{"id":3180,"date":"2012-11-18T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:50:12","slug":"where-ive-been-online-to-nov-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/11\/18\/where-ive-been-online-to-nov-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (to Nov. 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/nsf06319\/pdf\/nsf06319.pdf\">U.S. Doctorates in the 20th Century (pdf) NSF June 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">The availability of new types of data on doctorates, the significant changes in doctoral education known to have occurred in the past 25 years, and the close of the 20th century make this a good time to reexamine the long-term trends in U.S. doctoral education. NSF&#8217;s Division of Science Resources Statistics commissioned this report to explore these trends and to make the results available to the public. Cosponsors of the report are the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/nsf\">nsf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/pdf\">pdf<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/doctorates\">doctorates<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/phd\">phd<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/20th-century\">20th-century<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gamebalanceconcepts.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/17\/hello-world\/\">What is Game Balance Concepts? \u00ab Game Balance Concepts<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">What is Game Balance Concepts? What is this blog? This is the second summer I\u2019ve decided to run a free online course on the topic of game design. Last summer was a general course that covered all areas on a very general level; you can find it at http:\/\/gamedesignconcepts.wordpress.com This summer, I\u2019m diving deeper into the narrower topic of game balance. The topic was covered in a single lesson last year, but I think it deserves better treatment, so this year I\u2019m looking at balance in depth. You can view a free intro video here that covers the course topics in more detail. (Update: due to technical difficulties with the courseware site, this was not viewable for a brief period. The issues have been resolved and everyone should now be able to create an account, view the video and download the syllabus. Thanks to everyone for reporting it and for being patient while I worked with supercoolschool.com to resolve this!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/game\">game<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/balance\">balance<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/concepts\">concepts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\/ian-schreiber\">ian-schreiber<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/nirtak\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3180'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3180);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3180);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3180);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>U.S. Doctorates in the 20th Century (pdf) NSF June 2006 The availability of new types of data on doctorates, the significant changes in doctoral education known to have occurred in the past 25 years, and the close of the 20th &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/11\/18\/where-ive-been-online-to-nov-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-games","category-general","category-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-Pi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5908,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/10\/14\/worth-sharing-educational-research-methodology-framework-dr-patrick-blessinger\/","url_meta":{"origin":3180,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: Educational Research Methodology Framework | Dr. Patrick Blessinger","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It may be helpful for any of your students taking a research methods course or working on a research based thesis or dissertation. It is particularly useful for those in education or the social sciences but may also have some applicability to those in the humanities or professional disciplines like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3270,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/01\/16\/report-international-tests-severely-misrank-u-s-students-eschool-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":3180,"position":1},"title":"Report: International tests severely misrank U.S. students | eSchool News","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\"In today's news, a new report says that international tests like PISA are misleading, and the U.S. actually ranks much higher on the global scale--in some cases as high as Finland--once you re-weight data on social class.\" Report: International tests severely misrank U.S. students | eSchool News. 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Summer Vacation is once again under attack in the U.S. See: The Case Against Summer Vacation - TIME. There is no question that formal education is broken in the U.S. (To be fair, it isn't so hot here in Canada either, but it IS considerably better\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5441,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/27\/tech-or-no-tech-in-the-classroom-the-debate-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":3180,"position":5},"title":"Tech or No Tech in the Classroom? The debate Continues.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Came across this:\u00a0Why I\u2019m Asking You Not to Use Laptops \u2013 Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education. 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