Learn-O-Grams


Book Description

In Learn-o-grams Ron Roberts presents a wealth of energizing and entertaining puzzles designed for training sessions that are a combination of words, letters, and pictures that represent a more complex word or phrase. To solve these puzzles participants must think outside the box, stretch their imagination, and use both the left and right side of the brain. Learn-o-grams game book is unique and adds a dash of excitement to training sessions, meeting openers, energizer, breaks, topical transitions, and closers. These fun-filled puzzles are also ideal for teaching skills such as communication, leadership and risk taking, teamwork and group synergy, strategic planning and execution, process improvement and accelerated learning, as well as systems thinking. Learn-o-grams are challenging, research-based and proven to enhance learning, appropriate for all generations and age ranges, and designed to be humorously entertaining. All the puzzles in Learn-o-grams * Combine fun and learning * Offer an experiential learning tool to help participants solve problems * Explore how to think differently and test assumptions * Show how to see day-to-day events more clearly The companion full-color CD includes hundreds of combinations of Learn-o-gram training warm-ups, starters, topical enhancements, and closers that can be used with groups as small as four and as large as eighty-eight. "Learn-o-grams allows participants to process and value the differences that each of us brings to the table since we all look at the same picture in life and offer our own interpretation. These exercises help learners to capitalize on one another's experiences, so we can all begin to see past our first initial interpretation and truly see the whole picture in work and life." --Robert Rynkiewicz, trainer, Merck Pharmaceuticals - Vaccine Dept "Through his eyes, Ron Roberts brings a unique look at everyday life. Learn-o-gram's unique and creative pictures offer the opportunity for groups to actively work together to achieve a common goal by utilizing our knowledge and everyday experiences and building upon them." --Suzanne Holloman, dean, Montgomery County Community College "Corporate trainers, sales managers, educators and anyone in a leadership role will want to use Learn-o-grams because it combines learning and fun, and creates real change in the way people think. I strongly recommend this game as part of any training program." --Jon Vroman, national sales promotion manager, Vector Marketing Corporation "The real value of Ron Roberts training games is that we saw an immediate improvement, by both managers and workforce alike, in their ability to perform as a team and to communicate effectively." --George Connors, Ret. Commander, U.S. Navy







Report of the State Institutions of Higher Learning of Florida


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Includes reports from: University of Florida, Florida State College for Women, Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes.




The Loom of Language


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Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.










Exploring Implicit Cognition: Learning, Memory, and Social Cognitive Processes


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While widely studied, the capacity of the human mind remains largely unexplored. As such, researchers are continually seeking ways to understand the brain, its function, and its impact on human behavior. Exploring Implicit Cognition: Learning, Memory, and Social Cognitive Processes explores research surrounding the ways in which an individual’s unconscious is able to influence and impact that person’s behavior without their awareness. Focusing on topics pertaining to social cognition and the unconscious process, this title is ideal for use by students, researchers, psychologists, and academicians interested in the latest insights into implicit cognition.




Syntactic n-grams in Computational Linguistics


Book Description

This book is about a new approach in the field of computational linguistics related to the idea of constructing n-grams in non-linear manner, while the traditional approach consists in using the data from the surface structure of texts, i.e., the linear structure. In this book, we propose and systematize the concept of syntactic n-grams, which allows using syntactic information within the automatic text processing methods related to classification or clustering. It is a very interesting example of application of linguistic information in the automatic (computational) methods. Roughly speaking, the suggestion is to follow syntactic trees and construct n-grams based on paths in these trees. There are several types of non-linear n-grams; future work should determine, which types of n-grams are more useful in which natural language processing (NLP) tasks. This book is intended for specialists in the field of computational linguistics. However, we made an effort to explain in a clear manner how to use n-grams; we provide a large number of examples, and therefore we believe that the book is also useful for graduate students who already have some previous background in the field.