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Authorities : A MOBIUS Workshop
(2006-06-08)
This presentation provided an overview of national authority standards and practices. It was presented at the MOBIUS Annual Conference June 8, 2006 at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.
Maternal diet and sex of offspring
(2006)
Powerpoint presentation delivered by Curators' Professor in the Department of Animal Science and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, R. Michael Roberts, as part of the ...
Climate, climate change and hurricanes
(2006)
Associate professor in the Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Anthony R. Lupo, delivered this powerpoint presentation on ...
Proyecto Buena Vista 2002-2005: El Templo Mas Antiguo del Mundo y Las Primeras Esculturas Preceramicas
(2005)
This presentation presents pictures and layouts of Buena Vista in Peru, a temple that has the oldest calendar found in the world, and the first preceramic three dimensional sculptures found in the New World. It is an example ...
Making Time for the Library: Adventures in Integrating Information Literacy in the Curriculum
(2007-03-02)
This presentation provided an overview of information literacy methods and practices for teaching undergraduate and graduate music students. It was presented at Joint Meeting of the Music Library Association and the Society ...
Watershed planning: a community development process
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
Community Development/Watershed Management is a process to counsel, educate, and cooperate with communities as they develop assets to seek solutions and solve problems, directly or indirectly affecting quality of life. ...
Manure/CAFO regualtions update
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation discusses the EPA requirement that new facilities must make phosphorus assessment, and discusses how phosphorus will be managed, suggesting that management strategies for phosphorus can be developed with ...
Web-Based Tools for Environmental Planning
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation describes the goals of CARES (Center for Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Systems ) to promote understanding of resource issues using information technologies, including Geographic Information ...
Dynamic Geometry: GeoGebra
(2008-02)
This presentation discusses the benefits of using GeoGebra, a freely available “dynamic mathematics software” for learning and teaching in schools. It enables teachers to create accurate diagrams and illustrations, create ...
Using GeoGebra in Secondary Mathematics
(2009)
In this workshop, we will explore what GeoGebra can do as an example of dynamic geometry software. GeoGebra has two very important advantages over other similar programs: it is free, and it can save documents
as HTML pages ...
Dynamic Geometry: GeoGebra
(2008)
This presentation discusses the benefits of using GeoGebra, a freely available “dynamic mathematics software” for learning and teaching in schools. It enables teachers to create accurate diagrams and illustrations, create ...
Promoting Algebraic Thinking in the Middle-Grades Using Spreadsheets
(2003-04)
What is Algebra? For most people, algebra means using and manipulating (algebraic)
symbols, and solving equations. The Algebra Standard, as it is stated in the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, expects more ...
Integration of exercise sciences research: Achieving a balance between reductionist versus integrative approaches
(2000)
This presentation argues that exercise sciences will badly miss achieving a balance between reductionistic versus integrative approaches under the current NIH plan to reorganize NIH study sections. NIH wants to score ...
Geometry, Technology, and the Reasoning and Proof Standard in the Middle Grades with the Geometer's Sketchpad
(2002-10)
This presentation discusses the software Geometer's Sketchpad and its relation to learning standards for elementary and secondary students.
Using Prevention Science to Promote Children's Mental Health
(2008-03)
In a recent issue of The Counseling Psychologist, Hage et al. (2007) encouraged greater involvement of counseling psychologists in prevention related activities. To support these efforts, the authors described 15 principles ...
The television viewing habits of librarians : paper presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario
(2003)
In October 2001, the researchers undertook a survey to determine the television viewing habits of librarians. This article presents the results of that survey, which suggest that librarians view less television than the ...
"Wasting time on romances" : uncommon ground in reader advisory education and professional practice [paper]
(2007)
Do we teach our masters' students about reader advisory services? Well, the majority of schools offer a class that is either explicitly oriented toward Reader Advisory or includes Reader Advisory as a significant element. ...
The function of libraries for Latino college students
(2004)
Considered a great tool of democracy,1 libraries are open to all who choose to use them, regardless of race, gender, or creed. Therein lies both the greatest strength and weakness of libraries: because libraries provide ...
District Workforce Development and Instructional Capacity: A Strategic Perspective
(2008-03)
Some depictions of human resource (HR) functions tend to see connections to core missions, e.g., teaching and learning, as a
“hub and spoke” arrangement with HR functions such as recruitment, selection,
induction, ...
Fecal Source Tracking for Water Quality
(University of Missouri Extension, 2007)
This presentation discusses identification of human and nonhuman sources of fecal pollution in waterways, including bacterial source tracking services based on DNA fingerprinting methods.