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Thinking About the Author: a New Authoring Paradigm
F B. Cavalcanti Marques; J M. Lima; Universidade Federal
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 478–480
The wide-spread use of multimedia tools often involves people from different walks of life including education specialists, designers, publishers, marketing personnel, sales personnel, and film producers. The integration of various media has proven...
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Thinking About the Author: a New Authoring Paradigm
F B. Cavalcanti Marques; J M. Lima; Universidade Federal
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 478–480
The wide-spread use of multimedia tools often involves people from different walks of life including education specialists, designers, publishers, marketing personnel, sales personnel, and film producers. The integration of various media has proven...
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Math Teacher as Author: Strategies for Developing Successful Classroom CAI
Peggi E. Hunter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 510–514
There is a generation of elementary and secondary students who have lost interest in mathematics and science. Consequently, there is a continuous call for innovative teaching strategies to recapture fascination with these disciplines. The Division...
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Survey of Students Who Participated in Discussions on a List
M O. Thirunarayanan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 298–301
Many university professors have started incorporating discussion lists into the courses they teach. However, since the use of electronic discussion lists in courses is a relatively new phenomenon, not much literature exists on the topic. For example,...
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Exploring Probability With Preservice Teachers
HollyLynne S. Drier
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 709–710
As part of their mathematics education methods courses, preservice teachers need to experience effective mathemat ics instruction. This instruction needs to address mathematical understandings of concepts, a variety of instructional methods, and how ...
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A Model of Staff Development Using Control Technology
Christopher Taylor
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 435–437
The author, a Lecturer in Education at the University of Exeter, was asked by a group of teachers in a local primary school to support work they were doing to better address technology issues. The purpose of the research was twofold: to develop a...
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A Model of Staff Development Using Control Technology
Christopher Taylor
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 435–437
The author, a Lecturer in Education at the University of Exeter, was asked by a group of teachers in a local primary school to support work they were doing to better address technology issues. The purpose of the research was twofold: to develop a...
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Teacher Teams Integrating Technology into the Mathematics/Science Curriculum
Henry S. Kepner
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 117–120
This paper presents a successful model of a universitydirected support for change in mathematics and science instruction using technology in several area school districts. Under an NSF grant, the author, as principal investigator, developed a three...
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Catching the Dickens: A Multiscreen Journey into the Myth Continuum
John A. Swartz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 489–491
How often the names of historically significant people are tied, for fame or shame, to one major event or element in their lives! Because Dr. Mudd set the broken leg of assassin, John Wilkes Booth, we remember him forever with the expression, “his...
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Integrating Calculators and Computers into an Elementary Mathematics Education Program
William H. Kraus
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 548–549
In this paper I will describe how computer and calculator technology has been integrated into the mathematics content and methods courses in the elementary education program at Wittenberg University. Wittenberg University is a private liberal arts...
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Advanced Educational Networking on a Budget
Theron Ray Schultz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 809–811
Our society has seen the beginning of the Information Age. Some would say that education has, for the most part, come late to the Digital Revolution. In many parts of the country schools have or will soon be presented with access to the Internet, in ...
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Creating Multimedia: The Difficult Transition for Educators
Ronald M. Stammen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 661–663
This article describes a two-year grant funded by the USWEST Foundation entitled, “Collaboratively Creating Multimedia Modules for Teachers and Professors.” The initial developmental procedure was based on the Systematic Curriculum Instructional...
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Creating Multimedia: The Difficult Transition for Educators
Ronald M. Stammen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 661–663
This article describes a two-year grant funded by the USWEST Foundation entitled, “Collaboratively Creating Multimedia Modules for Teachers and Professors.” The initial developmental procedure was based on the Systematic Curriculum Instructional...
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A Practitioner Validated List of Competencies Needed for Courseware Authoring
Sara McNeil
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 596–602
The purpose of this study was to develop a practitioner-validated list of competencies needed by educators to author multimedia courseware. There are many viewpoints on the competencies that educators need to effectively use computer technology in...
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Developing Telecommunications Within European
Niki Davis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 1160–1164
The Commission of the European Union clearly recognises strategic benefits of extending ‘advanced distance learning techniques into schools and colleges’ within the Bangerman report. Information and communication technologies (Telematics), one of...
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Educational Software Types: An Interactive HyperCard Tutorial
David C. Byrum
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 454–458
No other recent innovation in education has the potential or pitfalls of computers in the classroom. When used to potential, computers can be a valuable aid to instruction, stimulating student interest, as well as, a tool for problem solving and...
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Inconspicuous Inequities: The Myth of Universal Access
Bobbi Nicholson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 271–274
The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problems. They are unaware of (or choose to ignore) the fact that when large changes, even seemingly beneficial ones, are introduced into a society, they lead ...
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Inconspicuous Inequities: The Myth of Universal Access
Bobbi Nicholson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 271–274
The technophiles are hopelessly naive (or self-deceiving) in their understanding of social problems. They are unaware of (or choose to ignore) the fact that when large changes, even seemingly beneficial ones, are introduced into a society, they lead ...
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Dynamic Databases as Knowledge Construction and Communication Tools in Online Courses
Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1459–1460
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...
Topics: Communication, Databases
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The First Decade of the SITE: 1990-1999
Linlin Irene Chen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1630–1633
The SITE annuals have grown from a couple of hundred pages in early 1990s to two big volumes of almost two thousand pages in total in 1999. The advancement of the SITE conferences and annuals reflects the maturity of the field of Instructional ...
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Social Justice or Status Quo? Blended Learning in a Western Canadian Teacher Education Program | Justice sociale ou statu quo ? L’apprentissage mixte dans un programme de formation d’enseignants dans l’Ouest canadien
Kathy Snow
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 42, No. 3 (Aug 08, 2016)
Sustainable pre-service teacher education is needed to encourage academic success for under-represented populations, through both culturally responsive and alternative programming options (Carr-Stewart, Balzer, & Cottrell, 2013). In 2013, the...
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An Archive of Sharable Education Resources on the Web
Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 1270–1273
This article discusses the development of an electronic archive of sharable resources that can be used by educators to support a variety of instructional activities. The authors and their students at the University of Houston have developed Archive...
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An Archive of Sharable Education Resources on the Web
Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 1270–1273
This article discusses the development of an electronic archive of sharable resources that can be used by educators to support a variety of instructional activities. The authors and their students at the University of Houston have developed Archive...
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The Influence of Conference Moderator Strategies on the Participation of Teachers in Collaborative Telecomputing Projects
Bernard Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 693–698
In Virginia, a statewide public school computing network, Virginia’s Public Education Network (Virginia’s PEN) is available to any public school educator who wants an account and has access to a computer, a modem, and a telephone line. Virginia’s...
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Evolution of the Multimedia Masters Project: Combining Community-Based Art Content with Multimedia Skills Development
Sara Wilson McKay; Melissa Pierson; Bernard Robin; Kathy Booth; Sara McNeil
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2596–2599
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...
Topics: Educational Technology, Multimedia, Mentoring, Fine Arts, Middle School Education
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Database-Driven Information Design: Building a Structural Framework for Educational Website Design
Shaunna Smith; Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin; Arthur Beltran; Michael Rapp
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 3767–3773
This paper addresses the important role of information design in the design and development of online database-driven educational websites. Using our own collaborative projects to build a structural framework, we discuss lessons learned from a...
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ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: TODAY’S TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVES
Bernard Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 854–858
Electronic scholarly publishing is today one of the fastest growing areas of publishing, with several hundred ejournals currently in print. For anyone considering the creation of an electronic scholarly journal there are two general decisions to be...
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HyperGroups: A New Tool for Enhancing Communication in an Electronic Community of Learners
Robert W. M. Miller; Bernard R. Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1876–1882
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,...
Topics: Students, Internet, Communication, Distance Education
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Integration of Technology in Mathematics Methods for Elementary Teachers
Sandra Bennett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 238–239
The growing uses of various technology is prominent in today’s society. Schools offer the uses of technology for students to be prepared for further education, careers, and functioning in society. Teacher educators will need to expose preservice...
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Facilitating Collaboration, Knowledge Construction and Communication with Web-Enabled Databases
Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 390–395
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...
Topics: Collaboration, Databases
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An action research: When Digital Storytelling meets forensic science education in an online learning environment
Chi-liang Yu; Bernard Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1234–1239
Digital Storytelling is a relatively new multimedia tool which can be both an effective instructional aid for teachers and an effective learning tool for students. It is created by using commonly available computer-based tools and usually includes a ...
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New Frontiers in Digital Storytelling: Technological Advances and Changing Critical Teacher Education Approaches
Chris Renda; Bernard Robin; Marty Otañez; Hitoshi Susono
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1706–1711
This panel will focus on ways that digital storytelling continues to push the envelope as a pedagogical resource and means to increase learners’ knowledge in K-12 classrooms, universities and community initiatives. Innovative work includes...
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A University/Public Television Collaboration to Create and Use Digital Stories to Reach Audiences in the Classroom and Beyond
Bernard Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 950–957
Faculty and graduate students at the University of Houston have been using digital storytelling in courses, workshops and special projects since the late 1990s. Building on a history of working with community partners that contribute content in...
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USING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE TO INTEGRATE READING, WRITING,
Jan Rader
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 783–784
Preservice and inservice teachers enrolled in elementary education classes at the University of Mississippi during the spring and fall semesters of 1997 learned first-hand how to use children's literature to integrate reading, writing, and...
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HyperCard Shellware: Templates for the Classroom
Michael Land
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 471–472
Since HyperCard was originally shipped in 1988,
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The Expansion of Digital Storytelling into Content Area Instruction
Bernard Robin; Cameron White; Richard Abrahamson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 672–679
To help attract new graduate students and also to help integrate technology into content area courses, faculty members at the University of Houston began teaching “linked” pairs of courses in 2006, by combining a graduate course on digital...
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Adding a Field-based Component to a Course in Educational Computing
Jenny Burson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 326–328
In 1993, the University of Houston became part of a regional consortium that includes four area universities, eight Professional Development and Technology Schools (PDTS), and regional education service centers. The primary goal of the consortium is ...
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State Technology Curriculums: A National Survey
Ward Brian Zimmerman
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 750–752
The rapid acceptance of computers in the public schools is a phenomenon that only a short time ago seemed an impossible task. The ratio of computers to students is currently 20 to 1, up from 125 to 1 as recently as 1983–84 (Maddux, Johnson, & Hallow,...
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Web Site Evaluation Project Teaching Critical Thinking
Barbara Manchee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 1201–1202
In the process of creating an electronic reference resource, a customized directory, students gained many useful skills. Students learned about Web searching, about search engines, and Web directories. They learned how to evaluate Web sites; they...
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Digital Storytelling from the Adolescent Real World
Donna Wake
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1228–1233
This study explores the use of digital storytelling with middle school (7th grade) and junior high school students (7th-9th grades) in the two rural Southern communities. Students were placed into groups and guided through the writing process to...
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Telementoring: Preservice Teachers to Inservice Teachers
Kathleen G. Weiss
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 1191–1193
After surveying the literature on information technology and teacher education, Willis and Mehlinger (1996), concluded that “preservice teachers know very little about effective use of technology in education” (p. 978). Furthermore, teacher...
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The Evolution of Digital Storytelling Technologies: From PCs to iPads and e-Books
Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1712–1720
In this paper, we present an overview of how digital storytelling technologies have evolved over the last decade, from software used on a desktop or laptop computer, to web-based applications, smartphones and tablet computers. As digital...
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The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Bernard Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 709–716
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 ...
Topics: Students
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Using Web Database Tools to Facilitate the Construction of Knowledge in Online Courses
Sara G. McNeil; Bernard R. Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1209–1215
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...
Topics: Databases
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Telementoring: Preservice Teachers to Inservice Teachers
Kathleen G. Weiss
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 1191–1193
After surveying the literature on information technology and teacher education, Willis and Mehlinger (1996), concluded that “preservice teachers know very little about effective use of technology in education” (p. 978). Furthermore, teacher...
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Infusion of Technology to Integrate Social Studies and Multicultural L Iterature
Carolyn C. Ledford; Mercedes S. Tichenor
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 132–133
Teacher education programs have a responsibility to teach about, model the use of, and provide experiences with new technologies. As technologies change, teacher education programs must also change to match the technological environment of the day....
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An Extended Systematic Review of Canadian Policy Documents on e-Learning: What We’re Doing and Not Doing
Eugene Borokhovski; Robert Bernard; Erin Mills; Philip Abrami; C Wade; Rana Tamim; Edward Bethel; Gretchen Lowerison; David Pickup; Michael Surkes
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 37, No. 3 (Nov 18, 2011)
This systematic review builds upon the work of Authors (2006) and McGreal and Anderson (2007). It seeks to provide a synthesis and discussion of publicly available government policy documents with regard to e-learning in Canada. There is general...
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China 5000 - A Virtual Learning Center with China Related Materials
Cheng-Shien Zhang; Julie Q. Bao
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 516–518
China 5000 is the first and by far the only truly hypertext chronological timeline of Chinese history in the Internet community on the World Wide Web (WWW). It incorporates Chinese culture, art, education, science, and government reference related...
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Linked Graduate Courses in Instructional Technology: An Innovative Learning Community Model
Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1373–1380
In this paper, the authors share an innovative learning community model in which graduate courses in instructional technology were linked together in a variety of ways to support student learning, to increase performance outcomes, and to create...
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An Extended Systematic Review of Canadian Policy Documents on e-Learning: What We’re Doing and Not Doing
Eugene Borokhovski; Robert Bernard; Erin Mills; Philip Abrami; C Wade; Rana Tamim; Edward Bethel; Gretchen Lowerison; David Pickup; Michael Surkes; Michael Surkes
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 37, No. 3 (Nov 18, 2011)
This systematic review builds upon the work of Authors (2006) and McGreal and Anderson (2007). It seeks to provide a synthesis and discussion of publicly available government policy documents with regard to e-learning in Canada. There is general...