Bøker av Jessica Roberts

Mikey Finds Her Faith is the second book in a three-book series. Mikey--the main character--is a spunky and lively second grader who loves all things purple! (Mikey is short for Mikelle, which means "gift from God.") She lives with her little brother, Levi, their parents, and Grandma Frances. As Mikey deals with issues in life, such as confidence and having faith, Grandma Frances is her voice of reason. The character of Grandma Frances is modeled after the author's own maternal grandmother, who died in the mid 90s. Levi, Mikey's little brother, is modeled after the author's nine year old son, Jace. Both boys are on the autism spectrum and share lovable and comical personalities. Both the author and Mikey share a love of purple and have bright, toothy smiles. In this particular book, the family dog - - Kitty - - is sick. Mikey and Levi are terribly worried. Grandma Frances tells them about the power of prayer and their need to have faith in God's awesomeness. This book encourages children, as well as adults, to not despair, but rather to trust God. The books in the Mikey series are targeted towards pre-kindergarten to upper elementary children. And it is the author's hope and prayer that the series becomes a family favorite!

Love can blossom into many things and it can hurt you in more ways than you can image. We all have experienced different types of relationships and stayed in those relationships for all the wrong reasons. Letters To My Ex will take you on a journey through different mixed emotions felt during the relationships seen and experienced through the eyes of the author. It will make you think. You may feel that you can relate. Or it may say all the words you were thinking, but never expressed.

Donny the Dung Beetle is just an ordinary young beetle, except for one big thing... he cannot roll dung! This book follows Donny's story as he overcomes his problems and, with hard work and dedication, proves everybody wrong! This book aims to give an educational introduction to the dung beetle alongside the message of the story: that hard work pays off and that "Practice makes perfect."

It is the holiday season, and Mikey is excited. She has been working on her Christmas wish list for weeks. But Grandma Frances starts to worry that Mikey isn't thinking about the right stuff. Perhaps Mikey should think of all of her blessings, rather than simply wanting more. Let's see how Mikey finds her gratefulness.

When you picture human-data interactions (HDI), what comes to mind? The datafication of modern life, along with open data initiatives advocating for transparency and access to current and historical datasets, has fundamentally transformed when, where, and how people encounter data. People now rely on data to make decisions, understand current events, and interpret the world. We frequently employ graphs, maps, and other spatialized forms to aid data interpretation, yet the familiarity of these displays causes us to forget that even basic representations are complex, challenging inscriptions and are not neutral; they are based on representational choices that impact how and what they communicate. This book draws on frameworks from the learning sciences, visualization, and human-computer interaction to explore embodied HDI. This exciting sub-field of interaction design is based on the premise that every day we produce and have access to quintillions of bytes of data, the exploration and analysis of which are no longer confined within the walls of research laboratories. This volume examines how humans interact with these data in informal (not work or school) environments, paritcularly in museums. The first half of the book provides an overview of the multi-disciplinary, theoretical foundations of HDI (in particular, embodied cognition, conceptual metaphor theory, embodied interaction, and embodied learning) and reviews socio-technical theories relevant for designing HDI installations to support informal learning. The second half of the book describes strategies for engaging museum visitors with interactive data visualizations, presents methodologies that can inform the design of hand gestures and body movements for embodied installations, and discusses how HDI can facilitate people's sensemaking about data. This cross-disciplinary book is intended as a resource for students and early-career researchers in human-computer interaction and the learning sciences, as well as for more senior researchers and museum practitioners who want to quickly familiarize themselves with HDI.

The family dog, Kitty, is sick. Mikey and her little brother, Levi, are quite worried. Their parents try to assure them that Kitty will be just fine. They only need to be patient. Grandma Frances reminds Mikey that, along with patience, they could all do something very special for Kitty: Pray! What may seem impossible for man is always possible for God. After what seems like a long night, Mikey may see that faith shines brightest in the dark.

Mikey is a spunky second grader. She is ready for her first day of the school year, excited that she's finally one of the big kids. But Mikey's confidence begins to waver when she starts questioning herself. Hopefully her grandma Frances can remind her that as God's child she should never doubt how amazing she is.

This authoritative annotated document collection surveys and explains efforts to censor, intimidate, suppress-and reform and improve-news organizations and journalism in America, from the newspapers of colonial times to the social media that saturates the present day.This primary source collection will help readers to understand how the press has been vilified (usually by powerful political or corporate interests) over the course of American history, with a special focus on current events and how these efforts to censor or influence news coverage often flout First Amendment protections concerning freedom of the press. Selected documents highlight efforts to intimidate, silence, condemn, marginalize, and otherwise undercut the credibility and influence of American journalism from the colonial era through the Trump presidency.Most of the featured documents focus on efforts borne out of self-interested attempts to shape or conceal news for political or economic gain or personal fame, but coverage also includes instances in which press actions, attitudes, or priorities deserved censure. All told, the collection will be a valuable resource for understanding the importance of a free press to American life (and the constitutional basis for preserving such), the motivations (both selfish and altruistic) of critics of American journalism from the earliest days of the Republic to today, and the impact of all of the above on American society.