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Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media (open access)

Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media

This article examines the work of media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman in the wake of participatory media.
Date: 2015
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

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This book chapter focuses on the use of ereaders as a learning tool to motivate and engage students, support content learning, and promote literacy development across content areas.
Date: 2015
Creator: Fang, Zhihui; Eutsler, Lauren; Coatoam Chapman, Suzanne & Qi, Yang
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Engaging Students Through Social Media: Evidence-Based Practices for Use in Student Affairs (open access)

Book Review: Engaging Students Through Social Media: Evidence-Based Practices for Use in Student Affairs

Book review of "Engaging Students Through Social Media: Evidence-Based Practices for Use in Student Affairs" by Reynol Junco.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Cutright, William Marcus
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Improving Computer Science Education by D. M. Kadijevich, C. Angeli, and C. Schulte. (open access)

Book Review: Improving Computer Science Education by D. M. Kadijevich, C. Angeli, and C. Schulte.

Book Review of "Improving Computer Science Education" written by D. M. Kadijevich, C. Angeli, and C. Schulte.
Date: October 13, 2014
Creator: Lineros, Jose Victor
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics (open access)

Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics

This article reports that atomic layer deposition {0002}-textured ZnO films, with nanocolumnar grains and defective sub-stoichiometric structure, exhibit nanocrystalline plasticity and exceptionally low sliding friction and wear.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Mohseni, Hamidreza; Mensah, B. A.; Gupta, N.; Srinivasan, S. G. & Scharf, Thomas W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies (open access)

Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies

This article uses the example of the Arab Spring to discuss how new media lowers barriers so that more voices may be heard.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differential Growth Trajectories for Achievement Among Children Retained in First Grade: A Growth Mixture Model (open access)

Differential Growth Trajectories for Achievement Among Children Retained in First Grade: A Growth Mixture Model

Article discussing a growth mixture model and differential growth trajectories for achievement among children retained in first grade.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Chen, Qi; Hughes, Jan N. & Kwok, Oi-Man
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethical Leadership: A Texas School District's Efforts Toward Cultural Proficiency (open access)

Ethical Leadership: A Texas School District's Efforts Toward Cultural Proficiency

This article discusses the use of cultural competency training at a Texas school district to bring about openness in talking about issues of diversity.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Ezzani, Miriam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals (open access)

Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals

This article describes implications for school leadership and the need for preservice and continuing professional development concerning all aspects of response to intervention (RTI).
Date: March 2014
Creator: Bineham, Susan C.; Shelby, Liz; Pazey, Barbara L. & Yates, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: On Rereading (open access)

Book Review: On Rereading

Book review of "On Rereading" by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Date: 2014
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching Functional Communication to Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (open access)

Teaching Functional Communication to Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders

This book chapter focuses on functional communication, including procedures for establishing speech and the use of one or more augmentative and alternative communication modes.
Date: 2014
Creator: Lang, Russell; Sigafoos, Jeff; van der Meer, Larah; Carnett, Amarie; Green, Vanessa A.; Lancioni, Giulio E. et al.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience (open access)

Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience

This article seeks to better understand to what extent the Individual Education Plan (IEP) adequately prepared one girl for major life transitions following high-school graduation.
Date: October 2013
Creator: Sayman, Donna M. & Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan Supplementation Increases Salivary IgA and Decreases Cold/Flu Symptomatic Days After Intense Exercise (open access)

Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan Supplementation Increases Salivary IgA and Decreases Cold/Flu Symptomatic Days After Intense Exercise

Article describes study which sought to determine if baker's yeast β-glucan (BG) could positively affect the immune system of individuals undergoing intense exercise stress.
Date: August 9, 2013
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Carpenter, Katie C.; Davidson, Tiffany & McFarlin, Meredith A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Philosopher and the Lecturer: John Dewey, Everett Dean Martin, and Reflective Thinking (open access)

The Philosopher and the Lecturer: John Dewey, Everett Dean Martin, and Reflective Thinking

This article examines the connection between John Dewey and Everett Dean Martin and explains why Martin's views may have resonated with Dewey and how they shared critical values pertaining to adult education.
Date: June 24, 2013
Creator: Day, Michael & Harbour, Clifford P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bringing Global and Multicultural Considerations into the Counseling Curriculum

Poster presented at the 2013 University Forum on Teaching & Learning at UNT. This poster describes the effectiveness of a peer co-constructed project involving multiple interviews. The interview data is compared, contrasted, and the similarities and differences are accounted for through the lens of lifespan development.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Schulz, Lisa L.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

International Perspectives Curriculum Project: EDAD 5680 Administration of the EC-12 Curriculum

Poster presented as part of the 2013 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses the international perspectives curriculum project. The project described in this poster was developed as part of the "Globalizing your Curriculum" Transformational Instructional Innovation (TII) Fellowship sponsored by the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and redesign (CLEAR) and UNT - International.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Stromberg, Linda
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Utilizing Emerging Technologies to Enhance Students' Engagement and Learning

This poster discusses using clickers to improve students' classroom engagement and gauge students' understanding of the course materials during lecture classes, introducing emerging technologies to improve students' learning experiences, and introducing exergames such as Wii Sports and Wii Fit to promote students' motivation and engagement.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Zhang, Tao
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder to Ask Questions: A Systematic Review (open access)

Teaching Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder to Ask Questions: A Systematic Review

This article provides a review involving a systematic search and analysis of studies aimed at teaching individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to ask questions.
Date: March 22, 2013
Creator: Raulston, Tracy; Carnett, Amarie; Lang, Russell; Tostanoski, Amy; Lee, Allyson; Machalicek, Wendy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Epitome of Counseling Ethics (open access)

The Epitome of Counseling Ethics

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses ethics in counseling, including the admiral qualities of courage that counselors must have to live by personal and professional ethical convictions.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Schroeder, Julianne
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efectos De La Violencia De Pareja en Mujeres Migrantes (open access)

Efectos De La Violencia De Pareja en Mujeres Migrantes

This article analyzes the relationship between partner violence, depression and maternal self-efficacy in migrant women.
Date: January 30, 2013
Creator: Delgadillo-Guzmán, Leonor Guadalupe; Vargas Cortez, Agustín; Nievar, Angela; Argüello Zepeda, José Francisco & González Villanueva, Leonor
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children's Physical Activity Levels and Psychological Correlates in Interactive Dance Versus Aerobic Dance (open access)

Children's Physical Activity Levels and Psychological Correlates in Interactive Dance Versus Aerobic Dance

This article compares children's physical activity levels, self-efficacy, and enjoyment when experiencing dance-exergaming and aerobic dance in physical education.
Date: January 16, 2013
Creator: Gao, Zan; Zhang, Tao & Stodden, David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Enlightenment Meets Twitter: Using Social Media in the Social Studies Classroom (open access)

The Enlightenment Meets Twitter: Using Social Media in the Social Studies Classroom

This article explains how social studies educators can, and have, used the microblogging service Twitter.
Date: 2013
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Milton, Michael K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

La Importancia De Promover La Educación Bilingüe Alrededor Del Mundo

Presentation promoting the importance of bilingual education on behalf of the National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE).
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Boyd, Rossana R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children’s Use of Comparative Text Signals: The Relationship between Age and Comprehension Ability (open access)

Children’s Use of Comparative Text Signals: The Relationship between Age and Comprehension Ability

This article examines age differences in children and young adolescents' use of comparative text signals in order to gain insights into the development of signaling knowledge.
Date: July 16, 2012
Creator: Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Ray, Melissa N. & Middlemiss, Wendy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library