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This procedure is recommended as a motivational technique to follow in a secondary language arts or humanities classroom to put new life into the time-honored procedure of "writing research papers." It enables the students to use pictures in...

This paper is a report on a naturalistic study involving students and their teachers in secondary schools in Wyoming. Students and teachers in six randomly selected high schools were interviewed on-site. Students reported that word-processing was...

Abstract: A pervasive issue in online learning is the effective use of communications tools. In many instances, the creative uses of discussions, chats, and e-mail makes for a positive experience for learners and are critical factors in the level...

Feedback from course evaluations taught both on-campus and off-campus in which e-Companion was used as a supplementary component, led the researcher to investigate further as to how effective the tool was for students. This preliminary report will...

To facilitate mastery of the state ELA standards, computer applications in desktop publishing were implemented to immerse students in daily use of the applications. The procedure would motivate students to practice the skills regularly and...

Rural distances preclude university faculty from providing coaching feedback to pre-service teachers. Because of inadequate coaching in appropriate strategies for special needs students, a means of more immediate feedback was needed. Therefore,...

Technology involves much more than computers. This philosophy was followed in planning after school enrichment activities for inner city youth. Plans were made to implement educational goals as well as expose youth to a wide variety of technology...

Faced with a 23% population increase during the 1998-1999 school year, the faculty of a small rural K-12 Wyoming school realized that major intervention efforts would be needed to facilitate the absorption of the new students. The plan was to...

With the primary goal to facilitate change and a paradigm shift in students' thinking about distance communication , a distance delivered course was taught in seminar format on information and communication technologies. By using traditional and...

A series of case study-type interviews were conducted with selected K-12 teachers on their perceptions of technology integration in-service activities in which they had participated. Teachers were selected to represent rural and urban, small to...

In order to meet a documented need for more advanced ELA (English Language Arts) electives, the secondary ELA teacher in an isolated rural school in southeastern Wyoming integrated graphic arts technology in a new course, Literary Desktop Publishing,...

Abstract: In order to meet a need for an enhanced approach to writing term papers using MLA format, the secondary ELA teacher in an isolated rural school in southeastern Wyoming integrated web-based technology into the process. Students acquired...

Working with educators in rural Wyoming has necessitated unique responses to meet students' educational needs. To facilitate ELA education in Rock River Unit School, teaming between the special services teacher, speech-language pathologist, case...

Educators and public school administrators have received a mandate to integrate technology into instruction and into the physical plant. Educators have been left to their own devices to develop a successful path toward integration. Essentially, the ...

Designing and implementing in-service for our faculty has been a trial and error process. Poorly attended seminars and workshops suggested that changes were needed in our approach. By categorizing the type of adopters, we were better able to...

The use of video games in the classroom has been the subject of massive commentary on the Internet and in the echelons of higher education. Many educational decisions about their use have been made based on certain prevalent myths concerning...

Many teachers, while attempting to join the movement to integrate student produced multi-media projects in their instruction, find themselves in a major conundrum of how to assess the student project. This conundrum often results in either not...