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Best Practices For Educational Interpreters In South Carolina, Stephen Fitzmaurice, Karen Chamness, Diane Formhals, Terri Gross, Beth Ann Kluft, Maureen Irons, Susie Spainhour, Anita Steichen-Mcdaniel, Eric Weber, Sara J. Mckay

Publications

The purpose of this reference is to provide districts, charter schools, and state operated programs with best practices for working with educational interpreters including, but not limited to, roles and responsibilities, code of professional conduct, and suggested credentialing. It is not required by regulation but is simply the most up-to-date recommendation from the field.

Using Mediawiki, The Semantic Mediawiki Extension And Relfinder For Heritage Data Management: A Rock Art Case Study, Robert A. Haubt

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

This paper looks at the usefulness of the MediaWiki and relevant wiki extensions for rock art data management and research. The paper follows a framework provided by the Global Rock Art Database www.rockartdatabase.com and examines a new database model for a semantic data management approach. Through practical examples it explores the usefulness of wikis in the data management life cycle from data planning to collection, storage and dissemination and examines interconnections within each phase of the cycle. The paper proposes a combined use of the Semantic MediaWiki extension and the RelFinder for visualization of semantic relationships, which could assist researchers …

Rhetoric Of Typography: Cross-Cultural Perceptions Of Typefaces For Technical And Visual Communication, Michael Peterson

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Since the early 2000s, scholars have been conducting research to determine whether typefaces influence a reader's response to a document. Some areas of research have included the role of gender, age, or other demographics on typeface perception. However, the role of culture in academic discourse on the rhetoric of typography has been largely underexplored, and this is concerning given the ease with which technical documents can be delivered to cultures around the world with a couple of clicks on a computer.

I developed my research topic to explore whether Koreans perceive typefaces differently from non-Koreans and to discover what typefaces …

Multimodal Pedagogies, Processes And Projects: Writing Teachers Know More Than We May Think About Teaching Multimodal Composition, Jessica B. Gordon

Theses and Dissertations

Multimodal writing refers to texts that use more than one communicative mode to convey information. While there is much scholarship that examines the history of alphabetic writing instruction and the alphabetic composing processes of students, little research explores the historical origins of multimodal composition and the processes in which students engage as they compose multimodal texts. This two-part project takes a fresh approach to studying multimodal writing by exploring the multimodal pedagogies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric and writing teachers, analyzing the role of mental and physical images in modern writers’ composing practices, and investigating contemporary students’ processes for …

2017-2018 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

No abstract provided.

A Turn To Realism And Humanism From Propaganda: Chinese Photojournalism Practices Between 1976 And 1988, Shi Li

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

China’s photojournalistic field undertook great transformations in the 1980s. While the conservatives continued to cling to the propagandistic doctrine, a more progressive trend was emerging. The tension between these two forces had its historical roots and would go on to shape the way Chinese photojournalism developed. Based on archival research and in-depth interviews, this paper revisits the history of Chinese photojournalism practices between 1937 and 1988 and identifies the key features of these three periods: the wartime propaganda of 1937—1949, the intensification of propaganda of 1949 —1976, and the transformation to realism and humanism in 1976—1988.

University Of Nebraska At Omaha 2017-2018 Course Catalog, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Graduate Catalogs

The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) is a premier metropolitan university that combines the resources of a doctoral research institution with a thriving community in the heart of Omaha.

With a global reach and vision, UNO is large enough to provide opportunities students seek, yet personal enough to include the mentorship they need to achieve academic excellence, creativity, and engaged learningat competitive tuition rates.

UNO is committed to and engaged with the city surrounding it, allowing students unique hands-on opportunities, internships, service learning,applied research, and other collaborative activities that enhance time in the classroom.

This is the ”O” we want …

Mandates Of Maternity At A Science Museum, From Should To Must, David H. Lee

Publications and Research

A pregnancy exhibit at a science museum is an opportunity to research how medical advice is communicated and interpreted. This paper is about the Beginning of Life area of an exhibition called The Amazing You at the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry, where exhibits are prescriptive as well as descriptive. Expectant women are urged to deliver full-term, normal birthweight babies, by behaving according to prescribed medical norms. This study provides ethnographic descriptions of the exhibits, as well as insights from museum visitors who were interviewed. The exhibits, which emphasize fetal rights and maternal duties, are interpreted and critiqued by …

การออกแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับวัยเกษียณด้วยแนวความคิดเพลงสุนทราภรณ์, หัฐณัฐ นาคไพจิตร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาถึงปัญหาและความต้องการของวัยเกษียณ 2) ศึกษาหลักการและข้อแนะนำพื้นฐานเพื่อการออกแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับวัยเกษียณ 3) เพื่อกำหนดองค์ประกอบและหลักการออกแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับวัยเกษียณ ด้วยแนวความคิดเพลงสุนทราภรณ์ โดยใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยแบบผสมผสาน ได้แก่ การสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านระเบียบวิธีวิจัย ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านมนุษย์และสังคมศาสตร์ การสนทนากลุ่ม ระหว่างผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านดนตรี กับผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการออกแบบเรขศิลป์ การสนทนากลุ่มระหว่างกลุ่มเป้าหมายจำนวน 5 ท่าน และการใช้แบบสอบถามผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านดนตรี จำนวน 5 ท่าน ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านการออกแบบเรขศิลป์ จำนวน 5 ท่าน และกลุ่มเป้าหมายจำนวน 5 ท่าน ใช้สถิติเชิงพรรณนา ในการบรรยายคุณลักษณะสิ่งที่ต้องการศึกษา ด้วยวิธีการรวมตัวแปร แล้วแจกแจงความถี่ และค่าร้อยละ แล้วทำการสรุปผลออกมาเป็นลำดับ ผลการวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลตามวัตถุประสงค์งานวิจัยพบว่า1) ปัญหาและความต้องการของวัยเกษียณ สามารถแบ่งออกเป็น 4 ประเด็น คือ
1.1 สุขภาพ 1.2 เศรษฐกิจ 1.3 สังคม 1.4 ที่อยู่อาศัย
2) ข้อแนะนำพื้นฐานเพื่อการให้ข้อมูลสำหรับวัยเกษียณ ประกอบด้วย
2.1 ลักษณะของคอลัมน์ ที่เหมาะสมในการให้ข้อมูลสำหรับวัยเกษียณ คือ แบบ 1 คอลัมน์ และ 2 คอลัมน์
2.2 ลักษณะขนาดของตัวอักษรที่เหมาะสมในการให้ข้อมูลสำหรับวัยเกษียณ คือ ขนาด 16 พอยต์ และ 18 พอยต์
3) แนวทางการออกแบบเรขศิลป์สำหรับวัยเกษียณ
3.1 ประเด็นเรื่องสุขภาพ สามารถระบุองค์ประกอบและหลักการ ได้ดังนี้ รูปทรงอินทรียรูป ภาพกราฟิกเวกเตอร์ และสีน้ำ ภาพแอนิเมชั่น ภาพการ์ตูน ภาพแฟนตาซี ภาพแสดงอารมณ์ขัน ภาพถ่ายสวยงาม ภาพถ่ายเรียบง่าย ภาพมุมมองที่แปลกตา สมดุลสมมาตร ตัวพิมพ์ลักษณะตัวพาดหัว 1 แบบ ตัวพิมพ์ลักษณะตัวเนื้อเรื่อง 1 แบบ เส้นโค้ง Analogous Color Scheme, Rectangle …

A Pedagogy Of Witnessing: Linguistic And Visual Frames Of The Dark Side In The Multimodal Classroom, Lindsay Hingst

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

“A Pedagogy of Witnessing: Linguistic and Visual Frames of the Dark Side in the Multimodal Classroom,” focuses on the theoretical and practical benefits of implementing written, oral, and visual testimonies from traumatic history as a tool for teaching the importance of empathetic and ethical composition practices. Specifically, this dissertation provides resource material for a critical pedagogical model that supports “responsible witnessing” through short writing assignments and a final research project that analyze selected narratives, historical accounts, images, and films spanning World War II and the Vietnam War to more recent global events. My hope is that my work will be …

Seeing Double: An Iconographic Reading Of Genesis 2-3, Christina Bosserman

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Ritual, Self-Defense, And Territoriality At The Rock Art Site Of Chaturbhujnath Nala, Jennefer Celeste Paxton

All ETDs from UAB

"Chaturbhujnath Nala, located in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, is the longest" "rock art gallery known in the world today. It consists of open-air rock shelters found in a" "rift valley, along an ephemeral tributary that pours into the Chambal River. The shelters" "are composed primarily of Vindhyan sandstone, which has metamorphosed to quartzite" "over time. Because the site is located within the state protected Gandhi Sagar Wildlife" "Sanctuary and safeguarded by the Archaeological Survey of India, the majority of the" "rock shelter paintings are still in immaculate condition. However, these artworks have yet" "to garner much attention by …

Ineffable: Latency In Symbolic Languages, Sirah Yoo

Theses and Dissertations

The design process demands comprehensive knowledge of visual signs and symbols with a focus on visual literacy; it is related to visual syntax, semantics, and the pragmatics of contexts. My work is an interdisciplinary investigation into how designers integrate polysemantic signs into their design process for particular and highly individualized audiences. By analyzing the role of signs in specific contexts across the spectrum of arts, society, literature, and semiotics, a designer's understanding of the cyclical nature of interpretation and reinterpretation in complex environments creates an avenue for cultivating a new schema that provides further levels of interpretations and different access …

The White Rose Movement: The Rhetorical Situation And Rhetorical Stances Surrounding The Six Anti-Nazi/Anti-War Leaflets, Veronica Ruth Cruz

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This study focuses on the White Rose Movement's six anti-war/anti-Nazi leaflets the Movement produced and distributed between June 1942 and February 22, 1943 in Munich, Germany. The persuasiveness of the non-violent resistance Movement was analyzed and discussed using a Bitzerean and Booth rhetorical analysis. Though numerous active and passive social protests, such as marches, music, and rallies, have been examined rhetorically in the past, the research surrounding the written form of protest is minor. In direct regards to the White Rose Movement, specifically, the Movement has yet to be examined through a rhetorical lens until now. The Movement and its …

The Reflection, Tamara Joksimovic

Theses and Dissertations

The Reflection– focuses on analysis of two realized Production of University of South Carolina Theatre, and my learning experience during my Professional Internship in The Theatre Company- La Fura Dels Baus, Barcelona, Spain. The Productions that will be the subject are Scapin, written by Bill Irwin and Mark O'Donnell, and directed by Louis Butelli, school year- 2015/2016; and Grounded, written by George Brant, and directed by Robert Richmond, school year- 2016/2017. The analysis will explore the importance of collaboration within the Production process and an understanding of the text and its transposition to theatrical space. It will deal with important …

แนวทางการออกแบบแฟชั่นเครื่องหนังส่งออกประเทศญี่ปุ่น : การสร้างสรรค์อัตลักษณ์หัตถกรรมไทยในรูปแบบอาวองท์-การ์ด หลังยุคสมัยใหม่, พรนารี ชัยดิเรก

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ปัจจุบันอุตสาหกรรมแฟชั่นเครื่องหนังในตลาดโลกมีการแข่งขันด้านภาพลักษณ์สินค้าที่สูงมาก การส่งออกสินค้าประเภทนี้ไปประเทศญี่ปุ่นจำเป็นต้องมีการพัฒนาเพื่อยกระดับภาพลักษณ์ในระดับสากลให้มากขึ้น งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อสร้างแนวทางการออกแบบแฟชั่นสินค้าที่สะท้อนถึงตัวตนของสินค้าเครื่องหนังไทยในรูปลักษณ์ใหม่ที่เหมาะสมกับกลุ่มเป้าหมาย ด้วยการนำเสนอ2แนวคิดหลักที่สอดคล้องกับรสนิยมวิถีชีวิตของชาวญี่ปุ่นได้แก่ด้านอัตลักษณ์ไทยในงานหัตถกรรมเครื่องจักสานไม้ไผ่ผสานกับแนวคิดการสร้างสรรค์ผลงานด้านศิลปะและการออกแบบแฟชั่นตามแนวทางอาวองท์-การ์ดหลังยุคสมัยใหม่ ด้วยการศึกษาข้อมูลปฐมภูมิและทุติยภูมิ วิเคราะห์ เชื่อมโยงกับปัจจัยที่เกี่ยวข้อง ได้แก่ การออกแบบแฟชั่นสินค้าเครื่องหนัง กลุ่มเป้าหมาย แนวโน้มแฟชั่น และตัวอย่างงานออกแบบสินค้าแบรนด์เนม ผู้วิจัยใช้วิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพด้วยการสำรวจ สัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกกับผู้เชี่ยวชาญ ร่วมกับการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณด้วยการใช้แบบสอบถามกับสตรีญี่ปุ่นอายุ20-45ปี จากการศึกษาพบว่า ด้านอัตลักษณ์เครื่องจักสานไม้ไผ่ มีองค์ประกอบด้านการออกแบบที่สำคัญคือ รูปทรง โครงสร้าง สี ลวดลายและวัสดุ ด้านแนวคิดอาวองท์-การ์ดหลังยุคสมัยใหม่ มีแนวทางการสร้างสรรค์ผลงานเน้นในด้านรูปแบบ เทคนิค วัสดุที่ใช้และการสื่อความหมาย และเพื่อให้ได้รูปแบบของสินค้าแฟชั่นเครื่องหนังส่งออกที่ตรงกับความต้องการและเหมาะสมมากที่สุดกับสไตล์การแต่งตัวของกลุ่มเป้าหมาย 2 กลุ่มที่สำคัญได้แก่ กลุ่มแคชวล และกลุ่มครีเอทีฟ ผู้วิจัยใช้เทคนิคการวิจัยเชิงอนาคตแบบEDFR ด้วยการตัดสินด้านภาพลักษณ์สินค้าอีกครั้งจากคณะผู้เชี่ยวชาญ เพื่อพัฒนาเป็นคอลเลคชั่นสินค้าแฟชั่นเครื่องหนังที่มีรูปแบบล้ำสมัย มีเอกลักษณ์จากทุนวัฒนธรรมเดิม ต่อยอด เพิ่มรายได้การส่งออกให้มากขึ้น อีกทั้งเป็นการสนับสนุนด้านธุรกิจสินค้าส่งออกเชิงสร้างสรรค์อีกด้วย

Recovery From Design, Cassandra J. Ellison

Theses and Dissertations

Through research, inquiry, and an evaluation of Recovery By Design, a ‘design therapy’ program that serves people with mental illness, substance use disorders, and developmental disabilities, it is my assertion that the practice of design has therapeutic potential and can aid in the process of recovery. To the novice, the practices of conception, shaping form, and praxis have empowering benefit especially when guided by Conditional and Transformation Design methods together with an emphasis on materiality and vernacular form.

Positions Of Place: Converging Viewpoints In Visual Communication, Gregory J. Schmidt

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis includes a body of work that explores our visual relationship to the physical spaces and places we inhabit in our everyday lives. Today we live in a complex world where we are bombarded with fragments of information and inundated with distractions. As designers, we are equipped with tools and methods that allow us to experience and interpret our environment through multi-faceted perspectives and from different viewpoints. My approach to graphic design adopts techniques and practices from a mix of different disciplines. The work focuses on a design process that alternates between the parallel depiction of first-person and third-person …

The Institute Of New Feelings: Plastic Identities And Imperfect Surfaces, Weijian Zhou

Theses and Dissertations

Digital media are moldable spaces where an image is simultaneously a thought. This instance and flexibility enables digital existences to be malleable, transformative, situational, and unstable. They are plastic images. Video games generate digital bodies that are a fusion of subjectivities and cybernetic simulations, in a perceivable and ambiguous process. Such bodies are extensions of ourselves, being girlish, imperfect, unfinished and happening—digesting and emitting clusters of feelings, regardless of our biological gender and age. The performative experience of play is progressively departing from spectacle, gambling and competition, and increasingly shifting towards an emotional journey of alternate realities, spreading subjectivities into …

Open / Close: Assimilating Immersive Spaces In Visual Communication, Anika Sarin

Theses and Dissertations

I am interested in two spaces obverse to each other: open and closed. An open space develops organically based on how people inhabit it. Interacting with an open space is a dynamic, sporadic, multisensory, immersive, and subjective experience. In such spaces, we are confronted with an alternative aesthetic, one that is in conflict with the seamlessness of a closed space. A closed space is anchored on definite variables like structure, use and boundaries. While interaction between people and space is important, the space is tightly controlled and interaction is designed. Through this thesis project, I present a method that metaphorically …

Having A Voice And Being Heard: Photography And Children's Communication Through Photovoice, Panizza Allmark, Kylie J. Stevenson, Talhy Stotzer

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Photography can be a powerful tool for self-expression. For those who are less empowered in our community, such as children, photography can provide a voice through images. It is a form of creativity that can provide a new way of seeing. This article examines the potential of photovoice as a meaningful way to develop critical thinking and communication approaches. Photovoice is a method of participatory action research that is innovative in the ways by which it enables participants to identify and represent their surroundings. Photovoice has been used in anthropology, public health, social work and education, and is associated with …

A Cosmopolitan Landscape: Development Of A Body Of Paintings That Explore And Expand Upon The Shared Tropes Of Figuration In The Work Of Giovanni Bellini And Shen Zhou, Harrison See

Theses : Honours

This creative honours project is a practice-led investigation into the painted figural landscape, particularly with the aim of identifying and exploring mutuality within the enduring artistic traditions of Chinese and Western painting. Informing this cross-cultural analysis is a deep engagement with the ‘figure in the landscape’ artworks of Giovanni Bellini and Shen Zhou; both painters chosen to represent their respective artistic traditions’. To support this search for mutuality this project was equipped with a Stoic Cosmopolitan perspective designed to facilitate cross-cultural understanding. Using this theoretical perspective and an informed understanding of these two artists practices’, a series of painted studies …

Editorial, Editorial Office

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.

Planar Refrains, Stephen Anthony Nunes

Theses and Dissertations

My practice explores phenomenal poetic truths that exist in fissures between the sensual and physical qualities of material constructs. Magnifying this confounding interspace, my work activates specific instruments within mutable, relational systems of installation, movement, and documentation. The tools I fabricate function within variable orientations and are implemented as both physical barriers and thresholds into alternate, virtual domains. Intersecting fragments of sound and moving image build a nexus of superimposed spatialities, while material constructions are enveloped in ephemeral intensities. Within this compounded environment, both mind and body are charged as active sites through which durational, contemplative experiences can pass.

Reverberation, …

Restoration, Shannon M. Slaight-Brown

Theses and Dissertations

The marks I make in clay have different characteristics, and the physical mark of one’s fingertips or visual record of the hand is personal and intimate. This visible activity is the evidence of my constant presence and control within each object. Its repetitive meditation produces a private relief from my persistent anxieties. This exploration for me is not only visual, but also physical. This is the start of my infatuation with the idea of pattern. It has its own discrete visual language and modes of communication; and through my research I am developing a method of intercommunication.

Image Politics: U.S. Aid To The Spanish Republic And Its Refugees, Sebastiaan Faber

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The Spanish Civil War marks an important chapter in the development of non-governmental refugee aid as we know it. But studying the case of U.S. aid for Spanish Republican refugees also brings into focus some of the tensions and contradictions associated with the concept of humanitarianism, including the role played by documentary images. What were the ideals that moved those who fought against fascism or aided antifascist refugees in the 1930s and ‘40s? Were they properly political, or did they transcend politics, becoming humanitarian? The distinction is crucial to understanding the efforts undertaken to aid Spanish Civil War refugees and …

Retirement Reboot: A Website Redesign, Christina Gillen

Honors Projects

A website could be created with the latest technology, but after a few years it will still need to be updated. This is what happened to Swanton Health Care and Retirement Center’s website. This project is designed to remedy the problem by creating an entirely new website with updated content, images, and interactive features to bring Swanton Health Care’s online presence back to life.

Trickling, Marissa Medley

Honors Projects

A collection of poetry and other writings that explore family relationships with a focus on mental illness.

Pivot Dublin: A Discussion On The Bid For Dublin To Become World Design Capital, Barry Sheehan, Ali Grehan

Articles

In this article, Barry Sheehan interviews Dublin City Architect, Ali Grehan, about PIVOT Dublin, the bid for World Design Council, how and why it came about, what happened to the bid and where PIVOT Dublin is now.

Vision, Winter 2016

Vision

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

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