Using Photography as a Creative, Collaborative Research Tool

Research and Creative Grant Competition 2013 Funded Projects Changing Ice, Changing Public: Evaluating Glacial Repeat Photography as an Education Tool

Evaluating and increasing the efficacy of climate change education is important because despite overwhelming evidence of climate change, the U.S. public remains skeptical and uninformed about the topic. Recently, climate change educators have been using Glacial Repeat Photography (GRP) to increase public awareness. During GRP a scientist photographer couples a past photograph (1930s) of a glaci...

Photography as a tool of alienation: Aura

One of the main objectives of this series of artworks is to facilitate the emergence of the experiential visual complexity between the animate and inanimate that is otherwise not possible to record. The latent aura of textural presences around us is not always noticeable easily since we tend to consume things too fast. With the rich textures achieved after high-dynamic-range-imaging (HDRI) proc...

A generative framework for creative learning: A tool for planning creative-collaborative tasks in the classroom

In this paper a generative framework for creativity is presented which extends upon Wallas’s model of creativity (1926), social learning theories and creativity theories. The framework offered here presents a distillation of learning and creativity theory drawing upon salient roots of both creativity and learning theories in the 21st century. The generative framework can be instantiated for use...

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Ocular Fundus Photography as an Educational Tool.

The proficiency of nonophthalmologists with direct ophthalmoscopy is poor, which has prompted a search for alternative technologies to examine the ocular fundus. Although ocular fundus photography has existed for decades, its use has been traditionally restricted to ophthalmology clinical care settings and textbooks. Recent research has shown a role for nonmydriatic fundus photography in nonoph...