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This paper presents an overview of Web-enabled databases that dynamically generate Web materials and focuses on the use of this technology used to support collaboration, knowledge construction and communication. Database applications have been...

Over the last two decades, the growth of the Internet has truly been staggering. Electronic communities have flourished as hardware, software, and network infrastructures have become more accessible, more affordable, and simpler to use. In education,...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the University of Houston have collaborated on the design and development of multi-faceted web sites related to both permanent and traveling exhibitions. In this paper, stakeholders from the museum and the...

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The focus of this panel discussion is to examine how art museums are creating partnerships with schools, universities, and teachers to design and develop technology-based instructional resources that can be used by students, in-service teachers,...

Data drives educational decisions that allow instructors to immediately respond to learner needs. This paper will demonstrate how the use of online tools, both transparent and user-initiated, can yield data to guide not only the maintenance of...

For the past six years, graduate students enrolled in an Instructional Technology web design course at the University of Houston have been learning technology skills by working on authentic educational web projects with community-based arts...

This paper presents a description of multimedia-enhanced educational projects developed using the Webscape design model. This model has evolved from an instructor-led experience to a more student-centered, collaborative approach. Currently, the...

This paper presents an overview of database tools that dynamically generate Web materials and focuses on the use of these tools used to support research activities as well as teaching and learning. Database applications have been used in...

This paper presents preliminary findings from a two-semester study on the effects of online learning on student perceptions of self-change as well as the impact of online learning environments on student attitudes concerning their learning...

Database tools that dynamically generate Web pages have been in use by many commercial Internet sites for years. However, in the field of education, the use of database applications has mostly been used to support traditional classroom learning...

Multimedia Masters is unique a school-university partnership of student "consultants," teacher "clients" and university "experts." The year-long project begins with a development day to collaboratively set goals for the year, and four remaining...

During the summer of 2002, graduate students in the Instructional Technology Program at the University of Houston began working on an initiative in which they learned the basic operation of an iPAQ handheld computer and developed training resources...

Multimedia Masters, a collaborative effort between the University of Houston's College of Education and the Spring Independent School District in Spring, Texas brought together middle school students and teachers and University of Houston faculty...

Digital photography and digital storytelling have been combined at the University of Houston's College of Education in a manner that allows both undergraduate and graduate students to learn not only how to use digital cameras and imaging techniques, ...

This paper describes an initiative to re-conceptualize the core curriculum for university freshmen. A cross-disciplinary team of faculty members has created linked English and American history courses in which students investigate and write about...

Digital Storytelling has become a powerful instructional tool for both students and educators. This article presents an overview of Digital Storytelling and describes where it came from, how it can be used to support instruction and how students who ...

The use of Digital Storytelling as a multimedia tool for teaching and learning has greatly increased over the past year in the College of Education, as well as in other colleges at the University of Houston, K-12 schools, and community organizations....