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Although research in collaborative learning has a fairly long history, dating back at least to the early work of Piaget and Vygotsky, it is only recently that workers have begun to apply some of its findings to the design of computer based learning systems. The early generation of the!le systems focused on their potential for supporting individual learning: learning could be self paced; teaching could be adapted to individual learners' needs. This was certainly the promise of the later generation of intelligent tutoring systems. However, this promise has yet to be realised. Not only are there still some very difficult research problems to solve in providing adaptive learning systems, but the...
Born and raised in Chicago to Irish immigrant parents, Dr. Kate Ryan is forensic pathologist and medical examiner for the Chicago Crime Lab, consultant to Ireland's national police force the Gardia, and part time FBI profiler with the bureau's Behavior Analysis Unit. Kate was born with many ‘gifts' as her maternal grandmother ‘Grand' calls her psychic abilities. She and her fiance Tim “T.D.” Sullivan, a former member of the Chicago Police Department, are the perfect team to track down criminals using Kate's psychic gifts, their secret weapon, her guardian angel, and Tim's special link to the other side of the veil between the living and the dead. Tim is a ghost.
A literary novel with changing narrators, strong agendas and intertextual sequences, Silence is an examination of sexual violence and its repercussions. It questions the right of the media to scrutinise and pronounce judgement on a person’s life choices.
Everyone wants to get in on the action when a unique 1873-S silver dollar is put up for auction at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. With huge amounts of money at stake the auction turns into a multimedia event where the fabulously rich mingle with con men and scam artists. Among the players are Lord and Lady Welton; ex-union boss, Salvatore Corelli and his daughter, Lucia; business tycoon Adam Sloan; and Howie Roth, a small-time coin dealer, whose scheme to own the coin doesnt even involve bidding. As lives collide during the four days of lot viewing, romance blooms, hostilities flare, and unlikely alliances form. By the time the auction starts on Sunday, Adam has learned the importance of family and heritage, Corelli and Howie have devised a cant-miss scheme to switch the silver dollar for a fake one, and Howie and Lucia are engaged.
Information technology is changing the way we write. Special features such as outliners, spelling checkers and graphic facilities have transformed word processors into document processors; document processors have, in turn, integrated with other electronic resources such as e-mail and the Internet to provide a complete writing environment. The New Writing Environment examines the knowledge that is needed in order to develop, use and evaluate computer-based writing environments. The emphasis is firmly on practical issues: tasks performed by writers at work, problems they encounter, and documents they actually produce. Writing is defined within a wide social and organisational context, in order to give an accurate assessment of how the new technology affects the social and cooperative aspects of authorship. The result is a wide-ranging and comprehensive assessment of the relationship between writing and computers.
It's the early sixties, and the wife of Henry Sommers, the leader of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, is brutally murdered in her Boston hospital room, resulting in a gangland war lasting over thirty years and throwing a close-knit Irish family into a whirlpool of violence, deceit, and heartbreak. On Monster Hill, Henry's first reaction is to launch wholesale revenge against the man responsible for his wife's murder. But his somewhat level-headed lieutenant, Sammy Cunningham, convinces him getting even that way will only make things worse for him. Henry finally acquiesces. The problem is, he's already unleashed the northeast's most ruthless enforcer, Jay O'Malley, who'd do anything to please his boss, and, after discovering Sammy's begun an affair with his seventeen-year-old sister, Claire, to hurt Sammy.
When the severed hands of young women begin appearing around the normally sleepy tourist town of Pacific Cove, Sam Parker is called in by the new sheriff for a quick consultation. But after a body is discovered, several mysterious packages are delivered and a friend is missing, the search for the twisted killer intensifies. Seeking to avoid his past, forensics expert Sam Parker can no longer evade involvement in the case. Aided by Morgan Parker and the eccentric Doc Biggs, Sam runs headlong into an extensive quest along Washingtons North Coast. Is the killer a local, a tourist, or a newcomer? What is the motive behind the mutilation and death? For Sam, the pursuit must end before time runs out.
Claire O’Malley isn’t looking for love. In fact, the woman she thought she would spend the rest of her life with just moved to Berlin. Claire’s focus is on mending her broken heart. Not easy when you find yourself sharing a house with your ex’s older sister, Kathryn Mercer. The Kathryn that Claire used to know—frumpy and boring—has disappeared. These days she walks a little taller, looks a little slimmer, oozes charm and confidence, and turns heads. Some things should be left alone. Some rules should never be broken. But some opportunities are just too good to miss.
In the annals of baseball, the history of few other teams can compare to the rich legacy of the Dodgers. Stout provides their definitive story, from their birth in Brooklyn in 1884 to their move to Los Angeles to present day.
Free spirited cruise ship captain, Lorenzo DiMarco never wanted love. All he needed was his women in each port to satisfy his unconventional needs. Until…Francesca Russo, his best friend’s younger sister came aboard his ship for a two week Hawaiian cruise. The fun loving innocent opens Lorenzo to a new world of emotions he never knew he needed. Can Lorenzo change his ways for the blue eyed beauty? Can the sea captain get his redemption?