KCorps Network
July 16, 2010
It is undeniable that the speed of learning of each pupil is different from one subject to another subject. What is the solution? Looking for additional lessons on the Internet with a tutor on-line! In France, additional lessons like that are à la mode [popular]!
For example, Stann, 16 years old who was in first grade and one high school specializing in science has difficulty with math. She enrolled him in a private site that provides support to students who have difficulty learning Teacheo.com and connect with a student of the École d’Ingenieur recruited by the site. It is a surplus of this method is a cheap fare € 20 for a week of private classes with teachers who were selected strictly and without having to leave home.
Of course there are some things that need to be prepared that is the case of a material such as a computer equipped with a web-cam, head-sets + microphone, and an internet connection. Sites that offer these services are also usually equipped with some specific programs relate to mathematics, physics, chemistry and others should be eased so that students and teachers in the learning-teaching process. Interestingly the students are given permission to record the class on line so that he can repeat every time he needs. (more…)
July 2, 2010
Have you heard about WhiteSmoke? Most of you must have heard of it because it is a world-leading company in the field of technologies for English writing. The company develops software products that are aimed at enhancing and correcting English grammar, spelling and writing style. The technology of NLP, which stands for Natural Language Processing, is the basic of the products developed by WhiteSmoke. The company was established in the year 2002 in the midst of the emerging needs for quality written communications as the result of the advancement of technology and the wide use of the Internet. With the software from WhiteSmoke, people can check their writing and find some grammatical or spelling errors as well as enhancing the writing style. There is also a translation tool that is developed by WhiteSmoke for translating texts into almost any language.
Software like the ones that are produced by WhiteSmoke is highly need by writers these days as they write in such a rush today due to the face-paced world we are living now. The need of information is so high that people often overlook the grammatical rules in writing for others. The great software from WhiteSmoke will make the field of English writing better in quality.
May 11, 2010
The University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) routinely records a variety of faculty lectures every semester and publishes it on the internet since 2001. The recording was done with audio and video. This kind of regular publication of content for audio / video called a podcast.
Especially for UC Berkeley, they named it For those who are interested can go directly to the home page and download the lecture you want. Bids his courses – average only at the beginning of the semester, but there are quite varied subjects: molecular biology, politics, communication sciences, physics and even philosophy. I myself just listening to lectures so far biology, but the professor deserved thumbs up. They could deliver lectures with a solid and clear in time – average one hour, and some even have a can communicate with a few jokes to entertain. If you use iTunes or another program that can download podcasts directly, you can sign up to RSS feeds from the relevant subjects and new content will be downloaded instantly once they are published.
UC Berkeley is not the only university that opened classroom content to the world. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is also having the program Open Course Ware (OCW). But unlike such webcast.berkeley where we participate in the lecture hall, the concept of OCW is a publication of the material – material that used to lecture at MIT. (more…)