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An Analysis of the Analogous Application of the Adverbial Affix

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Alma wrote this paper in my final semester of Graduate School for a Linguistics Special Topics course, covering the History of the English Language.

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During the mid-fourteenth century there was a shift from the Old English form of adverb creation to a new form that we recognize in the English we use today. This transition was hastened during the fifteenth century by the increase in creation of original English Literature. Further, the change was solidified in the late fifteenth century with the arrival of the printing press in England. This paper examines the shapes of seven adverbs that existed during the five generations that passed between Chaucer and the first published dictionary.

 

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The Power of Legos

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A capstone project for my final Educational Technology course, Computer Uses in Education, this video was supposed to illustrate an integration of technology in education. Alma created a production guide and storyboard, below, as well as a two-column video script, in advance of shooting. The video captures ways that legos can be used to illustrate concepts that may be taught, even in higher education.

Feel free to view the final video here:

Special thanks go to Katelynd, Eric, TJ and Kurt for their participation in the video.

Legos Production Guide

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Research Proposal: Will Film in the Classroom Increase Comprehension and Enjoyment of Non-Contemporary Novels?

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In Alma’s Educational Research class, the final assignment was to write a research proposal and present it to the class. The students were given a strict time limit of five minutes for the presentation, so Alma decided to make my slide deck into a video file that would be completely pre-timed.

Alma also wanted to offer additional information and some counterpoints throughout the presentation. This was when she decided to use her knowledge of CG animation and created two co-presenters. One of them was dubbed “the researcher” who provided additional detail, and the other was “Mr Smiley” and he provided counter points and commentary. Special thanks go out to Alma’s dad who gave Mr Smiley his voice.

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Video Editor, SmART in the City program DVD, sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation

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One of the great benefits of the Film & Digital Media program was the ability to do professional work around the Cleveland area in conjunction with courses. Most of these are featured elsewhere in my CV.

In Alma’s Advanced Video and Audio Editing class, she was given video footage from a summer arts and education program organized by the Cleveland Foundation and she got to edit those hours of footage in to a 2-3 minute montage of interviews and performance. This was then assembled with other similar pieces and presented to the students and foundation donors as a produced DVD in the program at an event, which Alma supported technology for.

Alma ingested and logged DV tape and edited the piece using AVID DV Pro.

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Media Designer, CSU Theater Production of The Laramie Project

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Directed by Dr Michael Mauldin

The Laramie Project documents the lives and reactions of a Wyoming community as they are immersed in the aftermath of the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard. It contains the moving interviews by witnesses, family and friends and transcripts of court proceedings.

A scene in the play portrays the jarring descent of the national media on to the quite town of Laramie, many productions send all cast members armed with news paraphernalia storming through the audience. This, in addition to a greater integration of digital media in to the play, necessitated a cross-department outreach in Cleveland State University’s production. Alma was involved in a production of this play in high school as a member of house crew, and when she heard that my university was going to be producing it, she was compelled to be even more involved. When Alma heard of the need for a liaison between the Theater Arts department and the School of Communication, she worked with the faculty involved to develop an Independent Study course.

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University of Dallas Latin in Rome Program

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Studying Latin in high school became a popular thing to do, the year after Alma started. She had the benefit of small classes and having the same classmates year after year. Alma found that she was interested in far more than declensions and conjugating, the similarities and differences in language and the culture all proved so compelling that she later got a BA in Linguistics and wrote numerous papers on psycholinguistics.

It makes sense then, that Alma would apply for a program like University of Dallas’s Latin in Rome. She was accepted and participated during the Summer of 2003. During three weeks in Rome, Alma studied Latin and earned an A in University of Dallas course CLL 1305: Latin Grammar Review.

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