The title of the book by Lori Andrews.
http://www.socialnetworkconstitution.com/
Another excellent choice from the new arrivals bookshelf at my local library. A must read, providing a lot of factual information.
Of course this *does* lead us to yet another Web 2.0 site:
https://sites.google.com/site/moderatorhelpcenter/getting-started/guide
This is a great feature for technical how to movies. In Adobe Captivate you can attach an audio recording to an object.
audio & objects
Steps:
You can edit the recording or detach it from the object if you need to. Movie
A cool tool to help you get a grip on your social media content. Simply combine your twitter, facebook, blog and youtube accounts into a Lane.
Now you can scroll back and forth and see how clear the message is:
On Google Canada you can restrict a search to your social media (your connections on Google+). This feature is now different on google.com, but more on that later.
http://www.screencast.com/t/ztmTRa4df
This search is limited to google + . You also need to be logged into your google account and have a google + account.
To see the difference to google.com, just switch over to google.com. The link is at the bottom of the search page.
The feature is now called Personal, and will search your posts and those of people you are linked to on google plus.
http://www.screencast.com/t/njOFxdnv1
What is the point?
In simple terms you can see what information has been put out about the search term you entered on google+, which given the high output of posts can be useful.
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Source: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201012-201112
Have: Laptop & Camtasia, iPad 2 Need: Recording of tasks on an iPad
My challenge:
Produce a draft of a video showing a simple task on the iPad. Nothing fancy, just enough so I can follow my demo my visually. Budget for iPad recording software is 0$ Canadian.
On the iPad:
Create the screen prints on the iPad of each step. It puts it all in a folder, naming convention (IMG_####). You *do* need every single step, after each touch of the screen you take a screen shot. ( Hold down Home key and press the Standby key once)
Move the Screenprints to the Laptop
Recording your “movie”
In Camtasia.
In Camtasia: Mouse cursor visible was unchecked. Spotlight, Warp.
editable settings for cursor in camtasia
Overall this gave me a good enough product to evaluate the learning steps I had planned for the small course. It also fit my budget.
I then produced the video for the iPad, and was able to share it via screencast.
Future Plans
As the video is not for public viewing I am going to create a new sample to demonstrate the steps for this post.
For an introduction to hand movements for the touch screen, I am considering the use of Photoshop to add a hand to the screen prints. All I need are free drawings of the different hand movements.
Turns out the blood glucose level has an impact on our dog’s ability to behave. When asked to (sit) stay for 10 minutes, a dog will have less ability to persist in a subsequent (unsolvable) task than if he had rested in a crate. The culprit? Blood Glucose Levels.
Other Executive Functions such as working memory are affected as well. You can find more detail on this study here.
In one test, the dogs used a treat release toy for a short time, then were asked to do a sit stay for 10 minutes, whereas the control group dogs would be in a crate for 10 minutes. Then they were given the unsolvable task of trying to get a hotdog out of the treat release toy. How long they persisted in this varied.
If they were part of the crate control group they persisted for longer than if they were a part of the sit stay group. Giving a glucose supplement improved performance for the sit stay group.
Listening to the presentation I wondered how these studies account for the differences in personalities, training and reinforcement history of the dogs that participated.
All my dogs are raised on a steady diet of self control exercises. Give it up to get it is the rule and each dog progresses according to his own ability. In the beginning the dog will stay away from a piece of food for literally a second or two, much later he will be asked to remain in a down while I walk away and hide a toy which he can then find. No force is used. Time and distance is determined by the dog’s ability and we always try to ‘train the dog that shows up, not the one you think you have’.
Once they are at this stage the fun begins and upon returning to the dog I request a sit or down, or a recall away from the toy before sending the dog on the search. In the beginning it will always take them longer to find the toy when asked to peform the additional behaviour. So we keep working on this and add difficulty slowly. Keep the search easy and add an obedience task; or make the search harder and do a direct find.
Back to my question. Each dog that I train has his or her own personality. Some are more relaxed and need faster and easier access to the reinforcer to keep them in the game, others need a lot of patience to build their ability to relax. There is no one size fits all training solution. I keep the error rate very low. The behaviour I observe is always a reflection of their personality and reinforcement history. It is intriguing to think checking their blood glucose level could explain what I observe in training?
I plan to send some of my questions to the presenter, I am hoping there will be a follow up seminar that will explain the meaning of this research in the daily practice of dog training.
When I went to University ?
http://academicearth.org/lectures/behavioral-neuroscience-lab-1
That’s William Grisham lecturing on Behavioural Neuroscience, available on Academic Earth.
