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The Collegian: February 10, 2016, The Collegian Staff

The Collegian, 2015-2016

Volume 131
Issue 16

Um Journalism Professor Selected For Humanities Council Honor, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Alysia Burton Steele to receive Preserver of Mississippi Culture Award

Information And Communication Technology (Ict) Literacy: Refining A Construct For Assessment, Louis Michael Verdusco

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This research effort conceptualized, developed, implemented, and examined the psychometric properties of an Information & Communication Technology (ICT) literacy assessment instrument designed for students entering college. This process began with the development of a working definition of the ICT literacy based on the literature and the input of a panel of experts regarding the proposed literacy sub-constructs and the individual test items. A pilot test was conducted to identify areas for improvement. Once these improvements were incorporated, the final assessment instrument was administered to the freshmen class at a private Midwestern comprehensive university with religious affiliation.

The psychometric aspects of …

Meeting Students Where They Are Online, But Leading Them Somewhere More Interesting: Reflections On Teaching The Facebook Class, Jeffrey T. Manuel, Matthew Schunke

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This article describes a unique interdisciplinary course on social media and the self developed and taught by the authors at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The article describes challenges facing humanities faculty who wish to teach on topics with high societal currency and student interest. Current research into humanistic approaches to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter is summarized. The authors discuss their inquiry-driven pedagogy in the classroom, how the course was redesigned based on student feedback, and assignments designed to encourage critical thinking about students' use of social media. Finally, the article argues that humanities faculty should offer …

Don't Distract Me When I'M Media Multitasking: Toward A Theory For Raising Advertising Recall And Recognition, Robert Angell, Matthew Gorton, Johannes Sauer, Paul Bottomley, John White

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

A Social Semiotic Analysis Of Instructional Images Across Academic Disciplines, Amy Wilson-Lopez, Melanie Landon-Hays

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

Framed in theories of social semiotics, this descriptive multiple case study examined the images used by six middle-school teachers during one school year as they each taught two different subject areas: earth science, language arts, mathematics, and/or social studies. Using Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visual grammar to analyze these images, this study identified discipline-specific patterns in how 1,132 images realized assumptions in regards to the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of communication. A content analysis suggested discipline-specific differences in the presumed social distance between the content of the images and the students, as well as discipline-specific differences in assumptions about the …

Artz 105a.05: Visual Language - Drawing, Mary Ann Bonjorni

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Developments In Television Viewership, Lucile E. Hecht

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In recent years the ways in which we watch television has changed, and so has the television we watch. “Binge watching,” almost the Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year in 2013, has taken a firm hold on the American television audience who now watches television not according to the broadcast schedule but on its own terms. So, too, has the practice of engaging with other audience members, be they friends, family, or strangers, while watching a show by using a secondary device – a “second screen.” These practices have been developing for some time, and as technology adapts to …

Using Design Thinking To Enhance Construction Site Problem Solving, Ehab Mokhtar

Theses and Dissertations

Problem solving is one of the most important issues in Construction Management (CM), it influences the outcome of the project due to the amount of decisions and problems that the Construction Manager faces in each project. Construction Management is a vital subject that has been in the spotlight of academic research for decades, which led to its emerging by going through the cycles of developing and evolution. The criteria of decision-making and problem solving have also evolved from focusing on the technical and objective aspects of construction to the soft and subjective ones. (Bakht, El Diraby 2015). Nevertheless, the last …

Profile Of Business In The Traditional Design Sectors, Con Kennedy

Reports

This research report illustrates the findings form the “Profile of Business in the Traditional Design Sectors”. This research was commissioned by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland as part of the Year of Irish Design (ID1025) which is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and was under taken on their behalf by Con Kennedy. The aim of this research is to develop an understanding of the size, location and demographic of design practices and business in the Republic of Ireland. For the purpose of this report, the agreed sectors and design sectors to research were: • …

Hm 22: Major Fleet-Versus-Fleet Operations In The Pacific War, 1941–1945, Milan Vego

Historical Monographs

Major naval operations represent an area of study of operational art that Western naval theoreticians and planners have generally neglected. Too much emphasis is given instead to advanced technologies and tactics of weapons, at the expense of combined-arms tactics. The absence of an immediate and serious threat at sea today should not be allowed to prevent the development of sound naval theory and doctrine and the training of naval forces to prepare, plan, and execute major naval/joint operations as part of land campaigns in the littorals or a maritime campaign.

Viscom Students Excited To Learn How To Utilize New Cyclorama Wall (January 29, 2016), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

No abstract provided.

Easterner, Vol. 67, No. 14, January 27, 2016, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles aoubt Visual Communication Design students art created for the Spokane Transit Authority, ally training conducted by the Pride Center, the closure of a nightclub called Asylum, policies related to library carrels, active shooter training, a new Associated Students (ASEWU) page on EagleSync, students who were once drug dealers, visiting writer Lily Hoang, Veteran Suicide Prevention and Awareness Week, Gamers Club, Pence Union Building (PUB) renovation updates, the men's and women's basketball seasons, and sports announcer Larry Weir.

Instructional Concepts And Techniques For The Flight And Aviation Maintenance Instructor, Thomas F. Walby

Bollinger-Rosado Teaching & Learning Effectiveness Symposium Proceedings

As perceptions increase in number, the student assembles them into larger blocks. Without new experience, there can be no new perceptions, but, as previous input is organized, related, and associated, an active cognitive process called insight may occur.

The mind actively processes the information received into new forms. Insight may result in inspirational solutions to problems. Insight contains the ability to apply solutions previously learned to new problems, or to generalize. Forgetting is less of a problem because there are more anchor points. For instruction to be efficient, the information must be presented in a meaningful way which assists the …

January 2016 Academic Affairs Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Engineering Students’ Communication Skills Through A Team-Based Graphics Course Project, Leroy L. Long Iii, Kari Jordan

ASEE EDGD Midyear Conference

Although communication skills are highly valued by engineering associations and companies, instructors may find it difficult to incorporate them into specific engineering courses. Some attention has been given to research on undergraduate students’ communication skills. However, additional research and training is needed to help instructors develop curricula -- the type that can enhance students’ communication skills -- in technical subjects like engineering graphics. Such work can help engineering programs offer increased opportunities for students to continually develop desirable professional traits throughout their collegiate experience. This paper will explore the implementation of a team-based graphics course project -- one that focused …

Learning To Speak The Language Of Influence, Mark Volkers

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"There’s nothing wrong with media that entertains and delights. We need that. But prophetic media takes it a step further and dares ask an audience hard questions and helps us wonder about the state of things on earth today."

Posting about the new literacy of image from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/learning-to-speak-the-language-of-influence/

Sculpting The Rhetorician: A Transformation, Crystal Lane Swift

Speaker & Gavel

The following study is the result of a naive scholar infiltrating and analyzing a culture that she was unaware of before this experience. The participants in the study demonstrated numerous consistent patterns in their communicative interactions with each other, including: invitational community, marking space, the metaphor of "life as a journey", non-materialistic collectors, concrete positionality, producers and consumers of visual culture, and "the joke is on all of us."

Method For Forming Group Using Mobile Computing Devices, Andrian Kurniady, Hoang Viet Nguyen, James Kozianski

Defensive Publications Series

A method for forming groups of users in close proximity using mobile computing devices is disclosed. The method provides simple and ad-hoc formation of groups using a software application in a mobile computing device. The application may allow users wanting to join the group chat to activate within a certain time. Upon activation, a group with the group members in proximity is created in the device. Any kind of data-sharing method such as cloud storage or email could be used, and any content such as text messages, audio-visual communications, documents, email, text, images, or videos can be shared among the …

03. Design, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Electrical And Computer Engineering Annual Report 2016, Department Of Electrical And Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Annual Reports

• Faculty Directory
• Faculty Highlights
• Faculty Fellow Program
• Multidisciplinary Research Fills Critical Needs
• Better, Faster Technology
• Metamaterials: Searching for the Perfect Lens
• The Nontraditional Power of Demand Dispatch
• Space, Solar Power's Next Frontier
• Kit Cischke, Award-Winning Senior Lecturer
• Faculty Publications
• ECE Academy Class of 2016
• Staff Profile: Michele Kamppinen
• For the Love of Teaching: Jenn Winikus
• Graduate Student Highlights
• Undergraduate Student Highlights
• External Advisory Committee
• Contracts and Grants
• Department Statistics
• AAES National Engineering Award

Edra Archives Donated By Willo Pequegnat, Andrews University

Archives

Boxes #33-37 -- books

New Frontiers 2016-17 Brochure

Annual Brochures

This year the New Frontiers in Biomedical Research Seminar Series continues to expand to a critical area beyond the research bench to explore related career paths and the responsibility of research and education. In collaboration with Louisiana Tech’s Waggoner Center and Sigma Xi the series will host Dr. Karen Oates, Dean of Arts & Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She will speak on her involvement in promoting civic engagement and responsibility of scientists. In the continued partnership with Louisiana Tech’s School of Design, the series will host Ms. Natalie Doolittle, Director of Medical Animation, High Impact & Syntropy Studios who …

Cultivating Biblical Imagination Through Preaching, Edward N. Kay

Doctor of Ministry Theses

Explores the ways preaching can help increase familiarity and comfort with scripture so people are able to interpret their daily experiences and lifetime milestones with God’s story revealed in the Bible. The importance of narrative is explored, especially in relationship with competing narratives in today’s world. A variety of forms of interactive preaching are explored to evaluate the ability of the sermon to increase biblical imagination: biblical storytelling, people talking to one another, and writing down reflections to act on in the future. Sermons were preached in multiple ELCA congregation in a variety of contexts.

Whitworth University Catalog 2016-2017, Whitworth University

Whitworth Catalog

No abstract provided.

Uxperimentation: The Library As Design Studio, John B. Weaver Dr

Library Research and Publications

The university and seminary’s work and workplaces evolve within emerging digital ecologies, such as mobile communication, digital fabrication, and cloud hosting. At Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Abilene, TX, we have driven this transformation of educational spaces and curriculum with 1-to-1 and BYOD smartphone and tablet initiatives, and through construction of an interdisciplinary makerspace. Now our provision of personalized access to Adobe Creative Cloud for all students and faculty is again reorienting library spaces and practices with a focus on User Experience (UX). This paper explores: 1) the relation of UXD to library research and instruction. 2) an ecology for …

Textual Curation, Krista Kennedy

Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition - All Scholarship

This article explores textual curation as a conceptualization of authorship and composition within large information structures that is heavily based on the canon of arrangement. This work is often undertaken through distributed collaboration, thus complicating traditional conceptions of authorial attribution and agency. Central curatorial processes include critical recomposition of prior texts along with the development of small and often invisible textual elements such as architecture, metadata, and strategic links. I offer a grounded definition of textual curation that draws from traditional curatorial fields such as Museum Studies and Library Science as well as Writing Studies’ own subfield of Technical Communication, …

19th Annual Ewu Student Research And Creative Works Symposium Program, Eastern Washington University

2016 Symposium

No abstract provided.

High Capacity Image Steganography Technique Based On Lsb Substitution Method, Marghny H. Mohamed, Loay M. Mohamed

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Steganography is the art of hiding important data by embedding secret message within other file. The least significant bit (LSB) is one of the most important considerations when one want to solve such problems. LSB substitution method exchanges some LSB of the cover-image with the secret data. In this paper, data hiding method using simple LSB substitution is proposed. The main goal of the presented method is to increase the embedding capacity and improve the image quality of the stego-image. The experimental results show better performance of the proposed method compared to the corresponding methods, in terms of PSNR and …