This week, the College of Education and Human Development Dean, Dr. Margo DelliCarpini, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Norma Guerra, hosted the Dean's List Luncheon. The luncheon included sophomores and juniors from across the college who were on the Dean's List and President's List during the spring 2018 semester.
The areas surrounding the columns of the canopy located on the eastside of the JPL, near the MB, will be closed-off one at a time for repairs beginning Tuesday, January 22, 2019 through Tuesday, February 12, 2019. All other areas below the canopy will remain open and accessible for the duration of the project. For additional information, please contact the Facilities Service Center at 458-4262.
(International Society for Technology in Education)
Tech * Connect * Ignite!
Transforming education requires us to rethink how we teach and learn. The ISTE Standards act as a roadmap for bold, innovative educators and education leaders to re-engineer their schools and classrooms for digital age learning no matter where they fall on the journey to meaningful, effective ed tech integration. (https://www.iste.org/standards)
"Technology has the ability to help personalize the educational experience and teachers’ instruction of classroom material—matching students’ interests and goals with their abilities. A growing effort is underfoot to ensure that technology is used in such a way that every Texas student’s educational needs are being more fully met." -Texas Computer Educators Association January 7, 2019
Learner Standard:
Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
Educators:
1a Set professional learning goals to explore and apply pedagogical approaches made possible by technology and reflect on their effectiveness.
Flipgrid is an active, social learning platform that engages learners through video-based discussion. The app extends the web-based environment and creates new possibilities for reflection, discussion, demonstration and collaboration.
You can go to Flipgrid or you can download the app and go ahead and sign up for an account. Make sure you click the free version to get started with Flipgrid. It takes about 30 seconds to set up your account. You can go through the steps right on the app or online on how you need to create a grid. Flipgrid generates a code and you are ready to go!
Instead of writing an essay or maybe doing a turn-talk, students can record their thoughts and their conversations on a particular topic and push that out to the whole class using Flipgrid.
Alamo Community Group said the first floor of the lofts will have retail space and restaurants. The building will also house a learning center for tenants, where tutoring for students and social services will be provided. "They will be needing student housing in the area," Shackelford said. "But we also know UTSA will have a great amount of employees that will be working in the downtown area, and we are hoping to capture that market."
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Texas Media Link - Texas Media Link | Pub: 01/17
Cristy Martinez-Smith’s most popular art piece “Singing Soul” is an expressive, lighthearted and conveying composition that invites us to study some of the major characters in our lives – a vibrant, pumping heart, yellow twisting roots coming out of one of its protruded valves.
When rapper Mexican Stepgrandfather (Mexstep), also known as Marco Cervantes, told us he was releasing his first solo album in 9 years, we were more than a little stoked to get the news. The director of Mexican-American studies at UTSA and one third of the hip-hop group Third Root has been actively crushing mics and rocking stages in the region for over a decade, securing his spot as one of the cities dopest rappers.
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Liz Teitz - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 01/16
When she was growing up, Summer Wilmoth wanted to cure cancer. In her mind, that meant going to medical school. After losing her mother to cancer as an 8-year-old, “I just always had it in my head, I'm going to be a doctor,” Wilmoth said. “I was always like, ‘I’m going to find a cure for cancer and save everyone.’” But “research sucked me in” as an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, she said, and now Wilmoth wants to prevent people from getting sick in the first place.
"Alexa, what's 5 minus 3?" A 6-year-old boy recently asked that question in a video, which went viral on Twitter with more than 8.5 million views. He leaned over his homework as his mother hovered in the doorway. Alexa, Amazon's voice-activated assistant, delivered a quick answer: 2.
As the UTSA family returns for the start of spring semester classes, evidence of the 50th anniversary celebration will surround them online and off.
Publications
Impact of household incarceration on substance use outcomes among Hispanic emerging adults
Timothy Grigsby - Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition | Journal of Ethnicity on Substance Abuse: 01/14
Grigsby, T. J., Forster, M., Davis, L. & Unger, J. B. (online first). Impact of household incarceration on substance use outcomes among Hispanic emerging adults. Journal of Ethnicity on Substance Abuse. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2018.1511494
Preliminary psychometric evaluation of the micro-condescension scale for individuals in substance…
Timothy Grigsby - Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition | Journal of Addictive Diseases: 01/14
Grigsby, T. J., Forster, M., & Sussman, S. (in press). Preliminary psychometric evaluation of the micro-condescension scale for individuals in substance use treatment. Journal of Addictive Diseases. doi: 10.1080/10550887.2018.1557991
Raise Your Hands Texas Awarded:
$1,100,000
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies PI:
Michael Villarreal Educational Leadership and Policy Studies CI:
Northwest Vista College Awarded:
$15,143
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI:
Emily Bonner Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI:
Crystal Kalinec-Craig Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
Univ of TX at Austin 721 Awarded:
$9,000
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies PI:
Michael Villarreal Educational Leadership and Policy Studies CI:
US Dept of Education Awarded:
$3,748,848
Other Academics PI:
Lorena Claeys Other Academics CI:
Margarita Machado-Casas; Belinda Flores; Norma Guerra Other Academics
CNA Corporation Awarded:
$14,799
Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI:
William Land Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI:
Jianmin Guan Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Research and Education Foundation Awarded:
$54,996
Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition PI:
Sakiko Oyama Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition CI:
Natl Science Fdn Awarded:
$1,500,000
Other Academics PI:
Heather Shipley Other Academics CI:
Mark Appleford; Jorge Solis; Juliet Langman; Kelly Nash; Harry Millwater; Krystel Castillo Other Academics
Baylor College of Medicine Awarded:
$35,000
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching PI:
Misty Sailors Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching CI:
Sarah Aguirre Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Submitted:
$45,000
Bicultural-Bilingual Studies PI:
Jeong Bin Park Bicultural-Bilingual Studies CI:
The man behind UTSA’s new Urban Education Institute is already making an impact on San Antonio
Main Campus - Student Union, Retama Auditorium 2.02.02
