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Johnson, Richard; Shackelford, Ray – Tech Directions, 2008
The activities described in this article give students excellent experience with both computer programming and basic electronics. During the activities, students will work in small groups, using a BASIC Stamp development board to fabricate digital circuits and PBASIC to write program code that will control the circuits they have built. The…
Descriptors: Electronics, Computers, Programming, Equipment
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Emurian, Henry H. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2007
At the beginning of a Java computer programming course, nine students in an undergraduate class and nine students in a graduate class completed a web-based programmed instruction tutoring system that taught a simple computer program. All students exited the tutor with an identical level of skill, at least as determined by the tutor's required…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Software, Computers, Program Effectiveness
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Moon, Brian – English in Australia, 2008
"World of Warcraft" is an online computer game with over nine million players, many of them technically-minded young males. A proportion of these young males engage in spontaneous creative writing about their game adventures. They enjoy highly formulaic genres, such as the epic poem, with its complex technical requirements. This has…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Creative Writing, Fantasy, English Teachers
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Likic, Vladimir A. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2006
This article describes the experience of teaching structural bioinformatics to third year undergraduate students in a subject titled "Biomolecular Structure and Bioinformatics." Students were introduced to computer programming and used this knowledge in a practical application as an alternative to the well established Internet bioinformatics…
Descriptors: Computers, Undergraduate Students, Internet, Programming
Education Partnerships, Inc., 2003
For over the last 20 years, educators have been trying to find the best practice in using technology for student learning. Some of the most widely used applications with computers have been student learning of programming, word processing, Web research, spreadsheets, games, and Web design. The difficulty with integrating many of these activities…
Descriptors: Attendance, Computers, Educational Technology, Word Processing
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1995
This publication contains 25 subjects appropriate for use in a competency list for the occupation of computer programmer/analyst, 1 of 12 occupations within the business/computer technologies cluster. Each unit consists of a number of competencies; a list of competency builders is provided for each competency. Titles of the 25 units are as…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration, Business Education, Competence
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1995
This publication contains 22 subjects appropriate for use in a competency list for the occupation of computer (PC/network) coordinator, 1 of 12 occupations within the business/computer technologies cluster. Each unit consists of a number of competencies; a list of competency builders is provided for each competency. Titles of the 22 units are as…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration, Business Education, Competence
Healey, Deborah, Ed.; Johnson, Norman, Ed. – 1995
The annotated list of software for language learning and instruction includes items used by English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teachers and those marketed for ESL. Software titles are grouped by hardware (Macintosh and MS-DOS), and within those sections, by language skill or application, including these categories: those discontinued by the…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Bilingual Education, Business Administration Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1995
This index allows the user to scan the competencies under each title for the 28 subjects appropriate for use in a competency list for the 12 occupations within the business/computer technologies cluster. Titles of the 28 units are as follows: employability skills; professionalism; teamwork; professional and ethical standards; economic and business…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration, Competence, Competency Based Education