Developing Teachers as Leaders

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Clearing the air

This edition of the Western Australian Journal of Agriculture contains an exchange of letters between 20 farmers and myself, prompted by the article by Ross Kingwell in the last issue of the Journal (Volume 34, No. 4, 1993). The article was entitled \u27Agriculture\u27s Economic Performance\u27, and dealt with some of the economic forces in agriculture, including the terms of trade, productivity growth and the growth of exports. However, it is evident from the following letter and from other comments that the worthwhile content of the article was negated by some unfortunate phrasing, and a too compressed treatment of a complex subject. This is the letter to me signed by 20 farmers in the Northern Agricultural Regio

Multimodal Learning in a Post-Truth World

The English classroom has become challenging in this age. Not only are teachers expected to instruct students in the specifics of standard university English concepts and requirements but must also now combat post-truth. It is imperative that students are taught critical thinking to decipher what news is ethical and what is fake, while combatting implicit biases when choosing what to write in essays and projects to produce honest and trustworthy products. Students are often confronted with misinformation and without critical knowledge of how to analyze what they see and hear. They are vulnerable to consume and accept any information encountered. The aim of our project is to answer the question of how instructors can confront the concern of how to combat post-truth in the classroom. Especially when there is a significant lack of coverage of this topic in current curriculum. Our team conducted research on the topic to find effective ways to teach post-truth literacy with the help of digital tools. We examined current pedagogical approaches to the problem throughout national college curriculums. Not only did we find the tools, but we also discovered the issues of post-truth, fake news, and biases in the classroom. Our research uncovered that an effective way to reduce post-truth rhetoric is through multimodality. These texts offer a range of interaction through a variety of modes that allow students to experience and understand how they may be affected by fake news. By taking advantage of multimodal texts, teachers will have the capability to create a learning environment that is full of critical and ethical thinking for any discipline

Male-Female Wage-Gap: A Comparison of Different Employment Classes

This study is being conducted and presented in two parts. The first part, this report, is a statistical examination of the male-female wage gap. By evaluating the average (mean) differences between men and women within the workplace, pay differential trends can be ascertained and examined to support the need for additional study. The second stage, to be conducted Fall 2014 at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, will use regression analysis to differentiate between explained and unexplained portions of said pay-gap to better understand how the remaining gap is related to discrimination. The data analyzed will establish baselines for both real and nominal wages, then examine classes of worker, e.g., governmental, private for-profit companies, or private non-profit companies, and finally, look at the effect of union coverage of the gender pay-gap

Gypsy moth in Minnesota: the early years

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Guest Artist Recital: Matthew Muneses Quintet

Kemp Recital HallSeptember 24, 2014Wednesday Evening8:00 p.m

Sustaining Computer Use and Learning in Community Computing Contexts: Making Technology Part of Who They are and What They Do

In this paper, we describe our work promoting technological sustainability among community organizations in Centre County, Pennsylvania (USA). We define sustainability as a dynamic process in which IT professionals, designers, and researchers work with community groups in ways that give them greater control over technology in their organization. Promoting sustainability involves finding ways of encouraging technology learning and planning in community groups. We report on the efforts of a community organization (CentreConnect) that works with area nonprofits to promote IT adoption and a participatory design research project (Civic Nexus) aimed at helping community groups use technology to solve problems that they think are important. We report on a joint effort to provide web design training for area nonprofits using this shared experience to consider ways of bridging research and practice when addressing sustainability in community computing contexts

Evaluation of Thermal Control Coatings for Flexible Ceramic Thermal Protection Systems

This report summarizes the evaluation and testing of high emissivity protective coatings applied to flexible insulations for the Reusable Launch Vehicle technology program. Ceramic coatings were evaluated for their thermal properties, durability, and potential for reuse. One of the major goals was to determine the mechanism by which these coated blanket surfaces become brittle and try to modify the coatings to reduce or eliminate embrittlement. Coatings were prepared from colloidal silica with a small percentage of either SiC or SiB6 as the emissivity agent. These coatings are referred to as gray C-9 and protective ceramic coating (PCC), respectively. The colloidal solutions were either brushed or sprayed onto advanced flexible reusable surface insulation blankets. The blankets were instrumented with thermocouples and exposed to reentry heating conditions in the Ames Aeroheating Arc Jet Facility. Post-test samples were then characterized through impact testing, emissivity measurements, chemical analysis, and observation of changes in surface morphology. The results show that both coatings performed well in arc jet tests with backface temperatures slightly lower for the PCC coating than with gray C-9. Impact testing showed that the least extensive surface destruction was experienced on blankets with lower areal density coatings