Jasmine Hoover led several ACU staff members through some of her favorite online resources for gathering U.S. Statistical Data. All of the sites she shared are available on Jasmine’s LibGuide, or you can go to the ACU Library website, click on “Research Guides,” and type “Data” into the search box. Jasmine’s LibGuide will be the first result.
Dr. Anita Broxson hand picked four of her senior nursing students to participate in a research project whereby they would create a survey, develop and produce a video, and provide a means by which they could determine whether or not individuals would be able to gain a better understanding on how they could keep from contracting the Zika virus. Turns out, they did a really good job in not only attaining their objectives, but with some help from the Innovation Foundry, they were able to reach a larger audience by making the survey digital and able to host it on a learning management system to be used in several missions courses. The four students shared their experience with faculty and staff during an Adams Center Luncheon today, and were able to talk about how they learned a great deal about how to incorporate technology into their project to get the results they were looking for, but also how this project can now continue to exist beyond their time here at Abilene Christian University. We look forward to seeing how they do at the National Conference of Undergrad Research in Memphis, TN, in April. More to come…
Today, John Kaczmarek and several students and staff began their Raspberry Pi project in partnership with the Innovation Foundry and Maker Lab. The project is a first of it’s kind pilot program in which participants will be building a distributed weather monitoring system utilizing the Nerves platform. This project follows an Innovation Fridays talk John gave about the Internet of Things.
Plans are for the project to be completed before ACU Maker Fest and will be on display during the event. Stay tuned for more updates.
Here is a link to help educators get better usage and results when using Google Drive.