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Avoiding Prezilepsy: Organization Strategies To Reduce Motion Sickness Caused By Prezis, Shawn Apostel
Avoiding Prezilepsy: Organization Strategies To Reduce Motion Sickness Caused By Prezis, Shawn Apostel
Shawn Apostel
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Visual Presentation Aids In The Communication Center: Tips And Techniques For Providing Useful Design Feedback, Shawn Apostel
Visual Presentation Aids In The Communication Center: Tips And Techniques For Providing Useful Design Feedback, Shawn Apostel
Shawn Apostel
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Brainstorming In The Cloud: Using Prezi Meeting To Facilitate Feedback During The Topic Selecting And Organizing Stage Of The Composition Process, Shawn Apostel
Shawn Apostel
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Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration, Russell Carpenter, Shawn Apostel
Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space, Encouraging Collaboration, Russell Carpenter, Shawn Apostel
Shawn Apostel
A collection that examines the centers that support communication departments or across-the-curriculum programs as higher education focuses more attention on the communication field. The authors in this text address theoretical issues covering topics such as the importance of communication centers to higher education, the effects of communication centers on retention, critical thinking in the center, ethics, and more. These essays also explore ideas about center’s set-up and use of space, staff training, technology applications, and campus advertising and outreach. Communication Centers organizes cutting-edge knowledge of the theory and empirical research so as to serve practical use to peer tutors and …
Old World Successes And New World Challenge: Reducing The Computer Waste Stream In America, Shawn Apostel, Kristi Apostel
Old World Successes And New World Challenge: Reducing The Computer Waste Stream In America, Shawn Apostel, Kristi Apostel
Shawn Apostel
This chapter considers the toxic waste stream our disciplinary activities have created and will create and encourages us (technology-inclined academics) to consider even more carefully what sort of environmental impact we will be making as our projects and programs succeed.
The current picture, incidentally, is both bleak and hopeful. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that from 2000 to 2007, upwards of 500 million personal computers will enter the municipal solid waste stream in America. This is a crisis not only because of the amount of computers ready for disposal, but also because of their toxic byproducts, including lead, mercury, …
Thinking Through Persuasive Play: Encouraging Gaming Experience, Shawn Apostel
Thinking Through Persuasive Play: Encouraging Gaming Experience, Shawn Apostel
Shawn Apostel
In 2002 the US Army released a highly effective and popular recruitment device: America’s Army. This free tactical multiplayer first-person shooter has proven to be so successful that other recruitment games are being developed and released by other military branches; however the effort being made to help students think reflectively about their game playing experience is minimal at best. This webtext will address these concerns by sharing ways video games can be discussed in the multimodal composition classroom.
First Phase Information Literacy On A Fourth Generation Website, Shawn Apostel, Moe Folk
First Phase Information Literacy On A Fourth Generation Website, Shawn Apostel, Moe Folk
Shawn Apostel
Prevailing advice to students on how to evaluate websites (look at the URL, date of publication, webmaster, etc.) is adapted from how we evaluate books. This is an example of First Phase Information Literacy, a term we have adapted from Lankshear and Knobel's discussion of Bezos's distinction between the "first phase of automation" and the second phase. The way we as teachers have approached the evaluation of credible websites is still in the "first phase" of information literacy. In other words, we have merely adapted the methodologies we have used for books so that they apply to websites. However, as …
Oh That Wonderful Stuff": Selected Poetry By College And Middle School Students, Shawn Apostel
Oh That Wonderful Stuff": Selected Poetry By College And Middle School Students, Shawn Apostel
Shawn Apostel
When students use poetry to imagine and explore academic subjects, they examine the topic in new, creative ways, resulting in interesting and lively writings that stimulate thought and class discussions. The following poems are examples of student poetry written in a variety of classes throughout the curriculum. I am pleased to showcase student writing in this section, and I hope reading these poems will suggest possibilities and adaptations for teachers and students elsewhere.