Site of the 2008 National Technology & Social Science Conference
Hello from Las Vegas! By the first day of our conference, our not so little group from Allegheny has had quite an experience. We've enjoyed a limo ride from the airport, slept at two different hotels on the Vegas strip, and have enjoyed the food and sights of the city.
Today, however, marks the beginning of the conference, and so we shift into different gears. This morning (Monday, April 7th), Professor Carla Bluhm, and students Dan Goldstein and Sarah (Farah) Winter are presenting about the use of Second Life as a classroom tool. This afternoon, Professor Knupsky (yours truly) will present her experience utilizing blogging as a classroom tool in FS101 (the first year seminar) and Psych440 (an upper level language course). Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 8th), Allegheny representatives are giving three presentations. Adrianne Grand is presenting her work on the influence of imagery on the ease of motion of athletes. Katie Cross & Natalie Nagy are presenting a combined paper discussing their senior comps which examined the importance of authority in determining the use of interruptions and personalization in the language of female students. And, last but not least, Chris Hansen and Jennifer Warren are presenting their work on the expression of verbal and nonverbal cues to deception in the multiple audience predicament (an extension of the work of alum Todd Derby).
Stay tuned for an update after our return!