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How much an app costs depends. While there are apps that cost a one time fee, there are others that use subscriptions where you get added content or features for a subscriptions price.
For instance, I highly recommend the "freemium" app Evernote. It captures data from pretty much all your sources. I use it for everything. Last year I finally got my oldest to use it for capturing debate evidence and this year he is doing that again, but it is like a white board where people can use it however they want. So if you walk into class and there is an assignment on the board, whip out your phone, take a photo and add it to Evernote, that assignment won't get lost. Or take notes on your smart phone or with a smart pen and they will automatically feed into Evernote. Later you can go back and organize them to your hearts content.
Evernote also includes a great search feature that can find data quickly for you and use pictures and handwriting analysis to be able to search text in them, too.
And because Evernote is a cross platform app it can be used on your phone, tablet, or computer no matter if Android, iphone, Mac or Windows.
So what's freemium? Well Evernote comes with X amount of data uploaded per month. They will store whatever you have in the account no matter how big it gets. The amount is pretty big so you should be able to get by with the free amount, but if you need more you can go to a premium level where you get lots more data plus some other useful features.
So Evernote doesn't teach you anything, but it does organize you.
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BTW I consider myself Baptist. I do not consider myself Reformed or RC or Orthodox or Protestant. I am aware that the "world" sees me as Protestant. I saw nothing objectionable in Church History in Plain Language and immediately put it on my shelf to refer to in the future after the class was over.
I think Baptist church history is fascinating although I have not studied it directly, but I find a lot of people believe what I suspect are misconceptions about where mainstream baptists in the US came from.
I have no idea what church history to suggest, but usually a pastor or some other geeky person in a church will have some ideas.
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do you have a link you like explaining what a 'neo-anabaptist' is?
Also, in your post #21 I was confused about your meaning in this sentence "People in Reformed churches, where lay people tend to be more educated on their tradition, people tend to not notice the bias because for them, Reformed = Protestant." I would think that if people are more educated about their traditions, it would make it easier to recognize what is 'not' their tradition...perhaps it's my misreading of English...
Joan
I don't think it is your reading of English, but now that the poster has explained I think I understand at least a little of what she was getting at.
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I meant they could be educated about their own point of view and not about the points of views of others and therefore, mistakenly assume theirs was the Christian point of view. And anyone can be guilty of this. I didn't mean to particularly criticize them. Honest!
Thanks! I agree that if you are narrow in your structure you can assume everyone else thinks the same.
I, too, use resources from many traditions and gain from them all. I just think it is good to recognize what tradition they are because otherwise, you will eventually experience inconsistency or paradigm clash.
I also agree with this. Sometimes it is simple stuff like vocabulary. In a non religious setting, I was once in a meeting where a entrepreneur who was starting a bookstore was getting advice on his business plan from a panel of experts. I was fascinated to realize that they were clashing with him over the term "returns." At the time bookstores could return books to wholesalers for credit. This isn't done in most other retail businesses. The panel assumed he meant returns by customers and couldn't understand his high number shown for this.
Let me give a short example: I said I am neo-anabaptist. As such, my view of the place of government in society is very different than the average Reformed view. Therefore, Reformed people will come to conclusions that I no longer accept. Vice versa, I will arrive at conclusions that they will think are very strange - perhaps, in some sense, UnChristian. Like, I am not a complete pacifist but because of our view of government and violence, the thought of going to West Point never occurred to my children. A patriotic Reformed person might think it his responsibility to do so. To understand each other (and respect the position of each other), it is better to understand the entire underpinnings of a religion that views its country as a "Light on a Hill - Reformed - and a neo-anabaptist, who is suspicious of any and all power structures in this world.
While I think I mostly follow this, I have to say that I would not expect to find much on any of this in a church history book, a comparative theology might include such details, but church history, no. I would expect if anything on church, military, war, etc to come up that it would be a series of references like: early Christians refused to serve in the Roman army, St. Augustine comes up with Just War Theory, and Anabaptist were pacifists. I'm not even sure all these details would come up even in a detailed church history.
I think after reading what you say here, I would prefer folks not say they want a church history that is "not" but rather say what sort of church history they would like. As an example, you might wish to use an Anabaptist church history.
Instead what I see in this thread a shifting sand. The OP says she wants a church history that is not reformed. But the response are all over the place, lots of people suggest Church History in Plain Language which I think is pretty middle of the road protestant, but is not RC or Orthodox at all. Karen suggests a RC source. BUT what if the OP is a baptist? Maybe she'd like a Baptist church history?
I will continue to object to folks who categorize Tapestry's materials as reformed unless they give examples. I have asked here and in other threads and have yet to get any answer on this issue. Without proof, it is at best a meaningless claim, at worse it violates the ninth commandment. Without specific examples, I can't tell.
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I feel like the blind leading the blind in this subject (and many others) - thankfully I can ask questions here!
I guess I was operating on the idea that economics ideas should affect how we run businesses, in every day life...not just for the 'economists' who are analyzing the situation...
Joan
I agree with you, but I knew that business school folks would get very little in the way of economics. Even the two courses jdahlquist mentions wouldn't be much in the way of economics knowledge. Sad but true.
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I believe both Japanese poetry and Chinese poetry were very influential on 20th century poets so including a collection of their work is a good plan. I do not have a volume of Japanese poetry for you, but I am presently reading: http://www.amazon.com/The-Anchor-Book-Chinese-Poetry/dp/0385721986/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379366106&sr=8-1&keywords=the+anchor+book+of+chinese+poetry and can recommend it.
While Lori includes Faust I think The Sorrows of Young Werther may have been more influential on English writers and you might wish to consider it. If you do go with Faust, I suggest this edition: http://www.amazon.com/Goethes-Faust-Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe/dp/0385031149/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379366212&sr=1-2
I should say both the two books above include introductory material on translation which I found very helpful not just for the works included but in understanding the translation process.
Lori also does not mention any classical literature which could be included in this category: Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid as well as various plays and poetry for ancient cultures.
You may wish to consider if you want to cover only modern works, older works, prose, poetry, drama, etc. Most of what Lori has put above is prose and hence part of the Modern Period, but you might wish to narrow to only 20th Century OR you might wish to go further back in time and draw a more complete picture of world lit. I don't know.
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I suspect that boiling your water will take less time than culturing your water. And while it might seem that you could just run the test once and be done, I don't think that would be wise as what is in your water may change over time as the event changes over time.
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<<I've been mulling this distinction over myself.>> There is a very large distinction.
Anabaptist, Catholic, EO, so-called Armenian and free church ideas are very different from one another! In some areas, you might find more agreement between an Armenian point of view and EO point of view and it other areas, the EO will more closely resemble the RC or Reformed or whatever.
In the US, many people have melting pot religion going and people hold a mish-mash of conflicting theologies. People in Reformed churches, where lay people tend to be more educated on their tradition, people tend to not notice the bias because for them, Reformed = Protestant. In fact, I read a post on this site where someone said as much. I used to be Reformed and had that tendency as well (I'm now more neo-Anabaptist). Reformed theology has grown much over the last few years and is the basis of many homeschool curriculums. I consider anyone who believes the fundamentals of Christianity my brother or sister, but not knowing the differences in traditions and theological frameworks will make for confusion in your life and that of your children's. At least that's my opinion. I wouldn't consider my children (or myself) well educated unless they knew the differences.
I'm afraid your post just puzzles me more. I would generally not think that lay people who are "more educated" would not be more likely to assume other protestant traditions are the same as theirs. In fact, I would assume the reverse: more knowledge means the ability to understand the distinctions; the greater the knowledge the greater the distinction.
However, I must admit that examples would be helpful in figuring this out. I'm afraid I'm at the point in regards to Tapestry specifically to begin to think that people are just repeating what they've heard or assuming that because the authors are open and honest about their own view point it must pervaded everything they write and use. The reason I think this is because I have yet to see any evidence myself (note in my posts above several clear examples of inclusion of other points of view) and when I ask for examples I have yet to get them.
However I'm willing to admit that someone can be aware of one distinction but not others. For instance, this is my year to read commentaries and strive to find a variety of commentaries. For Genesis I read R. R. Reno's commentary on Genesis. While there were points where he was actively trying to chart a course of ecumenicism there were other points when it was clear that he was not aware that some turns of phrases were hugely alien to a protestant reader (I especially noticed those in regards to Mary). On the other hand I enjoyed his commentary and found much to learn from it.
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I was curious about whether business schools even require courses in economics. I've looked at a couple, and thus far it appears that the answer is no. As an example:
http://www.hbs.edu/mba/academic-experience/curriculum/Pages/default.aspx
The first year in an MBA program there are no economics classes. The second year they have electives and there are some classes with economics in the title but at most 3 - 5 out of over 70 electives. Even those classes are not what I would categorize as a pure economics class:
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact and
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Do you mean by 'not reformed' as in Roman Catholic? or not Roman Catholic and not Protestant?
There's Miller's Church History - which is neither of those..
http://www.stempublishing.com/history/MILLER.html
HTH,
Joan
This is a good question: I've been mulling this distinction over myself. I really, really wish some of those that say Tapestry materials are reformed would provide some examples. "Reformed" means a very particular protestant flavor, but it shares many things in common with other protestant denominations, but less with RC or Orthodox.
I can't tell from comments in this thread what anyone means on this particular point. Allow me to point out again that Tapestry includes bios of the Wesleys, Billy Sunday, and others who are decidedly not reformed (protestant yes, not reformed). Precision on this would be helpful.
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I'm not sure that degrees in basic science are useless. It would be wise for you to go to your school's career and planning office and find out what kinds of jobs such degrees get.
Just because later on some group of people return to get upper level degrees does not mean the degree is a bad one to get just that there are opportunities beyond entry level that require an upper level degree.
I'd also say that aggieamy's post is a good one to reread. As I read this thread I wonder if you have unrealistic expectations for what a first out of college job will be like. Maybe you are going about your search from the wrong direction. Instead maybe you should find and talk with folks who are doing jobs you could get right out of college and find out what it is like for them.
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Personally if your goal is to give her some appreciation for history in general, you'd be wiser to focus in and design a study that focuses on one period or just a couple of events. If for instance you want to focus on the US, then spend a quarter study the Revolutionary War and the signing of the constitution, then the next quarter study the Civil War, and so forth. In each of those quarters do an in depth study.
Trying to study all of history in year because she doesn't have retention is almost a sure prescription for continuing her lack of retention.
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We have just learned that even with ds's "in the very respectable range" ACT/SAT scores, his aid to a university will be very limited because they are based on test scores AND GPA; our umbrella program is not accredited (they do not require a standardized curriculum) so the universities will not award ds any merit-based scholarships. Tutorial/dual enrollment CC grades are not given any extra consideration. Community college may really be ds's only affordable choice - we're in that category of income that is too high for low income grants and too low to actually afford college.
Plenty of colleges award merit scholarships based on unaccredited programs. In most states home schooled students don't use umbrella schools at all.
So I would press whoever has told you this to find out if it is correct. And I would find some other schools that might award a scholarship without an accredited program if the schools you are looking at don't offer it.
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I think some of the problem is that when, in order to get into the dream school, you have sacrificed a lot and been very single minded and worked incredibly hard, if you don't get in it was all for naught, since the other schools wouldn't have required all that dedication and sacrifice.
Nan
The book I mention specifically deals with exactly this kind of thinking. While it will work out fine if the child gets in, it destroys other chances such as Laura mentions, and it does so in multiple ways which the author discusses. I suggest reading the book and mulling over its message on this point. Find some other schools for your student to love as much as the reach school.
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Uh, well, all the "hard" science research I've done in both biology and physics has involved a lot of variables that we couldn't control. We do measure everything we can and add it to the analysis, but it's a little hard to control a variable when it's something being spewed off the sun and is in a region of space we can't get to.
If you only do studies where you can control variables, you can't ask a lot of the interesting questions.
I agree a lot of systems that you would want to study have too many variables to control.
Social scientists instead measure as many variables as they can and do analysis of variance to determine which variables come into play. Sometimes those variables can come out of no where and seem insane. I can remember in a stat class learning multiple analysis of variance tests that we used census data. One of our projects was to determine why people migrated from state to state. The problem was that biggest factor in the data set was suicide rate, the higher the suicide rate the higher the proportion of new residents in a state.
I suppose technically they aren't really do a pure experiment at all, because they don't randomly assign subjects to groups, but even in other sciences involving humans this is true as well. While doctors can randomly assign patients to treatments they can't keep patients in the groups, or control their diets, etc. Instead they try to collect that data and measure the variance.
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In the book 8 First Choices they emphasis having all the choices a student applies to (in your case 5) be schools the student really would want and be happy to go to.
I've also read that most students say they got into the school they wanted to go to. I suspect the human mind rewrites some things (well really lots of things) so as long as you don't dwell on failure to get into a top school and his list has 5 schools he can really see himself at I think he will be fine, even as time progresses think wherever he got in was his first choice.
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When I saw that her SAT math/reading score was 820, I thought it was a misprint, and had to do a double take! I can appreciate what the authors of the article are trying to expose in terms of the way financial aid is being distributed, but picking this girl's story to illustrate the point doesn't appear to be the best choice.
Sadly our state has three historically black colleges that all have similar SAT acceptance ranges. I am only directly familiar with one of them which is local to me. As I told some one else recently, every time I think well maybe they've gotten better I run into another professor at the school who disabuses me of that notion.
The way our state does funding for the university system is to evenly distribute various programs. Which mean neither of the two top notch schools get everything they want, sometimes a program is parceled out to a lower level school.
Personally I think even more scary than the fact that they enroll unprepared students is the fact that graduate them on track. Another of the schools hired an attorney from my dh's law firm for their law school some years ago. He just shook his head because they were such a terrible attorney. The attorney certainly wasn't going to make partner. He didn't understand why the school would want this person to teach or what they could teach.
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I would probably not, given your concerns, enroll him in an online AoPS course since those move very rapidly and don't go a full school year. Instead you can use the materials on your own. They are designed to be self teaching.
BUT as some one who did Singapore and continued on to their NEM series, I want to strongly encourage you to consider their upper level programs. NEM is out of print all the way through so I think you will want to consider the DM series.
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Can I admit I hate to answer these sorts of thread without knowing what else you are doing. Knowing might not help me, but sometimes there is a hole somewhere that needs a particular sort of story not just my favorite.
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Can you call and only ask to schedule with the first therapist? I wouldn't want to be passed around to just whoever was available. Each PT works differently and working with 2 different ones seems like a bad idea for more than an occasional 'out sick' day.
Yes, this is what I was thinking, but it wasn't a great day for thinking.
I think I will see the second person once more to make sure I am on target with this thought and then go from there, but I want to make sure that the pain isn't clouding my judgement.
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I have an injured shoulder. I've been told that it was/is close to being a "frozen shoulder."
I had an evaluation appointment and now two actual therapy appointments. I've been doing the exercises they sent me home with.
The therapist who evaluated me and worked with me at the first appointment, I liked, but she told me she is only part time. Thus far I have only seen one other therapist at the place, but I've really only been twice.
As part of the appointments, I am "manipulated" or stretched by the therapist. This is the worst pain I've ever felt easily topping childbirth (and I had no pain killers for either child). I know I need to do this to get better, but I'm not exactly eager for appointments, either.
With the first therapist, I survived partly because she spent time shaking me out after each stretch. All she told me when she was doing the tough stretches was to breathe.
Today with the other therapist, it was worse. I suspect she stretched me more which I suppose is a good thing, but she did not do as much shaking out and made several comments about how I was too stiff and wasn't relaxing. I was shaky when I was done and when I got home I went upstairs to lay down and apply more cold therapy as I am supposed to and found myself crying. I am not a crier and although I wasn't sobbing dramatically I didn't stop either. This afternoon on a short grocery run I noticed I was still shaky.
So I need input from others who have therapy: am I right in thinking that if I am faithful in exercising and keep doing this it will get better? And if you can remember how quickly that happens, I could stand to hear that. Should I expect to be just wiped out by the pain?
I have a weird set of appointments due to me judging fair entries on Friday of this week so I won't go back until next Wednesday.
What I also need input on is what to tell therapist number 2 who I assume I will have again about both the relaxation comments which made the whole process more difficult for me plus the shaking out. I'm hopeful that I'll have the first therapist for my second appointment next week since it is scheduled in the same time period as the first one I had with her.
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This is partly a vent, but he is a junior, does NCFCA debate and is in Region 9 (although we can negotiate). He debated last year, but his partner is now going to a private school.
He is in love with this year's topic: federal election law.
Please if you know of anyone who wants to debate, don't hesitate to contact me.
Otherwise, please feel free to sympathize. :sad:
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Candid,
I have really lucked out this year. I'm using Derek Owens for Geometry. He teaches, grades the homework and tests, and is there to answer any questions that my DD has about her Geometry lessons.
For Chemistry, she is doing a co-op class. Her teacher has a degree in Chemistry and grades the lab notebook, conducts the lab classes, and gives and grades the test. She is also available at a local college on Wednesdays if the students need extra help. My DD made a 98% on her first test.
Wow, I think I'll just sit back with a nice tall glass of iced tea and a good book! Who would have thought high school would be so easy? :)
I outsourced physics to Mr. Owens this year: I still have Calculus, but I think I can handle that without climbing the walls like last year with Chemistry and Pre Calc.
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Silly question, but do you recall how you learnt it? I do have to sit and do certain problems myself before assigning to the boy, but I cannot recall where the bath method is initially explained. Many thanks
If I might, there are two good resources for getting a handle on bar diagrams.
I used the Primay Teacher's book to reteach the models to my oldest:
http://www.singaporemath.com/Handbook_for_Primary_Mathematics_Teachers_p/hbpm.htm
When they were initially introduced he saw no purpose for them since he could do the early examples without them.
Later on I got this book which is more thorough than the teacher's guide:
http://www.singaporemath.com/Bar_Modeling_A_Problem_solving_Tool_p/bmpst.htm
Whatever you do, do not buy anything not written by either the US person (Jenny) OR someone from Singapore: I have also read some books written by American teachers that were horrible.
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My suggestion is to use action words and short, staccato phrasing.
Selected educational materials. Administered examinations.