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Copyright: Protecting Yours, Fair Use of Others
No full textConfused about copyright? Do you know if you hold copyrights to your own work or wondering how to use copyrighted materials in your teaching?
Copyright is a valuable asset for academic authors, so it benefits faculty and grad students to have a basic understanding of copyright and an awareness of their options for publishing, posting, and distributing their scholarship. When properly managed, copyright provides a powerful mechanism for ensuring the greatest possible impact for your scholarship.
The first part of this workshop will focus on reviewing publishing contracts and discussing a widely used tool to help ensure the broadest reach for your work
Experience Choreographed Through Light: Exploring the Emotive Nature of Daylighting
No full textWinston Churchill once said, “First we shape our buildings, thereafter, they shape us”. This speaks both to how we design a building, and to the effect that design has on us. The challenge that is presented to us as architects is to develop a design concept that combines both the technical and aesthetic requirements of an environment. This may sound simple enough, however designing spaces that are visually intriguing, comfortable, and psychologically satisfying is indeed a challenge. This paper discusses light as the most powerful material and design tool we have as architects, and one that is not always thought of first as a solution to many, if not all aspects of this task. By manipulating light in a way that harnesses moments of tranquility or creates an emotive experience, we transform a space. The intensity, focus, color, and even source of the light, has the ability to change the environment around us. This paper highlights case studies and research of successful spaces and experiences from around the world, challenging some common design practices of today. The relationship of light quality to the quality of our experience of place and space must be considered in the environments we create. How light is used to reveal, reflect, and enhance our environment is in direct relationship to place, culture, and individual needs. If we used natural light as the primary strategy in the design process, it would result in spaces to which we can relate to, experience, and emotionally connect with as participants of an environment, instead of merely occupants
Wertz Art + Architecture Library
No full textThe Wertz Art + Architecture Library needs more recognition from the Miami student population. The main objective of my thesis is an awareness campaign for the library, to not only help students find the library but also understand the available resources as well. This includes an informational brochure, wayfinding and signage, promotional material, and participatory events to get students involved in creating and promoting the library space. A secondary objective is to identify, understand and anticipate what students want and need from the Wertz Art + Architecture Library. By gathering data and surveying students I hope to help promote the needs of students.
In the end, the library should be a welcoming, studious and inspirational space making students want to come back to study time and time again
Comparative Education Tier 3 Reflection
No full textThe Comparative Education Tier 3 Reflection details the educational experience of students of the middle school age in various areas of Southwest Ohio as well as Europe. Specifically, conclusions are drawn based on research and observation to compare educational systems in Austria, Luxembourg, and the United States. Topics such as special needs treatment, student engagement, cultural differences, and technology are included
Layer City: Redesign Skyscrapers
Get PDFMy thesis is dealing with the urban construction---skyscrapers,nowadays, the urban fabric is pronominally skyscraper driven in major cities. I started my paper from my own city experience. While the skyscraper in New York City is a passive existence to fulfill density demand, most of the world’s big cities are building skyscraper purposefully other than functionally. This is the main reason that causes rampant consumerism within City of Beijing. Culture heritages are now gradually replaced by decorative buildings in order to obtain the title of “metropolis”. Skyscraper is more a political measure. The concept of metropolis is developed from tribe, where in the ancient times people gathered together to exchange stuff and communicate with others. Therefore, city has nothing to do with skyscraper, building skyscraper is just one of many solutions to solve the density problem. Furthermore, skyscraper is causing chaos and disconnecting us from urban fabric by vertically heighten us above the cityscape, which further on disconnecting culture connectivity that sustains a healthy city. In order to fully realize the relationship between architecture culture and humanity, it’s necessary to utilize certain features that are overlooked in current cities, such as horizontality compactness interacting with streetscapes, façade development depth, and enhance horizontal circulation between skyscrapers. Therefore, by adding multiple layers to skyscraper not only enhance communication within the city, but also provide buildings sufficient sunlight, through my research, I am looking to redesign skyscrapers to create a better living experience in the future
Maps of Ohio's 85 Plus Population by County 1990-2050
No full textMaps of Ohio showing the change in the 85 plus population (reported and projected) from 1990 through 2050
Striking Up A Conversation, Striking Up A Victory: Engaging Faculty in Scholarly Communication
No full textThe concepts “open access” and “scholarly communication” have become inseparable from the library landscape. Librarians are increasingly aware of the issues inherent in these concepts, but faculty have been slower to understand their importance. Traditional communications with faculty couldn’t keep pace with evolving trends in scholarly communication, so we created a faculty learning community to generate awareness. This community has been the most successful method of increasing faculty understanding about these issues across our campus
Revolution Remixxx 2011: Protest Song Marocaine
Get PDFIn late 2010, those of us interested in the Middle East were surprised by persistent protests in Tunisia.
My family and I were evacuated from Cairo on February 2, 2011. I returned to Egypt on February 13,
and a week later, a major day of rage started the revolution in Morocco, with large protests breaking out
in all major cities and even many minor ones. Like millions, I avidly watched the music videos and
music clips that supported and resulted from the protests in Tunis and Cairo. In particular, I checked the
Internet for news from Morocco. I was unsurprised to see Moroccans taking part in massive protests. I
was also not surprised to see them using songs and chants. What did surprise me was the presence of
one song
E-Books in Ohio: What's a Librarian To Do?
Get PDFPresentation about managing PDA e-books given at the ALAO CMIG Workshop on March 22, 2013