Noted: Storytelling and race - doing it better

Teaching IT through storytelling

This article explores the use of storytelling as part of an overall approach to the teaching of information technology in tertiary education. The author defines the context of use of storytelling in terms of the various types of education being delivered and the delivery methods, and then explores the potential uses and benefits of storytelling. A sample story is included and briefly analysed t...

Why aren't we doing better?

Doing Better By Knowing More

series of forums honoring the memory of Harold Richman, who, with his friend and colleague Tom Joe, founded the Center for the Study of Social Policy in 1979 and chaired its board from 2000 until his death in 2009. Harold contributed much to the field of children's and family services. His distinguished career reflected his belief that actions to improve children's and families' lives require a...

Bronchiolitis: doing less and still getting better.

Infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is among the universal experiences of childhood. Worldwide, by 1 year of life, half of all children have been infected with RSV and by 2 years of age, virtually all children have been infected with RSV. Unlike many viral infections, it is the prevalence, as opposed to the severity, of infection that motivates our collective focus on the optimal t...

TDX doing it together

The Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) and the Supercomputing Center of Catalonia (CESCA) have built and maintained the TDX server (TDX: Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa Networked Doctoral Theses), which now hosts around 1,000 e-doctoral theses. The theses belong to 10 different universities from the Catalan context. The National Library of Catalonia also participates in the project, ...