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Islamic Cultur For Love

2012-01-05T00:35:00.000-08:00

Islamic cultur for love educations dan ongkos naik haji onh plus di jakarta

Daftar Kuota Haji 2013 Habis?

2011-10-21T21:14:00.000-07:00

kalo liat berita tentang kuota haji 2013 yang dinyatakan habis adalah tidak benar, yg betul adalah kuota haji 2012 sudah habis.

janganlah percaya dengan isu2 yang bisa meresahkan calon jammah deh.

About Melilea

2008-10-26T16:30:00.000-07:00

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Melilea International is now the youngest and fastest growing network marketing company in the region, with more than 400,000 distributors and accumulative turnover exceeding RM550 million.

Melilea International as pillars of success are its range of superior organic products, a solid company built on ethical principles, an effective training system and a highly rewarding marketing plan.

It champions and upholds the philosophy of Transforming Lives and has won numerous accolades as the Brand that Transforms Health, Beauty, Happiness and Success.

Under the inspiring guidance and mentorship of Melilea International Founder-Group Chairman, Datuk Dr Alan Wong (DMSM), Executive President, Datin Dr Stella K.Y. Chin and Father of Organic Theory Dr Henry Chang, the health and beauty of millions of customers have indeed been transformed

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Translate English Indonesian

2008-10-01T16:45:00.000-07:00

Translate English Indonesian is one of sentences used by people to search the English-Indonesian translator on the internet services. People say it's uneasy to translate document. Does it hamper you now? Let's travel around the world with language such as English, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Russian, and many more. TRANSWA answers your need of foreign language. The translation, interpreting, editing, legalization and interpreting system are our integrated services that will remove the barrier of the language and make clearer and easier for you. To translate English Indonesian in a written document differs from verbal translation as it requires a special expertise. Hence, we are here to provide such services for foreign language. One step with us, then there will be no more barriers against the language.

Iklan: Jasa Penerjemah Bahasa

2008-09-27T20:21:00.001-07:00

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Northwestern University Online: School Reviews

2008-08-12T21:45:00.000-07:00

Northwestern University Online: School Reviews

Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies (SCS) Online

Northwestern University is the institution of choice for students seeking world-class education at an internationally-known research university. As a top-tier institution, Northwestern has been among the top schools listed as “America’s Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report’s. Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies offers working professionals an opportunity to further their graduate educational goals by offering professional master’s programs in a wide variety of areas. The master of science in medical informatics (MMI) is offered in a distance learning format completely online, presenting an opportunity to study this field from virtually any location in the world. Designed with the working professional in mind, the online option for the MMI program parallels its campus-based counterpart in every way, providing the same curriculum designed and taught by Northwestern faculty. The MMI program is geared for completion within two to three years of part-time study.

Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies (SCS) Online
Northwestern University is the institution of choice for students seeking world-class education at an internationally-known research university. As a top-tier institution, Northwestern has been among the top schools listed as “America’s Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report’s. Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies offers working professionals an opportunity to further their graduate educational goals by offering professional master’s programs in a wide variety of areas.

Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies (SCS) Online Programs

Master of Science in Medical Informatics

The emerging field of Medical Informatics requires a new generation of leaders dedicated to improving healthcare outcomes through the application of information technologies. In response to the many new opportunities in this growing field, Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies, in partnership with the Feinberg School of Medicine, will extend the successful on-site program to an online format starting in January, 2007.

Whether you have a background in information technology, healthcare, life sciences, or related field, the MMI program builds on your expertise and prepares you for the challenges of the medical informatics field in the 21st century.

The study of medical informatics blends healthcare management and information systems. The MMI program provides a balance of both conceptual and applied knowledge, preparing graduates for exceptional career paths in the field of medical information management.

Are you enrolled at Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies (SCS) Online or alumni?
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Teacherskills And The Online Classroom

2008-08-10T20:08:00.000-07:00

Teacherskills And The Online Classroom

Teachers planning to move their teaching and learning online must be aware that it is important for them to equip themselves with certain skills. Besides the ICT literacy that is to be expected of them, what other skills would they need?

In truth, the basic teaching skills that a teacher is supposed to have in brick-and-mortar classroom still applies and perhaps it may be argued that some of them become even more essential. The essential ingredients of what makes a good class and lesson will still remain. Teacher beliefs and values, class management skills, a clear understanding of the learning outcomes, the assessment of the learning, good instructional planning and motivational skills are all still important ingredients of a successful class whether online or otherwise.

However, the manner these skill are put into practice in the online classroom will differ quite considerably. For example, with regards to the need to create a safe learning environment, in a brick-and-mortar classroom, everyone is able to see and talk to each other spontaneously while in an online classroom, this is not the case. Plus the facial gestures and the nuances in the way words are spoken that is so important in everyday communication is replaced with only dry and impersonal text. This is where the well-known emoticons come into play. Other examples of unique online class management skills include for example taking into account the types of online behavioral tendencies of online participants.

Good instructional planning or design becomes even more important in the online classroom. Good instructional planning is required in a brick-and-mortar classroom but in such classrooms, teachers can make spontaneous adaptations to the situation in the classrooms. In an online environment it is not as easy to do so. This can influence considerably the flow of the lesson or instruction.

In short, teachers need to familiarize themselves first with the likely online classroom environment. They must also remember that the online classroom environment can differ according to the kind of learning activity that is to be used. A discussion forum is quite different from a synchronous chat session. The facilitation approach for both would also be quite varied. Drill-and-practice activities require perhaps less class management attention. The best way for teachers to understand the differences between these environments is to perhaps undergo an online class themselves.

In seeking to understand the students’ online experience, the teachers must learn to be online students themselves. The online experience for the teachers does not have to be a class on online learning itself. But it is important that whatever the online course the teacher undergoes, the teacher should consciously note the experience and compare it with their past classoom learning experience. Only then can they craft an online lesson themselves. The crafting of an online lesson goes beyond the technicalities of the online learning platform. More important is the re-shaping of the traditional teaching skills to fit the new environment.

Source: educononline.com

Afghan university gets help from SDSU

2008-08-10T02:19:00.000-07:00

Afghan university gets help from SDSU

COLLEGE AREA – One of the toughest decisions Mohibullah Israr ever made was leaving behind a wife and six children in Afghanistan to get an education in America.

But in the end, the choice was clear.

“It’s a golden opportunity to be here,” said Israr, 32. “We will learn here and then go back home and educate the people – the young generation. Then we will have a way to peace and stability.”

Israr is among seven faculty members from Nangarhar University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, attending a three-week Summer Institute at San Diego State University on how to teach English. Two faculty members, including Israr, have been in America for about a year earning master’s degrees at other universities.

The World Bank is giving SDSU $4 million to aid Nangarhar University, which involves implementing an English language program and redesigning the outdated engineering program to accelerate rebuilding efforts and create a better-educated work force.

“The engineering curriculum hasn’t been updated or changed in over 20 years, but the world has changed,” said Steve Spencer, SDSU’s project director for the Nangarhar partnership. “And as Afghanistan works with other nations to restore their country, English language is a critical skill. Those that can speak it have more opportunities – more jobs, more earning potential.”

In addition, SDSU will help establish programs at Nangarhar University’s International Learning Center, such as student and faculty exchanges, seminars and visiting lecturers from other institutions – programs that will help connect Nangarhar University with the rest of the world.

The impetus for this partnership came when two members of La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club traveled to Jalalabad to assess the region’s needs in 2002. The club has since built a coed school through private donations, established a sister-city relationship between San Diego and Jalalabad, and set up a computer lab and built the International Learning Center at Nangarhar, among other things. A club member encouraged SDSU to apply for World Bank funding to assist Nangarhar University.

Rafi Sayad, who is participating in the Summer Institute and who taught English at Nangarhar on the weekends for about a year, said the school essentially languished during the years of Soviet occupation, civil war and Taliban control.

“It was just a disaster,” said Sayad, 37. “No professional teachers, no books, no libraries. There were students, but not that many. The university was just like a desert.”

Sayad, who also worked for the United Nations as a media monitor, interpreter, political assistant and human rights officer, has had his share of personal difficulties. He was arrested twice by the Taliban for having a beard that was too short. Sayad said his beard merely looks short because it is curly.

Sayad is earning a master of education degree in language, literacy and culture at the University of San Diego through scholarships from the school and the Rotary Foundation.

The Summer Institute began July 28 , but Sayad and Israr have attended classes longer. Each day, seven students take courses on how to teach English through SDSU’s Language Acquisition Resource Center, one of 15 U.S. Department of Education-funded centers in the nation. Eight engineering faculty members from Nangarhar University, who are delayed over visa difficulties, are expected to arrive at SDSU in the coming weeks.

The faculty members plan to attend another Summer Institute next year.

Spencer said partnerships such as this one are the key to achieving peace, stability and security in Afghanistan.

“This is one of the essential ways to fight the war in Afghanistan,” Spencer said of the partnership. “The bottom line is we can’t win the war by military efforts alone.”

Source: afghandevnews.wordpress.com

Debt-Free Education

2008-08-08T20:01:00.000-07:00

Debt-Free Education

Great article in the Times today about Berea College in Kentucky, which educates only dirt-poor students by giving them free tuition. Berea has a huge endowment of $1.1 billion, which puts in the top ranks with the Ivies. Now if only the Ivies would focus on their real job, which is educating people, not driving research.

I've heard the argument made that this is the purpose of large, well-endowed universities, but I can't agree. It's one of a university's functions, but it should not be the over-riding one. This is a function that should be taken up primarily by business and the government, perhaps shared three ways between them, but business has notably largely abandoned anything that does not have an immediate profit in sight, which was not always the case.

It should be obvious that the primary job of a university, of any educational institution, is to educate. But one of the reasons for the change to a research-driven model is the idea that education is a business, not a public service or a right or even a necessity. Business models now predominate in the higher education sector, models that treat education as a for-profit business, whose assets can be "invested" in new facilities like sports stadia and highly specialized science labs at the cost of affordable tuition and decent salaries for faculty who are not researchers. The mistake is treating education as a commodity or product that can be marketed and sold to students. This is the wrong approach on at least a couple of levels.

First and most obviously, it sets up the wrong model for the educational experience. Under the commodity model, the grades and degree are the product, not the knowledge and learning experience. Students expect to "get their money's worth" in the classroom, receiving a high grade in return for a monetary investment. I don't think most of them realize that this kind of thinking is akin to buying a degree or a grade rather than earning it, or how that devalues what they get. I don't think most of them realize that those grades only matter within the context of school. Once you're out, nobody cares about your GPA and your GPA won't save you if you haven't actually learned anything.

Secondly, it leads to overspecialization in the kinds of degrees awarded. It's more difficult to see the value of a degree in, say, English or history or philosophy if all you're thinking of is skill sets that can be bullet-pointed on a resume. Many colleges have added "practical" or technical majors like our favorite object of ridicule at MSU: packaging. Believe me, I understand the complexities of packaging, that it involves, design, psychology, engineering, an understanding of the the manufacturing process and a basic grasp of infectious agents, but it is fundamentally a skill set, not an academic subject. The requirements for the degree include courses in the above areas, but when you get that degree, you're not a designer, a psychologist, pathologist, or an engineer. You know how to package, and frankly that has a limited application. It speaks to the old adage that when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

There's nothing wrong with a degree like this, but it used to be a technical degree, like engineering. The real problem is that it has started to replace the pedagogical paradigm of teaching problem solving, research (and by this I mean the ability to sort the bogus from the legitimate, not just find what you want to know), synthesis, analysis, extrapolation with teaching a collection of facts and technical methods—in short, what to think, not how to think.

One of the beauties of the non-skills based degree is that it opens many worlds and gives one skills that can transfer from field to field. A degree in English has become a "you want fries with that?" joke in part because business often fails to recognize the value of the ability to think (or doesn't really want it, especially not in its cube workers) and in part because our schools have failed to point out the value of that kind of a degree. With an English degree, especially an advanced one (an MA, not an MFA), you've learned how to research, analyze, communicate in writing clearly and succinctly, and learn complex ideas with a degree of facility. I'm convinced that I've been able to learn the complex software programs I have by reading the manuals because I was an English major, and that taught me how to pick out the salient facts in the worst and most convoluted pieces of prose. I've edited and/or written legalese, advertisements, marketing brochures, history, sociology, biology, engineering, and environmental science prose. My science writing friend Jen, also an English major, now writes elegantly and cogently about one of the most complex and difficult hard sciences, physics, having never had a physics class. Her next book is about learning calculus.

But I digress. Neither Jen nor I would have gotten the educations we did if our schooling hadn't been affordable. One of the (many) reasons I dropped out of the Ph.D. program at NYU was because I realized I was going to be $20,000 in debt by the time I was through, with no guarantee of any kind of job, let alone one what would allow me to recoup my losses in a reasonable amount of time. The cost now is putting even bachelor's degrees out of reach of more and more students, including middle class students, who will come out of their education saddled with crushing debt from student loans, even from state schools. As Judith Warner points out in a recent column, the difficulty of paying for an education is making students less charitable, less empathetic, and more competitive, but not in a good way. And when they get one, it's not what it should be. Business should do its job of funding research and let educational institutions prepare the next generation of researchers.

Source: leekottner.typepad.com

Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008

2008-08-06T21:20:00.000-07:00

Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008

The Legislation:

The Higher Education Opportunity Act reauthorizes the Higher Education Act, increasing student aid and seeking to minimize tuition and cost increases at institutions of higher education. Efforts to keep tuition costs down include publishing tuition, graduation rates, and popular majors on a Department of Education website; and requiring that colleges with the greatest cost increases submit reports to the Secretary of Education explaining why costs have increased and what steps they will take to keep costs down. Additionally, the bill requires colleges to provide information about textbooks in their online course catalogues and prohibits the bundling of separate textbook materials.

The Act increases the maximum Federal Pell Grant, a need-based grant, from $4,731 in 2008 to $8,000 by 2014 and expands the program to accommodate year-round study, certificate programs, and part-time students. The TRIO and GEAR UP programs, which assist first-generation and at-risk students to progress towards degree achievement, are strengthened and funding for graduate student programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, at Hispanic Serving Institutions, and at Predominately Black Institutions is expanded. The bill includes measures to improve teacher preparation programs and to encourage high-quality teachers to teach in high-need schools. The legislation allows up to $10,000 in loan forgiveness for individuals working in areas of “national need”, such as early childhood educators, nurses, foreign language specialists, teachers working in low-income communities, public safety officers, and health care practitioners. A grant program to assist colleges design and implement sustainable practices is also created.

The Act introduces new regulations on the relationship between colleges and lenders in an effort to eliminate conflicts of interest, while prohibiting prepayment and repayment fees on student loans. Meanwhile, it eases a rule requiring for-profit schools to derive no more than 90% of their revenue from federal student aid funds.

The Higher Education Opportunity Act creates a simplified, 2-page Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form for low-income students and requires the current 7-page FAFSA to be phased out for all applicants in 5 years. The legislation also creates several pilot programs to investigate new ways of simplifying the financial aid application process.

The Act includes measures to expand access to higher education for military veterans and their families and for students with disabilities. Finally, the bill encourages institutions to curtail peer-to-peer file sharing.
The Middle-Class Position:

Middle Class Supports. Although a college education is increasingly a prerequisite for a middle-class standard of living, current and aspiring middle-class students and their families are struggling more than ever to afford college. Indeed, in recent years the maximum Pell Grant, designed to provide financially strapped students with an opportunity to attend college, has failed to keep pace with rising higher education costs. 2007’s College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which increased the maximum Pell Grant and limited federal subsidies to student lenders in order to increase college financial aid by $20 billion, was a necessary first step in making college more affordable. The Higher Education Opportunity Act’s additional increase of the maximum Pell grant will make college accessible to more aspiring middle-class Americans. Additionally, the expansion of the Pell Grant program to include year-round education supports the hardest-working students struggling to complete their educations quickly. Continued commitment to the TRIO and GEAR UP programs is critical to ensuring that first generation and at-risk students are able to obtain a college education and achieve a middle-class standard of living.

Skyrocketing tuition costs and large and confusing debt obligations can make college unaffordable and financial stability after college difficult. Indeed, the College Board reports that average tuition and fees at four-year public institutions have increased 51% over the last five years and that private undergraduate loans have grown from 3% to 12% of the funds used to finance postsecondary education since the 1996-1997 school year . The Higher Education Opportunity Act improves a student loan system that has been characterized by favoritism and murky lending practices. The Act will help put an end to the most egregious conflicts of interest and will expand and simplify the information that is available to students and their families when deciding what colleges to attend and what loans to take out. Ending such conflicts of interest will ensure that students receive the most affordable loans, not loans that are the favorites of an unethical financial aid officer. A simplified application form for federal student aid will ensure that students are not dissuaded from seeking financial assistance for higher education because of complex paperwork. Stricter reporting requirements for institutions that that fail to rein in tuition hikes are a positive step in influencing institutions of higher education to make college more affordable. Efforts to reduce the cost of textbooks will also be helpful to students struggling with high costs.
From the Experts:

“[The Higher Education Opportunity Act will] help increase college opportunity by strengthening the Pell Grant Program, our nation’s most successful college access program. This bill will increase the maximum authorized level for the Pell Grant to $9,000, charting a path to regaining the buying power of the maximum Pell award lost over the last thirty years. In addition the legislation allows students who have accelerated their studies to receive two Pell Grants in a calendar year, the so-called ‘Year Round Pell’ provision. Together these changes will help move this valuable program in the right direction.”

Source: themiddleclass.org

Study in Japan

2008-08-01T19:21:00.000-07:00

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Study in Japan

Japan is known for its well-maintained educational system and excellent achievement. In successive international tests of mathematics, Japanese children consistently rank at or near the top (see TIMSS). The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is responsible for educational administration.
More than 99% of children are enrolled in elementary school. All children enter first grade at age six, and starting school is considered a very important event in a child's life.

Virtually all elementary education takes place in public schools; less than 1% of the schools are private. Private schools tended to be costly, although the rate of cost increases in tuition for these schools had slowed in the 1980s. Some private elementary schools are prestigious, and they serve as a first step to higher-level private schools with which they are affiliated, and thence to a university.
Lower secondary school covers grades seven, eight, and nine, children between the ages of roughly 12 and 15, with increased focus on academic studies. Although it is still possible to leave the formal education system after completing lower secondary school and find employment, fewer than 4% did so by the late 1980s.
Even though upper secondary school is not compulsory in Japan, 99% of all lower secondary school graduates entered upper secondary schools as of 2005[2]. Private upper-secondary schools account for about 55 % of all upper-secondary schools, and neither public nor private schools are free . The Ministry of education estimated that annual family expenses for the education of a child in a public upper-secondary school were about 300,000 yen (US$2,142) in both 1980s and that private upper-secondary schools were about twice as expensive.
As of 1991, more than 2.1 million students were enrolled in 507 universities. At the top of the higher education structure, these institutions provide four-year training leading to a bachelor's degree, and some offer six-year programs leading to a professional degree. There are two types of public four-year colleges: the ninety-six national universities (including the University of the Air) and the thirty-nine local public universities, founded by prefectures and municipalities. The 372 remaining four-year colleges in 1991 were private.

The overwhelming majority of college students attend full-time day programs. In 1990 the most popular courses, enrolling almost 40 percent of all undergraduate students, were in the social sciences, including business, law, and accounting. Other popular subjects were engineering (19 percent), the humanities (15 percent), and education (7 percent).

The average costs (tuition, fees, and living expenses) for a year of higher education in 1986 were 1.4 million yen (US$10,000). To help defray expenses, students frequently work part-time or borrow money through the government-supported Japan Scholarship Association. Assistance also is offered by local governments, nonprofit corporations, and other institutions.

According to The Times Higher Education Supplement, the two top-ranking universities in Japan are the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University.

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Students Win Scholarships to Study in Japan

2008-08-01T19:17:00.000-07:00

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Students Win Scholarships to Study in Japan

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – With the help of nationwide need-based scholarship awards, Illinois Wesleyan University students Celeste Nunez and Tyler Rhodes will spend the fall semester studying in Japan. Nunez, class of ’09, is one of over a thousand students across the United States selected in 2008 to receive the highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which awards an average of $4,000 per winner. Rhodes, class of ’10, will receive funding from the Freeman Awards for Study in Asia, a program that, in the past eight years, has aided over three thousand U.S. undergraduates studying abroad in East and Southeast Asia.

Nunez, a French major, will study with the Institute for International Exchange (IES) at Nanazn University in Nagoya, a port city of two million residents. Rhodes, an international studies major, will spend his semester in Tokyo with the IES Japanese Society and Culture Program offered in connection with Kanda University.

In addition to Nunez and Rhodes, Melanie Bise, a class of ’10 international studies major with a focus on Asian studies, will spend a full year studying at Keio University. Since the fall of 2003, IWU has sent 16 students on semester- or year-long study abroad programs in Japan, three to study in both China and South Korea, and two to study in India.

According to Stacey Shimizu, acting director of the International Office, “Study abroad has immense benefits, not only in terms of students’ academic growth and intellectual engagement but also in that it helps students learn about themselves, their values, and their untapped abilities and competencies. Both the Gilman and Freeman programs bring study abroad within the reach of students for whom it might be too expensive.”

www.blogs.iwu.edu

Best home chemistry lab book

2008-07-29T18:07:00.000-07:00

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Best home chemistry lab book

Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments

The very best chemistry experiment book for kids is the legendary and long-out-of-print book, the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments. Published in 1960 during the heyday of home chemistry, it was meant to accompany the millions of chemistry kits that were sold each year to typical American kids. You got real experiments with real chemicals. Not like the so-called chemistry sets today which boldly (and insanely) advertise they contain "No Chemicals!"

Among many other things, the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments told you how to make chlorine gas from bathroom supplies, hydrogen from flashlight battery parts, and rayon from scrap paper, etc. You can see why it was not reprinted in the decades following because of concerns about safety. I used my copy, which is now worth $200 on eBay, to do all the experiments in the book when I was 12, and went on to build a chem lab in my basement. As many kids did.

You can get a decent free PDF version of the Golden Book on BitTrorrent. Even better, there's a new great book for home-made experiments, updated for today: the Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments from the tech publisher O'Reilly. The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments is aimed at home schoolers, high school students, and lifelong-learning adults. It is aptly subtitled "All lab, no lecture"

The Golden Book encouraged playing around with molecules, with no agenda beyond demonstrating the power, principles, and diversity of chemical reactions. The Illustrated Guide on the other hand is a basement laboratory manual meant to teach you the basic working principles of chemistry. How to mix a molar solution. How to titrate. How to do quantitative sleuthing. It claims that if you go through all the chapters you'll be prepared to pass the college-level AP Chem Lab test. You would also be able to work in most laboratories. And of course, you would probably be able to follow most chemistry recipes from the internet, or at least to figure out what you need to make something chemistry-wise.

At the very least, this book should help cure any hysteria you -- or your kids -- might have about CHEMICALS. Sure, they can be dangerous, like your car. But we are surrounded by chemicals, and the only way to understand their real risks is to mess around with them.

Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments is a fantastic teacher for chemical literacy. It will show you or your kids how to work with chemicals, and why they are fun. Some of the experiments are visually entertaining. Others are scientifically important. It's got wise advice about the few bits of equipment you'll need for your lab. The Illustrated Guide very handily provides substitutions for ingredients whenever possible, so you can work around harder to acquire or expensive chemicals and gear. And it very conscientiously gives proper disposal instructions for substances at the end (the first I've ever seen in a chem book). The author is thrifty, using no more stuff then necessary, and always suggesting ways to purchase the minimum equipment.

Other than the hidden Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, there are simply no other decent books for the beginner chemical experimenter. The ones you find in libraries are simply useless trash. The stuff on the internet is haphazard and inconsistent. Follow the instructions here in the Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments and you'll be on your way to chemical literacy.

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Everyone rightly treats strong acids with great respect, but many students handle strong bases casually. That's a very dangerous practice. Strong bases, such as solutions of sodium hydroxide, can blind you in literally seconds. Treat every chemical as potentially hazardous, and always wear splash goggles.

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MAINTAINING A LABORATORY NOTEBOOK

A laboratory notebook is a contemporaneous, permanent primary record of the owner's laboratory work. In real-world corporate and industrial chemistry labs, the lab notebook is often a critically important document, for both scientific and legal reasons. The outcome of zillion-dollar patent lawsuits often hinges on the quality, completeness, and credibility of a lab notebook. Many corporations have detailed procedures that must be followed in maintaining and archiving lab notebooks, and some go so far as to have the individual pages of researchers' lab notebooks notarized and imaged on a daily or weekly basis. If you're just starting to learn about chemistry lab work, keeping a detailed lab notebook may seem to be overkill, but it's not.

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CHEAPER BY THE POUND

Do not overlook the advantages of banding together with other home schoolers or like-minded hobbyists to buy chemicals in bulk. For example. a vendor may charge $3 for 25g of a particular chemical. $5 for lOO g, and $9 for 500 g. If you need only small amounts of chemicals, you may be able to cut your chemical costs dramatically by arranging with other homeschooling families or hobbyists to order chemicals in larger quantities and divide them among you.

The cost advantage is particularly great for chemicals that incur hazardous shipping surcharges. For example, if you order 100 rnL of concentrated nitric acid for $5. the vendor may add a $35 hazardous material shipping surcharge, for a total of $40. But if you order a 500 mL bottle of concentrated nitric acid for $15, the same surcharge applies, for a total of $50. If you divide that chemical with four friends. each of you gets 100 mL of concentrated nitric acid for only $10.

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MICROSCALE EQUIPMENT

The recent trend in chemistry labs, particularly school and university labs, is to substitute microscale chemistry equipment and procedures for traditional semi-micro or macroscale equivalents. Microscale chemistry, often called microchemistry, is just what it sounds like. Instead of using standard test tubes, beakers, and flasks to work with a few mL to a few hundred mL of solutions, you use miniaturized equipment to work with solution quantities ranging from 20 pL (microliters, where one pL equals 0.001 mL) to a couple mL.

Using microscale equipment and procedures has many advantages. Microscale equipment and procedures are less expensive than standard equipment and procedures, which is a major reason for the popularity of microscale chemistry. Using microscale equipment and procedures means that chemicals are needed in very small quantities, which are safer to work with and easier to dispose of properly. Microscale also makes it economically feasible to do experiments with very expensive chemicals, such as gold, platinum, and palladium salts. Setup and teardown is faster, allowing more time for actual experiments, and cleanup usually requires only rinsing the equipment and setting it aside to dry.

Against these advantages, there are several disadvantages to microscale chemistry. First and foremost, everything is on such a small scale that it can be difficult to see what's going on. For example, you may need a magnifier to examine a precipitate (or even to determine whether there is a precipitate). Because of the small scale, measuring or procedural errors so small that they would have no effect on a traditional scale experiment can greatly affect the outcome of a microscale experiment.

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PROTECTING WORK SURFACES

Some of the chemicals you work with may stain or otherwise damage wooden or laminate work surfaces. I protect my work surfaces, which are standard kitchen laminate counters, by covering them with rubber nonslip mats that are available in various sizes and thicknesses at craft stores. I also put an old bath towel between the counter top and the rubber mat. The mat provides a smooth. level, chemical-resistant work surface, and the old towel absorbs any liquids that run off the mats.

My advisor. Dr. Mary Chervenak, is an expert on paints and coatings. I asked her and my other advisor. Dr. Paul Jones. if there was any kind of paint that could be used to protect surfaces from most laboratory chemicals. The short answer is "not really." Standard latex, polyurethane, and epoxy-based paints and coatings offer reasonablv good protection against many reagents and solvents. including the dilute reagents used in most of the experiments in this book. However, they offer less (or no) protection against strong acids or bases or some organic solvents.

Still, as Dr. Jones commented, some protection is better than none, and in a sense you can think of these pints as ablative coatings. The coating itself may dissolve in or be eaten away by a strong chemical. but it may protect the underlying surface long enough for you to dilute, mop up, or neutralize the spill. It I used a wooden workbench or a similar surface. I'd put several thick coats of an epoxy-based deck or floor paint on it. and then protect it further with a rubber mat and towel.

Even if you take reasonable precautions and work carefully, it's almost inevitable that at some point you'll spill something nasty on your work surface. That's a good argument for choosing a work surface that's expendable. If you eat holes in a sheet of plywood or particle board, that's cheap and easy to replace. If you eat holes in your washer/ dryer. you may have some explaining to do.

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WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book is for anyone, from responsible teenagers to adults, who wants to learn about chemistry by doing real, hands-on laboratory experiments.

DIY hobbyists and science enthusiasts can use this book to master all of the essential practical skills and fundamental knowledge needed to pursue chemistry as a lifelong hobby. Home school students and public school students whose schools offer only lecture-based chemistry courses can use this book to gain practical experience in real laboratory chemistry. A student who completes all of the laboratories in this book has done the equivalent of two full years of high school chemistry lab work or a first-year college general chemistry laboratory course.

And, finally, a word about who this book is not for. If you want to make fireworks and explosives-or perhaps we should say if all you want to make is fireworks and explosives-this book is not for you.

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A Tip for Student Who Will Studying Chinese

As the most improving country in the world, is becoming world’s business center. As the most improving country, China become industry’s target to improve their market. Many people go to China to do a business with Chinese. Of course to make a business in china or to a business with Chinese, should be learn Chinese language. As a biggest population country, China would be huge market for any industry. So learning Chinese language is must. And so possible in the future Chinese would be second International language like English. People who want to go to China learn Chinese language, growing every year. For a student who want to learn Chinese effectively, there is a smart tips for you. Chinese people are people who always like to learn. They like to learn others culture. Foreigner student could go to local university in China to search a local students. They always welcome to foreigner. You could make a contact with them and offers to teach them English or your mother language. So we could do exchange language lesson, They teach you Chinese language and you teach them english or others language. With that method you could learn faster and also learn their culture. Actually learn Chinese language not just learn to read or speak Chinese language. More important is we could learn their cultures. If we could adapt with their culture, we could do a business with them easier.www.paintingsbymike.com

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2008-07-27T18:35:00.000-07:00

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How To Earn A High School Diploma Online

By Ray Lam

With the strong competitiveness of the current job market, possessing a high school diploma is becoming increasingly necessary in order to be hired for a good position. There are many who have, for various reasons, been unable to earn a high school diploma. Fortunately, it is never too late to earn a high school diploma. Those who haven't had the opportunity to complete their high school educations have resources available to them. One such option is taking courses online. Online courses provide exceptionally convenient means to completing courses and ascertaining a high school diploma.

Many who have not graduated from high school take the G.E.D (General Educational Development) exam as an alternative to earning a high school diploma. G.E.D tests are used to verify whether G.E.D. test takers have the academic skills and knowledge expected of high school students in the United States and Canada. Though this is certainly a sound alternative to earning a high school diploma, possessing a high school diploma is held as a standard that passing the G.E.D exams does not substitute for completely. Many employers tend to prefer those with high school diplomas over those who have passed the G.E.D exams.

Most employers and college interviewers will accept an online high school diploma, so long as the document is from an accredited school. An accredited course means that the school has passed at least the minimum quality of standard as decided by legitimate educators. In addition to accreditation, the school should be in association with major organizations that are dedicated to education.

In the case of private internet schools, these institutions are generally not regulated by the government. Because of this, each school is allowed to adopt their own rules and regulations throughout the learning process. Obtaining a high school diploma through a private school will vary in cost from school to school, but it's generally very high because you are responsible for every cost of your education. As with any school, be sure to check if the particular institution you're interested in applying to is accredited by the proper accreditation boards. Otherwise, your online diploma may not be accepted as proof of a high school graduate.

Although it has certain advantages, there are some disadvantages too. A major disadvantage is that online students are withheld from the presentations, discussions, group projects, and laboratory experiments. This will reduce the development of social, communicative, and interpersonal skills of students.

Whether you want to receive an online university diplomas through a private or public internet school, it's important that you do all of your research beforehand to avoid being burned by the institution. Your high school diploma will serve as the foundation for furthering your education and open up new windows of opportunity to you that were closed before. Obtaining a high school diploma online is a viable and realistic way to achieve academic success. Provided you are disciplined and willing to work hard, you will succeed in obtaining an online diploma.

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