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McKenney, Susan; Voogt, Joke – Computers & Education, 2009
PictoPal is the name of a technology-supported intervention designed to foster the development of emergent reading and writing skills in four and five year old children. Following the theoretical underpinnings and a brief description of PictoPal, this article describes how children worked with the technology; how the intervention elicited their…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Intervention, Learning Activities, Observation
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McKenney, Susan – Computers & Education, 2008
CASCADE-SEA stands for computer supported curriculum analysis, design and evaluation for science education in Africa. It is the name of a computer program designed to help secondary level science teachers in southern Africa create exemplary paper-based lesson materials. Research conducted alongside the design and development of the CASCADE-SEA…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Science Education
McKenney, Susan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2005
This article describes research on the quality of a computer program designed to help secondary level science teachers in southern Africa create exemplary paper-based lesson materials. Results of this study show that the content, support, and interface of the program combine to form a tool that is considered by both users and experts to be valid…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Professional Development, Curriculum Development, Teaching Guides