The modeling is portrayed in text form according to segments for each screen in the Connection Log.
The Connection Log helps middle school students to establish shared goals for research (Belland, 2010; Belland, Glazewski, & Richardson, 2011).
Informal feedback from a recent unit indicated that it helped students get a better grasp of how to use the Connection Log.
In a recent redesign of the Connection Log, we developed an example of how two groups of students create persuasive arguments about whether the government should take steps to avert climate change.
The Connection Log is a computer-based scaffold designed according to a framework describing the process by which middle school students create evidence-based arguments during PBL (Belland, 2010; Belland et al., 2008).
The app goes beyond just enabling iOS users to send messages to their connections logged in to Gmail or Google Apps, and contains many of the features people love about the service.
In its first Prism reporting, the Washington Post apparently unfairly fingered nine of these companies, accusing the NSA and FBI of "tapping directly into the central servers" that hold our "chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs".
"They" are the National Security Agency, and the Post report reveals that an N.S.A. program called Prism has, for the past six years, been "tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time".
A separate report, in the Washington Post, reveals that the NSA and FBI "are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time".
The new site's owners - who identify themselves as both Anonymous and the People's Liberation Front - say the service will not record connection logs and will encrypt pastes to ensure there is no usable data for the authorities to seize.
"The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time," reports the Post.
