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This project uses information and communication technologies (ICT) which includes wikis, blog and email to facilitate knowledge exchange between pre/in-service teachers in New York City and Taipei to increase their awareness of globalization.

Pre- and in-service teacher education courses at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) are developing curriculum to address the knowledge and skills in undergraduate reading courses, and graduate courses for integrating technology into language...

Originally, blogs served as personal journaling tools. Recently blogs are more often applied to form online communities and thus expanded to more extensive uses in education. Little has been learned about the learners' perceptions of using blog to...

This paper provides specific discussion on how pre-service teachers investigate various ways that diversity issues can be integrated into literacy teaching and learning in the public schools, through the use of technology enhanced pedagogy, weblogs. ...

Originally, blogs served as personal journaling tools. Recently blogs are more often applied to form online communities and thus expanded to more extensive uses in education. Little has been learned about the learners' perceptions of using blog to...

Abstract. Educators need to prepare students for citizenship in a global society by creating an environment in which global awareness and attitudes can be learned. This study examined the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to...

This project explores technology use as a medium through which pre-service teachers can enhance their curriculum articulation and their creative expression by engaging with content knowledge and with content skills. The framework of this project...

SL (http://slife.com, abbreviated SL) is a three-dimensional virtual environment introduced by the Linden Lab Company in 2003. Linden provides “islands” in a virtual world. All objects, buildings and activities on these islands were built by their...

This paper examines the nature of a virtual learning environment – Second Life--, and introduces several Second Life learning examples to help readers who never used Second Life understand its merits and setback on teaching and learning. Second Life ...

This pilot study investigates how the use of audioblogs can help to meet an instructor’s need to improve instruction in English as a second language (ESL). In this study, the instructor uses audioblogs to manage oral assignments, to interact with...

This paper discusses how pre-service teachers use weblog can help integrate diversity issues into literacy teaching and learning in the public schools. This study explores weblog technology’s possible contributions to the integration of diversity...

Young generation was born in a technology saturated world. They access digital information more frequent than traditional text, such as TV, WWW, and video games. This phenomenon has been associated with the lower reading scores and the comprehension ...

The use of games in educational contexts has recently received more and more attention; however, many teachers struggle with finding a right context to adopt games in the classroom. To strengthen teachers’ belief on the educational value of games,...

New literacies are sets of knowledge and skills pre-service and in-service teachers need in order to prepare their K-12 students to succeed in remaining years of the 21st century. This symposium will provide a comprehensive overview of the new...