CEHS Featured News
New Quilt Exhibition Begins July 9, 2008 at the Eisentrager Howard Gallery
Expressive qualities and sophisticated use of design elements distinguish the quilts in the new exhibition "Visual Systems: the Quilter's Eye" opening July 9 at the Eisentrager Howard Gallery. This exhibition, running July 9 through September 25, 2008, features a selection of historical and contemporary quilts from the collection of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Curator Peggy Derrick, quilt studies graduate student in the Department of Textiles, Clothing & Design, created the exhibition in cooperation with UNL's Department of Art and Art History.
CEHS Staff Council Receives Human Resources Award
May 14th CEHS Staff Council received the Outstanding Human Resources Award from UNL’s Office of Human Resources. The award recognizes the important work that Staff Council engages in on behalf of all staff members in CEHS. Presenting the award were Bruce Currin, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, Jim Fisher, and Nancy Myers, both with Human Resources. Bruce Currin highlighted the work done by Staff Council—improvement of the employee evaluation process, compiling an employee handbook, the creation of the CEHS Staff Award, and strengthening staff morale and community within the College. Staff Council provides important input on College planning, submitting annual updates and input for the College’s strategic planning.
Mid-Career CEHS Scholarly Enhancement Program Introduced
The 2008-2009 program is designed for mid-career faculty who would like to further develop their skills in writing for publication, integrating their teaching, research and/or outreach activities, and increasing their success in obtaining funding to support their research programs.
Faculty who have completed at least one full year at UNL are eligible. If you have less than one year you may still participate if your department chair recommends you.
All faculty must be nominated by their department chair. Due to the time commitments for this program, faculty applying for tenure and/or promotion during 2008-2009 are not eligible.
You may download more information on this program by clicking here, or by pointing your browser to http://cehs.unl.edu/research/office.shtml
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CEHS Students Show Support for 100 Year Book Drive
Students from the NUTR 489 class presented a check for $464.00 to CEHS to support the 100 Books for Children Campaign. The money was raised during the recent "Red, White and Educated" event before the spring football scrimage. The event was organized by their class.
CEHS Alum, Toni Siedel Receives 2008 Freda Drath Battey Distinguished Teaching Award
Toni Siedel, center, stands with Charles Battey and Marian Andersen during the award luncheon May 2, 2008.
Toni Siedel is an extraordinary teacher. She is bright, skilled in the cognitive art of teaching, and highly personable, attributes that have made her a student favorite for nearly twenty years. Now Toni has been recognized for her dedication to teaching and learning with the 2008 Freda Drath Battey Distinguished Teaching Award.
A graduate of CEHS, Toni has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary
Education with endorsements in English and History, but her formal education has not ended there. Toni earned her Master of Arts Degree in Currriculum and Instruction (now Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education), and continues to take courses through the University. In this, Toni models for her students what lifelong learning looks like.
Toni has accomplished much in her teaching career. Among her many contributions to Lincoln’s public schools, Toni was the first to bring a Women’s Literature class to Northeast High School. She makes her classes experiential, building literacy with the “Passionate Projects” students complete. In these projects students become actively involved in women’s issues and in the broader community. Also, at Southeast High School, Toni is co-sponsor of the student Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgendered-Straight Alliance. Through such initiatives, Toni encourages her students to confront important social issues, modeling social activism for her students.
Currently, Toni teaches English at Southwest High School in Lincoln, and she is also an Honors Academy Faculty member with NE Wesleyan University as well as an Adjunct Instructor with Southeast Community College. Before her move to Southwest, Toni worked with students for twelve years at Lincoln Northeast High School.
Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program Garners Award
The Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program (Native American Career Ladder Program) will be presented with the State's 2008 Chief Standing Bear Award May 9th at the State Capitol. This award is presented by the Governors Office and the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs. Anyone is welcome to attend. The event is free and open to the public.
The program is a partnership among UNL's College of Education and Human Sciences, Little Priest Tribal College, four Nebraska K-12 school districts, and the Nebraska Department of Education. The program recruits and trains American Indian students living in or near four communities in northeastern Nebraska (Santee, Winnebago and Walthill, in addition to Macy) to become certified teachers. After graduation, it is expected - though not required - that these students will return to their home communities to work as teachers.
Picture and information for this article are courtesy of The Scarlet.
Emerging Technologies in Education: The 2008 Horizon Report
The six areas of emerging technologies are organized by the length of time to adoption:
One Year or Less
• Grassroots Video – Creating videos now can be done by anyone who has a hand held video camera, computer with camera, or camera phone. Posting video to the Web can be done by anyone with Internet access. Because of this easy access to producing and posting video, video applications have been developed at the grassroots level. See the examples below.
o UC Berkeley channel on YouTube
o Video Ant
o Ustream
o Voice Thread
• Collaboration Webs – Collaborate with others in a web-based space to create and modify text, photos, and more.
o Google Docs
o Zoho Office
o Flickr
o Wikipedia
Two to Three Years
• Mobile Broadband – Mobile devices have had multimedia capabilities for sometime, but now more and more devices have network capabilities that allow them to send and receive voice, video, photos, and text.
o Zonetag
• Data Mashups – All types of digital data are now available on the Web such as maps, photos, and text. Data mashup applications enable the user to combine various data sources to discover new relationships. For example, the Web-based application loc.alize.us uses photos from Flickr and satellite imagery from Google Maps to allow viewers to see personal photos associated with geographical locations.
o Havaria Information Services Alert Map
o Loc.alize.us
Four to Five Years
• Collective Intelligence – This phrase is used to represent Web-based applications used to collect Information from thousands of people to create vast stores of information accessible to others. Sometimes this information is explicitly contributed (e.g. Wikipedia), or it can be created implicitly through users patterns of choices and actions on the Web.
o Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org)
o Amazon.com – examines patterns in the variables of hundreds of online buyers to recommend items based on previous purchases, your friends’ purchases, and others with similar preferences
• Social Operating Systems - You may be familiar with social networking systems (e.g., Facebook or MySpace) as Web sites for socializing among friends and colleagues. These systems don't know about our connections with others unless we explicitly define these connections. The next generation of these networking systems is called social operating systems. Through social operating systems, data is collected as you work on the Web, creating a social graph. For example, through the addresses in your emails, in tagged Flickr photos, and in your comments on blog posts, a social operating system is able to identify who we know, how we know them, and how deep the connections are.
o Yahoo Life! – A project concept demonstrated by Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang.
You can download a copy of the 2008 Horizon Report for yourself here.
