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Automated Formative Assessment as a Tool to Scaffold Student Documentary Writing
Journal of Interactive Learning Research(JILR)23:1, Jan 01, 2012

Bill Ferster, University of Virginia, United States; Thomas C. Hammond, Lehigh University, United States; R. Curby Alexander, University of North Texas, United States; Hunt Lyman, The Hill School, United States

The hurried pace of the modern classroom does not permit formative feedback on writing assignments at the frequency or quality recommended by the research literature. One solution for increasing individual feedback to students is to incorporate some ...

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Automated Formative Assessment as a Tool to Scaffold Script Writing in PrimaryAccess
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2009:1

Curby Alexander & Bill Ferster, University of Virginia, United States

PrimaryAccess is a web-based tool that allows middle and high-school students to create short “Ken Burns” style documentaries using historical primary source documents in a classroom environment. The nature of the modern classroom does not permit as ...

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Expanding the Role of VisualEyes: Developing STEM Content for an XML-Based Online Interactive Spatial and Temporal Events Browser
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2010:1

Daniel Tillman & Bill Ferster, University of Virginia, United States

VisualEyes (www.viseyes.org) is an XML-based online interactive spatial and temporal events browser that allows instructional designers to create content for pre-service and in-service teachers who wish to incorporate dynamic visualizations into...

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Digital History in Social Studies Teacher Education: Practices, Promises and Provisos, Part 1
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference(SITE)2006:1

Meghan McGlinn, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, United States; Thomas Hammond, University of Virginia, United States; Adam Friedman, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, United States; Cheryl Mason Bolick, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, United States; Glen Bull & Bill Ferster, University of Virginia, United States; David Hicks, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States; John Lee & Brendan Calandra, Georgia State University, United States; Peter Doolittle & Tom Ewing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States

This symposium will define digital history as the "study of the past using a variety of electronically reproduced primary source texts, images, and artifacts, as well as the constructed historical narratives, accounts, or presentations that result...

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PrimaryAccess: Creating Digital Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom
Social Education (ISSN-0037-7724) 70:3

Bill Ferster, Tom Hammond & Glen Bull

The authors have been working with teachers who are drawing upon various online resources to construct digital documentaries that explore some facet of history, such as Japanese American internment or the liberation of Western Europe during World...

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Developing Web 2.0 Tools for Support of Historical Inquiry in Social Studies
Computers in the Schools (ISSN-0738-0569) 25:3

Glen Bull, Thomas Hammond & Bill Ferster

Web 2.0 tools offer new possibilities for teaching and learning. PrimaryAccess is a Web 2.0 tool designed for K-12 history education. PrimaryAccess shares many of the characteristics of other Web 2.0 applications, but its educational focus makes it...

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