"Robert Miles" <robertmiles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "MaryL" <stancole1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Howard Lester" <hlester@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Frieda" wrote
>>>
>>>> How many days to go before the BIG DAY?
>>>
>>> TWO, Frieda! :-) Today is a special day, though: I've reached the
>>> magic 30 year mark. The next two days are "courtesy" days... fini****ng
>>> working out the week. I've already cleaned out and taken home most of
>>> my belongings; I'm almost ready!
>>>
>>
>> I missed the earlier messages, but it looks like we made the same
>> life-changing decision...except that mine came later in life. I
retired
>> at the August after 41 years of teaching at the same university. The
>> department chair asked if I would teach a couple of cl***** as an
>> adjunct, and I may do that. He said I could set my own schedule and
pick
>> my own cl*****..."anything you want, he said." So, that sounds pretty
>> good. The pay isn't very good for an adjunct, but it would be only
>> part-time and supplement my retirement income. And I could continue to
>> use my skills (such as they are).
>>
>> MaryL
> You could use that as an op****tunity to get the students to start
> participating in the bird-related newsgroups.
>
> Also, you might want to tell the students about some of the distributed
> computing projects, likely to affect birds, such as:
>
> http://climateprediction.net/
>
> There's also a climate-related project here, but currently inactive:
>
> http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
>
> This one maintains a database comparing all the proteins they can find
> enough information on, including those found in birds, but is typically
> active only about a week each month:
>
> http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/
>
> The ones interested in helping medical research may want to look
> at these:
>
> http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
>
> http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
>
> http://www.malariacontrol.net/
>
> These allow you to run programs in the background on your computer,
> but at a lower priority than what you start yourself. They all use
BOINC,
> which allows a computer to help more than one of them without
> interference.
>
> Many, but not all, of the teams are set up for people at specific
> universities, so you may want to mention which of them have a team
> for your university, or look for a team meant for birdwatchers in
> general.
>
>
Thanks, Robert. Those are interesting sites, and I am interesting in
looking into some of them for my own reference. As far as using it for my
students, though . . . I teach political science, so it would be a real
"stretch" to incor****ate that into my cl*****. When I said I could select
my own cl*****, I really meant *within* the political science discipline.
MaryL
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