57 research outputs found
EC74-210 Swine Diet Suggestions
Extension Circular 74-210: University of Nebraska-Swine diet suggestions; protein, minerals, and vitamin in swine diet. Feed additives, feed grains, methods of feeding, and diets for various classes of swine
An exploration of occupation in nursing home residents with dementia
Objectives: This study evaluated the sitting room environment of two nursing homes
in Ireland, using interactive occupation and social engagement as outcome measures
and defining these rooms as occupational spaces.
Method: Snapshot observational recordings were made in the main sitting rooms
during the periods of time when the rooms were in most active use. Narrative
information was also recorded.
Results: Residents were more likely to occupy their time in the main sitting room
passively, rather than in interactive occupation and social engagement. The nursing
home residents with dementia spent approximately 70% of their daily time in the
main sitting room areas in states of occupational disengagement.
Discussion: Additional insight is provided through pragmatic narrative descriptions
of the functioning of the main sitting room environment in terms of interactive
occupation and social engagement.
Relevance: The research study demonstrates a methodology for evaluating the
sitting room areas of a care environment, using interactive occupation and social
engagement as outcome measures,which can be used for descriptive and comparative
insights into the performance of care environments
Defining a self-evaluation digital literacy framework for secondary educators: the DigiLit Leicester project
Despite the growing interest in digital literacy within educational policy, guidance for secondary educators in terms of how digital literacy translates into the classroom is lacking. As a result, many teachers feel ill-prepared to support their learners in using technology effectively. The DigiLit Leicester project created an infrastructure for holistic, integrated change, by supporting staff development in the area of digital literacy for secondary school teachers and teaching support staff. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the critique of existing digital literacy frameworks enabled a self-evaluation framework for practitioners to be developed. Crucially, this framework enables a co-operative, partnership approach to be taken to pedagogic innovation. Moreover, it enables social and ethical issues to underpin a focus on teacher-agency and radical collegiality inside the domain of digital literacy. Thus, the authors argue that the shared development framework constitutes a new model for implementing digital literacy aimed at transforming the provision of secondary education across a city
Tapping into the information landscape: Refugee youth enactment of information literacy in everyday spaces
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Libraries and open society; Popper, Soros and digital information
This paper examines the role of libraries and information services, in promoting the ‘open society’ espoused by Karl Popper and George Soros. After a brief discussion of the nature of an ‘open society’, the paper covers the role played by provision of knowledge and information, of new technology, particularly the Internet, and of critical thinking and digital literacy in the development of this form of society. Conclusions are drawn for the role of libraries and librarians, with seven general principles suggested:
• provision of access to a wide variety of sources without ‘negative’ restriction or censorship
• provision of ‘positive’ guidance on sources, based on open and objective criteria
• a recognition that a ‘free flow of information’ though essential, is not sufficient
• a recognition that provision of factual information, while valuable, is not enough
• a need for a specific concern for the effect of new ICTs, and the Internet in particular
• promotion of critical thinking and digital literacy
• a need for explicit consideration of the ethical values of librarie
Information and digital literacies; a review of concepts
A detailed literature reviewing, analysing the multiple and confusing concepts around the ideas of information literacy and digital literacy at the start of the millennium. The article was well-received, and is my most highly-cited work, with over 1100 citations
EC74-212 Breeding Herd Management
Extension Circular 74-212: University of Nebraska-Breeding Herd Management; factors affecting litter size, sow & gilt management - pre-breeding period, gilt & sow management-breeding period, sow and gilt management-gestation period, and boar management
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