653 research outputs found

    The Use of Spinning Wheel Games to Improve Students’ Writing Procedural Texts

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    Most of the students' ability to write in English is still poor. Their text contains many errors in content, organization, and use of language. Students find it difficult to explain their ideas in written form, and students lack vocabulary, which can make it difficult to choose words to group into good writing. some teachers still find it difficult to apply media during learning this makes the class atmosphere less lively and makes them bored. the purpose of this research is to find out whether utilizing Spinning Wheel is effective or not in improving students’ writing Procedure Text. The method used in this research is descriptive research. I found a solution by describing the problem qualitatively. The end result is a game that imitates the Spinning Wheel Game while teaching English writing techniques that can increase students' interest, challenge their thinking and enable them to produce procedural texts while playing. The spinning wheel was used after the researcher explained the material about the procedure text. Students are asked to make groups and each group gets a different theme. themes are randomized with spinning wheel games by web wheelofnames.com. Therefore, the game is one of the tools that can be used in learning English, there are many learning media for learning writing skills. One game that can be used is Spinning Wheel. By using games students can learn to write procedure texts in a fun and interesting way. The spinning wheel game can be chosen as a tool for students to write procedure texts correctly and clearly. This game has been evaluated by several researchers and high school students. This game is very helpful in learning to write procedure text. These games can make students challenge their way of thinking, fun and enjoyable

    The Eye in Motion: Mid-Victorian Fiction and Moving-Image Technologies

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    This thesis reads selected works of fiction by three mid-Victorian writers (Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot) alongside contemporaneous innovations and developments in moving-image technologies, or what have been referred to by historians of film as ‘pre-cinematic devices’. It looks specifically at the moving panorama, diorama, dissolving magic lantern slides, the kaleidoscope, and persistence of vision devices such as the phenakistiscope and zoetrope, and ranges across scientific writing, journalism, letters, and paintings to demonstrate the scope and popularity of visual motion devices. By exploring this history of optical technologies I show how their display, mechanism, and manual operation contributed to a broader cultural and literary interest in the phenomenological experience of animation, decades before the establishment of cinematography as an industry, technology, and viewing practice. Through a close reading of a range of mid-Victorian novels, this thesis identifies and analyses the literary use of language closely associated with moving-image technologies to argue that the Victorian literary imagination reflected upon, drew from, and incorporated reference to visual and technological animation many decades earlier than critics, focusing usually on early twentieth-century cinema and modernist literature, have allowed. It develops current scholarship on Victorian visual culture and optical technologies by a close reading of the language of moving-image devices—found in advertisements, reviews, and descriptions of their physiological operation and spectacle—alongside the choices Victorian authors made to describe precisely how their characters perceived, how they imagined, remembered, and mentally relived particular scenes and images, and how the readers of their texts were encouraged to imaginatively ‘see’ the animated unfolding of the plot and the material dimensionality of its world through a shared understanding of this language of moving images

    Measuring the Scale Outcomes of Curriculum Materials

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    Design revolutions: IASDR 2019 Conference Proceedings. Volume 2: Living, Making, Value

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    In September 2019 Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University was honoured to host the bi-annual conference of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) under the unifying theme of DESIGN REVOLUTIONS. This was the first time the conference had been held in the UK. Through key research themes across nine conference tracks – Change, Learning, Living, Making, People, Technology, Thinking, Value and Voices – the conference opened up compelling, meaningful and radical dialogue of the role of design in addressing societal and organisational challenges. This Volume 2 includes papers from Living, Making and Value tracks of the conference

    Health promotion in youth as a global public health challenge: effective strategies to encourage healthy lifestyles

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    La combinació de més d'un strategia metodològica (com el màrqueting social, la participació de la joventut, l'educació dirigida per iguals i l'ús dels mitjans de comunicació social) i strategias de cambio de antorn (intervenció basada en l'escola, basada en la intervenció restaurant, basat en la família de la intervenció) pot augmentar l'eficàcia de involucrar els joves en les intervencions de salut destinades a fomentar hàbits i estils de vida saludables. Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu comprendre els factors que intervenen en l'epidèmia de l'obesitat juvenil a tot el món i com influeixen en l'obesitat. En resposta a aquest desafiament global, aquest treball proporciona estratègies basades en proves científiques innovadores, eficaces i de qualitat per millorar els estils de vida saludables entre els joves. Aquestes estratègies podrien donar lloc a un enfocament d'investigació més fort que podrien beneficiar tant a la comunitat científica i el coneixement general de les parts interessades i els responsables polítics, fomentant així un enfocament multidisciplinari participatiu i inclusiu per obtenir resultats duradors i eficaçosLa combinación de más de una estrategía metodológica (como el marketing social, la participación de la juventud, la educación dirigida por pares y el uso de los medios de comunicación social) y/o de una estrategia de cambio de entorno (intervención basada en la escuela, basada en la intervención restaurante, basado en la familia de la intervención) puede aumentar la eficacia de involucrar a los jóvenes en las intervenciones de salud destinadas a fomentar hábitos y estilos de vida saludables. Esta tesis tiene como objetivo comprender los factores que intervienen en la epidemia de la obesidad juvenil en todo el mundo. En respuesta a este desafío global, este trabajo proporciona estrategias basadas en pruebas científicas innovadoras, eficaces y de calidad para mejorar los estilos de vida saludables entre los jóvenes. Estas estrategias podrían dar lugar a un enfoque de investigaciónque podrían beneficiar tanto a la comunidad científica y el conocimiento general de las partes interesadas en prevenir este problema así como a responsables políticos, fomentando así un enfoque multidisciplinario participativo e inclusivo para obtener resultados duraderos y eficaces.The combination of more than one methodological (such as social marketing, youth involvement, peer-led education and social media usage) and environmental (school-based intervention, restaurant-based intervention, family-based-intervention) strategy may increase the effectiveness of engaging young people in health interventions aimed at encouraging healthy habits and lifestyles. This thesis aims to understand the factors involved in the worldwide youth obesity epidemic and how they influence obesity. In response to this global challenge, this work provides innovative, effective and quality scientific evidence-based strategies for improving healthy lifestyles among young people. These strategies could lead to a stronger research approach that could benefit both the scientific community and the general knowledge of relevant stakeholders and policy makers, thus fostering a participatory and inclusive multidisciplinary approach for long-lasting and effective results

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    Inward and Onward: An Autoethnography on the Lived Experience of Love, Loss, and Grief in a Doctoral Program

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    While research around attrition during doctoral programs exists, the lived experience of grief during a doctoral program has little footing in the current literature. This autoethnography examined the lived experience of one doctoral student, acting as both the researcher and the researched. The purpose of this study was to have a meaningful understanding of the broad grief process, and its impact on one doctoral student’s identity development through sharing, analyzing, and interpreting their most raw stories in an effort to name and normalize the challenges and opportunities related to doctoral program persistence and identity development. The following research questions were explored: Q1 What might I learn about the way that my life’s primary grief experience transformed my sense of identity as a doctoral student using autoethnography to evoke, recall, write about, and analyze my experiences and my reactions to them? Q2 What can doctoral students, program faculty, administrators and other stakeholders learn from my experience that may help students persist toward completion of their programs in the face of grief experiences of their own? Exploration and analysis uncovered themes related to academic persistence, identity development, and completion with regard to living through a grief experience during a doctoral program. This narrative description of the lived experience of grief may illuminate often taken-for-granted elements of a student’s grief experience, and the overall potential prevalence for grief in doctoral students. The author offers insight into ways that doctoral program stakeholders may better understand and support grieving doctoral students
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