http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2870 Search the Channel search http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/1957/7499 Title: Creating Non-polarized Scenes for Engaging Contested Topics <br/> <br/>Description: From the "It's in the Bag" presentation series. More information about the research in this presentation can be found at http://www.osucascades.edu/academics/speechcomm/commdialogue.php http://hdl.handle.net/1957/6768 Title: From here and there : crossing cultural borders and permeating the Piel de Palabras <br/> <br/>Abstract: Immigrants must cross two barriers when entering the United States, the physical border and a cultural border created by a set of exclusive cultural values and profits-before-people economic ethics. Immigrants, coerced by unstable and desperate economic situations, risk their lives and leave behind their families to cross the physical border in search of something better for their children. After replanting themselves in a strange land they are faced with the second, cultural border. This border manifests in the lives of immigrants as oppression and exploitation. Language, in the form of pieles de palabras, delimits immigrants by alienating and criminalizing their identities. Our economic system and our own participation in the exploitation and oppression of this community hide immigrants from our consciousness, placing a metaphoric tinted window between immigrants and our consciousness. Despite alienation and blatant discrimination, immigrants build lives, families and communities. The push and pull between the immigrants’ culture of origin and the mainstream American culture leaves the immigrants in a unique placeless space coined by Gloria Anzaldúa “the borderlands.” This psychological space is a space of great oppression, but because normal cultural rules do not apply in the borderlands, it can be a place of great opportunity. The borderlands create a space where language and culture can be reinvented and a new inclusive consciousness can be carved, in which the tinted glass is shattered and the piel de palabras is permeated. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2892 Title: Maximizing soil moisture through mulch and slash applications <br/> <br/>Abstract: Restoration projects that involve revegetation efforts are often confronted with problems of desiccation. Several studies have shown that mulching, or laying organic material over the surface of the soil, can be very effective in helping to retain soil moisture and avoid desiccation. To determine the effects of moisture retention in soil that is influenced by mulch, we equally distributed two treatments—bark and slash mulch, and a control, across 72 one meter square plots, and measured relative soil moisture 20 days after treatment. Soil moisture was found to be significantly higher in subplots with bark mulch application, and slightly higher in subplots with juniper/pine slash applications than in control plots. This study shows that mulch applications can help prevent soil desiccation which may improve seedling survival. <br/> <br/>Description: Poster from 2006 Cascades student poster session. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/2891 Title: Math journaling as a self-regulated learning technique in the fifth-grade classroom <br/> <br/>Abstract: Self-regulated learners are students who take an active role in their education and have the desire to become more competent and more capable as learners (Zimmerman, 1990). Teaching student skills to be more self-regulated has been shown to help students improve their thinking and organizational skills (Pape, Bell, & Yetkin, 2003). The present research looks at a way that educators can attempt to guide their students towards becoming more self-regulated in their learning. Provoking thought with a specific activity like journaling gives students opportunities for selfevaluation and independent problem solving; important skills for self-regulated learners (Paris & Paris, 2001). The journaling treatment presented to these students was designed as a metacognitive activity intended to help them discover how they learn math best. <br/> <br/>Description: Poster from 2006 Cascades student poster session.