THE COLLEGIAN MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014
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E-portfolios seek to boost digital learning practices
Submarine Force’s 114th anniversary to be celebrated Collegian staff report
The 114th anniversary of the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Force will be commemorated Wednesday in a Submarine Veterans Celebration on campus. The celebration will begin in the Free Speech Area and shift to the Maple Mall, the site of Fresno State’s Submarine Veterans Memorial. Fresno State’s Submarine Veterans Memorial, located in the south Maple Mall n e a r t h e Jo y a l It’s awesome Administration uilding, was to have the Bbuilt in 2002 and opportunity is the first memorial honoring lost to expose submarines and the general crewmembers to be located on a student body college campus. The event’s to something purpose is to pay like this... respects to lost submarines and -- Tiffany Marsh submariners – Student Veterans and celebrate the country’s subOrganization marine force. An 18-foot submarine float will be on display during the celebration. Four of the 10 submarine veterans slated to appear at the event are Fresno State graduates. The celebration, which is expected to begin at 11:30 a.m., will conclude with a cake cutting ceremony where the oldest submariner will pass the cake down to the youngest submariner to signify “the passing of tradition and knowledge for the younger generation,” said Tiffany Marsh of Fresno State’s Student Veterans Organization. “It’s awesome to have the opportunity to expose the general student body to something like this because there’s so much lack of knowledge for things like that on this campus,” Marsh said.
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NOT BLUFFING AROUND
Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
Friday night was a cool night for hot rods. Dozens of cars were showcased at Park Place Shopping Center, including this 1923 Ford T-Bucket, for “Rods on the Bluff.”
THE WINE TRAIL
Welty’s commemorative wine wins award By David Lee @D_Lee64
A Fresno State wine made to commemorate former Fresno State President John Welty won a silver medal at the 2014 Consumer Wine Awards in Lodi. The “Legacy – President’s Reserve Classic Chardonnay 2012,” is labeled in honor of former Fresno State president John D. Welty. It was created by students at the Fresno State Winery and released last April to celebrate Welty’s retirement and his commitment to viticulture and enology programs. Under Welty’s 22-year tenure, the Fresno State Winery became the first student winery on a university campus
to sell its wines and has won more than 500 awards in commercial competition. The wine was made from chardonnay grapes grown in Linden and aged in oak. Out of the 225 cases of the wine that were created, only 55 cases are left. Kevin Smith, business and marketing manager at Fresno State Winery, said consumers judged the wine instead of professional judges. Smith said the wine won the medal for its color, taste and balance. “Balance is the whole experience of the wine,” Smith said. “Taste is something most consumers look for. It’s a very vague word but everyone has their own taste, and
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Fresno State took a major step Monday toward the implementation of a campuswide e-portfolio program that aims to provide students with a way to showcase school work to other students, professors and even prospective employers. The program is part of a larger move by Fresno State to make courses more centered on digital learning practices. Working corroboratively with other initiatives, the e-portfolio program will be used in all tablet courses, which are set to begin next fall. The program is designed “to improve our use of high impact practices, make learning visible, help in course redesign, assist in faculty development and be an important element in program reviews and preparing for our upcoming campus accreditation visit,” according to the E-Portfolio Implementation Plan. “The whole idea of what they call folio thinking is that students are more intentional in course selection and completing assignments,” said Dr. Dennis Nef, dean of undergraduate studies at Fresno State. When students’ work is made publicly available to their professors and classmates they are likely to put more effort into their work, he said. The program is run through Pathbrite.com and initially will be free for students who use less than two gigabytes of storage. Although the costs are currently subsidized by the university, in the future students may have to pay somewhere around $7.50 for the service, Nef said. In an effort to introduce students to the program, which is
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Katie Eleneke • The Collegian
The Fresno State Winery’s “Legacy - President’s Reserve Classic Chardonnay,” which honors former Fresno State President John Welty, won a silver medal at the 2014 Consumer Wine Awards.
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