As an instructional tool, graphic organizers (GOs) have been highly recommended and used in contemporary classrooms. Over the past decade, a number of concerns have been raised about claims for the effectiveness of GOs. These concerns involve the inconsistent research results on student improvements, the limitation in generalizability from research studies, and the need for research studies wit...

This report summarizes two talks I gave at the The rst talk (\Statements about Real-Time: Truth or Bull?") was given in the early morning. At the behest of the workshop's organizers, its primary function was to seed the ongoing discourse and provoke some debate. Besides asking controversial questions, and positing opinions, the talk also identiied some several fertile research areas that might ...

This paper maps out the design space of urban locationrelated mood self-tracking as starting point for individual and urban reflection: What are the benefits for key stakeholders, and what are system design options? Data-driven reflection here means that reflection is based on data; in this instance taking mood related to public spaces as starting point for reflection, but “attaching” to mood a...

During meiosis in fission yeast, the zygote nucleus undergoes microtubule-driven oscillatory movements that ultimately serve to promote genetic recombination. An essential component of this is a meiosis-specific consolidation of microtubule-organizing activity to the the spindle pole body, driven by the novel coiled-coil protein mcp6/hrs1p.