Using Ning For Conversation Partner Networks,
2010
University of South Florida
Using Ning For Conversation Partner Networks, Krista Bittenbender
Krista Bittenbender Royal
Providing opportunities for conversation practice is one way that an IEP can help students improve their English as well as enhance their engagement in the language learning process. However, matching individual language learners to fluent English speakers can be difficult and time consuming. This workshop will introduce participants involved in setting up such interactions to Ning, a free online social networking platform which can facilitate the creation of individualized networks. Participants will gain insights into how one IEP used Ning to connect ELLs to university students interested in having conversation partners.
"Your Own Imagination": Vidding And Vidwatching As Collaborative Interpretation,
2010
University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well
"Your Own Imagination": Vidding And Vidwatching As Collaborative Interpretation, Tisha Turk
English Publications
No abstract provided.
The Moses Greenleaf Primer,
2010
Univeristy of Southern Maine
The Moses Greenleaf Primer, Holly K. Hurd
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
A childrens "primer" on the life of Moses Greenleaf, Maine's first mapmaker.
The Geometries Of Robert Grosseteste And The Architecture Of Lincoln Cathedral,
2010
Roger Williams University
The Geometries Of Robert Grosseteste And The Architecture Of Lincoln Cathedral, John S. Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Architecture As The Psyche Of A Culture,
2010
Roger Williams University
Architecture As The Psyche Of A Culture, John S. Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Lincoln Cathedral: A Work Of Art,
2010
Roger Williams University
Lincoln Cathedral: A Work Of Art, John S. Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Neoplatonism In The Risala (De Intellectu) Of Alfarabi,
2010
Roger Williams University
Neoplatonism In The Risala (De Intellectu) Of Alfarabi, John S. Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
The Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus played an important role in the development of the Aristotelian concepts of intellect and perception in the Arabic commentators on Aristotle. Plotinus was not known to Arab scholars by name, but books Four to Six of the Enneads from the third century, as compiled by Porphyry, were paraphrased in the text called the Theology of Aristotle, which was translated between 833 and 842 by the circle of al-Kindi in Baghdad. The translation combined Aristole, Plotinus, and Christian and Islamic doctrines, and had a significant effect on early Islamic philosophy. The al-Kindi circle also …
Philosophy Of Intellect And Vision In The De Anima And De Intellectu Of Alexander Of Aphrodisias,
2010
Roger Williams University
Philosophy Of Intellect And Vision In The De Anima And De Intellectu Of Alexander Of Aphrodisias, John S. Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 198–209) was born somewhere around 150, in Aphrodisia on the Aegean Sea. He began his career in Alexandria during the reign of Septimius Severus, was appointed to the peripatetic chair at the Lyceum in Athens in 198, a post established by Marcus Aurelius, wrote a commentary on the De anima of Aristotle, and died in 211. According to Porphyry, Alexander was an authority read in the seminars of Plotinus in Rome. He is the earliest philosopher who saw the active intellect implied in Book III of the De anima of Aristotle as transcendent in relation …
Philosophy Of Intellect And Vision In The De Anima Of Themistius,
2010
Roger Williams University
Philosophy Of Intellect And Vision In The De Anima Of Themistius, John S. Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
Themistius (317–c. 387) was born into an aristocratic family and ran a paripatetic school of philosophy in Constantinople in the mid-fourth century, between 345 and 355. He made use of Alexander’s De anima in his commentary on the De anima of Aristotle, which is considered to be the earliest surviving commentary on Aristotle’s work, as Alexander’s commentary itself did not survive. Themistius may also have been influenced by Plotinus, and Porphyry (232–309), whom he criticizes. Themistius refers often to works of Plato, especially the Timaeus, and attempts a synthesis of Aristotle and Plato, a synthesis which was continued in …
Neoplatonism In The Liber Naturalis And Shifā: De Anima Or Metaphysica Of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā),
2010
Roger Williams University
Neoplatonism In The Liber Naturalis And Shifā: De Anima Or Metaphysica Of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), John S. Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
Avicenna or Ibn Sīnā was born circa 980 in Afshna, near Bukhara, in Persia. He worked briefly for the Samanid administration, but left Bukhara, and lived in the area of Tehran and Isfahan, where he completed the Shifā (Healing [from error]) under the patronage of the Daylamite ruler, ‘Ala’-al Dawla, and wrote his most important Persian work, the Dānish-nāma, which contains works on logic, metaphysics, physics, and mathematics.
Improving Second Language Speaking Proficiency Via Interactional Feedback,
2010
Georgia State University
Improving Second Language Speaking Proficiency Via Interactional Feedback, Peter B. Swanson
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
Researchers have suggested that interactional feedback is associated with foreign/second language learning because it prompts learners to notice foreign/second language forms. Using Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development and Long’s interaction hypothesis as conceptual frameworks, this study explores the use of systematic explicit feedback to undergraduates (N = 1180) at three assessment points throughout one semester using digital voice recording technology for oral assessments. Results indicate that statistically significant differences were found in pronunciation, linguistic structure, and content from the first to last observation. Findings suggest serious implications for improving speaking proficiency, which promote the use of combining digital technology for …
The Shortage Of America’S Foreign Language Teachers,
2010
Georgia State University
The Shortage Of America’S Foreign Language Teachers, Peter B. Swanson
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Teacher Efficacy And Attrition: Helping Students At Introductory Levels Of Language Instruction Appears Critical,
2010
Georgia State University
Teacher Efficacy And Attrition: Helping Students At Introductory Levels Of Language Instruction Appears Critical, Peter B. Swanson
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
Nationally, there is a shortage of foreign language educators, and the rate of attrition in certain areas of the southeastern part of the United States is startling. The researcher investigated foreign language teachers' (N = 463) perceived efficacy teaching languages in Georgia, and findings suggest there is a link between perceived efficacy and Spanish teachers leaving the profession. Specifically, teacher perception of abilities to help students learn at the introductory levels of language study appears to be a predictor of teacher attrition. This research has implications for teacher preparation and induction into the profession. (Contains 4 tables, 1 figure and …
Efficacy And Language Teacher Attrition: A Case For Mentorship Beyond The Classroom,
2010
Georgia State University
Efficacy And Language Teacher Attrition: A Case For Mentorship Beyond The Classroom, Peter B. Swanson
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
Teacher retention is problematic, especially where foreign language educators are concerned. In an effort to study if a relationship exists between foreign language teacher efficacy and retention, the author created a new quantitative instrument to measure foreign language teacher efficacy (N = 441) in the southeastern region of the United States. The Foreign Language Teacher Efficacy Scale was tested in 11 states in the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) region and was found to be valid and reliable, indentifying two dimensions of teaching languages, content knowledge and the facilitation of teaching. Results show differences between novice and veteran teachers …
Introducción: A Los Márgenes: Hacia Una Definición De "Negra",
2010
Georgia State University
Introducción: A Los Márgenes: Hacia Una Definición De "Negra", William Nichols
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Passing The Torch: An Interview With Andi Beckendorf And A Tribute To Her Service To The Isb,
2010
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Passing The Torch: An Interview With Andi Beckendorf And A Tribute To Her Service To The Isb, Jeremy C. Baguyos
Music Faculty Publications
Andi Beckendorf was appointed Associate Editor of Bass World in 2001 and worked alongside the celebrated Editor at that time, Joelle Morton. In 2005, Andi was tapped to assume the post of Editor, and for the past five years the readership has benefited from her professionalism, her precise editing, her astute content management, and her steady and watchful pursuit of the highest possible standards and values of the ISB and its journal. This issue of Bass World will be the first without Andi Beckendorf at the helm, but we are not going to bid farewell. Instead, we are going to …
From The Editor's Desk,
2010
University of Nebraska Omaha
From The Editor's Desk, Jeremy C. Baguyos
Music Faculty Publications
I first joined the ISB as a student member at the urging of Charles Hoag, one of my bass teachers when I was growing up in Kansas. For me, the most important benefit of TSB membership was the ISB's journal. Back in those days when the primary tools for research were card catalogs and the RILM Abstracts, I couldn't just do a Google search on the keywords "double bass" to learn more about my instrument and other bassists. The journal of the International Society of Bassists, presently titled Bass World, was my only link to the national and international double …
Kjerstin Torpmann-Hagen Artist Statement,
2010
Old Dominion University
Kjerstin Torpmann-Hagen Artist Statement, Kjerstin Torpmann-Hagen
OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal
No abstract provided.
Remember The Titans, Historical Fact Or Fiction?,
2010
Old Dominion University
Remember The Titans, Historical Fact Or Fiction?, Amy S. Tate
OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal
In the late 1990s, screen writer Gregory A. Howard wrote a screen play called Remember the Titans, based on the true story of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures bought the script based on the fact that it is a true story, but much of the film‟s content is fictional. Gregory Howard admitted to ESPN writer Jeff Merron that “he made some big assumptions when writing his script” (qtd. in Merron 5). Though the film is not entirely historically accurate, it is successful because it appeals to Americans through its intense emotional …
Walter Haskell Hinton: Illustrator Of The Popular American West,
2010
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Walter Haskell Hinton: Illustrator Of The Popular American West, Sam Yates, Jaleen Grove
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
Walter Haskell Hinton was an American commercial illustrator. He is known for his work for Velvet Joe tobacco company, Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, John Deere, Fairmont Motors, Washington National Insurance, and various Western pulp magazines.
