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Do The Opportunities Offered During The School Day Provide The Recommended Physical Activity Levels For Children?: An Assessment Of The Upson County Pre-Kindergarten And Elementary School Physical Activity Occurrences, Cheryl Lynn Robinson Gaddis

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Problem Statement: Almost 90% of students do not meet the national recommendations for physical activity in school. The purpose of this study was to determine the need for school policy changes to incorporate classroom-based physical activity programs in an effort to increase school physical activity levels for children in grades pre-kindergarten through five by assessing the levels of and the barriers/facilitators to physical activity engagement.

Methods: This was a sequential explanatory mixed methods study utilizing school board members, principals, and teachers in the Upson County School System as participants. The online survey was adapted from the School Health …

Teaching Tools For Real Life Skills: Information Literacy For The Workplace, Alessia Zanin-Yost, Betsy Clementson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Student Plagiarism: Prevention And Detection, Breanne Kirsch, Lola Bradley

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Digital News Aggregation: Legalities, Realities, Dan Trigoboff

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Information Seeking Habits Of Educators, Susan Bannon, Kimberly Nunes-Bufford, Todd Shipman

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Just The Tip Of The Iceberg: Using The 100th Anniversary Of The Titanic Sinking To Teach Information Literacy, Robin Grant, Felicia Haywood, April Renfroe-Warren

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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How Information Literate Are You? Results Of A Five-Year Pre- And Post-Testing Of Mba Students, Barbie Keiser

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Information Literacy Skills In A World Of Google And Wikipedia, Emily Gover

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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"It's All About The Citation": Teaching Information Literacy To The Non-Traditional Doctoral Student, Steven Wise

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Tracing Boundaries, Effacing Boundaries: Information Literacy As Seen By Multiple Disciplines, Grace Veach, Amy Harris

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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"Need, Find, Assess, Use" Translating Il Standards Into Higher Education Curricula, Jewell Anderson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Information Is Power! Using A Themed Freshman Year Experience Course To Teach Info Literacy, Robin Grant

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Impact Of Technology Infused Instruction On Project Ace (Accelerated Content-Based English) Students, Tarena Ruff, Adria Leal

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Assessing Our Assessment: Building A Question Bank And Aligning Assessment With Learning Outcomes, Elizabeth Killingsworth, Corinne Bishop, Renee Cole Montgomery

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Collaborating Towards Cognition By Using 21st Century Learning Techniques To Create Effective Learning, Donna Jo Baker, Kristina Durocher, Misty Hanks

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Evaluating A Metacognitive Tool On Tte Search Behavior Of Education Graduate Students In Digital Lib, Barbara Blummer

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Dispelling The Independent Research Myth With Collaboration That Works: An Embedded Experience, Lizah Ismail, Reed Chewning

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Five And A Thousand Practical Ways To Use Wikipedia In Instruction, Jean Cook

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Does It Pay To Discover: Teaching For Information Literacy With The Exlibris Primo Discovery Tool, Jeffrey Mortimore, Drew Mcnaughton, Elizabeth Novicki

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End Of An Era: Assessing The Success Of Ic@Ghc, Cindy Wheeler, Teresa Hutchins, Susan Vines

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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A Source For A Source - Reaching Out To Students, Joe Eshleman

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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There's A Librarian In My Living Room! Teaching Information Literacy Skills With Web Conferencing, Sheila Bonnand, Mary Anne Hansen

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Library Instruction Under Construction: Surviving The Transition To Web-Scale Discovery, Benjamin Bryson

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Using Quality/Time Graphs To Teach Freshman English Students How To Assess Journal Quality, Andrew Wohrley

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"That's Not My Job": Supporting Academics To Develop Information Literacy Skills In Content Courses, Angela Feekery

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Collaboration Between Faculty And Librarians To Implement Bibliobouts, An Information Literacy Game, Alyssa Martin

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Elearning Solutions For Information Literacy At A Distance, Angela Hamilton

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Information Literacy And Political Efficacy: Assessing The Correlation, Maria Albo, Julie Higbee

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Improving Education Of Mathematics Majors, Goran Lesaja

Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019)

In this talk we will explore and discuss different ways of improving instruction of upper level mathematics classes. Several case studies will be presented, including in Calculus and Operations Research courses. We will also discuss the importance of extracurricular activities in education of mathematics majors. In particular, we will describe activities related to undergraduate mathematics competitions.

Preparing Middle Grades Teachers To Use Drawn Models For Developing Arithmetic With Rational Numbers, Andrew Izsak, Erik Jacobson

Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019)

We will report on-going efforts to design a research-based content and methods course for future middle grades teachers focused on numbers and operations. A main theme of the course is to solve problems using drawn models and to develop general numeric methods. Attendees will work on activities used in the course that elicit difficulties future teachers experience with this content.