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Dr. Farris presents an eCOACH Webcast 5/1, Noon ET: (Basic) How to Research Online & Understand Journal Articles. Register Today & watch from your phone or iPad!

eCOACH Online Learning
“Student Focused. Success Driven!”
 Dr. Shannon Farris

eCOACH Online Learning presents :

May 1, 12:00-1:00pm ET “How to Research Online & Understand Journal Articles.

Participants will now be offered two (or more) hours of support with a tCOACH!

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Dr. Farris presents an eCOACH Webcast 4/17, 1-2pm ET. “(Advanced) APA Writing.” Register Today & watch from your phone or iPad!

eCOACH Online Learning
“Student Focused. Success Driven!”
 Dr. Shannon Farris

eCOACH Online Learning presents :

April 17, 1:00-2:00pm ET “(Advanced) APA Writing” Register no later than 7:00 a.m. ET, Wednesday, April 17.

Participants will now be offered two (or more) hours of support with a tCOACH!

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Dr. Farris presents an eCOACH Webcast 4/3, Noon ET with guest Dr. Doris VanKampen: How to Research Online & Understand Journal Articles. Register Today & watch from your phone or iPad!

eCOACH Online Learning
“Student Focused. Success Driven!”
 Dr. Shannon Farris

eCOACH Online Learning presents :

April 3, 12:00-1:00pm ET “How to Research Online & Understand Journal Articles” Register no later than 7:00 a.m. ET, Wednesday, April 3.

Participants will now be offered two (or more) hours of support with a tCOACH!

Dr. Doris Vankampen

Dr. Doris VanKampen
Faculty Development Librarian

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[VIDEO] This is your brain on video games

Well, I’m not going to tell you that playing video games days in and days out is actually good for your health. It’s not, and binging is never good.

When we think about the effect of video games on the brain, it’s very similar to the effect of wine on the health. There are some very poor uses of wine. There are some very poor uses of video games. But when consumed in reasonable doses, and at the right age, wine can be very good for health.

 

Why domestic violence victims don’t leave. [TED Video]

One in three American women experiences domestic violence or stalking at some point in her life, and the CDC reports that 15 million children are abused every year, 15 million.  And while one may say that those in that situation just need to leave, over 70 percent of domestic violence murders happen after the victim has ended the relationship because then the abuser has nothing left to lose. Other outcomes include long-term stalking, even after the abuser remarries; denial of financial resources; and manipulation of the family court system to terrify the victim and her children, who are regularly forced by family court judges to spend unsupervised time with the man who beat their mother.

Leslie Morgan Steiner is a survivor of domestic violence.  She was in “crazy love” in her early 20′s.  That is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner shares the dark story of her relationship while examining any misconceptions people have about victims of domestic violence.

 

[VIDEO] A visual map of Twitter

From TED.com:

Millions of tweets are sent everyday, and from these tweets, we can gather a lot of information about people’s lives: where they travel, when they wake up, and their opinions on pretty much everything. In this TEDYouth 2012 Talk, former New York Times data artist-in-residence Jer Thorp imagines what uses we can devise from this wealth of information.

[Video] The Psychopaths and the gray area

Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane?  Jon Ronson illuminates the gray areas of spotting the psychopaths among us, even when you have a check-list.

“It’s a lot harder to convince people you’re sane than it is to convince them you’re crazy.”

[Video] The illusion of skin color.

From TED Ed:
“Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, however, as Jablonski explains, Darwin did not have access to NASA.”

[VIDEO] iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

From TED.com:

“iO’s photography can be seen regularly in two features in The New York Times: Notes from the Underground and The Lowdown. She is also the creator of Self Evident Truths—an ongoing project to document the wide variety of experiences in LGBTQ America. So far, she has photographed about 2,000 people for the project. Her goal: 10,000 portraits and a nationwide rethinking of discriminatory laws.”

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Finding physical evidence of PTSD.

With magnetoencephalography (known as MEG), a technique used to study brain activity, researchers are now able to visualize PTSD’s effects on the brain and can be used to diagnose patients with the disorder. This provides physical evidence that PTSD is not purely a psychological phenomenon.

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