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Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology
by Robert A. Reiser John V. DempseyTrends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology, Third Edition, provides readers with a clear picture of the field of instructional design and technology, the trends and issues that have affected it in the past and present, and those trends and issues likely to affect it in the future. The text will prepare its readers to master the skills associated with IDT, clearly describe the nature of the field, familiarize themselves with the field's history and its current status, and describe recent trends and issues impacting on the field. Written by the leading figures in the field with contributions from Elizabeth Boling, Richard Clark, Ruth Clark, Walter Dick, Marcy Driscoll, Michael Hannafin, John Keller, James Klein, David Jonassen, Richard Mayer, David Merrill, Charles Reigeluth, Marc Rosenberg, Allison Rossett, Sharon Smaldino, Harold Stolovitch, Brent Wilson, Robert Reiser, John Dempsey, and many others, this book clearly defines and describes the rapidly converging fields of instructional design, instructional technology, and performance technology.
Troubleshoot and Optimize Windows 8 Inside Out
by Mike HalseyYou're beyond the basics, so dive right into optimizing Windows® 8--and really put your PC or tablet to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting techniques, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts keep their Windows 8 systems running smoothly--and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. Master essential Windows 8 maintenance and security features Implement best practices to help prevent and combat viruses, malware, and identity theft Apply quick fixes to the most common problems using expert tips and step-by-step repair guides Use advanced troubleshooting techniques by understanding how Windows 8 works Develop a recovery plan to restore your system and data in the event of a disaster Know when to use power utilities for advanced performance, maintenance, and diagnostics
Trust, Social Relations and Engagement
by Donatella PaduaIn the Internet Age, horizontal value chains generated by peer-to-peer relationships have to be integrated in economic vertical processes. This means that all institutions, from the economical to the political, to the cultural or technological have to turn their approach into a 'social' one. This doesn't mean embracing a no-profit perspective: indeed it implies designing new trust and engagement strategies to generate positive win-win situations with stakeholders. Through the tools offered by sociology, a specific indication on how to build and measure value out of these strategies is offered by the 'Value for Engagement Model'. Behind the model, the innovative concept of Value for Engagement allows the definition of focused strategies to build value through achieving the stakeholders' commitment and activating emotional ties to the organisation. In this new role of 'pulling' stakeholders, the prerequisite is to be perceived as trustworthy.
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
by Andrew Blum“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of TrafficWhen your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives—and the broader scheme of human culture—can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now.In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes inside the Internet's physical infrastructure and flips on the lights, revealing an utterly fresh look at the online world we think we know. It is a shockingly tactile realm of unmarked compounds, populated by a special caste of engineer who pieces together our networks by hand; where glass fibers pulse with light and creaky telegraph buildings, tortuously rewired, become communication hubs once again. From the room in Los Angeles where the Internet first flickered to life to the caverns beneath Manhattan where new fiber-optic cable is buried; from the coast of Portugal, where a ten-thousand-mile undersea cable just two thumbs wide connects Europe and Africa, to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have built monumental data centers—Blum chronicles the dramatic story of the Internet's development, explains how it all works, and takes the first-ever in-depth look inside its hidden monuments.This is a book about real places on the map: their sounds and smells, their storied pasts, their physical details, and the people who live there. For all the talk of the "placelessness" of our digital age, the Internet is as fixed in real, physical spaces as the railroad or telephone. You can map it and touch it, and you can visit it. Is the Internet in fact "a series of tubes" as Ted Stevens, the late senator from Alaska, once famously described it? How can we know the Internet's possibilities if we don't know its parts?Like Tracy Kidder's classic The Soul of a New Machine or Tom Vanderbilt's recent bestseller Traffic, Tubes combines on-the-ground reporting and lucid explanation into an engaging, mind-bending narrative to help us understand the physical world that underlies our digital lives.
Tumblr For Dummies
by Sue JenkinsCreate a Tumblelog and start posting--this fun, portable guide shows you howTumblr may be a microblogging platform, but there's nothing micro about it. There's no limit to what you can post in your blog--from text, photos, and links to audio, video, slideshows, and more. Now you can join the over 28 million Tumblelogs on Tumblr with this handy, portable guide. In the popular, For Dummies, easy-access style, this practical book shows you exactly what to do to get the most out of Tumblr. Set up your account, choose a theme, post from your computer or phone, see how to reblog content, and before you know it, you're off and Tumbling.Guides you in how to join and get the most out of Tumblr Shows you how to set up an account, choose a theme, customize your Tumblelog, and use the dashboard Explains how to follow other Tumblr users and reblog their content, and post from your browser, phone, or email Offers tips, trick, and techniques to make everything easyAll the detail you need to get up and running on this fun microblogging platform is here, in Tumblr For Dummies Portable Edition.
Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing's vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things--and our universe would never be the same. Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars. Dyson's account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It's no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time. How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing's one-dimensional model became John von Neumann's two-dimensional implementation, Turing's Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.
TV Content Analysis: Techniques and Applications (Multimedia Computing, Communication And Intelligence Ser.)
by Yiannis Kompatsiaris Bernard Merialdo Shiguo LianThe rapid advancement of digital multimedia technologies has not only revolutionized the production and distribution of audiovisual content, but also created the need to efficiently analyze TV programs to enable applications for content managers and consumers. Leaving no stone unturned, TV Content Analysis: Techniques and Applications provides a de
TV White Space Spectrum Technologies: Regulations, Standards, and Applications
by Rashid A. Saeed Stephen J. ShellhammerAlthough sophisticated wireless radio technologies make it possible for unlicensed wireless devices to take advantage of un-used broadcast TV spectra, those looking to advance the field have lacked a book that covers cognitive radio in TV white spaces (TVWS). Filling this need, TV White Space Spectrum Technologies: Regulations, Standards and Applic
#tweetsmart
by J. S. Mcdougall<p>"OK. I’ve got my Twitter account…now what can I do with it?" Sound familiar? <i>#tweetsmart</i> provides the answer with 25 creative projects to help your business, cause, or organization grow. But this isn’t just another social media marketing book—it’s the anti-marketing how-to community-engagement book. You’ll find projects to help you approach your Twitter audience in ways that are strategic, measurable, and fun.</p>
#tweetsmart: 25 Twitter Projects to Help You Build Your Community
by J. S. Mcdougall"OK. I’ve got my Twitter account…now what can I do with it?" Sound familiar? #tweetsmart provides the answer with 25 creative projects to help your business, cause, or organization grow. But this isn’t just another social media marketing book—it’s the anti-marketing how-to community-engagement book.Twitter is not a marketing channel (and should never be used as such) but it is a community of interested, engaged, and influential people. Meeting and getting to know these people can help you build your own community. In this useful guide, you’ll find projects to help you approach your Twitter audience in ways that are strategic, measurable, and fun.Put a new wrinkle on an old contest: "be the 10th person to tweet"Create a hashtag game around your company or productsInstead of polling, ask your followers to help you make a product decisionMake MadLibs out of your marketing copy or mission statementHold a scavenger hunt, and relay clues via TwitterOrganize a weekly Twitter chat on various subjectsSolicit funny product shots, using Twitter’s photo-sharing utilitySpontaneously tweet from a store location: "Meet me now and win!"
Twitter Bootstrap Web Development How-To
by David CochranAn easy-to-follow step-by-step presentation which will get you started with Twitter Bootstrap. Practical examples will help you to get set up quickly and easily. This guide is for new, novice, and intermediate developers alike. Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required although this book will help beginners find their feet with both more easily. Those experienced with HTML and CSS will quickly learn the beautiful and efficient ways of Bootstrap.
Twitter in One Hour for Lawyers
by Jared CorreiaMore lawyers than ever before are using Twitter to network with colleagues, attract clients, market their law firms, and even read the news. But to the uninitiated, Twitter's short messages, or tweets, can seem like they are written in a foreign language. Twitter in One Hour for Lawyers will demystify one of the most important social-media platforms of our time and teach you to tweet like an expert. In just one hour, you will learn to: Create a Twitter account and set up your profile Read tweets and understand Twitter jargon Write tweets and send them at the appropriate time Gain an audience follow and be followed Engage with other Twitters users Integrate Twitter into your firm's marketing plan Cross-post your tweets with other social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn Understand the relevant ethics, privacy, and security concerns Get the greatest possible return on your Twitter investment And much more "
Two-Dimensional Change Detection Methods
by Murat Ilsever Cem ÜnsalanChange detection using remotely sensed images has many applications, such as urban monitoring, land-cover change analysis, and disaster management. This work investigates two-dimensional change detection methods. The existing methods in the literature are grouped into four categories: pixel-based, transformation-based, texture analysis-based, and structure-based. In addition to testing existing methods, four new change detection methods are introduced: fuzzy logic-based, shadow detection-based, local feature-based, and bipartite graph matching-based. The latter two methods form the basis for a structural analysis of change detection. Three thresholding algorithms are compared, and their effects on the performance of change detection methods are measured. These tests on existing and novel change detection methods make use of a total of 35 panchromatic and multi-spectral Ikonos image sets. Quantitative test results and their interpretations are provided.
Tworzenie stron WWW: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual Ser.)
by Matthew MacdonaldFor anyone who wants to create an engaging web site--for either personal or business purposes--Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing a professional and reliable web presence. Like every Missing Manual, you can count on Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual to be entertaining and insightful and complete with all the vital information, clear-headed advice, and detailed instructions you need to master the task at hand. Author Matthew MacDonald teaches you the fundamentals of creating, maintaining, and updating an effective, attractive, and visitor-friendly web site--from scratch or from an existing site that's a little too simple or flat for your liking. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual doesn't only cover how to create a well-designed, appealing, smart web site that is thoroughly up to date and brimming with the latest features. It also covers why it's worth the effort by explaining the rationale for creating a site in the first place and discussing what makes a given web site particularly aesthetic, dynamic, and powerful. It further helps you determine your needs and goals and make well informed design and content decisions. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual includes a basic primer on HTML, working with JavaScript, and incorporating services like Paypal's shopping cart, Amazon's associate program, and Google AdSense and AdWords. It delivers advanced tricks for formatting, graphics, audio and video, as well as Flash animation and dynamic content. And you'll learn how to identify and connect with your site's audience through forms, forums, meta tags, and search engines. This isn't just another dry, uninspired book on how to create a web site. Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual is a witty and intelligent guide for all of you who are ready to make your ideas and vision a web reality.
Typographic Web Design: How To Think Like A Typographer In HTML and CSS
by Laura FranzLegibility and readability are the foundations for the typographic theories and practice covered in Typographic Web Design. You'll learn how to choose fonts, organize information, create a system of hierarchy, work with tabular information, create a grid, apply a typographic system across multiple pages, and build a font library. Each chapter provides time-tested typography rules to follow (modified for the web), explains why they work, when to break them, and offers the opportunity to test the rules with hands-on exercises in HTML and CSS. If you don't know HTML and CSS, Typographic Web Design provides a walk-through for each lesson, showing you how to plan and write syntax. Laura Franz is an Associate Professor of Design at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she has taught web typography for 12 years. She has presented lectures and workshops on Typographic Web Design, and has written a course on the topic for Lynda. com.
Übersetzerbau
by Sebastian Hack Helmut Seidl Reinhard WilhelmDas Buch behandelt die Analysephase von Übersetzern für Programmiersprachen. Die Autoren beschreiben die lexikalische, syntaktische und semantische Analyse sowie Spezifikationsmechanismen für diese Aufgaben aus der Theorie der formalen Sprachen und automatische Erzeugungsverfahren aus der Theorie der Automaten. Vorgestellt wird eine konzeptionelle Übersetzerstruktur, mit der ein Eingabe- in ein Maschinenprogramm transformiert wird. Das Buch enthält neben der notwendigen Theorie auch Hinweise zur Implementierung von Übersetzern.
UDK iOS Game Development Beginner’s Guide
by John Preston Doran Christos GatzidisThe book takes a step-by-step process in completing tasks with many detailed illustrations while allowing you to add your own creativity to the mix to create a game that is uniquely your own.If you would like to make iOS games with the Unreal Development Kit or are interested in porting your game from PC to iOS, this book is for you
Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords
by Perry Marshall Bryan ToddDouble Your Web Traffic - Overnight!Google gets searched more than 1 billion times every day-creating an unbelievable opportunity to get your business in front of thousands every minute...IF you know what you're doing. Google AdWords experts Perry Marshall and Bryan Todd uncover the fundamentals, techniques, tools, and tricks that Google should teach you, but doesn't. Learn how to build an aggressive , streamlined campaign proven to increase your search engine visibility, consistently capture clicks and increase sales. No other guide is as comprehensive, or current in it's coverage of today's fastest, most powerful advertising medium. Pay only for leads, signups or sales rather than just clicks Connect Google ads to social media Use Google's Conversion Optimizer function to it's fullest Best practices for using Google's Display Network Know the latest information on "relevance" and how to keep Quality Scores high Build a powerful, streamlined campaign from scratch Develop high quality keyword lists Write killer advertising and website copy that gets clicks Get your ads in front of the best audience possible Keep your ads showing up with high quality scores Triple your traffic with Google's Display Network Earn high rankings in Google's organic search results Slash your bid prices Gain more conversions and sales Avoid costly mistakes made by all Google advertisers Determine what's working with Google's conversion tracking
Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business
by Ted ProdromouLinkedIn, which began in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002, is now the world's largest professional network on the Internet with 150 million users. In 2011 alone there were 4.5 million professionally oriented searches on LinkedIn. This vast resource is not only the number one way reconnect with former colleagues and employers and get job leads, it has become the fastest-growing, most powerful source for businesses to target the right potential customers, partners, and employees.The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business, by longtime Internet authority Ted Prodromou, offers a wealth of zero or low-cost methods for maximizing this dynamic resource. It's easy to get started on LinkedIn, but fully mastering its intricacies and knowing how to get the most effective connections that lead to greater exposure, increased marketshare, and breakout sales can be tricky and time-consuming. Whereas most people think of LinkedIn as merely a way to get "job leads," those who follow Ted's instruction develop a strategic approach to engaging people and multiplying the links that can open up business in revolutionary, unexpected ways-including globally.
Ultra High-Speed CMOS Circuits
by Sam Gharavi Babak HeydariThe book covers the CMOS-based millimeter wave circuits and devices and presents methods and design techniques to use CMOS technology for circuits operating beyond 100 GHz. Coverage includes a detailed description of both active and passive devices, including modeling techniques and performance optimization. Various mm-wave circuit blocks are discussed, emphasizing their design distinctions from low-frequency design methodologies. This book also covers a device-oriented circuit design technique that is essential for ultra high speed circuits and gives some examples of device/circuit co-design that can be used for mm-wave technology.
UML 2.0. Almanach
by Neil Pitman Dan PiloneWyczerpuj?cy przewodnik po j?zyku UML 2.0 Specyfikacja j?zyka UML 2.0 Modelowanie statyczne i dynamiczne Rozszerzanie i zastosowania UML-a Ujednolicony j?zyk modelowania (UML) pocz?tkowo s?u?y? do opisu elementów oprogramowania, jednak z powodu swej elegancji i przejrzysto?ci zyskuje na popularno?ci w zakresie modelowania zagadnie? z innych dziedzin. W zwi?zku z tym coraz wi?cej osób ma szans? zetkn?? si? z diagramami w j?zyku UML. Je?li si?gn??e? po t? ksi??k?, prawdopodobnie czeka to tak?e Ciebie. Chcia?by? wiedzie?, co oznaczaj? ró?ne zako?czenia linii na diagramach klas albo zrozumie? skomplikowany diagram interakcji? Zajrzyj do ?rodka. "UML 2.0. Almanach" to kompletny podr?cznik dla u?ytkowników tego j?zyka. Dzi?ki tej ksi??ce poznasz podstawy modelowania w UML-u. Nauczysz si? tworzy? i rozumie? diagramy statyczne, na przyk?ad klas, pakietów czy struktur z?o?onych, a tak?e diagramy zachowania, takie jak przypadków u?ycia, aktywno?ci czy interakcji. Dowiesz si?, jak wszechstronne zastosowania ma ten j?zyk oraz w jaki sposób mo?na go rozszerza? do wykonywania specyficznych zada?. Znajdziesz tu tak?e krótkie wprowadzenie do j?zyka Object Constraint Language (OCL) oraz architektury sterowanej modelem (MDA). Podstawy modelowania w UML-u Diagramy statyczne i diagramy zachowania Dobór odpowiedniego rodzaju diagramu Znaczenie symboli, notacji i linii Rozszerzanie UML-a za pomoc? etykiet, stereotypów i profili Architektura sterowana modelem J?zyk Object Constraint Language (OCL) Praktyczne wskazówki z zakresu modelowania Poznaj tajniki modelowania w j?zyku UML 2.0
UML 2.0. Wprowadzenie
by Russ Miles Kim HamiltonNajtrudniejszym etapem ka?dego procesu tworzenia systemu informatycznego jest wykonanie odpowiedniego projektu. Umiej?tno?? pogodzenia wymaga? u?ytkowników i osób finansuj?cych system z mo?liwo?ciami oferowanymi przez technologi? jest kluczowym elementem sukcesu. Im bardziej z?o?ony system, tym bardziej zawi?y staje si? projekt. Konieczno?? ustandaryzowana technik projektowania systemów zaowocowa?a powstaniem narz?dzi, dzi?ki którym nawet najbardziej skomplikowany projekt mo?na przedstawi? w prosty i czytelny sposób. Takim narz?dziem jest notacja UML -- zestaw ikon tworz?cych diagramy opisuj?ce system i jego elementy. Ksi??ka "UML 2.0. Wprowadzenie" w praktyczny sposób przedstawia techniki modelowania systemów informatycznych za pomoc? j?zyka UML 2.0. Czytaj?c j?, nauczysz si? graficznie przedstawia? otoczenie systemu, wymagania stawiane przez u?ytkowników i metody ich implementacji w systemie. Utworzysz diagramy klas, interakcji, komponentów, wdro?enia i inne, które opisuj? projekt w jednoznaczny oraz prosty sposób. Dowiesz si? tak?e, jak zaplanowa? proces wdro?enia produktu za pomoc? UML. Elementy j?zyka UML Modelowanie wymaga? za pomoc? przypadków u?ycia Diagramy czynno?ci i sekwencji Modelowanie klas i powi?za? pomi?dzy nimi Diagramy komponentów Podzia? modelu na pakiety Modelowanie wdro?enia systemu Poznaj nowoczesne metody projektowania systemów informatycznych.
Understanding Digital Marketing
by Damian Ryan Calvin JonesDigital marketing now represents 25% of the marketing spend in the UK and this is predicted to move to 50% or higher within the next three years. Understanding Digital Marketing looks at the world of digital marketing: how it got started, how it got to where it is today, and where the thought leaders in the industry believe it is headed in the future. This authoritative title demonstrates how to harness the power of digital media and use it to achieve the utmost success in business, now and in the future.Understanding Digital Marketing deals with every key topic in detail, including:search marketing,social media, Google, mobile marketing, affiliate marketing, e-mail marketing, customer engagement and digital marketing strategies. Essential reading for both practitioners and students alike, and including real-world examples of digital marketing successes and expert opinions, Understanding Digital Marketing provides you with tools to utilize the power of the internet to take your company wherever you want it to go.
Understanding Information and Computation: From Einstein to Web Science
by Philip TetlowThe World Wide Web is truly astounding. It has changed the way we interact, learn and innovate. It is the largest sociotechnical system humankind has created and is advancing at a pace that leaves most in awe. It is an unavoidable fact that the future of the world is now inextricably linked to the future of the Web. Almost every day it appears to change, to get better and increase its hold on us. For all this we are starting to see underlying stability emerge. The way that Web sites rank in terms of popularity, for example, appears to follow laws with which we are familiar. What is fascinating is that these laws were first discovered, not in fields like computer science or information technology, but in what we regard as more fundamental disciplines like biology, physics and mathematics. Consequently the Web, although synthetic at its surface, seems to be quite 'natural' deeper down, and one of the driving aims of the new field of Web Science is to discover how far down such ’naturalness’ goes. If the Web is natural to its core, that raises some fundamental questions. It forces us, for example, to ask if the central properties of the Web might be more elemental than the truths we cling to from our understandings of the physical world. In essence, it demands that we question the very nature of information. Understanding Information and Computation is about such questions and one possible route to potentially mind-blowing answers.
Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Management, Types, and Standards
by Marcia J. BatesIn order to be effective for their users, information retrieval (IR) systems should be adapted to the specific needs of particular environments. The huge and growing array of types of information retrieval systems in use today is on display in Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Management, Types, and Standards, which addresses over 20 typ