«Teachers can post homework assignments, class schedules, personal and school contact information, and links to
Quia activities and other favorite Web resources.
During library time, students
used Quia to create word puzzles that made use of all of the information they had gathered from their online and offline research.
jferguson Tertullian is the supposed source of the much quoted «credo
quia absurdum est» — «I believe it because it's absurd».
With Tertullian we might say
credo quia absurdum» I believe it precisely because it is absurd.
«Last summer while surfing the Net, I ran
into Quia,» she said.
«The strengths
of Quia for me as a classroom teacher are many,» he explained.
We also work
on Quia during class time.
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Nemo enim ipsam
voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed
Quia Resources Inc. (TSXV: QIA) CEO Yannis Banks describes his company's transformation from gold exploration to developing a phosphate project in Nevada.
Manifestum est ergo,
quia homines dixit deos, ex gratia sua deificatos, non de substantia sua natos.
Educators have responded favorably to
Quia since its inception.
Gloria Arnold, a high - school Spanish teacher from Scott City, Missouri, has
found Quia very useful.
Software engineer Paul Mishkin has created a Web site for educators
called Quia!
Editor's Note:
Most Quia services require users to subscribe.
Brad Bowerman, a grade - 7 geography teacher in the Lakeland School District of Jermyn, Pennsylvania,
discovered Quia while doing research for his own Web site Geography World.
Because its activities are on the World Wide Web,
Quia provides an opportunity for global sharing.
The
website Quia contains games that mimic popular games such as Battleship and Jeopardy.
Cicero's original passage began: «Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem
ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...» Which translates as «Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it...» See the Wikipedia entry referenced above for the complete passage and 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
Marty Pettigrew, a computer instructor for Covington Middle School in Covington, Tennessee, has also
used Quia to reinforce skills taught in the classroom.
Could it be a new version of Tertullian's «credo
quia absurdum est»?
«The strength
of Quia is in its ability to correlate with your curriculum in fun, interactive ways.»
They say they subscribe to the Book of Concord not because (
quia) they are faithful to Scripture, but only insofar as (quatenus) they are faithful to Scripture.
The offended consciousness holds aloof from the Paradox, and the reason is:
quia absurdum.
Quia: The Quintessential Teacher's Helper!
Some teachers have their own Web pages at SchoolNotes or
Quia, but that is done independently by those staff members.
It's easy to make your own interactive on - line activities with
the Quia Web site.
«With no prompting on my part, I find students are invariably drawn to
these Quia activities.
I often see all five computers in my computer lab tuned in to
the Quia - based activities without specific instructions to do so.
An individual subscription to
Quia is $ 49 a year.
«
Quia is an easy - to - use way of preparing educational activities that are specifically related to my area of teaching and specific to the textbooks that I use.
Quia is a growing resource, and Mishkin is looking for your assistance.
He has integrated
the Quia site into his classroom activities with much success.
Arnold and her students have continued to use
Quia.
They go to
these Quia activities, not because I tell them to, but because they want to.»
Bowerman feels that the real plus to
Quia is that it is so interesting that students want to visit.
«Class pages allow educators to create their own home pages on
the Quia site,» Mishkin added.
«I have used
the Quia site to create and publish 48 different educational activities for use in my geography classes,» said Bowerman.