International Journal of Instructional Media articles from June 2006

International Journal of Instructional Media archives from June 2006

Future-point learning: professional development for school leaders.(TEACHERS, TECHNOLOGY AND TRAINING)(Author abstract)
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Future-point learning is a perspective that focuses on new developments and gives attention to what is emerging into view. Future-point learning is less concerned with the past and more engaged with the future and arising...

Texas Ranch House: interactive programming from Thirteen/WNET.(INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA INITIATIVES: Focusing on the Educational Resources Center at Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York)(Product/service evaluation)
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Produced by Thirteen/WNET and Wall to Wall Television, TEXAS RANCH HOUSE follows in the path of COLONIAL HOUSE and provides a stimulating look at life in the United States in the 1860s. The eight-part series shows life in...

Two views of electronic portfolios in teacher education: non-technology undergraduates and technology graduate students.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Technology is increasingly considered to be an essential part of teacher education, not just for technology majors but for all teaching candidates. Schools have accelerated their spending on technology dramatically in recent...

Writing an electronic multimedia paper.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Digital technology and the Internet have made the global classroom a reality. Within this environment, electronic multimedia papers enable students to add media and hyperlinks to the traditional typewritten term paper, report,...

Learning and navigation assistance in a hypermedia.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION One notes that in hypermedia, sites appear and disappear, content is modified and it becomes impossible to master its organization. On the other hand, the web made it possible, in some learning situations, for the learner to...

Integrating instant messenger into online office hours to enhance synchronous online interaction in teacher education.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Instructors' office hours have been traditionally used in higher education to enhance student advising and learning. Traditional face-to-face office hours are usually constrained by the location of the instructor and scheduled...

MUD for learning: classification and instruction.(multi-user domain)
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION The acronym MUD refers to Multi-User Dungeon, Multi-User Domain, or Multi-User Dimension 1 all names for a multiple user platform that supports situational simulation and real-time interaction. Using MUD for learning has been...

The effect of adjunct post-questions, metacognitive process prompts, cognitive feedback and training in facilitating student achievement from semantic maps.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Graphic organizers are spatial displays of text incorporated into instructional text to communicate vertical, horizontal, hierarchical, or coordinate relationships among concepts (Robinson, Katayama, Dubois, & Devaney, 1998)....

The criterion-related validity of a computer-based approach for scoring concept maps.
June 22, 2006... There is an extensive and growing literature on the use of concept maps as an alternative form of assessment (Markham, Mintzes, & Jones, 1994; Ruiz-Primo, 2000; Ruiz-Promo, Schultz, Li, & Shavelson, 2000; Ruiz-Primo, Shavelson, Li, & Schultz,...

Computer competencies of the faculty members of the College of Education at the United Arab Emirates University.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Technology integration is the main element being focused on in schools (Collins, 1991; David, 1991; Ely, 1996; Sheingold & Hadley, 1990). The integration of technology in the classroom is very helpful for students learning...

"From 'Mystery Train' to 'Cyberspace Sadie': references to technology in blues recordings, 1923-2003.
June 22, 2006... Blues singers are oral historians. They chronicle the pains and pleasures of their own lives in splendid detail, though with little objectivity. Depicting lower-class cultural, social, and economic situations, blues lyrics betray the underbelly...