Gaming and social networking define the millennial student. This research focuses on an evolving collaboration between 2 faculty members of different disciplines who merged Web 2.0 and game scenarios to infuse research techniques as integral components of math/computer science courses. Blogs and wikis facilitated student-faculty interaction beyond…

This book is provided as a guide, encouragement and handbook for faculty to introduce digital media in language they can understand and provide strategies and activities they can quickly assimilate into their teaching. The authors are excited that more people will be able to benefit from the powerful help and guidance contained in this book. This…

Advocates the voluntary professional association as a viable instrument for progress and maintenance in contemporary society. Provides information about some current career education associations and career education-related associations. (CH)

Examined the friendship patterns of older women. Identified three independent dimensions of network evolution. Found that the patterns of change on these dimensions varied across middle-class status groups, but the members of each group tended to have reversed their middle-aged friendship patterns. (Author/ABB)

Study of adults (N=3,025) revealed significantly fewer network resources among the poor than among higher income groups. Asserts social workers must avoid addressing the problems of the poor solely through informal networks and target network interventions carefully to achieve maximum effectiveness. (Author)

Examined the structural characteristics and supportiveness of the social networks of 175 black and white rural, lower socioeconomic status mothers. Results indicated black networks were less supportive, smaller, more kin dominated, less heterogeneous but more desirable than white networks. (Author/BL)

Korean entrepreneurs rely heavily on their ethnic resources for both business formation and operation. While such resource utilization facilitates immigrants' business entry and gives them competitive advantage in the general marketplace, the same mechanism poses the problems of entra-ethnic business competition and precarious position as a…

Examined relationship between social characteristics of remarried persons and community integration. When measures of community integration were regressed upon all independent variables, the type of marriage did not have an effect on any of the measures. However, when the type of remarriage was a control variable, different integration patterns…

Interviews in four worksites with tiling teachers, educational planners, human resources officers, and off-campus trainers found that learning was strongly influenced by the nature of the work and workplace. However, only some of the learning networks fit the concept of communities of practice; other conceptualizations are needed to reflect the…

Investigated sociodemographic, family, and church factors as correlates of support from family and church members among African Americans. Surveys found significant age, gender, marital, and parental status differences in patterns of support from family and church. Perceptions of family closeness, degree of interaction with family, and overall…

Conducted interviews with spouses to obtain data on those people considered significant (psychological networks). Telephone interviews with same spouses identified people with whom they interacted frequently (interactive networks). Comparisons of network types revealed minimal overlap; approximately 25 percent of network members were included in…

Suggests that the human and environmental crises of today's world are largely a factor of a lack of a sense of place. Seeks to make clear the philosophical basis for bioregionalism and then examines the practice of living bioregionally. (LZ)

Describes community-based group in Pacific Northwest called Bereavement Network, group which provides opportunities for networking and education for individuals who work with bereaved persons. Notes that group is committed to bring professional and laypersons together on regular basis. Explains group's leadership, membership, structure, and…

Interviewed survivors (n=12) of family member's suicide and members of survivor's support systems (n=10). Participants completed scales of social support offered or received by family members and scale of recovery from grief. Survivors believed that only other suicide survivors could fully understand them and that they experienced implicit…

Tests the hypothesis that social networks serve as a social resource that effects job satisfaction through the provision of social support. Argues that three types of networks are likely to affect job satisfaction: dense networks, social circles composed of co-workers, and kin-centered networks. (JOW)