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Curricular Integration Of Technology By The Coates Library, 2008-2013: A Report Of The Activities Of The Faculty Technology Liaison, Jeremy W. Donald

Library Faculty Research

The Faculty Technology Liaison (FTL) position was created to support Expanding Horizons: Information Literacy in the 21^st Century, a Quality Enhancement Plan instituted at Trinity University in the fall of 2008. The position was intended to promote information literacy and technology use by providing technology-intensive teaching and learning opportunities for faculty and students.

New Appointments, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Streaming Video Resources For Teaching, Learning, And Research, Julie Decesare Cicilline

Library Faculty and Staff papers

In less than 10 years the availability of digitally converted or born digital video, has grown exponentially. Libraries and librarians are constantly navigating, and helping their patrons navigate, this shift from analog to digital. For access to video, our libraries are challenged by an individual consumer marketplace, where institutional access is often limited and expensive. Due to limitations of streaming content, licensing and copyright issues for use in learning management systems and public performance screenings, and time and budgetary issues surrounding the conversion of analog to digital formats, public and educational institutions are still very reliant on physical formats. Patron …

Prism #77, February 2014, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Fpehs, February 2014 Newsletter, Farmville-Prince Edward Historical Society

Historical Society Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Embracing Maturity: An Ignatian Christian Leadership Formation Model For Emerging Adults, Todd Dustin Clark

Doctor of Ministry

The research of this project is concentrated on the integration of the disciplines of leadership, developmental psychology, and spiritual formation to inform a nine-month Christian leadership formation process for postmodern emerging adults. As the Staff Development Facilitator for an Outdoor Science Camp ministry (OSS), my task is twofold: (1) In regards to our mission, I aspire to help staff members develop leadership skills that prepare them to be excellent experiential educators; (2) in regards to formation, I desire to facilitate relevant spiritual growth for emerging adults. I believe the overlapping and pragmatic connection between these two goals is the art …

Uni Grad Student News, V9n4, February 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside this issue:

-- Message from the Dean
-- Upcoming Events
-- Graduate Faculty Profile: Dr. Mick Mack
-- Graduate Alumni Profile: Chad Adams
-- Graduate Student Profile: Robin Summers
-- Ten Things Rod Library Can Do for You
-- Graduate Student Advisory Board
-- UNI Botanical Center
-- UNI Dance Marathon
-- American Educational Research Association Presentations
-- Public Policy Student, Chance Finegan Assists in Securing the Miller Creek Water Quality Improvement Grant
-- Doctoral Candidate Daniel Mourlam Receives Grant from Intel Corporation
-- Clinical Psychology Students Attend 47th Annual ABCT Convention
-- Doctor of Technology Student Melanie Abbas …

Geography Newsletter, Department Of Geography

Geography Newsletter

Contents:
2013 Year in Review [Page] 2
New Faculty Spotlight [Page] 3
Move to Wecota Hall [Page] 4
Dr. Janet Gritzner to Retire [Page] 5
Wetland Survey [Page] 6
Fulbright Student Scholar in Residence [Page] 7
Geography Club at Hobo Day [Page] 7
Regional Meeting of the AAG [Page] 8
Geography Alumni Spotlight [Page] 9
South Dakota Geographic Alliance [Page] 10
Geography Awareness Week 2013 [Page] 11
Bringing the World to South Dakota [Page] 12-13
44th Annual Geography Convention [Page] 14-15
Community Updates: Alumni [Page]16
Geography Alumni Spotlight [Page] 17
From the Foundation [Page] 17
Building relationships in Burkina Faso …

Land Versus Water Treadmill Running: Lactate Threshold, Ron Garner, Dale Wagner, Eadric Bressel, Dennis G. Dolny

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Skeleton Found In A Rhode Island Cave, Possibility Of Lyme Disease, Tooba Ghafoor

2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Papers

A skeleton of a member of the Wampanoag tribe was recently found in a cave near the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Examination of the skeleton revealed the individual was most likely a male in his late 40s. Six Amblyomma americanum and nine Xodes scapalaris ticks were found in the fur cloth of the individual. These ticks, as well as abnormalities of the skeleton, including a missing arm and broken rib, raise the possibility of the individual suffering and dying from Lyme disease. Carbon-14 dated the remains and ticks to the year 1600.

'What Will This Do For My Career?' Teaching Cultural Diversity To Design Students In A For-Profit Institution, Suellen R. Regonini

Southern Anthropologist

For-profit educational institutions are a growing force on the higher education landscape today. In order to improve the rigor of their four-year degrees, general education and other non-career-specific courses are being added to their curricula. The pedagogy at these schools generally privileges four-hour class blocks, the use of visual materials rather than standard texts, and hands-on practical application of skills, all of which can make teaching a traditional lecture-based class in the career school environment quite challenging. This article analyzes efforts by the author to combine personal experience teaching with web videos and visual blogging in courses at both traditional …

New Students For Law, Justice And Culture, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

2012-2013 Annual Accountability Report: University Of South Florida St. Petersburg, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The 2012-2013 Annual Accountability Report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg approved by the Board of Trustees on December 5, 2013 with revision in February 2014. Includes sections on financial resources, personnel, enrollment, undergraduate education, graduate education, and research and economic development.

Ecodevelopment, Gender, And Empowerment: Perspectives From India’S Protected Area Communities, Ruchi Badola, Monica V. Ogra, Shivani C. Barthwal

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Book abstract:

Feminism has re-shaped the way we think about equality, power relations and social change. Recent feminist scholarship has provided new theoretical frameworks, methodologies and empirical analyses of how gender and feminism are situated within the development process.Global Perspectives on Gender and Space: Engaging Feminism and Development draws upon this framework to explore the effects of globalization on development in diverse geographical contexts. It explores how women’s and men’s lives are gendered in specific spaces as well as across multiple landscapes.

Report, Annual Accountability Report 2012-2013, February 2014, State University System Of Florida. Board Of Governors

Accountability Reports

The 2012-2013 annual accountability report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Board of Trustees approved the report on December 5, 2013 with a revision in February 2014. The report is split into two sections: executive summary and data tables.

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 26, No. 1, February 2014

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Content: Welcome - Congratulations - Grants - Publications - Meet an Off-Campus Student - Faculty News - Bruner Club News - Blasts from the Past - Condolences (Dr. John (Jack) Campbell) - Retirement Receptions

In The Best Interest Of The (Adult) Child: Ideas About Kinship Care Of Older Adults, Tezra Jennings, Tam E. Perry, Julia Valeriani

Social Work Faculty Publications

This article uses a qualitative, ethnographic approach to examine the experiences older adults and their kin, as the older adult engages in relocation. Studies looking at caregiving by kin for older adults highlight burdens for the adult child. This study offers a life course perspective on kinship care, analyzing older adults’ decisions’ to move. It was found that many older adults are strongly influenced by the desire to not be cared for by their kin as well as to select housing near their existing social network, which might exclude kin. In conclusion, policy implications are discussed.

Monthly Report, Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services, February 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services

Department Report and Publications

A report with breakdowns for what services the Online Learning and Instructional Technology Services provided in February 2014.

The Faith Web: A Networking Of The Body Of Christ To Mitigate Relationship Voids And Strengthen The Faith Community, Scott M. Ness

Doctor of Ministry

This dissertation introduces a new philosophy, The Faith Web, as a method to validate relationships and provide reciprocal social capital between people for the sake of building Christian community, support, and formation. Section 1 describes the ideals of Christian community and examines the ways these ideals are not realized. Special attention is paid to relationship voids caused by death, divorce, fatherlessness, and absenteeism of parents. Section 2 examines the communal life of ancient Israel and the present day community that occurs in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Networking Sites (SNS). This juxtaposition draws upon the strength of both approaches …

A Broadly Implementable Research Course In Phage Discovery And Genomics For First-Year Undergraduate Students, Tuajuanda Jordan, Sandra Burnett, Susan Carson, Steven Caruso, Kari Clase, Randall Dejong, John Dennehy, Dee Denver, David Dunbar, Sarah C.R. Elgin, Ann Findley, Chris Gissendanner, Urszula Golebiewska, Nancy Guild, Grant Hartzog, Wendy Grillo, Gail Hollowell, Lee Hughes, Allison Johnson, Rodney King, Lynn Lewis, Wei Li, Frank Rosenzweig, Michael Rubin, Margaret Saha, James Sandoz, Christopher Shaffer, Barbara Taylor, Louise Temple, Edwin Vazquez, Vassie Ware, Lucia Barker, Kevin Bradley, Deborah Jacobs-Sera, Welkin Pope, Daniel Russell, Steven Cresawn, David Lopatto, Cherly Bailey, Graham Hatfull

Biology Faculty Research

Engaging large numbers of undergraduates in authentic scientific discovery is desirable but difficult to achieve. We have developed a general model in which faculty and teaching assistants from diverse academic institutions are trained to teach a research course for first-year undergraduate students focused on bacteriophage discovery and genomics. The course is situated within a broader scientific context aimed at understanding viral diversity, such that faculty and students are collaborators with established researchers in the field. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science Education Alliance Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) course has been widely implemented and has been …

Slaying The Syncretistic Chimera: A Study Of The Consensus Repetjtus In Light Of Confessionalization Theory, Timothy Schmeling

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Schmeling, Timothy R. “Slaying the Syncretistic Chimera: A Study of the Consensus Repetitus in Light of Confessionalization Theory.” Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2014. 478 pp.

The Syncretistic Controversy (ca. 1645–86) was the most important controversy of seventeenth-century Lutheranism. It was inaugurated by Helmstedt theology professor Georg Calixt (1586–1656), who sought mutual tolerance between Christendom’s confessions on the basis of the fundamental agreement all shared by virtue of their adherence to the Apostles’ Creed and theology of the first five centuries. In response the Electoral Saxon theological faculties promulgated the Consensus Repetitus fidei vere Lutheranae (1655), a confession against syncretism and …

Pop Culture Pedagogy: Television And Film As Simulated Ethnographic Data, Elizabeth Elliott Cooper

Southern Anthropologist

Anthropological theory often appears as the capstone course for undergraduate anthropology majors – the final barrier to the degree or perhaps even ‘becoming an anthropologist’. Despite its importance, however, this class is often underappreciated and its full potential left unrealized due to a lack of student engagement. The abstract language of original texts can be intimidating and difficult to apply to the complex realities of daily life. In addition, simply learning about theory does not prepare students to function as critical thinkers, much less future practitioners. This paper profiles a successful compromise: the use of popular television and film as …

Pathways To Sustainability Careers: Building Capacity To Solve Complex Problems, Jennifer H. Allen, Fletcher Beaudoin, Elizabeth Lloyd-Pool, Jacob Sherman

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

Many of the central sustainability challenges facing society today—climate change, social inequality, and resource degradation, to name a few—are socially complex, politically fraught, and imperfectly understood. To be able to effectively engage in addressing such “wicked problems,” individuals need a mixture of content knowledge and soft skills that enable them to critically analyze these challenges from a systems perspective, develop creative solutions, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively with others who may not share common views. Such skill sets and abilities are also more generally valuable in navigating personal, organizational, and societal complexities. Portland State University’s (PSU) Pathways to Sustainability Careers …

The Dynamic Relationship Between Social Support And Hiv-Related Stigma In Rural Uganda, Sae Takada, Sheri D. Weiser, Elias Kumbakumba, Conrad Muzoora, Jeffrey N. Martin, Peter Hunt, Jessica E. Haberer, Annet Kawuma, David Bangsberg, Alexander C. Tsai

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background—Cross-sectional studies show that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) stigma is negatively correlated with social support.

Purpose—The purpose of this study is to examine the bidirectional relationship between social support and HIV stigma.

Methods—We collected quarterly data from a cohort of 422 people living with HIV in Uganda, followed for a median of 2.1 years. We used multilevel regression to model the contemporaneous and 3-month-lagged associations between social support and both enacted and internalized stigma.

Results—Lagged enacted stigma was negatively correlated with emotional and instrumental social support, and lagged instrumental social support was negatively correlated with enacted stigma. Internalized stigma and …

The Courier, February 2014, Tennessee. Historical Commission.

Tennessee Historical Commission

No abstract provided.

Video Means "I See": Media And Anthropological Instruction, Margaret Williamson Huber

Southern Anthropologist

The essays in this collection demonstrate that visual media are a more than acceptable substitute for introducing students to ethnographic practice, either on their own or as a complement to face-to-face enquiry.

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Stories And/Of Self: Using Digital Storytelling In The Anthropology Classroom, Aaron Thornburg

Southern Anthropologist

Digital storytelling is a computer-based media production process that holds significant pedagogical promise for college- and university-level courses in general and cultural anthropology courses in particular. Although digital storytelling is increasingly being used in third-level educational institutions, the advantages and potential problems of giving such assignments have yet to be fully considered in the scholarly literature. This article uses a case study approach to address the potential problems with and benefits of utilizing digital storytelling projects based on my experiences in teaching a “Media, Self, and Society” course at two universities in the 2010-11 academic year. Particular attention will be …

Audiovisual Media As A Pedagogical Tool: A Brief Annotated Bibliography, Elizabeth Elliott Cooper, Max Stein

Southern Anthropologist

Media-based, pedagogical innovations are understudied and largely undocumented within anthropology and the social sciences more generally. While most instructors share the experience of showing films or employing YouTube clips as quick, contemporary examples, we rarely reflect critically on these techniques—much less publish our impressions. This bibliography mirrors the still tentative state of the literature and is neither exhaustive nor authoritative but intended instead as a starting point, profiling (1) examples of media-based pedagogy from the 1970s to the present, (2) critical assessments of the efficacy and impact of classroom media, (3) practical references outlining potential source material and relevant copyright …

Learning To Be Lebanese: Socializations Of Citizenship And Subjecthood In Beiruti Primary Schools, Jade Lansing

Theses and Dissertations

This research project will explore the ways the Lebanese state and individual classroom actors construct and contest citizenship through the curriculum and structure of civics classrooms in contemporary Lebanese primary schools. Using civics classrooms as a lens to understand broader trends in educational environments, this study will analyze the role of education in the narration, diffusion, and aggravation of social and political discord. It argues that schools and classrooms are not passive or neutral mirrors of external dynamics, but rather play an active role in the narration and construction of these realities. This research shows that education is a space …