{"id":45514,"date":"2016-10-19T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45514"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T21:49:24","slug":"spotlight-oct-19-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-19-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Oct. 19, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><strong>Inside@nau.edu<\/strong><\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\"><strong>online submission form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Blocher<\/strong>, professor of educational technology in the Educational Specialties Department, recently had two books published by Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers. \u201cDigital Tools for Knowledge Construction in the Elementary Grades\u201d and \u201cDigital Tools for Knowledge Construction in the Secondary Grades\u201d were written for teachers who wish to gain a better understanding of how to integrate technology into their classrooms from a student-centered perspective.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bruce M. Sullivan<\/strong>, professor of Comparative Cultural Studies, published an article in the journal\u00a0<em>Religion Compass<\/em>. An overview of recent scholarly studies of the Hindu scripture Mahabharata, the article describes the state of the field and work still to be done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-19-2016\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, or use our\u00a0online submission form. Michael Blocher, professor of educational technology in the Educational Specialties Department, recently had two books published by Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers. \u201cDigital Tools for Knowledge Construction in&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}