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Review: Steve: The Art Museum Social Tagging Project., Mark Mcbride
Review: Steve: The Art Museum Social Tagging Project., Mark Mcbride
Mark F McBride
The Steve Museum is a social tagging project created by volunteers from art museums and galleries. The main goal is to create user generated descriptions for works of art, because we all view, experience, and describe art differently.
Technical Ebooks: A Solution Looking For A Problem, Peggy Cooper, Cheri Folkner, Melissa Kozel, Barbara Glackin, Richard A. Stoddart
Technical Ebooks: A Solution Looking For A Problem, Peggy Cooper, Cheri Folkner, Melissa Kozel, Barbara Glackin, Richard A. Stoddart
Barbara Glackin
Albertsons Library at Boise State University has been slow to move into the ebook arena for a variety of reasons including the inadequacies of simultaneous user models and the uncertainty of ebook technology. However, the most significant question for BSU has been usefulness of ebooks to their patrons. Are ebooks a passing fad or are they the answer to improved access to information? In January 2006, BSU selected a small group of technical books in an electronic format via the ProQuest Safari Tech Books Online database. This session will discuss the rational behind selecting technical books as an introduction to …
Review: Perpetual Art Machine., Mark Mcbride
Review: Perpetual Art Machine., Mark Mcbride
Mark F McBride
The Perpetual Art Machine (PAM) provides us with an opportunity to look into the world of video art being created around the world.
Int 100 Fall 2007, Rob Morrison
Predicting Transition And Adjustment To College: Minority Biomedical And Behavioral Science Students’ First Year Of College, Sylvia Hurtado, June Chang, Victor Saenz, Lorelle Espinosa, Nolan Cabrera, Oscar Cerna
Predicting Transition And Adjustment To College: Minority Biomedical And Behavioral Science Students’ First Year Of College, Sylvia Hurtado, June Chang, Victor Saenz, Lorelle Espinosa, Nolan Cabrera, Oscar Cerna
Nolan L. Cabrera
The purpose of this study is to explore key factors that impact the college transition of aspiring underrepresented minority students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, in comparison with White, Asian students and non-science minority students. We examined successful management of the academic environment and sense of belonging during the first college year. Longitudinal data were derived from the Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) 2004 Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey and the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey. Using a reformulation of the integration model (Nora, Barlow, and Crisp, 2005), we find concerns about college financing, negotiating …
Innovative Teaching Strategies In Research For Health Professions, James Leone, Suanne Maurer-Starks
Innovative Teaching Strategies In Research For Health Professions, James Leone, Suanne Maurer-Starks
Suanne Maurer-Starks
The purpose of this article is to assist the health educator in teaching and creating innovative methods for facilitating research. A brief background and discussion of the research process is presented followed by how and why research is directly applicable in health professions. A variety of methods and strategies are presented in an overall format of the research process. Lastly, practical application of the strategies presented in this article is discussed.