Hear Greer: voices in the archive

In the 1990s Germaine Greer began recording her audio diaries. At the same time the author was attempting to find a suitable buyer for her archive. While the intention of the audio diaries was to record Greer’s past doings, she was also revealing a more private domestic side of her everyday life. The Germaine Greer Archive sits at the intersection of history and invention and tells the many stories of Germaine Greer, herself stating, ‘The archive will put matters right for posterity… supposing posterity should be interested’.     

The Perspective From Within: Drama and Children’s Literature

This article examines how drama education strategies enrich children’s understanding and excitement of a story before they read, preparing them for a deeper exploration and appreciation of the story. Following a book’s basic storyline, drama strategies guide children through an honest, spontaneous enactment of a story’s key events without slavishly recreating them. Children become engaged in a character’s plight by making it their own, facing each situation with a similar sense of surprise and excitement. Afterwards, the children have a rich, parallel experience from which they then approach reading the book.     

发挥教师在德育过程中的导向作用

作为知识传播载体的教师,在对学生进行道德教育过程中,应该用最有效的方式,以增进学生的道德修养,突出德育的力量。面对摹仿性、可塑性极强的中学生群体,最有效、最直接的方法在于教师自身的导向作用。教师在德育过程中的导向作用体现几个方面,即情感导向、性格导向、思想导向和行为导向。     

浅析个体软件过程

讨论了个体软件过程的框架和它的实施过程,力求帮助软件从业人员发展个人技能。     

Personal Cleanliness Activities in Preschool Classrooms

One hundred and twelve preschool teachers in Indiana were asked to complete a questionnaire requesting them to indicate what personal health-related activities they were incorporating into their classroom routines, why they were incorporating them, and how often such activities were done. The results of the study indicate that the most incorporated activities were hand-washing, proper ways of coughing, and discussion on germs. The least incorporated personal health-related activities were proper use of bathroom and keeping things out of the mouth. Reasons for incorporating the activities include helping to curtail the spreading of colds and germs, helping the children to develop good life skills later in life, and helping the preschoolers know about the health hazards associated with germs, among others. The study recommends the need to make Health Education a core component of preschool teachers’ training.     

'Location Privacy'—where do we stand?

With introducing Global Positioning System(GPS),one of position determination technologies,into non-military area from military locating utilities in United States,it brings both positive and negative effect into our society simultaneously.On the one hand,the location data from these new tracking and positioning system are becoming universally available for commercial,government,educational,scientific and non-profit purposes to improve people’s daily life.On the other hand,the application of GPS also raises some impact to personal location privacy,like everything else in this world which would bring us goodness invariably carries the ability to cause harm.In this article,I will briefly talk about the advantages of GPS tracking technology firstly.Then,I will analysis the problems raised by the application of GPS technology in details,such as the concerns about personal location privacy,the moral dilemma and the right dispute when using GPS tracking children or automobile.Finally,I will introduce some safeguards which can minimize the conflicts between the applications of GPS and location privacy information protection.     

健身俱乐部体适能私人教练课程构成特征及组织教学的研究

本文运用文献资料法、问卷调查法、统计分析法和访谈法等方法,以生理学、心理学为依据,并根据三年以来从事私人教练的实践经验,对健身俱乐部体适能私人教练课程构成特征及组织教学进行系统的研究,促进健身俱乐部体适能私人教练课程体系的完善,推动健身俱乐部的快速和良性的发展。     

Antecedents and mediating role of IT service climate in IT service quality: A mixed methods study

Developing a strong and positive information technology (IT) service climate is important to ensure high-quality IT services. The influence of job resources and personal resources on the IT service climate and the mediating effect of the IT service climate on IT service quality were explored in this study qualitatively and quantitatively. Among the various job resource factors, we found that training, reward, and information system (IS) support can improve the IT service climate. Coworker support shows a non-significant effect on IT service climate. Among the personal resource factors, self-efficacy and hope have significantly positive effects on the IT service climate. Optimism and resilience do not appear to significantly affect the IT service climate. Our results confirm that the IT service climate is an important mediator in enabling certain antecedents to properly impact IT service quality. The IT service climate was found to fully mediate the effects of training, reward, IS support, and hope while partially mediating the effect of self-efficacy. The effect of the IT service climate on IT service quality is also strengthened by a high customer contact frequency. The results presented here may provide scholars and practitioners with a comprehensive, workable understanding of the IT service climate.     

The “Mere Presence” Hypothesis: Investigating the Nonverbal Effects of Cell-Phone Presence on Conversation Satisfaction

Prior research has supported the mere presence hypothesis, which suggests that cell phones act as an environmental nuisance that negatively impact the quality of face-to-face interactions. This study conducted an experiment to determine whether cell-phone presence negatively influences conversation satisfaction. Specifically, network member dyads (N = 46) engaged in unstructured conversations where one partner’s cell phone was either absent or present. The results revealed that, whereas the mere presence of a cell phone did not influence conversation satisfaction, individuals’ recollection of whether or not a cell phone was present did significantly negatively impact their pre- to posttest reports of conversation satisfaction. Implications of these findings for research on the mere presence hypothesis as well as directions for future research are discussed.     

Teachers’ self-initiated professional learning through Personal Learning Networks

It is widely acknowledged that to be able to teach language and literacy with digital technologies, teachers need to engage in relevant professional learning. Existing formal models of professional learning are often criticised for being ineffective. In contrast, informal and self-initiated forms of learning have been recently recognised as meaningful and relevant but little is known about these authentic learning experiences for professional purposes. This article investigates three teachers’ self-initiated professional learning about digital technologies through their Personal Learning Networks. The analysis identified that the participants’ everyday digital literacy practices provided opportunities for a range of professional practices that supported learning about digital technologies: information retrieval and resources aggregation, cooperation, collaboration, reflections and socialising. It also revealed that the teachers considered this form of learning as valuable. The article concludes by discussing how knowledge about self-initiated professional learning might be used to draw out some implications for teachers’ professional development.