At SCS, we recognize that the study of music plays a vital role in educating the whole child. Making music involves more than simply the voice singing or the fingers playing an instrument; a child learning about music taps into multiple skill sets, often simultaneously. Research has shown that these children are often the first to make the leap from concrete to spatial thinking and consistently possess an advantage in language development.
Because we believe that music plays an essential role in a child's comprehensive education, we offer a number of choral opportunities, from PreK 3 to 12th grade.
A graduate of West Virginia University and Salisbury University, Janice taught general music and chorus for 31 years for Wicomico County Public Schools. She has taught every grade level from PreK through 8th grade and has conducted choruses at the primary, intermediate, and middle school levels, including a select ensemble of middle school girls. She has twice been the Middle School finalist for Wicomico County Teacher of the Year and one year earned a position as semi-finalist. Janice also received an Outstanding Music Teacher Award for Excellence from the Maryland Music Educators Association in 2006. She has worked on music curriculum and assessment at the state level and participated on a fine arts assessment team for three years, presenting at various conferences in the mid-Atlantic region. A classically trained vocalist, Janice performed publicly for many years but now finds great pleasure in helping her students achieve their maximum vocal potential. She has a passion for intercessory prayer and a heart for seeing her students (and everyone else!) come to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Currently in his 36th year of teaching, Mr. David Smith has taught a wide variety of music courses, including High School Chorus, Middle School Chorus, Middle School General Music, and Instrumental Music, grades 4-12, including jazz band and marching band. Mr. Smith has directed plays and musicals and is excited to be involved with the theatre department at SCS. On occasion, Mr. Smith has composed and arranged music for his bands and choruses. In his free time, he "gigs" with a classic rock band in Ocean City, Maryland, singing and playing keys, trumpet, sax, flute, and auxiliary percussion.


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Modeling from A to Z/Modeling principles/V is for Vienna Development Method
< Modeling from A to Z | Modeling principles
VDM abbreviates the Vienna Development Method. The specification language was known as Meta-IV.
From the very beginning (around 1978) the intention was to use a language for modelling:
"We stress here... that the meta-language is to be used, not for solving algorithmic problems (on a computer), but for specifying, in an implementation-independent way, the architecture (or models) of software. Instead of using informal English mixed with technical jargon, we offer you a very-high-level 'programming' language. We do not offer an interpreter or compiler for this meta-language. And we have absolutely no intention of ever wasting our time trying to mechanize this meta-language. We wish, as we have done in the past, and as we intend to continue doing in the future, to further develop the notation and to express notions in ways for which no mechanical interpreter system can ever be provided."
1 Different schools — different philosophies
1.1 Danish School
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There are three basic schools of the VDM (listed in order of historical emergence):
Danish school
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We will take a brief look at each in turn.
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Solcon has a long track record of engineering and implementing reliable and durable soft starting solutions at water facilities and treatment plants around the world. Recently, Solcon was awarded two large desalination projects by a returning customer, who is a leading international engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company.
Desalination plants are being constructed in many parts of the world to supply drinking water to growing populations, especially in arid and drought-prone areas. Water pumps in such plants drive high pressure sea-water through filtering membranes in order to becoming drinking water. The filtration system is extremely sensitive and requires careful control of the water pressure flowing through the system. It's necessary to ensure that the water pressure increase rate will not exceed 1Bar/s. A traditional configuration is often comprised of a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) that is used to start the application as well as a complex hydraulic system put in place to minimize possible damage to the pipes and membranes.
However, Solcon developed a number of features dedicated to starting desalination pumps providing complete control of the desalination pump's starting speed and the water pressure increase rate during the starting/stopping process as well as maintaining a reduced starting current to avoid motor overheating. The entire feature package was integrated into the standard HRVS-DN starting software to provide customers with straight forward, efficient and cost effective starting solution.
HRVS-DN soft starters have been successfully commissioned in desalination facilities around the world including 10 units at the customer's facility in 2010. Based on the customer's satisfaction with the performance of the system, they specifically requested Solcon's system for two brand new desalination plants which will be constructed in 2016. The projects will include a total of 17 HRVS-DN Medium Voltage Soft Starters. Eleven HRVS-DN units (6.6kV, 110A) will be supplied to a desalination plant designed for a 30,000m3 per day capacity; the remaining 6 HRVS-DN units (11kV, 70A) will be supplied to a desalination plant designed for a 200,000m3 per day capacity.


We're delighted to present a post from Stephen Ashcroft, Procurement Risk Consultant, Brian Farrington Ltd, following the theme of commercial negotiation skills. "Negotiating major deals and dispute scenarios needs addressing in many organisations. There is the assumption that everyone is a natural negotiator and deeply educated in the available tools and techniques – that's not what I have seen. There are some who should never be allowed near a negotiation room." Stephen provides some pragmatic and useful (refresher) points for "the Buyer" and the reader of Spend Matters.


Good afternoon to you. What a week eh? What a let down more like. Where was my snow!!!! I think its safe to say that Wednesday was the highlight of my week. I'll get more to that later and if want just go and look at Foxes class and the photos they put up. We got up to all sorts: Snowmen, snow angels, improvised sledging and yes, SNOW BALLS (cue dramatic music). Listen. If you don't take the children out into the snow and get them to use it in a variety of ways, how are they supposed to know what to do and what NOT to do with it? And how they're to be with one another in it. Lead by example. You get me?
Anyways. More on that later.
Monday as you know, if you're one of the five people that regularly tune in to our little programme here, begins with Grasshoppers who looked for a variety of Chinese Jigsaw pieces to make more pictures of famous landmarks including a nice little "Happy Chinese New Year" message for everyone of the Orient. Squirrels came out and used the loose parts of Outdoor Learning to work on building, mixing, making and sometime demolishing things they'd made with their hands. Or simply to explore the area. FOREST SCHOOL with Deer class was a whole lot of fun, except I can't even remember what happened because so much happened. If I remember I'll give you some idea later.
Tuesday, and Cedar still keep putting holes in Outdoor Learning for the hope of finding Roman artifacts, which was appropriate because I think it was Tuesday where a centurion happened to wander in and give a talk indoors to the different classes, but because I deal with outside, you'll have to look elsewhere for information about that. However by this point the weather really was going south fast and by that point we had to call it quits as the wind chill factor had kicked in so much that the items the children were wearing wouldn't have protected them from the elements. Remember, there's no such thing as bad weather just bad clothing.
Wednesday....well its supposed to be an office day for me and I DID do some paperwork but then after helping shift the school car park of snow, it was decided that four to five classes were coming out and so I joined in and...well just go and look at the pictures. Suffice to say there were lots of smiles that day.
Thursday? Badgers used the artwork of L.S. Lowry to provide the link between the relationships to boats and the ocean and trains and their tracks, followed by Willow who went to look for matching of big and small shapes and matching pairs and finally we have Rowan in FOREST SCHOOL who this week made pancakes for their Forest School Friends. I'm not sure if their "forest school friends" got to eat any but two of the children told me they liked them. We might have to work on the recipe a little. One of the adults, that wasn't me, also ate one. Like I said I'll work on the recipe.
Friday began with Butterflies wanting to cook chinese pancakes as part of their understanding of the Shang Dynasty. Like I said I'll work on the recipe with that one. But we did manage to get one of the pancakes cooked. It was edible. Grasshoppers and Caterpillars had been cooped up all week and just needed to get out into the open air and so they did. One of the children in Caterpillars was suddenly inspired and used to moment to play on the 3 drum set that I've rigged up to the fence, and he was pretty good too! With Grasshoppers we climbed over different surfaces, made marks with charcoal and used the mud kitchen to just let some much needed energy loose. Finally my friend from Maple came out to watch the wind make the trees and the tarp dance and to go down the big hill a few times.
So all in all a busy week. Two weeks to half term already! Can't believe it. More to come as we go along.


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Four Major Publishers Sue the Internet Archive Over Unauthorized Book Scanning
This past March, I wrote about the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library--a spinoff from the IA's massive Open Library project, which makes scanned print books available to the public for free in various digital formats.
While many of these books are in the public domain, many are not: they are in-copyright and commercially available, and have been scanned and uploaded without authors' or publishers' permission, violating copyright law and potentially interfering with authors' income. To create the National Emergency Library, the IA has used the figleaf of the coronavirus pandemic as justification to remove even the minimal restrictions on borrowing that governed the Open Library--abandoning one of the key provisions of the legal theory that it and others created to justify what amounts to massive copyright violation.
Though controversy erupted over the Open Library a few years ago, with the IA's actions condemned by authors, publishers, and authors' groups, and many authors contacting the IA to have their books removed, no legal action followed. Given the outcome of the Authors' Guild's long legal fight against Google's book scanning project, I'm guessing it might never have done, had the IA not thrown down the gauntlet of the National Emergency Library. Now, four publishers have called the IA's bluff.
This morning, Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House filed suit against the Internet Archive in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging "systematic mass scanning and distribution of literary works." The suit asks the court to declare that the Open Library constitutes "willful copyright infringement", to enjoin the IA from further infringing activities relating to the plaintiffs, and impose payment of statutory damages.
From the Association of American Publishers' press release on the lawsuit:
From Publishers Lunch (which also points out that the IA sells its book scanning and digitization capabilities commerically, generating millions in revenue):
The full complaint can be seen here. The list of titles cited in the complaint gives a taste of the breadth of the IA's copyright violation.
UPDATE 6/11/20: The Internet Archive has announced that it will be shuttering the National Emergency Library two weeks early, on June 16, and "returning to traditional controlled digital lending."
It claims to be doing so because "the vast majority of people use digitized books on the Internet Archive for a very short time", and also because "four commercial publishers chose to sue Internet Archive during a global pandemic". Many people suspect that a lawsuit was exactly what the IA wanted, in hopes of getting legal rulings that will validate its disputed Controlled Digital Lending theory.
Geoff said...
Okay, I'll bite. While IA has been incredibly presumptive and this suit seems necessary, even valorous, if Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House can collude to file such a suit, what else might they be colluding about to the detriment of readers and authors? Such as limiting what is considered "acceptable content" when it comes to public issues and private interests? Such as making the market for books revolve around the types of trite and trivial titles that they have come to pander? There are reasons why it's so hard to get published without invoking magic tropes, and there are reasons why they were chosen, the most obvious being that's how capitalism is organized.
Inkling said...
Geoff: "... if Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House can collude to file such a suit, what else might they be colluding about to the detriment of readers and authors?"
Not likely. If major publishers colluded, they would have taken on Amazon a long time ago, back when Amazon was buying Audible, The Book Depository, and (I believe) Abebooks. When all that was happening, I shook my head in disbelief.
Solidus said...
Geoff: "cooperating" and "colluding" are completely different things. Here, these 4 business are *cooperating* because they have a common interest in a specific activity (here, a lawsuit that affects them all similarly). This is far more efficient and effective than pursuing 4 separate cases - and is specifically encouraged by the legal system, again for efficiency.
The Internet Archive should be applauded for what they are doing: preserving books and other materials and making them available world-wide. These emergency measures were only till the 30th of June, otherwise they issued books like physical libraries - with waiting lists and all. Instead of appreciating the fact that they are helping people cooped up in their homes, these publishers and authors are suing them. Terrible.
Marilynn Byerly said...
Anonymous, IA is using this emergency as an excuse, and this lawsuit is what they wanted so they can try to push their anti-copyright agenda through the court system up to the Supreme Court. Giving away the entire front and back list of authors who are struggling just as much as everyone else and calling themselves heroes for doing it is a total jerk move.
Meanwhile, spoiled babies who aren't willing to wait a few weeks for the latest Stephen King to be available legally through their library's paper and ebook distribution systems are throwing roses at these jerks.
Legal free books online are everywhere. They aren't by Stephen King, but they are good reads. These people and you have no excuse to hijack other people's copyright.
Anonymous, there is (literally) no apparent "preserving" of "books and other materials" going on. The works appearing in the "National Emergency Library" were scanned from existing materials... indicating that the existing materials are in good enough shape to be scanned. Looking at them further, the majority of the materials in the "National Emergency Library" (based on a statistical sample) has been in editions published since 1982, and therefore AFTER the acid/alkaline paper issue led to legitimate concerns about "fragile books that would deteriorate before their copyrights expired."
All of which assumes that any of these books were in such small editions that they need preservation in the first place.
It's true that many people are cooped up in their homes--but their local libraries lend out a large catalog of ebooks. It's not like the IA is providing a unique service that can't be easily accessed elsewhere. So that's another of the IA's justifications for the National Emergency Library that doesn't quite fly.
Also important: one of the key principles of the disputed legal theory of Controlled Digital Lending--which the IA and others created after the fact to justify their book scanning projects--is that borrowing is restricted to one user at a time per book. For the National Emergency Library, the IA has abandoned that principle, weakening its case (because if a key principle of your founding legal theory can be discarded at will, the theory starts to look pretextual).
Maryilynn: Everybody is struggling, not merely the authors. And I for one believe that if my books provide succor to people during these testing times, then I'd have really accomplished something. Authors want their books to be read and not merely gather dust on the library shelves. If my book reaches a remote corner of the world through Open Library and is read and discussed, I'd me more than happy. Libraries exist because people often do not have money to buy shiny, new books. How does that become hijacking of copyright?
Anonymous: Have you seen the database of the IA? Books that we'd never have a chance to read, perhaps would never have known about are now being made available worldwide because of IA. Old books which might have turned to dust or moth-eaten are being digitized and being made available, how can that not be preserving?
Victoria: Why do you think only the USA is the world? The e-library system might be very strong in the US but Open Library caters to the entire world and in many parts of the world, e-library system is virtually non-existent. I am glad Open Library doesn't have such a self-centered approach. The one user at a time approach has only been done away till the 3oth June. This was so that anybody already going crazy sitting at home and watching the graph of death rising can at least immerse themselves in the book of their choice and not be told that there was a huge waiting-list (there have been times when books have a waiting list of almost two years) and so the book is not available and make that person despair all the more. This measure is most appreciable. Will a few months make such a huge dent in the fortunes of these big-publishing houses? It's not that people are not buying books. Appalled that instead of appreciating the work being done by IA, people are condemning them.
Anonymous the 2nd, here's the thing. Authors can share their work for free if they want to. Many share the first book in their series on services like Bookfunnel so people may want to buy the rest of their series. But they CHOOSE to share, and that's their right to do so. Places like IA take the books to give away without consulting the author, and they take every last book in an author's front and backlist. Where's the good in that for the author? Writing is an expensive proposition in time, money, and blood, sweat, and tears. Boosting the ego is nice, but paying the writing and life bills is a necessity. Professional writing is a job, not a charity.
Plus, there are millions of LEGAL free books online in the US and worldwide. Sure, the newest novel by Betty Bestseller isn't there, but that's not a validation to take her book for free like a whiny toddler having a temper tantrum and saying it's your right to have it because I want it NOW. Wait for it at the local online or physical library like a grown up. Also, news alert. People in countries outside of the US and the UK who can read English are highly educated with excellent jobs so no excuse there.
And, here's a secret by someone who has been fighting pirate sites for over twenty years. These sites say they are all about the freedom to read what you want when you want it and to heck with those pesky writers and publishers, but they are really all about the stolen money. I've seen pirate sites sold for millions of dollars, and, when authors and publishers manage to stop ad producers from funding a site, it magically goes away because it no longer funds the owners.
Marilynn: What I can't understand is why you are comparing Open Library to pirate sites? It functions like a normal library. At a time you can only take a specific number of books, if the book is issued out, you have to wait for it till it is returned (and I have seen waiting lists that have more than 50 people on it which makes it more than two years of waiting if all those who borrow the book keep it for the stipulated period of two weeks), and it is very rare that the library has two copies of a book. This measure of letting people borrow books immediately without any waiting and also doing away with the one-user at a time approach is only an emergency measure which is ending soon. Also these are the books which Open Library has purchased (and therefore paid for it) and scanned. It is not like a site where you can randomly download a number of books. And further as I said earlier don't think that the e-library system is as developed in other parts of the world as in the US/ UK etc. Open Library is catering to all globally,it doesn't discriminate. Is it its global outreach that you can't digest?
And thanks for letting me know that people outside the UK and US who can read English are highly educated. I didn't know that reading English was a pre-requisite for being highly educated.
The IA doesn't function like a normal library.
- Libraries buy books, or licenses to them if they're ebooks, which means the author gets a royalty.
- Libraries impose restrictions on borrowing: one person at a time (or in the case of ebook licenses, limited borrows at a time).
- Libraries don't make new copies of books in their possession to lend out to the public.
By contrast, the IA:
- Acquires books by donation or discard. The IA does _not_ buy the books it scans. (Authors, therefore, get no royalties.)
- In the case of the National Emergency Library, the IA has removed all restrictions on borrowing. Among other things, this seriously undercuts the legal theory that it uses to argue that its scanning and digitizing projects are fair use.
- The IA uses the donated books to create new digital formats (in the case of at least one of these formats, riddled with OCR errors) without seeking or receiving permission from authors or publishers. For books that are currently in copyright, this is a violation of the law. For books that are currently commercially available, this directly competes with sales.
In other words, the National Emergency Library is _exactly_ like a site where you can randomly download any number of books.
If the IA were only acquiring and scanning out-of-copyright books (like Project Gutenberg), or "orphaned" books whose orphaned status they'd made a true good-faith effort to confirm, I wouldn't have nearly as much of a problem with it. Bringing old, out of print, or rare books back into circulation can be a noble goal--as long as it comports with copyright law.
Where I have a problem with the IA and its "library" projects is that it is acquiring--for free--large numbers of books that are in copyright and commercially available, creating unpermissioned digital copies, and making them widely available to the public. For the reasons outlined above, this is illegal (not just in the USA, but in any country that's a signatory to the Berne Convention) and unethical. Cloaking it in high-flying language about the pandemic, or invoking global reach, or claiming that it's temporary (if it is; how many major "temporary" changes wind up becoming permanent?) doesn't change that. The IA's "library" projects violate international copyright law. Copyright law protects the creators without whose work the IA would have nothing to digitize. That's what this fight is about.
Anonymous 2. IA may be considered legal if you squint really hard and are delusional, but their National Emergency Library ticks every box for being a pirate site including the biggest illegal tell of all-- not having the one-book/one-reader rule. Neither library buys the books. They have people donate the scans as a partial way to protect their legal rears, not that it does.
Copyright is private property, and the copyright owner has the right to choose how it is sold or given away. What part of that don't YOU understand? No one has the right to take that away. Period. What you are spouting is just popular gibberish to make theft seem legitimate.
And people who are highly literate in their language and English aren't well-educated and have decent jobs? Wow.
Marilynn: How many times should this be told that one book/ one reader rule has been done away with only as a temporary measure to help people during these days of global crisis? But perhaps you don't like the word global or non-English speaking people who according to you are neither educated nor can hold decent jobs. Perhaps one day you will come out of your well.
Victoria: Is there are a law that states that libraries cannot buy physical copies of the books and then scan them to make it available as an e-book? Is it mandatory that they buy an e-book version of the book? In both it seems to me they are paying for the book. It seems to me that all your problems are because IA took some steps to counter a world-wide crisis. You do not like the fact that its reach is global.
Anyway, it was nice to know the thoughts of both of you. Had no idea that certain people did not like the fact that IA was non-discriminatory in its out-reach. After that our debating the issue seems pointless. So good luck with your life. Stay healthy and happy.
Dear Anonymous at 12:40am:
Anonymous, I strongly suggest that you learn something about what's behind and implied by your rhetoric before you bring it to a writer's board. There _are_ arguments to be made against the existing publishing system; there _are_ arguments to be made against lack of free library access to all; but targeting the people who create books in the first place with "Anarchy in the UK!" as not just a slogan, but a way of life, isn't an argument — it's blind ideology. Especially when not engaging in those arguments is choosing the easy way to "solve" difficult problems, presuming that those difficult problems have no side effects (like, say, mid-20th-century improved refrigeration and air conditioning having no effect on the ozone layer).
The response to Marilynn is ignorant at best. The IA has not once, in its history, imposed a restriction on anything after it had announced wider availability of anything. The response is fundamentally a claim that "we're only endorsing looting until the government turns its attention from a health crisis to property theft, and then we'll slither off into the shadows." And it's difficult to credit the veiled accusation that Marilynn is in some kind of well in the face of what is actually in — and not in — the NEL "collection."
The response to Victoria is fundamentally ignorant. Yes, there is in fact law stating that libraries cannot buy physical copies of the books and then scan them to make them available as e-books. The problem for you is it the law isn't a direct, plain, there-isn't-any-precondition-or-built-in-loophole directive with a single, simple, irrefutable, no-exceptions-of-any-kind citation. Under the US Copyright Act (and the Berne Convention), libraries can only digitize their collections for certain limited purposes and under certain limited conditions, and even then cannot transfer what they've digitized to others (notwithstanding the misinterpretations of the Google Books opinions, which explicitly separated the "we can digitize to make a search tool" from "and then make the digitized text freely available").
And as far as "non-discriminatory in its outreach" is concerned, take a look at what is in the IA's collection. It is not... outreach. It is not quite overtly an effort to exploit the labor and creativity of people who cannot fight back because they don't have the resources. The resemblance to Brixton in the late 1970s and early 1980s is troubling: Outside agitators and the National Front trampling the independent shopowners in the name of their version of Manifest Destiny, and setting back that community for decades (economic development there is STILL the source of comedy routines, and it's worth considering the "starving artist and author" problem in that light). This time, it's not the shopowners being trampled, but the craftspeople creating what's on display there... which means that the victims don't make great news photos.
In the meantime, Anonymous at 12:40am, I expect that you'll flounce off proclaiming your rhetorical victory over the artistic bourgeosie — achieved largely by not engagin with their arguments — without ever considering that the artistic bourgeosie are people too, with their own interests and needs and food bills. The fundamental problem with the IA/NEL approach is that it presumes that the paltry income earned from the "exclusive rights to respective writings" is just mad money, just pocket change for the idle rich, and that therefore cutting that stream off doesn't really hurt anyone. (Which, given the actual source of money behind the IA and NEL, shouldn't surprise anyone.)
These IA stans/trolls are just as insufferable as they are numerous. They seemingly neither understand nor want to understand how IA is both operating illegally and refused to respond to previous legal communications requesting that they remove the material they have no right to distribute (meaning the next legal action is to file a lawsuit), they just want to accuse the victims whose work has been stolen by Open Library users of wanting to kill the Wayback Machine and other unrelated projects. If the cost of settling this lawsuit takes down all of IA, that will be a huge loss to the internet community but this is on IA for not following the law. (There's a reason Project Gutenburg is still doing just fine and why IA should not have attempted to replace them by setting up basically the same thing, plus the Twilight Saga.)
Many of them seem to think they're socialist messiahs demanding free exchange of art and ideas among the people but what they're actually advocating for is getting the things they want for as little money they're possibly able to pay for it. I hate to point this out (no I don't) but taking the product of someone else's labor in exchange for no payment is the most exploitative flavor of capitalism that exists, my dudes.
I'm actually sad the owner of IA decided to ignore the law and force the publishers to bring suit instead of just removing the books as requested, and is now begging for money from its users to cover legal fees. I don't know if this is a bold fundraising strat or soulless clout-chasing or what the point was but it's gross the way they're manipulating people who don't know better into defending them and paying for their mistake.
Frances Grimble said...
Yes, yes, yes! IA was taking advantage of the shutdown when at least some courts and law offices were closed, but I did hope for a suit when things "opened up."
Sorry for the dribble effect, but as an author, I am so, so tired of being told "what authors want." What I want is to get paid. Yes, there are authors who want to give away their work. Though often, only a limited and carefully chosen amount of work. But authors also need to pay for their groceries just like everyone else. The idea that everyone *needs* pirated books because they are bored during a pandemic is absurd. People can legitimately download public domain free books, they can download e-books legitimately licensed by libraries, they can (gasp!) actually buy books online as e-books, print books (new or used), and audiobooks. Or you know, they can legitimately stream movies or do home repairs or . . . The idea that the books scanned for the "Open Library" are all rare books is absurd. Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus is on that scanned list. Such a bestseller that I alone have three (legitimate!) paper copies because people keep giving it to me for Christmas.
I have questions . . . I self-publish. If Internet Archive scans my books, does this suit give anyone outside the publisher suing any leverage? Will there be, or is there, any injunction against IA continuing to scan or post books not in the public domain that are not published by the publishers suing? Will anyone else get any compensation, if there is any? In other words, what about all the other authors?
Frances, the bad news is that there is never any compensation for authors, and the best thing that will happen is that the NYC publishers will financially bleed this site to death via expensive lawyer fights. Sadly, this site is so well-financed by the anti-copyright jerks that I doubt this will happen. They want this to go up to the US Supreme Court in the hopes of destroying copyright. Not going to happen but jerks can dream.
If you want to learn how to get pirate sites to take down your works, etc., join the Yahoogroups list, AuthorsAgainstE-BookTheft. Send an email to
authorsagainste-booktheft-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
This is a great resource for dealing with pirate sites, and members are a font of information.
Unfortunate coverage by the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-books-online-who-could-be-against-that/2020/06/09/49ef9722-a5df-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html#comments-wrapper
https://blog.archive.org/2020/06/10/temporary-national-emergency-library-to-close-2-weeks-early-returning-to-traditional-controlled-digital-lending/
But surely the copyrighted books were not supposed to be on the Internet Archive without permission even with "controlled" lending?
Yes, I saw that WaPo editorial, and rolled my eyes.
Frances Grimble, thanks for the comment. I've added a link to the announcement to my post.
All my books are listed for Open Library. One as "author unknown," but brought up by my name in a search. The books are listed as unavailable for lending. Where does Open Library get these entries? Does that mean someone submitted all my books for scanning and they have been entered in the database but the files are not yet there? Or is Open Library scooping up database entries from somewhere else, some library or book sales site?
KendraB said...
I like Interner Archives. From them I have obtained some old manuscripts I couldn't obtain elsewhere. But here is a thought: in the old days of Hemingway you needed to be published to be read. If you were not published your stuff would be lost. That is no longed true today. Today you don't need to be published to be read. Free electronic books are a new option by which to bypass the publishing industry in order to be read. Regarding self-publishing I have had experience with Xlibrus and Maple Leaf. I never made any contract with either of these, and I am glad about that. My 2014 book is today a free electronic book, and so will be the new book I am writing.
E-books are actually a form of publishing. E-book services are a part of the publishing industry. And self-publishing has been around as long as there have been books; it was the original form of publishing and has persisted ever since.
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The Lincoln Memorial isn't just an amazing public monument but also a moving work of art.
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In March 2009 the A-lab Milano duo Alessandro Biasi and Simona Costa, decided to realize their first works, opening WHT, the company that manages the brand, strong of their success of their first collection in the fashion press.
A-lab Milano creates, for their collections, moods and imaginary alternative sources of inspiration for the brand itself, but also a stimulus for photographers, stylists, experts and of course potential customers who want a unique and "out of crowd" style.
For these reasons the team was selected to attend the Toronto Fashion Week in March 2007; then, in September 2009 the National Chamber of Italian Fashion has also chosen the brand to partecipate to the third edition of "Incubator Project", designed to support and encourage young talents in the fashion industry. In January 2010 they were guest at Berlin Fashion week and this year, in October 2010, they have also attended Georgian Fashion Week.
The logo is a stamp, similar to a post stamp, it makes sense to ensure the value of certification, quality and continous research.
"Lab" stands for "Laboratory", which is the world of A-lab, place of creations, meetings and confrontations, but above all human relationship.
The Persefone's entire campaign has been directed, like in the previous collection, by the photographer Sergio Valente and with the stylist Luca Termine.
A-lab Milano has a peculiar sensitivity towards charity initiative: the brand attended "A t-shirt for Haiti" in collaboration with the important shop LUISAVIAROMA and also the AMREF EVENT, "The Queens Caftan".
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The 124-credit BSW program includes social work and related courses, in addition to an approved list of cognate and elective courses, which should be individually selected in consultation with a Social Work departmental advisor. It is strongly recommended that 300-level courses in social work, substance abuse treatment and criminal justice be taken in the junior year, and that 400-level courses in social work be taken in the senior year.
Upon admission to UM-Flint, students expressing a desire to pursue a degree in social work are accepted into the major. Students are advised jointly by the Student Success Center and the Social Work Department Advisor within a two-tier model based on the accumulated number of credits. The advisor and student work together throughout the student's academic journey to meet program requirements and competencies.
The Social Work Program embraces a strength-based developmental approach, highlighting students' strengths and creating an overall proficiency to the academic, program, and professional culture. The Department supports a culture of inclusivity, a commitment to ongoing critical reflection that positively transforms our roles and relationships with diverse communities, and excellence informed by diverse voices addressing suffering and injustices so that all human beings are treated with dignity and respect.
If you have accumulated less than 54 credits, then you need to go to the Student Success Center to meet with an Advisor there. Call the Student Success Center at 810-762-3085. The Center is located at 285 University Pavilion.
Next, you must attend a required Social Work Orientation and sign assent to embrace the vision and mission of the Social Work Program. Contact the Department at 810-762-3390 for upcoming orientation sessions.
If you have accumulated greater than 54 credits, then you must meet with the Social Work Advisor within the Social Work Department. Contact Jean Liwak, administrative assistant, or Todd Womack, academic advisor, at 810-762-3390 to set up your advising appointment.
As you progress through the program, you must schedule an appointment to meet with your academic advisor face to face at least once each semester.
The four-year program leading to the BSW is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and is subject to its accreditation standards. Continued enrollment and subsequent graduation with a CSWE-accredited BSW degree is contingent on sustained success in meeting course objectives, which are measured in affective, behavioral and cognitive domains, and referenced to professional standards of competency. Furthermore, student violation of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics or inability to meet or comply with explicit competencies is basis for dismissal from the program. Review the NASW Code of Ethics by clicking the link below.
The Social Work Department operates under a series of policies and procedures. It is the responsibility of the student to be familiar with these procedures and policies. If you have any questions about the NASW code of ethics or the student policies please schedule an appointment to talk with us!
Social Work Club at the University of Michigan-Flint is an organization put together by civic-minded social work students. Club members raise money for service projects, raise awareness for social justice causes, and volunteer around the Greater Flint community.
Past events include adopt a family, rallying against child abuse, the creation of 20 rain barrels for urban gardens, Soberfest, and putting on a sock hop to raise money for the Flint homeless population. The organization consistently volunteers at the North End Soup Kitchen and Catholic Charities' Community Closet, as well as many other annual events need volunteers. The only requirement to join is payment of dues which are $5 annually or $3 per semester.
* Completed 9 semester hours of core social work classes such as SWR 240, SWR 270, SWR 300, SWR 301, etc.
Any student interested in joining Phi Alpha who believes he/she meets the above requirements may contact Professor Womack for GPA verification at twomack@umflint.edu. More information about Phi Alpha can also be found in the organization's bylaws.
University of Michigan-Flint social work students and faculty attended the Legislative Education & Advocacy Day (LEAD) in Lansing and came away fired up to seek more ways to apply their knowledge and skills toward real social change.
Informational boards for both student organizations are located outside of the Social Work department office at 454 French Hall. Information on current organization leaders, including contact information, will be posted there.


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This is about the screen organization of emacs, how the text is placed and how the screen is drawn for the editor, this is about telling you how the things in #emacs as they are, and why they are important this way. Though, i should have started understanding it and writng it down on Day 1, but understanding the key contol is equally important to me, if I did not had learned about it, I surely would have faced difficulty closing my emacs and moving around. Now let me just try to see how much I am understanding about the screen here and how well I can put it in my words. :) ofcourse it is not a tech doc, but this my 30 Days challenege to learn more about emacs and understand emacs for good.
I would be mainly using a lot of images compared to lot of writing that, understanding the screen can better be understood by rightly poining to the correct area.
Double clicking on the emacs icon does open up a GUI window and similarly typing it on command prompt from withing an X Windows system, I get the emacs as an editor with full flesh and bones, i actually means as an GUI application, like we see for other editors. And when I do same while I am on the command prompt with no X support, or with -nw or -t (with emacsclient, will write more about this in coming days.) i get the emacs taking up my entire terminal screen. We will call these frames and emace behaves almost similar in both these frames. It normally starts with just one frame, but many frames can be created.
Each frame consist of several distinct regions. as shown in the picture below.
The place where the cusrsor is present is called as the point in a multiple windows emacs in GUI, the point can be moved by clicking the mouse in the respective region, the active window will have the curson as solid block and will appear to be on the cursor. While working with several buffers each buffer has its own valur for point.
Echo area: Where the commands and messages appear at bottom of the frame.
Mode Line: Understanding the mode line.
o cs display the character set.
(–) if the buffer is unmodified.
(\*\*) if the buffer is modified.
'%\*' for read only buffer if modified.
'%%' otherwise, i.e read only buffer and not modified.
'-' displayed after ch, if the directory is local.
'@' if the directory if buffer is on remote macine is shows @.
o buf usually the name of the file or the buffer.
o pos where there is additional text above the top of the window or below the bottom.
o line 'L' Followed by the line no. at point.
o major Name of the major mode used in buffer, for eg. Text mode, Lisp Mode, Org Mode and so on.
The Menu Bar - How to use.
On the graphical display you can just use the mouse to open the menu bar, an arrow to the right of the menu denotes the menu having a sub menu. Many commands in menu bar have ordinary key bindings as well.
On a text terminal menu bar can be opened using 'M-`' or , or run the command tmm-menubar. Move around the menu bar using up and down arrow key, i.e enter key, to select the item or C-g to come out of the menu bar mode.
I know its been a little late today, but I was quite able to give time one weekends than as on weekdays, I just don't want to loose focus so am trying to keep up with my posts daily, hope these should be helpful, and I am seriously looking forward for your comments and suggestion, so do please keep posting, tomorrow I think I will go more about buffers and frames.
All in all I am enjoying and learning so many things while posting and writing.


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Mercury's late push falls short in Game 1 loss to Storm in WNBA semifinals
Evan Webeck
Special for The Arizona Republic
SEATTLE — Diana Taurasi wasn't trying to kill anybody. That was just what Taurasi said the officials' reaction felt like.
"I was just going to talk to my teammates," she said of the technical foul she received heading into halftime, her first since receiving a suspension for her seventh in July.
The technical gifted newly minted MVP Breanna Stewart a foul shot to begin the second half, one of her game-high 28 points, and kickstarted a Storm run that opened up what proved to be an insurmountable 16-point lead as the Mercury fell 91-87 in Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals at a sold-out KeyArena on Sunday.
"It was like I had a gun in my back pocket," Taurasi said.
The crowd erupted, reciprocating the energy of a fiery first half on the floor. By the time Stewart stepped to the line after intermission, the buzz had abated and Taurasi was all smiles leading the Mercury back onto the floor. But Sue Bird pick-pocketed Stephanie Talbot and fed Stewart, who converted an and-1, and Phoenix turned it over four more times over the next three minutes, each leading to Storm buckets.
Phoenix pulled within two with 1:40 left but was never able to fully close the deficit, falling into an 0-1 hole in their WNBA semifinals series against the Storm.
"Those two minutes, that was like a track meet. We were our own worst enemy," coach Sandy Brondello said. "You know, sometimes emotions get up. Some of the foul calls we just weren't happy about. But it is what it is.
"We have to try and stop the runs that Seattle does. That's the big thing for us. We did, but it took us a while. … If we want to beat Seattle, we know we need to be better."
There's no question which team has been here before. A surprise Seattle squad led by Stewart's ascendance to stardom and the steady hand of Bird arrived earlier than expected, finishing with the league's best record by three games. This is the Mercury's – and with it, Brittney Griner's, Diana Taurasi's and DeWanna Bonner's – sixth consecutive semifinals.
But is all experience good experience? The loss was the Mercury's ninth straight in a WNBA semifinal game. It's a monkey that Phoenix has yet to shake for the fourth year now, dating back three sweeps to 2015. Sunday's series-opening loss was the closest the Mercury have come to snapping the streak since … last year's elimination at the hands of the Los Angeles Sparks.
A last-second Candace Parker bucket sealed that one. This one was over, realistically, when the Mercury couldn't convert after winning a jump ball down four with 14.1 seconds to go.
But rather than wallow in defeat with victory just out of reach, multiplied by the factor of needing to win at least one game in a venue the Storm are unbeaten since mid-July, Brondello instead said she was encouraged by her team's ability to close the gap.
"It just shows that we're close," she said. "... I was very proud of our effort in the fourth quarter. … I liked our pursuit, our aggressiveness, so we made it a close game."
The difference going forward may have to be Griner. Mired in foul trouble, she was on the court for her least amount of time this postseason and was limited to 13 points and four rebounds. Bonner and Taurasi nearly entirely filled the void, Bonner scoring 27 points with 13 rebounds to go with Taurasi's 25 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
"I think Brittney played a little too fast," Brondello said. "This is something she can control. For some reason she was playing fast and even though a guard was coming, it just disrupted her."
"We put so much pressure on Brittney to be great every night," Taurasi added. "She has been great for us all year. Today, I wouldn't say she struggled. … I think that I was not as focused and not as concentrated in getting her touches. I think she played solid, she tried to play through those moments of not getting enough touches."
Prior to Sunday's Game 1, Seattle Storm forward Breanna Stewart was named the 2018 WNBA MVP, earning 33 of the possibly 39 first-place votes. Diana Taurasi finished fifth in the voting and Brittney Griner appeared on two ballots.
Mercury chasing first WNBA Finals berth since 2014
Mercury advance to WNBA semifinals


What Do You Mean By A Sentence?
She who is a Vietnamese told me "viet sai tum lum".
So I couldn't catch what she mean with it.
So I asked her, what do you mean by viet sai tum lum?
Is that expression " What do you mean by viet sai tum lum?" a right expression?
By is a preposition, not a conjunction.
Should I ask, what do you mean by that expression viet sai tum lum?
Is it okay "what do you mean by viet sai tum lum" ?
What do you mean by "viet sai tum lum?"
Could you please explain what you mean by "viet sai tum lum?"
Or you could just say, What do you mean? or Could you please explain what you mean?
is this also correct, could you please explain what do you mean by?
Where is 'do' in the question above? e.g. Could you please explain what do you mean?
aicahcute and mizansinha007: No, you don't need the extra do. It is unnecessary and incorrect.
Thank you for your additional answer,Elanguest. I know why we can't use "do" in another sentence of yours in the above. Could you explain to me what it means?" In fact, what I wanted to know is, as far as I know, "By" can't be a conjunction, Even though it is like that, it could bring a sentence. I was wondering if it has another function as conjunction.
Son James, "By"is a preposition. It is certainly not a conjuction.
Your sentence has no difference from that one " what do\did you mean by that\ by saying those words. You can assume the meaning of "by" as the preposition "with" in terms of that aspect.
Could you please explain what you mean? Mizansinha, the underlying part is a noun clause as an object.
He is trying to explain what he means.
What you mean is very important for me. The underlying part is a noun clause as a subject.
You can follow the same rules with all wh- Questions. Bear that mind, please: You should change interrogative sentences into affirmative sentences by complying with the tense of your sentences.
There are many things to say since this topic is very comprehensive. However, I hope this post will shed light on uncertanity in your mind.
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Where There's Smoke There's Fire: Gay Rumors About J. Lo's Lil Cougar Cub Casper Just Won't Go Away
Fellow Dancer Exposes Jennifer Lopez's Boyfriend As Gay With Questionable Photos
The jig may soon be up for J.Lo's lil dancing cougar cub! The gay rumors about Casper Smart only seem to be piling up.
Studly backup dancer Casper Smart has been dating Jennifer Lopez for seven months, but RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned one of his fellow dancers says Casper's actually gay and is just using J.Lo for her fame and fortune!
Joshua Lee Ayers — a dancer at Hollywood nightclub Boulevard3, whose worked on Glee and with artists such as Fergie, LL Cool J, Natasha Beddingfield and Ludacris — has been blasting Casper on his Twitter account.
"Check out Ur boy… And his low key homo ways," Joshua wrote on a photo of Casper that he posted on his Twitter account in March.
In the photo, Casper is shirtless, wearing shiny gold short shorts obviously stuffed with something, a sparkly bejeweled belt, a scarf and a deer hunter hat while surrounded by other shirtless men in their underwear.
On May 24, Joshua posted another photo of Casper showing off his cheekbones with the caption: "I know what I know, Not love, a lot of business and public relations."
Joshua and Casper appeared in the 2010 dance flick Step Up 3D together and have done several dance gigs in the past.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Lopez, 42, and estranged hubby Marc Anthony announced their split last July and only four months later she was openly dating her 25-year-old backup dancer boy toy.
"Casper is not gay. These comments are born from envy and jealousy," the couple's rep, Mark Young, told RadarOnline.com.
"It must be a slow news day."
Ladies and gentlemen… Here's one of the photos in question:
What do you think? Incriminating or not?
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Make the ultimate choice when the espionage thriller, The Exception, arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD) and DVD August 8 from Lionsgate. Set during World War II in Nazi-occupied Holland, The Exception follows German officer Captain Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney), who must carefully choose between his country and an unexpected romance amidst political unrest. Based on Alan Judd's captivating novel, "The Kaiser's Last Kiss," the film also stars Oscar winner Christopher Plummer (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Beginners, 2011) and features a standout performance by Lily James. Directed by five-time Tony Award nominee David Leveaux and written for the screen by Simon Burke, The Exception Blu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.
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A riveting World War II thriller filled with espionage and romance in equal measure, The Exception follows German officer Captain Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney) as he goes on a mission to investigate exiled German monarch Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer). The Kaiser lives in a secluded mansion in the Netherlands, and as Germany is taking over Holland, the country's authorities are concerned that Dutch spies may be watching the Kaiser. As Brandt begins to infiltrate the Kaiser's life in search of clues, he finds himself drawn into an unexpected and passionate romance with Mieke (Lily James), one of the Kaiser's maids whom Brandt soon discovers is secretly Jewish.
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Hello, thank you for downloading this podcast from Teacher magazine – I'm Dominique Russell.
In this special episode I'm joined by Dr Alan Finkel, Australia's Chief Scientist, to talk about his most recent final report, titled 'Optimising STEM Industry–School Partnerships: Inspiring Australia's Next Generation'. We speak about why partnerships with STEM industries can be beneficial for students, and how schools can work towards implementing such a program.
Dominique Russell: So, in the beginning of the report, some important terms that are often interpreted in different ways are outlined. Could you define 'enterprise skills', 'STEM skills' and 'digital proficiency'?
Dr Alan Finkel: Sure, Dominique. When we started this process, I was overwhelmed by the plethora of terms and the inconsistency with which they were used. So through our panel on the forum we decided we'd tackle that and we managed to reduce the critical terms to three. STEM skills, digital proficiency and enterprise skills.
Now, STEM skills, those are the deep discipline skills that reflect themselves in knowledge and ultimately in careers. Such as a molecular biologist needs to know chemistry and genomics and statistics to be proficient in what they're doing. And, realistically, only a modest number of young people need to train at that level. I don't know, it's a moving target – we can't get firm numbers on this – but it might be 20 or 25 per cent or 30 per cent who will be needed to be trained in those fields to the depth that we're talking about to have careers in STEM.
The second term that we defined was digital proficiency. And digital proficiency is often out there called ICT capabilities or digital literacy. Digital proficiency is the ability to use apps, spread sheets, word processes, recording devices, digital technology and integrate them into everything that you're doing in your future career. At least 90 or 95 per cent of kids will have to be well trained in digital proficiency. It's not a choice in the modern world.
The third term is enterprise skills which is often called 21st century skills, soft skills, general capabilities – there were just so many different ways to describe it. It's the creativity, the project management capabilities, communications, resilience, understanding of ethics. You'd hope that 100 per cent of students have that capability. So, progressively – in terms of percentage of use – we identified STEM skills, digital proficiency and enterprise skills and tried to use only those three terms throughout our report.
DR: Now, the report also says that its recommendations really aim to optimise the way that industry partnerships can work towards a contemporary and internationally competitive STEM education in Australian schools. So, we'll get to the international examples a little later, but what is meant by 'contemporary STEM education'? What does that really look like?
AF: Well, a contemporary STEM education truly has elements of the traditional in it as well as some of the more modern things. But the traditional elements are actually very, very important. To get a good STEM education, students need deep discipline knowledge. In Chemistry or Physics, or it could be Digital Technologies. But whatever they're learning, that knowledge has to be deep.
The students need to be proficient users of technology. In school and ultimately in whatever careers they might adopt. We are using technology as props to amplify our capabilities. Now, what we know is you can't just throw technology at a problem out in the workforce, and you can't expect technology to make education better. When The Federal Government tried the 'every child gets a laptop' program and left it at that, it didn't help at all. But if you use technology to assist the delivery of content by the teacher, to provide a high-speed interactive feedback to collectively see how the class is progressing, to feed to the students via the teacher wonderful videos and tests and quizzes and things like that. That technology can help in education just like technology helps an engineer or a scientist in the pursuit of their job. So, proficient users of technology is a key element of a contemporary STEM education. Of course, we are using the term STEM to make it clear that we're talking about an integrated approach to the disciplines. So, through a contemporary STEM education, we are trying to help the students recognise the interactive opportunities between Maths and Physics and Chemistry and Digital Technologies – whatever it is that they're learning – as well as the creative areas.
And another important aspect of a contemporary STEM education is a deep understanding for and respect of the social impact of these technologies. It's the workforce opportunities, of course, but it's the impact of what technology does to the way people live, to the way people interact, and to everything in our society.
DR: And it's also said that teachers are central to developing and maintaining STEM industry partnerships, and there are a number of case studies outlined in the report which give some really excellent examples of how schools are partnering with industries quite successfully. So why are these case studies good examples of industry partnerships? What is it that they're doing?
AF: Well, we'd have to take a couple and go through them. So, one that's in the report is the Victorian Tech School system. I had the pleasure of going out to the Tech School on the Box Hill TAFE campus. First thing I'll say about Tech Schools is that the name doesn't actually indicate what they are. They're not tech and they're not schools. They're a facility on a campus of a university or a TAFE. So the location is important – it's mutual territory and intellectually engaged. What they are is they're a hub, a central facility that brings together 20 to 30 schools in the region through this facility and connects them to a handful or more of companies, of industries. And at the Tech School there's another handful (maybe five or six) teachers and technicians who are experts in certain areas and they work with the companies to identify problems, real world challenges that the kids might be interested in.
The particular Tech Schools I went to, they'd been working with some local hospitals and companies who are providing ICU (Intensive Care Unit) facilities and they'd fitted out this Tech School with really a lot of equipment to do electronics and software for sound and robotics. And the particular challenge that was underway when I went there that was being addressed by Year 9 boys and girls was to develop an entertainment system for an Intensive Care Unit bed in a hospital. These kids had only been there for half a day, or about that, and they'd already plugged together and made systems that in some cases they'd be getting the sound source form the internet, some from their phones, some from radio, and they were having the time of their lives. But they were being guided through this process by the experts who are always at the Tech School, the teachers, and the context was a real-world context that had come from the local hospital. Because industry is a broad interpretation, it doesn't have to be a manufacturer, it can be government or bank or a tourism association or a manufacturer.
And the local schools, they come in one at a time, they're bussed in and they can have three days in a row working at the Victorian Tech School. So it's bringing real-world context, contributions from the industry in terms of capabilities and definition of the challenge in the context, with experts at the tech school facility. The students come in, their teachers come in – so their teachers are getting a professional learning opportunity from the resident teachers and experts at the tech school – at the same time as the kids are being motivated and actually learning something significant. It's not a shallow touch, they learn how the technology is being used and what the scientific principles are behind that.
DR: Another quite interesting aspect was that it's said that neither schools nor industries are often quite sure about how to actually approach a partnership. In this sense, you've said that an intermediary organisation can be quite valuable. Can you describe a little more about the role of an intermediary in this sense?
AF: Certainly. So the word 'intermediary' in this context is typically talking about a university or a TAFE. Schools and industry – they want to work together. This is not something being imposed on them, they enjoy this relationship, but they do find that they speak different languages and have different understandings and different capabilities and it's our experience – through the consultations and also my personal experience – that bringing in a university or a TAFE partner to what would otherwise be a relationship between an industry and a school can really help.
I'll give you two examples – one personal and one more general. Back in 2006 I had the opportunity of developing a hands-on science technology program for Year 9 students called STELR. And STELR is delivered by the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. It's interesting because it's [an] in-class program, so it's co-curricular if you like, it's aligned to the Australian Curriculum. The decision to deliver a STELR unit is made by the school, so that once the school puts up its hand and volunteers ('we want to do it') then every kid in Year 9, or every kid in Year 8, depending on what year they do it, or 7, will participate for six, seven or eight weeks in the STELR program. We found it great context, which was that the kids were very concerned about growing up in a world of global warning and climate change and that one way to address that, to mitigate it, is to convert from fossil fuel electricity to renewable electricity.
So we built the unit around renewable electricity. It turns out with solar, wind and hydro, you can teach a lot of Physics and some Maths thrown in. So we developed a hands-on kit and a program around that. And we did that through our own resources at the Academy of Engineering in consultation with professors from Deakin University and then later on as we started to go into the delivery phase we found it was important to provide one or two days of professional learning for the teachers who are delivering STELR into the classroom. And certainly part of the professional learning is the obvious of how do you use the STELR equipment and the STELR resources, but a lot of it was inquiry-based learning, because it was an inquiry-based learning unit, and how do you integrate that information about the STELR resources with your already inquiry-based learning capabilities? We asked and got the professors from Deakin University to do that professional learning for us. So, it was the Academy of Technology and Engineering, which is people from industry, from academia, the schools and Deakin University in that case as an intermediary.
Another very big one is the partnership between Google Australia and the University of Adelaide to deliver professional learning in the new Digital Technologies Curriculum. The curriculum came along as an opportunity, schools want to deliver it. There were very few, if any, teachers trained to deliver that new curriculum. Google, of course, has expertise in those kinds of areas and Google got together with University of Adelaide. Google contributed I think some financial resources, some technological resources and some context and expertise in the area. The University of Adelaide has full responsibility for the pedagogy, the teaching and marking of this course which was co-developed with Google and it's been extraordinarily successful. Something like 10 000 teachers have done this online course, which now also has a face-to-face learning practice community, but something like 10 000 teachers have done this course. It would not have been possible if Google was doing it themselves, it actually would've been really hard to imagine it being successful if University of Adelaide had been doing it themselves, but the partnership has been extraordinarily successful.
DR: Now in terms of international examples of exceptional STEM performance, Singapore is a fantastic one. How did they become such a great performer and how is this turnaround relevant to schools here?
AF: Well, Singapore, of course has some advantages that we don't have which is being a single jurisdiction, so they can make a decision and then run with it. So, they had made the requirement to do Science and Mathematics right through secondary school a strict requirement. They've committed to having specialist teachers in Maths and Science starting in upper-primary school all the way through. They also require that their teachers do 100 hours of professional learning per year of which some of it has to be discipline specific. And that is a good example of one of our recommendations. We've suggested in our report that given the teachers in Australia have to do 20 hours a year of professional learning, but currently in most jurisdictions that's left to the teacher and the principal to work out exactly what they will be doing – well given that they're doing it anyway, we recommended that some of it should be discipline specific and taught by an accredited provider, so that teachers who happen to be teaching out-of-field get the benefit of ongoing training in the field they're teaching or teachers who are years past their initial training get the benefit of being updated. So we've learnt from Singapore in formulating that particular recommendation although it came to us through various other means during the consultation as well.
DR: And just finally, then, on a bit of a lighter note, if you were to enter a classroom in the future – in 2030 – what would you want to see?
AF: Human teachers. Let me elaborate. The last thing I'd want to see is robots in charge of the classes. We are going into a world of AI (artificial intelligence), we are going into a world of technology and robots will be doing more and more for us and if they are there in an assisting capacity, fabulous. No problem with that. But young people, they need peer-to-peer relationships. Young people, they need peer-to-teacher relationships. And I am talking about a human relationship. So I'll use the word humanity, I'd like to see humanity in the classroom – but I'm not using it in its normal sense – I really mean I'd like to see humans doing the teaching and doing it well with a focus on conveying deep discipline skills combined with those enterprise skills we talked about, and fun. There's no reason to trade off one for the other. You can chase expertise and quality at the same time as you're having fun.
DR: Well, Dr Alan Finkel, thanks so much for spending time with Teacher magazine today.
That's all for this episode – to keep listening or to download all of our podcasts for free, whether it's another Special episode or our series on Global Education, Behaviour Management, School Improvement, Teaching Methods, Action Research or the Research Files, just visit acer.ac/teacheritunes or soundcloud.com/teacher-ACER. The full transcript of this podcast is available at teachermagazine.com.au. That's where you'll also find the latest articles, videos and infographics for free.
Thinking about your own school context, how have you worked towards increasing the value of your STEM education? Have these plans ever involved collaborating with people outside your school community?
Dr Alan Finkel suggests involving an 'intermediary' organisation, such as a University or TAFE, when establishing a STEM industry partnership. How would you go about developing such a partnership?
The full report is available for download (4.90 MB).


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