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2024 Innovation in the Construction Industry book cover

2024 Innovation in the Construction Industry

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Prof. Dossick's CM515 Spring 2024 Class

Editor(s): Carrie Sturts Dossick, Lauren Ray

Subject(s): Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes, Construction and heavy industry, Construction and building industry, Building construction and materials, Computing and Information Technology, Information technology: general topics, Computer applications in industry and technology

Institution(s): University of Washington

Last updated: 10/12/2024

This book contains a series of case studies authored by graduate students in CM515 Virtual Construction Management Spring 2024. We explored how people, teams, and companies change practices with a variety of new technologies in the workplace. You will find cases of people who are innovators, teams who took on innovation, and specific design and construction projects that realized these innovation practice changes.

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Bate-Papo

CC BY (Attribution)  117 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Eduardo Viana da Silva

Subject(s): Language and Linguistics, Brazilian Portuguese

Last updated: 01/11/2024

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Designing Tech Policy

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): David Hendry

Last updated: 28/10/2024

The Design Case Studies offer instructors with a starting point for introducing students to the design of technology and policy. Students work with value sensitive design methods to develop tech policy solutions.

View or download the PDF version here.

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How to FOIA

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Emily Willard

Subject(s): Freedom of information law, Civics and citizenship, Research and information: general, Social and ethical issues, Politics and government, Legal skills and practice, Legal skills: research methods, Human rights, civil rights, Political activism / Political engagement

Last updated: 18/10/2024

This document is a guide to accompany a training workshop “How to File a FOIA” to celebrate the University of Washington Center for Human Rights’ 10th Anniversary Celebration in May 2019. The guide includes information on researching, writing, submission, and tracking of FOIA requests, and was created by UWCHR graduate research fellow, Emily Willard in May 2019 based on previous drafts of training manuals for UWCHR interns. This training guide for anyone who is interested in filing a FOIA related to public interest.

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Stories From The Place of Sports in The University, 3rd Edition

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  1 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Students of the Place of Sports In the University

Editor(s): Jennifer Lee Hoffman

Subject(s): Moral and social purpose of education, Higher education, tertiary education, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Sports teams and clubs, Multidiscipline sports, Winter sports, eSports / Professional video gaming

Publisher: University of Washington Libraries

Last updated: 12/10/2024

What is the place of sports at a university? From the 2024 media frenzy over women's college basketball to our own University of Washington football team playing in a National Championship, student contributors examined the impact of these highly visible sports on a campus. Just as importantly, are stories that reveal the impact in so many other sports opportunities a campus offers. Cover Photo Credit:  Lauren Ray
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Our Voices: A Guide to Citing Personal Experience and Interviews in Research

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Emily Willard, Emma Macdonald-Scott, Jake Lally

Subject(s): Education, Research methods: general, Higher education, tertiary education, Social pedagogy

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publisher: UW PressBooks

Last updated: 11/10/2024

Our hope is that this guide to citing personal experience and interviews meets our goal of supporting students to produce their own knowledge, as well as honoring the academic value of their lived experience and the experiences of their families and communities. Through the use of a set of guidelines we created for students to cite personal experience and interviews, we found students self-reported increase in engagement and success in academic assignments. We propose this set of guidelines are an important practical tool for critical, feminist, and anti-racist pedagogy, as well as a method for teaching ethical research.
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Stories From The Place of Sports in The University, 2022 Edition

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Students in The Place of Sports In The University

Editor(s): Jennifer Lee Hoffman

Subject(s): Moral and social purpose of education, Higher education, tertiary education, Sports and Active outdoor recreation

Institution(s): University of Washington

Last updated: 03/10/2024

This book showcases student exploration the role of sports in cultivating the collegiate ideal in their own college going experiences. Topics include the influence of esports, recreational activities, intramural, club, and spectator sports on pre-college choices and campus life. Students individually and collectively investigate how sports activities cultivate the collegiate ideal through ceremonies, stories, rituals and rites of passage, and unique language; all of which are most well understood by insiders to the campus community (Toma, 2010; Toma & Kezar, 1999). Using the inquiry tools of autoethnography, students highlight their individual and shared  experiences of ‘going to college’ and the role of the collegiate ideal.

Stories From The Place of Sports in The University, 2nd Edition book cover

Stories From The Place of Sports in The University, 2nd Edition

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Students of the Place of Sports In the University

Editor(s): Jennifer Lee Hoffman

Subject(s): Moral and social purpose of education, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Winter sports, Sports teams and clubs, eSports / Professional video gaming, Higher education, tertiary education

Publisher: University of Washington Libraries

Last updated: 25/09/2024

What is the place of sports at a university? Students share what they learned about sports of all kinds on campus. From 'built' & 'natural' environment sports, to esports, recreational activities, intramural, club, and spectator sports, students share stories of how sports influence the college going experiences of campus life. Cover Photo Credit:  Dennis Wise/University Photography
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UW Libraries Pressbooks Accessibility Guide

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Lauren Ray, Sena Crow, Melanie Smith

Subject(s): Collaboration and group software

Last updated: 24/09/2024

Cover Image Credit: University of Washington

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Knowledge Kapamilya 2024

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Gabbie Mangaser, Madison Calma, Charisse Vales, Delano Cordova, Sierra Paine, Jay Lundgren

Subject(s): Museology and heritage studies, Ethnic studies, Asian history

Last updated: 23/09/2024

This book was created as a final project for the 2024 cohort of Knowledge Kapamilya, a knowledge family for Filipino/a/x American students at the University of Washington. The cohort met on Coast Salish lands at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, using cultural collections from the Philippines to make connections to their personal heritage.