The 99th Carnival of Education is Up!

The 99th Carnival of Education is a very interesting read this week, and I might add, a nice way to end the Carnival for 2006. It is hard to believe it was put together so well considering the hectic time of year it is. Thanks for a terrific read.

This week's host is a blog you definitely should check out regularly:

Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

~JRY

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Host a Charlotte’s Web World Reading Record Attempt Event!

Courtesy of Karen Northon of Creative Response Concepts:

Break a World Reading Record

with

Charlotte’s Web

Love Charlotte’s Web?

Love to read?

Help break a world record!

Celebrate one of the most beloved children’s books of all time

by hosting a Charlotte’s Web World Reading Record Attempt Event!

On Wednesday, Dec. 13 starting at 12pm EST join longtime and
new fans of Charlotte’s Web to read aloud the passage in which

Charlotte and Wilbur meet for the first time.

Sign up at www.walden.com and download detailed instructions,

an event guide, reproducible activity sheets and registration forms

with information and tips to join the national attempt.

~JRY

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The Open Video Project

The Open Video Project is a wonderful resource for researches on a vast spectrum of digital libraries:

Anticipating a future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video, a great deal of research is currently focused on many areas related to digital video. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard collection of video to be used for research purposes.

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.

This repository is hosted as one of the first channels of the Internet 2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure Initiative, a project that supports distributed repository hosting for research and education in the Internet 2 community.

~JRY
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