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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"storyline"”.
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An analysis of the Storyline method in primary school; its theoretical underpinnings and its impact on pupils’ intrinsic motivation.
… explores the relationship between the Scottish Storyline teaching method and pupils’ levels of motivation when engaged in a Storyline topic. It also examines the theoretical underpinnings for Storyline drawn from constructivism, progressive education, drama methodology and intrinsic motivation. …
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International Education as Policy: A Discourse Coalition Framework Analysis of the Construction, Context, and Empowerment of Ontarios International Education Storylines
… DCF have typically identified oppositional storylines, the findings of this study reveal one dominant storyline: Internationalize. All discourses agree, to varying degrees, that IE is desirable and beneficial to the postsecondary education sector and Ontario. However, within the overarching …
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User perception of gaming element effectiveness in a corporate learning application
… Leaderboard, Timer, In-Game Currency, Badges, Storyline/Theme and Avatar. A gamification application containing these gaming elements was designed and developed to make the evaluation. The application entailed users learning four Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes …
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Teachers who initiate curriculum innovations: Motivations and benefits
… who learned about, planned, and implemented the Storyline approach to curriculum design (Phases 2 and 3). For Phases 2 and 3, Storyline provided a common context for innovation and the essential elements of flexibility, adaptability, and challenge for the teachers. Teachers’ motivators for …
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"A journey is an hallucination" : Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman
… The events and characters within the O�Brien�s storyline obtain no source of reason, and their actions and comments hold no sense of logic. Although, if particular aspects of the novel are studied further and in relation to the aftereffects of trauma, O�Brien�s work is more realistic and logical …
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Berättelser om adoption
… chosen for closer investigation.Two different storylines were uncovered in the personal stories – adoption as a complicated experience and adoption as an uncomplicated experience. In the first storyline the abandoned child was linked with psychological and social interpretations of “being …
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One transition: three journeys
… in feeling emotionally balanced. The central storyline for the adolescents’, ‘weighing up the transitional balance’, related to the emotional reaction during the transition. The adolescents wanted to be informed of their new school, with information on timeframes and support to prepare them, …
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Square pegs
… structure, character development, individual storyline development and structure.
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"Poetic Surrealism in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci: ""The Spider's Strategem"", ""The Conformist"" and ""Last Tango in Paris"""
… in a dream or fantasy, contradict the storyline and develop the irrational side of his characters. Bertolucci has labeled the irrational substrata of images that make up his movies as scene madri (mother scenes) with reference to the ideal unity between mother and infant and the film …
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Topics, Events, Stories in Social Media
… via signals from social media data, 5) storyline generation for massive unorganized documents.
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Emotion-driven interactive storytelling.
… and therefore have an impact on the whole storyline. In this sense, emotions, as a driving force, directly and explicitly contribute to storytelling and the user experience. An interactive video was made by re-editing existing TV material to interpret the concept of emotion-driven …
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Pride and prejudice in the twenty-first century
… pre-conceived idea s of the novel' s trivial storyline and their assumptions about the writer. In light of this reluctance this thesis explores many of the issues related to Pride and Prejudice which both correspond to and reject student's conceptions of the novel. My methodology was to use …
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Black women, HIV/AIDS, and the media: communicating an epidemic in the hip hop era
… employs a textual analysis of the AIDS storyline on the black situation comedy Girlfriends, the AIDS character Ana Wallace in the HBO film Life Support, and the self-representation of Rae Lewis-Thornton on her personal health blog ""Diva living with AIDS."" Each text generates …
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Realistic Dialogue Engine for Video Games
… give can be modified to fit within a game’s storyline. Although the system only currently allows for simple dialogue, it illustrates the potential for a more robust way to simulate believable agents in video games.
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Selling the drama: A content-analysis of prescribed storylines in Abc's "Monday Night Football"
… is a qualitative content-analysis of prescribed storylines used in ABC's Monday Night Football. The sample is of five broadcasts that were recorded during the 2002 National Football League seaSon The analysis of the programs is twofold: (1) to identify the storylines set forth during the pregame …
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A director's approach to Alice by Heart.
… seeks to explore the ways in which the plot and storyline are highlighted through visual cues such as movement, stage pictures, music, and design/technical elements. The thesis also discusses the development of the directorial concept which guided the production, the director-designer …
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Forging an educative community
… of a third-grade class using the Scottish Storyline method to study the topic of homelessness. Through the use of this strategy, students and teacher developed relations of trust, imaginative compassion, and sense-making that fostered a sense of belonging among the participants. The second …
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Bad luck chicken
… she feels a jolt of attraction, a sense of a storyline unspooling between them, an inevitability she could avoid by walking past him.
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IMMERSION : a platform for visualization and temporal analysis of email data
… anatomy of a new feature of Immersion called Storyline - an interactive timeline of significant life events detected from a person's email metadata. This feature is inspired by feedback obtained from people after the initial launch of the platform.
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Defying gravity: queering the witches of Oz
… lens, first establishes a queer romantic storyline between Glinda the Good and Elphaba, who later becomes The Wicked Witch of the West. Then, in response to the driving research query, how does passing function within the musical Wicked, this project accesses traditional and ambiguous …
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