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  • Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Age of AI

    A Universal Design for Learning Approach

    by Randy Laist ...
    Writing is an invaluable academic skill, but, as writing expert Randy Laist points out, "it is also much more than that. It is a tool for thinking, a means of personal expression, and a vehicle of self-discovery." Composition instructors have long been challenged to fi nd effective ways of engaging and empowering student writers. In the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this challenge has ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • UDL University

    Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum

    Edited by Randy Laist, Nicole Brewer, Dana Sheehan ...
    In UDL University: Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum, sixteen Goodwin faculty members share their stories of ambitious experiments, inspirational successes, and instructive failures in applying Universal Design for Learning in their classrooms. Their compelling and highly personal accounts of UDL's transformative effects span a variety of disciplines at the career ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The '80s Resurrected

    Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now

    Edited by Randy Laist ...
    The 1980s is remembered as a time of big hair, synthetic music, and microwave cookery. It is also remembered as the heyday of conservative politics, socioeconomic inequality, and moral panics. It is dichotomously remembered as either a nostalgic age of innocence or a regressive moral wasteland, depending on who you ask, and when. But, most of all, it is remembered. In retro fashion trends, in '80s ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Don DeLillo after the Millennium

    Currents and Currencies

    by Jesse Kavadlo, Graley Herren, Maciej Maslowski, Mark Osteen, Karim Daanoune, Matt Kavanagh, Jennifer L. Vala, Elise Martucci, Scott Dill, Randy Laist ...
    Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author’s work published in the 21st century: The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K, the plays Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short stories in The Angel Esmeralda. What topic doesn’t DeLillo tackle? Cyber-capital and currency markets, ontology and intelligence, global warming ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Twin Towers in Film

    A Cinematic History of New York's World Trade Center

    by Randy Laist ...
    For thirty years, the twin towers of the World Trade Center soared above the New York City skyline, eventually becoming one of the most conspicuous symbolic structures in the world. They appeared in hundreds of films, from Godspell and Death Wish to Trading Places, Ghostbusters and The Usual Suspects. The politicians, architects and engineers who developed the towers sought to imbue them with a ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Excavating Indiana Jones

    Essays on the Films and Franchise

    Edited by Randy Laist ...
    With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the rousing sounds of his orchestral anthem, and his eventful explorations into the arcana of world religions, Indiana Jones--archeologist, adventurer, and ophidiophobe--has become one of the most recognizable heroes of the big screen. Since his debut in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones has gone on to anchor several sequels, and a fifth ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s

    by Randy Laist ...
    Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was not until the 1990s that the end of the Cold War, along ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age

    Learning and Leading in a Digital Age

    by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Lani Ritter Hall ...
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    Create a connected learning community through social media and rediscover the power of being a learner first. After uncovering the theories and research behind the significance of learning through collaboration with other educators, the authors show you how to take advantage of technology to improve your own learning and ultimately the learning of your students ... Read more

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  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Read more

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  • Secrets of a Master Moderator

    Edition III

    by Naomi Henderson ...
    This book spans nearly 35 years of Naomi's experiences as a moderator and a trainer of qualitative researchers. It covers a full range of QREs (Qualitative Research Events) from IDIs to extended groups.There are tools, tips, and techniques for moderators who run the gamut from new to the industry, to those with long years of research experience. It grapples with knotty questions and concerns ... Read more

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  • Textual Poachers

    Television Fans and Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory.Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott in which Jenkins reflects upon changes in the field since the ... Read more

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