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Open Educational Resources (Oers): An Overview, Wendy Walker

Mansfield Library Faculty Publications

An overview of the current Open Educational Resources (OER) landscape. Includes context, definitions, benefits, challenges, emerging models for addressing challenges, OER activities at the University of Montana, the inclusion of the campus bookstore, and links to several online OER resources.

Rpp Panel Chicago: History Of Cafecs, Lucia Dettori, Dale Reed, Steven Mcgee, Don Yanek, Andrew Rasmussen, Ronald Greenberg

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Coffee Drinking And Leukocyte Telomere Length: A Meta-Analysis, Bella Kotlyar

Yale Day of Data

Telomeres are long tandem nucleotide repeats responsible for maintaining chromosomal integrity. They shorten with each cell division, serving as markers for cellular aging and replicative ability, and shorter telomere length has been associated with greater risk of various chronic diseases of aging. There is increasing interest in the relationship between telomere length and lifestyle factors, such as components of the diet, that are associated with age-related chronic diseases, like cancer and diabetes.

There is mounting evidence that coffee, one of the most commonly consumed beverages in the world, has potential protective effects against chronic disease and mortality. Few studies have …

Digital Methods In Research & Teaching, Shelley E. Rose, Christopher Rennison, Emilie Zickel

Digital CSU

Technology transforms our classrooms, libraries, labs, and archives. Join the DigitalCSU working group conveners for a discussion on why faculty members use technology for teaching and research.

Each convener will briefly discuss their use of technology using examples from their own work, including project-based and multi-modal learning, digital research methods, and innovative content delivery. In addition, learn more about spring events sponsored by the DigitalCSU interdisciplinary working group, including a campus resource showcase and idea incubator for new projects.

Offered in partnership with the Center for Faculty Excellence. Please register at the Center for Faculty Excellence website:

http://www.csuohio.edu/cfe/center-for-faculty-excellence-workshops

Raffles For Rascals, Morgan J. Betzer, Anndrea Horton, Enolie Perez, Sara Bayless, Humberto Magance

International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement

Our project consisted of raising money for the Twin Falls Animal Shelter. The group had baskets donated that we then sold raffle tickets for. All proceeds were used to purchase items off of the Twin Falls Animal Shelter's Wish List, and the items were donated to the shelter.

Value Assessment Of Big Deals, Jonathan Nabe

Conference Papers and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Art Of Miniatures - Kage 2018, Lesia Lennex, Justin Elswick

Department of Middle Grades and Secondary Education Research & Publication Archives

PowerPoint presentation on the "Art of Miniatures" conducted by Lesia Lennex and Justin Elswick at the Kentucky Association for Gifted Educators in February of 2018.

The Power And The Passion: Using Pop Culture To Teach Concepts Of Criminal Justice And Criminology, Garrison A. Crews, Gordon A. Crews, Catherine E. Burton

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

•Use of familiar/interesting entertainment + to discuss potentially difficult content = more engaged students/ better retention •The focus of this example is teaching the various types of power relationships that exist between individuals and law enforcement/correctional agencies, society, and criminal enterprises •Specifically, the use of “The Wire” and “Oz”, widely known television storylines (police/corrections)

Copyright Considerations For Digital Storytelling, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to ASH 4932 students on January 29, 2018.

This session covered a variety of copyright considerations when considering digital projects. This included basic aspects of copyright. It focused primarily on copyright considerations for digital historians, including examples of public domain and Creative Commons Licensed images and media that students can use practically in their projects.

Copyright Considerations For His 6165: Tools For The Digital Historian, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to HIS 6165 students on January 24, 2018.

This session covered a variety of copyright considerations when considering digital projects. This included basic aspects of copyright. It focused primarily on copyright considerations for digital historians, including exploring fair use, digital humanities and history projects, creative commons licenses, and other copyright-related topics.

Mitos Lingüísticos, Orlando Alba

Faculty Publications

El objetivo de esta presentación consiste en aclarar y explicar una serie de falsas creencias que circulan acerca de las lenguas, en general, y del español, en particular.

Extending And Measuring Scholarly Reach And Impact, Lee Dotson, Sarah Norris, Barry Mauer

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In this session, Scholarly Communication Librarian Sarah Norris and Digital Initiatives Librarian Lee Dotson will explain how faculty can further publicize, disseminate, and measure the reach of their scholarship through UCF’s Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship (STARS). Benefits of using this digital repository of scholarship include enhanced searchability and tracking of impact using alternative metrics. The session will also feature faculty member Barry Mauer, who has created a successful author profile and collection in STARS.

Give To Teachers What Belongs To Teachers: Promoting Academic Library Resources To School Teachers, Joana C. Fernandez, Senta A. Sellers

Florida Distance Learning Association Conference

Nova Southeastern University’s Alvin Sherman Library is a joint use facility that serves both an academic and a public community. The library has a variety of online education and teacher resources that serve the research needs of on site and off-campus students and faculty in the Fischler College of Education. These resources also support the research needs a of non-NSU affiliated audience including public users. We have many databases relevant to local school teachers featured on our Teacher Resources website and these are accessible to anyone with an Alvin Sherman Library card. However, our potential users were not always aware …

The Power Of Co-Teaching: Academic English Learning With Interactive Support, Kyongson Park

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

This presentation is a report on an ELL teacher’s mainstream class observations, co-teaching experiences with a local language arts teacher, and surveying with students for a semester. As Short and Echevarria (2016) state, “academic language is a second language for all students” (p. 2) and every student is an academic English learner. This study examines how teachers find the gap between theory and practice by taking on multiple roles in classrooms and providing diverse support (Gottlieb, 2015). This leads to enhanced academic language learning which could meet the academic standards. The implemented project focused on creating an autobiographical book with …

Creating A Play Area For Shoe4africa Pediatric Hospital: A Purdue University College Of Pharmacy Service Learning Project, Katie Curtis, Karolina M. Grzesiak

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

Hundreds of children walk through the doors of Shoe4Africa Pediatric Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya everyday. They face many obstacles varying from acute illnesses to cancer and burn wounds or even dealing with the stress of a sick family member. According to the Child Life Council Evidence-Based Practice Statement on therapeutic play in pediatric health care, “Research provides evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic play in reducing psychological and physiological stress for children facing medical challenges.” Shoe4Africa had a need for an outdoor playground where children can nourish their mental and phyical wellbeing. A $1,500 service learning grant was obtained by …

Making Music To Enhance Mental Health In Eldoret, Kenya, Michael Peters, Ethan Wahle, Ellen Schellhase

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

After attending this session, participants will be appreciate the power of music and witness the level of engagement that street youth in a resource-limited country have as they unite behind a common goal. Street youth in Eldoret, Kenya are at a high risk of experiencing psychological conditions like Post-traumatic Stress Disorder with contributing factors including homelessness, an unstable family structure, and exposure to alcoholism and drug abuse in parent figures. Music therapy has shown benefits in children to alleviate and manage some of the symptoms of emotional disturbances. The goal was to create a sustainable music program in Eldoret, Kenya …

Epics Global Service Learning Pedagogy Explored For Construction Engineering Education, Brandon Fulk, Seyedali Ghahari, Makrand Hastak

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

EPICS is a service-learning design program in which teams of students partner with local and global community organizations to address human, community, and environmental needs. EPICS is an academic program in which teams of Purdue students partner with local not-for-profit community organizations to provide technology solutions. Team Ecuador is a division of the non-profit EPICS program at Purdue University. Since 2012 Team Ecuador has been partnered with FEVI, a non-governmental organization, to develop education infrastructure in Lumbisi. The current focus of Team Ecuador is to design, fundraise, and construct and Education Center for the community of Lumbisi. We are working …

Empathy And Perseverance: Brave Little Phoebe, Laurel Rickard

International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement

This poster describes a children's book called Brave Little Phoebe about a dog who develops diabetes and goes blind. Brave Little Phoebe was written to be read to pre-school to 2nd-grade children to convey the ideals of empathy and perseverance and was read to children on the Bells for Books mobile library bus in Garden City, Idaho.

Future Models Of Space Traffic Management, Victoria Samson, Brian Weeden

Space Traffic Management Conference

With the entrance of more actors into the space domain, space has become increasingly challenged to maintain a stable, predictable environment while it adapts to change. Because of this, the discussion of the future of space traffic management (STM) regimes becomes ever more important. STM is at a turning point, both domestically and internationally, so it is crucial to examine different options for future STM regimes, how current trends compare with the scenarios, implications for governments and commercial operators, and policy considerations.

Evolution Of The Florida Nextgen Test Bed, Chris Kokai

Space Traffic Management Conference

NextGen is a series of FAA programs safely evolving the National Airspace capacity from radar based air control to a satellite-based air traffic management.

• ERAU is a Trusted NextGen Partner with an 10 Year legacy of leading the Florida Test Bed.
• The Test bed conducts R&D, prototyping, demonstrations, and validations of technologies and standards for Air Traffic Management using a collaborative Stakeholder engagement model.
• Industry, FAA, and ERAU Investments and funding are in place to meet Operational Improvements.

Michelle The Mouse, Shelby Carlson

International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement

This poster is about the book I wrote and the experience I had sharing it with less fortunate children.

Not Broken, Just Different, Ellie Cowan

International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement

The course concepts covered in this children’s book experience are learning about ourselves and what makes us different. Learning about disabilities and how to be sensitive to those who have them as well as being your true self, and contributing your own unique attitudes as well as uniqueness to the community.

Pip's Move To South Korea, Anne Scott

International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement

Pip, an elementary student in South Korea, was having a hard time communicating and making friends in a new country. This story shows the inclusion that took place between students of different cultures.

Responsible Remixing: Resources For Improving The Scholarly Conversation, Anne Shelley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Students are sometimes asked to complete course assignments that are rich in media, such as videos, posters, or presentations. Sometimes they create their own original content by shooting and editing their own video scenes or photographs. More often, students will use existing digital assets--such images, video, and audio files--that were created by other people, and they repurpose those works to create their own new products. In order to create quality remixed media projects, students need to have some level of multimedia literacy. In this presentation I will talk about resources that can help guide students in finding, selecting, and evaluating …

Coats For The Csi Refugee Programs, Jason Forbush, Nick Mahan, Faith Johnson, Alisha Trejo, Sarah Moeller

International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement

As group for a communications course at the College of Southern Idaho (CSI), we were a part of a service learning project. The project goal was to do a coat drive for the college refugee program. We wanted to help supply coats for those who perhaps don't have the means of buying coats for themselves or for their family. We got the word out by creating and posting flyers, and posting in the college newsletter. We set up donation boxes around the college. We were able to donate two giant Home Depot boxes of coats to the program.

Descripción De La Pronunciación De Los Dominicanos, Orlando Alba

Faculty Publications

En esta presentación se ofrece una descripción general de la pronunciación de los dominicanos de diversos sectores socioculturales. Se ilustran con muestras orales los principales rasgos que caracterizan el habla culta y el habla popular del país. Al final se repasa brevemente algún detalle propio de la entonación y se comenta la pronunciación que se exhibe en el merengue.

Piloting Steam Career Camp For High School Girls And Improving Project Efficiency For The Vacuum Lab, Carolina Nava

STAR Program Research Presentations

Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory launched a new summer camp for high school girls to envision themselves in STEAM careers and is in the midst of upgrading the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) for experiments that sharpen our view of how nature works on the atomic level and on ultrafast timescales. My work included testing and streamlining the technological processes for human cost-savings, eliminating redundancy, and providing cleaner data for the engineers in the vacuum laboratory and the educational processes for the camp.

For the LCLS-II, I reviewed the daily shop logs, recorded completed tasks, and scheduled future tasks. Every …

Differentiated Instruction And Inclusion, Vicki Lariccia

ABLE Presentations

No abstract provided.

Do Overconfident Academic Faculty Receive More Career Recognition From Their Collaborative Network Ties?, Yamini Jha, Eric W. Welch

Business Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Game Of Library Tetris: Using A Shelf-Based Address System, Judy Quist, Rachel Gogan

University Library Scholarship

Having to constantly shift materials to make space while maintaining call number order can be challenging and time consuming, particularly when needing to move materials quickly. Most of the library literature around alternative shelving systems is focused on user experience and resource discoverability. A shelf address system makes it easier for library professionals to quickly organize and locate items, making it an ideal choice for a staff only area. Using a shelf-based address system allows quick insertion of materials into any available shelf space without worrying about call number order, but it also comes with its own set of challenges, …