Knowledge Commons | Luisa Gregori | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/luisagregori/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Luisa Gregori is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:12:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 de05d119a37d89269d89604496fdefe1 Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the General Linguistics Forum Committee in the forum History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-linguistics-and-language-study/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-general-linguistics-forum-committee/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:19:43 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Study and Linguistics forums, please help support the presence of linguistics and language study in the MLA by nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. We currently have two open positions on the committee; one member would begin serving immediately and continue t…[Read more]

]]> a2eb3640a618d4d1b4ff31642673df60 Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Dreamer of Tomorrow in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901086/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:52 -0400 This essay examines the stellar, wind, eagle, and light imagery in Muneer Niazi’s “Futility,” “Now is Not the Time,” “Signaling to a Friendly Star to Keep Shining,” and “Horizons.

]]> 0 445fb1957161a9fab15e523edfbe1c75 Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeschichtsschreibung in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897190/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Alle Sprachen ändern sich, solange sie existieren, das weiß die historisch-vergleichende Sprachforschung seit mindestens 150 Jahren. Dennoch gibt es nach wie vor viele Kontroversen darum, wie Sprachen sich ändern, warum sie sich ändern, und ob diese Änderung nicht am Ende doch einen stetigen Verfall darstellt. In der Vorlesung werden wir deta…[Read more]

]]> 0 70dd66c5eae1c4dfe9e5187859783c1f Steve McCarty deposited "Japanese People and Society" presentation link in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896900/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:08 -0400 From 2004-2024 the author introduced Japan to visiting foreign officials for the government foreign aid agency Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). From 2020, when JICA could not bring participants to Japan, his recorded presentation by Zoom was shown at JICA branches abroad. Now, JICA has released the 98-minute recording from exclusive…[Read more]

]]> 0 00d4dd0241f2e8ca804bdddca82e4ba2 Matthew Scarborough deposited Balto-Slavic Historical Linguistics (MA) (Lecture Notes) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894588/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:06 -0400 This document is an English translation of Thomas Olander's Danish lecture notes used in the MA Elective Indo-European Language course (with specialisation in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics) taught in the Fall Semester 2023 in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen (HIEK0006EU LIN;…[Read more]

]]> 0 81c5f06ccb4b7abb9aaad91b9e1a9f7d Romailyn Flores deposited ACCEPTABILITY OF THE USE OF BIOMATH AS A TEACHING-LEARNING MATERIAL AMONG PUBLIC SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887447/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:39 -0400 “When will I use Mathematics?” is a question often posed by the students thinking how Mathematics will play a role in their daily lives. However, without realizing it, we utilize Mathematics in our day-to-day activities. For this reason, teaching and learning Mathematics is a must because of its significance. Thus, the researchers developed Bio…[Read more]

]]> 0 54635fb97b565c6caf85a9b58effafb9 Romailyn Flores deposited CHALLENGES IN THE PREPARATION OF PERFORMANCE TASKS: BASIS FOR A PROPOSED GRASPS-BASED GUIDE ON PERFORMANCE TASKS IN MATHEMATICS in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885793/ Fri, 10 May 2024 03:01:04 -0400 Performance tasks enable the development of not just the knowledge but also the skills of students. Unfortunately, teachers find it challenging to prepare their performance tasks. To help teachers, an authentic framework for the preparation of performance tasks should be utilized. GRASPS, as an assessment model, can help teachers develop authentic…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b133e62256b0d1d5aed9b4d7946f4c0 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Quick Take: Backward Course Design, Iterative Course Design in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881562/ Sat, 30 Mar 2024 03:01:45 -0400 Backward course design is a foundational framework based in educational best practices that instructors can use to design effective courses. Most explanations and formulations of this model, however, assume a linear course design. For those instructors who teach courses invested in design thinking, recursive thinking, or iteration, these…[Read more]

]]> 0 a48b7813332adcf2fe9ce209da94dd90 Miranda Rodak & Gabrielle Stecher deposited Strategically Publishing OERs in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879879/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:01:48 -0400 Open Educational Resources (OERs) provide an excellent way for faculty to publish and circulate the innovative, high-quality curricular assets they already create to accompany their instruction while also freeing students from the burden of additional course costs. This toolkit empowers faculty to construct a framework for thinking critically…[Read more]

]]> 0 90597d8469df4c31575fc32cacb98ae2 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Quick Take: TILT Overview in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878307/ Sat, 02 Mar 2024 03:00:18 -0500 One-page overview of the TILT in Higher Ed framework.

]]> 0 dbd990d654ac552d7df4fd341bd2510c Anne Valk started the topic Looking for an Assistant Director for Digital Projects in the discussion Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/groups/open-educational-resources/forum/topic/looking-for-an-assistant-director-for-digital-projects/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:32:25 -0500 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the CUNY Graduate Center is looking to hire an Assistant Director for Digital Projects. It's a one year full-time staff position with possibility of renewal, pending funding. The Assistant Director focuses on developing, coordinating, and fundraising for digital projects, and is…[Read more]

]]> 91e216696c3192e05fc4b15958af2c42 Kathleen DeLaurenti deposited Copyrights Management Template in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877677/ Sat, 24 Feb 2024 03:01:17 -0500 This copyrights management plan allows researchers to track licenses, copyright exceptions, and copyright ownership for research-creation projects. Developed to assist musician-scholars who are managing numerous copyrights in their research-creation, this inventory can be adapted to any research project that requires documenting decision making…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dfba1fdc4c965c49d5c32de8b364f44 Kathleen DeLaurenti deposited Copyright Inventory in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877674/ Sat, 24 Feb 2024 03:01:00 -0500 This spreadsheet provides a template for managing copyrights for research-creation projects. Originally developed for musician-scholars who need to manage multiple copyrights for their projects, it can also be used for managing image or archival permissions for any humanities research project.

]]> 0 f86ff557c43be9ea7f40a58aa03bb331 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Blooms Taxonomy for Writing Instruction in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867937/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:01:13 -0500 As educators, we are all familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy and the way it progressively maps the cognitive activities involved in learning and constructing knowledge. Too often, however, we educators who work in writing-focused curricula ask our students to work in the higher-order cognitive domains of analysis and creation without necessarily giving…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb333a05a4b997d41c349694f31e88a0 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited For Students, By Students: Ignite Peer-to-Peer Content Development (Course Review Activity) in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867928/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:00:40 -0500 In courses that end in summative final exams or capstone projects, it can be challenging to get students to pull back and identify the learning that they've done across an entire unit or semester rather than only focus on the learning they've undertaken most recently. As part of our larger sequence of active-learning-based lesson plans designed to…[Read more]

]]> 0 e29c35da5494d66ec0f69924db5c1a7f Johannes Bernhardt deposited Creative Museum. Dokumentation und Manual in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864372/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:02:53 -0500 This booklet serves as documentation and manual for the app Creative Museum, the new participatory platform of the Badisches Landesmuseum. The goal of the app is to create a digital space for debate. Museum employees, experts and citizens are invited to get into conversation with each other and share their contributions on equal terms. The topics…[Read more]

]]> 0 8174e50800ba8341645cbf5a269c6f8f Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited “Getting to Green”: Developing Analysis with Generative AI in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862396/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:01:00 -0400 Students in analytical writing courses can struggle to fully grasp the difference between observing/describing features of a text and making interpretive claims rooted in close reading and analysis of those features. This multi-part class activity uses color coding and generative AI to establish a clearer framework for students to understand the…[Read more]

]]> 0 006a839cead7909eeaa270d7533a32c0 Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Generative AI Writing Course Framework in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862345/ Sun, 22 Oct 2023 03:00:16 -0400 A lesson plan outlining a two-part activity that establishes a framework within which students productively wrestle with the place of generative AI in their learning and writing processes, thereby creating the space for instructor and students to arrive at a collective agreement about the use of these tools in the course grounded in a clear set of…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a6b9aee947fffd768ac3ad12c4d39de Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited Investigating the Relationship among Academic Qualification, Teaching Experience and Writing Proficiency on Classroom-based Writing in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848367/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:26:57 -0400 Writing Assessment Literacy (WAL). However, it is neglected in Iranian context. Taking the importance of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience with regard to writing assessment, the present quantitative study made attempt to investigate the effect of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience…[Read more]

]]> 0 6161770693b8b6fa520390733b8d122f Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited The impact of Oral and Written Story reconstruction on L2 Vocabulary Learning and Retention: A case of EFL Young Learners in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848361/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:26:15 -0400 Word acquisition was one of the important and essential parts for language learning. One of the learning difficulties that many L2 learners at all ages and proficiency levels face was meaningful vocabulary learning and retention as opposed to rote memorization of L2 words. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 25fa0c0308546e9968e7336dd8e17aa5 Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited Facet Variability in the Light of Rater Training in Measuring Oral Performance: A Multifaceted Rasch Analysis in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848353/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:25:06 -0400 Due to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, obtaining consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral performance is rater training. Recently, the Multifaceted Rasch…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5dd1af02ff3d6ed1580220f9b3d679b Matthew Scarborough deposited Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837121/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:25:01 -0400 Since H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more]

]]> 0 f921c0c60703d4ed6bb637f13af1a79d Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachwandel (Seminar) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834436/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:25:24 -0500 In dem Seminar wird Sprachwandel aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet.

]]> 0 3af81279bb3312f1694d7cb2c9dec892 Johann-Mattis List deposited Computational Historical Linguistics in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829667/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:24:27 -0500 In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

]]> 0 8633cbfb2092772ead953f03aeab5ee1 Johann-Mattis List deposited Formal and quantitative approaches to historical language comparison in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1820231/ Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:25:34 -0500 Lecture, given at the Fifth Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics (Università di Pavia, 2022-09-05/09)

]]> 0 90313a65b0af9128d3212daf5db49277 Dr Mark Perkins deposited Linguistics and Classical Theories of Rhetoric: Connections and Continuity in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792124/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 02:23:42 -0400 The Connections between ancient approaches to rhetoric, as found in Plato and Aristotle, the prime ancient theorists of rhetoric, and modern linguistic approaches to register and genre theory, as in Hallidayan linguistics, show continuity of thought across the centuries. They also suggest that there may be such things as universal rhetorical…[Read more]

]]> 0 385191e2604b87d237f8a615ad260c74 Valeria Graziano deposited Public Co-Learning Tools: a Meta-Politics of the Simple for Postdigital Infrastructure in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791473/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:25:10 -0400 Digital strategies are a public co-learning opportunity, not just a mechanism for pumping content into the fuel tank of the attention economy...

]]> 0 f7f351861b1f60675b674ee630f44f97 Steve McCarty deposited Peace Dialogue among Religions: Influence of Religions on Laws and Moral Values in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789348/ Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:25:21 -0400 Illustrated script of a stage play created by the author, a peace dialogue among an American Christian, an Israeli Jew, a Saudi Arabian Muslim, and a Japanese Buddhist. It draws from the conflict resolution process pioneered by Johan Galtung and practiced in Peace Studies classes taught by the author and others at Osaka Jogakuin University. It…[Read more]

]]> 0 c55d963203bf08425e7b6c00ccaa0123 Stephanie Leite deposited ReMobilizing the Future—Mastery Project in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789342/ Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:24:06 -0400 [COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReMobilizing the Future is the third project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking "how can we design a sustainable future?," the purpose of this project is to understand the systems and policies that facilitate and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4e82486d67c3cba5c278e1a14af6225 Stephanie Leite deposited ReDesigning the Future—Mastery Project in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788805/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:24:17 -0400 [COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReDesigning the Future is the second project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking "how can we design a sustainable future?," the purpose of this project is to understand the grand challenges we must overcome to achieve…[Read more]

]]> 0 e218c1b70a7e18d1a2ee14b9b04268b0 Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Una propuesta de WebQuest para la formación en competencias mediáticas e informacionales desde las bibliotecas universitarias in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785810/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 02:24:32 -0400 Innovative university libraries need to create suitable environments to provide training in media and information skills. The WebQuest is a teaching resource adaptable to any educational level which has proven its usefulness in the university context. A WebQuest designed to facilitate knowledge and awareness of the importance of media and…[Read more]

]]> 0 d75a1b146ec628e68860f71096f182ef Johann-Mattis List deposited Annotating cognates in phylogenetic studies of South-East Asian languages in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785119/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 02:25:33 -0400 Compounding and derivation are frequent in many language families. As a consequence, words in different languages are often only partially cognate, sharing only a few but not all morphemes. While partial cognates do not constitute a problem for the phonological reconstruction of individual morphemes, they are problematic when it comes to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d784cb7a6a5dd72ece6c3570c6371462 Justin M. Power deposited Did deaf education and the emergence of American Sign Language trigger the decline of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language? in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784975/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:24:09 -0400 In discussions of the history of American Sign Language (ASL), a village sign language—Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)—has been identified as a possible contributor to ASL and to its differentiation from French Sign Language (LSF; cf. Groce 1985: 73-74, Lane et al 2011: 76, Poole Nash 2015: 611). On this account, MVSL contributed to ASL t…[Read more]

]]> 0 7728f095039dd9a71437e11e21b8c9f4 Justin M. Power deposited Young children and the emergence of ASL: The age distribution of students at the American School for the Deaf, 1817–1867 in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784973/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:23:41 -0400 Young children are thought to play a unique role in the emergence and evolution of language. In research on language acquisition by a deaf child of late learners of ASL as well as in research on the emergence of new signed languages, young children have shown the ability to impose systematicity on relatively less systematic linguistic input…[Read more]

]]> 0 e12df53528e01b64ae1abf76bc87ed73 Johann-Mattis List deposited Of Word Families and Language Trees: New and Old Metaphors in Studies on Language History in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783960/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:23:45 -0400 For a long time, metaphors have played an important role in depicting language history. In this study, we contrast early metaphors on language history, such as the family tree or the wave model, with recent metaphors that were popularized after the quantitative turn, such as forests of trees or phylogenetic networks. Speculating about metaphors…[Read more]

]]> 0 21fdbfa5be8ddd4e38f2e91621cc8d6e Donald Guadagni deposited OPTIMIZING L2 CURRICULUM FOR CHINA STATE EDUCATION in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779838/ Tue, 26 Apr 2022 02:24:36 -0400 This paper outlines and details historical L2 curriculum development for segments of China’s State education system over a ten-year period beginning with the start of the Sino – Foreign joint programs classes in 2011. A two-year post assessment from 2015~2017. Tracking students continuing test results for both the CET (College English Test) ser…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb8d6f2eb0038c76df0ac5cff737e34d Steve McCarty deposited Podcasting Reconsidered in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775389/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 02:25:04 -0400 Slideshow for a forthcoming invited presentation. ABSTRACT: Podcasting originated as a new form of audio broadcasting, but by 2006, issues of ease of use, proprietary technology, and finances slowed its momentum. Now podcasting is more popular than ever. This presentation therefore traces the author’s initial and current CALL podcasting p…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e7b8e7fbac3906bae3ef46eef66f667 Mike Rifino started the topic CFP: Submissions for JITP Themed Issue – Open Educational Resources (5/15/22) in the discussion Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/groups/open-educational-resources/forum/topic/cfp-submissions-for-jitp-themed-issue-open-educational-resources-5-15-22/ Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:21:47 -0400 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue
Open Educational Resources
with a Forum of General Articles

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Issue Editors</span>:
Jojo Karlin (NYU Libraries)
Krystyna Michael (Hostos Community College, CUNY)
Inés Vaño García (Saint Anselm College)

<span style="text-decoration: un…[Read more]

]]> 5774e65c9de1446487267edd2da3e15a Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited नवीन कृषी धोरण आणि भारतीय शेतकरी in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1768472/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:24:07 -0500 शेती हा भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्थेचा कणा समजला जातो. सिंधु घाटी संस्कृतीपासून भारतीय कृषीचे अस्तित्व गणले जाते. स्वातंत्र्यपूर्व काळात व्यापार रोजगार व जीवन जगण्याचे एक साधन म्हणून शेतीला असणारे महत्त्व आज देखील कायम आहे. कधीकाळी पारंपारिक पद्धतीने केली जाणारी शेती, आज आधुनिकतेकडे वळण घेते आहे. भारतीय दृष्टिकोनातून या आधुनिकतेचा विचार केला तर असे दिस…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8e35ba12ff8fc0fda0326a3d985e497 Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्थेची वाटचाल- एक अध्ययन (2014 ते 2020) in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1768470/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:23:58 -0500 जीडीपीमधील उद्योगातील वाटा स्थिर असला तरी त्यात लक्षणीय मूलभूत परिवर्तन झाले. या कालावधीत उत्पादन पुनर्गठनाची प्रक्रिया म्हणून, सकल मूल्य संयोजित असताना उत्पादन सध्याच्या किंमतींवर वार्षिक 8 टक्क्यांनी वाढले होते. त्यानंतर 2004-09 मध्ये सकल मूल्यवर्धित वाढीचा वेग वाढून 20 टक्के झाला. याच किंमतींवर वार्षिक परंतु लक्षणीय म्हणजे रोजगारामध्येही…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0ce10d2332c82b5fdcc985e2ade5ead Mark Perkins deposited Tam o' Shanter: A New Translation (Slide Set) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1768313/ Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:23:51 -0500 This slide set includes a translation into English of Tam o' Shanter by Robert Burns. The aim of the translation is to preserve the original poetic effect of the poem written in Scots. The slide set is intended for academic and educational purposes, as well as personal enjoyment.

]]> 0 c22de8564780e66d0f4c3838f9923cd7 Mark Perkins deposited Tam o' Shanter: A Nordic Tinge in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765928/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:29:06 -0500 Tam o’ Shanter, a great narrative poem written by Roberts Burns, is written in Scots and as such is difficult to access by standard English speakers and non-natives alike. This monograph offers an account of the language of Tam as characterised by a significant number of distinctive lexical and phonological items related to Old Norse. It is c…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bb9afa121b1c1de0fee848ec23b3b03 Mark Perkins deposited Tam o' Shanter: A New Translation in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765923/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:28:34 -0500 Tam o’ Shanter, a great narrative poem written by Roberts Burns, is written in Scots and as such is difficult to access by standard English speakers and non-natives alike. Old Norse influences form an essential part of the fabric of Tam, and the poem can only be fully understood when these are identified and described. This article presents a n…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1f382cfd12b9c9d7d97c024a720d7f7 Subhashish Panigrahi deposited Building the wiki-way for low-resource languages in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761967/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 02:23:39 -0500 When it comes to internet governance, most indigenous, endangered and other low-resource and marginalized language speakers around the world face a significant challenge both in terms of amplifying their issues through participation and their languages getting benefitted in that process. As Whose Knowledge? underlines, a mere 7% of the 6,500 -…[Read more]

]]> 0 6974058654cb09a362c39e47263a8fa0 Johann-Mattis List deposited Correcting a Bias in TIGER Rates Resulting from High Amounts of Invariant and Singleton Cognate Sets in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761862/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 02:24:26 -0500 In a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d6fbbe8643a4a5f2605ffb88205e3ce Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited डॉ. आंबेडकर आणि मुक्त अर्थव्यवस्था in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758634/ Tue, 16 Nov 2021 02:24:46 -0500 आपल्या देशाने 27 जानेवारी 1950 रोजी लोकशाहीचा स्वीकार केला. बहुमताने लोकप्रतिनिधींना निवडून त्यांनी गठीत केलेली शासनप्रणाली हीच राजकीय लोकशाही होय. राजकीय लोकशाहीचा पाया जर सामाजिक लोकशाहीचा नसेल तर ती टिकूच शकणार नाही. गौतम बुद्धाचे तत्त्वज्ञान स्वातंत्र्य, समता, बंधुत्व व न्याय ही मूल्ये प्रदान करतात. या शिवाय संपूर्ण मानवाच्या विक…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b378d84bf6a49378b97226c7a81251d Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Trabajando las competencias en información y en medios (ALFIN/AMI) en la escuela: una experiencia con estudiantes de Educación Secundaria in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755351/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:25:21 -0400 We analyse and reflect on the workshop developed in several secondary schools, under the title "Beyond copy and paste: do original works and improve your grades!" and whose objectives have been to assume the importance of gathering reliable and adequate information, knowing some sources of information and documentation useful for academic work,…[Read more]

]]> 0 416393178e864859787aa5427c83948f Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Reflexiones al hilo de las últimas tendencias y propuestas para la Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional desde las bibliotecas in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755211/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:24:40 -0400 PowerPoint of the webinar given at the Andalusian School Libraries Conference on the newest trends and proposals in relation to media and information literacy.

]]> 0 6024cad0681de06bc74bb7cc2a246c45 Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Innovación y alfabetización mediática e informacional (AMI) en bibliotecas. Recursos, propuestas y tendencias in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755029/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:24:09 -0400 Starting from a review of the recent bibliography, we reflect on the role of libraries in promoting innovation. Training in media, informational and digital competencies is considered as a playing field in which librarians, educators and Administration have to come together, contributing their experience from complementary perspectives. Based on…[Read more]

]]> 0 58ec3e21a38da5137b3de45da4fe34cf James McElvenny deposited Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748707/ Mon, 09 Aug 2021 02:24:13 -0400 Focusing on the work of John McWhorter and, to a lesser extent, Peter Trudgill, this paper critically examines some common themes in language complexity research from the perspective of intellectual history. The present-day conception that increase in language complexity is somehow a “natural” process which is disturbed under the “ab…[Read more]

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