support to both experienced and inexperienced academics.The toolkit specification and taxonomies have been compared to other approaches, most notably IMS Learning Design. It has proved informative to map between the toolkit elements and IMS-LD metadata. Work is ongoing in this area.This symposium will be chaired by Professor Conole, Chair in Educational Innovation, who will also present a paper on the initial requirements analysis and top-level design of the toolkit. Dr Christopher Bailey, from the Learning Technologies Group, will describe the technical development of the data model, toolkit processes and user interface. If time and facilities permit, the toolkit will be demonstrated during the session. Dr Sally Priest and Samuel Leung, from the School of Geography, will discuss the user perspective, the benefits of such a toolkit to practitioners, the enabling factors and the barriers to use and their suggestions for further enhancements. The four participants will then debate the effectiveness of this approach to supporting teachers in higher education as they create, discover, re-purpose and share eLearning resources. In chairing the discussion, Professor Conole will outline, and invite the audience to contribute, comparisons with other systems' approaches in this domain
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Letter to Mr. Drazin, President of Jersey Homesteads, from Samuel Niznevitz, Chairman of the Wage Planning Committee
No full textThe federal government created Jersey Homesteads as part of a New Deal initiative. It was unique because it was the only community planned as an agro-industrial cooperative that included a farm, a factory, and retail stores, specifically established for urban Jewish workers. This document is a letter to Mr. Drazin, President of the Industrial Committee of Jersey Homesteads, from Samuel Nisnevitz, Chairman of the Wage Planning Committee. This December 18, 1938, letter is in reference to a previous letter written by Mr. Drasin on September 23, 1938, to the Board of Directors of the Consumers Wholesale Clothers, Inc. This December letter describes the recent meeting in which employed factory workers discussed a plan to simultaneously earn a living and give the factory management an opportunity to obtain business in the open market. Reasonable working wages were discussed as well. The letter also includes the wages that these workers agreed upon
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