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Introductions to ijCSCL

Introductions to ijCSCL

Gerry Stahl

Lulu.com
2020
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As Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning from its founding in 2006 to my retirement from that position at the end of 2015, I drafted an editorial introduction to each quarterly issue. This provided a venue for me to comment on the importance of each published article (from my perspective) and sometimes to offer my ideas or reflections on the field of CSCL or one of its central issues. The 39 introductions included here provide a glimpse into the evolution of the CSCL field during a key decade of its history, as it became internationally established with conferences around the world and with this journal.
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Tacit and Explicit Understanding

Tacit and Explicit Understanding

Gerry Stahl

Lulu.com
2020
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This was my doctoral dissertation in computer science at the University of Colorado. It was entitled: "Interpretation in Design: The Problem of Tacit and Explicit Understanding in Computer Support of Cooperative Design" and was defended on August 5, 1993. The dissertation explored the implications of the theory of tacit knowledge for the problem of computer capture of design rationale. It discussed a software system for design by teams of NASA designers. The computer environment captured design ideas in a flexible system of professional perspectives. This research led to explorations after graduation in prototyping collaboration software incorporating mechanisms to support perspectives and negotiation.
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Sr. Dominique's Incredible War

Sr. Dominique's Incredible War

Gerry Feld

Gerry Feld
2022
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In 1915 when five year old Dominique's parents handed her over to an order of nuns to raise her, she could not believe what was happening to her, nor how her life would ever turn out. The magnificent Monastery that looks like a castle on the side of a mountain intrigues her, but all she really wants to do is be reunited with her brothers and sisters again. She missed riding the horses around the farm and playing with her dog on the meadow where they chased butterflies. She just knew her father would come back for her, but no matter how much she hoped it would happen he never returns. Being incredibly home sick Dominique escapes from the Monastery to search the mountainous Furlo valley of Italy for her home. Scared and alone she finds a small puppy she names Checkers to keep her company during her search. Regrettably the brave little dog is killed trying to protect little Dominique from a wolf attack. Found on a hill side battered and bloody a young couple takes Dominique to a hospital where she is reunited with the nuns that had missed her very much. Knowing now that she will never find her family, Dominique prepares to lead the life of a nun. After professing her final vows, Dominique begins her public life teaching school in Milan, Italy. It does not take her long to be come aqauainted with members of the Italian underground. She does her best to avoid getting involved with the patriots, but after one of her best friends from the convent is killed by a German Gestapo agent, her decision to join the underground is permanently cemented. With the help of four British Commandos Dominique's group destroys a bridge and rail tunnel that kills several German soldiers. Realizing her life is now in serious jeopardy, Sister Dominique asks to be transfered out of Italy where she will be safe. Finding out there is a small island in the South Pacific that is in need of a mission, Sister Dominque volunteers for the project. However before she can escape from Italy, she is captured by a dedicated Nazi gestapo agent bent on forcing a confession out of her for her actions with the underground. Failing to get what he desires, he allows her to leave but warns her if she ever returns he will be waiting for her. Arriving on the Island of Nusa Simbo the group of missionaries quickly set up a mission to work with the natives and employees from a local plantation. All is well until an Australian pilot crashes his damaged plane near the island. With his unwillingness to cooperate with the mission rules, he shoots down a Japanese patrol plane, bringing the rath of the Japanese Army. Everyone is forced onto a ship to be taken to a prisoner camp. Before the ship can arrive at the camp it is attacked and sunk by a United States Submarine. While trying to help get survivors in the flimsy life boats, Sister Dominique is attacked by a shark and seriously injured. The prisoners are transferred to many camps through out the South West Pacific before arriving at at camp about seventeen miles from Hiroshima. Sister Dominique and the other missionaries not only witness the bombing, but when they are liberated from the camp, they are allowed to help care for the hundreds of injured Japanese civilians. After the war, Sister Dominique testifies against Japanese war criminals and then works to help recover art work that was removed from the Monastery by the Germans when they occupied it. In the end as Sister Dominique turns one hundred years old, she reflects on her life and the wonderful people that she met along the way. This story will make you cry, it will keep you on the edge of your seat, and you will wonder at the bravery one woman can have in the face of such overwhelming odds.
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A Soldier's Final Journey

A Soldier's Final Journey

Gerry B Feld

Gerry Feld
2019
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"A Soldier's Final Journey," Begins in Glendale Minnesota where Steve Kenrude is beginning to put his life back together after returning from World War Two. He works on the family farm, marries his child hood sweetheart Karen Donnelly, and they begin raising a family together. Just when everything is falling into place, President Truman orders Steve and thousands of other veteran paratroopers back into the service to fight in Korea. Angered by the recall, but willing to do his part for his country, Steve reruns to the Army. Along the way he is united with Harry Jenson, Francis Martin Doogan the Third (Franny) and many more veterans. They begin training new soldiers at Fort Benning, Georgia for the difficult and dangerous job to come. When the Army decides the men are fit for combat they begin their long journey to Japan where they will complete their training. Arriving in Korea the men face a bold, battle hardened enemy that is willing to die for each foot of real estate. The paratroopers lead the way in battle after battle throwing the North Korean and Chinese troops northward. At times the biggest enemy the paratroopers have to battle, is their own high command that is filled with officers that are more interested in self glory than actually winning the war. Mean while back home family members fear for the safety of their loved ones, as they too have their battles with life and problems not of their making. A Soldiers Final Journey is a gritty, action filled story that pulls no punches. It will keep the reader glued to the pages and want ing more.
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Vietnam; Honor and Sacrifice

Vietnam; Honor and Sacrifice

Gerry B Feld

Gerry Feld
2020
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"Vietnam; Honor and Sacrifice," is a dramatic, action packed, gut wrenching story that will allow readers to feel they are in the line of fire. Tom Kenrude, has always wanted to be a doctor. But as the war in Vietnam widens, Tom feels a call to help the wounded soldiers. After a long talk with his girl friend Mackenzie, he decides to enlist in the Army as a combat medic. However his family is mortified by his decision, creating a an argument between family members that can never be truly healed. After basic training, Tom returns home to marry Mackenzie. After a short tour of duty in Germany, orders arrive for Vietnam. Tom is assigned to an helicopter evacuation squadron at Binh Thuy, located in the Mekong Delta. After just a few days, Tom realizes how brutal the war can be, as day after day, they deliver wounded men to the hospital. Tom becomes emotionally involved with one of the nurses, even though he has a child on the way back home. Both Tom and the nurse realize they are making a mistake and end the relationship. The squadron is sent to Quang Tri, to help fight a battle in the Central Highlands. For weeks the men evacuate the wounded, until several of the medics are killed. A medic that is a conscientious objector is assigned to the squadron. Because of his history with other combat units, there are problems among members of the squadron. Tom agrees to work with him, leading to a tragic end. Returning to Binh Thuy, the men find out headquarters in Saigon have decided to wipe out Viet Cong activity in the delta region. The fighting is tough and the casualties are high. After one mission Tom's chopper is shot down. With two crew members injured, Tom struggles to no avail to rescue the pilot before the chopper sinks. The survivors swim to an island where they seek refuge in an old patrol boat base. Quickly they find out a detachment of Viet Cong are on the island operating a radio base. After a quick battle all but one are killed. The survivor is a young girl. Tom works hard to save her life, knowing he might have been the one who shot her. Just as they are to be rescued she passes away. The men bring her body back to Binh Thuy to be buried in a small cemetery. Returning to the mission, Tom and one other medic are assigned to work with a CIA/SOG Operative. They quickly realize he is a brutal sadistic murderer that has his own agenda. With the help of some AirCav soldiers, his reign of death ends. However an American General believes more needs to be done. He decides to take his complaints regarding the CIA and SOG to the President. But he is not ready when he finds out who is involved and what might come of his actions.Once again the squadron is sent back to the Central Highlands. However this time the Viet Cong are under estimated and they are determined to wipe out the Americans in the battle. With choppers destroyed Tom and several medics must fight like infantry. After being wounded several times, Tom fights with every ounce of energy left in his body, allowing the rest of the men to escape. Toms body is returned to Glendale, Minnesota for burial. His family struggles to understand all that has happened, as Mackenzie vows to raise their son Sean, never letting him forget the kind of hero his father was.
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Gunner

Gunner

Gerry McFarland

Wandering Aengus Press
2021
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Gerry McFarland's collection of nineteen intimate poems lyrically reflect on his years as a young Navy Gunner on board the USS King at the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam war. These poems illustrate Gunner's internal battle to adjust to not only a foreign country, but the incongruities of war, his longing for love and home, as well as the new and sometimes brutal realities and relationships that will echo into his future. We see Gunner play out a balancing act between reluctant sailor, manhood and human being.The sea is beautiful and merciless, it can kill you. In Gunner this is what Gerry McFarland makes me experience: what it feels like being in a diminishing space somewhere between both curving dark ends of the world, where existence on a naval ship is a continual cycle of the mundane broken by flashes, intense moments, when life-saving decisions are made. McFarland intimately knows deployment; he knows that caring for a fifty-caliber machine gun is a maintenance ritual which is equivalent of the tedious cleansing of a sailor's soul when at sea, and it is also the sailor equivalent of being in port.-Gary Copeland Lilley, author of The Bushman's Medicine Show"The enemy is always invisible," Gunner is told by his Captain. "Brace yourself...." In Gerry McFarland's latest book, Gunner is constantly on alert for enemy fire, while at the same time fighting the inner battles of a young man confronted with all the incongruities of war. Gunner gets his sea legs, not only on the USS King, but in life, as he learns to hang on, keep his mouth shut, and "lean into the curve of the earth."-Linda Malnack, author of 21 Boxes and editor at Switched-on Gutenberg and Crab Creek Review.Gerry McFarland's Gunner is a powerful chapbook about war, disillusionment, and survival. Many images evoke a surreal feeling: "I no longer saw the light and dark of things" and "Burned mates stumble forward choking...." Other poems show the boredom of painting a destroyer's "angled fantail stripe" over and over. Gunner hears a war protester call him a "Baby Killer"-Whatever, says Gunner. He hangs out in bars, and his friend falls in love with a go-go dancer. In one poem, Gunner apologizes for not shooting; in another, he tries to die. He hears the ocean's "swells whisper like angels," and the tragedy of Vietnam is re-enacted. This skillful book has both immediacy and the right distance. It feels authentic.-Richard Widerkehr, author of At the Grace Cafe and In the Presence of Absence.
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PT Boat; Terrors of the Pacific

PT Boat; Terrors of the Pacific

Gerry Feld

Gerry Feld
2021
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor on Decvember 7, 1941, the United States Navy had no major fleet to battle the Japanese drive across the Pacific. In order to deal with Japanese expansion plans, America built a fleet of wooden fast attack boats that could battle the Japanese as they began driving East actoss the Pacific. The boats were armed with machine guns, torpedo tubes, small cannons, depth charges, and what ever other ordinance skippers could find to make their vessels more intimidating. The boats were powered by three Packard V-12 engines, allowing the eighty-foot boats to reach speeds of forty knots. The extemely shallow draft of the boats, allowed them to battle Japanese convoys in the shallow inlets and passages through out the many island chains of the pacific, where larger ships could not operate. Each boat contained a crew of thirteen to seventeen men, depending on the types of weapons each boat had. Every man on board a PT Boat was a volunteer, due to the extreme danger involved with their missions. The U.S. Navy searched far and wide, to find young officers that had experience handling high speed boats. The men on each boat were trained as a crew to make sure each boat had a qualified crew, that could handle the rigors of combat on the open ocean. Lt. Buzz Maddox, had worked in his fathers fishing fleet all his life, and had proved himeslf to be a good boat handler. After surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor and recovering from his wounds, Buzz volunteered for the PT Boat program. After completing the training course at Melville, Rhode Island, he and the crew of PT113 went to the Pacific to meet the Japanese head on. From island to island the gallant crews of America's PT Boats worked their way up through the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Philippines, battling the enemy until the end of the war. No matter where they fought, the crews all knew their war could end three ways, being killed in action, becoming a POW, or ending up in the shark filled waters that surrounded all the Pacific Islands. Although the men fought with tenacity, no one knew when their breaking point may come. Each man faced battle the same as a soldier in a fox hole, and each man had their own breaking point. Because of their speed and maneuverability's American sailor's called these light weight fighting machines Mosquito Boats. The Japanese simply called them Devil Boat's.
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"Keep Quiet, You're Only A Girl"

"Keep Quiet, You're Only A Girl"

Gerry Di Gesu

iUniverse
2004
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"The prerequisite to being truthful to yourself is to feel connection with another. Simple, everyday stories we all experience should be written in simple, everyday language we all use. The best stories deal with the small concerns of life and you don't need fancy words for that. These stories tell us about the diversity and story-worthiness of ordinary people. They speak to our sense of closeness--and above all, to our spacious sense of possibility. It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. And even more extraordinary is the number of stories they are carrying around--waiting to be written."Gerry Di Gesu believes that man is inherently good, that God is a best friend who doesn't give answers, and that the beauty and order of nature are our greatest guides to sensibility and serenity. She knows there's a bright spot in most dark situations in life if we look hard enough, and that without a sense of humor, especially directed at ourselves, we do not survive.
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