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Dreamers, Joyce Montanez

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

The student will understand that everyone is different and unique no matter where they come from. ● The student will be able to understand the impact of building vocabulary and understanding by reading. ● The student will be able to understand what the word “immigrant” means. ● The student will be able to understand the difference between “emigrate” and “immigrate”. ● The student will be able to answer key details from the book “Dreamers” by Yuyi Morales. ● The student will be able to identify the elements of the story. ● The student will be able to analyze what the …

A Most Unusual Day, Dakota Kraft

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

The students will ask and answer such questions as who, where, when, why and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in the text. ● The students will describe how characters in A Most Unusual Day respond to major events and challenges. ● The students will use information gained from illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. ● The student will participate in collaborative conversations about family, family that is biological and family that is not.

Meeting Minutes 10-20-2021, Staff Advisory Council

Staff Advisory Council Meeting Documents

No abstract provided.

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting; Jacksonville Sesquicentennial; Key West Sesquicentennial; Florida History Award; Florida Becentennial History Symposium; Announcements and Activites; Local Societies and Commissions; Obituary

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fancher, The Lost Legacy of Georgia’s Golden Isles, by James C. Bonner; Frakes, Laboratory for Liberty: The South Carolina Legislative Committee System, 1719-1776, by George C. Rogers, Jr.; Combs, The Jay Treaty: Political Battleground of the Founding Fathers, by J. Leitch Wright, Jr.; Daniels, Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, by Aubrey C. Land; Ketcham, James Madison, a Biography, by James Rabun; Stewart, Joshua R. Giddings and the Tactics of Radical Politics, by Alfred A. Cave; Davidson, The Last Foray, The South Carolina Planters of 1860: A Sociological Study, by John Hebron Moore; Thomas, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, …

Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes and notes from the annual meeting

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Announcements and Activities; Local Historical Societies and Commissions;

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Sesquicentennial; Arthur W. Thompson Memorial Prize in Florida History; Rembert W. Patrick Memorial Book Award; Award of Merit; Florida History Award; Announcements and Activities; Personals; Local Societies and Commissions; Notes

Contents Of Volume L, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 50

Coaches Behaving Badly, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Since the beginning of this month the news from the world of sport in the United States has been dominated by coaches behaving badly. More accurately perhaps, the behaviors could be classified as bad, worse, and worst. I will not try to classify these, but feel free to do so.

Florida Frontiers Radio Program #441, Dr. Ben Brotemarkle, Florida Historical Society

Florida Frontiers Radio Transcripts

SEGMENTS |The Parliament House Resort in Orlando | Mid-19th Century Letters | African American Cemeteries

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memorium; Florida Historical Society Annual Awards; New Department Head for the UCF Libraries Special Collections; UCF Libraries Received IMLS Conservation Bookshelf; Orange County Regional History Center Offers Smart, Surprising, Fun Line-up During Summer and Fall of 2008; Guidelines for Submission to the Florida Historical Quarterly

Before Disney Arrived: Florida's Ill-Fated Attempt To Build Interama, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Miami, Florida, has long been considered a Western hemispheric hub; Pan-American Airways, for example, began advertising the city as the "Gateway to the Americas" in the early 1930s. By mid-20th century, some 600,000 people traveling to and from Latin America passed through Miami each year, encouraging the city's Chamber of Commerce to organize a series of inter-American business meetings during the 1950s. The Chamber also waged a battle at that time to abolish a federal tax levied on travelers to the Caribbean and Central America. Thereafter, several decades of political turmoil in the region figuratively and literally latinized Miami, most …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 86, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Before Disney Arrived: Florida's Ill-Fated Attempt to Build INTERAMA Michael Hoover
Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond Nicolaas Mink
Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Slavery at Key West Mark A. Smith
Book Reviews
Book Notes
New Scholarship on Florida (2006-2007): Books on Florida, Journal Articles on Florida, Chapters in Books, Theses and Dissertations
End Notes
Index for Volume 86

Human-Machine Communication: Complete Volume. Volume 3. Diffusion Of Human-Machine Communication During And After The Covid-19 Pandemic

Human-Machine Communication

This is the complete volume of HMC Volume 3. Diffusion of Human-Machine Communication During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

What Will Affect The Diffusion Of Ai Agents?, James W. Dearing

Human-Machine Communication

For billions of people, the threat of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and its variants has precipitated the adoption of new behaviors. Pandemics are radical events that disrupt the gradual course of societal change, offering the possibility that some rapidly adopted innovations will persist in use past the time period of the event and, thus, diffuse more rapidly than in the absence of such an event. Human-machine communication includes a range of technologies with which many of us have quickly become more familiar due to stay-athome orders, distancing, workplace closures, remote instruction, home-bound entertainment, fear of contracting COVID-19, and boredom. In …

The Role Of Vidura Chatbot In The Diffusion Of Knowcovid-19 Gateway, Kerk F. Kee, Prasad P. Calyam, Hariharan Regunath

Human-Machine Communication

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency. Clinicians and medical researchers are suddenly thrown into a situation where they need to keep up with the latest and best evidence for decision-making at work in order to save lives and develop solutions for COVID-19 treatments and preventions. However, a challenge is the overwhelming numbers of online publications with a wide range of quality. We explain a science gateway platform designed to help users to filter the overwhelming amount of literature efficiently (with speed) and effectively (with quality), to find answers to their scientific questions. It is equipped with a chatbot …

Communicative Development And Diffusion Of Humanoid Ai Robots For The Post-Pandemic Health Care System, Do Kyun David Kim, Gary Kreps, Rukhsana Ahmed

Human-Machine Communication

As humanoid robot technology, anthropomorphized by artificial intelligence (AI), has rapidly advanced to introduce more human-resembling automated robots that can communicate, interact, and work like humans, we have begun to expect active interactions with Humanoid AI Robots (HAIRs) in the near future. Coupled with the HAIR technology development, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered our interest in using health care robots with many substantial advantages that overcome critical human vulnerabilities against the strong infectious COVID-19 virus. Recognizing the tremendous potential for the active application of HAIRs, this article explores feasible ways to implement HAIRs in health care and patient services and suggests …

The Effects Of Situational And Individual Factors On Algorithm Acceptance In Covid-19-Related Decision-Making: A Preregistered Online Experiment, Sonja Utz, Lara N. Wolfers, Anja S. Göritz

Human-Machine Communication

In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, difficult decisions such as the distribution of ventilators must be made. For many of these decisions, humans could team up with algorithms; however, people often prefer human decision-makers. We examined the role of situational (morality of the scenario; perspective) and individual factors (need for leadership; conventionalism) for algorithm preference in a preregistered online experiment with German adults (n = 1,127). As expected, algorithm preference was lowest in the most moral-laden scenario. The effect of perspective (i.e., decision-makers vs. decision targets) was only significant in the most moral scenario. Need for leadership predicted a stronger …

Our Future Arrived: Diffusion Of Human-Machine Communication And Transformation Of The World For The Post-Pandemic Era, Do Kyun David Kim, Gary Kreps, Rukhsana Ahmed

Human-Machine Communication

The world is getting into a new phase in history. For the first time, humans are verbally communicating and developing meaningful relationships with non-living objects. AI is a wormhole to open a gateway to the new world, and the COVID-19 pandemic prepared the world to transform its system to be an open system that responds to, communicates with, and utilizes the remnants coming out of the wormhole of the new world. Now, we urgently need to create a holistic discourse on how we can recognize, develop, or shape the identities of communicable machines as people develop a partnership with them. …

Leveraging The Rhetorical Energies Of Machines: Covid-19, Misinformation, And Persuasive Labor, Miles C. Coleman

Human-Machine Communication

The rampant misinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates an obvious need for persuasion. This article draws on the fields of digital rhetoric and rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine to explore the persuasive threats and opportunities machine communicators pose to public health. As a specific case, Alexa and the machine’s performative similarities to the Oracle at Delphi are tracked alongside the voice-based assistant’s further resonances with the discourses of expert systems to develop an account of the machine’s rhetorical energies. From here, machine communicators are discussed as optimal deliverers of inoculations against misinformation in light of the fact that their …

The Effect Of Covid-19 Risk-Enhancing Job Characteristics On Emotional Exhaustion, Zoe Politis, Ignacio Azcarate, Michael Distaso

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed heightened threats to worker well-being. We know that different jobs pose different levels of risk to employees. Physical proximity and exposure to disease/illness are job characteristics that present threats to employee physical health. Based on cognitive theories of stress, we hypothesized that these job characteristics also pose a threat to employees’ emotional well-being. Our sample of 177 participants was made up of working students coming from the University of Central Florida, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, and healthcare professionals recruited using a snowball sampling method. These participants consisted primarily of healthcare workers, food service workers, teachers/ …

Florida Frontiers Radio Program #439, Dr. Ben Brotemarkle, Florida Historical Society

Florida Frontiers Radio Transcripts

SEGMENTS | Jacksonville's Historic Duval High School | Florida Food History | The New List of Florida's Most Endangered Sites

How Music And Art Affect Compassion And Perspective Taking: A Collaboration Between Ucf Restores And Opera Orlando, Kathryn Sunderman

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

The ability of music and art to impact emotions and behavior is well understood based on studies conducted in a laboratory. However, research in a laboratory setting does not always generalize well to a natural environment. In this pilot study, we investigated how attending an opera that portrayed a wartime Christmas truce affected the audience’s levels of empathic concern and perspective-taking. Paired samples t-tests were conducted on data from 63 adult participants (M = 52.17 years). The results indicated that attendance at this operatic performance positively changed both empathic concern and perspective-taking, suggesting that even in a naturalistic setting, music …

Episode 8: Reina Castellanos ’16mfa: Using Culture To Create, University Of Central Florida

Knights Do That Podcast Transcripts

In this week’s Knights Do That episode, we speak with Reina Castellanos ’16MFA, a Venezuelan artist featured in Target’s Latino Heritage Month line this year. She shares how her culture and experiences as an immigrant influence her work, the joys and struggles of being an artist and the importance of staying authentic in your work.

Produced by UCF, the podcast highlights students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni who do incredible things on campus, in the community and around the globe.

The Lesson I Didn’T Expect To Learn During The Pandemic, Ashley Turner

UCF Forum

I have always been someone that takes pride in how I look. Each morning before work, I make time to carefully do my hair, apply a little bit of makeup, and select an outfit that makes me feel amazing.

Florida Frontiers Radio Program #437, Dr. Ben Brotemarkle, Florida Historical Society

Florida Frontiers Radio Transcripts

SEGMENTS | An Englishman in the Seminole War | Jerrell Shofner Lecture Series | People of the Everglades

Episode 7: Marc Daniels: An Insider Scoop On Ucf Athletics, University Of Central Florida

Knights Do That Podcast Transcripts

In this week’s Knights Do That episode, we speak with Marc Daniels, longtime broadcaster of the UCF Knights.

One of the area’s most recognized and respected media personalities, Daniels reminisces on his experiences and favorite memories of the last three decades, gives an insider look into some coaches and players, shares his expertise as a broadcaster and previews this season of UCF Football under new head coach Gus Malzahn.

Produced by UCF, the podcast highlights students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni who do incredible things on campus, in the community and around the globe.

Episode 6: Kate Mansfield: Turtle Research And Marine Biology, University Of Central Florida

Knights Do That Podcast Transcripts

In this week’s Knights Do That episode, we speak with Davis-Schein Endowed Professor in Conservation Biology Kate Mansfield. She is a marine scientist who is the lab director for the UCF Marine Turtle Research Group and graduate coordinator for UCF's Department of Biology in the College of Sciences.

In this episode, we learn how Mansfield got into this field, some of the coolest things that she’s discovered over the years and what hands-on experiences for her students look like.

Produced by UCF, the podcast highlights students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni who do incredible things on campus, in the community …

The Olympics Look Back Part Ii, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

As the 2008 Games approached, there was fear that air pollution in Beijing would cast a pall over the games. Essentially what happened was the rulers of the People’s Republic ordered the pollution to go away.