/news-archive/tag/chad-garrett/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:22:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2018/03/02/20k-grant-digitize-historical-records-k-12-education/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:22:11 +0000 /news/?p=69630 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock receives 20K grant to digitize historical records for K-12 education]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has received a nearly $20,000 grant to digitize historical materials related to Arkansas for use in K-12 social studies education.聽 The $19,997 grant is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Midwest Region located at Illinois State University. The center is joined in the grant by the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of History and its Social Studies Education program and the Little Rock School District. The center and its partners will use the grant to create sets of digitized historical materials related to Arkansas and tied to Arkansas State Social Studies Frameworks and the Arkansas Disciplinary Literacy Frameworks for use in elementary, middle, and high schools. 鈥淲hen teachers have easy online access to primary sources about Arkansas, they can create engaging activities and lessons that connect local events and places to national and international events and places,鈥� said Dr. Kristin Mann, professor of history who will serve as the project鈥檚 director. 鈥淲orking with primary sources helps students ask historical questions, think critically, and write analytically while developing the skills they need for civic life, college, and the workplace.鈥� With these and matching funds, the partners will host workshops for master teachers to identify digitized photographs and documents from the Library of Congress and from the center鈥檚 own collections to be combined into primary source sets tailored to state education frameworks. Teachers will field test the sets during the fall 2018 semester. The partners will also build a website to serve as a portal for teachers to find and download the materials. This project combines the strength of the center鈥檚 rich archival collections with its commitment to making primary source materials easily accessible and meaningful to students from elementary to graduate school. 鈥淲e value the preservation of the materials of history, but we are equally committed to making sure those materials are used to answer important questions and to understand how past events have shaped our story,鈥� said Dr. Deborah Baldwin, associate provost of the center.]]> /news-archive/2018/01/02/information-technology-capstone-projects/ Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:12:42 +0000 /news/?p=68903 ... Information technology students make a difference with capstone projects]]> University of Arkansas at Little Rock students who are completing a minor in information technology are using their skills to help nonprofit organizations and city governments in central and northwest Arkansas.聽 The class of 23 students completed six projects as part of their capstone project, which, once defended as part of their portfolio, is the final step to earning a minor in information technology. 鈥淭he students were all quite successful at working with professionals in the community to assess their needs and to design and deliver high-quality products to support the missions of these hard-working organizations,鈥� said Chad Garrett, capstone instructor and director of technology and digital initiatives. Participating students include Zatches Allen, Chase Ballard, Jaylen Callahan, Brooke Davis, Ashi Franke, Colby Hamilton, Eric Holsomback, Layne Huddleston, Addy McClenny, Elvis Mull, Jason Nation, Victoria Pearce, Liliane Poirot, Kennedy Quarders, Zachary Randolph, Christina Redmann, McKenzie Self, Christopher Thompson, Matthew Vang, James Watts, Antwane Wilkerson, Tanaya Williams, and John Yankowskas. 鈥淭he course is designed to challenge students to apply the skills they learn in the previous two semesters in a professional setting, complete with ambiguity, frustration, negotiation, problem solving, and ultimately triumph,鈥� Garrett said. 鈥淭hese students now have a unique experience under their belts in which they overcame challenges and created great products as a result of the challenges.鈥� In Little Rock, one team redesigned Little Rock鈥檚 website for the Creative Corridor, an area along Main Street where arts and culture mix in the center of Little Rock. A second team developed a map-based interface prototype website for locating amenities in city parks for Little Rock Parks and Recreation. Kennedy Quarders, a junior math major, led the team that mapped amenities in Little Rock鈥檚 parks. 鈥�Little Rock Parks and Recreation does not have an interactive map that allows park-goers to see where they are and what is near them,鈥� Quarders said. 鈥淔or this project, we mapped three parks: Boyle, Allsopp, and War Memorial. Our mapping included us marking all park amenities with icons, taking pictures, and outlining trails. This project will tremendously help out the park-goers, especially those who are unfamiliar with the park that they are at. Since this was done in a short amount of time, we gave our client working demos, which will eventually be implemented onto the City of Little Rock’s website.鈥� An additional two teams redesigned the city government websites for Jasper, Arkansas, and Berryville, Arkansas. Meanwhile, the final two teams worked with historic preservation nonprofit organizations to create new websites for their organizations, which include, a group dedicated to preserving, restoring, and documenting African-American cemeteries, and Save Hillcrest, a group looking to preserve historic homes in Little Rock鈥檚 Hillcrest neighborhood. Christina Redmann, junior political science major who led the Preservation of African American Cemeteries website project, said the team attended a cemetery clean up and learned how to clean historic headstones as part of the preparation for the website development. 鈥淚t was a lot of fun. We met members of PAAC, toured a cemetery in Little Rock, and learned how to properly clean headstones. It was a great experience and helped us to understand our clients better,鈥� Redmann said. 鈥淥ur main objective was to create a website that served as a resource for individuals who want to work on preserving a cemetery, know more about cemetery preservation, locate a gravesite, become a member of the Arkansas chapter, and many other things.鈥�]]>