NLC宣布创新资助接受者

东北湖景学院宣布创新基金获得者

Five Projects at 东北湖景学院 receive funding from the 澳门新葡京博彩区 Foundation Innovation Grant Program.  The Faculty/Staff Innovation Grant Program encourages faculty and staff to provide innovative instruction and/or co-curricular support that positively impacts student learning, persistence, and/or completion.  澳门新葡京博彩区的每所学院都得到了10美元,6万美元，以奖励符合此标准的项目. 

东北湖景学院获奖的五个项目包括:

德克萨斯州常见食用植物的营养成分分析

Dr. Wes Adams，运动机能学教授

资助金额:$2,125

The purpose of the project is to identify the nutritional facts of common edible plants that are native to Texas in order to provide students with nutritional information that can be used in the Wilderness Survival class taught at 东北湖景学院 (NLC). Wilderness survival was created to offer students a basic understanding on how to survive in the wild with nothing but the resources available in nature.  There are no comprehensive publications specific to Texas and students attending this class need a resource to be used as a reference that can develop their skills. The information gathered through this project can also be shared in the Nutrition courses taught at NLC. The information may eventually be published to help future researchers in areas of nutrition and wilderness survival. 

科学研讨会写作

Dr. Brittany Chozinski，社会学副教授

Dr. Megan Grimsley，运动机能学副教授

资助金额:1500美元 . 

这个项目的目的是帮助学生提高他们的写作水平, 特别是在自然界, social, 以及行为科学. There are student support services currently being offered at the college that assist students with improving their writing.  However, writing for the sciences can be a unique challenge as it requires an increased degree of objectivity, 更强的批判性思维能力, and the ability to synthesize evidence from multiple empirical sources that builds and supports a conclusion.  在项目期间, faculty members from the various sciences will host workshops to address the challenges students encounter when writing for the sciences.  目前提议举行五次会议，讨论不同的议题.  该项目的目标是让学生学习如何更好地为科学写作, 这将使他们更有准备完成一门科学课程。. The project also aligns with the AlamoINSTITUTES model to help students develop skills specific to their future career fields, 使他们在就业市场上更具竞争力.

吞并的触手

萨布丽娜·哈梅尔，政府助理教授

资助金额:$2,125

This is a service learning project with the goals of coordinating a community cleanup event for the City of Converse and identifying two households, 在哪些地方，老年人和/或残疾居民可能需要帮助进行小型的房屋维修和清洁. Additionally, the project would facilitate a community event to provide helpful information to residents of newly annexed communities in the Converse area, 包括格伦和卡梅洛特二世.  作为被吞并的社区, the session would provide the residents with helpful information on what services are now available to them and what services will eventually be offered, 并讨论兼并的时间表.  Additionally, 东北湖景学院 will partner with Neighborhood First Alliance and the County Commissioner’s Office (Precinct 4) to provide an on-site job fair at the session.  Students enrolled in GOVT 2305 and 2306 will document the project in their portfolios that can then be used for service learning credit.  Additionally, students will actively learn how interest groups can influence state and local elections to facilitate change, 理解政府对公民的责任.

关于思考的思考:提高学生的元认知支持学习

黛西·卡莫娜，学术项目协调员

特雷西·门多萨，学习资源中心主任

资助金额:$2,125

The purpose is to create either stand‐alone or embeddable self‐paced CANVAS modules to increase students’ awareness of how they absorb, monitor, 评估信息并将其加工成自己的知识库. Three to five courses will pilot 关于思考的思考:提高学生的元认知支持学习 (TAT 101), 学生的学习目标包括识别元认知的五种策略, 识别有序学习实践, 用你自己的意识来定义学习过程中的弱点, 在学习过程中区分优势和劣势. 一旦这些模块在学生反馈的基础上进行了试点和完善, TAT 101 will be made available to any faculty member as embedded course modules and to any student as a stand- alone, self-paced process.

Nighthawk Garden

罗伯特·沃恩，图书馆助理III

唐·卡灵顿，学术小组助理，很好 & Performing Arts

资助金额:$2,125

The purpose is to create two gardens on the NLC Campus both of which will be maintained by students in the Garden Club. 这些花园将用于各种教学目的. The first garden will be a botanical garden and the second garden will be used to grow a variety of vegetables and herbs. During the process, 学生将学习个人责任, 随着花园的发展，团队合作和社交技能也在增加. 最终目标是利用花园与当地社区互动.  A cross-section of courses have already been identified in which instructors will utilize the gardens in their curriculums.