...The archive file of BSA 400 Week 5 Discussion Questions consists of: DQ1: One of the major issues in adopting an SOA approach is that the standards are still evolving. Discuss the pros and cons of implementing an enterprise system prior to the development of well-established standards. What do you foresee as problems within your own organization? DQ2: Based on Cork’s (2007) article, what are the seven steps to success when implementing an ERP system? Do you agree? Back up your opinion. Deadline: ( ), Computer Science - General Computer Science Group Project: MiniQuest Database Objective | Overview | Case Project Overview | Needed Reports | Sample Data | Some Known Assumptions | What Your Team will be Required to Do | Task 1 (Due at the end of Week 3) | Task 2 (Due at the end of Week 4) | Task 3 (Due at the end of Week 5) | Task 4 (Due at the end of Week 6) | Task 5 (Due at the end of Week 7) | Submission of Tasks | Team Member Responsibilities | Assessment | Grading Rubrics Objective The project for CIS336 is designed to touch all aspects of the fundamental concepts of database design and logical data modeling covered during the class. The project is team centered and each team will be responsible for designing, developing, and demonstrating the functionality of a database created based on a defined set of business specifications. At the end of the session, each project team will submit the database...
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...Why is Visual Literacy Important? Traci Sizemore CGD 218 Visual Literacy in Business Stephen Simmons September 3, 2012 Why is Visual Literacy so Important? The ability to understand visual literacy you must be able to see your world, but is it the ability to just see things around you the clear definition of visual literacy? Of course not, it is much more than just being able to see. We will review the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) definition versus the information provided in a video “TedTalk” by Brian Kennedy, director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, how visual literacy is a universal language and finally how it impacts communication and global understanding. The International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) definition of what visual literacy is A group of vision-related competencies a human being can develop by seeing, and at the same time, having and integrating other sensory experiences. [These competencies] enable a visually literate person to discriminate and interpret the visible actions, objects, and symbols that he [or she] encounters . . . to communicate with others . . . and comprehend and enjoy visual communication. (International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA, n.d.) (Ryan, 2012). This definition is stating that one should see the object but be able to critically think about the object. By critically thinking about the object we can view the object; understand and interpret it. When we...
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...Ed Tech_LMS 3_Visual Preferences , Visual Literacy Introduction: You are still learning about Visuals as an instructional technology in education. This lesson presents reading materials on two concepts: A. Visual preferences among learners, and \2. Visual literacy as a concept. This lesson aims to: 1. Paraphrase the various visual preferences of learners. 2. Apply the information acquired on the visual preferences of learners to one’s instructional technology roles in a majorship or specialization. 3. Analyze reading materials that explain visual literacy. 4. Apply the concept of visual literacy in using visual tool to teach a specific learning competency. You will be given two days to submit your responses in this activity sheet. Good luck! _______________________________________________________________ Professional Education 10: Educational Technology Unit III. Visuals as Classical Technologies in Education Student: __________________________ Year & Section ______________ Area of Specialization / Majorship ______________Date Submitted: ________________ Concepts to be learned: A. Visual Preferences of Learners ...
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...“Is seeing, Believing?” – Visual Literacy Understanding Visual concepts, globally 2014 Visual literacy is important to understand what you are seeing. As kids we watch and mimic people because visually we learn he best by watching others. In the video, Brian Kennedy defines visual literacy as the ability to construct meaning from images. The video helps provide more validation by saying, 90% of all the info we take in from the world is taken in visually. This is a huge number. In the video Kennedy said that we take in visuals faster than we do text. While the textbook defines visual literacy with more empathizes on all the senses working together to understand. The text states that more than one sense is needed to understand what you are seeing. So, jus sight along can't provide you with a complete understanding of what you are seeing. I believe that in both definitions there are valid points. Understand the thought that is seeing does not mean believing. So, if you see and smell it - that could be believing it. If you hear it and see it, that could be believing it too. Also, that construction meaning of what you see from images is the understanding of visual literacy. Both valid points. I tend to believe and relate more with Brian Kennedy. Beside the fact that the video was very good, I agree with this terminology and reasoning behind believing what he does. If I see an image, on a post card, that image does not have to be heard, or I don't have to use...
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...March 21, 2012 Effects of the Transition to a Visual Culture Lucinda Whitfield Western Governor University The world has begun to move to a culture full of visual images, this transition has even had an impact on literature and has shaped our world into a visual culture. In this paper, the writer will investigate the effects of visual literacy on society. Visual images are observed in many facets of global society. Vast amounts of information today is embedded in forms of media that does not solely rely on linguistics causing the new digital generation to have a need to develop new types of literacy skills. Messages that were once conveyed through literary texts are now communicated through other forms of media that are enhanced or supported by visual images. The emergence of a growing visual culture has led to a steady decline in literary culture and has several underlying effects. Mirzoeff argued (1998) “the visual culture defines and delimits the post-modern present in that the culture that we call postmodernism is best imagined and understood visually, just as the nineteenth century was classically represented in the newspaper and the novel” (p.5). Understanding what is seen versus what is read will likely continue to be an important acquired and needed skill for people of all ages. Several trends are believed to be contributors for the need to attain new literacy skills. In a time of reality television, movies, video gaming, and digital billboards, it is rare...
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...Bryant University LCS270 Introduction to Cultural Studies, Fall 2012 T,Th 2:00-3:15 Professor Elizabeth Walden Office: Suite C, #226, x6332 ewalden@bryant.edu Office Hours: T, Th 12:00-2:00, 3:30-4:00, Course Description “Culture” is one of the most complicated words in the English language. It refers to world cultures, the whole way of life of a people, as well as great works of art and literature, and even the ordinary artifacts and practices of modern life like skateboarding and instant-messaging. Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field that inquires into the meaning and significance of “culture” in its various contemporary forms and considers what is at stake, socially, politically and culturally in its various meanings. It asks, what is culture and how has it changed over time? What is the relation of culture to politics, the economy and structures of power? What is the relevance of culture to our everyday lives? What is popular culture and is it good for us? It addresses these questions not to give definitive answers but to engage the students in critical inquiry into the culture(s) in which they are embedded. As should be evident, LCS 270 is not an introduction to anthropology or global cultures. Rather, it is an introduction to methods of reading, interpreting and creating cultural texts in relation to broad political, ideological and historical contexts. The course understands "text" in the broadest of terms: any form of cultural production...
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...Documentary and Fictional Photography Name Institutional Affiliation Documentary and Fictional Photography Introduction Documentary images in photography are considered to be more powerful, as the viewers are seem to understand the truth in documentary images compared to fictional images. This is so because, the documentary truth is better understood as the truth found in the manner in which people arrange their perceptions mentally. Further adding to the theory in a documentary film causes people to be more aware of how messages in photography are read and less about the reality that the film speaks about. This is definitely the reason why documentaries have been used in the modern society to appeal to economies, so that they support humanitarian aid and even invoke fear in people using such a political strategy. Documentary photography has played such a key role in ensuring media around the world reports about real situations in different parts of the globe. It has been enhanced by the use of mobile phones as people tend to record videos of real issues, upload them to a bigger platform so that more people can access them, for instance through YouTube, thus entering and transforming imagination of individuals (Ellis, 1989). Regardless of the fact that documentaries are just a strategy that is used in photography and filmography to ensure that the audience and the target viewers have been appealed to, they should also be appreciated for the excellent work they do in making photography...
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...Out there many sites and softwares promote their product about helping us as an educator. As an educator we have to know the right media for conducting class, LORE appears as perfect learning site which lets educators manage their course online. LORE comes up with rich and powerful tools such as gradebook, file management, chat box, and calendar. LORE has social networking features which is beneficial for student to communicate easily with each other. The thing works just the same as you assist your class online. You can post the material anywhere and anytime. With all those powerful function that LORE brings, LORE is such a helpful media to help us improve class performance. LORE boost literacy skill, it bridges student-teacher encounter, it encourages student in publishing their works. Why use LORE? Many people see ICT media as a burden because of the cost and practicality. As we know, ICT media is not only expensive because it requires internet connection, but also it is not quite practical because it requires computer to conduct the learning process. Most schools nowadays have covered their area with network, so the student can use the internet freely. Internet in this age happens as free facility, we can get the free internet from cafeteria, coffee shop, even mall. Now computer is not as luxury as decades ago. Most students in 2012 seized the computer as it is just a book. Even if they...
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..."The Beauty and Joy of Computing: Computer Science for Everyone", Constructionism 2012, Athens. About the development of CS 10, Berkeley's new CS breadth course for non-majors. Why Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs matters In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important MIT innovations, and they asked me to explain the importance of SICP. This is what I sent them. "Bringing 'No Ceiling' to Scratch: Can One Language Serve Kids and Computer Scientists?" (with Jens Mönig, a talk at the Constructionism 2010 conference in Paris). Scratch is the brilliant grandchild of Logo, from the MIT Media Lab, that uses drag-and-drop visual programming to achieve, truly at last, the "no threshold" half of Logo's famous promise, combined with a half-million-strong social network of kid programmers sharing projects and working collaboratively. But Scratch deliberately drops the "no ceiling" part. How hard would it be to do both at once? Not hard at all, we think, if we remember Lisp's core idea of procedure as data. BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks) is an experimental implementation of this goal. "Speech at UCB CS Graduation, 2005"At Berkeley every department has its own graduation ceremony. At the one for the Computer Science majors in the College of Letters and Science, there are a bunch of student speakers, then a faculty speaker, and then a famous-outsider speaker. This year I gave the faculty speech, about the sorry state...
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...What is Emergent Literacy? Emergent Literacy is the reading and writing concept, behavior and dispositions that precede and develop into conventional reading and writing. Recently the term “reading readiness” has given way “emergent literacy” by which we mean the many skills children need for reading and writing. From the time they were born and continuing through the preschool years, each child picks up in his or her own way. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are all part of emergent literacy. Literacy really begins when an infant coos or babbles, then hears those sound repeated by a responsive and loving adults. These early conversation, which can make adults feel a little silly, and a gentle introduction to spoken language and will soon change into soon change into the sound and rhythms of language. Adults encourage these beginning steps in to language by singing, saying nursery rhymes, doing finger play and sharing picture books. Reading Readiness vs Emergent Literacy Reading readiness has been defined as a point at which a person is ready to learn to read and the time during which a person transition from begin a non-reader into a reader. Other terms for reading readiness include early literacy while emergent literacy is how young children interact with books when reading and writing, even though they could not read or write in the conventional sense. According to piaget theory of cognitive development the concept of reading readiness refers to the...
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...routine, talks about why college is important and many other new things that come with college. It explains that college isn’t all about sports and partying that as young adults we have that image of college in our head. College is another step in education, and in today’s society having a college degree is very important when trying to get a high paying job. Having a college degree makes living the American Dream a lot easier, and it helps you grow as an adult and teaches you leadership roles. This class also explains that college is a place for young adults to enjoy life, meet new people, and try new things. The reasons most young children are so ready to leave for college. Its going to help you know what you want in life most of all. College is for finding your purpose in life, figuring out what your good and Managing your time while in college is more valuable information that you’ll learn in this class. Learning to manage your time with all the freedom college brings is one of the hardest transitions to make. While in high school you always were reminded when your work was due and etc. In college it’s your own responsibility to know when you have work to be turned in and test. In explains ways to make managing your time easier such as knowing your goals and knowing what you have to do to achieve your goals. You also have to know your purpose of attending college and what you want out of it. And making a commitment to achieve your goals is important, you got to have you...
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...Table of Contents Chapter 1 Mass Media Literacy 2 Chapter 2 Media Technology 16 Chapter 3 Media Economics 33 Chapter 4 Ink on Paper 49 Chapter 5 Sound Media 64 Chapter 6 Motion Media 80 Chapter 7 New Media Landscape 96 Chapter 8 News 112 Chapter 9 Entertainment 128 Chapter 10 Public Relations 144 Chapter 11 Advertising 160 Chapter 12 Mass Audiences 176 Chapter 13 Mass Media Effects 192 Chapter 14 Mass Media and Governance 209 Chapter 15 Mass Media Globalization 225 Chapter 16 Media Law 241 Chapter 17 Ethics 258 Chapter 1 Mass Media Literacy 1.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) Media researchers at Ball State University found that people are intentionally involved in a media activity for __________ percent of their waking hours. A) 1 B) 10 C) 30 D) 60 Answer: C, Topic: Media Ubiquity Page Ref: 3 2) Traditionally, mass communication is defined as the technology-assisted transmission of messages to A) print journalists. B) interpersonal audiences. C) mass audiences. D) only niche audiences. Answer: C, Topic: Media Ubiquity Page Ref: 4-5 3) According to the research firm Nielsen, the medium that is used much more per day than other media is A) music. B) magazines. C) television. D) newspapers. Answer: C, Topic: Media Ubiquity Page Ref: 4 4) Mass media have become so integrated into people’s lives that __________ is common. A) mainstreaming B) media multitasking C) writing letters...
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...of that later! I want to explore why I feel that Ken Rowe’s literacy report misses the complexity of literacy development in young people– at least from my secondary perspective. Of course he covers some bases and on the surface suggests a balanced approach. He is also right that teachers need to be better educated about reading practices. However, the emphasis on phonics which has been widely reported in the media appears disproportionate to its usefulness. Some students can manage to read and spell without phonics so why do we need to occupy their brains with phonemes or phonic practices. Others need them. The informed primary teacher differentiates accordingly. What Ken Rowe does not focus on is the literacy needs of young people in secondary schools where decoding is less of a problem than comprehension. For many students reading is meaningless – particularly fiction. The Four Resource Model of Allan Luke and Peter Freebody[2] outlines what students need to do as they read: Effective literacy draws on a repertoire of practices that allow learners, as they engage in reading and writing activities, to: • break the code of texts: recognising and using the fundamental features and architecture of written texts including: alphabet, sounds in words, spelling, conventions and patterns of sentence structure and text • participate in the meanings of text: understanding and composing meaningful written, visual and spoken texts from within the meaning...
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...Health Literacy: Key to increasing Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Healthcare literacy is as essential as basic academic education. It enables one to understand the medical aspects of their body, along with pointing them in the correct direction regarding how to take care of it, illness prevention, and basic healthcare measures (Health Literacy, 2010). It acts as an important aspect in increasing patient safety and healthcare quality – both crucial elements of a healthcare organization and its functioning. However, a very alarming issue is that there exist a huge percentage of population, which has low health literacy, or is completely health illiterate. Although there have been various measures taken targeting this issue, there still...
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...Instructor Danette Lee CGD218: Visual Literacy in Business Week 4 Assignment 2/3/2014 Introduction In this paper my message will expand on, “Having great communication skills and time management.” I am really terrible at time management and would like to get things done in a scheduled fashion, but I can admit I lack this trait in my personality. In my paper I would like present how communication and time management can help improve a worker under pressure. My message would say, “Have a plan, use a planner, and execute these plans with good communication!” My message clearly describes I need an organizer and an alarm clock to make sure that I am on time with my projects. I clearly did not do my discussion post on week one so I have to do this from beginning and explain my plans on my project. Step 2-3 The intended audience I chose for this message is college students who have a busy schedule and have 1-2 jobs or full time jobs. The typography I would like to showcase would be Display Type. In the book it states that is employed to flag and entice readers, deliver information quickly, and provide short bits of information efficiently (Ryan, 2012). The reason why I would like to go this route is because it shows a plain simple message for time managing. It can benefit readers in understanding the importance of time how valuable time management is an asset to our busy schedule. I wanted to use Microsoft Power Point to show my visual of how effective time managing...
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