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Rebooting A Technical Writing Course: Control Instructional Design, Alt Information Literacy, And Delete Non-Collaboration, Kelly Diamond, Gregg Thumm

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Members of this panel, an instructional design librarian and a teaching faculty member, began collaborating in summer 2014 to revise and redesign English 305: Scientific and Technical Writing; the faculty instructor wanted to improve this course by redesigning it based on instructional design principles, but also to include more information literacy instruction into this online course.

This panel will discuss faculty’s perceived problems with the initial version of the class, including lack of student participation and poor choices of research materials for assignments. We will discuss how we tried to eliminate those deficiencies through instructional design and redesigning authentic assignments …

Teaching Honors Cross-Divisional & Active-Learning Courses: Terrorism & Torture From A Global Perspective, Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, Catherine G Canino, Samantha Hauptman

Global Education Summit

How do we engage undergraduate students in intercultural awareness and global citizenship? One way is to better prepare them for a service-oriented, complex, multi-lingual, and globally focused workplace. Our panel will present how a public university with a metropolitan mission encourages interdisciplinary, cross-divisional, and co-taught courses where French and criminal justice professors collaborate for a global education cause.

Design And Implementation Of An Interactive Animatronic System For Guest Response Analysis, Brian Burns

Phi Kappa Phi Research Symposium (2012-2016)

In theme park based entertainment applications, there is a need for interactive, autonomous animatronic systems to create engaging and compelling experiences for the guests. The animatronic figures must identify the guests and recognize their status in dynamic interactions for enhanced acceptance and effectiveness as socially interactive agents, in the general framework of human-robot interactions. The design and implementation of an interactive, autonomous animatronic system in form of a tabletop dragon, Kronos, and the comparisons of guest responses in its passive and interactive modes are presented in this work. The dragon capabilities include a four degrees-of-freedom head, moving wings, tail, jaw, …

Design And Implementation Of An Interactive Animatronic System For Guest Response Analysis, Brian Burns

GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium

For nearly half a century, animatronic figures have provided entertainment in the theme park industry by simulating life-like animations and sounds. These figures enhance the storytelling experience by stimulating visual and audio senses among guests. Animatronics must be identified as human partners to establish status for dynamic interactions for enhanced acceptance and effectiveness as socially-interactive agents. An animatronic dragon, Kronos, has been designed, fabricated and implemented with human-identification sensors. The primary sensor input comes from an infrared camera, the PrimeSense Carmine, and includes an Arduino Mega 2560 as the center of control. Using the data from the depth camera, people …

L’Appropriation Du Mythe Dans La Construction Post Coloniale A Travers L’Heritage Du Griot De Dani Kouyate, Amina Saidou

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

Autour des années 1980, la littérature et le cinéma francophones de l’Afrique subsaharienne sont voués à une fonction esthétique et thématique qui les induit à recourir au patrimoine des valeurs traditionnelles afin de trouver les ressources et la vision propres à résoudre certaines préoccupations du moment. Dans bien des cas, cela implique le recours au mythe, à la légende ou encore au merveilleux, en vue d’exprimer les aspirations les plus profondes voire le mode d’être d’un peuple que les vicissitudes de l’histoire ont placé face un certain nombre de tourments. C’est dans une telle perspective que s’inscrit clairement le film …

Force-Bonte : Un Oubli Volontaire Non Justifie, Myrlene Bruno

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

Batouala de René Maran et Force-Bonté de Bakary Diallo sont deux romans écrits par des auteurs noirs pendant les années ’20, la décennie précédant la naissance de la Négritude. Parus à une époque où les auteurs francophones hors de l’Europe étaient extrêmement rares, ces deux textes précurseurs auraient dû marquer leur période. Ce fut le cas pour Batouala qui gagna le prix Goncourt en 1921, l’année même de sa parution. Il ne faut pas non plus oublier qu’il a été embrassé par les champions de la Négritude, un mouvement qui se donnait pour but de rehausser les cultures et les …

La Parole Traditionnelle Dans Le Pagne Noir De Bernard Dadié Ou Le Passage De L’Oralité À La Scripturalité Du Conte, Koffi P. Amanoua

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

Le conte fait partie des éléments caractéristiques de toute société fondée sur le discours oral. Il a été, par le passé un outil de préservation des us et coutumes en Afrique et ailleurs et un canal puissant pour communiquer des valeurs et enseigner des vérités. Avec les légendes, les mythes, les chansons, les proverbes, les devinettes et les comptines, le conte peut être assimilé à la parole traditionnelle, celle des anciens. Cela transparait dans le recueil de contes Le pagne noir dans lequel Bernard Dadié, rapporte à l’écrit la parole traditionnelle de façon à respecter l’esprit du conte. De ce …

Jane Austen's Heroines--And Some Others, Neda H. Jeny

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

Jane Austen’s Heroines--and Some Others

Jane Austen is the earliest English novelist whose novels are still widely read today; in fact, they are becoming more popular all the time.

Of course, there are good reasons for this popularity. Apart from Austen’s creation of unforgettable characters, and her exquisite irony and sense of humor, there is one other thing I’d like to discuss today: her heroines could be called, in a sense, brilliant (and often unorthodox) adaptations of universally recognized types. For example, Elizabeth Bennet is so remarkable a character because she is, at the same time, a sort of Cinderella …

La Metaphore Du Devoilement Dans Les Enfants Du Nouveau Monde D’Assia Djebar, Amina Saidou

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

La société algérienne pendant et après la guerre de révolution a subi des changements significatifs et de divers ordres. Les Enfants du nouveau monde d’Assia Djebar en est une très forte illustration. La tradition socioculturelle algérienne recommande à la femme algérienne le port du voile. En faisant ressortir la thématique du voile dans la tradition maghrébine, Djebar montre à travers son roman la façon dont la situation s’applique à la femme algérienne. Aussi, une métaphore du voile et du dévoilement ressort de sa description du rapport de pouvoirs entre la femme et l’homme; entre la femme et le pouvoir sociopolitique …

Crossing Borders: From Indifference To Empathy, Stimulating A Humanist Perspective On The Issue Of Illegal Immigration Through Film, Pedro J. Lopes

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

Smuggled is the latest of a vast repertoire of films focusing on the issue of the illegal border crossing between Mexico and the United States.

Directed by Ramon Hamilton and released in 2012, Smuggled tells the story of Miguel, a 9-year-old boy, and his mother as they attempt to illegally cross the border into the United States hidden in a compartment underneath a tour bus.

That same year, the well-known Mexican actor Gael García Bernal produces a documentary titled Who is Dayani Cristal?, in which he himself retraces the steps and circumstances that led to the disappearing of this …

Unsilencing The Voice Within: Expressive Writing As A Therapeutic Tool, Karla L. Sapp

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

Written words are a very powerful tool that is used to facilitate self-healing, awareness, and growth through the communication of one’s deepest thoughts, emotions, and desires. The purpose of this poster session is to provide mental health providers (community, school, criminal justice) with an overview of expressive writing, forms of expressive writing that can be utilized, and implications for professional practice with At-Risk Youth.

2015 Conference Program

South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)

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