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Lesson 10: Presentation, Margie Pinnell, Shannon Driskell, Mary-Kate Sableski

Lesson 10: 21 Elephants and Still Standing

The students are challenged to design and build a bridge according to the lesson's directions and make proper adjustments if needed.

Marble Ramp: Slides, Margie Pinnell, Shannon Driskell, Mary-Kate Sableski

Engineering Activities for Middle School Students

You work as a line crewmember (a person that loads and unloads luggage) for an airline company. Because unloading luggage from an airplane by hand is time consuming and inefficient, you decide to try and come up with a better luggage transport system.

Booktalk: Science & Social Studies & Children's Literature, Patricia Hastings, Jodie Brinkmann

Region 8 Balanced Literacy Institute

No abstract provided.

Bolivia, Shayla King

International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement

Bolivia is a children’s story book based on the life of a child in Bolivia. I chose to write in this topic to bring to light the difference in cultures in different areas of the world and how despite these differences, we can all be treated equally—with love and kindness. I wrote on this topic to help children know how they can treat those around them that are culturally different.

Embracing Evidence Based Collecting In The Health And Behavioral Sciences, Carolyn Schubert, Michael Mungin

Libraries

Objective: Evidence based collection development requires combining multiple sources of information, such as usage data, subject librarian expertise, user values and preferences, and external evidence from librarianship research. Through triangulation, librarians can build a collection that is responsive, balanced, and relevant to address both established and emerging curricular trends. In the field of health and behavioral studies, growth in interprofessional education supports collaborative collecting practices. In 2014-2015, health and behavioral studies librarians at James Madison University (JMU) piloted a collapsed monographic selection project to facilitate better interdisciplinary collecting. This project discusses an evidence-based approach to evaluating and updating approval profiles …

Mixed Methods Not Mixed Messages: Improving Libguides With Student Usability Data, Nora Almeida, Junior R. Tidal

Publications and Research

This presentation describes a project to improve LibGuides version 2 research guides at the City Tech Library and to understand student design and learning modality preferences. It includes findings from a mixed methods usability study and illustrates how this data translates into executable design principles.

La Variación Lingüística, Orlando Alba

Faculty Publications

En esta presentación se expone el carácter esencialmente variable de las lenguas. En primer lugar, se describen los diferentes tipos de variación lingüística, ilustrándolos con ejemplos orales de las numerosas variedades geográficas y sociales del español. Luego se analizan las causas externas - relativas al hablante - (históricas, geográficas, sociales, situacionales) y las internas - relativas a la lengua - (contexto fonológico, acento, posición en la cadena sintáctica, etc.) que condicionan o motivan los cambios lingüísticos.

Transforming Language: Nonviolent Communication In Educational Settings, Aurora Lucas, Shanna Syme

Sandanona

Non-violent communication is a four-step process that consistently yields incredible results. This useful tool can benefit every individual, especially educators. This presentation and workshop will help you transform the way you communicate with your students, as well as how you teach your students to communicate with the English language.

Culture And Classroom Management, Maura Mvukiye

Sandanona

How do different cultures manage classroom environments? This workshop gives the participants the chance to explore this question with video, hands-on exercises, and group discussion.

How To Thrive As A Solo Librarian, Andrea Abernathy, Renee Carey, Terry Kennedy, Jim Mancuso, Deborah Mcconkey, Paul Roberts

Faculty Publications - George Fox University Library

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Library Guides: An Aggregation Of User Research From 1998 To 2017, David Vess

Libraries

A truly comprehensive search tool for resources provided by libraries will continue to be a distant dream until daunting technical challenges are addressed. A Google-like search experience is desirable in some contexts, but a case can be made that hiding subject-specific article databases behind a comprehensive search tool is a disservice to researchers.

Librarians have a long history of addressing the complex landscape of the various resources they offer by crafting guides to library collections. These guides provide direct links to resources while educating inexperienced researchers about discipline-specific databases. Unfortunately, this solution creates more complexities in the research resource landscape. …

Level Up Your Instruction: Creative Approaches To Designing Classroom Games, Camille Chelsey, Tarida Anantachai

Emerging Learning Design Conference

Workshop

Consumer Agricultural Education: Starting At The High School Level Health Class, Cecilia Teresa Acosta

Agricultural Education and Communication

The purpose of this project is to analyze and understand the communication gap between the farmer and consumer in order to create a dialogue about misconceptions in the media. Often rumors in the media worry or mislead the consumer in his or her buying choices. In order for consumers to understand what they are buying, and critically analyze media information, it is necessary to teach agricultural education at the high school level health class. This project will showcase how to start this education in order to bridge the communication gap starting with five crucial and common food-packaging labels. These labels …

If You Build It, They Will Crash Into It: Data Visualization Of A 4-Year Study Of Bird-Building Collisions, Barbara Harvey

Presentations

The purpose of this study was two-fold: •To determine if there is a discernable pattern in the bird-building collisions which could inform a solution. •To strengthen liaison relationships with the Biology Department by providing museum study skins.

What’S Mine Is Yourls, Junior R. Tidal, Kimberly R. Abrams

Publications and Research

Hyperlink management is critical to website functionality because a site with dead links is not fully operable for the end user. In educational institutions, links used for marketing, course materials, library resources, social media, and other uses can be laborious to maintain in a consistent fashion. Often links are long and unreadable. In order to streamline link maintenance and improve readability for end users, an open source short link manager called YOURLS was implemented at an academic library. In contrast to proprietary shortening services like bit.ly and ow.ly, YOURLS also operates as a link database manager. Long URLs are shortened …

Neuromorphic Application Of Oxide Semiconductors, Mutsumi Kimura, Yasuhiko Nakashima, Tomoya Kameda, Tokiyoshi Matsuda

Semiconductor Technology for Ultra-Large Scale Integrated Circuits and Thin Film Transistors VI (ULSIC vs TFT 6)

Artificial intelligences are promising as key technologies in future societies. However, the conventional ones are executed using complicated software on high-specked hardware, and the machine size is very bulky and power consumption is unbelievably huge. Therefore, we are investigating "braintype integrated system", namely, neural network built only by hardware, which can be compact, low power, robust, and integrated on everything in future. In order to realize that system, simplification of the processing elements, such as neurons and synapse, three-dimensional structure, and low cost fabrication are required. We have succeeded in that simplification and are trying to utilize oxide semiconductors for …

Searching For The Origins Of Matter, Joshua L. Barrow

Andrews Research Conference

The big bang and inflation are experimentally confirmed by multitudes of astronomical observations, yet theoretical tension still exists upon a very important question: why is there something rather than nothing? In other words, why are there unequal amounts of matter and antimatter? Why did a supposedly initially symmetric state not annihilate perfectly?

The breaking of this symmetry has allowed for all of material existence--also known as baryogenesis, the prevalence of matter over antimatter--and yields the theoretical possibility of direct detection by observation of baryon number violating mechanisms, which have previously never been observed.

One such plausible mechanism can be found …

Applied Drug Development And Combinatorial Strategies For Antimicrobial Treatment, Steven K. Lai Hing

Andrews Research Conference

Streptococcus mutans JH1140 is a strain of bacteria which produces a lantibiotic product, named mutacin 1140. Mutacin 1140 has been shown to be effective at inhibiting Gram-positive bacterial infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mutacin 1140 is a ribosomally synthesized peptide antibiotic that undergoes extensive posttranslational modifications (PTM). We have found that Mutacin 1140 and an aminoglycoside, Kanamycin, when combined together, act synergistically against Staphylococcus aureus. This was determined by performing serial kill curve dilution overlays on solid media, followed up with kill curve by microdilution plate, and most recently confirmed with kill curve CFU count plates …

A Campus Or A Zoo?, Tina E. Vires

Southeast Regional AHEAD Conference

Intended audience: ALL Service dogs, emotional support animals, therapy animals, animals as accommodations - they're everywhere! Is that ok? Should or can I say anything about them? What are the expectations? Faculty and staff across the country are asking these questions as more animals appear on campuses and lawsuits abound when students are denied access to animals. How do we maintain compliance and sanity? This session will provide an easy to understand overview of the different types of animals we may find on our campuses, how to discern between the types, how and why they may be approved, appropriate and …

Barrier To Learning: Why We Can No Longer Afford High Textbook Prices, Victoria Koger, Linda Sizemore

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The prohibitive costs of textbooks are affecting student success. We will start the session with an activity, then gauge audience experience on the issue before reviewing current research. The presenters will provide strategies on what libraries can and cannot do and facilitate discussion of proposed solutions and concerns about OER sources.

Comparison Of Semi-Captive And Wild Gray-Shanked Douc Langurs’ (Pygathrix Cinerea) Substrate Use, Hilary Hemmes-Kavanaugh

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

In 2005 the Endangered Primate Rescue Center (Cúc Phương National Park, Vietnam) acquired 5ha of forest as a pre-release habitat for endangered primates. Our study assessed whether the pre-release habitat was suitable for the expression of grey-shanked douc (GSD) langurs’ (Pygathrix cinera) wild behavioral repertoire of substrate use. We categorized substrates as boughs, branches or twigs. We observed four langurs living in the pre-release habitat from 16-10-03 to 16-12-02 and compared results with wild GSD langurs. Both semi-captive and wild langurs used substrates at significantly varied proportions (semi-captive: χ²=68.36, df=2, P2=704.4, df=2, P2=7.78, df=2, p = .0204), …

The Impact Of Family Support Among Lgbt+ Millennials In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Shannon M. Trecartin, Curtis J. Vanderwaal, David Sedlacek

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Qualitative Review Of Stories Told: Anecdotes Of Cfo-Ceo Relationships In Sda Local Conferences, Theodore Brown

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Spirituality And Health Risk Behaviors Among Adventist Students, Duane C. Mcbride, Gary Hopkins, Alina M. Baltazar, Curtis J. Vanderwaal

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Church Member Reactions To Religious Disaffiliation: Implications Of Religious Orientation, Alexander Larson

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Religious Motivation Varies By Engagement And Generational Cohort, Karl G. D. Bailey, Duane C. Mcbride

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Adventist World Radio: Audience Recommendations And Reported Benefits, Rene Drumm, Petr Cincala, Duane C. Mcbride, Krista Cooper, Alina M. Baltazar, Desrene Vernon-Brebnor, Curt J. Vanderwaal

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Following Faith Commitments: Adventist Higher Education Transition Theory, Larry D. Burton, Josephine E. Katenga, Christine Moniyung

Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association

No abstract provided.

Inclusive Collaboration In Community-Academic Engagement, Jennifer Early

Community Engagement Institute

This workshop introduces foundation concepts related to diversity and inclusion in community-academic engagement and applies these concepts to the early stages of initiating and stewarding partnerships for community-engaged teaching and research.

Redesigning An Fye Library Module: Cleveland Based Learning, Ben Richards

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

After several years of consistently offering the same one-shot session and library assignment in the First Year Experience seminar, feedback from several stakeholders in the course indicated it was time to change things up. The resulting lesson plan reached to serve information literacy outcomes while encouraging first year students to explore their new environment, engage with their city’s history, and learn to see research as a problem solving tool. Attendees will learn in what ways it was successful and what lessons were learned along the way.