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Basic Concepts Of Structural Design For Architecture Students, Anahita Khodadadi
Basic Concepts Of Structural Design For Architecture Students, Anahita Khodadadi
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This book aims to narrate fundamental concepts of structural design to architecture students such that they have minimum involvement with math problem-solving. Within this book, students learn about different types of loads, forces and vector addition, the concept of equilibrium, internal forces, geometrical and material properties of structural elements, and rules of thumb for estimating the proportion of some structural systems such as catenary cables and arches, trusses, and frame structures.
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Urban Literacy: Learning To Read The City Around You, Leanne Claire Serbulo
Urban Literacy: Learning To Read The City Around You, Leanne Claire Serbulo
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This book introduces students to the basic concepts of urban studies. It is an interdisciplinary text that was developed for lower-division undergraduate students. The book is organized into thematic chapters that explore different aspects of urban life, such as the environment, housing, and culture. Each chapter introduces a new way of conceptualizing the city, presents core theories and concepts, and provides examples and case studies from cities around the globe to illustrate the ideas presented in the text. At the end of each chapter, there are review questions and a series of interactive field activities where students can apply the …
Open Education Faculty Panel, Jenny Ceciliano, Lindsey Wilkinson, Staci Martin, Norma Cardenas
Open Education Faculty Panel, Jenny Ceciliano, Lindsey Wilkinson, Staci Martin, Norma Cardenas
Open Education Week 2022
Many faculty at PSU have been involved in the Open Education movement. This panel of PSU faculty members discusses how Open Education has affected their teaching practice and how Open Education relates to equity and inclusion.
Our panelists are:
- Jenny Ceciliano, Senior Instructor II of Spanish/Coordinator of First-year Spanish, World Languages and Literatures
- Lindsey Wilkinson, Associate Professor, Sociology
- Staci Martin, Assistant Professor of Practice, CYFS Practicum Coordinator Child, Youth, and Family Studies, School of Social Work
- Norma Cardenas, Assistant Professor of Practice Child, Youth, and Family Studies, School of Social Work
Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos Por Aquí!, Jenny Ceciliano, Lisa Notman
Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos Por Aquí!, Jenny Ceciliano, Lisa Notman
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Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí! focuses on the development of communication skills in interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes while centering student voices. Activities engage learners in real exchanges of information on topics that are relevant to adult students. In addition to language-acquisition learning outcomes, this text supports learning outcomes in diversity, equity, inclusion, cultural sustainability, and social justice.
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Citoyen.Ne.S: Conversation En Français, Annabelle Dolidon
Citoyen.Ne.S: Conversation En Français, Annabelle Dolidon
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CITOYEN.NE.S is a French language method for the conversation class at the intermediate/ advanced level. Content and activities are built around the concepts of diversity, inclusivity and equity, and engage students to practice French while questioning and participating in the world they live in – to be full citizens whatever their background, their race or their gender identity. As the French spelling of the title indicates, the book embraces écriture inclusive and uses it for instructions and general information for all students.
The book is composed of five chapters covering various themes. None of them provides again basic vocabulary from …
Oer Guide For Wr 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources (Oers) In Wr 227 Courses, Sarah Read, Jordana Bowen, Henry Covey
Oer Guide For Wr 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources (Oers) In Wr 227 Courses, Sarah Read, Jordana Bowen, Henry Covey
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The "OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources (OERs) in WR 227 Courses" aims to help instructors make sense of and sort the massively decentralized and varying content of existing OERs available to support technical and professional writing courses. This guide is intended as a resource for introductory technical writing course instructors to adapt an existing course to integrate OER resources, or, to build a new course with all-OER student resources. This guide was developed for the specific use of WR 227 instructors at Portland State University and across Oregon; however, the material in the guide or …
Navigating The Space Between Us, Robert Gould
Navigating The Space Between Us, Robert Gould
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Navigating the Space Between Us - Finding Connection, while Embracing the Continua of Difference: A Dilemma Driven Conflict Analysis was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for a conflict resolution CR 310U Values and Ethics course (required for a PSU bachelor's degree in CR) and adaptable to a conflict resolution CR 513 graduate course (required for PSU master's degree in CR). Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in a ten week, quarter system, though it is adaptable for a semester length course. The chapters are combined with other readings on conflict resolution values and ethics. …
Pdx Protests, Summer 2020: A Syllabus And Timeline, Francheska Cannone, Nate Belcik, Macy Franken, Kelly Green, Sarah Harris, Philippe Kerstens, Vicky White, Katrine Barber
Pdx Protests, Summer 2020: A Syllabus And Timeline, Francheska Cannone, Nate Belcik, Macy Franken, Kelly Green, Sarah Harris, Philippe Kerstens, Vicky White, Katrine Barber
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This syllabus and timeline of the protests organized in Portland throughout the summer and early fall of 2020 was compiled and written by Portland State University students enrolled in Professor Katrine Barber’s HST 4/593, Introduction to Public History in Fall 2020. It was prepared in partnership with the Oregon State University Press and presented to them at the conclusion of the course. It combines local Portland journalism with a number of other scholarly resources to attempt to answer the question: “Why Portland?” The goals of the project at the outset were to correct inaccuracies or oversights in national coverage of …
Decoding The 1920s: A Reader For Advanced Learners Of Russian, Nila Friedberg
Decoding The 1920s: A Reader For Advanced Learners Of Russian, Nila Friedberg
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The materials presented in this book were developed for an advanced-level content-based Russian language course at Portland State University entitled “Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century: The 1920s.” Literature of this period is a major part of the Russian canon, but is notoriously difficult for learners of Russian to read in the original, due both to its stylistic complexity and the relative obscurity of its historical, political, …
Paranormal Psychology: Psy410, Larry R. Martinez
Paranormal Psychology: Psy410, Larry R. Martinez
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This OER packet contains the course materials for PSY410: Paranormal Psychology. Although often dismissed as a pseudoscience, there are many things we can learn about human beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors by studying phenomena that our current science cannot explain. The course begins with a history of real scientific studies that have been conducted to try and determine whether things like extrasensory perception, telepathy, and telekinesis are real phenomena, with a particular emphasis on what those studies can teach us about the scientific method more generally. This is followed by an examination of things related to the afterlife (e.g., ghosts, mediums, …
Literary Form And Analysis: Instructional Materials For English 300, Josh Epstein
Literary Form And Analysis: Instructional Materials For English 300, Josh Epstein
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This OER packet comprises instructional materials used for ENG 300: Literary Forms and Analysis, a "gateway" course for the English major and minor at Portland State University. It includes handouts, exercises, and a sample syllabus for this course, emphasizing skills of "close reading" and formal analysis, as well as the scholarly study of genre (poetry, fiction, drama, and film). The syllabus and handouts offered in this packet represent only one of many possible approaches to ENG 300. These open access, freely available resources that can be readily adjusted to suit different pedagogical methods. They can also be usefully complemented with …
Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation Of Einstein’S Theories Of Motion And Gravity, Jack C. Straton
Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation Of Einstein’S Theories Of Motion And Gravity, Jack C. Straton
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Relativity Lite is designed for the General Astronomy sequence (PH 361-2U, SCI 315-6U) whose primary book glosses over Special Relativity and General Relativity while trying to explain the Cosmology that is based on those subjects. Relativity Lite translates the mathematical equations conventional relativity texts rely upon into pictures that are readily understood and contain within them the mathematical essentials. This book provides the comprehensive coverage needed to understand, in sufficient depth, these three linked areas of our reality.
Readers seeking this knowledge on their own, and those in other courses for nonscientists, may also find it helpful.
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Lectures On Mathematical Computing With Python, Jay Gopalakrishnan
Lectures On Mathematical Computing With Python, Jay Gopalakrishnan
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This open resource is a collection of class activities for use in undergraduate courses aimed at teaching mathematical computing, and computational thinking in general, using the python programming language. It was developed for a second-year course (MTH 271) revamped for a new undergraduate program in data science at Portland State University. The activities are designed to guide students' use of python modules effectively for scientific computation, data analysis, and visualization.
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Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual For Science And Action - Version 2.0, Frank Granshaw
Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual For Science And Action - Version 2.0, Frank Granshaw
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The Climate Toolkit is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it contains a collection of activities that make use of readily available on-line resources developed by research groups and public agencies. These include web-based climate models, climate data archives, interactive atlases, policy papers, and “solution” catalogs. Unlike a standard textbook, it is designed to help readers do their own climate research and devise their own perspective rather than providing them with a script to assimilate and repeat. …
Psu Futures Collaboratory: Final Report And Recommendations To President Percy And Provost Susan Jeffords, Laura Burney Nissen
Psu Futures Collaboratory: Final Report And Recommendations To President Percy And Provost Susan Jeffords, Laura Burney Nissen
Futures Collaboratory
The report provides an overview of the Futures Collaboratory, its efforts to consider possible futures, ways to expand the dialogue on a broad scale to make a stronger and more agile community that engages in future-contributing, learning, and co-creating.
Podcasts Episode 15: Jake Koch, Jake Koch, Amy T. Parker
Podcasts Episode 15: Jake Koch, Jake Koch, Amy T. Parker
O&M On the Go
In this podcast, Amy interviews Jake Koch who offers wisdom from his personal and professional journey in mobility. Themes from this interview include ways to build confidence and competence for travel; guide dog mobility; elements of distance consultation; and how to work collaboratively for the good of all.
Jake Koch is the Community Outreach Specialist with Guide Dogs for the Blind. He travels with a five and a half year-old Black Labrador guide dog named Forli.
Jake’s role at Guide Dogs for the Blind includes:
- Facilitating awareness and educational opportunities about the guide dog lifestyle and guide dog mobility on …
A Walk In The Future, Laura Burney Nissen
A Walk In The Future, Laura Burney Nissen
Futures Collaboratory
Presentation to the Board of Trustees, Portland State University; presented by Laura Burney Nissen, Ph.D., LCSW, CADC III, Professor and Presidential Futures Fellow, School of Social Work, Portland State University; National Director, SW Education Health Futures Lab.
Interview With Marvin Kaiser, Marvin Kaiser, Oona Fisher Campbell
Interview With Marvin Kaiser, Marvin Kaiser, Oona Fisher Campbell
Conflict Resolution Oral Histories
Marvin Kaiser was interviewed by Oona Fisher Campbell on May 15, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Also participating in the interview are Patricia Schechter and Cleophas Chambliss.
In this interview, Kaiser, who has a background in social work, discusses the structural obstacles in our society that create conflict and emphasizes the role that the university and higher education in general can play as a community public service.
Interview With Rob Gould, Robert Gould, Alexandra Ibarra
Interview With Rob Gould, Robert Gould, Alexandra Ibarra
Conflict Resolution Oral Histories
Rob Gould was interviewed by Alexandra Ibarra on May 18, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Also participating in this interview are Patricia Schechter and Liza Schade.
In this interview, Gould recalls the origins of Conflict Resolution and peace studies at Portland State, relating the development of the program to changing cultural and political currents beginning in the 1960s, and rising interest in solutions and alternatives to conflict at all levels of interaction. He discusses the challenges the program faced as a fledgling department and as it grew, involving funding, collaboration with the University of Oregon and community organizations for peace, and …
Interview With Judith Ramaley, Judith A. Ramaley, Liza Julene Schade
Interview With Judith Ramaley, Judith A. Ramaley, Liza Julene Schade
Conflict Resolution Oral Histories
Judith Ramaley was interviewed by Liza Schade on May 22, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Also participating in the interview are Patricia Schechter and Cleophas Chambliss.
In this interview, Dr. Ramaley discusses the issues at the forefront of her presidency in the 1990s, lessons learned from strategizing severe budget cuts that followed the passage of Measure 5 in 1990, ideas behind the new University Studies curriculum, and diversifying student and faculty demographics and creating safer and more inclusive university spaces.
Interview With Mary Zinkin, Mary Zinkin, Stephanie Vallance
Interview With Mary Zinkin, Mary Zinkin, Stephanie Vallance
Conflict Resolution Oral Histories
Mary Zinkin was interviewed by Stephanie Vallance on May 6, 2020. Also participating in the interview were Liza Schade and Lady J.
In this interview, Zinkin describes her own self-designed interdisciplinary graduate degrees in Conflict Resolution at Portland State and her influence in the creation of those degree programs at PSU. She discusses her academic work in the field of conflict mediation, and her view of the need for a professional, skills-based degree that blended theory and practice. She describes the logistics of getting the program off the ground, noting the development of curriculum, number of students, and the conversation …
Interview With Barbara Tint, Barbara Tint, Patricia A. Schechter
Interview With Barbara Tint, Barbara Tint, Patricia A. Schechter
Conflict Resolution Oral Histories
Barbara Tint was interviewed by Patricia Schechter on May 29, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Also participating in the interview are Alex Berg, Cleophas Chambliss, Oona Fisher Campbell, Jake Hutchins, Alex Ibarra, Lady J, Liza Schade, and Stephanie Vallance.
In this interview, Tint describes her path to academia through working as a counselor and with conflict resolution in a number of international settings. The discussion takes a theoretical turn when students inquired about the philosophical underpinnings of Tint's work.
Interview With Karin Waller, Karin A. Waller, Patricia A. Schechter
Interview With Karin Waller, Karin A. Waller, Patricia A. Schechter
Conflict Resolution Oral Histories
Karin Waller was interviewed by history professor Patricia Schechter on May 27, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Also participating in the interview are graduate students Cleophas Chambliss and Liza Schade.
In this interview, Waller describes the personal, social, and intellectual intersections that brought her to graduate study, her mentors in the graduate program, and her thesis project.
Daily Departures: Speed Reading Passages For English Language Learners, Regina D. Weaver
Daily Departures: Speed Reading Passages For English Language Learners, Regina D. Weaver
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Daily Departures: Speed Reading Passages for English Language Learners is a collection of twenty 200-225 word reading passages written primarily within the 1,000-word level of the New General Service List and designed to provide fluency support for English language learners at the Waystage level of the Common European Framework Reference.
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Interview With Bill Lemman (2019), Bill Lemman, Clarence Hein
Interview With Bill Lemman (2019), Bill Lemman, Clarence Hein
Portland State University Oral Histories
In this interview, former Oregon University System Vice-Chancellor and Portland State University administrator Bill Lemman discusses his career in higher education in Oregon with Clarence Hein.
This interview was held on February 21, 2019, at the Portland State University Library.
W.T. “Bill” Lemman has been affiliated with Portland State from its inception. As a Vanport Extension Center student, he had close relationships with many faculty, including VEC founder Stephen Epler. After earning his degree in Business Administration at the University of Oregon in 1949, he returned to Vanport in 1950 as Assistant Business Manager. He returned again in 1959, eventually …
Podcasts Episode 14: Erica Ihrke, Erica Ihrke, Amy T. Parker
Podcasts Episode 14: Erica Ihrke, Erica Ihrke, Amy T. Parker
O&M On the Go
In this podcast interview, Erica describes an innovative program designed to assist people in gaining basic O&M skills in an intensive program as they consider their need for a guide dog. This program often helps supplement or provide intensive O&M services when it isn't available in one's home community.
Podcasts Episode 13: Jane Elliott, Jane Elliott, Amy T. Parker
Podcasts Episode 13: Jane Elliott, Jane Elliott, Amy T. Parker
O&M On the Go
In this podcast interview, Jane describes her journey to become an O&M, describing her draw to the field, her work with seniors and her passion for serving people with complex needs in their home communities. In one instance, Jane describes her efforts to build a relationship with a woman who happens to be homeless and deafblind in order to support her independence and safety in an urban setting.
Podcasts Episode 12: Christopher Tabb, Christopher Tabb, Amy T. Parker
Podcasts Episode 12: Christopher Tabb, Christopher Tabb, Amy T. Parker
O&M On the Go
Chris Tabb is an Orientation and Mobility Specialist working to advance the independence of students and clients, provide training opportunities and knowledge exchange for professionals and families, and bring accessible information to the community. He is presently employed at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) Outreach Programs as the Statewide Orientation and Mobility Consultant, also providing direct services and consultation through his private practice, Sensory Travel. Chris has worked as an Orientation and Mobility Specialist in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Texas, providing services in residential programs, as an itinerant, and as a private contractor. He enjoys working …
Beginning Japanese For Professionals: Book 3, Emiko Konomi
Beginning Japanese For Professionals: Book 3, Emiko Konomi
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This is the final book in a three book series and includes Lessons 9 - 10. Book 1 and Book 2 are also available for download.
This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.
As a beginning level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically …
Podcasts Episode 11: Kassandra Maloney, Kassandra Maloney, Amy T. Parker
Podcasts Episode 11: Kassandra Maloney, Kassandra Maloney, Amy T. Parker
O&M On the Go
Kassandra (Kassy) Maloney is a Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist, Certified Yoga Teacher, Author, and mom of two little boys (her favorite role yet). She also owns and operates Allied Independence, LLC., a professional development organization that equips Orientation and Mobility Specialists with the most cutting edge and effective strategies that they need in order to help their students live their most independent lives. Through the International Orientation and Mobility Online Symposium, they have been able to impact the lives of thousands of students world-wide.
Amy interviewed Kassy about her efforts to develop an online professional development network for O&M …