scholarly journals UNLV Special Collections in the Twenty-First Century

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
First Century ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Twenty First Century

University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Special Collections is consistently striving to provide several avenues of discovery to its diverse range of patrons. Specifically, UNLV Special Collections has planned and implemented several online tools to facilitate unearthing treasures in the collections. These online tools incorporate Web 2.0 features as well as searchable interfaces to collections.

scholarly journals Book Review: Archives Alive: Expanding Engagement with Public Library Archives and Special Collections

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Melanie Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Rare Books

In Archives Alive, Diantha Dow Schull expertly demonstrates the strength, vitality, and importance of rare books, special collections, and archives departments located in public libraries rather than academic or research libraries. Schull’s purpose is two-fold. First, she demonstrates the breadth and depth of special collections in public libraries; second, she demonstrates how twenty-first-century special collections departments work, frequently with technology, to increase engagement with the publics they serve. The scope is limited to special collections departments in American public libraries, but within these parameters, coverage is exhaustive and strikes an appropriate balance between activities at large, well-funded institutions and smaller departments with more modest resources.

Teacher Professional Development for Twenty-First Century Literacies

2018 ◽  
pp. 292-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charalambos Vrasidas ◽  
Katerina Theodoridou
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Professional Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
First Century ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Sound Learning

Preparing teachers to effectively integrate ICT in their literacies teaching, requires well-designed professional development based on sound learning design. This chapter presents the component of teacher professional development based on a blended mode of training through the integration of online tools, as it was designed and implemented in three European-funded projects that dealt with the promotion of literacies. The authors present the projects, their synergies, discuss lessons learnt and provide recommendations on how teacher professional development can be enhanced, so that teachers can be better prepared to address the evolving trends of ICT in teaching and learning.

Finding common ground in God’s story: Experiencing Luke 7:36–50 with the first-century hearers

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-239
Author(s):  
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
First Century ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
Christ Followers ◽  
Twenty First Century

Luke designed the narrative of Luke 7:36–50 in a way that heightens the tension for his first-century audience. The polarity emphasized in the narrative—a sinful woman at a Pharisee’s dinner table—corresponds well to the experience of first-century Christians who share meal fellowship with a diverse range of Christ-followers. This expository retelling highlights elements in the structure and rhetoric of Luke’s storytelling in order to help twenty-first-century readers of this passage understand how early hearers would have experienced the story.

scholarly journals Preparing Young Writers for Invoking and Addressing Today’s Interactive Digital Audiences

2013 ◽  
pp. 54-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa McGrail ◽  
J. Patrick McGrail
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Fifth Graders ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Interactive Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Twenty First Century

Twenty-first century technologies, in particular the Internet and Web 2.0 applications, have transformed the practice of writing and exposed it to interactivity. One interactive method that has received a lot of critical attention is blogging. The authors sought to understand more fully whom young bloggers both invoked in their blogging (their idealized, intentional audience) and whom they addressed (whom they actually blogged to, following interactive posts). They studied the complete, yearlong blog histories of fifteen fifth-graders, with an eye toward understanding how these students constructed audiences and modified them, according to feedback they received from teachers as well as peers and adults from around the world. The authors found that these students, who had rarely or never blogged before, were much more likely to respond to distant teachers, pre-service teachers, and graduate students than to their own classroom teachers or peers from their immediate classroom. The bloggers invoked/addressed their audiences differently too, depending on the roles that they had created for their audiences and themselves. The authors explore how and why this came to be the case with young writers.

scholarly journals Twenty-first-century projections of shoreline change along inlet-interrupted coastlines

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janaka Bamunawala ◽  
Roshanka Ranasinghe ◽  
Ali Dastgheib ◽  
Robert J. Nicholls ◽  
A. Brad Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shoreline Change ◽  
Sediment Supply ◽  
First Century ◽  
Anthropogenic Influences ◽  
Tidal Inlets ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Coastal Adaptation ◽  
Rcp 8.5 ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Support Evidence

AbstractSandy coastlines adjacent to tidal inlets are highly dynamic and widespread landforms, where large changes are expected due to climatic and anthropogenic influences. To adequately assess these important changes, both oceanic (e.g., sea-level rise) and terrestrial (e.g., fluvial sediment supply) processes that govern the local sediment budget must be considered. Here, we present novel projections of shoreline change adjacent to 41 tidal inlets around the world, using a probabilistic, reduced complexity, system-based model that considers catchment-estuary-coastal systems in a holistic way. Under the RCP 8.5 scenario, retreat dominates (90% of cases) over the twenty-first century, with projections exceeding 100 m of retreat in two-thirds of cases. However, the remaining systems are projected to accrete under the same scenario, reflecting fluvial influence. This diverse range of response compared to earlier methods implies that erosion hazards at inlet-interrupted coasts have been inadequately characterised to date. The methods used here need to be applied widely to support evidence-based coastal adaptation.

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