Assisting rural domestic violence victims: The local librarian's role

With proper training, librarians could be ideal partners to combat domestic abuse in rural areas. This article examines the specific needs of domestic violence victims in rural areas where shelters and legal services are often limited, explains the role of unauthorized practice of law policies, and highlights successful library initiatives that model how such programs might work.Ope

@PublicForum: The Argument for a Public Forum Analysis of Government Officials\u27 Social Media Accounts

While citizens have historically marched on the streets or protested in parks to take advantage of the First Amendment, citizens in the modern world have often turned to social media to communicate their ideas and concerns to their government representatives. As new spaces for expressive activity come to light with the development of technology, courts are tasked with determining how to properly analyze government-controlled spaces on social media. This Note will examine the various approaches courts have taken to analyzing government officials’ social media accounts and will argue that Supreme Court precedent and the pluralist theory of democracy support subjecting the interactive spaces on government social media accounts to public forum analysis in order to limit the government’s ability to discriminate based on viewpoint and to provide a cause of action against the government when citizens’ speech is suppressed online

Combatting predatory publishing

This panel, comprised of copyright and scholarly communication experts, will address an inherent contradiction in academic publishing: scholars want to share their work and need to obtain citation counts and other metrics provided by conglomerates such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, but they often violate copyright restrictions when posting published work to these websites. The panel will discuss author’s rights and basic copyright rules, why academia.edu and ResearchGate have been labeled “predatory” by the panel, and how to combat predatory practices through knowledge of your rights, copyright negotiation with publishers, institutional repositories, and open access

Behind the Cape: The Black Superwoman, Colorism, and Professional Identity Development

Behind the Cape: The Black Superwoman, Colorism, and Professional Identity Developmen

Perceptions and Use of Teaching Strategies for Fundamental Movement Skills in Primary School Physical Education Programs

Fundamental motor/movement skills (FMS) describe the basic skills necessary to complete physical tasks, and are a key aspect of primary school physical education (PE) programs. Yet, specific teaching styles for FMS development have been relatively unexplored. Through a mixed-methods design, experiences and perceptions of different PE teachers (preservice, specialist, and generalist) were explored. The Spectrum of Teaching Styles (STS) survey was used to quantify self-reported use of teaching styles that may be used by PE teachers (N = 102). Semi-structured, qualitative interviews with a subset of participants (N = 11) were employed to explore how PE teachers perceive FMS development in PE classes. Combined, the findings highlight a preference for collaborative approaches to teaching and learning in PE, with a specific preference for explicit teaching strategies. Survey results demonstrated a preference for Style B (the practice style), which promotes teacher facilitation of activities and constructive feedback, with opportunities for students to practice skills and receive feedback. Teachers described how confidence with PE content influences the ability to provide lessons that target FMS development; this was reinforced by desires for additional professional development and training. Together, the findings provide a holistic view of teaching styles used in PE for FMS development, and outline a need to explore teaching approaches used by different PE teachers