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like Riley are also using free apps to optimize their learning experience. “I use an application called inRobert Riley sits in class, eyes Class. It helps sort out my class work, fixed on the screen of his iPad. Rap- due dates, notes, and even my profesidly, he types on the 9.7-inch, LED- sors contact information,” said Riley. backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch “It works on the iPad and iPhone so I display. can take notes on either. It’s handy beAlthough it may look like he cause I can record teacher’s lectures, is slacking off, he is actually taking import pictures and files and then link notes, adding due dates to his calendar them to the notes.” and e-mailing his professor all from According to Riley, using techhis fingertips. nology in class and for homework has This shift from traditional, paper become a great learning tool for him note-taking to digital note-taking is be- and has increased his academic perforcoming more and more mance. ELECTRONICS IN noticeable. Washburn “I use them to students like Riley are THE CLASSROOMS keep myself orgausing handheld devices nized,” said Riley. to type, record and e-mail lectures. “Before, I used to try to keep all of this “I use my iPad mostly for tasks information in a notebook on paper, like note taking, brainstorming con- but things could get confusing fast, cepts, e-mail responding, writing and it wasn’t friendly when changes shorter papers, and my online class,” happened.” said Riley, senior Art major. Riley keeps on top of the latest Not only does Riley use his iPad technology he said because it helps for classwork, he also regularly uses a him stay on top of his assignments. MacBook Pro and an iPhone. “These new technologies benefit “I use my MacBook for power me as a student, by allowing me to be computing, like Photoshop or other able to work on school work, review graphic intensive work. It’s also the notes, and remind my self of tasks in main hub in my technology ecosys- more places,” said Riley. tem,” said Riley. “I keep my class Apple isn’t the only company schedules, assignments, files, and that uses technology to help college teacher e-mails managed on my com- students, and more students than just puter, but then also sync that informa- Riley are utilizing new technology for tion to my iPad and phone.” school. The ability to access information “For school work, I use my smart from anywhere, and from a variety of phone, a Droid-X,” said Washburn studevices is important to Riley. dent Adrian Christian. The Droid-X “No mater which device I am on features Adobe Flash Player, Google I can see my upcoming assignments, mobile services and can serve as a due dates, or other important informa- mobile hotspot for up to five other detion,” said Riley. vices. Along with hardware, students Smartphones like the Droid-X,
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Blackberrys and the iPhone give students the ability to access the Internet, pdfs and word documents from anywhere, in the the palms of their hands. “I use my iPhone,” said Washburn student Riley Piles, who uses technology to send, receive and edits homework assignments. Students are using more than just hardware and applications for school work. They are also taking advantage of online resources. “I also use Google Docs, a web/ cloud based document creator and viewer by Google. It is really useful for when I need to share a paper or slide in class,” said Riley. “I don’t have to carry a USB drive on me, and I don’t have to worry about formatting issues with Mac/PC because it’s all browser-based.” Google Docs is a word processor, spreadsheet and data storage service with some similar features to Microsoft Office and iWork. “docs.google.com is great for an online word processor. It has the advantage of being on every device with internet pretty much with no formatting issues,” said Riley. “You can work on a paper at home, work, or school on different devices that way. It also helps with collaboration. Students can also share documents and co-create them at the same time.”
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Ashley Nadeau is a senior mass media major. Reach her at ashley.nadeau@ washburn.edu
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Labor union: Crystal Fleming stands with the members of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Department Station 5 who helped her get to into the ambulance that took her to the hospital. Once at the hospital, Fleming delivered her baby in a hospital elevator.
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As they made it to Lawrence, she said she felt like she had to push and could feel her baby’s head crowning. Leming made it to a nearby fire station and was loaded on to an ambulance. Leming made it to the hospital and made it to the elevator when she said they gave her medication to slow down her labor. Once on the elevator, Leming said ‘her head was coming’. “The EMTs were skeptical but checked, to appease me if nothing else, and sure enough there she was,” said Leming. Alyssa Lynn Leming was born in the elevator at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Leming told The Lawrence Jour-
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“This is crazy. A woman in Kansas gave birth in a hospital elevator before she could reach the delivery room in time. Yeah, unfortunately the elevator made stops at every floor because someone kept yelling ‘Push,” said Jimmy Fallon on late night With Jimmy Fallon. “That’s right, a woman gave birth in an elevator. It was weird – when the baby came out, he was just like, (polite nod) ‘Morning.’ (Move to corner of elevator, check watch, whistle)‘This is crazy weather we’re having,” he said. Although Jimmy Fallon found
this scenario to be great material for his opening monologue, it was no laughing matter to Washburn student Crystal Leming. Friday, Feb. 18 began with what Leming described as labor pains. After class, Leming went to her doctor in Olathe, then returned home. Around 8 p.m. that night she realized her daughter was on her way. Leming and her husband immediately drove toward Olathe, Kan., but didn’t get far before her labor pains became so intense she began to wonder how much time they had. “Oh my gosh I have hours of this left and it already hurts this bad,” Leming thought to herself.
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nal-World that when the elevator door opened, she said, “Can somebody please catch her head?” Although the family shared their story willingly, Leming said she never anticipated the media attention she received in the days that followed. “It’s crazy that it turned into such a big story,” said Leming. “My father-in-law asked if he could tell the Lawrence Journal-World, we honestly didn’t even know if they’d pick it up.” The Lawrence Journal-World did in fact pick up the story, for their front page. “We had no idea it would be such a big deal, we’ve seen her story in the United Kingdom, the Thai/India Press, a foreign exchange student I knew in high school said he saw the story in Hungary,” said Leming. “It’s crazy the number of different places it’s gotten to.” Alyssa, nicknamed “Ellie” by family members and the media, may have entered the world quickly, but for Crystal and her husband this journey was long and hard. Crystal met her future husband in 2005 while recovering from the impact of a devastating fire. “I needed to recover emotionally and financially, I returned to school in the fall of 2006 and we got married a few weeks later,” said Leming. “We started trying for a baby almost right away, but with no success.” The Lemings continued to try to conceive for more than three years while Crystal finished her psychology degree from the University of Kansas. “We had been to a family doctor, an OB/GYN specialist, and a reproductive endocrinologist at a fertility clinic in Wichita by that time, with no explanation as to why we couldn’t conceive,” said Leming. “We kept getting referred to more complicated, risky, and expensive treatments ranging from
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$750 - $12,000 a cycle depending on the treatment, but we weren’t getting any answers.” The financial obligations these fertility treatments held eventually took their toll on the Lemings, and they were unable to continue treatments. Even with this setback, they did not lose hope of having a baby. “We heard about a family doctor in Olathe who was having a lot of success with helping couples like us,” said Leming. “Eventually, I decided that I wanted to work with couples dealing with all of the stress, anxiety and depression that comes along with infertility.” It was at this point Leming decided she wanted to go back to school. “I decided to apply to the graduate program in clinical psychology at Washburn,” said Leming. “I got admitted, decided to leave my job to pursue this degree, and then found out I was pregnant a few weeks later.” Leming said although their story is sensational, she feels it could be a message of hope for other couples struggling with infertility “I remember many situations that brought me great pain when we were struggling to conceive,” said Leming. “I imagine our story, when reported simply as a sensational birth, elicits those same emotions for many couples who are struggling with infertility themselves,” said Leming. “I sincerely hope that these couples might know our background and hear a message of hope and support in this story as well.”
Ashley Nadeau is a senior mass media major. Reach her at ashley.nadeau@ washburn.edu