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Analyzing Communication Center Training Through the Lens of Foucault
Get PDFThe author argues that the UNCG Communication Center mirrors Foucault’s concepts of power and freedom in training which creates a self-reliance in the trainees that other communication centers should utilize.
Shared Voices: Writing Centers and Social Media
Get PDFThis article is a brief account of how the Writing Center at Daytona State College has begun to utilize social media in our space. We examine the platforms that we use, along with the data associated with them, and then discuss our goals for integrating our staff into the narrative that we share on campus and virtual campus. We first want to see our staff as both producers and consumers of our social media and help them create an online environment that celebrates positive interactions.
Enhancing Motor Coordination: An Eshkol- Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) Perspective
Get PDFThe article integrates multi-layered learning and its potential for human development in parallel domains—psycho-motor, cognitive and social-emotional—while focusing on the complex motor coordination that is involved in mastering literacy skills. It presents Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) and the coordination phenomena that are based on this method and supported by pilot study on the impact of learning EWMN on the development of coordination. The present pilot study provides proof of concept both for its assessment tools and the idea that EWMN may facilitate coordination. Objectives: to examine improvement in coordination during an intervention program. Participants: 45 dance department students, 12 to 14 years old, in 3 separate age groups. Procedure: A five-month intervention based on learning EWMN was executed. Pre- and post-tests were given to 15 randomly chosen dance students from the research group (5 participants from each age group, every 3rd student in an alphabetized list of names). Results: The before and after assessments of the intervention program indicate that there was significant improvement in level of coordination among the participants (range—in the first variable: -3.57, p< .01 to the second variable: -10.58, p< .01). All participants significantly improved their coordination. Recommendations: (I) Increasing the number of subjects in future studies in order to obtain more significant conclusions, using relevant parametric statistics and check for normally distributed data using Shapiro-Wilk test or a Kruskal-Wallis test. (II) Employment of scientific tools such as inertial sensors in order to investigate the potential for enhancing coordination using large spaces of movement and time dependency against a gold standard and enable testing the sensitivity of the research tool during an intervention program. (III) Employment of retention test after a non-practicing period in order to assess change in motor learning patterns
Obituary: Warren Lamb - 1923-2014
Get PDFObituary of Warren Lamb, colleague of Rudlof Laban, developer of Movement Pattern Analysis
Landscape Literacy: Teaching to Read the World through a Curricular-Spatial Analysis
Get PDFAbstract: Life landscapes is a concept that draws attention to ways in which people, places, and spaces are engaged in continual dialogue, through explicit and hidden curriculum that acts to shape identities, values, and worldviews. Explorations of life, and other social landscapes, offer an approach to Paulo Freire’s liberation education--that is, an approach to reading, and teaching to read, the world. This paper offers an understanding of “the world” as life and social landscapes with curricular dimensions to explore socio-spatial memories and experiences, systems and geographies of inequities, and strategic approaches to social change. Conceptualizing a theoretical and praxis-oriented framework as an approach to liberation education, this paper seeks to bring two critical discourses in conversation with one another: the hidden curriculum in education and spatial analysis in cultural geography. Theorizing a relationship between the hidden curriculum and the production of space, this paper offers curricular-spatial analysis and landscape literacy as two interrelated elements of a theoretical and praxis-oriented framework in service to liberation education to open new possibilities for reading, and teaching to read, the world
Considering the environment: An expanded framework for teacher knowledge
Get PDFThe emergence of active learning classrooms (ALCs) on university campuses introduces a need for university teachers to have a knowledge of the pedagogical use of physical space. We consider expanding two well-known frameworks for teacher knowledge. Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) describes teacher knowledge about teaching discipline-specific content. Technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) recognizes digital technology as part of the knowledge base. With increased attention on learning spaces, we propose redefining technology to include non-digital technologies, (e.g. furniture, whiteboards). Further, we add “environment” to the knowledge base to address rhetorical communications from both the physical space and the classroom climate
Content liberation! How increasing the institutional repository content turned into faculty outreach services
Get PDFIn January 2016, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty adopted the Open Access Policy, which encouraged faculty to deposit their articles into the Carolina Digital Repository. The UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries Open Access Implementation team was then charged with increasing the amount of content in the Carolina Digital Repository and raising faculty awareness of the Open Access Policy and author rights issues. In this paper, we will discuss the challenges of locating and harvesting content, the outreach strategies we used with faculty from diverse departments, and the assessment of the overall project’s success. We also share findings from our analysis of the content we collected and recommendations for replicating or scaling up similar projects
Social Media Ethos: Raising Awareness about Communication Center Programs and Outreach through the Use of Twitter
Get PDFCommunication centers often develop a social media presence to engage with audiences about services, programs, and strategies. Twitter, as a popular social media platform, has been adopted by many communication centers. In this article, researchers from the Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) Noel Studio for Academic Creativity share strategies, best practices, and analysis for using Twitter tags, hashtags, and geotags to engage with different publics.