Innovative Web 2.0 Technologies to Support Struggling Readers

Most Web 2.0 technologies are either free or inexpensive, making them accessible for teachers to use for instructional purposes, especially to assist diverse students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. This article discusses the qualitative findings of a mixed-methods study that investigated how a group of candidates in a reading licensure graduate program responded to Web 2.0 technology integration when working with struggling readers, including their perceptual reaction and their implemented practice. The results from the study may help K-12 classroom teachers and teacher educators better understand how to include technologies in working with teacher candidates and assist them in designing instructional practices to support all learners

Spelling, Handwriting, and Process: Writing Instruction Strategies for Students with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities

This manuscript examines how educators can improve their writing instruction for students with intellectual and learning disabilities. It outlines the challenges that these students face in writing and describes research conducted in these areas of need. The goal was to examine many studies and compare the methods used in them, with the objective of finding the most effective research-based practices to use in intermediate elementary classrooms. Specifically, this work analyzes writing in three different components: spelling, handwriting, and the writing process. Additionally, suggestions are included for pre-service teachers and early career in-service teachers.Faculty Sponsor: Melissa Park

Spelling, Handwriting, and Process: Writing Instruction Strategies for Students with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities

This manuscript examines how educators can improve their writing instruction for students with intellectual and learning disabilities. It outlines the challenges that these students face in writing and describes research conducted in these areas of need. The goal was to examine many studies and compare the methods used in them, with the objective of finding the most effective research-based practices to use in intermediate elementary classrooms. Specifically, this work analyzes writing in three different components: spelling, handwriting, and the writing process. Additionally, suggestions are included for pre-service teachers and early career in-service teachers

Characterization of short template-nucleated helical peptides

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-199).by Sherri L. Oslick.Ph.D

Custom Integrated Circuits

Contains reports on six research projects.U.S. Air Force - Office of Scientific Research (Grant AFOSR-86-0164)U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research (Contract N00014-80-C-0622)National Science Foundation (Grant ECS-83-10941

Lower Miocene Stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and Its Bearing on the Central American Peninsula

Before the formation of the Central American Isthmus, there was a Central American Peninsula. Here we show that southern Central America existed as a peninsula as early as 19 Ma, based on new lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic and strontium chemostratigraphic analyses of the formations exposed along the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal. Land mammals found in the Miocene Cucaracha Formation have similar body sizes to conspecific taxa in North America, indicating that there existed a terrestrial connection with North America that allowed gene flow between populations during this time. How long did this peninsula last? The answer hinges on the outcome of a stratigraphic dispute: To wit, is the terrestrial Cucaracha Formation older or younger than the marine La Boca Formation? Previous stratigraphic studies of the Panama Canal Basin have suggested that the Cucaracha Formation lies stratigraphically between the shallow-marine Culebra Formation and the shallow-to-upper-bathyal La Boca Formation, the latter containing the Emperador Limestone. If the La Boca Formation is younger than the Cucaracha Formation, as many think, then the peninsula was short-lived (1–2 m.y.), having been submerged in part by the transgression represented by the overlying La Boca Formation. On the other hand, our data support the view that the La Boca Formation is older than the Cucaracha Formation. Strontium dating shows that the La Boca Formation is older (23.07 to 20.62 Ma) than both the Culebra (19.83–19.12 Ma) and Cucaracha (Hemingfordian to Barstovian North American Land Mammal Ages; 19–14 Ma) formations. The Emperador Limestone is also older (21.24–20.99 Ma) than the Culebra and Cucaracha formations. What has been called the “La Boca Formation” (with the Emperador Limestone), is re-interpreted here as being the lower part of the Culebra Formation. Our new data sets demonstrate that the main axis of the volcanic arc in southern Central America more than likely existed as a peninsula connected to northern Central America and North America for much of the Miocene, which has profound implications for our understanding of the tectonic, climatic, oceanographic and biogeographic history related to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama

Book Review: Five Flavors of Dumb, Anthony John

Book Review: Five Flavors of Dumb / Written by Anthony John / Dial Books, 2010, 338 pp. / ISBN: 978-0803734333This material published in WOW Review is made available by the Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures, College of Education at the University of Arizona, and the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact [email protected], (520) 621-9340

Computing Derivatives Of Scaling Functions And Wavelets

This paper provides a general approach to the computation, for sufficiently regular multiresolution analyses, of scaling functions and wavelets and their derivatives. Two distinct iterative schemes are used to determine the multiresolution functions, the so-called `cascade' algorithm and an eigenvector-based method. We present a novel development of these procedures which not only encompasses both algorithms simultaneously but also applies to the computation of derivatives of the functions. With this we demonstrate that the differences between the two algorithms are due solely to their respective initializations. We prove that the cascade initialization can be used only to compute the functions themselves, while the eigenvector one works for their derivatives as well. Finally, as an alternative to a result of Daubechies and Lagarias, we derive a new, simpler normalization formula for the eigenvector method. 1. INTRODUCTION Wavelets, in particular those associated with multiresolution..

A General Approach To The Generation Of Biorthogonal Bases Of Compactly-Supported Wavelets

Biorthogonal bases of compactly-supported wavelets are characterized by the FIR perfect-reconstruction filterbanks to which they correspond. In this paper we develop explicit representations of all such filterbanks, allowing us to generate every possible biorthogonal compactly-supported wavelet basis. For these filterbanks, the product H(z) = H(z) e H(z) of the two lowpass filters must have N 2 zeros at z = \Gamma1 . There are N + 1 minimal-length filterbanks for each N . The filterbanks associated with standard orthogonal and symmetric biorthogonal wavelet bases are found as a special case by using appropriate factorizations of symmetric H(z) with even N ; other filterbanks lead to novel biorthogonal bases. 1. INTRODUCTION The close relationship between orthonormal wavelet bases and quadrature -mirror filter (QMF) filterbanks is well-known [6, 3, 4]. Daubechies ' success in exploiting this relationship led her, along with Cohen and Feauveau, to construct biorthogonal wavelet bases..