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From The Editor, Charles Yaple

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This issue of Taproot is dedicated to encouraging a reacquaintance with the evening sky. Our lead article by Joseph Flanagan describes efforts being made to "restore the night sky" to our national parks. In it Flanagan argues, "the night sky is a primal element of our human heritage ... " and " is the eternal backdrop to human history, inspiration of thought and belief, source of the deepest questions human beings have posed about themselves and their place in the world." Readers will be encouraged about the progress being made to protect this aspect of national parks.

The Night Sky, Joseph Flanagan

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Losing the night sky might seem the least of our worries in today's world. And yet a growing chorus of voices, many in the preservation community, is making a case for action: The night sky is a primal element of our human heritage, perhaps the ultimate cultural entity. It is the eternal backdrop to human history, inspiration of thought and belief, source of some of the deepest questions human beings have posed about themselves and their place in the world.

Review Of There Once Was A Sky Full Of Stars, Beth Bojarski

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

There Once Was A Sky Full of Stars is a beautifully written and poignantly illustrated children's book looking at the past, present and future status of light pollution. It is an ideal read for helping children and adults understand the issues of light pollution and to begin opening their eyes to the harm that is done to the environment and to future generations in innocent ways. "Some children won't care to look up in the air, Those stars are just stories, they'll say."

Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section contains a listing of teaching resources of all types for those who work in the outdoor education field at the time of publication. Some items highlighted include: "TheEEWorks.org" and the "International Dark Sky Association".

Astronomy For Your Whole Family, Larry Klaes

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

We live in an amazing Universe. W At this very moment, we sit on a spinning ball of rock eight thousand miles across. This oversized boulder, our planet Earth, revolves around a yellow star at over one thousand miles per hour. This star, our Sun, is just one of billions in a vast spiral island of suns we call the Milky Way galaxy. Our seemingly huge star island floats among billions of other similar realms in a Universe almost fourteen billion years old in both space and time.

Feeling overwhelmed? Perhaps even a bit small and lost in all that …

Microsoft Live Meeting 2007: Web Conferencing System For Virtual Classrooms, Barbara Schroeder

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

Experiencing Knowledge, Donald Norris, Jon Mason, Paul Lefrere

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

Scaling Up: From Web-Enhanced Courses To A Web-Enhanced Curriculum, Robert E. Wood

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

Windows Movie Maker In The English As A Foreign Language Class, Nicolas Gromik

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

Geosciences Newsletter - 2004, Department Of Geosciences

Geological and Environmental Sciences News

Vol. 1, No. 29

• Mohamed Sultan, Chairperson
• Faculty News
• Emeriti News
• Department News
• Graduate Student News
• Awards & Graduations
• Alumni News
• Field Trips
• Outstanding Alumni Academy
• Special Honor
• New Faces in the Geosciences

Practitioner's Corner- Please Touch, Anita Sanchez

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

I wish I had a nickel for every environmental education activity that involves index cards. Students drown in a sea of paper. My kindergartener brings home worksheets, pictures, notes, every day. By the end of the year, the pile is as high as he is. Are you doing activities with pictures of animals cut out from magazines and laminated onto index cards? You know who you are. Forget the index cards! Use real stuff.

Conference Calendar, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section provides a list of conferences in the field of outdoor education including GLIN (Great Lakes Information Network) and NAAEE (North America Association for Environmental Education).

Content Validity Of The Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium's (Isllc) Standards For School Leaders: To What Extent Do Isllc Skill Indicators Describe School Leaders' Instructional Leadership Work?, Jane Clark Lindle, Nancy Stalion, Lu Young

Publications

Most validity studies of ISLLC standards and indicators rely heavily on focus groups and perceptual surveys. This study included self-report and observational data on principals’ use of time. A content analysis tested ISLLC’s descriptions of instructional leadership with a related set of Kentucky’s Standards and Indicators for School Improvement (SISI) as well as across the observational job analyses of two sets of principals: (a) five elementary and secondary principals in a typical rural district and (b) five matched for school characteristics from high performing schools on Kentucky’s assessment system. Results reinforce early studies revealing the intense and fragmented nature of …

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds, Volume 3, Issue 2, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.

The Use Of Increased Clinical Opportunities For Student Nurses At Two Different Intervals Within The Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum, Jerrilee Lamar

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the effects of two hospital-based clinical programs for student nurses on six dimensions of nursing. The two programs included a I 0-week student nurse summer extern program which was offered to nursing students who had completed a minimum of two clinical semesters of nursing school. The second program, a 12-week student nurse intern program, was offered to student nurses during their last semester of nursing school prior to eligibility for the national registered nurse licensure exam. The Schwirian Six-Dimension Scale of Nursing was used as a pretest and posttest self-assessment at the beginning and endings of each …

Hollins Columns (2004 Nov 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Another women's college gone - Wells goes co-ed
• Senior Appreciation Program goals seem hard to attain
• HAB aids GSB search for new speakers
• On air: HUTV created
• Senior Appreciation
• S.R.L.A. offers weekly conversations about various religions to students
• Students participate in Appalachia service project
• S.H.A.R.E. Olympiad raise money for local soup kitchen
• Circle K, the new community service club on-campus
• T.H.U.G.S. to perform around Roanoke Valley
• Author David Sedaris reads to sold out audience at Roanoke's Jefferson Center
• Tinker Day!: What rain?
• Taking a walk down memory lane, TV style
• A lesson from the 2004 Boston Red …

Learning 'Through' Or Learning 'About'? The Ridiculous And Extravagant Medium Of Opera : Gardner's Multiple Intellegences In Pre-Service Teacher Education, Julie White, Mary Dixon, Lynda Smerdon

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

In recent years, pre-service teacher education has attempted to incorporate into programs an understanding of Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences as it applies to schools. In this paper the tension between ‘learning about’ multiple intelligences and ‘learning through’ multiple intelligences supports Gardner’s (1993) distinction between ‘understanding’ and ‘coverage’. This paper examines the use of the performing arts in the professional studies component of our teacher education program. During 2002 at The University of Melbourne, a group of education students were offered the opportunity to develop an opera in order to learn about assessment and curriculum. Thirty-seven of the students volunteered …

Assessing The Nature Of Science Views Of Singaporean Pre-Service Teachers, Tan L. Thye, Boo H. Kwen

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Despite the many developments in the teaching of science, an aspect that continues to be neglected appears to be the character and nature of science (NOS). This is becoming especially important in the light of recent developments in pedagogy, as, for example, more teachers adopt constructivist methodologies and computing technology enables simulations that may blur the lines between models and reality. From the literature, it is known that teachers' modern NOS conceptions, though not a sufficient condition for transmission of modern NOS views, is necessary. In this study, pre-service teachers' NOS conceptions are assessed with an adapted Views of the …

Thomas Alexander Named Uab Special Assistant To The Vice President For Diversity Issues, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Carol C. Harter, Holly Ivy De Vore, Gian Galassi, Diane Russell

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Let’S Talk ... Again, Keturah Landrum

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

November 1, 2004 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Use Of Distance Education By Religions Of The World To Train, Edify, And Educate Adherents, P. Clint Rogers, Scott L. Howell

Faculty Publications

Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Jewish, and Christian organizations are all experimenting with distance education for various reasons and to different extents, due to religious, economic, and political factors. Religious institutions worldwide are not only turning to the World Wide Web (WWW) to place information concerning religious beliefs and provide virtual services for their constituents but are also getting more involved in formally educating their members at a distance. This paper will document some of these educational efforts and the reasons behind the expanding use of distance education by several of the major religious institutions for training, edifying, and educating their …

Nebline, November/December 2004

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Local Efforts to Promote Good Health
What Parents Can Do
Tax Planning Update for 2004
Don’t Forget to Winterize Your Underground Sprinkler System
Management Pays Better Than Labor
Management = Planning for the Future
Helping Trees Through Winter
Sources of Man-Made Chemicals in Drinking Water
How to Hire an Arborist
Tips on Storing Firewood
Tips on Turkey Preparation
WINTER FRUIT GLAZE Recipe
How to Cook a Turkey the Day Before Serving It
GREEN ONION AND CORN BREAD STUFFING Recipe
Simple Tip to Avoid Scratches When Storing Nonstick Skillets
Cooking Tools Class Oct. 26
President’s Notes — Janet’s Jargon
Household Hints: …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 14, November 1, 2004, Grand Valley State University

2004-2005, Volume 29

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Institute Brief: Making Experiential Education Accessible For Students With Disabilities, Cynthia Zafft, Sara Sezun, Melanie Jordan

The Institute Brief Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

College students with disabilities enter with less work experience and have a harder time finding jobs than their nondisabled peers. Experiential education-- mentoring, internships, job shadowing, and so on-- can create a bridge to graduation and employment. However, that requires college professionals to consider access issues for all students. A new Institute Brief provides basic disability awareness information, suggests ways to create welcoming career offices, and offers ideas to increase access to experiential education.

The Opinion Volume 43 Issue 2 – November 1, 2004, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated November, 1, 2004

Shap'n & Shak'n Institutions Of Color, Peter Szto

Social Work Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of institutional racism for higher education. The paper outlines a critique of the race construct as a strategy to advance campus diversity and multicultural learning. The critique provides conceptual clarity and organizing strategies to advance antiracism within institutions.

Service-Learning Opportunities That Include Students With Moderate And Severe Disabilities, Harold Kleinert, Virginia Mcgregor, Michelle Durbin, Tina Blandford, Karen Jones, Josh Owens, Beth Harrison, Sally Miracle

Disabilities

Picture this scenario: For Young at Heart, a monthly social and recreational event targeted specifically for senior citizens, students with moderate and severe disabilities worked with Key Club members to plan and cook a dinner for seniors, as well as plan the entertainment for the evening. During the event, students helped prepare the meal, served it, and participated in the social activities. After a successful evening, the students wrote letters to local businesses to solicit funding for the next event. Students and their peer partners composed reflections and planned a celebration. Teachers included videotaped reflections and activities into students’ alternate …

Editorial: Enhancing Teaching Performance: Managing Student Feedback Exercises, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

When I was an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the mid-1980s, student feedback exercises were introduced. They were manually conducted via pen-and-paper mode, with administrative staff taking about 10±15 minutes at the start of a lecture class every day in a designated week (usually the last or penultimate week of semester), distributing questionnaires and collecting the completed forms in boxes to have the responses scanned and totted up. This represented the ®rst time that a systematic data collection and feedback mechanism was instituted for students. Since then, various innovations have been introduced to manage student feedback …