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Developing Concepts About Print: A Social Justice Literacy Approach

AbstractIt has been more than 50 years since Clay (1966) first introduced the concepts about print (CAP). Emergent readers, aged 4–5, must acquire an understanding of basic and hierarchical concepts of letters, words, and sentences; they must also learn basic knowledge about texts and books; they must develop an awareness of book orientation, directionality, and positions. CAP examines emergent readers' ability to recognize and understand the ways in which written language functions for the purpose of reading. However, we lovingly critique the elements of CAP (e.g., book orientation, directionality and print conventions) from the perspective of culturally sustaining pedagogies. Clay (1989) posited that “CAP as a test may be culturally inappropriate” (p. 71). We further argue that using this element marginalizes early young children of color who are learning ways of literacy practices that do not mirror the white monolingual middle‐class approach to learning foundational reading. In some cultures, readers turn pages left to right, read pages right to left, and decode logographic words. Does it matter if young children do not fully understand directionality and orientation at that age? What we think matters in the practice of CAP is the sense‐making process. Using social justice‐oriented texts, we offer a pedagogical framework that centers on the concepts of text and book. Using literature that features characters of color in non‐stereotype roles, we describe four principles for teaching CAP that advance social justice literacy: Relationship between written and oral language, print or pictures carry meaning, book orientation and directionality and conventions of print.

The Effect of Exposure to Reach Out and Read on Shared Reading Behaviors.

Caregiver-child shared reading improves literacy skills, school readiness, familial relationships, and social-emotional development. This multi-year study seeks to evaluate the effect of exposure to Reach Out and Read (ROR) on caregiver reading frequency and behaviors. Caregivers of children six months to five years in 427 primary care clinics in North and South Carolina were asked to complete the Reach Out and Read Parent Feedback Survey. Caregivers not previously exposed to ROR were categorized as "new" and those who had previously been exposed to ROR as "returning" to compare reading behaviors between groups. From 2014-2019, caregivers completed 100,656 surveys. Returning caregivers were more likely to report reading or looking at books every day. (AOR=1.27, 95% CI: 1.22-1.33). Returning caregivers were more likely to perform behaviors like letting the child turn pages (AOR=1.71, 95% CI: 1.62-1.79), making up stories about the pictures (AOR=1.46, 95% CI: 1.39-1.53), asking what is happening in the pictures (AOR=1.39, 95% CI: 1.32-1.47), helping identify things in the pictures (AOR=1.57, 95% CI: 1.50-1.65), reading to the child 30 minutes every day (AOR=1.39, 95% CI: 1.33-1.46), and taking the child to the library (AOR=1.26, 95% CI: 1.20-1.34). This study shows a significant association between caregivers' exposure to ROR, high frequency reading and positive reading behaviors, and is consistent for all six years studied. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the Reach Out and Read model in increasing frequency of positive reading behaviors when implemented in a non-controlled clinical environment. It also shows that this effect is consistent over multiple years of observation.

Defining ‘seamlessly connected’: user perceptions of operation latency in cross-device interaction

With the development of technology, product ecologies have emerged, and cross-device interactions have become increasingly common. Previous research found that operation latency has a significant impact on user experience for single devices, but no study has investigated this relationship in cross-device interaction. This study explored the effect of operation latency on user experience and operation performance for four cross-device tasks: transfer content (click a mobile button to connect with a TV and transfer a mobile page), turn pages (click a button on a mobile device to turn the page on a TV), zoom (enlarge a circle on a TV by zooming a phone screen with two fingers), and drag (slide on a phone to drag a circle on a TV). The results showed that across four cross-device interaction tasks, as the operation latency increased, user satisfaction dropped significantly, and the stalling experience became increasingly noticeable. Specifically, the percentage of users with positive ratings dropped to 50% with a latency of 1300 ms in the transferring content task and 200–350 ms in the page-turning, zooming, and dragging tasks. The percentage of users with negative ratings was larger than the percentage of users with positive ratings and moderate ratings when the latency reached 3500 ms and 500–700 ms in the transferring content task and the other three tasks, respectively. This study provides a reference for companies, engineers and designers for time delay setting and evaluation.

The Birth of a Detective: Edgar Allan Poe's Immortalisation

A big allure of fiction for the readers has been the constant suspense and the question of “And then what happened?” This question, which makes the reader turn page after page, forgetting the clock and sometimes even hunger or thirst, achieves an exceptional height when one turns to the crime fiction or mystery genre: the pursuit of that which is not known, the attempt to deduce it out of the given information, and the denouement that ties it all together—all of these elements create a form of fiction that has entranced generations for centuries, if not millennia. The characters found in these fictions have entered the collective consciousness as more than real. But where did these characters and tropes first originate? This paper aims to explore three detective works by Edgar Allan Poe— ”Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” and “The Purloined Letter.” These are stories with Victorian gothic settings that pre-date the emergence of crime fiction as a separate genre, before the term “detective” was invented, and attempts to find whether Poe indeed was the first author to create a character that follows the traits of the modern detectives such as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot. By way of this analysis, the paper gives an insight into what constitutes a modern detective characterisation, along with examining the tropes and themes related to the crime fiction and mystery genre.

Hands-free sheet music [Resources-Hands On

As an old-school writer, I prefer my reading matter printed and bound. But as an avid piano player, I am sick to death of music books. The music stand on our Baldwin grand piano holds a few pages laid side by side just fine. But most piano music is sold in songbooks: double-sided pages bound to inflexible spines. These books close up on you midsong when they are new; they fall to pieces when they get old. And playing complex music without interruptions is virtually impossible unless you have an assistant to turn pages for you. · Tinkerers since the early 1900s have patented myriad mechanical page turners to address this problem, but to this day they are generally considered a pain to load, noisy, and unreliable. · After years of growling at my misbehaving music, I finally resolved to create my own solution. I set the bar high. The system should work with all of my music books, allow annotations, and turn pages while my hands remain securely on the keys. It must be big enough to show two pages of notation sharply at full size, yet compact enough to fit on my piano‚s music stand. I wanted something self-contained that would work with a digital keyboard when I play with a band. And I didn‚t want to spend more than a few hundred bucks. · Clearly, the key was ditching print in favor of pixels. I lugged my boxes of books down to a copy center, and for US $30 they ran them through a guillotine to slice off the bindings. I then used a Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanner (modified to accept large pages) to convert the books into PDFs. Calibre, an open-source e-book library organizer, let me tag and sort scores by genre, difficulty, composer, and so on.

Ergonomics Improvement in Order Selection in a Refrigerated Environment

The purpose was to conduct an ergonomics improvement in the order selection process in a refrigerated dairy factory. The workers' task was to pick dairy products to fulfill orders. Plant walkthroughs, unstructured interviews, and direct observation methods were used to study the existing process and problems. Ergonomics intervention was made by introducing a wireless handheld scanning system. A field experiment was carried out to compare the conventional paper pick list with the new system. Results indicated that workers faced difficulty in the paper pick list system, that is, to grasp a clipboard, turn pages, and place marks while wearing thick gloves. The new system eliminated this problem, and because of its ergonomics visual and audio feedback properties and more efficient process, it increased productivity by 8.4% and workers' satisfaction, simplified tasks, improved work quality, and reduced delay in invoicing. Replicating the intervention, other process-based manufacturing companies may reap similar benefits. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

EStand TM Electronic Music Stand (review)

Stand-alone electronic score display device, available in several models. $4,500-$12,000 list price, eStand, Inc., Skokie, Ill. http://www.estand.com. For the past year eStand, Inc. has been marketing an innovation with the potential to reshape our use of music notation in performance. Although eStand's Electronic Music Stand[TM] was nine years in the making and is lauded by some of the world's leading musicians, many remain skeptical as to its benefits over paper. Inventor David Sitrick's company is fighting hard to increase its consumer base within the music world, but even with testimonials by Itzhak Perlman and John Williams, and field tests at institutions such as Northwestern University, progress has been slow. To display the music on computer screens built into electronic music stands, eStand handles several file formats, including PDF, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and Finale. The typical eStand can store up to twenty thousand pages of music, and additional memory can be purchased to increase capacity. The unit is manipulated primarily by a touch screen that allows the user to select music, eliminate margins, show or hide menus, turn pages, and mark changes. A stylus is used for marking the digital parts in a variety of colors and line widths, eliminating the need for different pencils, markers, and highlighters. Marks can be saved, edited, erased, and distributed among players, a function that the manufacturer publicizes as the machine's greatest time-saving benefit. The system can be set up to allow principal players to mark their sections' parts, yet not allow the back row instrumentalists to send marks to the front row, or to anyone else. Since the technology allows marks to be exchanged only between identical files, conductor's marks from the score cannot be sent to individual players' parts. It is possible, however, for the conductor to store copies of the individual parts on the same unit containing the score, or for the players to each store a copy of the conductor's score, in which case marks may be exchanged between conductor and players through these files. The eStand has been touted as completely wireless, and multiple stands are indeed able to communicate via a wireless network. The appliances themselves, however, require cords for power, as well as for the foot switches that trigger page turns. Page turns can be accomplished by either touching the screen or tapping your foot on a long, narrow black strip of rubber resting on the floor (best taped down during performance). Pages can be turned forward or backward, and bookmarks can be set to go back or forth several pages at once to accommodate repeated sections and codas. Considered the single best feature of the device by some players, electronic page turns are silent and leave the hands free to play, avoiding disruptions when half the violin section drops out to make a page turn, as well as expensive studio time spent eliminating page turn noise on recordings. To minimize these problems even further, the eStand can be set to turn half a page at a time at a predetermined pace. The smallest and least expensive unit is a portable Toshiba tablet with a 10.4 screen, loaded with the software, and priced at $4,500. The tablet can be placed on a traditional music stand in performance, al though bumping the stand in this case could have more expensive consequences than merely pages of sheet music fluttering about. A double-screen folding tablet is currently in development. At $6,000, the Performer model is a less portable single screen that weighs about thirteen pounds and locks onto its own custom-made stand. This unit is ruggedly constructed and well backlit. The screen can show the equivalent of an 8.5 x 11 page, or the equivalent of music viewable on a 9 x 12 sheet of music if the margins are eliminated. For twice the price, eStand, Inc., makes a double-screen model that weighs approximately twenty-five pounds. Although primarily intended for conductors, this more traditional looking two-page spread has also been preferred by many musicians. …

Cleaning Lady, 1944

Mightydog, between peals of laughter, blurted out, "No shit, Sherlock!" Billy-Boy just glared at Wet-Hen, then turned his back on the men and walked toward his truck and his brand new, never been fired, Remington Model 1100 Shotgun, 12 gauge, full choke and ventilated rib. And of course his wife's church's 400 dollars. The day shift boys, stunned and ashamed, staggered silently to the mantrip. Mightydog, still laughing, yelled after them, "Carpe diem, boys, carpe diem!" Dorsett turned to Lenthead and said, "Now why is that crazy feller talking about fishin' at a time like this?" Cleaning Lady, 1944 Twice a week we go, Mother and I, to the Strassmann's where our world opens wider, to row upon row of fine books lining shelves to ceiling, rugs rich with swirls of color, words calling to me from spines whose crisp letters awaken a hunger I cannot name. My mother lets me sit on the plush couch, opens a book in my lap, and I turn pages. Wings rustle, flap as pictures fly away like the toy in Sasha's room—turn the crank and stare through a peephole to see cat chase mouse, dog chase cat, then all are gone. I look up to find my mother, rag in hand rubbing the wooden shelves, stroke by stroke to a glow, Strassman family treasures beyond a mountain girl's dreams, ours to hold for this fleeting moment. Rags to riches my mother mops the floor, her sweat a shine. —Jeff Daniel Marion 40 ...

Study on Single Sheet Separation from Stacked Flexible Sheets

We presents a study on separating a single sheet from stacked flexible sheets such as paper, conducted to develop a higher-performance page turner for the disabled. The page turner must separate a single sheet of paper from stacked multiple sheets each time a page is turned. Human dexterity separating sheets using two fingers when turn page was considered, the mechanical principle involved discussed, and experiments and theory compared.

The texture of embodiment: Foundation for medical ethics

In our everyday lives we mostly act through our bodies towards the world. Only at moments of resistance, disruption or disintegration do we turn our attention directly to the body. Readers, for instance, of journals like this one turn pages and study passages relatively unaware of their bodies. Perhaps a stomach rumbles, attempting to cope with breakfast, but for the most part the reader only hopes to find a tolera? bly interesting paper to settle down with, one that does not run on forever. That is, until she is jostled, has her foot stepped on, spills hot coffee on herself. Then, suddenly, the body demands attention ? and she turns to it immediately, as we all would. For no demands are so urgent, so undeniable as those of the body, that most intimate of the worldly objects. As Merleau-Ponty suggests in the opening quotation, it is the body that maintains our entire life-world ? thus a bodily crisis becomes, inevitably, a total crisis of that world. How is it that we are to grasp this body which is at once our very self and our greatest obstacle? It is at times our most willing servant, and at others our most feared adversary. In the first part of these re? marks I will focus on just this tensed duality which is the very texture of embodiment, drawing on a number of phenomenologists to sketch the dominant features of our bodily presence in the world. Next, I want

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Talking Books for the Blind

To the Editor:— The letter, Auditory Reading Matter for the ( 210: 556, 1969), by C. S. Potter which suggested that blind or visually handicapped individuals be referred to rehabilitative services is important. The most expedient way for patients to obtain the auditory reading matter, called talking books, requires only a simple statement on a prescription blank or similar official stationery that an individual cannot use or read ordinary printed matter because of visual or physical limitations (eg, inability to hold a book or turn pages). It is not necessary to work through a rehabilitative services agency. To enable a patient to receive a free record player and records of books and magazines from regional libraries, the certification note can be sent to: Division of Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress Washington, DC 20542 Patients may be certified by ophthalmologists or other physicians, optometrists, heads of agencies, nurses, occupational

OUTLINES FOR WELL BABY CLINICS

IN 1946 we presented a description and explanation of a set of cards used by the Rochester Child Health Project in its well baby clinics. These cards, it was hoped, would help the attending physicians to learn about and to record the evidences of growth and development of babies as they appear in the first twelve months of life. In this article we shall describe and explain a similar set of cards devised for use in the second year. After the first year, growth and development are not so rapid as they are earlier; the changes from month to month are not so evident and methods of managing a child need not be altered so frequently. Therefore the mothers are asked to bring children in for conferences at fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one and twenty-four months of age only. Thus, only five cards are needed in the second year. The following material appears on the respective cards. Information given under the numbered headings appears on the faces of the cards; the explanatory notes are printed on the reverse. CARD 1. SUBJECTS TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN MONTHS 1. Development : Baby walks; may even be able to run and climb. Pushes, pulls and piles large objects. May turn pages of a book one at a time. 2. Habits: Eating—Baby may have full adult diet, except for nuts, berries, fat meats and highly seasoned foods. May continue to have bedtime bottle if he desires it. Self-feeding with fingers, spoon, cup or glass should be encouraged even if result is messy. Sleeping—Baby's night sleep may be disturbed. May take one or two naps, tending toward one. Elimination—Bowel: Baby may indicate time for bowel movement. Bladder: Mother may "catch" urine in toilet; if not successful, she should stop trying for two or three weeks; progress should not be forced. Mother understands meaning of "catching" from explanation given her concerning bowel control when child was in sixth month of life. 3. Social adjustment: Baby is becoming increasingly independent; wants to help undress and feed himself; objects to play pen. Enjoys the rhythm of singing, of the radio and of being read to. Speech—Baby can say a word or two, especially if composed of repeated syllables (mama, byebye). 4. Physical examination: Examiner records anything noteworthy.