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Facilitating Service Learning In The Online Technical Communication Classroom, Danielle Nielsen
Facilitating Service Learning In The Online Technical Communication Classroom, Danielle Nielsen
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
Drawing from the author’s experience teaching online technical communication courses with an embedded service-learning component, this essay opens the discussion to the potential problems involved in designing online service-learning courses and provides practical approaches to integrating service learning into online coursework. The essay addresses specifically those classrooms where students may be required to develop or find their own service opportunities, whether those opportunities are within their community, on the college or university campus, or in another community. The essay argues by implementing service learning into online classrooms and requiring students to locate their own agencies, students not only build a …
Art For The People: Wpa Prints And Textiles From The Permanent Collection, Antje K. Gamble, T. Michael Martin
Art For The People: Wpa Prints And Textiles From The Permanent Collection, Antje K. Gamble, T. Michael Martin
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
As the first major, nationalized support system for artistic production in the United States, the New Deal’s Federal Art Project (F.A.P.) strove to create a holistic vision of art for the American people. Debates among art historians and political pundits alike pointed to the perceived-lack of a truly-American modern art. Cultural critic Lewis Mumford articulated that, opposed to European Modernism, “[w]hat American taste recognizes [is] that there is more aesthetic promise in a McAn shoe store front, or in a Blue Kitchen sandwich palace than there is in the most sumptuous showroom of antiques…” In accordance, the F.A.P. supported artists’ …
Courting Controversy: How I Became An Opportunistic Improvisationalist, Joshua Adair
Courting Controversy: How I Became An Opportunistic Improvisationalist, Joshua Adair
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
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Exiled From Main Street: Improvisational Teaching/Life, Paul Walker
Exiled From Main Street: Improvisational Teaching/Life, Paul Walker
Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.