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Sports Organizations in Social Media
Get PDFThe research I will be conducting is how sports organizations can effectively use social media to grow their social media platforms, fan base, branding and even selling their merchandise. By using social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, to gather information that will help gain fan engagement, tracking followers etc. By using quantitative methods to help us reach our goal we can count on how this will increase social activity and an increase in attendance for sports. This quantitative research can give insights in social media and how it can be a very beneficial tool for reaching a targeted audience with our sports brands
AI-Powered Storytelling and Interactive Timelines for Arts and Humanities Education
Get PDFThe integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education has opened avenues for transformative teaching and learning experiences, particularly in the arts and humanities. This submission explores the development of two AI-driven classroom tools: Chabot and interactive timelines. These tools immerse students in storytelling and historical exploration, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The Chabot simulates conversations with historical figures or cultural narrators, providing AI-generated responses enriched with contextual details and multimedia content. The interactive timeline offers dynamic visualizations of historical events, enhanced by AI-generated summaries, audio clips, and visual aids. These tools integrate project-based learning methodologies, promoting critical thinking, creativity, and cultural understanding. Ethical considerations, such as reducing AI bias and ensuring cultural sensitivity, are central to their design. This study evaluates the tools\u27 effectiveness through classroom implementation and case studies, demonstrating their potential to make arts and humanities education more inclusive and interdisciplinary. By bridging AI with humanities, these innovations aim to equip students with forward-thinking skills essential for an AI-driven world.
A link to a video of Bhavya Raoulji\u27s presentation can be found below in the Additional Files section
Till You\u27ve Lost It (April 9-12, 2025)
Get PDFEvent program for Till You\u27ve Lost It (April 9-12, 2025), Lindenwood University.
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Till You\u27ve Lost It (April 9-12, 2025)
No full text“Till You’ve Lost It,” is a modern-day story about three couples who are all losing something important. To make matters worse, an unknown creature flies above their world. The play explores how they each face this shadow, and whether they can overcome it to find what they have lost.
This devised production highlights the profound impact of losing something meaningful. It suggests that the true appreciation of something, whether it’s mental health, freedom, a relationship, or even time, often comes only after it’s gone
Student Self-Assessment of Learning to Foster Improved Self-Reflection of Learning and Academic Achievement
Get PDFThroughout her career and most notably post-pandemic, the scholar practitioner observed an increase in students giving up when encountering rigorous academic content and assignments. During the research process, concepts of student agency and self-regulation of learning, which were new to the scholar practitioner, came to the forefront of skills her students either lacked or needed to improve upon. Empathy generators were gathered for participants at Context School #1, which led to Student agency and self-regulation of learning becoming the center of the intervention during the design thinking process. The Self-Assessment of Learning, created and modified during the design thinking phases, asked participants to rate their response on a scale of 1-5 for five areas: engagement, persistence, motivation, time management, and understanding. Additionally, participants were asked to answer open-ended questions about their current learning habits. Participants at the two high schools the scholar practitioner taught completed an initial Self-Assessment of Learning as part of the regular classroom routines to gather baseline data. Over six weeks, the scholar practitioner embedded mini life-long learning skills lessons into the regular classroom routine to encourage students to engage in student agency and practice self-reflection of learning. Participants completed the Post-Self-Assessment of Learning to measure differences in pre- and post-intervention scores. Quantitative data results revealed changes in persistence, time management, engagement, and motivation, but not in understanding. Observations made by the scholar practitioner indicated participants were more active in their learning and academic goal-setting from pre- to post-intervention. Observation data suggested that high-scoring participants (4-5 on a 1-5 scale) appeared to have made connections to the real world which may have boosted confidence in other measured areas. However, those who scored low (1-3 on a 1-5 scale) were more negative in their written responses than their high-scoring counterparts. The scholar practitioner observed that peer-to-peer collaboration appeared to help participants engage their student agency and gain academic confidence. The six-week intervention time was short, but even with the short time the scholar practitioner observed positive changes in the participants which was supported by the quantitative data for four of the five areas. The scholar practitioner continued to use the mini-lessons and academic goalsetting as regular classroom routines. Future research may include peer-to-peer interactions with feedback opportunities and lengthening the intervention time
Definitively Unfinished: Abraham Cruzvillegas’ Autoconstrucción, Disability Aesthetics, and Crip Materiality
No full textAbraham Cruzvillegas’ Autoconstrucción project is the sculptural manifestation of an approach to artmaking rooted in the self-built and continually evolving forms of the neighborhood where Cruzvillegas grew up (Colonia Ajusco near Mexico City). While it might seem surprising to draw a comparison between the forms of Autoconstrucción and Disability Studies, and while Cruzvillegas does not literally depict the disabled human form, Autoconstrucción resonates deeply with this critical space. Disability Aesthetics, in Tobin Siebers’ formulation, is “an attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture.” Similarly, Jessica Cooley’s Crip Materiality is a methodology that “locates disability in the material noncompliance of art objects.” Together, Disability Aesthetics and Crip Materiality present a new way of considering Autoconstrucción, revealing the ways its roots in self-building, improvisation, and the “unfinished” subvert the ableist standards of beauty, fit-ness, and rationality. The deliberate “imperfections” of Autoconstrucción and its intentional emphasis on deviating from the traditionally accepted ideal of what an artwork is or how it is constructed, draw parallels to explorations of human variation and difference
Mary Kay Reimagined
Get PDFThis project is taking the brand Mary Kay and turning it into a new brand that would be enticing to younger generations and become a staple in everyone and anyone’s routines. Mary Kay was a huge makeup brand in the 1990s and early 2000s, but the cosmetic industry has grown tremendously, and Mary Kay has fallen behind. They mostly target the older generations, the generations that were supporting them in the 1990s and 2000s. They need to expand their target range and get younger consumers to pay attention to them. With updated packaging, new marketing and a new way to reach consumers, Mary Kay has the chance of becoming a big name in the makeup industry again