ICT and students' motivation

The effects of ICT on students' motivation, conducted by Cox, have identified a number of specific motivational aspects, including enhanced commitment to the learning task, enhanced enjoyment and interest, increased self esteem and increases in independence and confidence (Cox, 1997; 1999).The researchers found that the majority of the teachers reported a higher degree of motivation amongst the pupils and a better attitude to work when the pupils were using laptop computers. This motivation, leading to enhanced self esteem, was especially noticeable for the pupils in a school for special needs.

A Lover's Complaint

FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded

A plaintful story from a sistering vale,

My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,

And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;

Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,

Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,

Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.

Upon her head a platted hive of straw,

Which fortified her visage from the sun,

Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw

The carcass of beauty spent and done:

Time had not scythed all that youth begun,

Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,

Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.

Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,

Which on it had conceited characters,

Laundering the silken figures in the brine

That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,

And often reading what contents it bears;

As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,

In clamours of all size, both high and low.

A Fairy Song

Over hill, over dale,

Thorough bush, thorough brier,

Over park, over pale,

Thorough flood, thorough fire!

I do wander everywhere,

Swifter than the moon's sphere;

And I serve the Fairy Queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green;

The cowslips tall her pensioners be;

In their gold coats spots you see;

Those be rubies, fairy favours;

In those freckles live their savours;

I must go seek some dewdrops here,

And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

-William Shakespeare

BIOGRAFI William Shakespeare

Synopsis
William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. From roughly 1594 onward he was an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men company of theatrical players. Written records give little indication of the way in which Shakespeare’s professional life molded his artistry. All that can be deduced is that over the course of 20 years, Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict.

Believe in yourselves and let your dreams guide your life to the beautiful places you can go.

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Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare . The couple married in 1582 when she was 26 and he was 18. Shortly after their marriage they had a daughter, Susanna. Around 1585, they had twins, Hamnet and Judith. Anna and her children lived at Straftord-upon-Avon while William worked in London. She died in 1623.

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What is a blog?

"A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order." (Wikipedia 2007) 

A blog (short for web log) is a specific type of web site that an individual or a group of authors adds entries (posts) to on a regular basis. These entries are displayed in reverse chronological order i.e. the most recent entries first. Where there are many previous entries these are archived and can be accessed via links or a blog search.

Common features of a blogging system:

- Easy to use authoring tools that allow text, images, video etc to be incorporated in blog entries

- A search facility

- The facility for blog readers to add public comments to each entry

- Automated archiving of previous entries

- A news feed which allows readers to subscribe to a specific blog and be automatically alerted to new posts (see using feeds to monitor blogs)