International Journal of Instructional Media articles from September 1998

International Journal of Instructional Media archives from September 1998

APPROACHING ADULT EDUCATION LITERATURE USING THE DONLEVY TEMPLATE OF PERSPECTIVES: A FOCUS ON THE IDEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION In Volume 25 (1), Teachers, Technology, and Training (TTT) applied the Donlevy template of perspectives to literature in the field of adult education (see also TTT in Volume 23 [1-4] and Volume 24 [1-3]). The article suggested...

VIOLENCE AND THE MEDIA: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS.
September 22, 1998... VIOLENCE AND THE MEDIA: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS Our preoccupation with violence is, indeed, an undeniable fact and one that touches our lives in very basic ways. When we hear of violence in our streets, in our schools, in our families...

THE CLOVIS PROJECT: ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING AND TEACHER TRAINING WITH TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION A telecommunications project provided authentic experiences for elementary students and prospective teachers. The project. Clovis Crawfish-Alive, Not Fried, used the model of character impersonation to allow students to...

STUDENT PERCEPTION OF MULTIMEDIA IN THE UNDERGRADUATE CLASSROOM.
September 22, 1998... The increased use of multimedia in education continues as technology and software improve. However, the research to support the effectiveness of multimedia as a positive influence in the learning process lags behind these other advances...

UTILIZING COMPUTERS FOR READING IMPROVEMENT IN A JUNIOR HIGH: A CASE STUDY.
September 22, 1998... WHAT ONE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DID TO UTILIZE COMPUTERS FOR READING IMPROVEMENT. Educators are constantly being bombarded with calls to do several things, in particular, improve academic achievement and increase the use of computers in...

EFFECT OF EMBEDDED GRAPHIC MAPPING STRATEGIES IN COMPLEMENTING VERBAL INSTRUCTION.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The development of structural models of semantic, memory has been the focus of cognitive research for a long time (1). Structural theories are based on the assumption that the relationship between and among the units of...

PREFERRED METHODS OF PROFESSIONALS IN LEARNING HYPERMEDIA.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION Hypermedia, sometimes called authoring software system, is now widely used in educational and corporate settings for creating instructional or training lessons (1). Basically, hypermedia uses icon-based interface with multiple...

TEXT LABELS FOR HYPERTEXT NAVIGATION BUTTONS.
September 22, 1998... A prior study in which some of the authors participated [1], conducted in the context of a simulated HyperCard(TM) stack, found that subjects were significantly less able to perceive the functions of navigation buttons displaying pictorial...