Τρίτη 26 Απριλίου 2011
Δευτέρα 25 Απριλίου 2011
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The Hellenic League of America was honored to participate in this year’s Armenian Genocide recognition
California Assembly member mentions “Hellenic League of America” on Assembly floor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 18, 2011
(Sacramento,CA)- The Hellenic League of America was honored to participate in this year’s Armenian Genocide recognition events at the State Capitol on April 14th in Sacramento, CA hosted by the Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region.
The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region hosted events from morning to afternoon in Sacramento, California. Haig Hovsepian of the ANCA-Western Region welcomed all groups who gathered in Sacramento from across the state to commemorate the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Alex Aliferis, who represented the Hellenic League of America at this important commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, was the only Greek American attendance. This year’s Armenian Genocide Resolution included both the Greeks and the Assyrians.
Alex Aliferis attended the morning event on the floor of the California Assembly with other Armenian Americans. The California Assembly/Senate introduced and passed AJR 2(April 24th as Armenian Genocide Recognition Day) and AJR 7. Assembly member Katcho Achadjian (R) read in front of over 60 California Assembly members a list of participating groups such as the Hellenic League of America, Armenian National Committee, and others on the California Assembly floor.
AJR 2, Armenian Genocide Resolution, includes the Genocide of Greeks and Assyrians (http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/text/225532), designates April 24, 2011 to recognize the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian National Committee of America, Western Region organized the April 14th events. AJR 7, unanimously passed, marking the week of April 18 to 24, 2011 as “California Week of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923.” The joint resolutions urge Congress and the President to observe the week of remembrance.
Throughout the day’s events Aliferis lobbied his California Assembly members/State Senators regarding the Armenian Genocide Resolution. In the Capitol, there is a display about how Americans formed the American Near East Foundation to assist the Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians survivors of the Genocide by the Turks. The first American relief efforts in US history were started by Americans to assist the Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians. According to the Near East Foundation website, “Many millions of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and members of other minority groups were displaced, and over a million and a half died as a result of deportation, forced marches, starvation, and execution. The number would have been significantly higher had it not been for the efforts of U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau and the group of his friends and colleagues that would later become NEF’s founding Board. With the help of then-President Woodrow Wilson, NEF’s founders established a small-scale relief operation and began to solicit donations from the American public.” As a result, US leaders such as Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Republican Taft assisted the foundation to help the Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians.
While in attendance he saw a powerful Armenian Genocide documentary called, ‘The River Runs Red’ by Armenian Genocide survivor turned filmmaker, J. Michael Hagopian. Hagopian started his documentary on the Armenian Genocide in the early 1950s by traveling to countries where there were Armenian Genocide Survivors. He went to the deserts of Syria and Iraq to speak with survivors, Arabs, and the sites where the Turks massacred 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. Hagopian passed away on Dec 2010, but this New York Times obituary mentions Hagopian’s accomplishment to document the Armenian Genocide over a course of 50 years through film. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/world/europe/20hagopian.html).
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Σάββατο 23 Απριλίου 2011
Πέμπτη 21 Απριλίου 2011
Αλί Καρ-Κέλμαν: Χρησιμοποιώντας τα παιχνίδια για να τονώσουμε το ενδιαφέρον των αγοριών για τη μάθηση
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About this talk
Στο TEDxPSU, η Αλί Καρ-Κέλμαν εντοπίζει τρεις λόγους για τους οποίους τα αγόρια εγκαταλείπουν μαζικά τα σχολεία και περιγράφει το σχέδιό της για να ξανατονώσουμε το ενδιαφέρον τους: φέρνοντας τη δική τους κουλτούρα μέσα στην τάξη, με νέους κανόνες που επιτρέπουν στα αγόρια να φέρονται σαν αγόρια και ηλεκτρονικά παιχνίδια που διδάσκουν και ψυχαγωγούν.
About Ali Carr-Chellman
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Why you should listen to her:
A former third-grade teacher, Ali Carr-Chellman realized that traditional elementary classrooms weren't for her, in part because she was frustrated by the lack of innovation, agility, and readiness to change in traditional schools. She's now an instructional designer, author and educator, working on how to change and innovate within schools to make education work better for more kids. She teaches at Penn State University in the College of Education, working primarily with doctoral-level students to help produce the next generation of faculty with inspired research ideas and methods. Carr-Chellman also teaches online courses focused on helping practicing teachers learn how to improve their own instructional design practices and how to improve their classrooms.
Her recent research projects include "Bring Back the Boys," looking at ways gaming can be used to re-engage boys in their elementary education. Another projects asks prisoners and homeless people to think about how to reform schools, bringing new voices to the policy-making table.
Her recent research projects include "Bring Back the Boys," looking at ways gaming can be used to re-engage boys in their elementary education. Another projects asks prisoners and homeless people to think about how to reform schools, bringing new voices to the policy-making table.
"Wow. This was really something. I went to college for 3D Animations/Video Game Design and it was the only time in my entire life where I felt comfortable and good at something. I actually felt smart! I would go on and on about how awesome my school was and I just never wanted to stop talking about it. It's an amazing feeling knowing you feel smart about something. ""someidiot23" on YouTube
Ο Τζέημς Γουότσον για το πως ανακάλυψε το DNA
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Ο κάτοχος νόμπελ Τζέημς Γουότσον ανοίγει το TED2005 με την ειλικρινή και αστεία ιστορία του πως ο ίδιος και ο συνερευτητής του, Φράνσις Κρικ, ανακάλυψαν τη δομή του DNA.
About James Watson
Nobel laureate James Watson took part in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century: the discovery of the structure of DNA. More than 50 years later, he continues to investigate biology's deepest secrets.
Why you should listen to him:
James Watson has led a long, remarkable life, starting at age 12, when he was one of radio's high-IQ Quiz Kids. By age 15, he had enrolled in the University of Chicago, and by 25, working with Francis Crick (and drawing, controversially, on the research of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin), he had made the discovery that would eventually win the three men the Nobel Prize.
Watson and Crick's 1953 discovery of DNA's double-helix structure paved the way for the astounding breakthroughs in genetics and medicine that marked the second half of the 20th century. And Watson's classic 1968 memoir of the discovery, The Double Helix, changed the way the public perceives scientists, thanks to its candid account of the personality conflicts on the project.
From 1988 to 1994, he ran the Human Genome Project. His current passion is the quest to identify genetic bases for major illnesses; in 2007 he put his fully sequenced genome online, the second person to do so, in an effort to encourage personalized medicine and early detection and prevention of diseases.
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Τετάρτη 20 Απριλίου 2011
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