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The Path To Assessing Library Instruction: Using Project Management Techniques To Guarantee Results, Lesley Brown

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

As librarians begin to search for methods of assessing library instruction, they may feel overwhelmed and unsure of which path to take. A common problem is finding a sustainable method of assessment that can be easily realized. This presentation will detail one librarian’s experience using project management techniques to successfully propose and implement the use of an audience response system (clickers) to assess library instruction at Michigan State University. Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. The primary challenge of project management is to …

Problem-Based Learning Meets Web 2.0: Using A Youtube Video To Teach Information Literacy In A Problem-Based Learning Format, Frances A. May, Annie Downey

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

We are often taught to analyze verbal and written communication, but the analysis of visual communication, (for example, in advertising, art, media, and film,) is often neglected or ignored. This presentation is intended to show attendees the ways in which pictures and videos affect them, and how to analyze and decode images in order to construct meaning from the visuals. They can then pass this information on to their students.

Patricia Senn Breivik argues that information literacy should incorporate multiple types of literacy, including computer, library, media, network, and visual literacy (2005). In an era of massive exposure to visual …

Using Web 2.0 Tools Such As Google Apps In Library Instruction Sessions With Non-Traditional Students, Alyssa Martin, Jana Slay, Kent Snowden

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

Much has been written about traditional undergraduate students and their familiarity with Web 2.0 tools. But how “tech savvy” are non-traditional students? How can tools such as Google Apps be used in library instruction with these students?

Troy University Montgomery Campus serves an especially diverse student body; roughly two-thirds are adult, non-traditional students (average age of 28). Librarians on this campus surveyed students in library instruction classes to find out their knowledge and use of Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, image and video sharing, collaborative authoring tools, communication tools, social games/spaces and blogs. Survey results show that many …

The Embedded Librarian: Integrating Library Resources Into Course Management Systems, Emily Daly

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

Duke University librarians have collaborated with Instructional Technology staff to integrate subject-specific library resources into Blackboard, the university’s course management system. What began as a manual process on a small scale has grown to an automated process in which every course offered at Duke is linked to a subject-specific LibGuide developed by a subject specialist or instruction librarian. Guides may include instructional tutorials on using Duke’s databases, tips for conducting subject-specific searches and librarians’ contact information. Success of the project has been assessed through student surveys, faculty interviews and focus groups; feedback from students, faculty and librarians alike has been …

Developing An Online Credit-Bearing Information Fluency Course: Lessons Learned, Rebecca Blakiston, Yvonne Mery, Leslie Sult

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009

This presentation will focus on the University of Arizona Libraries’ development and implementation of its first online one-credit information fluency course, the Skillful Researcher. This course is taught entirely online and has allowed the Library to reach new students who have little experience with the Library and its resources. The presentation will be aimed at librarians who are currently planning their own online or credit-bearing courses. Attendees will learn how we developed the course from its inception to its evaluation and how they can avoid the same mistakes and pitfalls in their own development.

Herpetofaunal Diversity At Yankee Hill State Lake And Wildlife Management Area, Lancaster County, Nebraska, Shelby Klima

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

A survey for amphibians and reptiles was conducted in March through October 2011 at Yankee Hill Wildlife Management Area in Lancaster County, Nebraska. The survey was conducted using several different techniques including: visual and auditory encounters, artificial and natural cover objects, aquatic trappings and road surveys. A total of 145 individuals representing 12 species were identified including seven reptiles and five amphibians. A total of 48% of the species that may potentially occur on the site were encountered, all of which are common, widely distributed generalist species. Neither Graham’s Crayfish Snake nor the Massasauga, both target species for this survey, …

A Health Impact Assessment Of Mixed Use Redevelopment Nodes And Corridors In Lincoln, Nebraska, Katie Clear

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

Obesity is a growing threat to America’s health. The national rate of obesity is 34% (Health Consequences, 2011), and Lincoln, Nebraska is not far behind that trend at 20.7% (BRFSS, 2011). Increasing physical activity is one way to reduce weight gain, (Edwards, 2008) and further studies show that small changes to the built environment can induce people to use alternative and more active forms of transportation such as biking, walking, and public transportation (Edwards, 2008; Zheng, 2008). The 2040 Comprehensive Plan for Lincoln, NE includes language to create a more walkable community. The proposal is to redevelop existing areas within …

Empathy-Based Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Conservation Policy And Decision-Making, Kaitlyn Delashmutt

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

In the late 20^th century, neuroscientists in Italy discovered a neuron in the brain capable of mentally mimicking the emotions derived from the actions of others (Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004). It is the process that makes your elbow ache when someone else knocks their elbow on the counter or the uncontrollable smile that creeps up when someone smiles at you. No questions asked, people intuitively sense what others are feeling. The old school of thought was that humans deduced through logic and reason the actions of others and interpreted the emotions through a rational process (Carew et al, 2008). …

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter, No. 22, December 2011, Jan Urban

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter

Contents: Terminology and Genetic Types of Boulder Caves -- New Study on the Abrasion Caves near Auckland (New Zealand) -- Root Stalagmite Discovery No. 4 in Austria -- Karst and Pseudokarst at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA -- Second International Conference on Granite Caves, Sweden, 2011 -- Good News! -- 12th International Symposium on Pseudokarst, 11-14 September 2012, Tui, Galicia, Spain -- Sandstone Landscapes III, 25-28 April 2012, Stolowe Mountains National Park, Kudowa Zdroj, Poland -- Karl Mais, 1940-2012 -- Editorial Note

Cplop - Cal Poly's Library Of Pyroprints, Kevin Webb

Computer Engineering

California Polytechnic Library of Pyroprints, CPLOP, is a web driven data-base application that stores data from the biology’s departments E. coli Pyrosequencing project. Some of this data was stored in Excel datasheets, while data from the pyrosequencing machines was stored as just a list of random .xml files. There was no useful way to organize and store the massive amounts of data from multiple file sources in one location, nor to perform the complicated searches and comparisons that the project requires. CPLOP’s primary goal is to store such data in three organized tables that relate to one another. It was …

Synthesis, Characterization And Applications Of One-Dimensional Metal Oxide Nanostructures, Alexander Charles Santulli

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Nanomaterials have been of keen research interest, owing to their exciting and unique properties (e.g. optical, magnetic, electronic, and mechanical). These properties allow nanomaterials to have many applications in areas of medicine, alternative energy, catalysis, and information storage. In particular, one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterials are highly advantageous, owing to the inherent anisotropic nature, which allows for effective transport and study of properties on the nanoscale. More specifically, 1D metal oxide nanomaterials are of particular interest, owing to their high thermal and chemical stability, as well as their intriguing optical, electronic, and magnetic properties. Herein, we will investigate the synthesis and characterization …

Party Identification, Values, Risk Perceptions And Public Opinion On Climate Change, Jacob Sohlberg

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

While the scientific debate over climate change has been settled, the U.S. public is profoundly divided. Some people view climate change as a huge problem that needs to be resolved, whereas others dismiss it as non-issue. It is vital that we understand what is driving attitudes on this issue since climate change is likely to alter our world in multiple, mostly negative, ways. In this dissertation, I rely on experiments, surveys and content analysis to examine the relative merits of two broad perspectives on what is driving public opinion on climate change. One perspective centers on the role of party …

Synthesis Of Disulfide Iron Complexes, Jung-Chu Tsai

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Iron sulfur proteins are the most commonly known proteins in all living organisms. The active sites of some iron sulfur protein are clusters that are the polynuclear combinations of iron and sulfur atoms. Iron-sulfur clusters perform various biochemical abilities, for example, electron transfer. Iron-sulfur clusters can also act as redox and non-redox catalysts. Creating model metal centers which mimic the electronic configuration of the active sites and the interaction between proteins is still an issue today. We decided to design simple and benzene thiols that imitate the side arm of cysteine (-CH₂-SH-). Therefore, we developed the H_{3 …}

Programmable Control Of The Tandem Vandegraaff, Gregory Wille

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The control system of the Tandem Van de Graaf (VDG) electrostatic accelerator was upgraded in situ, replacing analog control devices with digitally programmable devices, in order to make the control system more intuitive, automated, mobile, upgradable, and generally more user-friendly. The control replacement represents a change in mission focus from scientic research by a small number of highly skilled operators, to a new mission of education, outreach, and freelance precision measurement by a class of operators who are more numerous yet less highly trained. Design considerations and installation details are described within. | 44 pages

Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation From Laboratory-Generated And Field-Collected Aerosol Particles, Bingbing Wang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Aerosol particles can serve as atmospheric ice nuclei (IN) and thus initiate ice formation resulting in the formation of cirrus and mixed&ndashphase clouds and thereby indirectly affect the global radiative budget, hydrological cycle, and climate. Atmospheric ice crystal formation by heterogeneous nucleation is poorly understood and poses one of the largest uncertainties in predicting future climate. Here I present a laboratory study on heterogeneous ice nucleation efficiency and water uptake by various types of laboratory&ndashgenerated and field&ndashcollected organic&ndashcontaining particles for temperatures and relative humidity typical of the troposphere and lower stratosphere. Laboratory&ndashgenerated Suwannee river standard fulvic acid (SRFA) and Leonardite …

Slaves, Trains, And Missionaries: British Moral Imperialism And The Development Of Precolonial East Africa, 1873-1901, Daniel Woulfin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation explores the role of moral imperialism in the late nineteenth century expansion of the British Empire using East Africa as a case study. Moral imperialism, the ideology that argued that the British had a moral duty to "civilize, "Christianize, "uplift, and economically "develop" non-Europeans and their territories, has not been taken as seriously by historians as other factors for British expansion, namely economic arguments and strategic geopolitics by British officials. By applying Alan Lester's model of three categories of colonial discourse in nineteenth century South Africa: governmentality, humanitarianism, and settler capitalism to East Africa between 1873 and 1901, …

Data-Adaptive Hierarchical Protocols For Wireless Sensor Networks And Health Monitoring Systems, Guofeng Hou

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, wireless communications, and digital electronics have enabled the development of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor nodes that are small in size and communicate untethered over short distances. Networking together hundreds or thousands of wireless sensor nodes allows users to accurately monitor a remote environment by intelligently combining data from the individual nodes. Such networks require robust wireless communication protocols that are energy efficient, data transmission efficient and support long network lifetime. In this Ph.D. dissertation, we analyzed and implemented the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol, a leading protocol architecture for wireless sensor networks. …

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2011, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Exploring Factors Of Media Characteristic Influencing Flow In Learning Through Virtual Worlds, Beomkyu Choi, Youngkyun Baek

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study aims to find out factors of media characteristic which are considered to influence flow in learning through virtual worlds. One hundred ninety eight elementary students who are eleven to twelve years old participated in this study. After the exploratory factor analysis, to extract media characteristics of virtual worlds, seventy-eight elementary students who are eleven years old were used in the analysis of exploring relationships between factors influencing flow.

The results of this study show that distinct media characteristics of virtual worlds affecting engagement were labeled 'interactivity', 'representational fidelity', 'immediacy of communication', 'consistency', and 'persistence' after the exploratory factor …

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, December 1, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

No abstract provided.

Missouri National Recreational River, Natural Resource Condition Assessment, Kevin J. Stark, Lucas J. Danzinger, Michael R. Komp, Andy J. Nadeau, Shannon Amberg, Eric J. Iverson, David Kadlec, Barry Drazkowski

United States National Park Service: Publications

Executive Summary

As a unit in the National Park Service (NPS), Missouri National Recreational River (MNRR) is responsible for the management and conservation of natural resources within its boundaries. This mandate is supported by the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916, which directs the NPS to:

conserve the scenery and natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such a manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.

In 2003, NPS Water Resources Division received funding through the Natural Resource Challenge …

December 2011 General Studies Council Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney General Studies Council

General Education Council

No abstract provided.

Mexico Through The Russian Gaze: Olga Costa In Guanajuato, Yulia Stakhnevich

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The Comment, December 1, 2011, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

The Fate Of The Davao Penal Colony #502 "Branch" Of The Lds Church, 1944, David L. Clark, Bart J. Kowallis

BYU Studies

On September 7, 1944, 668 American POWs were killed when the unmarked Japanese ship in which they were being transported was hit by friendly fire. Among those POWs were several members of an unofficial LDS "branch" that had formed in a penal colony near Davao, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The branch of POWs had contraband scriptures and a hymnbook and met together weekly. This article tells as much of their story as has come to light: who they were, their service, and their capture. The article ends with a discussion of the theological implications of their …

Aplikasi Pendekatan Holistik Dalam Pengajaran Bahasa Melayu Di Bilik Darjah, Z. Osman, A.J. Othman

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Kurikulum pendidikan bahasa Melayu peringkat sekolah menengah menuntut agar pengajaran Bahasa Melayu diajar secara bersepadu bagi memenuhi keperluan falsafah pendidikan kebangsaan Akan tetapi, kajian lalu mendapati pengajaran Bahasa Melayu masih diajar secara dikotomi dan terlalu memberi fokus kepada pengetahuan bahasa semata-mata. Oleh sebab itu, kertas kerja ini akan mengetengahkan satu strategi pengajaran yang diharapkan dapat memupuk potensi diri pelajar secara menyeluruh dan seimbang melalui tiga prinsip utama pendekatan ini, iaitu keseimbangan, perkaitan tranformasi. Pendekatan ini diaplikasikan di bilik darjah melalui empat strategi utama iaitu (1) pengajaran secara konteks dan natural, (2) pengajaran secara bertema, (3) keseimbangan antara pengetahuan dan kecekapan …

Approaches And Training In The Education Of The Performing Arts For Pre-Tertiary Schools In Malaysia, R. Johari Md Khir

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

My paper will look at Malaysia's recent effort grooming future generations of artist to be leaders of the arts. Two Arts Schools are set up in the last five year in the country by the Ministry of education for school children, 13 to 18years of age, who have an interest and talent in the visual and performing arts. The curriculum offers a dedicated development path, providing students with a new teaching and learning environment where both their artistic and academic potential are to be realized. The Arts Schools aim to provide quality education for preparing education leaders of the future …

Biology Of Ict-Based Communication Paradigm, D. Darmawan, D. Supriadie, B. Asra

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

A simple phenomenon and sometimes forgotten by all educators, both of basic and higher higher education levels, whereas this phenomenon is the basis of the meaningfulness of a Learning Interaction. In the context of Communication, the phenomenon should be developed, applied, and analyzed by all educators, especially to create the instructional communication quality in every lesson. This paper discussed about the analysis of biological communications technology-based on biological analysis for learners in a learning process. In-depth analysis focused on the effect of the learning stimulus packaged in the form of computer-based instruction (CBI). Results of analysis and verification Learning Interaction …

Challenges And Struggles Of Esl Novice Teachers, F. Senom

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

The transition from the teacher education institution to life in a real classroom has been characterized as a type of reality shock in which beginning teachers realize that the ideals they formed while training may not be appropriate for the realism they are faced with during. their first year of teaching (Farrell, 2003). Unfortunately, this concern is not fully addressed in schools in Malaysia as beginning teachers have the same responsibility as a teacher with many years of service. Marshall et'the (1990) suggest that it is not until they have survived the initial shock of the first year that novices …

Developing Human Resource For The Animation Sector: A Case Study Of Animation Programs In Malaysian Universities And Colleges, F. Abdullah

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Malaysian animation sector is observed to have high potential due to the rapid development of digital and electronic technology that involve directly in the digital content industry. For malaysia to venture into this industry, it is imperative to have strong policies, educations and trainings for talents recruitment in order to be be able to Compete in the global market. This article looks into the state of animation education in Malaysia to assess how new talents are being recruited into the industry. For this purpose, an overview of animation education in Malaysia will be presented and the implementation of animation programs …