Sunday, June 7, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.
Historical Note. The first ever wiki site was created for the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995. That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages.
The objective is to disseminate and promote Internet use across the company and ensure that Agnes Day Internet. Arose on the initiative of the Association of Internet Users (AUI) to which are added, then other organizations. All up the committee for promotion and invite all of society to promote activities and events on the occasion of this anniversary.
Wikipedia, the marathon is a Department of Education of the Catalan centers aimed at primary and secondary schools and the education community in general for the Internet Day on 17 May.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, and Internet access available in 250 languages to laborativament produced by some of its own readers. Anyone can modify, translate, or create new articles by following some simple rules of style and respect the rules of good behavior.
Is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to offer free knowledge to everyone in the world. Responsible for the maintenance, development and distribution, with no advertising.
Wikipedia is the Spanish edition of Wikipedia. Was established on 16 March 2001 and for two months, was the only one with articles on non-English language. Has, in English, approximately some 60,000 items (the middle of May 2007), whereas in English there are 1,706,000, 466,000 in French, Spanish or 216,000 in a minority language such as Finnish , 106,466. Currently, Wikipedia is in English in the language of more than 10,000 entries.
Marathon Wikipedia tries to present in the form of a challenge, passing the 100,000 articles written in English in 2007.
Objectives of the Marathon
* To introduce students to the Wikipedia encyclopedia in English.
* Knowing the dimensions of this collaborative project of international scope.
* Access is through the active creation or improvement of new articles.
* Overcoming the 100,000 articles in English language from Wikipedia in 2007.
* Promote the use of Internet to schools.
Aimed at
* Schools and educational services
* Faculty and students
* The educational community
Monday, March 16, 2009
Charles Robert Darwin:
At the age of 51, Charles Darwin had just published On the Origin of Species.
Born 12 February 1809(1809-02-12)Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Died 19 April 1882 (aged 73)Down House, Downe, Kent, EnglandResidence England Nationality British
Fields Naturalist
Institutions Royal Geographical Society Alma mater University of EdinburghUniversity of Cambridge Academic advisors Adam SedgwickJohn Stevens Henslow Known for The Voyage of the BeagleOn The Origin of SpeciesNatural selection
Influences Charles Lyell
Influenced Thomas Henry HuxleyGeorge John Romanes
Notable awards Royal Medal (1853)Wollaston Medal (1859)Copley Medal (1864)
Religious stance Church of England, though Unitarian family background, Agnostic after 1851.
He was a grandson of Erasmus Darwin and a grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, and married his cousin Emma Wedgwood.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. his parents died when he was young. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism.
List of work:
Tales
"The Black Cat"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"A Descent into the Maelstrom"
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Gold-Bug"
"Ligeia"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Oval Portrait"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Premature Burial"
"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poetry
"Al Aaraaf"
"Annabel Lee"
"The Bells"
"The City in the Sea"
"The Conqueror Worm"
"A Dream Within A Dream"
"Eldorado"
"Eulalie"
"The Haunted Palace"
"To Helen"
"Lenore"
"Tamerlane"
"The Raven"
"Ulalume"
Other works
Politian (1835) – Poe's only play
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) – Poe's only complete novel
"The Balloon-Hoax" (1844) – A journalistic hoax printed as a true story
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846) – Essay
Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) – Essay
"The Poetic Principle" (1848) – Essay
"The Light-House" (1849) – Poe's last incomplete work
Poetry
"Al Aaraaf"
"Annabel Lee"
"The Bells"
"The City in the Sea"
"The Conqueror Worm"
"A Dream Within A Dream"
"Eldorado"
"Eulalie"
"The Haunted Palace"
"To Helen"
"Lenore"
"Tamerlane"
"The Raven"
Sunday, February 8, 2009
2. The most cruel and bloody of Will's tragedies: T I t u s
3. Queen of England during most of Will's life: E l i z a b e t h
4. Tragedy set in the Roman Empire: J u L i u s C a e s a r
5. Name of the book which collected Will's plays: F I r s t F o l i o
6. Will's only son: H A m n e t
7. Will's mother: M a r y A r d e n
8. Will's hometown: S t r a t f o r d
9. Name of Will's rival poet: C H r i s t o p h e r
10.Founder of the Theatre: B u r b A g e
11.One of Will's most famous tragedies, in which a king has three daughters: K i n g L e a r
12.A famous theatre close to the Globe: R o s E
13.Will's first daughter: S u s a n n a
14.Hamlet's unfortunate girlfriend: P h e l i a
15.Will's theatre: G l o b E
16.One of Will's famous tragedy . " Out damn spot. Out, I say !": M A c b e t h
17.Tragedy and name of the king who said " A horse. My kingdom for a horse !": R i c h a r d
18.Tragedy and name of a man who killed his wife Desdemona for jealousy: O t h E l l o
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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