Checking in to your favorite places is a great way to let people know when you're somewhere important, but there are plenty of in-between times when you might want close acquaintances to know where you are so they can tell when you got stuck in traffic or got home safely. That's when Latitude comes in -- or, perhaps we should say, came in. As part of its Maps redesign, Google is sending its Latitude service the way of Google Reader. Latitude gets lost on August 9th, less than a month from now, and all of its various location-centric APIs will wander offline at the same time. Additionally, Google is removing check-in functionality from Maps, asking that you use Google+ instead, which is also where you'll have to turn if you want to share your location with friends -- a feature not currently enabled in the iOS version of the app. Google promises that functionality is "coming soon," so in the interim please tell your significant other the same when they ask what time you'll getting home from work.
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Each room in this tight, three-floored building, has a separate function. This differentiation is important for students and forms part of the structure that is essential to their lives. The teaching room houses individual work stations, as one expects in classes in the West. One young man only recognises symbols, rather than words and images. The hair roller is for him and has nothing to do with hair fashion; it marks the first thing he must do for his next activity, sit down. Two young men used pictures to understand what to do next and one young woman and a young man were able to understand Chinese characters (writing). In this ?work? room students use the process of TEACCH to guide them through a series of activities such as stringing beads, making cards or screwing together nuts and bolts.
Each student has their own named set of crockery and cutlery, either named using Chinese characters, pictures or a symbol. The same applies to seating, such as the well-worn stools for the dining table. Cooking and food form a fundamental part of Chinese life and this is reflected in the daily cooking activities in the house. Students all participate, at various levels in preparing food for the oven. The day I went they had made cookies. Unfortunately something had gone wrong and most had been cremated, so the teacher was in the process of initiating another cookery experience to produce something that was edible!
Stars and Rain School, on the very Eastern edge of Beijing, was founded in 1993 by Tian Huiping whose western name is Hope (most Chinese have a western, chosen name). She is the mother of an autistic boy whose determination has seen the school develop from being the first non-governmental organisation for autism with meagre amenities to an established school with support for 3-6 year old children and a few 13-18 year old students. The expectation (or hope) is that these younger children will be given places at local mainstream schools.
However, Chinese Government policy at national and local level needs to change to embrace SEN and support these children and families to enable children to reach their highest potential. Teacher training and in-service training needs to equip mainstream teachers with the skills to accommodate autistic children in the classroom. Without this movement children on the autism spectrum will continue to be excluded from regular education and remain uneducated, abandoned or institutionalised. The process will be slow and, I would say, can only happen from inside. As China continues its path of industrialisation and economic development, she will feel the pressure of opinion from the rest of the world and from her own citizens to address the needs of the less able, whether this is autism, other special educational needs or other vulnerable groups.
An app for scanning in old photos, like Shoebox, makes sense as a part of a larger service like Ancestry.com, but unfortunately, some of the features that made Shoebox ?more interesting on mobile have disappeared in the new app version. 1000memories allowed users to fill virtual collections (?shoeboxes?) of their old photo scans, then tag them and share with others, as well as post them to other social sites like Facebook.
Though the pace of our culture today is so fast that we have to download time traveling apps like Everpix and Timehop that pull out photos from our exponentially growing photo archives in order to force us to stop and reflect, Ancestry?s whole network is about reflecting on our past. But even though that?s something I?m personally interested in as the inheritor of my grandmother?s photo collection (which now fills actual ?shoeboxes? in my closet), using these older ancestry research websites hasn?t held much appeal for me.
