Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home
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If you canât manage a trip abroad to learn a foreign language, the Internet and a broadband computer connection may do the job, too.
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In learning new software, focus on the concept more than the sequence of keystrokes.
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âLaura Martho, a student at El Centro College in Dallas,â writes Anne Eisenberg (New York Times) âhas four children [and] commutes 45 minutes each way four days a week to a hospital for clinical work in echocardiology. During the commute, she plugs an iPod into her car radio to review lectures, and checks visuals during lunch.â And Marthoâs hardly alone in her studious use of iPod. Indeed, she joins an increasing number of students who take advantage of the âlecture-captureâ systems more and universities have installed to bring the art of lecture notes into the 21st century.
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Nearly one in five people living in the United States speaks a language at home other than English, according to new Census data
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Talking to youngsters in the language of text could increase their access to services.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the âWisconsin Idea.â Erasing completely the âborders of learning,â they depend on the Mac to let learning go onâfor students and teachers alikeâanywhere and at anytime.
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The way children learn may determine the building blocks of language, suggests a study of deaf Nicaraguan children. Ann Senghas of New York&#39;s Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations
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New findings on how people make sounds could lead to better speech recognition and synthesis.
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By Padilla, Cynthia  Finding good sites for international information is a challenge for many types of online research. In an increasingly global environment, the Web is not just for those with English as their mother tongue, nor is Google the only search engine.
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Wired's How To Wiki discusses the finer points speaking in public -- without making a fool of yourself.
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By Laurence McCoy  PAULO the instructor made it sound so easy: "Press down on the left of the board to go left, and on the right to go right." Not much to it then.
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PARIS, Oct. 17 -- As ideas go, they don't come much bigger: Digitize the accumulated wisdom of humankind, catalogue it, and offer it for free on the Internet in seven languages.
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It's not a reference-book necessity, but this book is much more fun than your average computer text.
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Here's your chance to use the knowledge you gained from all those hours trying to get to the next level.
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You can learn a lot about people in two hours. And you don&#39;t have to take a course in social behavior or even watch Dr. Phil on TV.
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Finding the right words for tricky conversations with children.