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Somehow, Amid The Coronavirus Chaos There Can Be Peace, Lillian Caraballo

UCF Forum

“I rest more, eat better, and have more time for play and quality experiences with my family. I actually relax now,” writes Lillian M. Hernández Caraballo, a journalism student.

S1 E11: Meeting Iep Goals Online, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their thoughts on how to meet and track IEP goals in this online world. They share simple ideas to create IEP summaries and to use communication tools to meet IEP goals. They recognize the challenge this brings and the opportunity at the same time to ensure students receive a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) based upon the IEP.

S1 E10: Inclusion In An Online And Offline Environment, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their philosophical ideas about the topic of inclusion. They share what it means from their personal and professional standpoint, but they also share practical examples of what it looks like to have high expectations for all students, while still empowering families and students to have access to the continuum of services outlined in federal legislation.

S1 E9: Role Of Professionals Beyond Teachers In Online World, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share practical ideas for the role of support personnel (SLP, OT, PT) as well as administrators and instructional assistants to support students with disabilities and their families and their teachers. They discuss how that role should be clear with synergy and organized in a way logical to parents, teachers and students with disabilities. They also provide examples from the field.

How To Create A Stars Account For Students, Kerri Bottorff

STARS Documentation

Instructions detailing how to create an account for STARS for students

Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce Linkedin Learning Series 1, Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce

Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce

Check out the diversity and inclusive courses and videos through LinkedIn Learning on this clickable interactive PDF. General awareness is the first in the series with more information about the other categories to follow soon. Take advantage of these great resources!

S1 E8: Behavior Techniques And Tech Support In Online World, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share practical ideas for supporting students with disabilities and their families and teachers related to behavior and technical support. They discuss ideas being used for families, teachers, and instructional aides in this shift to an online learning environment.

Teaching And Researching With A Mental Health Diagnosis: Practices And Perspectives On Academic Ableism, Ann Green, Alyssa _, Lucia Dura, Patrick Harris, Leah Heilig, Bailey Kirby, Jay Mcclintick, Emily Pfender, Rebecca Carrasco

Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

Abstract: Nine people with mental health diagnoses wrote a dialogue to discuss how we navigate our conditions and ask for accommodations within an academic setting. We cogitate on the challenges of obtaining a diagnosis, how and when we disclose, the affordances and challenges of our symptoms, seeking accommodations, and advocating for ourselves. We consider how current scholarship and other perspectives are changing the conversation about mental health in the academy. We conclude that while the 2008 revisions to the Americans with Disabilities Act have addressed necessary accommodations, that those with mental health conditions are still seeking access.

S2 E3: Increasing And Improving Communication Skills, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Faculty members, share their thoughts on the importance of ensuring strong communication skill by and not for children and students with disabilities. In this episode they discuss the importance of communication at whatever level an individual is capable to create a stronger future. They highlight technology to consider to increase communication and how this skill is critical to both independence and employability. Remember questions can be shared on Twitter @accesspractical. Follow us on itunes or iheart podcasts.

S1 E7: How To Teach Offline In An Online Environment, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

UCF Professors Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker share practical ideas to help teachers think about how to use this new online world to still allow students to learn offline. This episode is anchored in practical ideas to get kids thinking away from the computer aligned with project-based learning and UDL. Remember to share your questions for us to answer on our Podcast to twitter @accesspractical.

PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Hines who mentions her teenagers were at the beach lives near the beach and they were practicing required social distancing behaviors at the local beach.

Featured Bookshelf: 2020 National Poetry Month, Megan M. Haught

Featured Bookshelf

Welcome to National Poetry Month!

The Academy of American Poets, inspired by the success of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, created National Poetry Month in 1996. It is the largest literary celebration in the world and UCF Libraries are proud to do their part.

UCF Libraries have gathered suggestions to feature 12 books of poetry that are currently in the UCF collection. These works represent the wide range of favorite poetry books of our faculty and staff.

Since we are in strange times and realize that access to the physical books chosen by the Libraries is extremely limited …

Surviving The Ravages Of Covid-19, Brenda Thompson

UCF Forum

While standing on my balcony last week, I felt a great need to capture my thoughts about the recent health crisis affecting all of us. Everything around me was so still and peaceful; birds were chirping in the background and the afternoon shadows over the courtyard below helped me appreciate the contrasting sunny areas from my perspective above.

Michael Jordan In Orlando For Baseball, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

ESPN has now aired the first four episodes of “The Last Dance.” There will be ten in all. This documentary is being marketed as a new and candid look at Michael Jordan and the 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls. It is receiving rave reviews and, so far as I have seen, this is a good piece of documentary film making. As many of you know Jordan left basketball in mid-career to pursue baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization. During the 1994 baseball season, Jordan played for the Birmingham Barons of the Southern League. In early May of that year he came …

The Scoop, Vol. 7 Issue 1, April 2020, Health Sciences Library

Volume 7

Latest news and events from the Health Sciences Library in our monthly newsletter for April 2020.

S1 E6: Innovative Ideas To Connect Kids With Disabilities Online, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

This episode Drs. Becky Hines and Lisa Dieker, UCF Professors answer a question posed by a listener. "What innovative ideas have you both heard are being used to connect kids with disabilities and their families in this change to an online world?" As is the title of our podcast, we don't share answers but practical ideas and structures we have heard from the field in ensuring access as we all this rush into this online learning environment. If you have a question for a future podcast on any topic related to practical ideas for people with disabilities and their families …

S1 E5: Supporting Students With Significant Needs In Online Environments, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

In this episode UCF Professors Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker share practical ideas to consider for students who have significant disabilities in an online world. They provide specific ideas to consider for students with significant needs and how to use the resources of multiple adults of found in the traditional classroom to support these students.

The Powerful Force Of Nostalgia, Peter W. Telep

UCF Forum

When I was a kid, the year 2020 was a date in science fiction novels. But here we are in the future—and yet remakes, reboots, and revivals are still wildly popular across all forms of entertainment media. There’s even a convention called NostalgiaCon Ultimate 80s Reunion now running in its second year and growing in attendance.

S1 E4: Supporting Students In Online Environments With Low Or No Technology, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

In this episode UCF Professors Drs. Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker share practical ideas to consider for students with low or no tech options as we move into this new online world. They provide specific ideas to support students with disabilities.

S1 E3: Keeping Students Connected To Each Other In An Online World, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

This session UCF Professors Drs. Lisa Dieker and Rebecca Hines provide practical ways to consider keeping students with a range of disabilities and really all students connected. The episode includes quick and easy ways to connect students to each other in this new online world.

Introduction To Bookbinding, Christopher Saclolo, Megan M. Haught

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

Textbook Affordability Efforts At The University Of Central Florida, Katy A. Miller

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation to the Textbook Affordability/Open Educational Resources Standing Committee of the Members Council on Library Services.

S1 E2: Co-Teaching In An Online Environment., Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

This podcast comes from a request to talk about how to co-teach in an online environment. This sessions is filled with quick ideas to consider in your shift to online co-teaching. Remember the purpose of our podcast is to provide practical solutions to "real" problems in the field. Please share your problems of practice for us to consider in future podcast by sharing your ideas by sending a Tweet to Practical Access.

S1 E1: Tips For Teaching Students With Disabilities In Our New Online World, Rebecca Hines, Lisa Dieker

Practical Access Transcripts

Welcome to our first Practical Access Podcast by two UCF Professors, Rebecca Hines and Lisa Dieker. We provide in this podcast tips for teachers related to immediately moving their instruction online and how to consider tools to support students with disabilities. We share our favorite ideas for supporting students with disabilities.

Misconception About Childless Adults Can Be Misguided, Syretta Spears

UCF Forum

Adults not related to children can provide advice, new perspectives, new experiences, financial support and, more importantly, time to them.

Books And Bagels 2020 Bibliography, Emma Gisclair

Handouts and Brochures

The Curriculum Materials Center’s Books and Bagels event is an annual book talk of some of the best books of the previous year. This bibliography is a list of the staff’s favorite and notable books of 2019, with a brief description of each book. It includes titles for grades PreK-12—picture books, young adult and middle grade fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction. Original event held on March 5, 2020.

Friendship, Forgiveness And Fences: Healing A Past Hurt, Camille Dolan

UCF Forum

Even if you made some mistakes, hopefully they can be forgiven.

Not All Healing Is Physical – Recognizing And Overcoming Grief, Katie Philp

UCF Forum

Despite loss being a nearly universal human experience, it seems we are poorly equipped to address this sort of pain in both ourselves and others.

Seek And Find: Tips On Exploring Stem Journal Evaluation & Metrics, Sandy Avila, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation & Discussion on journal evaluation and metrics for the UCF Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning Cohort: Writing Your STEM Journal Article in 12 Weeks.

Rhm Author Interview: Liz Angeli, Ph.D. And Christina Norwood, M.S., Authors Of Persuasion Brief: The Internal Rhetorical Work Of A Public Health Crisis Response, Cathryn Molloy, Erin Trauth

Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

RHM Author Interview (Youtube video): Liz Angeli, Ph.D. and Christina Norwood, M.S., authors of Persuasion Brief: The Internal Rhetorical Work of a Public Health Crisis Response

This persuasion brief suggests that the rhetorical concepts of techne and rhetorical work facilitate the creation of public health crisis communication. To illustrate this claim, we present findings from a case study with the Johns Hopkins Medicine Ebola Crisis Communications Team, a transdisciplinary group that collaborated with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the 2014 Ebola crisis. The team created multimodal documentation to support healthcare providers as they prepared to treat patients and …

Book Review: Rhetorical Work In Emergency Medical Services: Communicating In The Unpredictable Workplace, Marissa Mckinley

Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

A Review of Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace

Marissa C. McKinley

Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace. By Elizabeth L. Angeli. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. 204 pages, $47.95 paper, $23.98 e-book.