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July 16, 2011 (Pages 3801-3952), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 41 (2011)

No abstract provided.

07-15-2011 Swosu Wins Best Of Show And Other Pr Awards, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2011

Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s partnership with an area corn maize business has resulted in an impressive award for the Weatherford university from the Oklahoma College Public Relations Association.

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Caine College Of The Arts, July 15, 2011, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

This new interdisciplinary certificate program proposes to leverage the existing networks, resources, reputation and knowledge-base associated with the Utah State University (USU) Department of Art‟s Annual Summer Art and Design Program in Switzerland, into a consolidated “Design Thinking” learning experience. Principally, it invites undergraduate students from the Department of Art‟s graphic design emphasis to join with students from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to cross-fertilize the analytical and intuitive strengths of both disciplines. Also, because of the broad-based application and appeal of Design Thinking processes, all USU students (both undergraduate and graduate students) from all majors are invited …

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Humanities And Social Sciences, July 15, 2011, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Department of Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication proposes a new major in Global Communication.

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, July 15, 2011, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

This new interdisciplinary certificate program proposes to leverage the existing networks, resources, reputation and knowledge-base associated with the Utah State University (USU) Department of Art‟s Annual Summer Art and Design Program in Switzerland, into a consolidated “Design Thinking” learning experience.

The View From Ventress - 2011, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Special Section: National Scholars, where are they now?

The Philosophical Act Of Seeing With One’S Own Eyes: The Silent Films Of Stan Brakhage, James Magrini

Philosophy Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Students’ Original Political Cartoons As Teaching And Learning Tools, John H. Bickford Iii

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

A meta-analysis of educators’ uses of political cartoons suggests they are mostly used for teaching interpretation skills and then usually only with gifted and older students. This demonstrates creative stagnation, limited elicitation of higher order thinking skills, and age bias. The researcher previously examined young adolescents’ use of effective and efficient technologies to express historical understandings through original political cartoon construction. This methodology elicited students’ higher order thinking as they expressed learning within their creations, which were then used as a teaching tool to facilitate constructive whole class interpretative discussions. The following questions extend previous research and guide this article: …

Icda Midwest Region E-Newsletter, July 2011

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

Great Plains Quarterly Volume 31/Number 3/ Summer 2011

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Contents

Book Reviews

Book Notes

Notes and News

Teaching Evidence-Based Design To The Beginning Design Student: Educator Perceptions About Incorporating Research In Beginning Design Education, Deborah Rushen Dunlap

Interior Design Program: Student Creative Activity

Educators’ perceptions influence academic protocols regarding the level at which evidence-based design is introduced to design students. Evidence-based design, a research methodology based on quantitative and qualitative inquiry that informs design decisions, permeated healthcare design to the point that the two are almost synonymous (Hamilton and Watkins, 2009; Nussbaumer, 2009). As this research based approach spreads throughout the profession, multiple specialty areas in architecture and interior design adopt evidence-based design into their methodologies (Hamilton and Watkins, 2009). These “developments in design practice now impinge directly upon education” (Zuo, Leonard, and MaloneBeach, 2010, p. 269). Teaching evidence-based design to design students …

Communication, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Confluence Of Online Islamism And Counterpublicity: An Ideological Study Of The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Rhetoric In Ikhwanweb, Soumia Dhar

Communication ETDs

My dissertation addresses two fundamental problems confronting most Islamist organizations: (a) their monolithic treatment by Western advocates of secular and democratic change, who by default associate Islamism with extremism; and (b) their struggle to function as unencumbered civil society actors and legitimate political entities in authoritarian political societies. In that endeavor, I carry out an ideological analysis of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) English-language rhetoric in its website, Ikhwanweb: (a) to interpret the worldview manifest in its cyber rhetoric, and identify the rhetorical strategies that support this worldview; and b) to examine Ikhwanweb's potential as a tool for counterpublic expression …

Enrollment Report, Summer 2011, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Summer 2011 for Illinois State University

Contrast, Heidi Stachulak

All Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will discuss the importance of contrast within a piece of artwork as well as a history and explanation of the other elements and principles of art. It is important for artists to understand the elements and principles to have a good base in creating artwork. This thesis will explore the history of the elements and principles, review other artists using these principles within their artwork as well as the significance of these elements and principles within my own artwork. Through this exploration an artist will be able to understand as well as utilize these elements and principles within …

Relevance Of Ranganathan's Laws Of Library Science In Library Marketing, R. K. Bhatt

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Marketing for libraries has become an important topic in libraries in India. Philip Kotler is credited with creating the philosophy of marketing management. When we study the marketing process and marketing management, we find that many of the tasks in the process have already been advocated by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, the father of library science in India, in his book Five Laws of Library Science. This study examines how the five laws can be used in marketing LIS products and services.

A Case Study: Articulating Embodied Practice With Poise, Todd Robinson

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

In this paper I will examine the role artefacts play in the context of a practice-based research project. Alone artefacts would not constitute research but I will present a Case Study examining how a self-produced single artefact, named PULLEY SAC became a compelling artefact within my design practice. The study revolves around a first person account of the context in which the PULLEY SAC emerged within practice. I pay particular attention to the phenomena of noticing, whereby particular aspects of a current activity show up as significant against a background of ongoing creative practice and articulation, which draws out through …

Recoding Abandoned Products: Student Visual Designers Experiment To Sustain Product Lives And Values, Alison Gill, Abby Mellick Lopes

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

This conference paper outlines the development, delivery and evaluation of a student project for visual communicators in a second year teaching unit where students are investigating the communication contexts of contemporary consumer values and the material and symbolic waste to which design contributes. The student exercise is part of a pedagogical strategy to seed education about sustainable design practices and is in response to an ongoing research project investigating the role of visual communications design in supporting more enduring relationships with existing products and the value-creating practices of users. The authors’ research draws in part on the sustainable design theory …

Transformative Learning In Sustainable Design Education, Jody Joanna Boehnert

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

Both designers and educators have a unique role to play in the creation of sustainable futures due to their ability to help people see new realities, develop new cognitive skills for dealing with complexity and create the social capacity to act on the basis of new knowledge. Transformative learning aims to build new cognitive capacities as well the agency to put new knowledge into practice. This learning has the potential to transcend the notorious value/action gap that divides our awareness of environmental threats from our capacity to take appropriate action. Beyond the mere dissemination of information, transformative learning engages participants …

Generating Tacit Knowledge Through Motion: A Vision On The Matter Of Space, Liselotte Vroman, Thierry Lagrange, Luiz Naveda

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

This paper aims to observe and bring forth the embodied experience of space, while an individual interacts through moving. This research project is about how architecture can be conceived, setting out from the embodied experience of space. There is main focus on dance, because of the level of spatial awareness and expression of the movements. The boundaries of architecture are explored by means of empirical methods. The experienced space is based on the subject’s practice but can this embodied experience be handled and moulded by the architect, the so-called designer of spaces? Movements can be considered as an expression drawn …

Service-Learning In Design : Balancing Fulfillment And Conviction, Listia Natadjaja

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

No abstract provided.

Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2011, Eastern Washington University

Commencement Programs

Program for Eastern Washington University's spring commencement in 2011

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, June 3, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The June 3, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Overcoming The Digital Tsunami In E-Discovery: Is Visual Analysis The Answer?, Victoria L. Lemieux, Jason R. Baron

Canadian Journal of Law and Technology

New technologies are generating potentially discoverable evidence in electronic form in ever increasing volumes. As a result, traditional techniques of document search and retrieval in pursuit of electronic discovery in litigation are becoming less viable. One potential new technological solution to the e-discovery search and retrieval challenge is Visual Analysis (VA). VA is a technology that combines the computational power of the computer with graphical representations of large datasets to enable interactive analytic capabilities. This article provides an overview of VA technology and how it is being applied in the analysis of e-mail and other electronic documents in the field …

Print Review, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

The Print Review is produced quarterly exclusively for Affiliates of the Printing Industry Center at RIT.

2010-2011 Best Practice Sampler: The Theory And Practice Of Teaching At Philadelphia University, Jane Antheil, Marion Roydhouse

Annual Reports & Administrative Documents

Preface

Every faculty member at one time or another has known the sinking sensation that he or she is just not reaching students. Since we entered the profession because we love learning and love to facilitate learning, blank stares and dull eyes lead not only to frustration, but also to disappointment. Paraphrasing Lee Shulman, past President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and a leader in professional education, it is one thing to be competent in subject knowledge and another thing to be competent in subject knowledge pedagogy.

The examples and ideas expressed in these pages come …

Community Mural Art Program Proposal For The City Of San Luis Obispo, Collin Tateishi

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Art For Healing; Art For Consciousness Change, Robert Neill

Theses

From a very early age I have been drawn to create art. I have followed this passion closely throughout my entire life. After acquiring a master's degree in art education, and subsequently, teaching high school art for 3 years I was compelled to enter the MFA program at Rochester Institute of Technology with a concentration in painting and new forms. Through this process, I discovered a great calling. After the first year of study in the MFA program I traveled to Tibet. This journey was instrumental in the formation of my thesis: Art for Healing, Art for Consciousness Change, as …

Creative Consciousness: Becoming A Reflective Designer, Renessa Ciampa Brewer

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

As a graphic designer, I was drawn to the CCT Program in part because I desired to strengthen my thinking skills as a creative professional. Through being reflective, I aimed to “get more in touch” with my process to better understand it and see how I might improve my approaches. Scholarship on reflective practice in design education and design practice is a growing body of literature, which inspired this synthesis project. This paper looks at Schön’s theories of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action, models for reflection in the design process provided by Ellmers, Brown, and Bennett, and Reymen, and various reflective practice …

Dart: New Teaching Methods For Organizing Intuition, Maria Mackinney-Valentin

Nordes Conference Series

DART (Driver Analysis – Reading Trends) is a new approach developed by the author to organizing and developing intuition in the research and development phase of a creative process within the field of fashion and design. At its current stage, the model has been targeted teaching at design schools. The method is based on the author’s Ph.D. dissertation (“On the Nature of Trends: A Study of Trend Mechanisms in Contemporary Fashion”, 2010), teaching experience at design schools and methods from fashion forecasting. DART is intended to support design students on two levels: 1. To qualify the students’ sensibility or hunch …