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Oregon Bee Atlas: native bee findings from 2018
Get PDFThe Oregon Bee Atlas is a new volunteer-led effort to characterize the bee fauna of Oregon State by collecting, preparing, and databasing native bee species and capturing plant host records. In 2018, volunteers collected 11,044 bee specimens across 33 Oregon counties, representing 179 unique bee species, and 32 unique bee genera. Specimens were collected from a total of 310 unique flowering plant genera, resulting in one of the largest state-level databases of bee-host plant interactions. Volunteers produced valuable occurrence records for species poorly known for the State, and species of conservation concern. The 2018 efforts constitute a proof-of-concept of a specimen-focused volunteer native bee survey
KISS: The Value of Simplicity in Online Education [Archived]
Get PDFKeeping diversity and inclusion in mind throughout the process of online course design and delivery can be daunting to instructors, course developers, and content creators. These concepts, along with access equity and legal compliance, can seem distant from the principal objective of content presentation and instruction. Recent public health circumstances resulted in much of higher education’s move to remote learning. This reveals the need for quality online education that seeks to remove barriers and create challenging and engaging opportunities for all learners. This article presents research-based and established best practices and universal standards to help educators create accessible, usable, and inclusive online learning environments in a way that simplifies the process, meets rigorous standards, and improves the experience for all learners
Creating Online Instruction that is Accessible, Usable, and Inclusive [Archived]
Get PDFAs a consequence of the COVID19 pandemic, we have witnessed a swift movement of onsite and hybrid courses to fully online formats. This development has created an urgent need for the design and delivery of online content and engagement mechanisms that are equitable for all students. There is little evidence that many of these courses are accessible to, usable by, and inclusive of students with disabilities. The author of this article discusses challenges students with disabilities face in accessing online content and engaging in online activities as well as choices that instructors and online course designers can make with respect to pedagogy and information technology (IT) to ensure that their classes are accessible to, usable by, and inclusive of all students. She introduces for those new to this field the potential of the universal design (UD) framework to inform the design of online learning that addresses the needs of students with a wide range of characteristics
The Secret to being a Successful Online Instructor [Archived]
Get PDFThe Secret to being a Successful Online Instructo
Simple Steps towards Equitable Online Courses [Archived]
Get PDFIt is well-known that academic life can be very stressful for students. We are currently in the middle of a pandemic and living in a time of deep social reflection and transformation, which has brought a new level of stress to our students, who are experiencing it in different ways. This is impacting all learning environments, including online courses. Approaches for making online courses more inclusive have been discussed extensively, but we are still learning how to go about achieving equitable courses. This article will highlight lessons learned from teaching experiences and from listening to students, including the importance of observing and identifying the factors contributing to the increased stress that students in your online course may be facing. It will also discuss simple strategies to help all your students achieve academic success
What Are These Things Doing in the Library? How a Library of Things Can Engage and Delight a Community
Get PDFOn the surface, the difference between a Library of Things collection and any other collection in the library lies in the materials. We see traditional library collections as books, periodicals, sound recordings, video recordings, and the digital versions of these formats. A Library of Things can be anything beyond this, from air fryers and board games to fishing poles and Arduino kits. But if you look more closely, you begin to see that a Library of Things engages a community in a fundamentally different way than many of our traditional collections do. Through this unconventional engagement, libraries with special collections find new ways to have a meaningful impact on their communities. Good library collections do a number of things: they teach and instruct; they are representative and inclusive; they provide equal and open access to information; and they entertain. Special collections can certainly do all this, but they also afford us a unique opportunity to interact with our patrons through the materials we lend out. Certainly, some of the excitement for starting a Library of Things comes from the freedom to experiment and try out new models of lending, but there is the additional responsibility for us to make sure these collections are in alignment with the needs of our communities. When the Hillsboro Public Library was deciding on what to include in our collection of Things, we carefully considered our library’s mission and strategic goals, asked our patrons what they wanted to see in the collection, and did our best to ensure that these items would be as accessible as possible. Once the collection launched, we discovered that a Library of Things begins a dialogue with patrons, as they share with us their feedback, experiences, and ideas. We started hearing about the projects people were working on, what tools they needed, and what items they had lying around their homes that they wanted to donate to us for other people to use. While circulation numbers can tell part of a collection’s story, what really informs the success of a Library of Things and the impact it has on a community is how much the people we serve embrace it and make it their own
Manlio Graziano, What is a Border?
Get PDFReview Essay:Manlio Graziano, What is a Border? Stanford Briefs, 2018
Migration’s Alienations: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage
Get PDFBrecht’s so-called anti-war drama Mother Courage and her Children (1939) will be read as a migration drama that demystifies rhetorical cynicism as a coping device for the traumatic torments of migration. By placing Brecht’s work in the context of Peter Sloterdijk’s theory of cynicism, our reading demonstrates how this work adds further perspectives to Thomas Nail’s recent theory of migration and to the discussion of the play’s theatrical production