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Librarianship and the Culture of Busy
Get PDFThere are not enough hours in a day. We’re busy, we’re pulled in many directions, our attention is needed on so many issues by so many people, and we’re worried about losing our life-balance. This is a fact of life for all of us. This is our environment. Realists know that this is not going away any time soon and that the only solution is to take personal responsibility for managing the busyness of our lives.
This constant state of “busy” has entered the fabric of our daily work culture in ways that are damaging to our organizations. Busyness is an increasingly acceptable way to (misguidedly) self-promote or seek recognition, and is used as an excuse to deflect important work and impede progress. The results are resentment among peers and damage to professional reputations
Chapter 10. Public Libraries
Get PDFCole, Becky and Pam Ryan. (2016). Chapter 10: Public Libraries. In Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle(Eds.), Being evidence based in library and information practice. London: Facet Press
The Black Lives Matter Movement: A Systemic Crisis that Expands Crisis Response Theory
Get PDFRelevance to Marketing Educators, Researchers, and/or Practitioners – In response to George Floyd’s death, a variety of organizations posted messages against racism and some began to openly support Black Lives Matter, often by name, in their corporate communication initiatives. With promises of financial commitments to uplift Black communities, calls for action, and initiatives to support internal change—large and small companies, non-profits and universities—could be perceived as courageous for establishing new protocols to support such a warranted change. However, in the era of “woke washing,” or inauthentic social justice messaging, the need to assess the authenticity of corporate statements of support to social justice causes has become increasingly imperative to support both social justice causes and corporate outcomes
Chapter 10. Public Libraries
Get PDFCole, Becky and Pam Ryan. (2016). Chapter 10: Public Libraries. In Denise Koufogiannakis and Alison Brettle(Eds.), Being evidence based in library and information practice. London: Facet Press
Student creativity in assessment of an anatomy and physiology subject: the digi-explanation
Get PDFWe co-teach first year anatomy and physiology to 320 allied health students studying 4 different programs (Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech Pathology, and Sport and Exercise Science). The cohort is comprised of just over half first-in-family students, with diverse academic backgrounds, as evidenced by a broad range of university entrance scores (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) 99.95-35, with just under half of ATAR 87 or lower). Historically the subject has been characterised by student disengagement, and a high failure rate. As part of a continuing strategy to address these issues, we included a group based digi-explanation (which involves the students making a video) in the assessment regime. Digi-explanations harness the skills and creativity students already possess in terms of being able to manipulate digital resources for social purposes. Groups of 4-6 students were tasked with producing a 3 minute video which explained a specific topic covered in the subject. The topics were tailored for the different cohorts to increase relevance of the exercise for the students. Instructional documentation was produced to assist the students in this process. Students could assemble a composite video from public domain materials, or film and produce an entirely original video. Most groups used a mix of public domain materials and original footage for their videos. Students were surveyed regarding their digi-explanation experiences and 75% of students found the exercise was useful for exploring their understanding of the material, and that it increased the relevance of the material to their degree
Complex-Distance Potential Theory and Hyperbolic Equations
Full text linkAn extension of potential theory in R^n is obtained by continuing the
Euclidean distance function holomorphically to C^n. The resulting Newtonian
potential is generated by an extended source distribution D(z) in C^n whose
restriction to R^n is the delta function. This provides a natural model for
extended particles in physics. In C^n, interpreted as complex spacetime, D(z)
acts as a propagator generating solutions of the wave equation from their
initial values. This gives a new connection between elliptic and hyperbolic
equations that does not assume analyticity of the Cauchy data. Generalized to
Clifford analysis, it induces a similar connection between solutions of
elliptic and hyperbolic Dirac equations. There is a natural application to the
time-dependent, inhomogeneous Dirac and Maxwell equations, and the
`electromagnetic wavelets' introduced previously are an example.Comment: 25 pages, submited to Proceedings of 5th Intern. Conf. on Clifford
Algebras, Ixtapa, June 24 - July 4, 199
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