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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, September 30, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

September 30, 2012: Nate Powell, Eisner Award Winner, Gives Talk At Wmu On October 4, 2012, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Looking Through The Prism Of Privacy And Trespass: Smartphones And The Fourth Amendment, Saby Ghoshray

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

Technology in the twenty-first century has dramatically changed our lives, but the law has not kept pace with technological advances. The treatment of smartphones in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is no exception. This is made evident by the increasingly scattered outcomes of litigation involving the privacy interests of smartphone owners.' As the cross-jurisdictional inconsistencies of judicial decisions applying the Fourth Amendment to smartphones mount, I am drawn to seek answers from two foundational pillars of the Supreme Court's search and seizure jurisprudence: protection against invasions of privacy and the bulwark against trespass.

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

No abstract provided.

Exploring Language And Culture In Romania, Neysa L. Figueroa

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

This essay describes participation in a Faculty Learning Community and Faculty Development Seminar to Romania and how this format of combined study and travel was transformed into specific projects and ideas for teaching a foreign language (Spanish). Comparisons were drawn between the Roma ethnic minority in Romania and Latino immigrants in the United States through the study of film and participation in events tied to the Year of Romania program at Kennesaw State University.

Information Technology News, Georgia Southern University

Information Technology: News & Publications (2012-2023)

• Evin Hughes, Dual Major in Information Technology and Writing and Linguistics Wins Muhammad Ali Writing Award for Ethics

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern University Receives $308,000 Data Analysis Software Donation from ACL
• Georgia Southern University Student Wins Muhammad Ali Writing Award for Ethics
• Herty Advanced Materials Development Center Names Alexander Koukoulas, Ph.D. President and CEO

College Of Engineering News, Georgia Southern University

College of Engineering & Computing: News & Publications (2010-2023)

• Evin Hughes, Dual Major in Information Technology and Writing and Linguistics Wins Muhammad Ali Writing Award for Ethics

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• Writing student receives Muhammad Ali ethics award for essay

Information Technology News, Georgia Southern University

Computing: News & Publications (2012-2023)

• Evin Hughes, Dual Major in Information Technology and Writing and Linguistics Wins Muhammad Ali Writing Award for Ethics

College Of Behavioral And Social Sciences News, Georgia Southern University

College of Behavioral & Social Sciences: News & Publications (2012-2022)

• Writing student receives Muhammad Ali ethics award for essay

Beyond Beliefs: Teachers Adapting Problem-Based Learning To Preexisting Systems Of Practice, John L. Pecore

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a constructivist method of instruction aligned with the science educational reform movement to increase scientific literacy for all Americans. As such, PBL instruction is an increasingly popular topic for professional development workshops offered to teachers in secondary learning environments. This research presents a case study of four teachers’ alignment of classroom practice with constructivist principles after participating in a one-week PBL workshop. Teachers assimilated PBL instruction into their current system of teaching; therefore, despite congruent beliefs, those teachers without a constructivist system of practice taught the PBL method with less alignment to constructivist principles. This discrepancy …

Spectrum, Volume 30, Issue 3, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: SHU praised for volunteer work in Princeton Review -- Colleges participate in NEACAC fair at Sacred Heart -- US Presidential Campaign -- Newsweek makes SHU students angry -- He Said/She Said -- Students take pledge to not text and drive

The Semiotic Ecology And Linguistic Complexity Of An Online Game World, Steven L. Thorne, Ingrid Fischer, Xiaofei Lu

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Multiplayer online games form complex semiotic ecologies that include game-generated texts, player-to-player communication and collaboration, and associated websites that support in-game play. This article describes an exploratory study of the massively multiplayer online game (MMO) World of Warcraft (WoW), with specific attention to its qualities as a setting for second language (L2) use and development. This empirical study seeks to answer the following question: What is the nature of the linguistic ecology that WoW players are exposed to? Many studies have described the developmental opportunities presented by commercially available gaming environments (e.g., Gee, 2003, 2007), their value as sites of …

Reinforcing The Tower Of Babel: The Impact Of Copyright Law On Fansubbing, Latoya D. Rembert-Lang

Intellectual Property Brief

No abstract provided.

Mixing Oil And Water: Recipes For Press-Library Collaboration, Patrick Alexander, James Mccoy, Leila Salisbury, Richard Brown

Charleston Library Conference

Recipes for success in press library collaborations can involve dangerous and foreign cultures, environments, and materials that often don't mix together easily or regularly. This session will look at those incompatibilities and examine how a few presses have tried to mix the oil and water of publisher and library. From the perspective of three university press directors, the panel will identify the ingredients in a successful partnership that may not be as obvious to onlookers as we think they are, and whose "mixing" requires more than simply the idea of collaboration.

An Academic Library's Efforts To Justify Materials Budget Expenditures, Steven Carrico

Charleston Library Conference

No abstract provided.

Contextualizing And Interpreting Cost Per Use For Electronic Journals, Matthew Harrington, Connie Stovall

Charleston Library Conference

Cost and usage have been consistent elements among both serials decision databases and commercial decision support systems, and the cost per use calculation has become a well‐established criterion for assessing electronic subscriptions. However, it is just a numerical value until it can be plotted along several axes related to its components. Mapping these calculated values within and across platforms and subjects allows them to be read through multiple contexts to define what is relatively “high” or “low,” and establishing the relative averages and benchmarks within these multiple contexts informs the difficult serials decisions often faced. This presentation looks at ways …

Where Are They Now? An Update On The Career Development Of Recent Aaag Student Prize Winners, Human Biology Editors

Human Biology

No abstract provided.

Interview With Laura Fortunato, Winner Of The 2011 Gabriel W. Lasker Prize, Evelyne Heyer

Human Biology

An international jury composed of Michael Crawford (University of Kansas, USA), Dennis O'Rourke (University of Utah, USA), and Stephen Shennan (University College London, UK) has awarded the Gabriel Ward Lasker Prize 2011 to Dr. Laura Fortunato for her articles entitled "Reconstructing the History of Residence Strategies in Indo-European–Speaking Societies" and "Reconstructing the History of Marriage Strategies in Indo-European–Speaking Societies" considered as the best contribution to the 83rd volume of Human Biology (2011).

Laura Fortunato is an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from University College London in 2009; …

Division Of Social Science Program Changes 09/25/2012, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

September 25, 2012: Gazette And Mlive Feature Philip Levine Visit, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Speaking Of Rivers: Demystifying Foreign-Born Blacks Through A Secondary Esl Context, C. D. Williams

Theses and Dissertations

Linguistic imperialism and societal assumptions can become dominant issues that lessen the significance of the identity, language, culture, and communication of minorities in English as a second language (ESL) settings, which may hinder the possibilities of acceptance and success (Amin, 1997; Ibrahim, 1999; Morgan, 1997; Ogbu, 1992a). Students from Africa and West Indies, foreign-born Blacks, represent English language learners (ELLs) who have distinct cultural and linguistic mores that often go unnoticed. Foreign-born Blacks possess uncommon mother tongues and cultural behaviors that present struggles with salient entrenched racialization in ESL because the historical aspects of English are associated with Whiteness, dominance, …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Reviews, Marvels & Tales Editors

Marvels & Tales

The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature. Edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender. Review by Jörg Bäcker, University of Bonn.

The Cloak of Dreams: Béla Balázs. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes. Review by Catriona McAra, University of Huddersfield

The Complete Fairy Tales. By Charles Perrault. Translated by Christopher Betts. Ilustrations by Gustave Doré. Review by Shyamala Mourouvapin, Wayne State University

Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers. Edited and translated by Lewis C. Seifert and Domna C. Stanton. Reviewed by Bérénice V. Le Marchand, San Francisco State University

A. …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 24, 2012), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

September 24, 2012 Eagleton Lecture At Notre Dame (9/28), Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, September 24, 2012, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 24, 2012, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Parameters – Full Issue, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

American Landpower and the Middle East of 2030 by Micael R. Eastman. The Afghanistan Experience: Democratization by Force, by Cora Sol Goldstein. COIN is Dead–Long Live Transformation, by Matthew Ford, Patrick Rose, and Howard Body. Afghanistan: Strategy and War Termination, by Christopher Tuck. The Futility of Force and the Preservation of Power: British Strategic failure in America 1780-1783. by Daniel T. Canfield. The Internet, New Media, and the Evolution of Insurgency, by Steven Metz

Nahuatl As A Classical, Foreign, And Additional Language: A Phenomenological Study, Dustin De Felice

The Qualitative Report

In this study, participants learning an endangered language variety shared their experiences, thoughts, and feelings about the often complex and diverse language-learning process. I used phenomenological interviews in order to learn more about these English or Spanish language speakers’ journey with the Nahuatl language. From first encounter to their current state in their journey, participants described their challenges with gaining access to the language through courses, materials and institutions, their language observations and their sustaining motivations. In addition to those descriptions, my analysis showed many participants shared two underlying motivations for studying this language: (a) using the Nahuatl language for …