Wednesday, October 19, 2011

NDIE-BEd/IGCE Students, STATISTICS RESOURCES

Dear NDIE-BEd/IGCE Students,
This blog will help you to explore the concepts of statistics to be taught during the journey of one year BEd.
The resources mentioned below are not solely my work but I have gathered for you from various sources.

1. Measures of Central Value/Tendency Mean, Median, Mode
    Mean, Median & Mode of Grouped Data 

2. Normal Distribution/ Bell Curve - Standard Deviation  


Statistics: Notes A
Statistics: Notes B

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

China an Emerging Superpower? By Lyman Miller (2006)

People have been predicting China’s emergence as a superpower since the days of Napoleon, who purportedly appreciated China’s potential as a world power and cautioned against waking the sleeping dragon. China’s subordination into the Western international system in the 1839-1842 Opium War and its decline as the “sick man” of East Asia for the rest of the nineteenth and for the first half of the twentieth centuries dulled, but never extinguished, the expectation that, sooner or later, China would again dominate the world.

Several recent events have provoked the latest announcements of China’s looming ascent to superpower stature and have suggested that these long-held expectations are, at long last, coming true. In October 2003, China launched its first human into space, joining the United States and the former Soviet Union as the only countries to have done so. American media have recently taken notice of China’s efforts to expand and diversify its access to sources of oil in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and unsettlingly close to home Canada. The world’s industrial economies, including the United States, have inferred from the giant sucking sound created by lost manufacturing jobs and from the flood of Chinese exports into their markets that China is becoming the world’s manufacturing hub. Meanwhile, analysts ponder the implications for global security of China’s military modernization effort, now two decades long, and its promise to develop a “revolution in military affairs with Chinese characteristics.”

As portentous as the events may seem, there are good reasons to be skeptical that China will achieve superpower stature anytime soon. By all measures of international power, China has a long way to go to rival the power in international affairs of the United States in the manner that the Soviet Union did.

Click the Following links to read more from the article by Lyman Miller (2006) :

What is a "Superpower"?
China's Economic Power 
China's Military Power 
China's Political and Soft Power  
Prospects  

Monday, October 17, 2011

Motivation in Action

Motivation in Action- Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Blogging is Fun...




Intro: Blogger for Educators? http://www.google.com/educators/p_blogger.html

Using Blogger
1. Make your own Blogger account. Go to  www.blogger.com
    [You can use your NDIE email account to login Blogger]
2. How educators will add posts. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8b4sjxtek&feature=relmfu
3. How students will comment.
4. Selecting the Layout & Design.
5. How to add links to your blog posts.Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l71GZpqOYk
6. How to add a YouTube video on your blog. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3l0feGWTi0



Using Blogs to Integrate Technology in the Classroom http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/47