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The purpose of this study is to determine which course format- live/traditional class format versus online/virtual class format - is more effective in imparting arts concepts to an elementary and special education per-service teacher population. A...

This paper describes how digital storytelling was used to facilitate student exploration of modern art. Digital storytelling is a powerful inquiry-based learning tool and informed an art history project described here and undertaken by a class of...

This study explores the use of Wikis to assist pre-service teachers in exploring learning theory. The Wiki approach encourages students to become critical thinkers who seek the most current and relevant information in actively building their own...

This study explores the use of Wikis to assist pre-service teachers in exploring learning theory. The Wiki approach encourages students to become critical thinkers who seek the most current and relevant information in actively building their own...

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...

This study explores the use of asynchronous discussion boards in encouraging graduate teacher education candidates to explore the issues experienced by first year teachers. Candidates worked through three weeks of case study prompts designed to...

This study explores the use of digital storytelling with middle school students in two rural Southern communities. Digital storytelling is easy to implement and is an engaging and powerful means for allowing adolescents to define their voice as...

This study explores teacher education candidates’ perceptions of technologies used to support K-12 student literacy development. Candidates scored each technology based on their impressions of its ability to support student literacy development....

This study examines a collaborative wiki project conducted by teacher educators across two geographically and culturally diverse sites. Participants included pre-service teachers implementing a digital language experience approach project with...

This study explores the voices of graduate teacher education candidates as they work to understand the rich complexities of teaching and learning through blogging. Candidates blogged in response to a carefully selected sequence of readings designed...

This article examines the use of digital writing with late elementary and early middle school students in a writing project model summer camp. Students’ written blogs and their response to a digital writing survey were analyzed for emergent themes...

This study explores teacher education candidates’ perceptions of technologies used to support K-12 student literacy development. Candidates selected technologies for future adoption based on impressions of each technology’s ability to support...

This article describes rural middle school students' exploration of their identity and their rural contexts through the vehicle of digital storytelling. Participants included 40 7th and 40 9th grade students at two rural schools in the Southeast...

This article examines a collaborative study that two teacher educators conducted across two sites. Participants included teacher candidates implementing a digital language experience approach project with elementary learners. The teacher candidates...

The authors detail technology-based active literacy strategies that they employed with preservice teachers to enhance their skill and comfort level in providing appropriate technology-supported literacy instruction to future students. They examine...