Lekcje o wartościach

The article deals with the subject of Polish language education as a carrier of values. Analyzes the proposals of methodological solutions that the student of a modern school meets. The article also considers which elements of the lesson relate to the learning of values and how they are modeled. The research material is composed of materials collected by students of Polish philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań during the course of an internship carried out in various types of schools. Organizing the collected data allows to confront theoretical assumptions with the empirical one of school life, and indicates common or overlooked features.Artykuł porusza temat edukacji polonistycznej jako nośnika wartości. Analizuje propozycje rozwiązań metodycznych, z jakimi spotyka się uczeń współczesnej szkoły; rozważa, w jakich elementach struktury lekcji ukonkretniają się treści związane z kształceniem wartości, w jaki sposób są one modelowane. Tworzywo badawcze stanowią materiały zebrane przez studentów filologii polskiej UAM w czasie praktyki zawodowej realizowanej w różnych typach szkół. Uporządkowanie zebranych danych pozwala na konfrontację założeń teoretycznych z empirią życia szkolnego oraz wskazuje miejsca wspólne lub pomijane

Marlon Unas Esugerra interview

Bio: Marlon Unas Esguerra is a second generation Filipino American, born and raised in Chicago. Marlon currently resides in Woodside, Queens, and is a Special Ed teacher at Queens Vocational & Technical High School. In 1998, he co-founded the panAsian spoken word ensemble, I Was Born with Two Tongues/, which has since performed in over 300 colleges and venues across the country. The Tongues\u27 pioneering performance work and critically-acclaimed debut CD, Broken Speak (AsianImprov Records), sparked a new generation of APIA voices. He is also the co-founder of the Asian American Artists Collective-Chicago, YAWP! Young Asians with Power!, Undocumented Sons, and the National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit. Marlon is the author of four chapbooks: Goodnight Nobody, Thirty-one Dollars Per Hour, When the Blood Leaves You, and, When the Filipinos Arrive in Wicker Park. He is currently completing his first manuscript of poetry entitled, homestay. His work has been published in Monsoon, Screaming Monkeys, Pinoy Poetics, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPo Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, South Loop Review, and Indiana Review. Marlon is a three-time Chicago poetry slam champion and has performed on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO. His digital media work has shown nationally and internationally, with most recent exhibitions in Perth, Tokyo, and Ho Chi Minh City. Marlon\u27s most recent awards include a Michener Teaching Fellowship, the Wallace Douglas Award for Excellence in Teaching, a Columbia Award for Scholarship, and two Eileen Lannan Poetry Prizes from the Academy of American Poets. He is a proud Kundiman, VONA, and NYC Teaching Fellow. In 2002, Chicago Public Radio compared Marlon\u27s work to Carl Sandburg\u27s, naming him a, Next Voice of 21st Century Chicago. An avid runner, Marlon is currently fundraising for Team for Kids while on his quest to run 100 marathons, completing at least one in each state and one on every continent. Bio from the 2009 Jackson Heights Poetry Festiva

Usability engineering for GIS: learning from a screenshot

In this paper, the focus is on the concept of Usability Engineering for GIS – a set of techniques and methods that are especially suitable for evaluating the usability of GIS applications – which can be deployed as part of the development process. To demonstrate how the framework of Usability Engineering for GIS can be used in reality, a screenshot study is described. Users were asked to provide a screenshot of their GIS during their working day. The study shows how a simple technique can help in understanding the way GIS is used in situ

A genetic network that suppresses genome rearrangements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and contains defects in cancers.

Gross chromosomal rearrangements (GCRs) play an important role in human diseases, including cancer. The identity of all Genome Instability Suppressing (GIS) genes is not currently known. Here multiple Saccharomyces cerevisiae GCR assays and query mutations were crossed into arrays of mutants to identify progeny with increased GCR rates. One hundred eighty two GIS genes were identified that suppressed GCR formation. Another 438 cooperatively acting GIS genes were identified that were not GIS genes, but suppressed the increased genome instability caused by individual query mutations. Analysis of TCGA data using the human genes predicted to act in GIS pathways revealed that a minimum of 93% of ovarian and 66% of colorectal cancer cases had defects affecting one or more predicted GIS gene. These defects included loss-of-function mutations, copy-number changes associated with reduced expression, and silencing. In contrast, acute myeloid leukaemia cases did not appear to have defects affecting the predicted GIS genes

Pretty maps: evaluating GIS adoption of cartographic design standards and best practices in professional publications

The nature of GIS maps, as tools designed for visual communication, puts them in the realm of art that is in many ways unique among scientific tools. As a visual form of communication, maps are responsive to methods of visual design, affecting the map’s appeal and function. Through cartography, a well established body of standards and best-practices exists to help GIS users avoid common design errors and create effective and meaningful maps that support their work. This research examines the adoption rate of those standards amongst professionals using GIS software for creating maps for journal publications. A selection of 80 GIS-produced maps from the AAG’s Professional Geographer were examined and compared to a uniform set of cartographic standards to look for trends in the adoption rates of map design standards amongst GIS map makers. Maps were rated by the author on their use of cartographic standards based on map content and purpose as opposed to their aesthetic quality. The data show trends in GIS cartographic design use that closely follow the inclusion of default values in common GIS software. The implication is that GIS professionals making maps are typically not applying cartographic standards on their own, but mostly following the standards set up in their software of choice. This suggests that there is still significant work to be done in teaching the value of cartographic principles to GIS students and practitioners