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Overview, Significance, And Outcomes: Using Guidelines For Interacting With Faith-Based Leaders And Communities, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Enhancing The Study Of Art History Utilizing Computational Thinking: Focus, Abstraction In Art (Egypt), Douglas L. Moody, Sandra Cheng

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Cards Against Case Law! And Other Ways To Enhance Student Learning And Engagement, Jessica De Perio Wittman, Tanya Johnson

Teaching the Teachers Conference

Student engagement in legal research classes can be difficult, especially when the time allotted to instruct is limited. Applying gamification in the classroom increases student engagement, improves student learning outcomes, and provides a non-traditional method of formative assessment. This session includes a pedagogical discussion of gamification, an examination of ways that gamification has been used in first year and advanced legal research courses, and a practical activity in which participants will utilize the techniques discussed to create their own games for legal research instruction.

Evaluation And Integration Of Classroom Technologies, Patrick Parsons

Teaching the Teachers Conference

Every year teachers are bombarded with new types of educational technologies. They all look fun, but which ones will help you improve your lessons and which will ultimately take away from your core objectives? The presenter will walk attendees through the SAMR and TPAK frameworks for technology integration, and give examples how these apply to legal research and library instruction. The presentation will help attendees establish a methodical, analytical way of thinking about their own use of technology in the classroom, and provide a few overarching tips derived from popular technology implementation literature.

Integrating The Acrl Framework For Information Literacy Into Legal Research Classes, Deborah Schander

Teaching the Teachers Conference

As librarians, we are continually looking for new ways to teach legal research concepts to law students. This search can sometimes lead us to look outside of legal education for methods we can adapt for our own instructional setting. The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, adopted in 2016, provides one such mechanism to understand and teach important information literacy concepts to students. This session will examine 1) the six Frames and the concepts they are designed to teach students, 2) the speaker’s experience integrating the Framework into an Advanced Legal Research class, and 3) ways the participants …

We Want To See You Struggle: Celebrating Failure And Fostering Resilience In The Legal Research Classroom, Mary Godfrey-Rickards, Yasmin Sokkar Harker

Teaching the Teachers Conference

New law students fear failure. In law school classrooms, they fear being called on and getting the wrong answer. In experiential legal research classrooms, they fear doing the wrong search or finding the wrong case or statute. Well-meaning (and often time-pressed) teachers and trainers often compound this fear by created well-managed, smooth-running “demos” in Westlaw and Lexis. These demos do a very good job of highlighting the sources, tools, and features essential to doing legal research, but they often obscure the struggle and failures inherent in legal research.

Recent research by psychologists such as Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth show …

This Is Your Brain On Science: Using Cognitive Theory To Strengthen Students’ Learning, Alyson Drake

Teaching the Teachers Conference

Having a baseline understanding of cognitive theory and educational psychology is critical to ensuring students learn effectively. This program will discuss key concepts from cognitive learning science and give concrete examples of how librarians can incorporate these theories into their instructional choices. Participants will also have the opportunity to brainstorm ways they can apply these concepts as they design or restructure their own classes.

Reinventing The Wheel: Comparing Family Friendly Vegas And Adult Friendly Vegas Revenue Growth, James Vaughn

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

The one constant for Las Vegas is change, always looking for the Next Big Thing™. In the 1990s, Las Vegas engaged in a grand experiment: roller coasters, amusement parks, family pools and shows. In the 2000s, Las Vegas reinvented itself back to its roots: condo not amusement parks, sensual not swashbuckling shows, topless European ultra-pools not kiddie pools. While the house always wins, did the casinos of the 1990s or 2000s beat the ultimate house, going beyond nominal revenue growth into the jackpot of real revenue growth?

Innovation For Emerging Learning Design: Where Do Academic Librarians Get Their Ideas From?, Sergio Chaparro

Emerging Learning Design Conference

Innovation is a concept that pervades academic libraries’ teaching and learning. We talk innovation, we discuss innovation, we create job descriptions and confer titles with innovation in them, and we find that almost anything we do in the field is about innovation. However, professional literature contradicts our perception. Several authors (Jantz, 2017) (Neal, 2006) point out the fact that innovation is actually counter-cultural among academic libraries, and that actual innovation is scarce, mismanaged, and limited by the intrinsic iron cage structure of our organizations. How should we connect innovation and learning design in the current times to maximize the educational …

The Effect Of Caregiver Burnout On Alzheimer's Treatment Compliance, Daniel Kane, Brandon Liu

School of Psychology, Family, and Community Research Conference

According to the Alzheimer's Association (2019), approximately 5.8 million Americans live with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Additionally, it is reported that 16 million Americans are considered caregivers to those individuals. While AD is incurable, treatment adherence is a significant predictor of family and patient outcomes. This proposal explores the impact of caregiver burnout on patient treatment compliance of those with Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is hypothesized that the presence of burnout in caregivers of loved ones with AD will negatively affect treatment compliance. A possible implication of this study is improving quality of life outcomes for those managing AD.

Dynamic Duos: Interrogating Latin American Curricula Through Faculty-Librarian Partnerships, Jesús Alonso-Regalado, Daniel Arbino, Pamela Espinosa De Los Monteros, Marisol Ramos, Christine Vassallo-Oby, Charles Venator-Santiago, Lisa Voigt

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

The ever-changing education and information landscape has brought with it an increased focus on teaching pedagogy and curriculum design. In response, Latin American Studies faculty are pursuing creative pedagogical directions and approaches in areas such as digital scholarship and information literacy in partnership with librarians and archivists. This roundtable will explore faculty-librarians practice-based initiatives focusing on issues related to the Global North and South. The uniqueness of this roundtable is that both the teaching faculty and the librarian representing each academic institution will be present. The University at Albany will discuss the redesign of a Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. …

Blended Learning, Active Learning, Ipads Oh My! Exploring What Blended Learning Looks Like For Small Liberal Colleges, Ashley Turner

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference

Student success initiatives such as blended learning and active learning have been buzzwords on campuses for quite some time now. The question is what do all those buzzwords really mean and what do they look like at small liberal arts colleges. Many of the definitions are broad and can be uniquely applied depending on your institution's size and culture. How do you get faculty on board with such new initiatives without creating fear around teaching with technology under a blended learning or active learning framework? In this presentation hear about lessons learned from creating a blended learning exploration series for …

Lightboard Videos, Teaching Introductory Chemistry, And Reducing Stereotype Threat, Darlene Loprete

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference

Students enter introductory chemistry courses with variable background knowledge and experience in chemistry, which creates a dynamic challenge for chemistry instructors. Preliminary research at Birmingham Southern College and Rhodes College shows that 36% and 25% of the students in the introductory course, respectively, do not continue to the second course in our first-year chemistry sequence. More alarming is that underrepresented minorities drop out at disproportionately higher rates due to a lack of self-identifiable models. We developed lightboard videos to improve student success and reduce stereotype threat in our introductory chemistry courses.

Complementing The Foreign Language Classroom: Tools For Developing Oral Production, Joshua M. Pongan

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference

This presentation explore the development of an asynchronous course component for foreign language education that permits meaningful oral interaction between instructors and students, complementing the classroom.Two specific tools make this possible: VoiceThread and Extempore. These online tools give students the opportunity to intentionally construct both the message they want to convey paying attention to the accuracy of the necessary linguistic structures without pressures and challenges inherent to the class space. Ultimately, this presentation summarizes how blended learning with the correct tools can further and deepen student language acquisition, upending conventional thought.

Summer Data Science (Online) By And For The Liberal Arts, Elizabeth Evans

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference

Partners in the Liberal Arts Collaborative for Digital Innovation (LACOL) are currently developing a fully online, team-taught course, Introduction to Data Science, as an 8-week summer intensive. This lightning talk will highlight the motivation, goals, pedagogy principles, and processes driving this collaboration across our multi-campus team of faculty, instructional designers, academic specialists, and student developers/assistants. We will also share some of the unexpected challenges and delights we have encountered in designing and implementing this shared, online course in data science for the liberal arts.

Domains All Around - Lessons Learned And Questions To Ponder, Kelly Strunk, Nathalia Santos

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference

During spring 2019, Professor Jim Martin integrated Domain of One’s Own into his Praxis Fieldwork Seminar, Promoting Change Thru Service, as a new method for students to present about their experiences to a wider audience. This work served as a pilot project in the Praxis Program; specifically focusing on Praxis Independent Study and Fieldwork Seminar courses. In this brief presentation, Nathalia Santos (LITS) and Kelly Strunk (Praxis) will share some insights related to process, lessons learned, and future considerations for incorporating these kinds of projects into Praxis courses.

Outcomes Of A Pre-Dental Bootcamp Facilitated By Dental Students, Michelle Fat, Arshia Ashjaei

Excellence Day

As a person decides on making a commitment to a career, especially one that requires as much time and money as dentistry, it is important that one is able to experience the field prior to devoting themselves. This presentation shares the design and outcomes of a new program, the Pre-Dental Boot Camp (PDB), at a private dental school. The goals of the program are two-fold: (1) to teach pre-dental students foundational concepts in dentistry while offering hands-on experience in the lab; and (2) to provide opportunities for networking with mentors and potential future colleagues.

Implementation Of Global Health Initiatives Into Academics And Global Volunteer Work, Alysia M. Mascolo

Excellence Day

In 2016, the Global Oral Health Initiatives Group created a competency-based curriculum for dental students that would cover global health initiatives. This Global Health starter kit has been successfully developed and implemented at Harvard School of Dental Medicine with an adjunct trip to Costa Rica. The intention of this project is to implement Global Health Initiatives into the University of the Pacific’s academic curriculum and give students the opportunity to apply their learnings to their various mission trips. Students will become proficient in these following initiatives: Global trends, Global goals, Basic Primary Care, Social Determinants and Risks, and ethics and …

El Kora Fi Mal3abek, Nour Omar

Capstone and Graduation Projects

This is my Capstone project about women's football in Egypt. It's a campaign aiming to raise awareness on the inequality faced by women footballers.

Part Of Our Story: Community Building And The Institutional Repository, Patricia Lombardi, Sam Simas

Library Staff Publications, Presentations & Journal Articles

Institutional repositories act as hubs of shared cultural memory and heritage and possess untapped potential in their breadth and reach. In an effort to realize this potential, we are activating our institutional repository as a platform to inform the community, both at Bryant and in Rhode Island, of the diverse array of works (archival, creative, and scholarly) produced by our University students, faculty, and staff. During this talk, we will highlight some of the key collections in DigitalCommons@Bryant University, as well as how those collections came into existence. We will give tips that will empower you to open dialogues with …

Taking An Earth Day Winning Hand To The Next Level, Sandy Avila, Christina C. Wray, Kelsie Johnson

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation was delivered on May 17, 2019 at the Florida Library Association Annual Conference held in Orlando, FL May 15-17th, 2019.

Abstract:

Join a team of two librarians, a faculty member and one of their support staff as they discuss the ins and outs of creating a well-attended group of library programming events about Earth Day and local habitat awareness. Attend this session if you want to learn more about how to create winning partnerships and make your programming a hit around campus or in your local community!

Qualitative Analysis Revealing Teachers’ Perceptions Of Their Institution’S Mission, Sherry J. Hattingh

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Dancing Around A Memory, Tyler Lovie, Bailey Erwin, Aislinn Williamson

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

Sometimes music speaks to you. The words and rhythm it presents translates into physical communication. The story is told in a vulnerable way that elicits how each individual in the audience can relate it to their own life. As choreographers, we enjoyed exploring our individual approaches and interpretations to the movement dynamics and how they balanced each other. At times we went for a literal translation of movement while at other times abstracted the lyrics. Key words triggered key phrases of movement and sometimes the literal movements reinforced the statement. The goal was that the movement and music blend together, …

Concert Performance Of The Cwu Horn Ensemble, Jaya Swayam, Cwu Horn Ensemble

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

The Central Washington University Horn Ensemble received an invitation, based on proposal acceptance, to perform at the 2019 Northwest Horn Symposium, held March 29-31, at the University of Montana in Missoula. This symposium, hosted annually by the Northwest Horn Society, a regional professional organization that promotes the (French) horn in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Western Canada, attracted over 120 professional players, university and school teachers, students and amateurs of all ages from throughout the region. Participants heard recitals, presentations, and masterclasses, and had the opportunity to network with peers and potential mentors throughout the weekend. The CWU Horn …

Art As A Collective: Common Ground, Katelyn Stewart

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

In the modern day of our busy lives, we often forget the integral role art plays in human life. Through art, we are reminded and forced to reflect on our commonalities and past experiences. As artists, we have the power to elicit emotional response and reflection. As an audience, we have the responsibility to ourselves to take the time to listen. Art comes in many equally powerful forms, but dance has the unique ability to intertwine art forms into one collective piece of work. To demonstrate this concept we will examine the student choreographed piece, “Common Ground”. This piece follows …

Live Music In Musical Theatre, Kali Abrams

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

My project is about live music in musical theatre, why we are slowly seeing less of it, and what we can do differently to bring them back on stage. Why this is important is because this takes away jobs from musicians who are orchestra players. This is also important because music has a big impact on a lot of people emotionally and there is a difference between hearing music that is prerecorded and music that is being performed live in front of an audience. I want to present my ideas on what changes we can make that can be beneficial …

Bring The Arts Together, Jessica Graham

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

Art is such a huge and impactful part of society, it sparks creativity, joy, and wonder into the lives of everyone. Art is categorized into different groups: Performing, Visual, Music and writing. What if we combined these four to create a beautiful message and work of art? The four genres of art were brought together, to produce one cohesive work of art. With movement and music inspired by a photograph and a poem, the poetry was brought to life. This powerful piece will convey the story behind the poetry in visual manner.

Winner, Outstanding Creative Expression Presentation/Performance, College of Arts …

How I Organized A Music Festival At Cwu: Networking, Budgets, Artistry, Peregrine Spane

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

Through setting up a music festival at Central Washington University I observed a need for independent music in Ellensburg, closer gender parity in regard to event line-ups, and how in-depth research in policy, budgets, networking, and inclusion would make this possible. In this presentation I will be describing my vision, explaining logistics, and reflecting on lessons learned and where to go in the future.

International Disabled Adoptees Path To Higher Education, Kaily Micaela Beaulaurier

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

As a result of changing laws designed to create access to higher education, an increasing number of individuals with disabilities are attending college. However, post-secondary outcomes of individuals with disabilities continue to lag behind their non-disabled peers. While there is research on the needs of students with disabilities once in college, we know little about the social factors shaping their decisions to attend college. Likewise, over the past two decades, there has been a growing prevalence of adoptive families, including adoptions across racial/ethnic groups. Despite the increasing visibility of adoption, particularly transracial adoption, there is little research on adoptee’s decisions …

How To Look Disabled Enough: An Exploration Of Stigma And Invisible Disabilities, Kenny Dalton

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

Individuals with disabilities of all kinds experience discrimination and stigma as they go about their lives; ableism, the systemic discrimination against people with disabilities, is rampant across many cultures. These negative attitudes towards disability manifest in many different ways, from denying people with disabilities agency over their bodies to refusing to provide public spaces they can safely navigate. The present project seeks to use interviews as a way to explore and reflect on the experiences of several people with disabilities that are not visible to the average observer. The project offers perspectives from individuals with a range of disabilities, from …