Recently added articles from Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences:
Manage (and Maximize!) Your Membership Online
Apr 01, 2008; ... Point of View As we examine the challenges of technology in this issue, let's personalize the topic to our professional association. With our new web-based membership database, you have the power to "manage your membership." You can conveniently update your contact information whenever ...
Appropriate Technology
Apr 01, 2008; ... Point of View Pen and Paper. Computer and Printer. Digital Camera and Internet. What do each of these pairs have in common?1 Which are the most supportive of consumer, community or family communications? All of these pairs are technology. All can contribute to individual, family, ...
Exploring Online Auction Behaviors and Motivations
Apr 01, 2008; ... The availability and convenience of the Internet, combined with the variety of products available at any given time, have contributed to the success of online auctions. This exploratory study examined online auction behaviors among college students in an attempt to identify underlying dimensions ...
Online Scenarios in FCS College Courses: Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills
Apr 01, 2008; ... Critical thinking is a vital skill for higher education students. The Virtual Exchange was created by the authors to provide instructors with a unique approach to helping students enhance their critical thinking skills. Pilot data were collected from three universities where instructors used ...
Technology and Media: The Privacy Factor
Apr 01, 2008; ... Point of View Technology and media challenge us on a daily basis with new terminology and acronyms; choices of products, services, and treatments; and the need to understand the implications and consequences for the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. A number of the ...
FCS Students' Attitudes and Intentions Toward Entrepreneurial Careers
Apr 01, 2008; ... Growing interest in entrepreneurship among younger workers has implications for university family and consumer sciences (FCS) programs. This study assessed FCS majors' attitudes toward entrepreneurship as a career path. Students viewed entrepreneurship opportunities as attractive and were ...
Courseware Components and Features: Preferences of Faculty in the Human Sciences
Apr 01, 2008; ... This project gathered information on the important components and features of distance education courseware identified by faculty teaching in the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance. Respondents indicated that they were most interested in features that helped with course ...
Nanotechnology: Applications and Implications in Family and Consumer Sciences
Apr 01, 2008; ... Nanotechnology is the practical application of science and knowledge of matter that ranges in size from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). One nm is one-billionth of a meter. As an orientation to this scale, the diameter of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is 2.0 nm and one human eyelash is 800,000 nm ....
Inside AAFCS
Apr 01, 2008; ... Congratulations to the Newly Elected AAFCS Board, Committee, and Council Members! Marilyn Swierk, CFCS President-Elect (2008-2009) Jean Hanson Knaak, CFCS Treasurer (2008-2011) Merrilyn Cummings, CFCS Nominating Committee (2008-2010) Laura ...
FCS Careers: University Food Service
Apr 01, 2008; ... Claudia wears two hats in her position at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Neither is a faculty hat. She is the purchasing agent for the Food Service Department and system coordinator for the food service computer software. As purchasing agent, she oversees all purchases in food service ....
Studying the Past of Family and Consumer Sciences to Develop a Vision for the Future
Apr 01, 2008; ... The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences set the stage with the 2005 Future Search Summit to map the future of FCS by looking at the past and the present to determine the future direction of the profession (AAFCS, 2005). In keeping with this model, one of the objectives in a ...
Sizing Up America: Strategy for Public Policy Engagement
Apr 01, 2008; ... Engaging in public policy work is an element of the legacy of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). In recent years, as AAFCS Chalkley-Fenn Public Policy Scholars, we have called for a renewed commitment to civic engagement as an association and as individual ...
Reminiscences: Impact of Textiles and Apparel Technology on Our Lives
Apr 01, 2008; ... Women's perceptions of technological changes in textiles and apparel and how the changes have affected daily life were examined using the transmissive reminiscence technique. Technological advances do contribute to use of less time and effort and offer a greater variety of products, but the ...
Learning Circles: Applying the Andragogical Concept to Teaching and Learning
Apr 01, 2008; ... Although teaching has always been a challenging profession, in some ways, contemporary teachers find it increasingly difficult to make course material and the classroom experience relevant to today's students (Wilson, 2004). One alternative to improving the effectiveness of teaching may be to ...
Historical Perspective: AHEA/AAFCS State Organizations/Affilitates
Apr 01, 2008; ... 100 Years: 1909-2009 During the recognition of AAFCS/AHEA's 100 years, information gleaned from the Archives and from memories will be included in the Journal. Readers are encouraged to use this information to enhance their understanding of AAFCS' history and to spark ideas for local, ...
Service Learning and Pluralism: Working with Immigrants
Apr 01, 2008; ... Are college students prepared to deal with cultural diversity? Do they understand family systems, social systems, and cultural norms of immigrants? Do they understand clothing preferences and choices of immigrants? Sociocultural Aspects of Clothing, a course taught spring 2007, at The College of ...
FCS Careers: Self-employed Attorney
Apr 01, 2008; ... Energizing and rewarding are adjectives that come to mind when Debra describes her career as a self-employed lawyer. No day is ever the same. Yes, there are stressful days and long days. But would she trade her career for another? Not a chance. Her career path may seem unconventional: ...
FCS Careers: Family and Consumer Sciences Education-Federal Government
Apr 01, 2008; ... As the program administration specialist, Julia supports and enhances day-to-day operations by coordinating strategic plans and reports, personnel actions, and budgeting and contracting to provide guidance to the deputy director and executive director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and ...
In Brief
Apr 01, 2008; ... NANOTECHNOLOGIES The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies In addition to the ever-increasing number of studies and papers at http://www.nanotechproject.org/, one can find an inventory of products that use or integrate nanotechnology. One inventory is commercial products (likely ...
Technology Advances from 88 Years Ago: One Woman's Solution
Apr 01, 2008; ... Reprinted from the Journal of Home Economics, 1920 On the edge of the desert of the Colorado not far from Signal Mountain, in the Imperial Valley, where the heat rises in great throbbing waves from the white sand and the only water to refresh the burning land is that which runs in the ...